## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 4 March 2021 3 March 2022 **T From o** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** School of Preachers **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1188349 **Charity's principal address** 20 Lancing Close Lancing **Postcode BN15 9NJ** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **Dates acted if not for Trustee name Office (if any) whole year** **Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)** - Secretary - 1[Roland James ] Christopher - Treasurer - 2[Michael Thomas ] Dennis - 3[Raymond ] Stanley Metcalfe - Chair - 4[Julian David ] Rebera - 5 Susan Lyon - 6 - 7 **TAR** March **2012** 1 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Dr John David Woods - staff **TAR** March **2012** 2 ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation whose only voting Type of governing document members are its Charity Trustees (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by the existing trustees Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** The Objects of the CIO are for the public benefit to advance the Christian religion in accordance with the Statement of Faith mainly, but not exclusively, through the provision of education, coaching, training, vocational preparation and support to Christians in the development of the skills required for preaching and ministry. **TAR** March **2012** 3 The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit - training a preaching team in Latvia, based at the S.O.P. Riga and the Team of the international Church Riga through example, coaching individual preachers and preaching teams, and through seminars, courses and written materials. - revising the two year S.O.P. training course - training preaching teams in Ukraine and Azerbaijan and Uganda - training preaching teams from four UK churches **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** - examining and marking trainee preacher’s essays and sermons at Spurgeons College - maintaining a public website with accessible S.O.P. Blog addressing contemporary themes **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## Section D Achievements and erformance p **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** - fulfilling in person teaching, training and preaching commitments in Riga, Latvia. This involved pre-recorded lectures, with Latvian and Russian translation - - revising existing training material and resources for future training and teaching - - maintaining a public blog - completing a companion guide to the training that the S.O.P. offers in the form of a book which will be published in May 2022. The book teaches the process of preparing a sermon from initial ideas to the delivery - - seminars to train preaching teams in Ukraine and Azerbaijan - providing training sessions for a range of UK churches - completing the examining and marking of preacher’s sermons and reflection essays at Spurgeons College **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** The charity`s key annual expenditure is the regular payment of the Training **Brief statement of the charity’s** Director`s salary. Consequently, it is the charity`s policy to endeavour to hold **policy on reserves** cash on account sufficient to cover two months forward salary and employer`s NI. This equates to a sum of £6300 The charity`s balance on account at the year ending 28[th] February 2022 was **Details of any funds materially** £4996.00. The deficit on reserves will be covered adequately by known donations **in deficit** promised for March 2022 ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** The charity`s principal sources of funds are: You **may choose** to include i) single donations from individual supporters and churches additional information, where ii) regular monthly donations from individual supporters relevant about: iii) grants from trusts • the charity’s principal iv) fees/donations received in respect of the Training Director`s UK sources of funds (including training seminars any fundraising); The key objectives of the charity are achieved through the activities of the • how expenditure has Training Director, the charity`s single employee. supported the key objectives of the charity; The charity`s reserves are small and the trustees consider that they warrant • investment policy and neither short term nor long term investment. The charity has no investments. objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** **TAR** March **2012** 6 ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** _GEHandscomb_ **Full name(s)** Glenys Handscomb **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**[Secretary (from Nov 2022) ] **Date** 10 January 2023 **TAR** March **2012** 7 ||**School of Preachers**

**Charity Name**|**School of Preachers**

**Charity Name**|**School of Preachers**

**Charity Name**|**School of Preachers**

**Charity Name**|**School of Preachers**

**Charity Name**|**1188349**|**1188349**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||01/03/2021
Period start date||**To**|28/02/2022
Period end date||| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Gift Aided|**5,210**||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**5,210**||**505**| |Individual Giving|**11,555**||**-**|||**11,555**||**15,705**| |Churches and Trusts|**27,343**||**-**|||**27,343**||**27,886**| |Refunds|**31**||**-**|||**31**||**-**| |Gift Aid Claim|**224**||**-**|||**224**||**126**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**44,363**||**-**||**-**|**44,363**||**44,222**| |||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||| ||**-**||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||| ||||||**-**|**44,363**||**44,222**| |||||||||| |Salaryand National Insurance|**38,623**||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**38,623**||**37,415**| |Books|**886**|||||**886**||**442**| |Subsistence/Travel|**1,995**|||||**1,995**||**679**| |Insurance|**676**|||||**676**||**481**| |Administration/Bank charges|**1,368**|||||**1,368**||**1,024**| ||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**43,548**|||||**43,548**||**40,041**| |||||||||| |**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_**||||||||| ||||||**-**|**43,548**||**40,041**| |||||||||| ||**815**||||**-**|**815**||**4,181**| ||**-**||||**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**4,181**|||||**4,181**||**-**| ||**4,996**||||**-**|**4,996**||**4,181**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 06/01/2023 1 ## **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
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**charity’s own use**|Signature
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**to nearest £**
**4,996**
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**-**
**4,996**
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OK
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**funds**
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