The Hope & Anchor 

Registered Charity No. 1181006 

Hope Church Penzance and Newlyn, Lansdowne Place, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4QB 

## **Annual Report for the year to 31 March 2024** 

Trustees 

The trustees have changed as per the Charity Commisioners website, namely: 

- Rev Phil Coleman (Chair) 

- Ian Harris (Secretary) 

- Nigel Paul Hillier (Treasurer) 

- Jason Frank Ward 

Structure, governance and management 

The governing document is in the form of a constitution. 

The charity is constituted as a CIO. 

Trustee selection is by existing trustees. 

Objectives and activities 

As stated in the governing document, the charity exists for the public benefit, the advancement of the Christian Faith in Penzance and Newlyn and such other parts of the UK and the world as the charity Trustees from time to time decide. 

The Covid-19 pandemic meant that the trust’s activities were frozen during the period of this report, with no activities to report and no financial transactions. 

Achievements and performance 

1. No Trustees’ meetings were held during this period because of the charity is effectively mothballed at this time. 



2. A Hope & Anchor bank account was opened with Nat West but the stalling of developments at several levels meant that no money was placed into the account, and that remains the current situation. 

3. Though lockdown restrictions were lifted to a degree, the trust remained inactive up to the end of the period covered in this report. 

Current situation 

The Covid-19 situation, combined with some personnel changes, mean that, while all the trustees remained in place at the end of the current period, the trust was effectively in hibernation. 

This Annual Return prepared by Ian Harris (Secretary) on behalf of the trustees. 

- 3[rd] January 2025.