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## Freedom Church Waddington
For the year ending 31[st] December 2022 A Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered in England and Wales, no. 1190778
Registered address: Hall Cottage, Hill Top, Waddington, Lincoln, LN5 9RL Trustees : Ms Jacky Brister (until 5 January 2022) Mr Jon Pape Mr John Thorneycroft Mr Efstratios Tsagaris, known as Gary (from 17 August 2022)
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
27/10/2023
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## **Structure, governance and management**
Freedom Church Waddington is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), registered as a charity on 7[th] August 2020. The charity was established with a constitution whose only voting members are its charity trustees. In the event of the charity being wound up the trustees have no liability to settle its debts and liabilities.
Under the requirements of the Constitution, except for the initial trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the trustees. There shall be a minimum of three and a maximum of twelve trustees. Any person retiring as a trustee is eligible for reappointment. The trustees met three times during 2022.
The trustees are responsible for ensuring all legal requirements of the charity are met. The strategic and spiritual direction and pastoral oversight of Freedom Church Waddington is the responsibility of the church leaders.
During the year the church was led on a day-to-day basis by Jon Pape, who was assisted by a broader team of Jenne Pape and Richard & Charlotte Thorneycroft. Jon and Jenne Pape are also supported by the leadership of Gateway Church Northumberland (registered charity no. 1164586). The leaders of Freedom Church Waddington submit to apostolic oversight from Regions Beyond UK (registered charity no. 1152827).
The church has no employees, with all trustees, leaders and people within the church giving their time voluntarily to serve our community.
## **Objectives and activities**
Our purpose is to be a church family in Waddington which especially welcomes the RAF Community and wants to see lives changed as people choose to follow Jesus.
This is defined in our CIO constitution as:
To advance the Christian religion for the benefit of the public, in particular but not exclusively through the holding of prayer meetings, religious education, public celebration of religious festivals, producing and/or distributing literature on the Christian faith to enlighten others about the Christian religion, providing pastoral care and carrying out outreach work in the community.
Freedom Church Waddington seeks to fulfil our purpose through the following activities:
- Gathering together
- Mission
- Discipleship
- Pastoral Care
We hope that as we carry out these activities we move closer to fulfilling our vision which is to see people flourishing because they have found belonging and fulfilment in Jesus.
When planning our activities for the year, the leadership and trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
27/10/2023
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## **Achievements and performance**
**Gathering together** – Freedom Church Waddington met in Waddington Village Hall each Sunday morning to worship together. This took the form of singing, praying, reading the Bible and teaching one another. Teaching was given in an age-appropriate way, with adults listening to a prepared sermon and children enjoying their own activities. Church members also gather during the week in life groups, where they have fellowship with one another, study the bible, and pray together.
**Mission** – After 18-months of discussion and planning, we started work on the Community Growing Garden project with RAF Waddington. The aim of the garden is to support military families, especially those where a member is deployed abroad, reducing isolation and loneliness, and encouraging community cohesion between military and church families. By December we had all permissions in place and a team of RAF and church volunteers had enclosed the area with a picket fence, ready for the construction of raised beds when the weather improved. We were also really excited to send a group of young people and helpers to NewDay youth camp, after several years' delay due to Covid. All of them were inspired, challenged and encouraged in their faith, and the impact on the young people was evident in their enthusiasm for getting more involved in the life and work of the church, as well as in growing maturity in their personal faith.
**Discipleship** – Freedom Church Waddington provided discipleship through our mid-week life groups. We were also delighted to baptise 10 people during the year, including on two occasions when we brought in a portable baptistry to the village hall.
_Gathering at Waddington Village Hall_
_Garden at RAF Waddington_
_Baptising people into God's family_
**Pastoral care** – Freedom Church Waddington provided pastoral care to people within the church through our mid-week life group and encouraging people to support one another. Members of the church helped to set up and run a Warm Welcome space at St Michael's church, which welcomed a range of ages and needs, providing a warm space for those who were struggling to heat their homes during winter time. Additionally, one pastoral gift was made to a family in Waddington outside the church community, whose needs became known to us.
**Training** – Freedom Church Waddington sent Jon and Jenne Pape to a gathering of Regions Beyond church leaders in Birmingham, where they received teaching and encouragement.
**Administration** – Freedom Church Waddington’s expenditure under this heading includes a mobile phone, insurance, licenses to publish song lyrics that are under copyright, membership of the Evangelical Alliance (registered charity no. 212325), website costs, and safeguarding costs (Membership of thirtyone:eight (registered charity no. 1004490) and DBS checks).
**Gifts to other ministries** – Freedom Church Waddington makes a monthly donation of £100 to Regions Beyond UK. Additionally, the church gave a gift of £1,000 to St Michael's church, Waddington to assist in the costs of heating their church building for the weekly Warm Welcome sessions.
CCXX R3 accounts (SS)
27/10/2023
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## **Financial review**
During the year Freedom Church Waddington received unrestricted funds of £19,067, which was made up of £14,094 in regular giving, £1,252 of ad hoc giving and £3,721 of Gift Aid. Our expenditure more than doubled when compared to 2021, increasing to £11,406, yet receipts exceeded payments by £7,661. When this is combined with the £21,252 brought forward from the previous year, the balance carried forward on 31[st] December 2022 was £28,913.
Freedom Church Waddington does not yet have a reserves policy.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the Charity Commission’s guidance CC15d, and was approved by the trustees on 27 October 2023.
Jon Pape, 27 October 2023
John Thorneycroft, 27 October 2023
Efstratios Tsagaris, 27 October 2023
CCXX R4 accounts (SS)
27/10/2023
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|**Freedom Church Waddington**||**1190778**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|01-Jan-21
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|31-Dec-21|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**14,094**
**1,252**
**3,721**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,067**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,067**
**2,521**
**4,183**
**326**
**750**
**362**
**1,064**
**2,200**
**-**
**-**
**11,406**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,406**
**7,661**
**-**
**21,252**
**28,913**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**14,094**
**1,252**
**3,721**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,067**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,067**
**2,521**
**4,183**
**326**
**750**
**362**
**1,064**
**2,200**
**-**
**-**
**11,406**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,406**
**7,661**
**-**
**21,252**
**28,913**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations - Regulargiving|**14,094**||||**13,273**|
|Donations - Ad hocgiving|**1,252**||||**381**|
|Gift Aid|**3,721**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**19,067**||||**13,654**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
|**Nil**|**-**|||||
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||
||||||**13,654**|
|||||||
|Gatheringtogether|**2,521**||||**1,041**|
|Mission|**4,183**||||**975**|
|Discipleship|**326**||||**-**|
|Pastoral care|**750**||||**563**|
|Training|**362**||||**558**|
|Administration|**1,064**||||**690**|
|Gifts to other ministries|**2,200**||||**1,700**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**11,406**||||**5,527**|
|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||
|**Nil**|**-**|||||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||
||||||**5,527**|
|||||||
||**7,661**|**-**|**-**|**7,661**|**8,127**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**21,252**|**-**|**-**|**21,252**|**13,126**|
||**28,913**|**-**|**-**|**28,913**|**21,253**|
CCXX R5 accounts (SS)
27/10/2023
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|**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
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
Nil
Bank current account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Nil
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Nil
**Details**
Nil|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**28,913**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,913**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Efstratios Tsagaris
John Thorneycroft|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Efstratios Tsagaris|27-Oct-23|
|||John Thorneycroft|27-Oct-23|
CCXX R6 accounts (SS)
27/10/2023
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