2021-03-31-accounts - Pemberton Free Grace Church

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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From	Period start date			To	Period end date
	01	04	2020		31	03	2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name

Pemberton Free Grace Church, Wigan

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1179175

Charity's principal address Jireh Chapel,

Chapel Street, Orrell Road, Orrell, Wigan Postcode WN5 0AG

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
Matthew Gray	Pastor & Elder		General Members’ Meeting
Richard Waller	Deacon & Church Secretary		General Members’ Meeting
Raymond Trainer	OverseeingElder	13-01-21 to 31-03-21	General Members’ Meeting
Trevor Condy	OverseeingElder	13-01-21 to 31-03-21	General Members’ Meeting
Robert Hunter	OverseeingElder	13-01-21 to 31-03-21	General Members’ Meeting
Frank Woolley	Deacon	01-04-20 to 14-01-21	General Members’ Meeting

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable incorporated organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by General Members’ Meeting Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

There have been no major incidents or accidents during the period You may choose to include covered by this report. additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

To advance the Christian faith in accordance with our Basis of Faith primarily within Pemberton, Wigan and the surrounding area.

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

This also can include other charitable purposes as shall, in the opinion of the members of the Church, put into practice the Christian faith including the prevention and relief of need, hardship and sickness; the advancement of education; and the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving their conditions of life.

This year has been one where the corona virus pandemic struck the UK, with many resulting restrictions on normal activities. Despite this, and in response to this the church continued its operations, to the best of our ability and resources, seeking to operate wisely within the law and guidance issued by the government and authorities. When it was not permitted for us to hold physical meetings in April, May and June 2020, we offered a live streaming Sunday service on the internet, which our pastor conducted, broadcast from a church in Southport. As soon as it was permitted for places of worship to open, from July 2020 we did so, holding services of worship on Sunday mornings, and Wednesday evenings every week at Rehoboth Chapel, Wardley Street, Pemberton, Wigan, WN5 8BU. We used this chapel regularly because its greater size meant more could be accommodated in the building, whilst maintaining social distancing in line with government guidance.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

To facilitate the opening for worship, we introduced many measures such as seating allocation and marking, ventilation, hand sanitiser, one ways systems, limits on capacity, providing face masks at the door on the way in. We also implemented a more rigorous cleaning schedule between all meetings, and a couple of days delay between meetings to ‘quarantine’ the building. We have also advertised our worship to the general public via our website, as well as using social media, notice boards on the outside of the buildings, leaflets, fliers, and word of mouth. The only interruption to these regular Sunday and Wednesday meetings was for a few weeks in November 2020 due to lockdown restrictions, when we conducted services online via Zoom. But as soon as we were able to open again in December 2020 we did so and remained open physically for worship every week since then, in order to provide the much needed benefit of providing a place of worship and spiritual instruction in our locality. The Church advances Christian religion by the preaching of the Gospel, and dissemination of literature and word of mouth conversations, as well as information on our website and social media. In order to keep within the government guidelines, other regular activities such as Oasis coffee, craft and toddlers mornings, an English club for those who want to improve their spoken and written English, and after school groups for primary school aged children, as well as holding services in a local care home for the elderly, were suspended for the whole year. The church has continued to provide pastoral support to persons and practical help to those with whom it has come into contact who are in need. Much of this was done on the telephone rather than by face to face contact, although funerals were still conducted by the pastor on our church premises. The church has financially supported the work of Christian organisations that work in the UK and overseas. When planning and carrying out our activities, the trustees confirm that they have considered the Commission’s guidance on public benefit, and in particular the guidance for charities which are primarily concerned with the advancement of religion.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to Our activities are carried out by both those who are paid employees, and those include further within the church who (when they are able) act as volunteers. statements, where Our church in its covenant of membership encourages the involvement of relevant, about: members in the active support of the church in its aims and objectives, not just by giving financially but by their active personal involvement as volunteers. • policy on grantmaking; Those who are volunteers, where it is appropriate, will have had the necessary • policy programme policy programme DBS checks and suitability for their roles is assessed, according to role related investment; descriptions in our Safeguarding policy.

policy programme policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

The church has provided:

A Covid-Safe place of worship, operating within government guidelines, for persons in our locality to physically attend, in every week when it was legal for persons to do so during the pandemic.
• Weekly Christian worship services and teaching meetings which are also open to the public.
Services of worship on both Sunday mornings, and Wednesday evenings, for all who wished to attend, held at Rehoboth chapel.
An extra service was held at Jireh chapel at Christmas
A baptismal service was held at Jireh chapel in October 2020.
Information in the form of a letter, along with a Christian tract, distributed to over 1,900 homes in the local area in the weeks leading up to Christmas, 2020.
Information in the form of a letter, along with Christian tract, distributed to over 2,400 homes in the local area in the week before Easter 2021.
For those not able to attend our regular services, we made audio recordings of our services and distributed them either via CD in the local area to those who wanted them.
We also made audio recordings of our weekly Sunday services, and uploaded audio recordings of our services each week to our church website, which is available to the general public.
Additional posts and videos were made available to the general public, such as children’s talks on our Facebook page.

Performance:

Attendance at our worship services has been maintained at good levels despite the pandemic. On occasions it was at about half the pre-pandemic levels, but for much of the time we have seen the majority of those attending pre-pandemic attending our regular Sunday services.
At our services of worship, members of the public who are not currently members of the church have been regularly present. This we believe is important in the continuance of our work.
An architect drew up plans for the extension of one of the buildings.
• The financial position of the charity is one where our expenditure exceeded our income, this deficit was met from our reserves. We note that the reserves, though sufficient to meet this deficit currently, are being reduced, and this will need to be addressed in the future.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

Our aim as a charity is to look to keep at least six months’ income in our reserves. At present, the level of our reserves is higher than this, but this is reasonable because the church is currently operating at a deficit, and they are required for planning in the medium term.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N / A

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date	M. T Gray	R. M. Waller
	Matthew Tarus Gray	Richard Melvyn Waller
	Chairman	Secretary
	21stJuly 2021
	21stJuly 2021

Pemberton Free Grace Church Receipts and Payments Accounts April 1st 2020 - March 31st 2021

A1 RECEIPTS		Unrestricted Funds	Restricted Funds	Total		Last	year
		to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £		to the nearest £
General Offering		19,606		19,606			22,255
Donations		2,505		2,505			23,319
Legacy
Bank Interest		66			66			185
Gift Aid Claim (for 2019-20)		4,887		4,887			3,751
Youth Work		0			0			349
Donations to Fellowship Fund						547
GBM mission box contents			13			164
Building Fund			100			140
Harvest Offering			300			201
Gifts for support of Joe Kirby						3,817
Gifts for Beirut disaster			235
Income given for the use of LRBF						100
Total Earmarked Income			648		648		4,969
	Total receipts	27,064	648	27,712			54,828
A3 PAYMENTS		to the nearest £ Unrestricted Funds	to the nearest £ Restricted Funds	Total to the nearest £		Last year to the nearest £
Salaries& pension		26,165				24,608
Office Expenses		480				450
Travelling Expenses		487				599
Conference Fees		40				492
Other preachers						1,540
Miscellaneous expenses		51				18
Total Ministry		27,224		27,224			27,707
Utilities		2,039				1,992
Repairs and Maintenance		502				680
Total Jireh Building		2,541		2,541			2,672
Utilities		1,254				1,757
Repairs and Maintenance		570				2,186
Total Rehoboth Building		1,825		1,825			3,943
Building Supplies		82			82			75
Buildings Project		2,662		2,662
Evangelism		304			304		1,525
Insurance		2,575				2,400
Printing & Photocopying		172				307
Other		1,517				1,261
Total Other Expenses		4,264		4,264			3,968
Childrens Work								886
Payments on behalf of LRBF								106
Gifts to Missions		3,000		3,000			2,550
Harvest gift			300			201
Gift to MERF for Beirut			235
Fellowship Fund			200			210
GBM			114			64
Payments to Young Life for support of Joe Kirby			2,502			5,501
Total Earmarked Expenditure			3,351	3,351			5,976
Total Payments		41,902	3,351	45,253			49,408
Net of receipts/(payments)		-14,838	-2,703	-17,541			5,420
A6 Fund balances last year end		56,984	3,605	60,589			55,169
Cash funds this year end		42,146	902	43,047			60,589

Pemberton Free Grace Church Statement of Assets and Liabilities at the end of the period

B1 Cash Funds	Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £	Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £
General Fund	42,146	0
Joe KirbyFund	0	0
FellowshipFund	0	295
BuildingFund	0	240
GBM	0	0
LRBF holdingFund(FormerlyWLRBF)	0	366
Total Cash Funds	42,146	901

B4 Assets retained for the charities own use

	Fund to which asset
	belongs
Fixtures and fittings	General
Office equipment	General
Kitchen equipment	General
Hymn books and bibles	General

The Church is the beneficial owner (subject to relevant trusts) of the following properties, the legal title to which is held by the Church’s custodian trustee -

Grace Baptist Trust Corporation (1) and The Trustees of Rehoboth Chapel, Pemberton (2).

Jireh Chapel £ 65,000 on 18/06/18 Rehoboth Chapel £ 120,000 on 29/10/18

The above valuations represent market value as assessed by Parkinson Real Estate on the dates shown

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Signature	Print Name	Date of approval
M. T Gray	Matthew Tarus Gray	8th April 2021
R. M Waller	Richard Melvyn Waller	8th April 2021

Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the tru5tetsl member5 of PEMBERTON FREE GRACE CHURCH,WIGAN On accounts for the year ended Chaiity no (rf any) 1179175 31 MARCH 2021 Set out on pages I reF(¥i to the trustees on my examinalD)n of the acs)unts of the ave charity nhe Tr) for the year ended 31KJ312021. Rosponslbillues and basis of report As the charity trustees. you are resFonsible fixlhe weparation of the a(Unts in aC(da Y•iih the Chartties Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). I rFFKKI in res of my examination of the Tnjsfs account5 carried out uTrJer section 145 of 2011 Act in carrying out my examination. I have foll0v1 all aAlCae Directions given by the Charity Commission urKler section 14q5)(b) of the ACL Independent I have o)mtAeted my exarnin2tk)n. I confimi that no material matters have examlnerfs Statement come to my attention in connectk)n with the examination which gves me cause to believe that in, any mateiial resW: the accounting r8¢ords ere t kept in ac(£dar with section 130 of Act" or the accounts rn)t a(xJ)rd *ilh the aco)unting records; or the accounts did mt compty with the apF4icable requirements concerning the form aThJ content of aco)unts sel out in the Charities (AccOts Reports) Regulations 21X)8 other than any requitemenl that the acix)unts gNe a 'true and fairf view is not 8 matter CorLdered as part of an indepeThdent examination. I have Th) Conce aTrJ have aosS no olher matters in o)nnecaion with the examination to vthich atlention sh(xJkl be drawn in this rewrt in order to enatle a pro[ understsrKling of the accounts to be reached. Signed: waM A HarTison Dato: 3AUGUST 2021 WILLL4M ARCHIE HARRISON Relevant professional qualificallon(s) or body (rfany): Address: APARTMENT 37 BRUNLEES C(XIRT 19-23 CAMBRIDGE ROAD SOUTHPORT MERSEYSIDE PR9 9DH 1 IER October 2018

Section B Disclosure Onty cx)mF4ete rf the examiner needs to higNight matters of concem (see CC32. Independent examinatK)n of tharity acccwts: dirediorts and guidance for examiners). Give here details of any Items that the examlner wishes to disclose. 2 IER October 2018