2025-01-31-accounts - God City London

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GOD CITY LONDON

TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] JANUARY 2025

Charity number: 1182339

God City London Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements 2025

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS OF THE CHARITY, ITS TRUSTEES AND ADVISERS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] JANUARY 2025

God City London is governed and administered by an executive board comprising of the Board of Trustee. The Board of trustees are responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. It provides strategic leadership and the day to day administration and running of the charity. There are currently three serving members in the board of Trustees and five serving members.

Board of Trustees

Chairman Rotimi Kaleb Ehinmoti

Trustees

Olakunle Falodun Kunle Falodun Kingsley Ejeh

Charity registered number

1182339

Registered Office

GODCITY LONDON KEMP HOUSE 152-160 CITY ROAD LONDON EC1V 2NX

Independent examiner

Accounts Aid

Bankers

Lloyds Bank

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TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST ] JANUARY 2025

The aims and purpose of God City London to promote the Christian religion through activities and events recommended and approved by the leadership of the charity has identified and approved the following as our main aims and purpose:

To spread the gospel of Jesus Christ across the nations through effective face to face evangelism, use of the media including the internet, radio and television and publication of materials or other literatures for the promoting and spreading of the gospel
To build a godly community through identifying people’s social and spiritual needs and facilitating ways to meet those needs
To actively engage in a continuous collective global community based evangelical works to raise disciples in the different communities across the nations for the continuation of God’s work within the local communities
To co-operate with other churches or similar bodies for the relief of poverty and for other charitable purposes that are for the benefit of mankind.
To relief poverty
To advance education for the benefit of disadvantaged children

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Objectives and activities

God city London is committed to enabling and empowering people in the community to serve their purpose through:

Affording the knowledge of God to the community at large through evangelistic work and encouraging people to worship with us and seek eternal life salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ
Working with other churches with similar objectives to achieve greater results in enabling and empowering people through the word of God and in offering practical help and assistance to the needy
Congregational community and missionary work including offering practical help, advice and assistance to the homeless, unemployed and others that are less able in the society
Enlightening congregation members and the community at large with the gospel of Jesus Christ through face to face evangelism, providing necessary support to new converts to grow and develop in their new found faith through effective pastoral care
Community wide empowerment projects for the benefit of mankind in the wider community

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TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST ] JANUARY 2025

In planning our activities for the year, God City London guidance on public benefit and in particular the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. For wider public benefit purposes, the Charity in the course of the year has actively engaged in both congregational and community wide activities that are geared towards promoting social inclusion and empowering people to live a sustainable Christian life. Amongst them are;

Weekly, monthly, quarterly worship, prayer meetings and bible studies
Community wide evangelistic outreach and missionary work
Advancement of the Christian religion by promoting knowledge of salvation through
Christ with face to face evangelism, publication of teaching materials on the World Wide Web
Provision of pastoral care for the congregation, local community and new converts to help them live a sustainable life in their newfound faith

In carrying out our activities both within and outside our worship centre, we always ensure that we do not compromise the core principles of our statement of faith as set out in our governing constitution.

ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE YEAR

Location : We have moved to a new location to better serve our community.

Online Presence : Our online platform has received new life and our traction is increasing. More people can now engage with our content.

Growth : Our membership has increased, and our leadership capacity has expanded.

Leadership Development : We have launched a new leadership training pipeline called The Crucible to cultivate and empower future leaders.

Welfare Purse : We have formally started a welfare drive to help our members who are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and we hope to expand this into our community at large. Our goal is to be able to commit a minimum of 5% of our income to this.

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REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES AND PERFORMANCES

Monthly prayer and network meetings for Christians from all works of life. Membership is open to other faith and religion.

Provides opportunities for :

Fellowship, family counselling
Spiritual and social inclusion
Counselling opportunities for single parents,
People with depression
Information about available resources in the local area, such as food bank.

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TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST ] JANUARY 2025

The trustees present their annual report together with the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31[st] January 2025. The Trustees confirm that the Annual Report and financial statements of the charity comply with the current statutory requirements, the requirements of the Charity’s governing document and the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” issued in March 2005.

REVIEW OF FINANCIAL POSITION

The financial statements covered the operation of Compassionate God City London they have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the 2005 Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP)

For the year ended 31[st] January 2025, the financial activities show total incoming resources of £107152 (2024-£47,961) which is the total tithes and offering donations received from members. This was disbursed mainly on charitable activities and total expenditure amounted to,£105,955 2024- £50,043). We closed the year with a net operating profit of ££1,197.

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEE’S RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustee’s report and the financial statement s in accordance with applicable law.

Charity law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
Observe the methods and principle in the Charity SORP;
Make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity, hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities

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TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST ] JANUARY 2025

This report was approved by the Trustees on 1[ST] February 2025 and signed on their behalf, by:

…………………… …………………………… Rotimi Kaleb Ehinmoti Kingsley Ejeh

Chairman Trustee

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT OF THE MEMBERS OF GOD CITY LONDON

We report on the financial statements for the year ended 28 February 2025 which are set out in pages 7 to 9. This report is made solely to the Charity’s Trustees, as a body.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

As explained more fully in the Trustees’ responsibilities statement, the Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements.

The charity’s trustee consider that an audit is not required for this financial statement (under section43 (2) of the Charity Commission (under section 43(7) (b) of the Act), and to state whether particular matters have come to our attention.

Basis of Independent examiner’s report

Our examination was carried out in accordance with Charity SORP. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a “true and fair” view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent examiner’s statement

In the course of our examination, no matter has come to our attention: which indicates that:

Adequate accounting records have not be kept;
The financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records
We have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

For and on behalf of

ACCOUNTS AID LIMITED 158 OLD KENT ROAD LONDON SE1 5TY

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God City London Trustees, Report and Financial Statements 2025

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] JANUARY 2025

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] JANUARY 2025

	Unrestrict ed funds £ 89,217 - 17,935	Designate d funds £ - - -	Restricte d funds £ - - -	Endowme nt Total funds 2025 £ £ - 89,217 - - 17,935
	107,152			107,152
				105,955
105,955				105,152
1197 -		-	-	1197 - -

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Cash fund this year end	1197 1197 1197 1197

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT 31[S][T ] JANUARY 2025

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

Cash Funds Bank Short term Credits		Unrestricte d funds £	Restricted funds £	Endowmen t Total funds 2025 £ £
		977	-	977

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977 - - 977
Assets retained for church
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Furn & Fit / Musica Inst /
Audio Visual 9,999 - - 9,999
Liabilities - - - -
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This report was approved by the Trustees on 1[ST] February 2025 and signed on their behalf, by:

…………………… …………………………….

Rotimi Kaleb Ehinmoti Kingsley Ejeh

Chairman Trustee

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GOD CITY LONDON NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] JANUARY 2025

1.The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulation 2006

Receipts

Unrestricted

Tithes and offerings and grant Payments Hall Hire Websites Salaries telephone feeso keyboardist bank charge Welfare Insurance Admin/General Exps Honorarium Accountancy		funds £
		105,152
		17,788 48,964 0 5,370 13 0 940 30,349 1392 1000
		105,816

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