## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 14/08/2022 **To** 13/08/2023 **Charity name:** National Estate Churches Network **Charity registration number:** 1192423 ## **Objectives and Activities** The purposes of the charity are the advancement of education through developing and promoting Christian faith communities for the purpose of shaping church policy and supporting community development, learning, social cohesion, sustainability and well-being in the social housing estates of England and Wales. The main activities of the charity in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts: - Monthly newsletter sent to front line workers supporting communities on social housing estates. - Regular social media posts to Facebook and Twitter promoting resources to support front line workers. - Facilitation of local groups of front-line workers. - Website highlighting resources for those in estates ministry to use and sharing positive stories of ministry to encourage others through written articles/video interviews and podcasts. - Conferences to support Christians who work/live in social housing estates. - One to one support via phone/e-mail contact to direct front line workers to relevant resources/specific sources of support. The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commissioner on public benefit. The charity does not make any grants The charity is grateful to the volunteer local hub leaders as well as to the trustees who lead the strategic direction of the organisation. ## **Achievements and Performance** 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: - Over 700 front line church leaders based on social housing estates receive the monthly newsletter providing resources and support for their work in the communities in which they serve. - Around 15 local groups are operating to provide a means for local leaders to support and learn from each other. New groups are being encouraged and new contacts made. NECN Trustees Annual Report 2023 1 - Website including ‘NECN directory’ to assist estate church leaders in finding resources for leadership training, supporting their communities through social action projects, specialist ministries etc. - Inspiring and encouraging church leaders on social housing estates by sharing other’s stories through website, videos and podcasts. - Undertaking research with practitioners about their calling to estates ministry, the joys and challenges, and barriers/reservations to starting out – ‘Living in Estate Ministry: Your Questions Explored’ – 60 Page book has been produced ready for distribution at autumn conferences in 2023. - Successful regional conference in February 2023 with over 80 attendees. 2 national conferences being planned for Sept/Oct with over 80 attendees booked in at this stage. - Over 120 people attended the ‘Not Forgotten:Finding the Treasure’ conference in June 2023 organised by the Church of England’s Estates Evangelism Task Group, Emmanuel Theological College and NECN. The charity benefited from the net financial proceeds of the event. - In February, the Executive Director and a trustee attended the launch at a fringe event of the Church of England’s General Synod of a report produced by Church Army reviewing the four pilot leadership formation pathways specifically aimed at people living in estates/economically marginalised contexts. ## **Financial Review** Financial position at the end of the period |Total receipts:|£60,478.36| |---|---| |Total expenditure:|£40,485.89| |Net income:|£19,992.47| Designated funds are as follows: - £600 Grant from Society of Retreat Conductors for retreat postponed in May 2020 due to Covid. Awaiting a suitable opportunity to undertake a retreat - £750 has been allocated as redundancy provision Unrestricted funds provide a cash-flow buffer and supports the general operations of the charity. The charity had reserves of £26,132.31 at the end of the financial year of which £1,350 were designated. ## **Additional information** The charity has received two grants during the year from the Church of England (£23k) and the United Reformed Church (£2k) national church bodies that will cover the cost of employment of the two part-time staff members for the 2023/24 financial year. Both grant funders have indicated that they will provide support in both 2024 and 2025, albeit the Church of England grant will be lower in 2024 (£20k) and 2025 (£17k). The trustees are aware of the need to identify additional sources of income to maintain and/or expand the paid staff team. NECN Trustees Annual Report 2023 2 ## **Structure, Governance and Management** The charity’s governing document is a foundation constitution. The charity is a CIO New trustees are elected to post by the charity’s existing trustees. ## **Additional information** The charity has informal partnership arrangements with over 40 para-church organisations that support front line work of churches in social housing estates. ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|National Estate Churches Network| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|NECN| |Registered charity number|1192423| |Charity’s principal address|c/o Barking Lodge
Verulam Avenue
Walthamstow
LONDON
E17 8ES| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---| |Eunice Attwood|||| |Patricia Brown||Elected 15/06/2023|| |David Champness|Treasurer||| |Lynne Cullens|Chair||| |Andrew Dorton|||| |Clare King|||| |Jonathan Macy|Vice Chair||| |Nigel Poole|||| |Dean Pusey||Elected 05/06/2023|| |John Rafferty|||| |Robb Sutherland||Resigned 16/02/2023|| |Andrew Turner|||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members** Sara Barron (Executive Director) NECN Trustees Annual Report 2023 3 ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signed** **on behalf of the**|**charity’s trustees**|| |---|---|---| |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (e.g. Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| ||Rt Rev Lynne Cullens|Mr David Champness| ||
Chair|Trustee and Treasurer| |||| |||| NECN Trustees Annual Report 2023 4 ||
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**National Estate Churches Network**|||||**1192423**||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**|Period end date||| ||||14/08/2022|||13/08/2023||| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||| |Grants|**54,448**||**-**||**-**|**54,448**||**26,634**| |Donations|**1,371**||**-**||**-**|**1,371**||**2,743**| |Tax refund forgift aided donations|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| |Conference|**4,160**||**-**||**-**|**4,160**||**357**| |Book Royalties|**500**||**-**||**-**|**500**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**60,478**||**-**||**-**|**60,478**||**29,733**| |||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**60,478**||**-**||**-**|**60,478**||**29,733**| |||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||| |Research|**9,500**||**-**||**-**|**9,500**||**4,500**| |Conference costs|**2,871**||**-**||**-**|**2,871**||**-**| |Salaries|**18,782**||**-**||**-**|**18,782**||**15,474**| |Other Employment costs|**5,235**||**-**||**-**|**5,235**||**4,280**| |Website and IT|**36**||**-**||**-**|**36**||**1,978**| |Insurance|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**190**| |Equipment|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**893**| |Staff Expenses|**3,477**||**-**||**-**|**3,477**||**2,748**| |Legal fees|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**1,440**| |Bank Charges|**398**||**-**||**-**|**398**||**266**| |Trustee Expenses|**188**||**-**||**-**|**188**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**40,486**||**-**||**-**|**40,486**||**31,769**| |||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_**|**40,486**||**-**||**-**|**40,486**||**31,769**| |||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**19,992**||**-**||**-**|**19,992**||**- 2,036**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||**-**|**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**6,140**||||**-**|**6,140**||**8,176**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**26,132**||**-**||**-**|**26,132**||**6,140**| NECN Trustees Annual Report 2023 5 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Metro Bank Account||||**26,132**||||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**26,132**||**-**||**-**| ||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||OK| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**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**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of
approval| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| NECN Trustees Annual Report 2023 6 I CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to Ihe trusteesl members of National Estate Churches Network On accounts for tho year ended 1310812023 Charity no lif any) 1192423 Sel out on pages 5-6 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {Ihe Trust-} for the year ended 1310812023. Responsibilities and As the charivs trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Chartties Act 2011 I'the ACV,). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts Ca￿led out under section 145 of the 2011 AGI and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{51(bl of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below ') which gives me cause lo believe that in, any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act- or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records", or the accounts did nol cofftply wilh the applicable requirements Con￿rning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) RegLslations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examinalion to which attention should be drawn in this report in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accour)ts to be reached. Signed: Date: Name: Ole Black Relevant professional qualification{s) or body {If any): MA. MSC. Retired senior government economic statistician Addross: 12 The Hawlhorns. Caerleon Newport NP18 1LX NECN TrusteesAnnual Report 2022 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examinei needs to highlighl material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination ol charity accounts= directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. NECN Trustees Annuèl Report 2022 **Charity Name No (if any) National Estate Churches Network 1192423** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** Period start date Period end date 8/13/2023 **For the period from** **To** 8/14/2022 ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds** **Total funds Last year** |**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Grants
**54,448**
Donations
**1,371**
Tax refund forgift aided donations
**-**
Conference
**4,160**
Book Royalties
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**60,478**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 60,478**
**A3 Payments**
Research
**9,500**
Conference costs
**2,871**
Salaries
**18,782**
Other Employment costs
**5,235**
Website and IT
**36**
Insurance
**-**
Equipment
**-**
Staff Expenses
**3,477**
Legal fees
**-**
Bank Charges
**398**
Trustee Expenses
**188**
**_Sub total_ 40,486**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 40,486**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 19,992**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**6,140**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 26,132**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**
**54,448**
**1,371**
**-**
**4,160**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**60,478**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**60,478**
**9,500**
**2,871**
**18,782**
**5,235**
**36**
**-**
**-**
**3,477**
**-**
**398**
**188**
**40,486**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**40,486**
**19,992**
**-**
**6,140**
**26,132**|**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**54,448**|**26,634**| ||||**1,371**|**2,743**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**4,160**|**357**| ||||**500**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**60,478**|**29,733**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**60,478**|**29,733**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**9,500**|**4,500**| ||||**2,871**|**-**| ||||**18,782**|**15,474**| ||||**5,235**|**4,280**| ||||**36**|**1,978**| ||||**-**|**190**| ||||**-**|**893**| ||||**3,477**|**2,748**| ||||**-**|**1,440**| ||||**398**|**266**| ||||**188**|**-**| ||||**40,486**|**31,769**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**40,486**|**31,769**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**19,992**|**- 2,036**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**6,140**|**8,176**| ||**-**||**26,132**|**6,140**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Metro Bank Account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**26,132**
**-**
**-**
**26,132**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| > Signed by one or two trustees on Date of behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval I CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to Ihe trusteesl members of National Estate Churches Network On accounts for tho year ended 1310812023 Charity no lif any) 1192423 Sel out on pages 5-6 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {Ihe Trust-} for the year ended 1310812023. Responsibilities and As the charivs trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Chartties Act 2011 I'the ACV,). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts Ca￿led out under section 145 of the 2011 AGI and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{51(bl of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below ') which gives me cause lo believe that in, any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act- or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records", or the accounts did nol cofftply wilh the applicable requirements Con￿rning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) RegLslations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examinalion to which attention should be drawn in this report in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accour)ts to be reached. Signed: Date: Name: Ole Black Relevant professional qualification{s) or body {If any): MA. MSC. Retired senior government economic statistician Addross: 12 The Hawlhorns. Caerleon Newport NP18 1LX NECN TrusteesAnnual Report 2022 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examinei needs to highlighl material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination ol charity accounts= directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. NECN Trustees Annuèl Report 2022