## **Bourne Evangelical Church Trustee’s Report 15th October 2023**
**Trustees:** Jason Wright, Jacob Wright, Abbie Campbell
**1.Charity Objectives and Activities-** Bourne Evangelical Church exists for the advancement of the Christian faith within Bourne and the surrounding areas in accordance with its constitution and basis of faith. This includes provision of a place of meeting for public worship of God via preaching and teaching of the Bible. Communion, prayer, praise, fellowship and alms-giving including evangelistic outreach and discipleship.
a) providing a place for worship for ecclesiastical activities
b) providing Christian resources for the wider community
c) engaging the general public through evangelism
d) offering short courses on the Christian faith
Programs for support of members
a) weekly Bible teaching sessions
b) weekly prayer groups
c) pastoral care, visits and calls
d) advanced discipleship training for members
e) activities for bonding and personal growth
## 1. **Membership: reminder of obligations- Church Handbook**
## **2.1.9**
Membership brings with it certain privileges and responsibilities. The privileges are identified as membership of the local Body of Christ in all its work and worship, to be able to partake in discussing and agreeing the way in which the local Church should move forward and fulfil its Biblical role in the local community and the benefit of Pastoral care.
The obligations of membership are to submit to the authority and leadership of the Pastor and/or Elders and Deacons in accordance with the provisions of this Church Handbook and the Constitution, to participate in the work of the Church and its activities, to attend meetings regularly, to bear each other up before the Lord in prayer, and to share in the financial needs of the Church. In particular, this will involve:
1. Regular attendance at Sunday worship. (Acts 20:7, Heb. 10:25)
2. Regular personal prayer and Bible study. (2 Tim 3:15-17, Phil. 4:6)
3. Regular attendance, when possible, at the main weekday meeting of the Church for prayer, Bible study and fellowship. (Acts 1:14, 2:42)
4. Sharing in the life, work and witness of the local Church. (Rom. 1:16, 1 Cor. 15:58)
5. Regular giving to the local Church and the Lord’s work in general. (1 Cor. 16:2, 2 Cor. 9:6-7)
6. The showing of Christian love and concern, both for the members of the Church family and for the community at large. (John 13:35, 1 Thess. 3:12)
7. An endeavour to live a life consistent with the faith we profess. (Rom. 6:1-2, Eph. 4:1)
8. Regular attendance at the Lord’s Supper. (Acts 2:42, 20:7)
## 2. **- Meeting Charity objectives and activities**
**Advancement of the Christian faith.** BEC has a rolling contract with the URC which secures BEC with a regular place of worship, for ecclesiastical activities. Integration of ZOOM remains and our YouTube page with sermons as well as our regular bible studies.
**Programs of support for members and non-members** – Pastor Dave and Sue, they are available for pastoral care and Myself and Lauren continue to organise social interaction, when possible. BEC is linked with the Fenlands Evangelical Network and our relationship with them, provides further social interaction among membership through outreach, fellowship, teaching.
**Long term investments** – Securing the church building, through funders and various options.
**Evangelism** - The Christmas carol service is planned for December 14[h] , joint with Fenlands service. Easter saw us have our usual Passover meal and joint fenlands service. A Christianity explored course was done and further study has continued. Weekly prayer group and bible study for the teaching of the congregation continues. Our yearly Christmas market provides us with a fantastic opportunity for outreach and opportunities to share Jesus. We continue to receive regular supplies of Christian books for the resource room as well as a large supply of preloved books.
**The gallery** – The office space is used weekly by pastor Dave and a quiet place for reading, reflection and Christian resources is available. The chapel is open weekly on a Wednesday . In line with charity objectives and the Church vision the upper room is available as a drop in hub for both members and non-members in the local community.
The trustees and BEC members remain committed to the advancement of the Christian faith within Bourne and its surrounding areas in accordance with its constitution and basis of faith and look forward to a prosperous and blessed 2025.
Trustee report 2024.
Over the last year, we have been building up and waiting for the sale and the building and building a vision with God guiding to secure the building that we call home.
At the start of the year, we had meetings with the URC to discuss the possibility of working together on the repair of the building, it then became clear that their intention was to sell for their own financial reasons, again we had meetings again to find out to the time scale of this and then as a congregation we patiently waited.
In the meantime, we had a trustee meeting to discuss the potential vision of the church, we prayed into this and shared what we felt the Lord wanted and we all agreed on the same vision, we shared different ideas together. We met again and drafted a vision which is what we shared with you all. We created a logo and a leaflet to share this. We then met several times with Joel to create plans. We have met again several times, with various exchanged in between with the URC synod and other originations on how we secure the money and fundraise.
Each one has set to and contacted individuals, originations, grants, the local council, are enquires are still ongoing and now we have a price, it is crucial that we secure funding.
|**Bourne Evangelical Church**||**1184067**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts and payments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|01/04/2023
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|31/03/2024||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**13,211**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,211**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,211**
**4,800**
**1,422**
**5,100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,322**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,322**
**1,889**
**- 320**
**- 226**
**1,343**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**80**
**1,083**
**1,208**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,371**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,371**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**584**
**-**
**-**
**584**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**584**
**1,787**
**320**
**2,968**
**5,075**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**13,211**
**80**
**1,083**
**1,208**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,582**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,582**
**4,800**
**1,422**
**5,100**
**584**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,906**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,906**
**3,676**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**13,211**|||||**-**|
|Toddler Group|||||||
|Resource Room|**-**|||||**-**|
|BuildingFund|||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**13,211**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
|
PropertyRental|**4,800**|||||**-**|
|General|**1,422**|||||**-**|
|Pastor Salary|**5,100**|||||**-**|
|Resource Room|**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**11,322**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**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_**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
||**1,889**|**1,787**|**-**|
**3,676**||**-**|
||**- 320**|**320**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**- 226**|**2,968**|**-**|**2,742**||**-**|
||**1,343**|**5,075**|**-**|**6,418**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
21/01/2025
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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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,343**
**5,075**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,343**
**5,075**
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
Abbie Campbell|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||||25/01/2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
21/01/2025
2
CCXX R3 accounts ISSI
2110112025