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2025-07-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 1 AUGUST 2024 To 31 JULY 2025

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name New Life Church Letchworth CIO Other names charity is known by New Life Church Letchworth Registered charity number (if any) 1188107 Charity's principal address Oakhurst

Stevenage Road HITCHIN Postcode SG4 7JX

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 John King Chair
2 Joel Tarbutton
3 Samuel Huggill
4 Ashley Croft Up to 15/4/25.
Garth Pendleton-
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Browne
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution

How the charity is constituted

CIO registered 21 February 2020

Trustee selection methods

Appointed by existing trustees in conjunction with Church Elders

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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New Life Church Letchworth is governed by New Life Church Letchworth CIO which was formed in February 2020.

There is also the original Trust in existence, charity number 299705.

The Church is gradually moving all operational and administrative functions from the Trust to the CIO.

Section C Objectives and activities

The objects of the charity, as stated in its constitution are:

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

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New Life Church Letchworth has continued to hold Sunday services throughout the period, providing both adult and children and young person's spiritual education and support on a weekly basis. The Sunday services are available in person, remotely via YouTube live stream and subsequently via YouTube.

Other church meetings known as Fused Groups are held in various homes or via zoom during the week. Regular men's breakfasts and Summary of the main ladies’ events are also held. Seasonal events such as summer activities undertaken for the barbeques, craft evenings and film nights are also organised. All events public benefit in relation to are open for anyone to attend. these objects (include within this section the statutory The CIO also coordinated and supported a scheme which provides meals declaration that trustees have to families during the school holidays, called Make Lunch. This scheme had regard to the guidance was ended in April 2025. issued by the Charity Commission on public The charity trustees have due regard to the guidance on public benefit benefit) published by the commission in exercising their powers and duties.

The trustees have also engaged legal advice and support to prepare a deed of transfer in order to transfer the assets held in the Trust to the CIO.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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The smooth operation of the church is greatly enhanced by members of the congregation who volunteer to provide hospitality, welcome, setting up of the building, pa support, running of children’s and youth work, worship, and running of small groups during the week. All these inputs help us in our aim to help people to find and follow Jesus.

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Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main
achievements of the charity
during the year		 The CIO employed three part-time (0.8, 0.4 and 0.2) staff. The CIO has
also continued to support several Charitable Trusts. The Charitable
Trusts supported during 2024-25 with regular monthly donations have
included: -
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Further Faster
•
Transforming Lives for Good
•
Christian Initiative to Schools in Letchworth & District
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Choice North Herts
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Tender Heart India
Additionally, the CIO continues to support the Rekai Tangwena
Children’s Home in Nyanga (Mangondoza Township), Zimbabwe. The
Children’s Home is linked to Holy Cross Church in Nyanga. A regular
sponsorship scheme has been administered to provide regular and
committed assistance with food, clothing & education for around 18
children. This funding is channelled directly to a Rekai board member.
In recent years the Church has been partnering with the charity
Transforming Lives for Good (TLG). TLG has trained volunteers to go
into local schools to provide personal mentoring and guidance. Members
of the Church have committed to the programme. The Church has
worked with one secondary school in Baldock, and coaches are
committed to giving an hour per week over the academic year to work
with individual students. The CIO employed a part time (0.2) family &
community pastor to further the work of TLG in the local area, and to
coordinate with other local churches the Make Lunch programme. Our
involvement with TLG and Make Lunch ended in April 2025 following the
resignation of the community pastor who was responsible for these
initiatives.
The Church has continued to use Letchworth Free Church (LFC) Hall and
the North Herts District Council owned Howard Hall for its Sunday
service, various meetings and activities throughout the week. We have
been grateful to LFC for hosting us and have been able to continue invest
our funds and resources in making improvements to the Hall for our
mutual benefit. This has included creation of a room dedicated to care of
under 5 children on Sundays and improvements to the stage area with
storage created underneath, as well as investment in PA and other
equipment to facilitate improved live recording of services on UTube.
The Trustees have recognised the need for larger and more suitable
premises for its Sunday service and other meetings and activities for the
community. In the longer term this may well require the purchase or
building of suitable premises. A designated fund has been allocated for
this purpose.
The donations received by the CIO are almost entirely through the giving
of people within the Church. The trustees will continue to regularly
review income and expenditure and ensure that resources are expended
effectively in furthering the aims of the CIO.

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Section E Financial review

The trustees believe that a minimum unrestricted reserve is required to Brief statement of the effectively administer New Life Church Letchworth. The minimum reserve charity’s policy on reserves is required for the following reasons:To ensure that all bills and payments are paid promptly To allow for short term fluctuations in income To ensure that New Life Church Letchworth can respond financially to unforeseen needs that may arise locally, nationally or internationally. To ensure that contractual (mostly employment related) and moral commitments are maintained. At the end of the accounting period the unrestricted reserves stood at £122082 over the revised reserves policy of £40000. These reserves will be drawn on to cover the planned expenditure for the next year.

The trustees considered the Church’s reserves policy and believe that a reserve of between 3-6 months unrestricted fund running costs (£27940 - £55880 this year) is sufficient to meet the above objectives.

In recognition of the Church’s need for larger premises for its Sunday Service, weekly meetings and activities the Trustees have designated a building fund of £70,000 from its unrestricted reserves.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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Section F Other optional information

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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) John Harvey King Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc) Date 5/5/26

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No (if any)
New Life Letchworth Church (CIO) 1188107
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
Period start date Period end date
For the period from To
01 August 2024 31 July 2025
Unrestricted Endowment Total
Restricted funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
nearest £
A1 Receipts
Tithes and Offerings 79,824 11,090 - 90,914 94,746
Grants - - 0
Gift Aid 17,296 751 - 18,047 25,904
Interest 5,618 - 5,618 1
Contra payments 327 - 327 330
Loan from NLC Trust 4 0 - 4 73,803
Other - Rounding 1 - 1 - - 2
- - 0
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 103,070 11,840 - 114,910 194,785
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 103,070 11,840 - 114,910 194,785
A3 Payments
Employment costs 67,710 - - 67,710 60,984
Leadership Network support
3,592 - - 3,592 3,898
Ministry, church services and events 11,578 19,744 - 31,322 34,214
Offerings, gifts and projects
3,996 1,200 - 5,196 4,936
Premises 17,021 - - 17,021 15,052
Administration 6,958 - - 6,958 7,072
Hardship fund payment 460 - - 460 -
Loan to NLC Trust 445 - - 445 -
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Sub total [ 111,760 ] 20,944 - 132,703 126,155
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 111,760 20,944 - 132,703 126,155
Net of receipts/(payments) - 8,690 - 9,104 - - 17,794 68,630
A5 Transfers between funds - 7,583 7,583 - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 178,354 7,826 - 186,180 117,550
Cash funds this year end 162,082 6,305 - 168,386 186,180
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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Categories
B2 Other monetary assets
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
B1 Cash funds
B3 Investment assets		 Details
Details
Details
Interorganisational loan from NLC Trust -Restricted
Interorganisational loan from NLC Trust -Designated
Creditors
Signature
Details
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
Details
Interorganisational loan from NLC Trust -General
New Life Church Letchworh CIO(less restricted funds
held in General acc)
New Life CIO -Make lunch (plus restricted funds in
General bank acc)
Petty cash
Total cash funds		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
162,072
6,305
11
162,082
6,305
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Unrestricted
funds
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funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
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Cost
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asset belongs
Cost
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Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
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154758
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4470
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69864
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John Harvey King
Print Name		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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OK
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When due
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Date of
approval
05-May-26

CHARITY COMMISSION: Independent examiner's FOR ENGLAND AND WALES, report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Reportto the trusteesl [-- . "" - "-- members of ' New Life Chur¢h Let￿￿orth Charitable Incorporated Org8nisation (CIO) On accounts for the year ended 31 Juty 2025 Charlty no lrfany) 1188107 Set out on pages , 1-2 of the CC16a report I report to the twstees on my examination of the a¢x¥unts of the ab)ve chanty for the year ended 311T12025 R8sponsibiliti06 and As the charity trustees you are responsible for the pr6paration of the basls of report accounts attordan￿ wth the requirerrEnts of the Charities Act 2011 (Yhe Arf). I report in resF*d of my examination of the accounts of the charity Canied out under section 145 of the 2011 Act arKJ in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Chafrty Commission under section 145(5}(b) of the Act. I have completed my examinatton. I confimi that no material matters have Come to my attention (other than that disdosed below") in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in. any materia] respect.. accounting re(x)rds were not kept in a￿rdan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the a(zounting re￿)rdS Independent examinerfs statement I have no con￿M$ and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to whith attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the xcounts to be reached. . Please (klete the words in the b￿ckets rfthey do not apply. Signed: 5 May 2026 Name: , Magdalena Shotter of ATS AC￿unkn.ng & Tax Solutions Ltd Relevant professional j FCA- quallficatlonls) or body ,: Fell(M of the Instrtute of Chartered Accountsnts of EnglarKJ and Wales (if anyl". Address.. 47 Foxholes Hill Exmouth DeM)n, EX8 2DQ IER October 2018

Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of crn¢8m (see CC32, Independent éxamination of charity aLrounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give he￿ brief details of any items thatthe examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018