VINEYARD DARTFORD ,TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT- FY 2023 CHARITY NUMBER:1184259 ## **Contents** Contents ............................................................................................................................... 2 Charity Details ....................................................................................................................... 3 Charity Management .............................................................................................................. 4 Activities, Objectives & Achievements ..................................................................................... 5 Financial Report .................................................................................................................... 7 Reserves ............................................................................................................................... 9 Funds Held as a Custodian Trustee ......................................................................................... 9 Notes to the Financial Statements .......................................................................................... 9 ## **Change Management** |**Revision**|**Date**|**Author(s)**|**Status**|**Comments**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1.0|9thJan 2024|G Blow||Initial draft| |1.1|16thJan 2024|G Blow|Published|Added IE’s content| Freedom Vineyard Dartford – Trustees’ Annual Report Page 2 ## **Charity Details** **Charity Name:** Freedom Vineyard Dartford **Registration Number:** 1184259 **Registered Address:** 19 Carrington Road Dartford Kent DA1 1XN **Trustees:** David Anthony Bridge (Chair) Sarah Creek Glen Geoffrey Blow Michael Lopez **Banking:** Co-operative Bank **Independent Examiner:** J R Caladine FCCA CTA FCIE, Caladine Limited, Chantry House, 22 Upperton Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 1BF Freedom Vineyard Dartford – Trustees’ Annual Report Page 3 ## **Charity Management** The charity is managed in line with our constitution which was formed as a CIO on the 4th July 2019. The strategic direction for the charity is set by the Lead Pastors (two of whom were also the Trustees at the close of the financial year). David Bridge (Chair of the Trustees) has the specific responsibility to act as treasurer. Amanda Blow (Lead Pastor) remains the Safeguarding Lead for the charity. The trustees meet quarterly to review charity performance, operations, risk and finances. At this stage in the charity’s life, the trustees shall recruit new or additional trustees from within the membership of the Freedom Vineyard Dartford church community wherever possible. The trustees shall prayerfully consider future trustee(s), with a view based on: - Their commitment to the life of the charity, - skills/professional qualification and/or experience that can aid the charity, - their character & temperament, and - if two equally suitable candidates are in consideration for a single post, then the appointment that will increase overall trustee diversity will be strongly considered. All trustees undergo enhanced DBS checks before appointment and annually thereafter. Freedom Vineyard Dartford – Trustees’ Annual Report Page 4 ## **Activities, Objectives & Achievements** The fiscal year ending 31[st] March 2023 was a positive year for the charity and church, gaining momentum as life returned to normal after the global pandemic. We built upon our concept of the “Scattered Sunday” – which aims to bring blessing and joy to those outside the church family, by intentionally doing thoughtful acts of kindness. We established a litter picking group to improve the environment in East Dartford, along with our existing Art Group and Walking Group that provided people with an environment to be creative or to enjoy walks in the Kent countryside within a friendly group setting. During this year, we were delighted to partner with Dartford Borough Council to offer free Wellbeing courses for the community. Based in the Temple Hill area of Dartford, in order to make it accessible for a large community based there, we ran two courses created by Kintsugi Hope – a nationally recognised mental wellbeing charity, widely used by social prescribers. The course was piloted within the church, with most members undertaking the course and benefiting from it, before we discussed this with our local council; who were very supportive. The courses were advertised locally and we had attendees from the local area who did not have connection with Freedom Vineyard prior to their attendance. The feedback received from the courses was very encouraging; one member decided to deal address addiction issues and is now several months into a detox and rehabilitation treatment at time of writing. For other course members, even leaving the house felt like a significant challenge, and the course helped them regain some confidence, find new friends and receive practical tools for dealing with issues such as anxiety, depression, loss and anger amongst others. Another highlight was taking our young people to Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland’s annual youth festival: Dreaming the Impossible (known as DTI). 10 young people attended the festival held at the Staffordshire show ground. Our young people greatly enjoyed the week away and were encouraged in their faith. Following on from DTI, we launched Youth Socials to provide a space for our young people to keep connected and to enable them to invite their friends, to expand the group and provide increased connection. In response to new people joining the church, two new small groups were also added during the year, providing practical discipleship and support. The church continued to hold open meetings in the evening on first and third Sunday of each month for worship, teaching, social connection and prayer; within our space in Crown House. We also ran an Alpha Course during the year to help people understand the Christian faith and to provide a place for questions to be raised and discussed. We held a successful away day at Otford Manor centre as part of this course. In line with our intention to develop and equip leaders, we welcome one of our member onto the Teaching team for our Gathered Sundays. Ben had not taught in church before and he is naturally gifted and developing well. Freedom Vineyard Dartford – Trustees’ Annual Report Page 5 We give a proportion of our income away to a local and an international charity each quarter. This year we continued to give to Dartford Foodbank, due to the increased demand following the pandemic; and also to a Christian leadership development charity named Innovista. We repeated our “Beer and Carols Night” at the Malt Shovel pub in Dartford during December. The event was successful, however attendance was down due to heavy snow during the afternoon. **Public Benefit:** The trustees have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission in deciding what activities Freedom Vineyard should undertake. Freedom Vineyard Dartford – Trustees’ Annual Report Page 6 ## **Financial Report** |**Receipts and payments for the year ended 31 March 2023**|**Receipts and payments for the year ended 31 March 2023**|**Receipts and payments for the year ended 31 March 2023**|**Receipts and payments for the year ended 31 March 2023**|**Receipts and payments for the year ended 31 March 2023**|**Receipts and payments for the year ended 31 March 2023**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**23,320**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**23,320**
**678**
**1,030**
**-**
**25,028**
**2,262**
**2,647**
**2,229**
**1,354**
**5,899**
**550**
**1,030**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,200**
**3,450**
**2,000**
**-**
**240**
**440**
**39**
**212**
**-**
**23,552**
**460**
**-**
**460**
**24,012**
**1,016**
**-**
**19,764**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Voluntarydonations|**23,320**||||**23,320**|**22,962**| |Refunds on cancelled and returned items||||||**511**| |Other income|**678**||||**678**|**20**| |Grant income|||**1,030**||**1,030**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**| |**_Total receipts_**|**23,998**||**1,030**||**25,028**|**23,493**| |**A3 Payments**||||||| |Meeting room rent|**2,262**||**-**||**2,262**|**960**| |Resources for smallgroups, kids and
youth|**2,647**||**-**||**2,647**|**1,743**| |Outreach and hospitality|**1,552**||**677**||**2,229**|**1,631**| |Postage, stationary and software|**1,354**||**-**||**1,354**|**1,615**| |Training and conferences incl. travel|**5,899**||**-**||**5,899**|**3,598**| |Governance, insurance and licences|**550**||**-**||**550**|**1,842**| |Bookkeeping|**1,030**||||**1,030**|| |Gifts - small items|**-**||**-**||**-**|**246**| |Gift - Vineyard Ukraine|**-**||**-**||**-**|**2,360**| |Gift - Vincentian Diaspora and Friends|**-**||**-**||**-**|**558**| |Gift - Mercy Outreach UK|**-**||**-**||**-**|**1,205**| |Gifts - Innovista|**1,200**||**-**||**1,200**|**-**| |Gift - Dartford Foodbank|**3,450**||**-**||**3,450**|**1,170**| |Gift - Vineyard UK|**2,000**||**-**||**2,000**|**-**| |Gifts - Hardship relief|**-**||**-**||**-**|**498**| |Gifts - Kintsugi Hope|**240**||||**240**|| |Promotional|**440**||**-**||**440**|**-**| |Equipment|**39**||**-**||**39**|**340**| |Other expenditure|**212**||**-**||**212**|**108**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**22,875**||**677**||**23,552**|**17,874**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |Laptop|**460**||**-**||**460**|**1,048**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**|**460**||**-**||**460**|**1,048**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**Transfers between funds**
**Cash funds last year end**||||||| ||**23,335**||**677**||**24,012**|**18,922**| ||**663**
**-**||**353**
**-**|||| ||**663**||**353**||**1,016**|**4,571**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**19,764**||**-**||**19,764**|**15,193**| Freedom Vineyard Dartford – Trustees’ Annual Report Page 7 _**Cash funds this year end**_ **20,427** **353** **20,780** **19,764** ## **Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 March 2023** |**Categories**
**Cash funds**
**Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**Liabilities**|**Details**
Co-operative Bank
Petty Cash
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
Initial PA setup (2019/20)
Video Projector (2021/22)
Laptop (2022/23)
**Details**
Independent Examiner's fee|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**20,411**
**16**
**-**
**20,427**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
Unrestricted|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**353**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**353**| ||||**Cost (optional)**| ||||**1,767**| ||||**1,048**| ||||**460**| ||||**Amount due**
**(optional)**| ||Independent Examiner's fee|Unrestricted|**540**| Freedom Vineyard Dartford – Trustees’ Annual Report Page 8 ## **Reserves** The unrestricted reserves of Freedom Vineyard are £20,427. The Trustees consider that the monies held at Bank are sufficient to cover the short-term needs of organisation. ## **Funds Held as a Custodian Trustee** There are no funds held as a Custodian Trustee. ## **Notes to the Financial Statements** ## **Accounting Policies** The financial statements have been prepared as a Receipts and Payments account in accordance with section 133 of the Charities act 2011. ## **Funds** Unrestricted Funds represent monies received that are not subject to any restrictions regarding their use and are available for applications on the general purposes of Freedom Vineyard. The Restricted Fund represents a grant for a mental wellbeing course. Signed ………………………………………….. (Trustee) Date 17[th] January 2024 Freedom Vineyard Dartford – Trustees’ Annual Report Page 9 **Freedom Vineyard Dartford 1184259 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 4/1/2022 3/31/2023 **To from** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Voluntarydonations
**23,320**
Refunds on cancelled and returned items
**-**
Other income
**678**
Grant income
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,998**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 23,998**
**A3 Payments**
Meetingroom rent
**2,262**
Resources for smallgroups, kids and youth
**2,647**
Outreach and hospitality
**1,552**
Postage, stationaryand software
**1,354**
Trainingand conferences incl. travel
**5,899**
Governance, insurance and licences
**550**
Bookkeeping
**1,030**
Gifts - small items
**-**
Gift - Vineyard Ukraine
**-**
Gift - Vincentian Diaspora and Friends
**-**
Gift - MercyOutreach UK
**-**
Gifts - Innovista
**1,200**
Gift - Dartford Foodbank
**3,450**
Gift - Vineyard UK
**2,000**
Gifts - Hardshiprelief
**-**
Gifts - Kintsugi Hope
**240**
Promotional
**440**
Equipment
**39**
Other expenditure
**212**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 22,875**
Laptop
**460**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 460**
**_Total payments_ 23,335**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 663**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**19,764**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,030**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,030**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,030**
**-**
**-**
**677**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**677**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**677**
**353**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**23,320**
**-**
**678**
**1,030**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,028**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,028**
**2,262**
**2,647**
**2,229**
**1,354**
**5,899**
**550**
**1,030**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,200**
**3,450**
**2,000**
**-**
**240**
**440**
**39**
**212**
**-**
**23,552**
**460**
**-**
**460**
**24,012**
**1,016**
**-**
**19,764**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**23,320**|**22,962**| ||||**-**|**511**| ||||**678**|**20**| ||||**1,030**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**25,028**|**23,493**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**25,028**|**23,493**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**2,262**|**960**| ||||**2,647**|**1,743**| ||||**2,229**|**1,631**| ||||**1,354**|**1,615**| ||||**5,899**|**3,598**| ||||**550**|**1,842**| ||||**1,030**|| ||||**-**|**246**| ||||**-**|**2,360**| ||||**-**|**558**| ||||**-**|**1,205**| ||||**1,200**|**-**| ||||**3,450**|**1,170**| ||||**2,000**|**-**| ||||**-**|**498**| ||||**240**|| ||||**440**|**-**| ||||**39**|**340**| ||||**212**|**108**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**23,552**|**17,874**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**460**|**1,048**| ||||**-**|| ||||**460**|**1,048**| |||||| |||**-**|**24,012**|**18,922**| |||||| ||**353**|**-**|**1,016**|**4,571**| ||**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**19,764**|**15,193**| _**Cash funds this year end**_ **20,427** **353 - 20,780 19,764** ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|**Details**
Co-operative Bank
Petty Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Initial PA setup (2019/20)
Video Projector (2021/22)
Laptop (2022/23)
**Details**
Independent Examiner's fee
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**20,411**
**353**
**16**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,427**
**353**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**1,767**
Unrestricted
**1,048**
Unrestricted
**460**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Unrestricted
**540**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||||| ||||| Independent Examiner's Report Freedom Vlneyard Dartford Independent Examlne¢s Report To the Trustees of Fraedom Vlneyard Dartford I report to the tTUStees on my examinatlon of the financlal statements of Freedom Vineyard Dartford forthe yearended 31 March 2023. R6sponslbllltlos and basis of r•port As the charity trust88s of th8 Trust, you aro responsib￿ for the preparatlon of thg accounls In accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {￿he Act"). l Teport in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and In carylng out my examlnallon. I have followed the appllc8ble Diredons given by the CharSty Commisslon undor secllon 14515){b) of the Act. Ind•p•nd•nt oxamIn•￿* •tal•mont I have completed my examinatlon. I confim that no malerial matiers have come to my attentlon In connection ￿th the examlnation whkh glves me cause to bellev8 that In. any malarf81 r8spgcI.' accounting record$ were not kgpt In accordance Imth sedlon 130 of th8 Act or the accounts do not accord wlth the a¢¢ountlng records I have no concems and have Come across no other matters in connectlon wlth the examlnatlon lo whlch 8ttention should be dr8wn Sn Order to enable a proper und8rstandlng of the accounts to b8 reached. J R Caladlne FCCA CTA FCIE Caladine Ltd Chantry House 22 Upperton Road Easlboume BN21 1BF Dat8.. 1 lJ) i*