2022-12-31-accounts - City Life Church (Portsmouth)

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Summary		of	the	the	the			City Life Church (CIO) exists for the public benefit, the
purposes	of		the			charity		advancement ofthe Christian faith according to the Baptist
as set. out		in	its					Union ofGreat Britain's Declaration of Principle of1873as
governing		document						updated in 1904, 1906and 1938.The CIO may also
								advance education and conduct other charitable purposes
								in the United Kingdom and/or other parts ofthe World.	It
								exists to promote the gospel ofJesus Christ that through
								him we may have salvation and eternal life.
								This is done by loving God, reaching out and serving
								people through various activities within our City, Nation	and
								N/o rid.
Summary		of	the			main		2022 was ofyear ofcontinuation ofrebirth, regrowth and
activities	in relation						to	re-establishing what was held back during the pandemic
those purposes						for	the	season.
public benefit,				in
particular,		the		activities,				Our Regular services were still initially smaller in attendees
projects or services								than prior to the national lockdowns. A pattern seen by
identified	in the				accounts.			many churches in our city and nation.
Highlighting			the
achievements				ofthe				However, many weekly events were recommenced. CAP
charity, identifying							the	{Christians against poverty) was an event run during the
difference		the		charity's				year to enable people from the wider community find
work has	made				to the			employment find jobs, this was achieved by providing	10
circumstances					of its			weeks oftraining for people recommended, but not
beneficiaries				and any				exclusively from the local government job centre.
wider benefits				to society.
								Several courses were run and made available to the
								membership and to the wider community such as Alpha,
								Transformed Life and Freedom in Christ. With cooked
								meals provided.
								We continued to regrow our celebratory Sunday morning
								services and continued with the online provision via
								YouTube so that our regular attendees prior to the
								pandemic and Aew attendees could see a flavour ofchurch
								life prior to in person attendance, this included events	that
								celebrated various people groups such as international
								Sunda, Communion etc.

Summary ofthe main			Community based events such as All Treat No Trick,	our	our
activities in relation to			alternative to Halloween, the Easter Extravaganza, Carol
those purposes for the			Services and Baffins fun day were restarted in 2022.
public benefit, in particular,
the activities, projects		or	Our regular weekly events such as love family for parents
services identified in	the		and toddlers, not forgotten for the senior citizens and	the
accounts. Highlighting		the	youth 8 student groups were restarted in 2022.
achievements ofthe
charity, identifying the			Our annual conference "Gateway" was finally restarted		in
difference the charity's			October 2022. this fulfils our mission ofCity Life Church
work has made to the			being a church to churches as over thirty-five local
circumstances of its			churches were represented.
beneficiaries and any
wider benefits to socie
Statement confirming			The trustees have regard for, and an understanding for
whether the trustees		have	the charity Commissions guidance on Public Benefit,
had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission	on
public benefit.
Policy on grant making.			City Life Church has no policy on Grant Making
Policy on social			City Life Church has no fixed policy with relation to social
investment including			investment programs, however it works closely with local,
program related			national, and international organizations to meet needs
investment.			and support programs which meet the purposes ofthe
			charity, defined within its governing document, where	a
			financial need is required to be met. This at times is
			through funding centrally via the church itself or directly
			by the membership.
Contribution made by			Regular giving by members and volunteers enables City
volunteers.			life Church to meet the needs ofits social investment
			policies, together with members additionally supporting		as
			individuals' social investment needs are drawn to their
			attention by the church or fellow members.
inancial Review
Review ofthe charity's			The Charity remains in a solvent position financially,	and
financial position at the			together with along with other charities and businesses		is
end ofthe period.			positively working to recover post Covid 19and the
			associated financial hardships.
Statement explaining		the	The charity operates a reserve policy that holds an
policy for holding reserves			amount ofcash to enable the running ofthe church for		a
stating why they are	held.		period of6 months in the unlikely event of all income
			being lost.
Explanation ofany			With the generosity ofour members and prudent fiscal
uncertainties about the			management we see no prospect ofany uncertainties
charity continuing as		a	about the charity continuing as a going concern.
oin concern.

The charity's	principal		The Charities principal sources offunds is through the
sources offunds (including			generous regular giving of its membership, and through
any fundraising)			the provision of received grants both from charity
			organizations and other external sources.
A description	ofthe		With any organization in this current recovery period post
principal risks facing the			pandemic, there is a heightened risk offinancial insecurity
charity			facing many organizations, however with the generosity	of
			our members and prudent fiscal management; we see no
			prospect ofany uncertainties about the charity continuing
			as a going concern.
tructure Governance		and	INana ement
Type ofgoverning			Constitution
document
How is the charity			Charitable incorporated Organisation (CIO)
constituted'?
Trustee selection methods			The Senior Leadership Team may ai any time nominate
including details ofany			a new charity trustee provided that the limit specified in
constitutional	provisions		clause 12.3 on the number ofcharity trustees would not
e.g. election	to post. or		as a result be exceeded. The members may appoint a
name ofany	person or		new charity trustee nominated pursuant to clause 13.1(a)
body entitled	to appoint		Elected charity trustees, shall serve for a 3-year term
one or more	trustees.		and may be reappointed for a further 3-year term,
			following which they will usually cease to be an elected
			charity trustee for at least 12months.
Policies and	procedures		The charity trustees will make available io each new
adopted for the induction			charity trustee, 'on or before his or her first appointment:—
and training	oftrustees.
			A copy ofthe constitution and any amendments made to
			it.
			A copy ofthe CIO's latest trustees' annual report and
			statemeni ofaccounts.

Reference and Administrative	Reference and Administrative	Reference and Administrative	details
Chari	name		Ci Life Church	Portsmouth
Other name the charity			CLC Ciiy Life Church
uses
Re istered chari		number	1182810
Charity's	principal	address	85Tangier Road
			Baffins
			Portsmouth
			Hampshire
			PO3 6JH

Names ofthe chari trus	tees who mana	ethe chari
Trustee name	Office (ifany)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name ofperson (or body) entitled to appoint trustee ifan
Daniel Paul Harman	Chair
Wynelle Burns Cowdery	Secretary
David Welch
Laura Harman
Kevin Hussey

ame oftrustees holdin	title to	ro e
Trustee name	Office	ifan
Daniel Paul Harman	Chair
Wynelle Burns Cowdery	Secretary
David Welch
Laura Harman
Kevin Hussey

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								For	the period from	01/01/2022		To	31/1 2/2022
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								Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds		Endowment funds	Total	funds	Last year
								to the	nearest F	to the nearest F.		to the nearest 6	to the nearest L'		to the nearest 6
A1 Recei ts
Offerings and Gifts									102,161					102,161	94,231
Gift Aided Offerings									72,363					72,363	53,147
Rent from owned	properties								12,000					12,000	11,775
Interest received															112
Grant Income											6,380			6,380
HMRC Gift Aid									19,408					19,408	16,786
Covid Furlough Grants															34,198
Apprenticeship grants									2,823					2,823	2,441
u tota		ross income				or
						AR)			208,755		6,384			215,139	212,690
A2 Asset and	investment			sales,
see table .
				u	tota
		Total		receipts					208,755		6,384			215,139	212,690
A3 Pa ments
Administration									28,980					28,980	21,219
Catering									6,170					6,170	4,682
Buildings Maintenance									1,322					1)322	2,204
Ministry Work									141,193					141,193	180,324
Services									10,022					10,022	14,063
Giving and Donations									5,890					5,890	9,117
query portal planquest															1,873
Bridge of Hope project															19,091
Not Forgotten project											8,377			8,377	2,836
			Sub		total				193,577		8,377			201,954	255,409
A4 Asset and	investment
BBLoan ca	ital	re aid							10,000					10,000
Capital Asset purchase									1,559					1,559
			Sub		total				11,559					11,559
	Total payments								205,136		8,377			213,513	255,409
Net ofreceiptsl(payments)									3,619	(1,993)				1,626	(42,719)
A5 Transfers	between		funds
A6 Cash funds last year				end					68,836		7,252			76,0&8	118,807
Cash funds		this	year		end				72,455		5,259			77,714	76,088

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										Unrestricted		Restricted			Endowment
										funds to nearest f		to	funds nearest E		funds to nearest	6
81 Cash	funds				Current	Accounts					16,096
					Reserve	Accounts					61,618
					Cash on Hand
								Total cash funds			77,714
					(agree balances			with receipts and payments			'
									account(s)):"'tt! ~.".eruei		it t n "',,
										Unrestricted		Restricted			Endowment
										funds			funds		funds
					aills					to nearest 6		to	nearest f.		to nearest	6
82 Other	monetary		assets
					Detaiills					Fund to which asset belon s		Cost (optional)			Current value o tional
83 Investment		assets			Property	87Tangier		Road, Portsmouth		unrestricted
										Fund to which asset belon s		Cost (optional)			Current value o tional
84Assets retained			for	the	Church	building				unrestricted
charity's	own	use			Church	furniture				unrestricted
					Computer equipment					unrestricted
					Public address		equipment			unrestricted
										Fund to	which	Amount		due	When due
										liabilit	relates		o tional		o tional
85 Liabilities
Signed by one or two trustees behalf of all the trustees				on			Signature				Print	Name			Date of a roval
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											LAURA	HARMAN			q(IZ	ZaZS