## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022** ## **Charity name: Liverpool Gospel Trust** ## **Charity registration number: 1191547** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The advancement of the Christian religion as
this is set forth in the doctrine of the Church
of England for all those within the Diocese of
Liverpool (or in such other places as the
Trustees shall in their absolute discretion
decide from time to time), by supporting,
through the making of grants or otherwise
the following:
a.The provision and maintenance
of facilities for public worship;
b.The provision of appropriately
trained people for the conduct of
public worship and provision of
pastoral care;
c.Outreach and evangelism; and
d.The promotion of the awareness
and understanding of the
doctrine of the Church of
England.
e.Any other exclusively charitable
purpose or purposes (according
to the Law in England and
Wales) which the trustees shall
in their absolute discretion
determine from time to time.| |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|The Charity has raised limited funds, but
anticipates the receipt of significantly greater
donated funds before beginning, by the
making of grants and otherwise, to apply
funds towards achieving the
objects/purposes set out above, and thus for
the public benefit.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees continue to have due regard to
the Charity Commission’s guidance in What
Makes a Charity (CC4), the Public Benefit
Framework, Running a Charity (PB2) and
Public Benefit: reporting (PB3).| ## **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|As referred to above, the Charity has raised
limited funds, but awaits the anticipated
receipt of significantly greater funds before
applying the same, by the making of grants
and otherwise, towards achieving the
objects/purposes set out above, and thus for
the public benefit.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41| |---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |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|In the period ended 31 December 2021, the
Charity raised £7,679 in donations. In the
year ended 31 December 2022, the Charity
raised a further £7,361. The Charity held a
balance of £15,040 in its bank account as at
31 December 2022 pending the anticipated
receipt of further more significant funds.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Charity will develop a policy for holding
reserves once the way in which it will seek to
achieve its objects/purposes has become
more developed on the receipt of further
more significant funds. There is presently no
need for any such policy.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£15,040 as at 31 December 2022| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|There are no such uncertainties.| ## **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:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|CIO “Foundation” Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |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|The Charity’s CIO Constitution provides for
the appointment of first charity trustees for
fixed periods of between 1 and 3 years, and
for subsequently appointed trustees to be
appointed for a term of three years by
resolution passed at a properly convened
meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting
trustees for appointment, the trustees are
required to have regard to the skills,
knowledge and experience needed for the
effective administration of the CIO.
The trustees have identified a need to have
represented amongst the trustees the
following skills, namely:
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Financial/Investment
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Property ownership and management
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Ministry (teaching, leading)
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Governance/Legal and operational| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|Liverpool Gospel Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1191547| |Charity’s principal address|C/O Brabners LLP
Horton House
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Peter Mark
Cawson|Chair||CIO Constitution – First
trustee| ||Timothy David
Hanson||Until 30 September 2022|CIO Constitution – First
trustee| ||Nicholas Cecil
John Bewes||Until 30 September 2021
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2022|CIO Constitution – First
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resolution| ||Thomas Atkinson||From 1 December 2022|CIO Constitution – Trustee
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**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||PETER MARK CAWSON|| ||

Chair of Trustees at year end, and
authorised by resolution of the
charity’s trustees dated 23.10.23 to
submit this report|| ||24.10.23|| ||24.10.23|| **LIVERPOOL GOSPEL TRUST 1191547** **Receipts and payments accounts For the period** 1-Jan-22 31-Dec-22 **To from** **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**7,361**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,361**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 7,361**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**7,361**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,361**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,361**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**7,361**|**7,679**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**7,361**|**7,679**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**|**7,361**|**7,679**| ## **A3 Payments** ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**7,361**||**-**||**-**||**7,361**||**7,679**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**7,361**||**-**||**-**||**7,361**||**7,679**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Categories** **Details** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds** **to nearest £** **to nearest £ to nearest £** |**B1 Cash funds**|Cash at Bank|||**15,040**||**-**||**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**_Total cash funds_**|||**15,040**||**-**||**-**|| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||Agreement Error|||OK||OK|| ||||**Unrestricted**|||**Restricted**||**Endowment**|| |||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**|| ||**Details**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| |**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|| |**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|| |**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||**-**||**-**|| |**charity’s own use**||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||**Fund to which**|||**Amount due**||**When due**|| ||**Details**||**liability relates**|||**(optional)**||**(optional)**|| |**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-**|||| |||||||**-**|||| |||||||**-**|||| |||||||**-**|||| |||||||**-**|||| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Signature Date of Print Name approval