_1 of 4_ _Trustee Annual Report: April 2022 - March 2023_ ## **Alive City Church UK Charity Registration No. 1182816** ## **Trustee Annual Report for year ending March 2023** Alive City Church UK is governed and constituted by a CIO foundation constitution, registered 05/04/2019. ## **Principle Address** Alive City Church PO Box 79417 London N7 1HF ## **Bank** UK Metro Bank 136A High Rd London N22 6EB ## **Trustees** Trustees are appointed by Alive City Church UK by a resolution passed at a meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment the charity trustees are to take into consideration the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the charity. They are also expected to be familiar with the practical work of the charity having been involved in other capacities or because of experience gained in other organisations. Trustees are kept up to date with the charities operational framework, financial position, objectives and future plans. ## _The Trustees that served during the year under review_ : Dionne Forrest Tanya McNeish Stephanie Quirk ( _Chair_ ) ## **Key Personnel** Senior Pastor Volney Morgan Senior Pastor Ifedayo Morgan Head Of Finance Tanya McNeish Head Of Operations Stephanie Quirk _2 of 4_ _Trustee Annual Report: April 2022 - March 2023_ The governance of the Church resides with the Trustees and Senior Pastors of Alive City Church UK, with support from head volunteers who led various teams within the organisation assisting with the progress of weekly operations. ## **Objectives and Activities** The Objectives of Alive City Church UK are: - To advance the Christian religion in the United Kingdom & elsewhere for the benefit of the public through the holding of prayer meetings, lectures, relief of people who are in conditions of need, distressed, aged or sick and public celebrations of religious festivals - Producing & distributing literature on the Christian faith to enlighten others about the Christian religion. ## **Achievements and Performance** Alive City Church UK is committed to providing various activities and services to their members and the wider community. We aim to create a space where individuals can come together at least once or twice a week. We currently have 1 employee and approximately 27 volunteers who support and contribute significantly to the charity’s operations. Enabling us to complete our objectives, achievements and conduct various activities by sharing their skills, talent and time. ## _Some of our key teams are:_ - Operations Team - Host Team - A-Men (Men’s Ministry) - Hearts & Crowns (Women’s Ministry) - Alive City Music - Alive City Kids - Alive City Teens - Alive City Outreach Team - Alive City Media & Production ## _Groceries on Us_ Our Groceries on us service provides free groceries to those in need in our local community, this service is offered once a month. ## _Support: Sick, Grieved and Elderly_ For those who are unable to consistently attend weekly activities provided by Alive City Church UK i.e. because of sickness, lack of means to travel, lack of mobility or due to being elderly etc, we provide volunteers who make home visits to support these individual. In addition we also provide support and assistance to those who are grieved. This includes pastoral care as well as signposting to various organisations should they need help with funeral planning or further counselling. _3 of 4_ _Trustee Annual Report: April 2022 - March 2023_ ## _Sunday Services_ Alive City Church UK meet in-person on a Sunday for their weekly worship service, which includes vibrant uplifting music and passionate speakers who share and enlighten on the Christian faith. ## _Matters Of The Heart - Bible Study_ ‘Matters Of The Heart’ is a mid week gathering where people can connect through God’s word, prayer and learn more about Christianity in an informal way. It is a space where people can discuss life issues and gain basic support. ‘Matters Of The Heart’ is conducted in-person and is also an avenue where people can socialise and get to know each other and ask questions that you may not be able to during a Sunday worship service. Through these sessions we aim to educate, grow together, build, strengthen and maintain community. ## _Alive City Youth_ Alive City Kids - Once a week we provide a space for children to come together socialise, play, get creative, have fun and learn about God. With the addition of an outing that takes place during the summer holidays. Alive City Teens - ## _Business Fair_ Alive City Church conducted it’s first Business fair, giving local small businesses within the community a platform to showcase and market their business to new customers. ## _Alive Hub - Before and after Sunday service_ 2022 saw the introduction of Alive Hub at Alive City Church UK, which is open on a Sunday and is accessible before and after our weekly worship services. The Alive Hub is a place where both members and the community can come together and socialise. There is no obligation to join our worship services as Alive Hub is also set as a place where the homeless can get something free to eat and drink. The Alive Hub provides a free continental breakfast, various snacks and beverages both hot and cold. The Alive Hub also offers a book loan service, providing a small selection of books that individuals are able to sign out and loan for the duration of two weeks. ## _Movie Club_ Alive City Church launched a Movie Club, where their members meet up and watch the latest movies together. ## _Together Month_ Together month at Alive City Church is the month where we organise more community focused Sunday services. This year included a Fun Day, a panel sharing expertise and information regarding navigating the world of social media. And ended with a musical concert, bringing together various gospel musicians and artists from around London. ## _Annual Retreats for lead Volunteers_ November 2022 marked Alive City Church UK’s second annual retreat for their lead volunteers and the charity’s trustees. This annual retreat is a place where volunteers can refresh after many months of handwork, receive training and understand the goals of the charity for the upcoming year. It is also a time for the trustees and senior leadership of the church to review the performance and activity of the charity, discuss concerns or any significant changes and review plans for the new year. _4 of 4_ _Trustee Annual Report: April 2022 - March 2023_ ## _**PLANS FOR FUTURE PERIODS**_ The Charity continues to explore ways of furthering its charitable objectives in an effective manner by ensuring there is an awareness of its services. The Charity seeks to provide services and activities that meet the needs of people in the community. These activities provide a positive change in the moral and spiritual climate of the local borough which reflects the charity’s Christian ethos and beliefs. The charity would like to expand its outreach to the community and are proactively seeking opportunities to become more involved. The charity would like to provide additional training to its volunteers, supporting them as individuals and in their volunteer role. In addition the charity will be taking a direct approach to reviewing practices and operational systems to cover all bases in terms of policies and procedures, working with trustees to ensure all main risks are taken into account with the relevant action taken. ## **Financial Review** Alive City Church UK once again saw an increase in our income during this financial year in correlation to the increase in membership. As expected, we also saw an increase in our expenses compared to the previous year which can be attributed to more outreach supplied to our community, the purchase of necessary equipment to improve our services and an increase in the rent charged for the building that we hire to conduct our weekly Sunday Services. During this Financial Year we also officially employed our senior Pastor Volney Morgan with the expectation to add senior Pastor Ifedayo Morgan to payroll in the next financial year. Overall, this has been another positive year financially for Alive City Church UK and we endeavour to continue utilising funds to aid members and reach our wider community. _The Trustees report was approved by the Board of Trustees_ Signed: Dionne Nicole Forrest ( _Trustee_ ) Dated: **27/01/2024** ||**Alive City Church UK**|**Alive City Church UK**|**Alive City Church UK**|**Alive City Church UK**|**Alive City Church UK**||||**CC16a**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||||| ||**For theperiod from**||1st April 2022||**To**|31st March 2023||||||| |||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Lastyear**|||| ||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||| |Donations|**86,382.14**||**-**||**-**||**86,382**||**50,529**|||| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**86,382**||**-**||**-**||**86,382**||**50,529**|||| |||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,(see table).**||||||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|||| |**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|||| |||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|
**86,382**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**86,382**||**50,529**|||| |||||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||| |Rent/Hire|**18,786.00**||**-**||**-**||**18,786**||**11,120**|||| |Charitable Activities|**26,099.80**||**-**||**-**||**26,100**||**12,017**|||| |Insurance|**382.30**||**-**||**-**||**382**||**674**|||| |Media/Music Supplies|**2,412.50**||**-**||**-**||**2,413**||**5,017**|||| |Grants/Donations Paid|**14,873.78**||**-**||**-**||**14,874**||**15,972**|||| |Bank Charges|**240.00**||**-**||**-**||**240**||**240**|||| |Salaries/Pension|**15,017.91**||**-**||**-**||**15,018**||**-**|||| |HMRC|**909.39**||**-**||**-**||**909**||**-**|||| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |**_Sub total_ **|
**78,722**||**-**||**-**||**78,722**||**45,040**|||| |||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**
**table)**||||||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||- 0|||| |||||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_ **|
**78,722**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**78,722**||**45,040**|||| |||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**7,660**||**-**||**-**||**7,660**||**5,489**|||| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**9,500**||**-**||**-**||**9,500**||**-**|||| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **|
**17,160**||**-**||**-**||**17,160**||**5,489**|||| |||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets**|**and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|||| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||| |**B1 Cash funds**|Metro Bank||||**17,160**||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**_Total cash fund_**_s_||||**17,160**||**-**||**-**|||| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))||||OK||OK||OK|||| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|||| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |||||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|||| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| |||||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|||| |**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own**
**use**|||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**||**-**|||| |||||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|||| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||||| ||||||||**-**|||||| ||||||||**-**|||||| ||||||||**-**|||||| ||||||||**-**|||||| |||||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the
trustees|Signature|||||Print Name|||Date of
approval|||| ||_Tanya McNeish_|||||Tanya McNeish|||02.01.2024|||| |||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| 1 |**Charity Name**||||**No**| |---|---|---|---|---| |Alive City Church UK||||1182816| |**Receipts and payments**|||**accounts**|| |**For the period**
**from**|1st April 2022|**To**||31st March 2023| ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds Total funds Last year
to the nearest to the nearest to the nearest to the nearest
£ £ £ to the nearest £ £
A1 Receipts
Donations 86,382 - - 86,382 50,529
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 86,382 - - 86,382 50,529
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 86,382 - - 86,382 50,529
A3 Payments
Rent/Hire 18,786 - - 18,786 11,120
Charitable Activities 26,100 - - 26,100 12,017
Insurance 382 - - 382 674
Media/Music Supplies 2,413 - - 2,413 5,017
Grants/Donations Paid 14,874 - - 14,874 15,972
Bank Charges 240 - - 240 240
Salaries/Pension 15,018 - - 15,018 -
HMRC 909 - - 909 -
- - - - -
Sub total 78,722 - - 78,722 45,040
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 78,722 - - 78,722 45,040
Net of receipts/(payments) 7,660 - - 7,660 5,489
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 9,500 - - 9,500 4,011
Cash funds this year end 17,160 - - 17,160 9,500
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of
all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))
**Details**
Metro Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
Signature
_Tanya McNeish_
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**17,160**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,160**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Tanya McNeish|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
02.01.2024| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Alive City Church UK **On accounts for the year** 31.03.2023 **Charity no** 1182816 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/03/2023. Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 all 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 (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. |**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**||| |---|---|---| |||| ||Aamer Shehzad|| |||| ||ICAEW|| |||| ||Omnibus Workspace, 39-41 North Road London
N7 9DP|| 1 **Oct 2018** **IER** ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of** NA **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **Oct 2018** **IER**