# **Strong Tower Christian Centre** **Charity Commission Number: 1179480** . **Trustees’ Annual Report and Account: 31 March 2025** The trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025. ## **Trustees** Pastor Daniel Ikechukwu Kamalu Mr Fred Kiyaga Pastor Nkeiru Anita Kamalu ## **Charity Registered Address** : 6 South Street Havercroft Wakefield WF4 2EZ ## **Solicitors:** Edward Connor Solicitors 39 The Point Market Habrborough LE16 7QU ## **Banker** Barclays Bank 69 Albion Street Leeds LS1 5AA ## **Church Address:** Portobello Community Centre, Portobello Road WF2 7JJ ## **Background** Strong Tower Christian Centre exists to share the love of Jesus Christ to as many in and outside of the city of Wakefield. We encourage our church members to love one another and maintain intimacy with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as instructed in the Holy Scriptures. For now, and in the future, the church has decided to continue with combining faceto -face meetings and online meetings across all the events and programmes being held to allow greater reach. The church embarked on several evangelism campaigns aimed at spreading the gospel of Christ with the members of the public. The Church is still operating from the Portobello Community Centre where it reaches out to many residents in the city of Wakefield with the good news of the gospel of Christ. ## **Charity Activities and achievements** Activities carried out by the Strong Tower Christian Centre includes: - **Normal Church Events:** The Church activities comprises face to face service and online services throughout the week - **Evangelism Outreach:** With focus on the growth of both the old and the new believer, The church adopted a new approach to evangelism that has the advantage of maturing fresh believers who join through the evangelism funnel and enlightening those who are struggling in their Christian journey. - **Church Leaders weekly Prayer Meeting:** The church continued to engage with other churches in prayers sessions and hosting of events for the churches together initiatives. The Strong Tower Christian Centre would be hosting The Watchman on the Wall prayer meeting on Good Friday in 2026. This is a rotational prayer initiative that happen amongst church leaders in the city. **Gift Sharing for Christmas** : The Church launched the Gift Sharing initiative in 2024 to support the Annual Christmas Party. ## **Risk Management** The Church has been working closely with the Management of the Portobello Community Centre in identifying, reviewing and mitigating risks at the place of worship being a public place. ## **Volunteers** Three new volunteers were added to the team of volunteers after having completed training. The charity appreciates the dedication and commitment of volunteers and friends of the church who under the direction of the of the church leaders perform several tasks in order to assist in fulfilling its objectives. ## **Financial Review** In view of the fact that the income of the charity was less than £10,000, the charity has prepared the receipts and payment account in compliance with the Charity Commission’s governing document. ## **Assets** The church purchased a new PA system, 4 microphones, guitar and drum kit for enhanced worship experience. ## **Funding** The church was entirely funded by members donations, offerings and tithes. ## **Summary of Accounts** The summary of the account is as follows: Receipts: £4,566.48 Payments: £11,032.35 Balance: **£ -6465.87** ## **Future Plans** The church is now searching for a much bigger worship space with access to full control of the facility for stability and growth. ## **Public benefit** The Trustees’ strategy for achieving the objectives as stated in the charity’s constitution, for the public benefit is to advance the Christian faith in the United Kingdom via the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ whilst complying with the Public Benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission. Our achievements as to how we fulfilled these objectives are detailed within this report. Signed on behalf of the Trustees by: ………………………….. Pastor —Daniel Kamalu Date: 11/02/2026 |**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts and payments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
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