## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 04 2022 **To** 31 03 2023 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Bethesda Shalom **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1182981 **Charity's principal address** Bethesda Shalom 80 New Road Willenhall **Postcode** WV13 2DA ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Paul M. Williams|Pastor/Chair||| ||Dr. David Donovan|||| ||Nathiena Williams|||| ||Aaron Sheldon|||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document CIO Foundational Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by existing Trustees Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** To advance the Christian Faith for the benefit of the public through encouraging and facilitating the practice of Christianity in agreement with the Statement of Faith. This includes the provision of a place of meeting for the public worship of God via preaching/teaching of the Bible, communion, prayer, praise, fellowship, and almsgiving; including evangelistic outreach and discipleship. - To engage in and encourage regular public worship of God, having as central the person of Jesus Christ, the Bible, preaching, teaching, prayer, worship and fellowship. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** - To instruct people of all ages in the Word of God through sound teaching and godly preaching so as to encourage and equip believers to live worthy of the high calling in Christ Jesus in all matters of faith and conduct. - - To hold fast to the truth of God’s Word, endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, in humility and selfsacrifice, preferring one another in love. - - To provide a fellowship where the love of Christ is expressed through personal ministry, discipleship, encouragement, discipline, service, forgiveness and practical care. - - To always remember our persecuted Brethren in prayer and to express the love of God towards them in endeavouring to meet their needs practically and financially by supporting ministries that reach out to them in love. - - To proclaim the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, leading those who repent and believe in Him for salvation into Membership in the local Church. - - To baptise believers and make disciples of Jesus Christ out of every nation. - - To encourage and train believers in the employment of their gifts and talents in the service of Christ. - To support the ministry of the wider fellowship of Churches who also hold fast to the historic and orthodox Christian Faith. - - To support the work of missions in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. - - To express the love of God in practical ways to all those in need but especially to the poor, widows and orphans. **TAR** March **2012** 2 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Bethesda Shalom, has seen God’s continued hand of blessing over the course of 20212-23 with Members continuing to come from as far afield as WEM, Stourport and Birmingham. Those in regular attendance is around 40 people. As a Church, we continue to place the person of Jesus Christ as central to our gathering together as one Body in Christ, this is reflected in the strong preaching of God’s Word, Bible study and the partaking of the Lord’s Supper on a weekly basis. In addition to meeting the needs of people locally, Bethesda Shalom reaches out nationally and globally via its website and YouTube channel. The Church’s YouTube channel now has hundreds of videos uploaded with many hundreds of people worldwide, watching the weekly sermons and downloading the podcasts and articles from the website monthly. 2022-23 marks the second full year spent together as a congregation in the new Church building located in Willenhall Town Centre. We have seen new members added from the local area with many more visitors passing through of a Sunday to join the service. Prayer continues to be a fundamental vision of the Church as we call on the Lord to turn back the current tide of apostasy within the land and to revive His Church, beginning with our own lives. To that end, an increasing handful of Members currently meet five times a week to pray. This year has overseen the restoration of the Church garden surrounding the rear of the building. During the original restoration work some two years previous, due to time constraints and financial restrictions we temporarily turfed the garden area with a view to completing the work at a later date. I am pleased to say that this work has now been caried out. New trees were planted and hard landscaping laid. Volunteers from the Church helped to prepare the grounds saving many thousands of pounds. The planting and the hard landscaping was carried out by a local landscaping company (Redeeming Gardens). The total cost came in on budget just over £10K. Bethesda Shalom continues to support other ministries monthly via financial giving. These include New Foundations (a medical mission to the Niger Delta), Bryce Homes (an orphanage in Hatti caring for orphans and widows), Messianic Testimony (a UK mission to the Jewish people), Barnabas Fund (a Christian aid relief charity) and Christian Institute (a Christian UK based pressure group). In addition to these ministries, we also support two overseas ministers whilst providing help to struggling Members within our home congregation. The annual Sanctuary Conferences continue to be a great blessing. Nearly 100 people convened together from across the UK for the purpose of seeking the face of God. We look ahead to the year 2023-24 with great anticipation as we continue to be faithful to God’s Word and prayer, endeavouring to walk in more fervent love for one another, looking for a sovereign outpouring of God’s Spirit. **TAR** March **2012** 3 ## **Section E Financial review** ## **Brief statement of the** **charity’s policy on reserves** At the close of the financial year 2022/23, there are cash reserves of £20,000. A large portion of this is designated funds for the continued completion of the restoration work of the Church building. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Paul Matthew Williams **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc)** **Date** 30/01/2024 **TAR** March **2012** 4 |**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Bethesda Shalom**||**1182981**|| |**Receipts and payments accounts**|||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|01/04/2022
Period start date|31/03/2023
Period end date
**To**|| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**12,200**
**23,937**
**1,760**
**12,949**
**5,525**
**-**
**4**
**-**
**56,375**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12,200**
**23,937**
**1,760**
**12,949**
**5,525**
**-**
**4**
**-**
**56,375**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Gift Aid Donations|**12,200**|**-**|**-**|**12,200**|**68,703**| |Non Gift Aid Donations|**23,937**||**-**|**23,937**|**11,795**| |Conference Donations|**1,760**|**-**|**-**|**1,760**|**9,022**| |Conference Bookings|**12,949**|**-**|**-**|**12,949**|**2,820**| |HMRC Gift Aid|**5,525**|**-**|**-**|**5,525**|**-**| |Miscellaneous|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Interest|**4**|**-**|**-**|**4**|**50**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**56,375**|**-**|**-**|**56,375**|**92,390**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**|||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Asset Loan(The CharityBank)|**-**||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**56,375**|||**-**|||**-**||**56,375**||**92,390**| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||| |Maintenance,Repairs & Renewals|**5,007**||**-**|||**-**|||**5,007**||**1,369**| |Conference Expenses|**12,830**||**-**|||**-**|||**12,830**||**10,178**| |Utilities & IT|**4,131**||**-**|||**-**|||**4,131**||**18,699**| |Missions,Evangelism,Aid & Support,Gifts|**13,327**||**-**|||**-**|||**13,327**||**52**| |Bank,Insurance & Professional Fees|**1,012**||**-**|||**-**|||**1,012**||**5,054**| |Sundries|**5,185**||**-**|||**-**|||**5,185**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**41,492**||**-**|||**-**|||**41,492**||**35,352**| ||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**|||||||||||| |**table)**|||||||||||| |Providence Chapel Fixtures & Fittings|**14,261**||||||**-**||**14,261**||**36,423**| |Loan Repayments - The CharityBank|**8,434**||||||**-**||**8,434**||**27,322**| |**_Sub total_ **|**22,695**|||**-**|||**-**||**22,695**||**63,745**| ||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**64,187**|||**-**|||**-**||**64,187**||**99,097**| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**- 7,811**|||**-**|||**-**||**- 7,811**||**- 6,707**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||||||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**28,298**|||||**-**|||**28,298**||**35,005**| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**20,487**|||**-**|||**-**||**20,487**||**28,298**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 30/01/2024 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
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**827**
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**20,487**
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**-**
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**97,711**
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**-**
**-**
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approval| |||Paul M. Williams|30/01/2024| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 30/01/2024 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Bethesda Shak)rn On accounts ft•r the year onded 31" March 2023 Charlty no (if any) 1182981 Set out on pages l ￿port to Ihe trustees on my exarThnabon oflPE a￿￿Unts ofts above charfty fthe Trusri the year ethl 311￿2023. R•spon8lblllll•s and b4$18 report A8 Ihe d￿nty$ trLBtees. y￿1 are resporW for1he preparalon ofthe a￿aUnts in aCtorr1an￿ ￿1th the ￿VireW*nts of the Chanties Act 2011 llhe Acri. I report in rweca ofmy exwnNti"on of tsTnJsYs accounts out undor3ection f45 of the 2011 A¢t and in earryin9 rMJt my examinabon. l tta¥e fdloknEd all aP￿￿ats￿ DSrections given by the Chanty CUMM￿k)n urnjersection 145(5llbl of the Aca. Inil•pèndent examlnerf$ I have tOrnF4eled my eX￿In3tiOn. I con￿lM that no materrdl rnatters have comè to rny ststomont attents.on in COn￿¢￿0n wth the examinatK>n (other Ihan thatdisdwd l)eJow"I whith gives n* cause to beI￿ve that in. any material respect ac£ountirvJ r￿)rfS we Th)t W in actoNJanc* 130 Oft￿ Charities A(t or the xcoJnts rK)l ac&)Al vthh the acwuntiffj rEoyds.' or the aCC￿nts nol comply %%ith the applicab￿ wuirements ¢))nr*ming the fomi and con*nt of accounts set (￿rt in the Charites (Acuunts and Reports) Regulations 2CrfJ8 otherth8n any reqUire￿ent that the a(x¥unts gwe a'truè and view which va not a mattwix)nsNJereAI as part of an independent examination. I have no oxtems and have c(Th arx03s no oth8f rnatter8 in cx)nnection with the examinaliN to whith attention shehjkd drawn in this report in orferto enable a proper r%J8fStaThYir¥J of the aco)urts to be reathed. ' Phase d8lete Ihe M)rds in tts I￿￿kets ifitsyt* notaipty. 8lgn•d: Name: DARREN PAUL JONES Relevant profe88lonal quallfl¢atlonlsl or body Itf onyl: FCCA MNAT Address: 15 STAnON ROAD WALSALL 34BB IER Oct 2018