**DAVID PAWSON MINISTRY CIO REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES for the year ended 31 March 2025** 

The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025. This year the trustees have adopted the provisions available to smaller charities to produce annual financial statements on a Receipts and Payments basis. 

## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES** 

## **Objectives and aims** 

The principal objective of the charity is the promotion of Christian teaching throughout the world. 

## **Significant activities** 

In seeking to fulfil its principal charitable objective the trustees have focussed on the provision of books and pre-recorded material by the Reverend David Pawson M.A., BSc. Significant progress has been made this year and David Parsons teaching is now available via TV, Youtube, local radio, eBooks, audio books, streaming via Spotify, Audible and iTunes, podcasts and various social media platforms. 

In addition new translations/overdubs have been produced in Portuguese, German, French, Urdu, Farsi, Afrikaans, Bulgarian and Nepalese 

## **Public benefit** 

The Trustees have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Commission. 

## **ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE** 

## **Charitable activities** 

The Trust has continued its trajectory to provide teaching at the highest possible quality, to the highest number of people at the lowest possible cost. Free of charge wherever possible and in the local language of choice wherever possible. 

## **FINANCIAL REVIEW** 

## **Financial position** 

At the balance sheet date the charity had accumulated funds of £801,723 (2024: £891,613 on equivalent basis). Of these amounts £29,225 (2024: £29,225) related to restricted funds. 

The funds of the charity are primarily held in the form of bank balances. During the year donations and endowments to the charity were £27,088 and total expenditure was £123,251. 

## **Reserves policy** 

Running costs are well managed and kept to a minimum. Total reserves at the Balance sheet date amounted to £801,723 of which £29,225 was Restricted Funds. The Trustees have considered that there should be sufficient funds to cover at least 6 months of operations should the need arise, together with fully funded plans in place for completion by 2030. 



**DAVID PAWSON MINISTRY CIO REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES for the year ended 31 March 2025** 

## **FUTURE PLANS** 

The current priority for the Trust is to do with future proofing. This involves looking at upgrading our digital platform and our media into formats that will survive into the future. This includes video, eBooks and audiobooks. 

The work of translating, digitising and subtitling continues at good pace as well as the growing move towards eBooks. We are currently looking into the development of audiobooks. 

The Trustees remain very thankful for all its staff, volunteers and supporters. 

## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Governing document** 

The Charity is controlled by its governing document, a CIO-Foundation. 

On 4 May 2020 David Pawson Ministry CIO was registered under charity number 1189318 at the Charity Commission and on 30 September 2020 it took over all assets and activities of The David Pawson Teaching Trust. 

## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Charity number** 

1189318 

## **Principal address** 

Wishing Well Cottage The Ridges FINCHAMPSTED Berkshire RG40 3HS 

## **Trustees** 

D Rebbettes S C Dally Company Director A Mejia 

## **Independent Examiner** 

L Redman Shaw Gibbs Limited Wey Court West Union Road Farnham Surrey GU9 7PT 

## **Solicitors** 

Barlow Robbins LLP Concord House 165 Church Street East Woking 



## **DAVID PAWSON MINISTRY CIO** 

## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES for the year ended 31 March 2025** 

Approved by order of the board of trustees on 2nd December 2025 and signed on its behalf by: 


............................................................ D Rebbettes - Trustee 




|**DAVID PAWSON MINISTRY CIO**|**DAVID PAWSON MINISTRY CIO**||**1189318**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**<br>**from**|01/04/2024|**To**|31/03/2025||



## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**7,554**<br>**5,997**<br>**8,908**<br>**4,629**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**27,088**<br>**6,273**<br>**-**<br>**6,273**<br> **33,361**<br>**107,534**<br>**15,717**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **123,251**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br> **123,251**<br>**-                89,890**<br>**-**<br>**862,388**<br>**772,498**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**29,225**<br>**29,225**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**7,554**<br>**5,997**<br>**8,908**<br>**4,629**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**27,088**<br>**6,273**<br>**-**<br>**6,273**<br>**33,361**<br>**107,534**<br>**15,717**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**123,251**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**123,251**<br>**-                89,890**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**7,554**<br>**5,997**<br>**8,908**<br>**4,629**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**27,088**<br>**6,273**<br>**-**<br>**6,273**<br>**33,361**<br>**107,534**<br>**15,717**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**123,251**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**123,251**<br>**-                89,890**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations|**7,554**|||||**556,581**|
|Gift Aid|**5,997**|||||**-**|
|Interest received|**8,908**|||||**8,723**|
|Royalties received|**4,629**|||||**15,822**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**27,088**|||||**581,126**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||
|**Intercompany a/c movements**|**6,273**|||||**7,027**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**6,273**|||||**7,027**|
|**_Total receipts_ **<br>**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**588,153**|
||||||||
|Direct charitable costs|**107,534**|||||**358,727**|
|Support costs|**15,717**|||||**45,761**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**123,251**|||||**404,488**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**404,488**|
||||||||
||**-                89,890**|**-**|**-**|**-                89,890**||**183,665**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**862,388**|**29,225**|**-**|**891,613**||**707,948**|
||**772,498**|**29,225**|**-**|**801,723**||**891,613**|



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|**Details**<br>Bank accounts<br>Paypal accounts<br>1|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**772,498**<br>**-**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**29,225**<br>**-**<br>|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Bank accounts|**772,498**|**29,225**|**-**|
||Paypal accounts<br>1|**-**|**-**|**-**<br>02/01/2026|





||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**_Total cash funds_**||**772,498**||**29,225**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||||
||account(s))||OK||OK||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**charity’s own use**|||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**|
||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|Due to DPPL||General||**10,397**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print|Name|||Date of<br>approval|
||||S DALLY||||02/12/2025|
||||Steve Dally|||||



CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

02/01/2026 

2 



INDEPE_ND_E_NT_EXAMINER'S REPORTTO THE TBY.STEES OF
DAVIL) PAWSQII MINISTRY CIQ
Independent examiner's report lo the trustees of David Pawson Ministry CIO
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of David Pawson
Ministry CIO (the Trust) forthe yearended 31 March 2025.
Responsibililies and basls ot report
Asthe charitytrustees oftheTrustyou areresponsibleforthe preparation ofthe accounts
in accordance with the requirementsofthe Charities Act 20111'the Act,).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under Section
145 ofthe Act and in carrying out my examination I havefollowed all applicable Directions
given bythe Charity Commission under Section 145(5)Ib) of the Act.
Independent examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my
attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any
material respect:
accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required bysection
130 of the Act; or
the accounts do not accord with those records: or
the accounts do not ¢omplywith the applicable requirements concerningthe
form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports)
Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and
fairviewwhich is not a matterconsidered as part of an independent
examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other rnatters in Connection with the
examination towhich attention should be drawn in this report in orderto enable a proper
understandingofthe accounts to be reached.
L Redman
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