## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period from 1[st] April 2020 to 31[st] December 2020 Charity name: CAREY BAPTIST CHURCH HEMEL HEMPSTEAD Charity registration number: 1188844** 

## **ORGANISATION DORMANT** 

Carey Baptist Church has existed as a charity for over 40 years as an unincorporated association, affiliated to the Baptist Union of GB and Ireland which permitted us to act independently according to guidelines provided by the BU. In respect of the Charities Act, we were permitted to be excepted from individual registration, through the affiliation with BU, while our income was less than £100,000 per annum. This option was no longer open to us under the new legislation as our income exceeded the new £5,000 limit. 

In response to UK government legislation requiring small Church charities to register with the Charity Commission, the unincorporated church agreed at a special Church Members’ Meeting in July 2019 to transition to a new legal entity, as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). 

To this end, the new legal entity was established with the Charities Commission on 1[st ] April 2020 to enable the transfer of activities and assets to the CIO. However, due to the COVID19 pandemic and the fluctuations in the markets, it was not possible to obtain a valuation of the BU Pension Deficit, to complete the Transfer of Assets to the CIO in 2020 as planned. 

The unincorporated association of members Church transferred all its assets, debts and liabilities across to the CIO on the 1[st] May 2021. 

Thus, for the current reporting period, Carey Baptist Church, Hemel Hempstead (the CIO) was dormant and carried out no activities. 

## **FINANCIAL SUMMARY** 

Nil Returm – Charity Dormant 

## Administrative Information 

The named Charity is Carey Baptist Church, Hemel Hempstead Address; Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1LD, which is the correspondence address. Charity Registration number 1188844. 

The following members have served as elected Trustees through the reporting period: Gill Blunden Hilary Donovan Raphael Femi-Ola Colin Hughes Andrew Browne Margaret Lye Kathleen McLeod Obed Sardar Reverend Colin Cartwright (as Minister) Approved by the Trustees on 10[th] November 2021 and signed on their behalf by (Chairman)