2024-12-31-accounts - Ashley Church

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Ashley Church CIO

Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2024

Ashley Church CIO was constituted 20[th] April 2020 and is a registered charity incorporated organisation No. 1189293. Its address is Ashley Church, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 5DA. The charity trustees during the year to 31 December 2023 were:

Mrs Gillian Bywaters, Mrs Carole Perryman, Mr Shaun Perryman, Mrs Claire Wilkinson, Mrs Gillian Jalland, Ms Claire Pinney

The object of the charity is to further the religious and other activities of ASHLEY CHURCH in accordance with its Statement of Beliefs (reproduced in the Declaration of Trust). The Trust is handling all the funds given to the Church by agreement of the members of the church. All the Leadership Team of the Church are Trustees, and this will continue as a matter of policy.

There were five meetings of the Trustees during the year as part of the Joint Elders and Trustees Meetings. We received regular reports from Clive Pickering (the Trust Treasurer) and the Trustees monitored the financial situation based on these reports. The accounts were independently examined and reported on by P. Laskier FCCA of Fenlon & Co Chartered Certified Accountants Rivermill House, 6 High Street Wheathampstead, Herts. The leadership team have also met at other times to facilitate the running of the church and the charity. This arrangement of meetings has worked well and efficiently.

Responsibilities of trustees Charity law requires us as Trustees to prepare financial statements for each accounting year which record the receipts and payments of the charity for the year. We are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable us to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. We also have a responsibility to safeguard the assets of the charity and to take reasonable steps to prevent fraud or any other irregularities

The financial situation during the year has been good and we were able to provide for all the costs the church required, which included:

General running and Ashley building maintenance costs

Contributions to missionary work and charitable giving. These range from regular support for a local charity working in schools to support for a Nepalese charity.

We are also able to use the facilities of the building to help local charities by the hiring of rooms for support meetings

The funds are provided by regular giving of church members and those who attend regularly, along with gifts from other benefactors and some funds from hiring out the building. All church funds are administered through the Trust for the benefit of the church, and other Christian work. Monies are held in CAF bank and other investment funds. The financial situation will continue to be reviewed on a regular basis. Accounts are presented to the church at the annual general meeting and any major expenditure is presented to members and discussed. Our treasurer and two of the Leadership Team are bank signatories. Two signatories are required on cheques and all bank documents. The Trustees noted that the overall financial situation is good.

Overall, the Trust can meet its commitments and liabilities with sufficient reserves to meet any foreseeable liabilities.

To further the above objects and mission, the charity's main activities were as follows: There is a weekly Sunday morning service, which includes songs, prayers and a message from the Bible. This provides opportunity for Christians to practise their Christian faith, and for those who are not Christians to find out more about the Bible and Christianity. We support and encourage those with a faith to deepen their relationship with God. There are also small groups meeting in the week which provide opportunity for further discussion and support to those attending. We run a weekly mum and

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toddlers group which provides support to and is well attended by the local community. We also have a weekly ‘Tuesday get Together’ providing a warm and friendly space for chat, craft and cake, anyone can attend. We continue to seek ways in which we can meet the needs of those around us and further afield. As the Church has no paid members of staff, all the activities of the church are run by members of the Church, who are volunteers.

SHAUN PERRYMAN for and on behalf of the Board of Trustees

Signature Shaun Perryman Date 4[th] October 2025

To be sent to The Charity Commission electronically with a signed and dated copy filed with the Trust Meeting Minutes

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24/01/2025

Ashley Church Charitable Incorporated Organisation Charity Commission Reg No: 1189293 Receipts for the year ended 31st December 2024

Regular Giving Gift Aid Non Gift Aid Stewardship Other donations Tearfund Quiz Night Bikram's medical care Specifically for FEED Specifically for Double Joy (cake sale) Specifically for BMS (Afghanistan) Other donations Gift Aid - Tax Relief claimed Other receipts: CAF Bank Current a/c interest CAF Bank Gold a/c interest Flagstone interest HMRC Interest Ashley Toddlers Gable Room hire Hall Hire SADC - Polling Station use Tuesday Get Together TOTAL RECEIPTS	11790.00 2220.00 5287.45 19297.45 400.00 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 500.00 3233.50 18.40 232.56 7915.39 4.95 1463.97 0.00 1005.00 600.00 358.75 11599.02 34629.97 2024 £ : p	12020.00 1860.00 5057.26 18937.26 0.00 0.00 310.00 400.00 50.00 124.50 884.50 3276.25 74.23 0.00 557.60 37.19 1045.97 600.00 1485.00 300.00 250.00 4349.99 27448.00 2023 £ : p

24/01/2025

Ashley Church Charitable Incorporated Organisation Payments for the year ended 31st December 2024

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2024 2023
£ : p £ : p
Capital Expenses 0.00 0.00
General Running Costs:
Bank Charges CAFCurrent a/c 60.00 60.00
Flagstone Management fees 162.45 263.51
Garden Waste 63.00 60.00
Gas 1355.05 2053.07
Electric 908.64 4654.32
Guest Speakers 1140.00 580.00
Independent Examiner's Fee 558.00 870.00
Insurance 2475.29 2210.07
Internet (inc. website) 669.80 525.80
Shelving in pottery room 0.00 138.00
Subscriptions 396.72 364.30
Supplies & Consumables 318.42 465.11
Water & Sewerage 233.22 133.48
Consultancy (Trevor Withers, Yan Nichols) 1300.00 430.00
Miscellaneous 30.00 9670.59 0.00 12807.66
Maintenance Expenses:
Electrical 0.00 116.26
Fire Extinguishers & Alarms 0.00 944.46
Repairs to car park gate 744.30 0.00
Heating & Boiler 108.00 852.30 0.00 1060.72
Charitable Support :
Regular monthly support:
Doublejoy 1200.00 1200.00
Open Door 600.00 600.00
STEP 600.00 600.00
YWAM Outreach (Rosemary James) 1200.00 1040.00
YWAM Uganda (Moses Wamakale) 549.36 549.36
Other support:
Aanandit 1000.00 0.00
Bikram's medical care 600.00 0.00
BMS World Mission (Sarah Thurley) 1000.00 1000.00
BMS Afghanistan appeal (matched giving) 0.00 800.00
Dar el Aman (Rosemary James) 0.00 500.00
Double Joy (matched giving) 0.00 800.00
FEED (matched giving) 0.00 620.00
Mid Herts - Good News for Everyone 500.00 0.00
Kingdom Living Ministries 0.00 1425.00
Open Doors 200.00 200.00
Saltmine 490.00 0.00
Tearfund (matched giving) 800.00 0.00
Steve and Claire - Nepal 0.00 1000.00
STEP 0.00 200.00
Teen Challenge London 0.00 1000.00
YWAM Outreach Laptop for Pakistan 715.00 0.00
YWAM Outreach Support for Muslim neighbours Pakistan 250.00 0.00
YWAM Outreach Support for team member 1000.00 0.00
YWAM Outreeach Zafar's course 665.00 11369.36 0.00 11534.36
TOTAL PAYMENTS 21892.25 25402.74
NET RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR 12737.72 2045.26
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24/01/2025

Ashley Church Charitable Incorporated Organisation Summary of Financial Year ended 31st December 2024

Ashley Church Charitable Incorporated Organisation Summary of Financial Year ended 31st December 2024
Total Receipts	34629.97
Total Payments	21892.25
Net Receipts for year	12737.72
Opening Bank Balances	174733.67
Closing Bank Balances	187471.39

Closing Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31st December 2024

Monetary Assets:
Bank balances:
CAF Bank CafCash current account
CAF Bank Gold account
Flagstone Holding Account
Stewardship account
Total Bank Balances
Investments:
Flagstone Fixed Term Deposits
Other:
Credit Balance on SSE Electricity account
Non-Monetary Assets:
None
Total Monetary Assets
Notes:
Liabilities:
SSE - Gas usage for November & December
SSE - Electricity usage for December
Owed to Ashley:
Gift Aid Tax relief for year to 31 December 2024
Interest accrued on FlagstoneTerm Deposits as at 31 December 2024
Total Owed to Ashley
Committed Funds:
None

2156.96
23132.56
0.00
36.19
25325.71
161000.00
1145.68
187471.39
347.18
520.56
867.74
3080.00
3051.05
6131.05

Ashley Church CIO (Registered charity, number 1189293) Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] December 2024 Company Number CE 021718

Page	Contents
1-2	Trustees’ annual report
3	Independent examiner’s report
4	Receipts & payments account
5	Statement of assets & liabilities
6-7	Notes to the accounts

Fenlon & Co 6 High Street Wheathampstead AL4 8AA

ASHLEY CHURCH CIO TRUSTEE’S ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[st] DECEMBER 2024

Full name Ashley Church CIO

Organisation type Charitable incorporated organisation

Registered charity number 1189293

Company number CE 021718

Principle Address Ashley Church, Ashley Road, St Albans, AL1 5DA

Trustees

Shaun Perryman Gillian Bywaters Gill Jalland Claire Pinney Carole Perryman Claire Wilkinson

Independent examiner

Paul Laskier, Principal, Fenlon & Co, 6 High Street, Wheathampstead, AL4 8AA

Governance and management

The charity is operated under the rules of its CIO Association adopted 19[th] October 2021

Trustees are voted in at a committee meeting and agree to serve and adopt all Church policies.

Objectives and activities

The objects of the CIO are for the public benefit:-

to advance the Christian faith in accordance with the Statement of Faith in Hertfordshire and such other parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the Charity Trustees may from time to time think fit;
to relieve persons who are in conditions of need or hardship or who are sick and to relieve the distress caused thereby in Hertfordshire and such other parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the Charity Trustees may from time to time think; and
to fulfil such other charitable purposes beneficial to the community in Hertfordshire and such other parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the Charity Trustees may from time to time think fit.

Public benefit statement

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit, ‘Charities and Public Benefit’.

Summary of the main achievements during the year

Running the Church
Maintaining the fabric of the building
Providing regular monthly support to selected good causes and targeted support to other deserving causes

The charity’s policy on reserves

The current policy of the trustees is to maintain the charity reserves

Incorporation

The CIO was incorporated on 30[th] April 2021 and took over the assets and liabilities of the Ashley Church Fellowship Trust as of 1[st] January 2022.

Transfer of Property

The Church land and building, Ashley Hall Evangelical Church, Ashley Road, St Albans, AL1 5DA was transferred from the Fellowship Property Trust to the CIO on 25[th] January 2022.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:

Signed _________ Date _____ Shaun Perryman, Trustee

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF ASHLEY CHURCH CIO FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] DECEMBER 2024

I report on the accounts of the charity set out on Pages 4 to 7.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The Charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under Section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act)) and that an independent examination is required.

It is my responsibility to:

examine the accounts under Section 145 of the 2011 Act;
to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under Section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act); and
to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of the independent examiner’s report

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the Charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a “true and fair view” and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statements below.

Independent examiner’s statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements • to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act; and
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act
have not been met.
The Church has included a credit balance of £1,146 (2023: £3,931) with Monetary Assets. The credit balance relates to overpayment to SSE Ltd which supplies gas and electricity. Strictly this should be treated as a non-monetary asset.
Other than the above, there are no matters that in my opinion attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the Accounts to be reached.

P Laskier FCCA Principal of Fenlon & Co 6 High Street Wheathampstead Herts AL4 8AA

______ Dated

ASHLEY CHURCH CIO STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS & PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] DECEMBER 2024

£ RECEIPTS Gift Aided donations Gift Aid – Tax Relief Other Donations/Gifts/etc Stewardship Other Receipts Ashley Toddlers 1,464 Hall Hire 1,605 Tues Café & Other Income 359 Interest 8,171 TOTAL RECEIPTS PAYMENTS General Running Costs Bank Charges 60 Flagstone Management Fees 162 Gas & Electricity 2,264 Guest Speakers 1,140 Examiners Fee 558 Insurance 2,475 Internet 670 Subscriptions 397 Supplies & Consumables 319 Water & Sewerage 233 Consultancy 1,300 Miscellaneous 93 Maintenance Expenses Electrical & Plumbing 108 Fire Extinguishers & Alarms - Repairs to gate 744 Charity /Missionary Support Note 2 TOTAL PAYMENTS NET RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR BANK & CASH BALANCES BROUGHT FORWARD BANK & CASH BALANCES CARRIED FORWARD	2024 £ 11,790 3,234 2,720 5,287 23,031 11,599 34,630 9,671 852 11,369 21,892 12,738 174,733 187,471	£ 1,046 2,385 250 669 60 264 6,707 580 870 2,210 526 364 465 134 430 198 116 945 -	2023 £ 12,020 3,276 2,745 5,057 23,098 4,350 27,448 12,808 1,061 11,534 25,403 2,045 172,688 174,733	2023 £ 12,020 3,276 2,745 5,057 23,098 4,350 27,448 12,808 1,061 11,534 25,403 2,045 172,688 174,733

ASHLEY CHURCH CIO STATEMENT OF ASSETS & LIABILITIES AT 31[st] DECEMBER 2024

MONETARY ASSETS Flagstone Holding Account Flagstone Fixed Term Deposits Stewardship Bank CAF Bank Total Bank & Cash Balances SSE Credit balances on Gas & Electricity FIXED ASSETS Church Contents Church Building OTHER ASSETS Gift Aid to 31.12.2024 Interest Accrued on Flagstone Deposits LIABILITIES Accrued Flagstone Management Fee Accrued Independent Examination Fee Gas & Electricity charges incurred to 31.12.2024	2024 £ - 161,000 36 25,289 186,325 1,146 187,471 3,080 3,051 6,131 - 594 868 1,462	2023 £ 394 153,000 - 17,408 170,802 3,931 174,733 3,234 4,128 7,362 384 558 - 942

RESTRICTED FUNDS

During the year no donations were received for specific purposes.

The Notes on Pages 6 -7 form part of these Financial Statements

These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:

Signed _________ Date _____ Gillian Bywaters, Trustee

ASHLEY CHURCH CIO NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] DECEMBER 2024

1. Receipts & payments accounts

Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.

2. Charity/Missionary Support

Regular Monthly Support Doublejoy Open Door STEP YWAM Outreach YWAM Uganda Other Support Aandit BMS World Mission Bikram Medical Care Mid Herts – Good News Dar El Aman FEED – Matched Giving Open Doors Saltmine STEP BMS Afghanistan Doublejoy – Matched Giving Kingdom Living Ministries Nepal Teen Challenge London YWAM Tearfund – Matched Giving

3. Trustee’s renumeration

Trustees received no expenses, renumeration or benefits in this period.

4. Accounting convention

The financial statements have been prepared on the Receipts & Payments basis, and in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice, Accounting and Reporting by Charities.

5. Receipts

Receipts are included on the Statement of Receipts & Payments when the Charity is in receipt of cash, cheques or electronic payments.

6. Payments

Expenditure is accounted for when payment is made and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category.

7. Tangible fixed assets

Purchases of equipment are treated as expenses.

8. Taxation

The Church is exempt from tax (like any other charity) on most sources of income including investment and property income.

9. Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the Charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the financial statements.