## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01.04.2022 Period start date TO 31.03.2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Amazing Life Church** ## **Charity registration number: 1190252** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Amazing Life Church aims to spread the
Christian message, foster community and
spiritual growth, and offer support to the
local Leeds area through various outreach
programs| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Main activities:
• Strengthening the spiritual and social
well-being of church members.
• Expanding outreach programs to support
marginalized communities in Leeds.
• Providing educational resources and
support for families.
• Enhancing the digital and in-person
engagement through worship services,
bible studies, and prayer groups.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The primary mission of the church focuses
on advancing the Christian faith, a
recognized charitable purpose that benefits
the public. All regular public worship is
offered free of charge and is open to
everyone.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|Amazing Life Church has seen significant
growth in its community impact this year. The
church successfully launched a Easter
Barbeque initiative, providing over 100 meals
to families in it’s local community in Leeds.
Additionally, through partnerships with local
charities, the church also provided Easter Eggs,
benefiting underprivileged children and
families.
The church’s Youth Empowerment Program
also saw increased participation, providing
mentorship, educational workshops, and
leadership training for young people in the
area.
Amazing Life Church's activities contribute to
the local economy in purchasing goods and
services from Leeds-based businesses. This
year, the church increased its local spending by
10%, creating opportunities for small
businesses in the region to thrive.
Additionally, through Fundraising and
Donations, the church raised funds to support
its operational and charitable activities,
including the expansion of its community
outreach programs.
While Amazing Life Church does not engage
directly in political lobbying or advocacy, the
church’s leadership has consistently
championed community cohesion, social
justice, and the welfare of disadvantaged
groups in Leeds.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Para 1.41 |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set||| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The financial statements for Amazing Life
Church show a stable and growing financial
position, with total income in 2023 amounting
to**£**43,484, representing a 150% increase
compared to the previous year. This growth
can be attributed to the rise in charitable
donations, fundraising activities, and increasing
attendance at church services.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The church finished the year with a net surplus
of £17,468, which will be reinvested into
community programs and ongoing
improvements to the church's facilities.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||Amazing Life Church is primarily focused on the
advancement of religion, to promote the
Christian faith based on the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ through churches and non-church
organisations through the media, community
and cultural events and missionaryactivities| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|Articles of association of Amazing Life Church| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CLG (Company Limited by Guarantee)| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Amazing Life Church is governed by its
Trustees, who are responsible for overseeing
the church’s activities, ensuring compliance
with legal and regulatory requirements, and
maintaining the effective use of resources.
Trustees are appointed by a majority vote of
existing trustees.
The church operates under the guidance of its
Senior Leadership Team, including the Lead
Pastor and Associate Pastor, who manage day-
to-day activities and provide spiritual
leadership. Regular board meetings are held to
review operational goals, financial health, and
community engagement.
The church operates under the Charities Act
2011 and is compliant with the Statement of
Recommended Practice (SORP) FRS 102 for
financial reporting.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** Charity name Amazing Life Church Other name the charity uses Registered charity number 1190252 Charity’s principal address 63 Whitfield Gardens, Hunslet, Leeds, LS10 2QD **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Omotoyosi Ilori|Executive Pastor||| ||Monisola Jonusa|Resident Pastor||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Omotoyosi Ilori Monisola Jonusa Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| |||| ||Omotoyosi Ilori|Monisola Jonusa| ||
Director|Director| ||31.03.2023|| ||31.03.2023|| ## **Amazing Life Church** ## **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts** **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/04/2022 31/03/2023 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**43,484**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43,484**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43,484**
**12,814**
**7,079**
**115**
**4,906**
**1,102**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,016**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,016**
**17,468**
**-**
**-**
**17,468**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**43,484**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43,484**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43,484**
**12,814**
**7,079**
**115**
**4,906**
**1,102**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,016**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,016**
**17,468**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**43,484**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43,484**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43,484**
**12,814**
**7,079**
**115**
**4,906**
**1,102**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,016**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,016**
**17,468**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations|**43,484**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**43,484**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**
|||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| |Rent|**12,814**|||||**-**| |Utilities|**7,079**|||||**-**| |Professional fees|**115**|||||**-**| |Travel and subsistence|**4,906**|||||**-**| |Administrative expenses|**1,102**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**26,016**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| ||**17,468**|**-**|**-**|**17,468**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**17,468**|**-**|**-**|**17,468**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 29/03/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**17,468**
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**-**
**-**
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**17,468**
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OK
OK
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Omotoyosi Ilori
Monisola Jonusa|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| ||||31/03/2023| ||||31/03/2023| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 29/03/2025 2 ## **INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF AMAZING LIFE CHURCH** ## **Opinion** We have audited the financial statements of Amazing Life Church (the "Charity") for the year ended 31 March 2023, which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement, and the related notes, including the accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) (FRS 102), as issued by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. In our opinion: - The financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of the Charity's affairs as at 31 March 2023, and of its incoming resources and application of resources, for the year then ended. - The financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 and the applicable accounting standards. ## **Basis for Opinion** We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. ## **Responsibilities of Trustees for the Financial Statements** The Trustees (who are also the directors of the Charity for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (FRS 102), which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of its incoming resources and application of resources. In preparing the financial statements, the Trustees are responsible for assessing the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Trustees either intend to liquidate the Charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so. ## **Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements** Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements. As part of an audit in accordance with ISAs (UK), we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also: - Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. - Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Charity's internal control. - Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the Trustees. - Conclude on the appropriateness of the Trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Charity's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor's report to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. - Evaluate the overall presentation, structure, and content of the financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation. ## **Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements** In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit: - The information given in the Trustees' Annual Report is consistent with the financial statements. - The Trustees' Annual Report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements. We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters which we are required to report to you if, in our opinion: - The Charity has not kept adequate and sufficient accounting records. - The financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns. - We have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit. ## **Use of Our Report** This report is made solely to the Charity's trustees, as a body, in accordance with our engagement letter. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Charity and the Charity's trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed. Brooke Ledger Auditor 31.05.2023 Charles Whyte Accountancy