## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 04 2024 **To** 31 03 2025
## 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
2
3
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)
March **2012**
**TAR**
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**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.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
Bethesda Shalom has seen God’s continued hand of blessing throughout **Summary of the main** 2024-25, with Members continuing to come from as far afield as WEM, **achievements of the charity** Stourport and Birmingham. Those in regular attendance are around 40 **during the year** 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, discipleship classes and the partaking of the Lord’s Supper weekly.
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 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.
2024-25 marks the fourth full year spent together as a congregation in the new Church building located in Willenhall Town Centre. We have seen new members added, with visitors passing through on 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. In addition to this, the Church has a monthly Gospel outreach in Willenhall Town Centre and a monthly tract distribution to homes in Willenhall.
Bethesda Shalom continues to support other ministries monthly via financial giving. These include New Foundations (a medical mission to the Niger Delta), Dorcas Ministries International (an orphanage and school in Kenya caring for orphans), Messianic Testimony (a UK mission to the Jewish people), Emmanuel School (a Christian school in Walsall) 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. In total, we were able to send more than £12,000 in aid and support for Christians in need.
The annual Sanctuary Conferences continue to be a great blessing. More than a hundred people convened together from across the UK and beyond (including Germany and the USA) for the purpose of seeking the face of God with three speakers travelling from Ireland to minister.
We look ahead to the year 2025-26 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. We shall continue to pray for a sovereign outpouring of God’s Spirit.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Section E Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
At the close of the financial year 2024/25, there are cash reserves of £10,000 to be used for the completion of the restoration of the Church building, including £3000 for the production of a Church sign.
**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** 30/01/2026
March **2012**
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|**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Bethesda Shalom**||**1182981**||
|**Receipts and payments accounts**
~~**For the period**~~
**from**
Period start date
01/04/2024
**To**
Period end date
31/03/2025|||**CC16a**|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||
||
**Charity Name**
**Bethesda Shalom**|
**Charity Name**
**Bethesda Shalom**|
**Charity Name**
**Bethesda Shalom**|
**Charity Name**
**Bethesda Shalom**|
**Charity Name**
**Bethesda Shalom**|
**Charity Name**
**Bethesda Shalom**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||~~**For the period**~~
**from**||Period start date
01/04/2024|
**To**|Period end date
31/03/2025||
||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**A1 Receipts**
**to the nearest**
**£**
Gift Aid Donations
**8,074**
Non Gift Aid Donations
**46,861**
Conference Donations
**730**
Conference Bookings
**16,238**|||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Gift Aid Donations|**8,074**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**8,074**
**46,861**
**730**
**16,238**
**2,747**
**-**
**74**
**-**|**10,541**
**119,153**
**490**
**13,693**
**3,226**
**700**
**36**
**-**|
|Non Gift Aid Donations|**46,861**||||||
|Conference Donations|**730**||||||
|Conference Bookings|**16,238**||||||
|HMRC Gift Aid|**2,747**||**-**|**-**|||
|Miscellaneous|||**-**|**-**|||
|Interest|**74**||**-**|**-**|||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**74,724**||**-**|**-**|**74,724**|**147,840**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Asset Loan(The CharityBank)|**-**||**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|
||**-**||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|
**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|**74,724**
**8,545**
**17,924**
**4,649**||**-**|||**147,840**|
|||||**-**|**74,724**||
||||||||
|Maintenance, Repairs & Renewals|**8,545**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|**8,545**
**17,924**
**4,649**
**17,471**
**2,480**
**5,897**
**891**
**-**
**-**|**2,700**
**13,430**
**5,179**
**15,656**
**1,224**
**3,180**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|Conference Expenses|**17,924**||||||
|Utilities & IT|**4,649**||||||
|Missions, Evangelism, Aid & Support, Gifts|**17,471**||**-**|**-**|||
|Bank, Insurance & Professional Fees|**2,480**||**-**|**-**|||
|Sundries|**5,897**||**-**|**-**|||
|LearningEducation|**891**||**-**|**-**|||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**|
**57,856**||**-**|**-**|**57,856**|**41,369**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**
**table)**|||||||
|Providence Chapel Fixtures & Fittings|**2,664**|||**-**|**2,664**|**10,353**
**106,515**|
|Loan Repayments - The CharityBank||||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|
**2,664**||**-**|**-**|**2,664**|**116,868**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||**-**|||**158,236**|
|||||**-**|**60,521**||
||||||**14,203**
**-**
**10,090**||
||**14,203**||**-**|**-**||**-**
**10,397**|
|||||**-**||**-**
**20,487**|
||**10,090**|||**-**|||
||**24,293**||**-**|**-**|**24,293**|**10,090**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
08/01/2026
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|**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**|**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**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own**
**use**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the
trustees|**Details**|
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**23,796**
**497**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**|
||HSBC Bank Account@310325|||**-**
**-**|||
||HSBC Bank Account@310325||||||
||||||||
||**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**||**24,293**|**-**||**-**|
||||OK|OK||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**Cost (optional)**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||**Details**|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||**Details**|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Print Name
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||Loan - The CharityBank@310324||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||Signature
||||||
|||||||Date of
approval|
||||Paul M. Williams|||30/01/2026|
||||||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
08/01/2026
2
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLANO AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trustee
members of
Bethesda Shalom
On accounts for the year
ended
31" March 2025
Charity no
(if any)
1182981
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examinab'on of the accounts of the above charity fthe Trust'l
lor the year ended 3110312025.
Responsibilities and basis of
mport
As the charity's trustees. you are iesponsible for the preparation of the accounts in
accordancè wilh the requirements of the Charities Act 20111.the ACY'I.
I report in rèspect of rny exarrination ol the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of
the 2Q11 Act and In carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions
given by the Charity Commission und&r section 14515llbl of the Act.
Independent èxaminerf¥ I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have corne lo rny
statemènt attention in conneclton with the examination (other than that disclosed below") which gives
me cause lo believe that in. any material respect..
the accountin9 records were not kept in aCcOrdare with section 130 of the Charities
Act", or
the accounts did not accoid with the awounting records.. or
the accounts did not cornply with the applicable reqireMentS conceming 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 examinatitsn.
I have no concems and have come across no tsther matters in connection with the
examinats'on to which allention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper
undefslanding of the accounts to be reached.
' Please deletg thè words in thè brackets if thèy do not apply.
Sign•d'.
Date:
Name..
Darren Jones
R•l•vant professional
quaiifi¢ationl$l or body lif
any):
Address:
15 Station Road
Walsall
WS3 4BB
IER
Oct 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only compleia Il ihè 6xaminar na5 lo r.rghlighl nialèi ial mai1or$ ol on[n
(see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and
guidance for examiners).
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any Item$ th•t the
examlner wlsh¢$ to
dl$¢1089
IER
Oct 2018