AWAKEN
TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR END
31st MARCH 2023
Registered Charity Number: 1191615
AWAKEN TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR END 31st MARCH 2023
CONTENTS
AWAKEN
CHARITY INFORMATION
TRUSTEES: (Executive Committee members)
Miss K Andrews
Mr S Jenkins Mr C Sampson Mr L Lampey Mr S Burton (Chair)
REGISTERED ADDRESS:
AWAKEN 79 Laxton Road Taunton TA1 2XF
REGISTERED CHARITY: 1191615
AWAKEN
Annual Report 2022-2023
Charity No. 1191615
Chairperson: Sam Burton
Treasurer: Liam Lampey
Secretary: Kathryn Andrews
Trustees: Steve Jenkins, Chris Sampson
Summary of Purpose:
A community for young adults from churches and the wider community. We exist to encourage young adults to find hope and faith in Jesus.
Main Activities:
Worship & Teaching nights, community gatherings & retreats
Saturday nights, our main gatherings with Worship & Teaching:
Following COVID and the formation and on-going mentoring of a new team of volunteers, there has been regular gatherings on the last Saturday of every month. This is now an established event with guest speakers from churches and ministries across the region. Awaken engages with around 100 young adults regularly from a range of Churches across Somerset and beyond. These monthly nights have proved to be very fruitful for new people moving or returning to the area to connect with young adult Christians. It is also a place many young adults with no faith background have attended, it’s perfect for many who are curious about exploring faith.
Once again hosted in January we hosted a team of 10 from the USA from Carry the Love. We planned with another local charity Taunton Youth for Christ.
Community Gatherings:
We’ve found gathering as a men’s group and women's group very fruitful, this takes place most months with some activities (wreath making, pottery, BBQ etc) and teaching. These usually take place on a week night.
Retreats
Over the past year we have partnered with Wildside Experience on the Blackdown Hills, providing a retreat camp. Last Summer we organised one camp with around 30 young adults attending. We also invited local leaders to come and minister to young adults.
Summary of Achievements:
Over the last year:
We've seen increased connections with Churches and championed new young adult communities springing up in Yeovil, Clevedon, Bath and Barnstaple. We’ve invited and hosted some of these teams to lead worship at our Awaken gatherings over this past year. We’ve continued to see many young adults coming to our events and encountering Jesus. The team and trustees connect where possible to meet with young adults and help those in the Awaken community find a home church, sign post to Alpha Courses and encourage them in their faith.
To engage young adults in Somerset we have held a variety of different events such as: - Partnering with the local House of Prayer; helping host and support large prayer gatherings and Gospel Christmas events.
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Christmas event at the Collar Factory with 60 young adults attending
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Easter Walk
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We took around 30 young adults to David' Tent which is a 72 hour worship event in Sussex in the Summer.
Governance:
The Trustees are aware of the Charity Commission's Guidance on public benefit and are satisfied that the above activities undertaken by Awaken meet the public benefit requirement for charitable status.
All are Trustees are involved with other local charitable organisations and are committed to the local church. The Trustees also regularly meet with local church leaders within Somerset.
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Receipts and payments acco
For the period 4/1/2022
To
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Endowment
Restricted funds
funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Non Gift aid donations 634 - -
Awaken August Camp 1,343 - -
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- - -
- - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 1,977 - -
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).
- - -
- - -
- - -
Sub total
- -
Total receipts 1,977
A3 Payments
Resources 64 - -
Venue hire 876 - -
Donations towards guest speakers and venues 450 - -
Catering for events 508 - -
Google Cloud 55 - -
Advertising 17 - -
Sub total 1,970 - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total - - -
- -
Total payments 1,970
7 - -
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 1,367 - -
Cash funds this year end 1,374 - -
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the peri Unrestricted Categories Details funds to nearest £
191`615
unts 3/31/2023
CC16a
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Total funds to the nearest £ |
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B1 Cash funds Cash at bank and in hand 1,374
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Total cash funds 1,374
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s)) OK
Unrestricted
funds
Details to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets -
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Fund to which asset
Details belongs
B3 Investment assets
Fund to which asset
Details belongs
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
Fund to which
Details liability relates
B5 Liabilities
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of
Signature Print N
all the trustees
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Name Date of approval
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