Sticklepath Community Church.
Trustees Annual Report – 1[st] April 2020 to 31[st] March 2021
Sticklepath Community Church, Solely known as Sticklepath Community Church.
Charity Registered No. 1180318
Contact address: - 14, Hunters Gate, Okehampton, Devon EX20 1SU
For the full period covered by this report there have been 3 charity trustees:-
Mr. D. Andrew, Mr. P. Dennis, Mr. G. Williams.
The charity (known as a church) has been managed by 3 elected deacons:-
Mr. M. Dennis, Mr. P. Dennis, Mr. M.Williams.
S.C.C. is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (C.I.O.) Association.
Trustees are appointed by the membership of the charity.
The charity is set up to advance the Christian Faith, for the public benefit, and for the Glory of God in Worship, preaching the Gospel and Ministry of the Word. Also the charity seeks to further other charitable purposes – which are working to compatible aims.
It will be obvious to all, that the period (April 2020 – March 2021) which is covered by this report has been severely affected by the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. For almost all of the period, the church has been unable to meet in a physical manner. Firstly due to the restrictions placed upon us, by Government instructions, during actual ‘lockdowns’, and secondly, as freedom of movement gradually opened up, it was wise not to rush back to meeting in person, but we were also restricted by the requirements, sensibly put upon the use of the building, by its management committee. The Church does not own is own property, but by hiring the village hall, we are assisting and contributing to the upkeep of a valuable village resource.
However, we like many others, have adapted to, and made good use of the availability of ‘zoom’ to hold meetings. It has also been possible to make the meetings publicly available by providing contact details through the village website.
During the pandemic period, the ability to provide practical assistance has been greatly curtailed, but the charity has been able to continue with some of the financial assistance. During the ‘closed’ period, the village hall committee have made great improvements to the facility available to the local community and the Church has been able to make a financial contribution to this. There has also been financial assistance provided to Christian organisations, who like all charitable organisations have struggled with meeting their funding needs.
This funding has been provided to overseas work via Chinese Church Support Ministries, Mission Aviation Fellowship (reaching over 26 countries world-wide with logistics and welfare assistance difficult to reach areas) and Compass Braille (providing much valued braille scripture in many
languages). Also funding support has been given to Christians Against Poverty, who provide a nationwide support network to anyone having financial difficulties, and ‘Connect’, a local organisation working within local secondary schools, giving practical help within class and supporting the spiritual and social needs of students.
The charity/Church does not normally ‘fund raise’, in the understood fashion, but relies upon the members and attendees, to provide financial support to the work of the church, in accordance with their own personal commitment and ability. Therefore our grant making is generally dependant on the availability of funds ‘in hand’, rather than setting targets and then fund raising to meet such aims. Occasionally a need will become known and a decision will be made by the membership to raise funds for a specific purpose, any funds so raised would be used solely for that purpose. No such funds have been raised during the past year.
The charity does not have an identifiable policy with regard to reserves, but within the membership it is recognised that a reasonable level of reserves should be held. If the situation arises where a paid position is the correct means of meeting the needs of the community, then a reasonable level of reserves would be required to put this into action.
The charity running costs are relatively small, due to the charitable commitment of the members and regular attendees. It is therefore possible to use the majority of income to provide funding to suitable organisations and individuals/groups. The trustees are aware of, and agree with, the uses to which funding has been applied.
It is hoped that as the pandemic gives way to an endemic situation, the opening up of society will enable us all to return to a more/normal situation and the charity/church will be able to reach out with a message of hope, and be more active in support of those in need.
Signed,
G.Williams (Trustee)
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P.Dennis
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Date:- 26 – 10 – 21
||**Sticklepath Community Church**|**Sticklepath Community Church**|**Sticklepath Community Church**|**Sticklepath Community Church**|**Sticklepath Community Church**|**1180318**|**1180318**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**||01/04/2020||**To**|31/03/2021|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Freewill Offering|**4,029**||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**4,029**||**13,896**|
|90 DayNotice account - Interest|**38**||**-**|||**38**||**42**|
|Gift Aid -year end 05/04/16|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**2,499**|
|Gift Aid/GASDS -year end 05/04/17|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**2,294**|
|Gift Aid/GASDS -year end 05/04/18|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**2,581**|
|Gift Aid -year end 05/04/19|**2,219**||**-**|||**2,219**||**-**|
|GASDS -year end 05/04/19|**364**||**-**|||**364**||**-**|
|Gift Aid/GASDS -year end 05/04/20|**2,156**||**-**|||**2,156**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**8,806**||**-**||**-**|**8,806**||**21,312**|
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**-**||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||||
||||||**-**|**8,806**||**21,312**|
||||||||||
|Hire of Building|**-**||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||**1,368**|
|Expenses for VisitingSpeakers|**-**|||||**-**||**720**|
|Insurance|**282**|||||**282**||**260**|
|Cost of Activities|**37**|||||**37**||**1,764**|
|Licences/Subscriptions|**656**|||||**656**||**366**|
|Donations to other Organisations|**12,138**|||||**12,138**||**18,344**|
||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**13,113**|||||**13,113**||**22,822**|
||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||
||**-**||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||
||||||**-**|**13,113**||**22,822**|
||||||||||
||**- 4,307**||||**-**|
**- 4,307**||**- 1,510**|
||**-**||||**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**35,560**|||||**35,560**||**37,070**|
||**31,253**||||**-**|**31,253**||**35,560**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
08/01/2022
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
**Details**
Current Account
Deposit Account
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**14,312**
**16,941**
**-**
**31,253**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
|Signature|Print Name
GLYN WILLIAMS|Date of
approval|
|---|---|---|
||GLYN WILLIAMS|23/11/2021|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
08/01/2022
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