2022-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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**From **	Period start date			To	Period end date
	01	04	2021		31	03	2022

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

1 2 3 4 5 6	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
	Matthew Gray	Pastor & Elder		General Members’ Meeting
	Richard Waller	Deacon & Church Secretary		General Members’ Meeting
	Raymond Trainer	OverseeingElder		General Members’ Meeting
	Trevor Condy	OverseeingElder		General Members’ Meeting
	Robert Hunter	OverseeingElder	01-04-21 to 06-10-21	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

Type of governing document

Constitution

• (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)

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

There have been no major incidents or accidents during the period covered by this report.

• 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 was a year where the corona virus pandemic and its various restrictions continued to affect much of the UK, particularly during the 2021 calendar year. Restrictions began to ease significantly in the early months of 2022, but it was only at the very end of this reporting year, in March 2022 when they had eased to the point where ‘normality’ was returning. Despite this, and in response to this the church continued its operations, to the best of our ability and resources, and began to increase our activities gradually as the year progressed, still seeking to operate wisely within the law and guidance issued by the authorities. It was permitted for us to hold physical meetings throughout the period April 2021 to March 2022, and because of this we did so every week on both Sundays and Wednesdays throughout this period. However, the year began with significant restrictions still in place, and requirements for social distancing etc. And we continued to use Rehoboth chapel for our Sunday morning and Wednesday evening meetings, because its greater size meant more could be accommodated in the building, whilst maintaining social distancing in line with government guidance. Although restrictions on congregational singing indoors remained at the start of the period, we were permitted to sing outdoors, and so we took advantage of this, as the weather allowed, by singing our final hymn outdoors within the chapel grounds from Easter Sunday 4[th] April, onwards. When the restrictions eased further towards the end of July 2021, we began to have congregational singing indoors, although we continued to encourage people to wear face masks whilst singing, when the government guidance Summary of the main continued to encourage it and required them generally in indoor settings. activities undertaken for With the gradual easing in restrictions, we began also to increase our services, the public benefit in meeting also every 2 weeks on Sunday evenings, at Jireh Chapel. Fewer relation to these objects number in evening services meant Jireh chapel was suitable for this, and we (include within this continued this pattern until the end of December 2021. section the statutory From January 2022, we moved back to having morning and evening services declaration that trustees every Sunday, as well as Wednesday evening meetings, all of them being held have had regard to the at Rehoboth chapel. guidance issued by the We also gradually increased our programme, by re-starting both the Oasis craft Charity Commission on and coffee morning group on Tuesdays, and the English Club to help asylum public benefit) seekers to learn English, on Fridays. This meant that we were able to cater more specifically for a wider number of people in our community. For those who were more cautious, or unable to attend our meetings physically, we have continued to provide recordings of our Sunday morning service each week, either uploaded to our church website, or distributed locally door to door on CDs. 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 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. 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 continued to be done on the telephone rather than by face to face contact, although as restrictions eased and people were more comfortable with face to face contact – personal face to face visits then were increasingly made. Funerals were also conducted by the pastor physically. 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 DBS checks and suitability for their roles is assessed, according to role related investment; descriptions in our Safeguarding policy.

• 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 of the year.

• 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 services were held at Jireh chapel fortnightly on Sunday evenings in 2021, and Rehoboth chapel weekly in 2022.

• A baptismal service was held at Jireh chapel in June 2021.

• Information in the form of a letter, along with a Christian tract, distributed to over 2,000 homes in the local area around Easter 2021 and in the week leading up to Christmas, 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 on our Facebook page.

• Performance:  Attendance at our worship services has been maintained at good levels despite the ongoing pandemic. For much of the time we saw congregations at levels similar to or even exceeding the levels before the pandemic in 2019.

• 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.

• We changed the chairs for the seating in Rehoboth chapel to ones that are lighter and are stackable, so as to give more space and make it more amenable for different uses during the week.

• We have also continued to make plans for the refurbishment of one of our buildings, as well as creating space for storage by removing a redundant pipe organ and erecting screens in the space created.

• We replaced the heating boiler in Rehoboth chapel with a new one because the old one had failed, as well as supplementing it with powerful electric fan heater.

• 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, could run dangerously low within the next 12 months. Solutions to address this were being considered towards the end of the reporting year.

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 to meet our financial obligations in the coming year.

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) M. T. Gray R. M. Waller Full name(s) Matthew Tarus Gray Richard Melvyn Waller Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Secretary etc)[Chairman ] Date 6th July 2022

Pembei'ton Fl'ee Grace c.hurch Receipts and Pain)ents .Iccounts Api'il 1st 2021 _ Nlai'ch 31st 2022 A1 RECEIPTS Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total lo the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ 17.236 17.236 5.331 5.331 18 18 108 108 3.928 3.928 Last year lo the nearest £ 19,606 2.505 66 General Offering Donations Bank Interest Refunds for Costs Incurred Gitt Aid Claim (for 2020-27) Donations lo Fellowship Fund GBM mission box Contents Building Fund Harvest Offering Gifts for Afghanistan Total Earmarked Income Total receipts 4,887 37 13 100 300 235 196 139 155 528 528 528 .148 648 7,71 6.621 A3 PAYMENTS Unrestricted Funds Reslricled Funds lo the neare51 £ lo the nearest £ 25,706 572 438 155 605 43 Total lo the nearest £ Last year lo the nearest £ 26,185 480 487 40 Salaries& pènsion Office Expenses Travelling Expènses Conferance Feès Other prèachers Miscollanèous axponsas Total Ministy 51 27,519 27,519 27,224 Utiliti8slnot&11 Repairs and Maintenance Total Jireh Building 1,656 261 2,039 502 1,918 1,916 2,541 Ulilitieslnote21 Repairs and Maintenance Total Rehoboth Building Building Supplies Buildings Project Evangolism 1,153 6,288 1,254 570 7.441 246 7,441 246 1,825 82 2,882 304 604 Insuranca Othar 2,648 1,548 2,575 1,689 Total Olhgr Exponses Gifts to Missions Harvest grftllo Open Doors for Yemenl Gift lo Asia Link for Afghanistsn Fellowship Fund GBM Payments to Young Lrfe for support of Joe Kirb Total Earmarked Expenditure Total Payments Nel of ￿elPt￿(paYrnenIs) 4,196 2,250 4,196 2,250 4,264 3,000 139 155 30 300 235 200 114 2,502 324 324 3,351 -17.552 203 -17,348 -17,541 A6 Fund balances last year end Cash funds this yoar end 42.146 24,594 902 1,105 43,047 25,699 60.589 43,048

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

Signature	Print Name	Date of Approval
R.M Waller	Richard Waller	31/07/22
Matthew Gray	Matthew Gray	31/7/22

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name PEMBERTON FREE GRACE CHURCH WIGAN members of

31 MARCH 2022	Charity no (if any)	1179175
1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

On accounts for the year 31 MARCH 2022 ended Set out on pages 1-2

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2022

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect,:

• the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or

• the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

• Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:	W.A. HARRISON	15 AUGUST 2022
	WILLIAM ARCHIE HARRISON
	APARTMENT 37 BRUNLEES COURT
	19-23 CAMBRIDEG ROAD
	SOUTHPORT MERSEYSIDE PR9 9DH

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .