YWAM England - Annual report 2022/23
We are grateful for the Lord's faithfulness to all those who serve in YWAM England to sustain us and our ministries. As reported in our recent YWAM Newsletter ……………(it has been said that) the one thing that doesn't change in YWAM is that things change!
It is important to recognise these changes and stay updated with recent events.
Kingdom Compassion closed in late 2022 (still waiting for final closure with the charity commission) and YWAM Cambridge is currently in a fallow season with ongoing leadership transition. The smaller team plants in Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Norwich have closed. Helena Kittle has moved to serve with YWAM in South Africa and Connie and Andrew Taylor are exploring ministry partnership in Coventry. We are grateful to Paul and Vicky Walland, Kyle and Rossie Henderson Begs and Phil and Karen Gazely for their faithful service to YWAM and wish them well in future ministry expressions. We are pleased to report that YWAM Kausar - London is in the process of registering as a daughter charity, led by Rosemary James and that YWAM Thanet is now an established small team led by Lucy Weichselbaum-Barlow.
Currently there are therefore 8 established daughter charities:
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YWAM Derby, YWAM Harpenden, YWAM Holmsted Ministries, YWAM Kausar - London, The Kings Lodge, YWAM Radiant, YWAM Urban key, and YWAM York.
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And Smaller team plants in :
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Carlisle, Coventry, Forge - Nottingham, Immerse - Cornwall, Liverpool, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Mosaic, and Thanet.
As covid restrictions have lifted there has been a return of the running of schools across the nation which included Discipleship Training schools, School of ministry and leadership development, Bible core courses, school of Biblical studies, Foundations in Counselling ministry, School of digital filmmaking, School of acting for the screen and the School of biblical worldview as well as an English Cultural Orientation course and facilitating overseas training through Year for God.
There have also been new initiatives of online courses through the Maritime academy supporting Island Reach (in final conversion in Conwy North Wales) as well as seminars for those in and outside of YWAM that have included Freedom classes, Light on the bible, Joy and evangelism training reaching international students within universities.
Outreaches through schools have visited Cornwall, Birmingham, Thanet, Newcastle, Nottingham as well as overseas to Albania, Uganda, the middle east and Greece.
YWAM still predominantly wants to focus on inspiring and mobilising young people to know God and make him known and this happened in a number of ways during the summer of 22 through Mission adventures, Summer of Missions and Wild Hope “ an outreach partnership with Fusion and Hope UK”.
To promote the work of YWAM, the communications stand was present at 7 summer events and christian festivals to continue to build relationships with young and old interested in missional work. A major focus that has continued post covid has been the partnership with other christian expressions reaching out to bless and build community examples include service at Food banks and food truck provisions, Schools work and kids clubs, support of staycation days, Senior lunches, English classes and supporting women in different settings.
Hospitality and running events where we can host and serve our local communities is also a common trend through seasonal festivals and cultural activities (Christmas, Easter and Harvest) as well as opening up areas of our properties to host spiritual retreats, gardening and pottery activities, a Narnia Adventure and Open house worship.
The onset of the Ukraine conflict in february impacted us all and different YWAMers responded to mobilise collection points, raise funds and take donations, protest and support the nation in prayer.
In April we were delighted to gather as YWAM in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England (Wise) at Highfield Oval, Harpenden to celebrate 50 years of YWAM in the region and honour Lynn and Marti Green for their investment and legacy to these nations.
Specific to the work of YWAM England the English Eldership Core Team Andrew Taylor resigned from the eldership and Laura Mudd was invited to join the group. We continued to convene all location leaders throughout the year with a two night retreat at Holmsted Manor in July where we looked to strengthen the commitment to work in the nation together. Again trustees from YWAM LTD and YWAM England met to work to support one another to strengthen understanding between daughter charities and team plants.
Steve Bishop (Communications), Carol Hatton (safeguarding) and Sarah Opper from YWAM Wales (Visa) and their teams have worked hard to maintain a high level of oversight of compliance throughout the nation. We are very grateful for their commitment to excellence. Penny Griggs has acted as a bookkeeper for our accounts and Yan Nicholls continues to liaise with locations to ensure insurance cover and advice with regard to financial best practice.
Accounts to 31[st] August 2022
This year's end of year accounts was our first full year of operating.
We received a total of £21,196.52 in income. 78% of the income was from the grant from YWAM Limited. Donations from locations were down nearly 57% to £2851.52. Donations have started coming in from individual giving totalling £1845.00
The highest expenditure was 34% of our income allocated to Communications and marketing (£7265.09). This was spent to advertise YWAM at various summer camps & gatherings as well as regular communication through a digital newsletter. £296.89 was spent on safeguarding & £351.69 on staff care. The remainder was spent on office costs, trustee travel & bookkeeper fees.
| 2022 | 2021 | ||
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| Income | |||
| Donations | £1,845.00 | ||
| Income from | £2,851.52 | £6,558.00 | |
| Bases | |||
| Grant From | £16,500.00 | £8,000.00 | |
| YWAM Ltd | |||
| Total | £21,196.52 | £14,558.00 | |
| Expenditure | |||
| Bank Charges | £110.00 | £60.00 | |
| Safeguarding | £296.89 | £2,019.60 | |
| Staff Care | £351.69 | £25.80 | |
| Marketing | £7,265.09 | ||
| Office costs | £112.87 | ||
| Travel & car | £94.51 | £28.15 | |
| parking | |||
| bookkeeping | £288.00 | £72.00 | |
| Total | £8,519.05 | £2,205.55 | |
| Net Income | £12,677.47 | £12,352.45 |