**To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1191777 Association of Festival Churches **Charity's principal address** 7 East Street Holme-On-The-Wolds BEVERLEY HU17 7PT ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Sir Antony Brian
Baldry|Chair|||| ||Julie Patricia
Banham||From 04 March 2021||| ||WENDY
COOMBEY MBE||From 01 January 2021-||| ||The Venerable
Darren Miller||From 01 January 2021||| ||Geoffrey Rea
Hunter||From 01 January 2021||| ||Rev Mark Betson||||| ||Rev ANDREW
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WHITEHEAD||||| ||Andrew Boyce||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||Vivienne Anne
Cooling||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |**C of E Consultee**|Dr Joe Elders|Church House, Great Smith Street, London. SW1P 3AZ| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** CIO Association Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by the members at the AGM. Any vacancies may be filled either Trustee selection methods by election by the members or appointment by resolution of the trustees, (eg. appointed by, elected by) to hold office until the next AGM. ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** The charity works closely with the Church of England and conducts itself You **may choose** to include in accordance with the principles, tenets and teachings of the Church of additional information, where England. relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **TAR** March **2012** 2 |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE
CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS,
PRACTICES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
THROUGH SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING THE USE OF
CHURCHES AS FESTIVAL CHURCHES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT
AND THE DELIVERY OF DIVINE SERVICE WITHIN THE
CONSECRATED SPACES.| |---|---| ||The Trust has delivered a number of conference style meetings to
promote the work pf the Trust and the Festival Church model. Attendees
included senior Diocesan clergy, Diocesan lay staff, and Lay parish
members, as well as other relevant stakeholder organisation who have a
vested interest in supporting the Church of England and the use of
church buildings for public benefit.
Trustees attended Church of England Buildings Council and General
Synods to support partnership working with the wider church to promote
the Festival Church model.
A website has been created, along with the creation of information and
resources that people can refer to when exploring the Festival Church
model. In conjunction with these online promotional resources, several
Trustees have attended individual PCC meetings, and/or held online
consultations to give advice to Parishes across the Church of England.
The Chair of the Trust has met with a number of lead stakeholders to
discuss how as a Trust with others, we can work together for the mutual
public benefit and to support the mission and ministry of the Church of
England in establishing the Festival Church model.
Funding has been applied for to support the future work of the church,
and a bank account has been applied for.| ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **TAR** March **2012** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **TAR** March **2012** 4 Section D Achievements and erformance p **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** Three public and stakeholder consultation sessions **during the year** A Trust website, email account and creation of public resources and information. Supported individual parishes and communities with advice on adopting the Festival Church model. **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** The trustees have not yet set a reserves policy for the charity. **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** ## **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Vivienne Anne Cooling **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc) Date** 31/10/2022 **TAR** March **2012** 6 Association of Festival Churches ## Charity Registration number 1191777 Receipts and payments accounts for the first financial period from 13 October 2020 to 31 December 2021 ## Receipts and Payments |Receipts||| |---|---|---| |||| ||Unrestricted funds (to nearest £)|Total funds (to nearest £)| |Gift|2590|2590| |Website establishment costs
paid by trustee on Charity’s
behalf1|1500|1500| |**Total receipts**|**4090**|**4090**| |||| |**Payments**||| |||| |Costs of establishment –
Professional fees in relation to
charity registration, website
hosting fees and costs|4090|4090| |**Totalpayments**|**4090**|**4090**| |||| |**Net receipts(payments)**|**0**|**0**| |||| |**Cash at 31.12.2021**|**0**|**0**| ## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31 December 2021** |Assets||| |---|---|---| |||| ||Unrestricted funds (to nearest £)|Total funds (to nearest £)| |Cash funds|0|0| |Website|**1500**|**1500**| |**Total assets**|**1500**|**1500**| |||| |**Liabilities**||| |||| |Expenses due to trustees for
reimbursement of
establishment costs
(unsecured, interest-free)|1500|1500| |**Total liabilities**|**1500**|**1500**| |**Net assets(liabilities)**|**0**|**0**| ## **Signed by Vivienne A Cooling, a Trustee, on behalf of all the trustees on 1[st] November 2022** **……………………………….** > 1 The Charity has applied for grant funding and has been told that it will receive this but has not yet received it and as a result has not yet opened a bank account. A trustee, VA Cooling, paid the Charity’s website establishment costs on behalf of the Charity. They will seek reimbursement of these expenses from the charity when the grant funding is received, and a bank account opened.