## **Trustees’ Annual Report 2024** ## _Registered Charity number 1184051_ This is the third Annual Report for this Charitable Incorporated Organisation. It was registered by the Charities Commission on 21[st] June 2019. ## **Contents** |Section A|Reference and administration details .......................................................................................... 3| |---|---| |Section B|Structure, governance and management ..................................................................................... 4| |Section C|Objectives and activities ............................................................................................................... 4| |Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document ............................................ 4|| |Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects ............ 4|| ||Regular meetings of Trustees ....................................................................................................... 5| ||Fundraising ................................................................................................................................... 5| |Section D|Achievements and performance .................................................................................................. 5| |Section E|Financial review ............................................................................................................................ 6| |Section F|Other optional information .......................................................................................................... 6| |Section G|Declaration ................................................................................................................................... 7| www.reachnortwales.org / www.reachnorthwales.org/cy/yr-angen Registered Charity 1184051 REACH North Wales **Annual Report 2024** Page 2 of 8 REACH North Wales **Annual Report 2024** _**Section A Reference and administration details**_ **Charity name** Reach North Wales **Other names charity is known by** Cyrraedd Pobl Gogledd Cymru **Registered charity number** 1184051 **Charity's principal address** Ebenezer Baptist Chapel, Glanrafon Road, Mold, CH7 1PA ## **Trustees who manage the charity** |**Name**|**Office**|**Dates (whole year**
**unless specified)**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee**| |---|---|---|---| |Dafydd
Cunningham||21stJune 2019 to
present day|Trustees of Reach
NW| |Ben Midgley|Chair|16thJan 2023 to
present day|Trustees of Reach
NW| |James Mitton|Secretary|21stJune 2019 to
present day|Trustees of Reach
NW| |Deiniol
Williams||21stJune 2019 to
present day|Trustees of Reach
NW| Page 3 of 8 REACH North Wales **Annual Report 2024** ## _**Section B Structure, governance and management**_ ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** |**Type of governing**
**document**|Constitution
Rules and Regulations Handbook| |---|---| |**How the charity is**
**constituted**|Registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
21 June 2019.| |**Trustee selection**
**methods**|Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee
must be appointed by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.| ## _**Section C Objectives and activities**_ ## **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** The purposes of Reach North Wales are: 1. the advancement of the Christian faith in accordance with the Basis of Faith primarily but not exclusively within North Wales and the surrounding area. 2. such other charitable purposes, as shall in the opinion of the charity trustees, facilitate the work of the CIO, provided that such purposes must be carried out in a manner consistent with the basis of faith. ## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects** All the charity trustees have confirmed that they have read and understood the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit, and have given due regard to this guidance when exercising any relevant powers or duties. Page 4 of 8 REACH North Wales **Annual Report 2024** ## _Regular Meetings of the Trustees_ Reach North Wales is a partnership of gospel churches and individuals working together to plant new churches and revitalise existing churches across North Wales. In 2019 Reach was a newly formed charity with the following aims during meetings: - To identify areas which need new churches; - To recognise that gospel partnership in North Wales ought to be regional, as well as local. Our work to start with was divided into two regions North Wales East and North Wales West, and focused on the specific needs within each of them; - To help existing churches support planting work in areas identified which are near to them; - To lead and establish church plants ourselves; - To promote informed praying for the Lord’s work in these situations; - To identify gifted and trained gospel workers who are being called by God to plant in North Wales; - To connect with supporters who can bring prayer, finances and other help in order to see churches planted; - To direct resources to the planters and churches we partner with; - Where possible, to partner bilingually, recognising the need to serve communities in North Wales in their respective heart-languages; - To provide training events, conferences, advice and support to those interested and aligned to its objectives and vision; We were able to meet 3 times in 2024 (16/9, 24/10 and 6/12), discussing how to progress prayer meetings with leaders in the region aligned to our charity objectives, and how to prioritise the focus of our time so we can most effectively progress the aims of RNW. We recognized that our numbers had reduced and work in our local church situations had taken us away from more focus on RNW. Reach North Wales exists to help the planting of local churches in North Wales. The churches represented have collectively planted three churches already and our hope with God’s help is to accelerate this in the coming years. However we recognised during 2024 to have a lack of direction in terms of a focused project other than to develop praying more regularly for church planting and connecting with gant i cymru. ## _Fundraising_ Reach North Wales does not have a formal membership but is an informal group of individuals and churches who support its aims. It aims to be funded by Page 5 of 8 REACH North Wales **Annual Report 2024** churches, Christian trusts, and individual donors who wish to assist its aims through financial support. ## _**Section D Achievements and performance**_ ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Following the formation of the charity in 2019, the trustees made good progress in moving towards appointing a Director and formulating a church planting vision for North Wales. However, as a result of the pandemic, the change in trustees, and local church priorities we agreed that during 2021 and 2022 we would meet for prayer and send out regular social media posts. Since this point we have had some good prayer meetings in the region but struggled to have the available time to organise something more regular and to develop a clear project for Reach North Wales to support. We are still considering strengthening the board with new trustees, broadening the representation to geographically cover more of North Wales, and how best to start to part with churches to progress church planting or the revitalisation of existing churches. We have identified at least two people that have a passion for planting in our region and might be willing to join Reach North Wales. We committed to progress this in 2025. _**Section E Financial review**_ ## **Reserves and Deficit** The charity does not presently have a reserves policy. There are no funds in deficit. ## **Further financial review details** The charity has not actively fundraised in 2024. The balance of the account was £2,293.73 for year ending 2024. The only cost in 2024 was for Page 6 of 8 REACH North Wales **Annual Report 2024** webhosting at £223.20. RNW received a regular anonymous monthly gift via Stewardship Services. ## _**Section F Other optional information**_ The charity engages with several organisations for help in achieving its aims. 1. The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC) for dialogue and shared experience with other likeminded churches across the UK. 2. Local churches and organisations in the region including ECW, EMW, and IPC/EBC 3. The charity does not presently have a safeguarding policy as it does not engage in work with children or vulnerable adults. However, considering the nature of our work, it is wise for a safeguarding policy to be in place in future. Dafydd has progressed advice from CSS and Midlands Gospel partnership. Agreed we need a policy, led by Dafydd, if we are to reignite activities and this is still ongoing. This action was carried forward into 2025, with Dafydd to consider if we can use MGP as the template on which to create an appropriate policy for RNW. 4. Compliance with General Data Protection Regulations needs to be established with appropriate policies, modification of certain processes, and training/awareness-raising. ## _**Section G Declaration**_ The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees. Signature Full name Ben Midgley Page 7 of 8 REACH North Wales **Annual Report 2024** Page 8 of 8 **2024** **REACH NORTH WALES** **No. 1** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the period** 01-Jan-24 31-Dec-24 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £** ## **A1 Receipts** |Annual receipts for 2023|||||||||**1 430**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |25th Jan StewardshipServivces Anon|**174**||||||||**-**| |26th Feb StewardshipServices Anon|**150**||||||||**-**| |28h Mar StewardshipServices Anon|**150**||||||||**-**| |25th Apr StewardshipServices Anon|**150**||||||||**-**| |28th MayStewardshipServices Anon|**150**||||||||**-**| |27th Jun Stewardship Services Anon
25th July Stewardship Services Anon|**150**||||||||**-**| ||**150**||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**1 074**||||||||**1 430**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| |Cash carried over from 2023|**1 389**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**1 389**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**1 430**| ||||||||||| |26/02/24 Invoice 9466 - Ninefootone Ltd -
website hosting|**54**||**-**||**-**||**54**||**54**| |13h May Invoice 9722 Ninefootone Ltd -
website hosting|**58**||**-**||**-**||**58**||**43**| |25th Nov Invoice 10212 Ninefootone Ltd -
website hosting|**58**||**-**||**-**||**58**||**58**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**169**||**-**||**-**||**169**||**155**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**155**| ||||||||||| ||**2 294**||||||**2 294**||**1 275**| ||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| ||**2 294**||||||**2 294**||**1 275**| Page 1 **Confidential** ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
**Details**
Balance in CoOp account at year end
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**2 294**
**-**
**-**
**2 294**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Date of Signature Print Name approval James Mitton 20/10/2025 Ben Midgley ~~Page 2~~ **Confidential** Confidentlal Page 3