## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period** 

**From: Period start date** 06 04 24 **To: Period end date** 05 04 25 

**Charity name:** The Gathering Charity Leatherhead 

**Charity registration number:** 1190426 

**Company number:** 

## **Objectives and activities** 

||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|To advance the Christian religion for the<br>public benefit, primarily, but not exclusively,<br>in Leatherhead, Surrey, and among those<br>living therein by engaging in the whole<br>mission of the church.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|The Gathering Charity provide a regular<br>space where people can come together to<br>pray and worship as well as share both their<br>sorrows and joys and provide mutual love<br>and support.|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have complied with their duty to<br>have due regard to guidance published by<br>the Charity Commission in respect oof public<br>benefit.  The church provides a place of<br>worship open to all and seeks to be a<br>positive presence in the local community.|



## **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** 

The Gathering Charity provided a regular space where people could come together to Summary of the main Para 1.20 pray and worship as well as share both their achievements of the charity, sorrows and joys and provide mutual love identifying the difference the and support. charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole. 

## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

Para 1.41 Achievements against objectives set Para 1.41 Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set Para 1.41 Investment performance against objectives Other 



## **Financial review** 

|**Financial review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|Please refer to our Annual Accounts<br>document|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We aim to maintain free cash reserves<br>equivalent to 3 months’ budgeted<br>expenditure.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£20,153|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|Not applicable|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|Not applicable|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|Not applicable|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

Para 1.47 The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) Para 1.46 Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted Para 1.46 A description of the principal risks facing the charity Other 

## **Structure, governance and management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document:<br>for example,trust deed,<br>memorandum and articles of<br>association etc|Para 1.25|Foundation Model Constitution|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?|Para 1.25|CIO|





|for example limited company,<br>unincorporated association,<br>CIO|||
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|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|Any trustee must be appointed by a<br>resolution passed at a properly convened<br>meeting of the charity trustees as per<br>paragraph 10.1 of our governing document.|
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## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

Para 1.51 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 Other 



## **Reference and administrative details** 

Charity name The Gathering Charity Leatherhead Other name the charity uses Not applicable Registered charity number 1190426 Charity’s principal address 213 Kingston Road, Leatherhead, Surrey.  KT22 7PE 

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

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Peter Moore||||
||Ruth Shepherd||||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

## **Director name** 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** 



## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

|Description of the assets<br>held in this capacity|None|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the<br>charity on whose behalf the<br>assets are held and how this<br>falls within the custodian<br>charity’s objects|Not applicable|
|Details of arrangements for<br>safe custody and<br>segregation of such assets<br>from the charity’s own assets|Not applicable|



## **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 company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors** 

**Signature(s)** Ruth Shepherd **Full name(s)** Peter Moore **Position (for example** Chair Trustee **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 



**Charity Name No (if any) The Gathering Charity Leatherhead 1190426** 


## **Receipts and payments accounts** 

## **CC16a** 

**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 4/6/2024 4/5/2025 

|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**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**|||||||||
|Gift Aid Donations||**7,625**|**-**||**-**||**7,625**|**9,418**|
|Non-Gift Aid Donations||**3,720**|**-**||**-**||**3,720**|**3,298**|
|Gifts from Organisations||**5,205**|**-**||**-**||**5,205**|**5,205**|
|Gift Aid||**2,365**|**-**||**-**||**2,365**|**2,256**|
|Interest||**20**|**-**||**-**||**20**|**45**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**18,935**|**-**||**-**||**18,935**|**20,222**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**|||||||||
|**table).**|||||||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **|**18,935**|||**-**||**-**|**18,935**|**20,222**|
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|Payments to Trustee||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|Staff Costs incl. training||**13,383**|**-**||**-**||**13,383**|**11,936**|
|Communications & Publicity||**849**|**-**||**-**||**849**|**653**|
|Venue Hire||**2,938**|**-**||**-**||**2,938**|**3,330**|
|Refreshments||**143**|||||**143**|**1,045**|
|Community Needs||**2,488**|||||**2,488**|**2,060**|
|Equipment and other service costs incl. kids||**732**|**-**||**-**||**732**|**971**|
|Bank Fees||**60**|||||**60**|**60**|
|Other Admin & Insurance||**397**|**-**||**-**||**397**|**507**|
|**_Sub total_ **||**20,990**|**-**||**-**||**20,990**|**20,561**|
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**|||||||||
|**(see table)**|||||||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **|**20,990**|||**-**||**-**|**20,990**|**20,561**|
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|**-**|**2,055**|**-**||**-**||**-                  2,055**|**-                   340**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**22,208**||**-**||**-**||**22,208**|**22,548**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**20,153**||**-**||**-**||**20,153**|**22,208**|



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

|||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**|**funds**||**funds**|
|||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1**|**Cash**|**funds**|Bank Account Balance|**20,153**||**-**|**-**|





|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**|**20,153**|**-**|**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>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**|||||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
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||||**-**|**-**|
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||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
|||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**|**When due**|
||**Details**|**liability relates**|**(optional)**|**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all<br>the trustees|Signature<br>|Print|Name|Date of<br>approval|
|||Pete|Moore|21-Jan-25|