## **The Bulgarian Orthodox Community of St. Constantine and St. Helen** 

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|**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod**||||||||||
|**From**||Period start date|||**T**<br>**o**||Period end date|||
|||Day<br>01|Month<br>June|Year<br>2023|||Day<br>31|Month<br>May|Year<br>2024|



Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name**[THE BULGARIAN ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF ST. ] CONSTANTINE AND ST. HELEN 

**Other names charity is known by** 

**Registered charity number (if any)** 1189491 

**Charity's principal address** 6 Rochester Road Cuxton Rochester **Postcode ME2 1AF** 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

**Name of person (or body) Dates acted if not for Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee whole year (if any)** Chairman 1[Rev. Dobromir ] Dimitrov 

- 2 Kiril Ivanov 

- 3[Lambrini ] Ferkadis 

- 4 5 

**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)** 

1 

March **2012** 

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**Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

Charity Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) 

How the charity is constituted 

(eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Every appointed trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. (eg. appointed by, elected by) In selecting individuals for appointment as appointed charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO 

## **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** 

To advance the Orthodox Christian faith in Kent, London and SE England in particular and throughout the UK for the public benefit, mainly but not exclusively by providing 

● a place of worship, religious education, pastoral care, religious ceremonies such as liturgical services , baptisms , christenings , **Summary of the objects of the** weddings , funerals , and other regular religious services to the Bulgarian **charity set out in its** as well as other Orthodox Christians **governing document** 

- the building and maintenance of a church and community centre. ● ministry to the people through canonical services conducted according to the order and tradition of the Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of Western and Central Europe at the Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Bulgarian Patriarchate. 

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**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)** 

In the fourth year of operation  the Charity has continued to serve the community. 

We have been able to hold regular church services in Kent. The congregation has been growing steadily and consistently. 

We were able to run a successful online and in person fundraising campaign and have managed to secure funds to maintain the services going. 

**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. 

## Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main** We have been able to hold regular church services in Kent as well as in **achievements of the charity** London for the whole accounts period.The congregation has been **during the year** growing steadily and consistently. 

We have run a successful online and in person fundraising campaign and have managed to secure funds to maintain the services going. 

## **Section E                    Financial review** 

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The Charity intends to hold a 10% of all income in reserves, which are **Brief statement of the** intended to cover short term shortfalls in revenue. None of the reserves **charity’s policy on reserves** will be restricted. 

**Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit** 

## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: 

- the charity’s 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** 

## **Section G                    Declaration** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

## **Signature(s)** КИванов 

Kiril Ivanov 

**Full name(s)** Kiril Ivanov 

## **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Secretary 

**Date** 10/02/2025 

4 March **2012** 

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||**Charity Name**<br>|**Charity Name**<br>|**Charity Name**<br>|**Charity Name**<br>|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**The Bulgarian Orthodox Community of St.**<br>**Constantine and St. Helen**||||**1189491**|||
||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period start date|**To**<br>|Period end date|||
||||**01/06/23**||**31/05/24**|||
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|**Section A Receipts and**|**payments**|||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**||
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||
|Donations|**4,266**||**-**|**-**|**4,266**|**3,134**||
|Grants and GiftAid|**1,372**||**-**|**-**|**1,372**|**-**||
|Other Charitable Income|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**5,638**||**-**|**-**|**5,638**|**3,134**||
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||
|<br>Bank Interest|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|Investment Income|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
||||||**5,638**|||
|**_Total receipts_**|**5,638**||**-**|**-**||**3,134**||
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||
|Rent|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|Church Maintenance|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**4,728**||
|Utilities|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|Insurance|**371**||**-**|**-**|**371**|**354**||
|Donations|**2,600**||**-**|**-**|**2,600**|**-**||
|Memberships and Subscriptions|**877**||**-**|**-**|**877**|**-**||
|Trustee Expenses|**1,196**||**-**|**-**|**1,196**|**441**||
|Bank Charges|**15**||**-**|**-**|**15**|**-**||
|Other Expenses|**441**||**-**|**-**|**441**|**471**||
|**_Sub total_**|**5,500**||**-**|**-**|**5,500**|**5,994**||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
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|**_Total payments_**|**5,500**||**-**|**-**|**5,500**|**5,994**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**138**||**-**|**-**|**138**|**-**<br>**2,860**||
|<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**896**||**-**|**-**|**896**|**3,756**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**1,034**||**-**|**-**|**1,034**|**896**||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**||
|||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank Current Account|||**1,034**|**-**|**-**||
||Bank Savings Account||||**-**|**-**||
||Cash||||**-**|**-**||
||**_Total cash funds_**|||**1,034**|**-**|**-**||





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|||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**||
||**Details**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**||
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||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**||||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**||
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||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|Land and Buildings|||**-**||**-**|**-**||
||Vehicles and Equipment|||**-**||**-**|**-**||
||Stocks and Shares|||**-**||**-**|**-**||
||Accounts Receivable|||**-**||**-**|**-**||
||Other|||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**||
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||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**|**When due**<br>**(optional)**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|Accounts Not Yet Paid|||**-**||**-**|||
||Expenses Not Yet Paid|||**-**||**-**|||
||Transfers between A/C's|||**-**||**-**|||
||Loans|||**-**||**-**|||
||Other Liabilities|||**-**||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf<br>of all the trustees|Signature|||Print Name|||Date of<br>approval||
||КИванов|||Kiril Ivanov|||10/02/25||
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