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h|2023||29|February||| ## Section A Reference and administration details |||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Charity name**|School of Preachers|||| |||||| |**Other names charity is known by**||||| |**Registered charity number (if any)**|1188349|||| ||1188349|||| |||||| |**Charity's principal address**|
20 Lancing Close
Lancing
**Postcode**|||| |||||| |||||| |||**BN15 9NJ**||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if**
**any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1|Glenys Elizabeth
Handscomb|Secretary||| |2|Raymond Stanley Metcalfe||Until August 2023|| |3|Michael Thomas Dennis|Treasurer|Until March 2023|| |4|Karen Janice Hart|Treasurer|From March 2023|| |5|Michael Vickers||From May 2023|| |6|Julian David Rebera|Chair||| |7|Susan Lyon|||| **TAR** March **2012** 1 **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**|**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 organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - • consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. **TAR** March **2012** 3 **Section C Objectives and activities** The Objects of the CIO are for the public benefit to advance the Christian religion in accordance with the Statement of Faith **Summary of the objects of the** mainly, but not exclusively, through the provision of education, **charity set out in its governing** coaching, training, vocational preparation and support to Chris- **document** tians in the development of the skills required for preaching and ministry. The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. - continued training of 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. - - setting up a studio to allow for online sessions for students - revising the two-year S.O.P. training course **-** training preaching teams in Ukraine and Azerbaijan and Uganda - training preaching teams from UK churches **Summary of the main activities** - examining and marking trainee essays and sermons at **undertaken for the public bene-** Spurgeons College **fit in relation to these objects** - maintaining a public website with accessible S.O.P. Blog addressing **(include within this section the** contemporary themes **statutory declaration that trus-** - providing input to the Sussex Gospel Training Course **tees have had regard to the** - providing leadership and preaching training to Cuckfield Baptist **guidance issued by the Charity** Church **Commission on public benefit)** ## **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 - Making 6 trips to Latvia to continue to train and support preachers - **Summary of the main achieve-** and be present for the graduation of S.O.P. students - **ments of the charity during the year** - Continuing to publicise the book on preaching: God is in the House by John Woods. - - Continuing to promote the translation of the book into Latvian to coincide with the 30th anniversary of John Woods’s first visit to Latvia. - - Working on a book on Fatherlessness, including interviews and relevant thoughts on a challenging and sensitive area for many people. - - Being able to provide six morning sessions to the Sussex Gospel training course and thus encouraging and enabling more focused and relevant preaching to a number of churches - - Having a full diary of preaching and training opportunities in the UK and abroad throughout the year. This has included sabbatical cover **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** To hold three times salary of employee, John Woods **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include adPrincipal sources of funds are regular grants from charities and perditional information, where relesonal donations and contributions from supporting churches. vant about: - the principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and 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)** _[Glenys Handscomb]_ **Full name(s)**[Glenys Elizabeth Handscomb ] **Position (eg Secretary,** Secretary **Chair, etc)** **Date** **TAR** March **2012** 7 Gifts Gift Aided Itidifvidual 650.IX 26.860.19 18.953.46 s8￿Y/HMRc 29.927.11 662.25 Cjift Aid ¢laiJJJ 18&28 Trav¢1 UK 1.173.80 Cuckfield Ilaptist chu￿ 027.20 3.839.04 544.61 Interest 470.19 B(Kbk sa]es 160.(X) Wtitjn8 8rti¢ks 391.55 760.50 NI Rcfwjd .630A5 1865.77 85. 3.IXXI.IX 9,540.23 53.028.50 53.028.50 Bank bal￿¢¢ 113123 193.25 9.54023 Bank bAIAnLt 291Y24 9.733.48 CHARITY COMMISSION I FOR ENGLANO AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees ickiooL OF PreG".chof'" On accounts for the year endod Charity no {if any) I I b6 34--1 Set out on pages I report to the trustees ￿ my examinati(￿ d the accJ)unts of the above charFty {Ihe Trust") for the year ended Responslbllltles a￿1 basis of roport As the charivs truslees. you are responsitrle for the preparation of the accounts in accordance V*ith the r6Y4uirements of the Charities Art 2011 (Ihe Acr). I report in reswl (rf my eXa￿ana"0n of the Trust's a¢counts carried out under sedion 145 ￿ the 2011 Act and in Carrying out my examination, I have fdlowed ai the apFA]¢ab￿ Diredions given by the Charity Commission ur￿r sedion 145(5){b} crf the Aca. Independent examiner's ststement I have Comwed my examination. l ￿rth￿rn that no material matters have come lo my attention in ccnnection wth the examInat￿n {other than that disdos&J below ") which gives me cause to bdieve that in, any material the ￿nting records wRre n¢* kept in ￿COrdan￿ with section 130 of the Charities Att," or the xcounts did not a)x>rd b*iih the ￿lUnting reo)fds," or the aCC￿nts did not (ThlF4y ￿1th Ihe apyicatrje requirements conceming the forn and content crf ￿)untS set out in the Charities (Act>)unts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any reqltiremenl tha the aC[￿untS give a Irue and fairf view which is not a matter considereil a$ part of an indeFendent examination. I have no i>ncems and have come ￿0s$ no other matters in conneclion with the examinats.on to which attention should draNn in this rep)rt in order to enable a proper understandirKJ IS the ￿untS to be reached. ' F¥ease delete the Wtyds in ￿ brackets i1tt￿Y do not apply. Signed: Namo: LA Relevant professlonal qualifi¢ationls} or body IER Oct 2018 (rf any): Address: Section B Disclosure Only corn￿ete rf the examiner needs lo highlight material matters of concern {see CC32. Independent examination of charity ￿tI)unts.. direcaions and guidance for examiners). Glve here brief detsils of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018