2023-12-31-accounts - Gbc Lancaster

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GBCLan Charity Commission Return 2024

The Church promotes the Christian faith and spiritual contemplation and provides emotional and spiritual support for any who seek it. It holds public worship and other activities in the building that it uses, and distributes literature in the surrounding area and city centre. It advertises its services via its website and invites anybody who wishes to contact it.

The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. The Church fulfils its objectives for public benefit by holding two public worship services on Sundays, a midweek meeting, and children’s activities with a religious ethos. It also distributes literature and seeks to engage personally with members of the community, including students. It provides pastoral visits and support for the sick, bereaved, or those seeking help with spiritual matters for any who seek it, and not just its own members. The church also gives financial support to other Christian charities who promote the Christian gospel or engage in humanitarian activity in this country and overseas.

The spiritual nature of the church’s objectives makes it difficult to quantify achievements. However in the past year we have undertaken the following:-

Holding public Sunday worship morning services in the morning and evening, in the building that it uses, or digitally for those unable to attend. These services are open to all. Central to our worship services is the preaching of God’s Word, the Bible for teaching, sharing the Christian gospel, and for spiritual reflection
holding midweek meetings for prayer or the study of the Bible in the building that it uses
holding a monthly evening for primary school aged children and adult family members during school term time in the building that it use, and a three-morning holiday club for children of primary school age
engaging with students and members of the community close to the building that the church uses and offering practical, emotional and physical support to those who seek it, by visits and by invitation to events in the building used by the church
distributing literature about the church and the Christian gospel to homes and in the city centre, and invitations to special activities
holding a free weekly café open to the general public
providing support and encouragement to its members who have been in need
holding a special thanksgiving weekend conference
allowing a slimming club to use its building and facilities
continued to support organisations that spread the Christian message in other places, particularly abroad, and hosting meetings for representatives of such organisations

The church welcomed two new members into its life.

! CHARITY COMMISSION FC)ti EP4GLAND ANO VIALES Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period To Section A Receipts and payments unwtr.eted funds to the-eare5t Restricted funds Endowmenl funds Total lunds Lasl year to th¢ n00roSt£ tothe fv8re5t£ to thE near f to the I•ret£ Al Reeelpts ift Aid and Offen Donations Use of premises Bank Interest Pub1*8110ns and 8wk8 er S5.575 1.754 2.600 41 55.5T5 1.754 56,896 1,329 2,480 19 76 250 41 186 Sub total(Gft)ss income for ARJ 60,156 6D.158 61,050 A2 Assèt and itwestment sales, {see table). Sub total rotal receipts $0,IS6 61.050 A3 Payments &larie5, Tax,Nl, ExnSeS Pension ContnbutK)ns Premi5BS ¢X)SIS utilities bvibes, EY8rtTr1sim. Events Gift5 to MISSn5 ano PTrIErs Mifiislry Supwt rnini3ttati Equipment and R8newa 34.814 2.124 37,989 1,981 2,372 3.746 1,413 4.465 4.010 1,799 853 6.194 &f94 Y44. 6Q13 6,013 3,185 1,534 59,997 Sub total 56,590 A4 Assgt and investment urchases, see table Sub total 59,997 59.997 58.590 Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers bÈtwèen funds A6 Ca¥h fund5 last y¢ar ¢nd Cash funds this year end 1S9 159 2,460 159 159 2A60 CCXX R1 accounts ISS}

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricte(I funds Restricted funds to ngarest£ Endowment fund$ C3te9Gi ies to nÈarest£ B1 Cash funds 20,511 Total cash fun(ts 78.077 Endowment funds to nearest £ funds to nr¥St£ De-.ai1s Nor B2 Other monetary asseta Fund to which Current valuB iothal Details B3 Inve8tment 0$6ets Fund to whth Detsils oTr¢& EquiwEnt B4 Assgts rotaingd for Ihe charity's own us• Unresthtted FuTrJ 10 7*tiiGh Amuunt d When duè DetaÈls BS Llablllties SwJned by ong or tslees on tehalf of all trustees Date of lov Signature Print Name CXX P2 accounts ISS 0410612024