Trustees A nnual return Rep o rt and Financial Accounts 202 0
Trustees
Adeola Osunbade
Kehinde Lana
Samson Oluwaremi
Founder/Executive Officers
Olubukola Cordle- bukky@hopepointintl.org
Address:
13 Westmill Road, Hitchin, Herts., SG5 2SB
info@hopepointintl.org
Bank
HSBC Bank, 1 Market Place, Hitchin, SG5 1DR
Introduction
During 2020 we faced a dramatic change in how we work. Instead of physical meetings in venues most of our events where held on Zoom and other similar online platforms. This is primarily in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. The resulted of having wider coverage and reaching out to more people worldwide.
We helped in our local community to support families in distress and in need of assistance and support either for food, help with picking up of medication, shopping especially those who are shielded. We supported over 100 families with food stuff in collaboration with the foodbanks and the local supermarkets (Aldi/M&S and Sainsbury ’ s)
Through live streaming events on Facebook we have been able to connect to several Christians and families who benefited from our ministry. We reached families in need of prayers, financial support and health and wellbeing especially due to the covid 19 lock down restrictions. This method of ministering is much easier, effective and allowed us to better accomplished some of our aim and objective of providing spiritual support and food supply, products to enhance living.
Hope Point had several Prayer request through our website and during our weekly prayer and word connect meetings for healing for family members infected with covid and for families who had lost family members and wanting prayers for comfort and grace to cope.
We held weekly bible studies and prayer events for many families and members of the communities who could not attend a physical church or religious meeting due to the government lockdown restrictions.
Donations to Hope Point Increased as more events was organised online. We reached out to more people who donate to us. Our expenditure also increased as we had to spend more funds on the event ’ s social media advertisements, offering to guest Ministers as well as torelief financial hardship and distress of individuals and families in need in the UK and anywhere in the world especially during the Pandemic.
We had over 12 major event/conferences online with invited guest and music ministers from all over the world. We spent £ 900 to such guest ministers in 2020
During this year we spent £ 700 in donations andfinancial support toseveral needyfamilies locally in the in UK and internationallyin Italy, South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, Serrielone, Liberia, Pakistan and India.
We spent £ 286 to Belinda Spanneberg in Global Awakening as part of the tuition fee for a Leadership Program between July 1[st] 2020 to December 2020 with the Deborah Arise Leadership Program which was an online Program for growth and development and to better equip us for Ministry.
We paid for Web hosting for 2020 £ 110 and Zoom subscription monthly.
We spent £ 116 on Facebook advertising, and £ 250 on production of events invites and banners.
We planned to go on Mission to Uganda and Nigeria in April 2020 but due to Covid 19 we were unable to travel and all international mission trips postponed till further notice.
Aims for 2021
1. Continue to reach out to the community, collaborate with local charity organisations to promote and relief poverty and advertise the party as much as we can using by-elections and local elections wherever we can.
2. Continue to live streaming online meetings to promote Christian faiths
3. Carry out more online Crusades and revival meetings in the UK and around the globe
- 4 Have a daily Prayer session for the salvation of the unsaved
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 2020
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2020 2019
TOTAL INCOME £ 2313.74 990.88
TOTAL EXPENDITION 2154.84 890.00
Balance carried forward 159.11 100
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Signed on behalf of the Trustees and Officers
Olubukola Cordle 25[th] November 2021