## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Period start date 01/01/23 To Period end date 31/12/23** ## **Charity name: Tawe Valley Church** ## **Charity registration number: 1192931** ## **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**
**faith in accordance with the Basis**
**of Faith primarily but not**
**exclusively within the Tawe**
**Valley and the surrounding**
**neighbourhood;**
•
**And such other charitable**
**purposes as shall, in the opinion**
**of the charity trustees, put into**
**practice the Christian faith in**
**accordance with the Basis of**
**Faith, including but not limited to:**
**the prevention and relief of need,**
**hardship and sickness; the**
**advancement of education; and**
**the provision of facilities in the**
**interests of social welfare for**
**recreation or other leisure time**
**occupation of individuals who**
**have need of such facilities by**
**reason of their youth, age**
**infirmity or disability, financial**
**hardship or social circumstances**
**with the object of improving their**
**conditions of life;**| |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|•
**Weekly public worship services**
**held at Mynyddbach Chapel**
**including a Sunday School for**
**children**
•
**Weekly prayer meetings currently**
**online, but also monthly at**
**Mercure hotel**
•
**Numerous Youtube videos**
**created and freely available to all**
•
**Ladies meetings, bible studies,**
**craft evenings, carol services and**
**house groups when Covid**
**restrictions allow**
•
**Financial and practical support**
**for Swansea Christian Bookshop**| |||•
**Financial support of missionary**
**work in India, Nepal, Germany**
**and Ukraine**
•
**Pastoral visiting and counselling**| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees confirm that they have**
**complied with the duty in the Charities**
**Act 2011 to have due regard to the**
**Charity Commission’s general guidance**
**on public benefit. The Church provides**
**public benefit principally in the**
**provision of a Place of Worship, worship**
**services, and in this pandemic year by**
**streaming these services on**
**the public platform of YouTube so that**
**the widest range of people possible**
**could benefit from**
**all that God says and all the help he**
**brings. The Church seeks to fulfil its**
**charitable objectives in the**
**advancement of Christianity and in**
**supporting those in need.**| ## **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 ## **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|**This is our fourth year as a newly**
**formed church with CIO status.**
**We continue to make good use of a**
**rented church building at the Calon Lan**
**centre (also known as Mynyddbach**
**Chapel), holding regular Sunday**
**morning services open to all and a**
**Sunday School and free refreshments**
**afterwards as well as a Christmas carol**
**service and a fund raising craft evening.**
**We have also rented a room at the**
**Mercure hotel for monthly prayer**
**meetings.**
**We have been able to continue to**
**employ a full time Pastor and are slowly**
**building our reserves to enable us to**
**acquire our own premises in the future.**
**We currently have 29 members and**
**average attendance at our Sunday**
**service is 30-35 people.**
**All our services are recorded and**
**streamed online to any that may want to**
**watch, and our Pastor also records and**
**produces regular series of short**
**Youtube videos, again freely available.**
**We have been able to provide financial**
**support to missionaries in India and**
**Ukraine as well as supporting the**
**Swansea Christian bookshop and Teach**
**Beyond, and send aid to those in need**
**of emergency assistance via the**
**Barnabus Fund and the Slavic Gospel**
**Assosiation**| ## **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|| |||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Income for 2023 was £59,073 and**
**expenditure £50,358 leaving a cash**
**balance of £40,334 with no fixed assets**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Our goal as a new church is to have our**
**own premises in the Tawe Valley near**
**our homes where we can best provide a**
**community service and we will steadily**
**build our resources until we are in a**
**position to do so whilst continuing the**
**work we have started.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£46,349**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit
Para 1.24
Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern
Para 1.23|Details of fund materially in
deficit
Para 1.24
Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern
Para 1.23|| |---|---|---| |**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|**Members regular contributions and gift**
**aid on them**| |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|**Church constitution and handbook**| |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|**Trustees are elected by the church**
**members**
**Nominees must be approved by a 75%**
**majority of the Church meeting. The**
**Managing Trustees have full and final**
**responsibility for the**
**general control and management of the**
**administration of the church.**| **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|Tawe Valley Church| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1192931| |Charity’s principal address|7 Ramsden Rd
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Stuart Dainty|Pastor|01/01/2021|Tawe ValleyChurch member| ||Peter Harris|Chairman|01/01/2021|“| ||Mark Cole|Secretary|01/01/2021|“| ||David Bamber|Treasurer|01/01/2021|“| ||Steve Prosser||01/01/2021|“| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Edward Aneurin Peter Harris|| ||

Chairman|| ||17-09-2024|| ||17-09-2024|| Tawe Valley Church Income and Expenditure Report Year ending 31 December 2023 |Income|£||£|| |---|---|---|---|---| |Offerings - bank||41997.8||| |Offerings - cash||||| |Offerings - special||7474.25||| |Bank interest||348.24||| |Gift Aid||8996.17||| |Other||257.2||| |Total income||||59073.66| |Expenditure||||| |Pastor||24112.4||| |Pension||1188.6||| |Pastor's expenses||766.27||| |Other preachers||710||| |Legal fees||0||| |Room hire||5890||| |Website/other IT||329.94||| |Insurance||404.12||| |Missions/missionary s||15882||| |Children's work||110.29||| |Outreach events||549.25||| |Other||415.9||| |Total expenditure||||50358.77| |Income less expenditure||||8714.89| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to tho trustees TA￿￿ VALLEY On accounts for the year ended 31 bEccMeE￿ 2023 Charity no (if any) Sot out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of Ihe accounts of Ihe above charity {Ihe Trusl'l for the year ended Responsibilities and basis of report As the charivs trustees. you a￿ responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5llb) of the Act. Independent ￿he charity's gross inccffle exceeded ￿50.000 and l am qualified to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualtfied member of linsert name of applicable listed bodyll. Delete I l rfnot applicable. I have completed rny examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention in connection wilh the examination (other than thal disclosed below ") which gNes me cause to believe that in, any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance wth section 130 of the Chartlies Acl., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting ￿Cords., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements conceming the fom and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter c£snsidered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examir)ation to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. . Please delete the words in the brackets rf they do not apply. Signed: Date". "7 2Lfr Name". PfvTRICIA A fvJ.XJE LA yTcf Relevant professional quallficatlon{$} or body IER Oct 2018 lif any): Address". AÉS, W&r2Nc￿ £¥￿IAhjSEA Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity ac￿unts. directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes lo disclose. IER Oct 2018