## Trustees Annual Report
Year ending 31[st] March 2022
**Charity name** Video Bible Talks **Charity registration number** 1181337 **Registered address** 8 Appleby Green Romford RM3 7SL **Trustees** Jonathan Trinder (Chair) Alan Witchalls Dave Cornes (resigned 14 May 2021) Maxwell Fenn **Independent examiner** Alan Gray
## Objectives and activities
Video Bible Talks has the following objects contained in the charity’s constitution:
- to benefit to public by the advancement of the Christian faith throughout the United Kingdom and in particular, but without limitation, by the production and distribution of Bible teaching videos.
The mission of Video Bible Talks is to provide high quality video-based Bible teaching for church groups and ministries that is freely available to view and download online, allowing volunteer leaders to focus on pastoral care and personal discipleship. The vision is to see churches grow and thrive as more groups and ministries benefiting from high quality and accessible Bible preaching and teaching.
We confirm that the charity trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission in exercising their powers or duties.
## Achievements and performance
## Activities this year
The 2021-2022 was a challenging and demanding period for many charities and organisations. For Video Bible Talks, the Coronavirus pandemic caused disruptions and delays to production work on a new series of videos due for production mid-2021. Further disruption occurred when a conflict of interest arose with Dave Cornes, one of our trustees who was due to be a presenter on the next series of videos. Dave had signed a contract to do a series of videos from the same book of the Bible with another production company. As soon as this came to light, Dave stepped down from Video Bible Talks to pursue filming with the other company and Video Bible Talks began work drafting a different series.
The trustees are grateful to Dave for his contributions to Video Bible Talks in the past and wish him every blessing in the future.
## Video views and download
By God’ grace, the number of people reached and the number of groups supported in teaching the good news of Jesus Christ have continued to increase throughout 2021.
By the end of the 2021-2022 period, there had been...
- 9,118 views online
- 2,328 video downloads by...
- 301 unique users (247 new, 54 returning)
- 291 churches/ministries in 19 countries worldwide
The video downloads represent approximately 5,500 people served by Video Bible Talks in the various ministries and groups that have used them[1] .
To date, there have been six series of Video Bible Talks produced, consisting of 35 videos in total.
## Future development
With the easing of the Coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 restrictions, we are planning a series of videos in 2022 from the book of Obadiah as well as a series on Abraham, Isaac and Jacob from the book of Genesis.
## Financial review
Regular donations have remained constant throughout 2021-2022. The expenses during this period represent the work on the cancelled series, as well as replacing or upgrading equipment.
The trustees remain very thankful to God and to both our regular supporters and the users who give single one-off donations.
Looking ahead, Video Bible Talks is expected to continue being primarily funded by individual supporters of this ministry, with occasional one-off donations from individuals and churches who have benefited from our videos. Gift Aid for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 is due to be reclaimed in the following accounting period as well, to further bolster finances ahead of production on two new series of videos.
A summary of the accounts for the period ending 31st March 2022 is included below.
## Reserves Policy
The reserves as of 31 March 2022 are represented by the bank balance. It is the intention of the Trustees to hold a level of reserves once the finances of the charity allow for this.
## Structure, governance and management
The charity is governed by a constitution and was formed as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation on 21 December 2018.
> 1 Calculated from user group sizes sampled during 2020-2021.
The charity is organised and managed by the trustees named above, with Alan Witchalls managing the activities of the charity as video Director and Producer on a self-employed contract basis, and the other trustees appointed according to their skills and expertise as it may benefit the charity. All Trustees are required to subscribe and adhere to, in belief and lifestyle, the Statement of Faith adopted by the Charity.
## Accounts summary
## For the period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
|**Opening balance**|**2021-2022**
**2020-2021**
**£15,278**
**£5,394**|
|---|---|
|**Income**
Regular supporters
Single donations
Other income
**Expenditure**
Contract staff
Running costs
Production costs
Equipment costs|£16,647
£18,432
£1,218
£7,675
£45
£786|
||**£17,910**
**£26,893**
£12,360
£13,560
£1,458
£938
£0
£899
£1,327
£1,612|
||**£15,145**
**£17,009**|
|**Closing balance**|**£18,043**
**£15,278**|
## Closing remarks
The trustees of Video Bible Talks are extremely thankful to God for his provision in this ministry, and for our supporters and users for contributing to and making use of the content we provide.
Approved: Jonathan Trinder (on behalf of trustees) Date: 17/11/2022
|**Video Bible Talks**|**Video Bible Talks**|**Video Bible Talks**|**1181337**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||
|**For the period**
**from**|01/04/2021|**To**|31/03/2022|
**CC16a**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**16,647**
**668**
**-**
**595**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,910**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,910**
**12,360**
**1,458**
**-**
**1,327**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,145**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,145**
**2,765**
**-**
**15,278**
**18,043**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**16,647**
**1,218**
**-**
**45**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,910**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,910**
**12,360**
**1,458**
**-**
**1,327**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,145**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,145**
**2,765**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Regular donations|**16,647**|||||**18,432**|
|Single donations|**668**|||||**7,675**|
|Gift-aid reclaimed|**-**|||||**-**|
|Other income|**595**|||||**786**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**17,910**|||||**26,893**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**26,893**|
||||||||
|
Contract staff|**12,360**|||||**13,560**|
|Runningcosts|**1,458**|||||**938**|
|Production costs|**-**|||||**899**|
|Equipment costs and upgrades|**1,327**|||||**1,612**|
|Other expenses|**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**15,145**|||||**17,009**|
||||||||
|**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_**|||||||
|||||||**17,009**|
||||||||
||**2,765**|**-**|**-**|**2,765**||**9,884**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**15,278**|**-**|**-**|**15,278**||**5,394**|
||**18,043**|**-**|**-**|**18,043**||**15,278**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
15/12/2022
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**|NatWest bannk account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Production equipment|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**18,043**
**-**
**-**
**18,043**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Unrestricted|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**6,700**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||Production equipment|
Unrestricted|**6,700**|**3,300**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
|Signature
**Details**|**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Jonathan Trinder
Maxwell Fenn
Alan Witchalls|**When due**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|
||||
||||
||||
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|||Date of
approval|
||Jonathan Trinder|17/11/2022|
||Alan Witchalls|17/11/2022|
||Maxwell Fenn|17/11/2022|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
15/12/2022
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
> **Report to the trustees/ Video Bible Talks members of On accounts for the** 31st March 2022 **Charity no** 1181337 **period ended (if any) Set out on pages** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 March 2022. **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn 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._
**Date:** 15 December 2022 **Signed: Name:** Alan Gray **Relevant professional** Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales (FCA ) **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 73 Shepherds Hill Harold Wood RM3 0NP
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**October 2018**
**IER**