## **Connect Southwater Community Church Trustees’ Annual Report:**
## **For the period:**
**From** 1[st] January 2022 **Period start date To** 31[st] December 2022 **Period end date**
**Charity name:** Connect Southwater Community Church
**Charity registration number:** 1193477
## **Objectives and Activities:**
**Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document:** SORP Para 1.17
To advance the Christian faith in Southwater and the surrounding area in such ways as the trustees shall think fit including connecting people to others and to God, celebrating life, loving, serving, and creating community.
## **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:** SORP Para 1.17 & 1.19
- Generally advancing the Christian religion
- Educating people about the Christian faith
- Pastoral care, conducting religious ceremonies such as marriages or funerals
- Missional, evangelical, outreach activities and events
- Raising awareness of Christian religious beliefs and practices
- Promoting Christian ethical standards of conduct
- Promoting moral welfare/mental or moral improvement
- General charitable purposes
- Education/ Training/ Research
- Supporting an educational establishment or students
- Relief of those in need (age, disability, ill-health, financial or other disadvantage)
- The prevention or relief of poverty
The key public benefits offered by Connect:
**1.** The provision of time, space, events and activities through which people benefit by connecting with others and building up community.
**2.** The provision of social welfare support to help alleviate local and global need, giving financial, material, physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental support.
**3.** The provision of Christian worship, education and learning opportunities to enable people to benefit from faith in Christ.
Our main activities and achievements in 2022 in relation to these purposes and the three areas of public benefit listed are as follows:
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**1.** Connecting with others and building up community: in this the second year of our existence as a charity we continue to impact and transform people and our community through various local service initiatives and local partnerships, by offering care, community resources, support and activities, and growing relationships of trust and respect.
We aim to continue to enable and equip members of Connect to be committed Christian disciples engaged in God's kingdom values of joy, justice, righteousness, peace, healing and hope, and thereby helping bring life in its fullness to the community. This intentional kingdom emphasis reflects one of the four core values of the UK Pioneer Network which we joined in March 2022.
Community links continue to grow and we offer pastoral support, care and prayer to members of the community as well as to our own members. A short lived Connect initiative early in the year, Walk & Talk, had some initial support and has since been taken over by a group of local community members – clearly a good idea, now with a life of its own, it continues to attract people for gentle exercise and companionship. Our own Café Connect, held at a local café, continues, indoors now as well as outside, and provides a great space for fellowship and support. It also helps church members grow relationships with other members and friends, as well as other café customers and passers-by. Our geographical and pastoral network of Connect members is headed up by a small pastoral team – we noticed that connecting in-person was slower to re-establish than we had anticipated when coming out of lockdown, but by the year end there were clear signs that people were growing in confidence and open to more regular social engagement. Growing through relationships matters to us, and reflects our commitment to being a relational church, another of Pioneer’s core values.
**2.** The provision of social welfare support to help alleviate local and global need, giving financial, material, physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental support continues to be a significant part of our mission. There is often a link between groups/activities listed here and the previous public benefit of creating community.
In order to support those in need and promote healthy community both locally and globally key priorities for us as a community church are the provision of human resources through volunteers, and the provision of financial resources (raised from internal voluntary contributions and fundraising), and underpinning all our mission activities through prayer. Social welfare activities include:
- Ongoing funding and volunteer support for Southwater Youth Project (SYP). This helps in our aim to contribute to the spiritual, moral and emotional education and welfare of children and young people in our community and the wider Horsham district.
- Specifically Christian content and ethical/moral Christian perspectives are offered e.g. in occasional RE lessons and assemblies, and we provide specifically Christian well-being and spiritual support for young people along with prayer when required &/or appropriate.
- Young @ Heart, our over 50’s group, continues to help ease social isolation and loneliness in older members of the community.
- Connect, Craft & Chatter – a new group this year, offering friendship and creative activities for all
- Connect & Play, a babies, parents and carers group, was launched in April 2022. This is run entirely by Connect volunteers with hall hire costs covered by Connect. This group and its activities breaks though social isolation experienced by young mums and carers, and also gives us a space to make new connections and to teach and speak of faith, with the aim of building bridges to church.
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In seeking to prevent and help relieve poverty, as reported last year, in December 2021 we had offered to help start up a local Community Fridge in conjunction with Horsham Community Fridge and Horsham Churches Together. Beginning in January 2022 this successful monthly initiative is hosted free of charge in a local church hall, and brings local and global benefits for ecological and economic reasons - less waste goes to landfill, free food is given without question, and volunteers from both Connect and the community work together for a shared cause. We also continued to collect goods for the local Food Bank, offering targeted local support where needed. We continued to raise funds for global Christian social welfare and aid agencies Tearfund and Compassion, though in terms of the latter once the current church sponsored children reach the age of majority specific support will be given by individual members rather than the church as a whole.
**3.** The advancement of the Christian faith and the provision of Christian worship, education, and learning opportunities in order that people might benefit from faith in Christ is central to our purposes. We continue to meet for worship in the local junior school, continuing to offer live zoom participation for what is now a small minority of members – however this enables us to continue to record services for wider publication on FB/YouTube. We have had new people join us who are attracted by our vision and mission, and who are seeking to grow in faith and fellowship. We support people’s faith through the work of our pastors, LT, pastoral team and prayer team, as well as through our teaching and worship, and in informal gatherings where mutual support and encouragement are offered. Our hope is to introduce small discipleship groups next year, when we anticipate that people will have become more comfortable with social gatherings in smaller spaces.
Spiritual leadership and oversight is given by the lead pastor (p/t) who oversees the church’s vision and mission, working alongside an assistant pastor (p/t), and the Leadership Team. The Trustees work with the leadership to provide financial, legal, HR, and policy governance. Two new Trustees were appointed in October 2022. All those engaged in educational, children & youth work, pastoral care, and leadership including Trustees, are subject to due DBS processes, and trained in safeguarding to the appropriate level.
We began to explore more deeply what it means to have a vision of “Heaven touching earth”, and a mission to help “connect people to the love of God in Jesus”. We reflected on the core values and ethos of the UK Pioneer Network in our worship services from September 2021, and concluded this process in August 2022. These values, being a relational - kingdom oriented - missional – and charismatic church, will be helpful in the formation of healthy disciples and a strong church community. Following several meetings between Connect’s LT and Pioneer, and with the full support of the church members and Trustees, we had joined the UK Pioneer Network in March 2022. Pioneer continues to enable Trustees, staff and volunteers from Connect to join various national and regional training events and conferences, online and in person, including Pioneer Core Aims teaching, the Pioneer Pathway leadership course, and Safeguarding for Trustees. We also value the support of a local Pioneer Hub and the wider southern regional group. In November 2022, following a Leadership Team Away Day, the LT and Trustees amended our Vision and Mission Statement to include the Pioneer core values and also to give more detail to how we understand vision and engage in mission.
In reaching out to others, raising awareness of and advancing the Christian faith we utilized a range of local spaces and community buildings to provide time and space for people to connect with others and with God whether through Christian worship or through spiritual, creative, artistic and community activities, where
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possible in partnership with other local churches, charities, community groups and statutory or voluntary bodies. Our Soul Space tent aims to be a gentle and creative way to do Christian outreach and provides an interactive and reflective space for spiritual engagement at local events and festivals - we were pleased to be able to bring our tent to the Village Platinum Jubilee Jamboree in June, organised by the village Community Partnership. We were able to give out over 120 copies of the book “Our Faithful Queen” and we had some amazing encounters and conversations. As usual we were able to offer Soul Space as part of the Village Christmas Festival at the end of November 2022, where we were also asked to lead the carol singing. We hope to expand this Soul Space ministry next year, perhaps with “pop ups” in varying locations. Our weekly Café Connect at a local café remains well supported and enables meaningful spiritual and prayerful connection. We offer people the opportunity to chat about life, and faith, and to be ministered to in prayer, at the café and through other creative, prophetic activities. These include various Christmas initiatives such as a Host of (knitted!) Angels, and a pebble painting group called Southwater Rocks, the latter two activities still have their own Facebook page. We engage in prayer walking and community prayer initiatives – for example between Ascension Day and Pentecost we held a Ten Minute daily prayer slot at 10am in ten different village locations. Our church Mailchimp system, FB page, website, and YouTube channel enable talks and other resources and events to be shared, and faith conversations happen on our various WhatsApp groups.
Working with other churches where possible is important to us and we were pleased to be accepted as a member church of Horsham Churches Together in July 2022. We continue to work with the 3 local village churches in delivering the annual Village Remembrance service in 2022, and occasionally worshipping together. We were pleased to have the support of the local Anglican Church who provide space free of charge for us and other community volunteers to run the monthly Community Fridge.
## **Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit** SORP Para 1.18
Connect Trustees confirm that we have not set up the CIO in order to benefit ourselves, either personally and/or corporately, and we have had due regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit wherever relevant.
## **Additional information:**
## **Policy on grant making** SORP Para 1.38
In our first Trustee meeting we approved a policy to ring fence 10% of our income from general congregational giving as a mission fund. We also approved a policy to ring fence any fundraising for our annual core costs grant to Southwater Youth Project. Moving forward, next year we aim to produce Terms of Reference for the church mission fund.
## **Contribution made by volunteers** SORP Para 1.38
We estimate an 80% input of time and energy from volunteers towards our aims and objectives, whether through specific or ongoing logistical support, admin, worship and music leading plus related techno, or through leading worship/activities/events, helping with our various activities, and praying. Connect’s mission is entirely funded by our worshipping members.
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## **Achievements and Performance**
## **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.** SORP Para 1.20
Continuing to offer worship and advance the Christian faith to enable people to benefit from faith in Christ by increasing our face to face meetings and transitioning from zoom has enabled people to feel increasingly less isolated, supported their faith, and helped re-establish vital social and in person support. Worshipping in person helped attract others to our mission. Outreach and activities moved from being solely online to being back in-person and this has helped create and deepen our community connections.
Gaining new members during the year whose range of church experiences, encouraging presence, financial support, prayers, gifts and talents enrich what Connect offers to each other and to our local community.
Supporting Southwater Youth Project with securing core costs funding and new volunteers in its significant work with local children and young people through what continued to be an unexpectedly difficult time post lockdown. In particular, re-establishing a meaningful ongoing relationship with a core funder, the local parish council, has been essential in being able to move SYP back into the youth centre, a process which we hope will be complete in early 2023. Liaising with other community groups is helped by our involvement and support of SYP and enables the public to experience receiving social benefit from a Christian group with no strings attached. It has also enabled Connect to be up front about who we are and why we do what we do. Our various contributions to the local community within and alongside other community and public service organisations is welcomed and understood.
Appointing two new Trustees to help existing Trustees and church leadership oversee our governance, policies, and finance, and ensure charity commission compliance has enabled beneficiaries, members and contacts to continue to feel confident in our processes and procedures and has shared the load across more people.
Exploring becoming a member church of the UK Pioneer Network and also a member of Horsham Churches Together (HCT) gave members the opportunity to reflect together more deeply on our shared mission and faith, and to feel confident in the Christian basis of our activities, our core values, vision and mission, and our ecumenical/ partnership intentions. Activities/training opportunities offered by Pioneer and through HCT also continue to help members of Connect to grow in their faith and gifts, and connect them to other Christians.
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
## **Achievements against objectives set** SORP Para 1.41
## **Primary objectives**
To continue to own and embed our vision, and build a secure basis for our leadership and mission activities, by exploring our mission and values through our worship, teaching, community activities and fellowship groups, and by maintaining ongoing connection with one another: ongoing
- Online connections and resources established and strengthened in lockdown and in 2022 these have continued wherever we see clear missional and relational benefit.
- Worship, prayer and faith resources shared via Mailchimp
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- Teaching content has been weighted intentionally towards topics/bible content relevant to cultivating vision, enabling a wider congregational reflection on our mission, and encouraging connection, commitment and participation
- We continue to establish a solid and committed, generous income base – this enables the continuing employment of a pastor and assistant pastor, as well as providing leadership training for the assistant pastor
- LT/Trustees continue to meet to discern future ministry needs and succession in line with our vision, mission and resources.
## **Other objectives**
To explore closer connection with the Pioneer Network: completed
To encourage meeting together in homes, and as groups in shared spaces: ongoing
- Café Connexion transitioned from online to in person and is a growing prayerful support and
- witness to God’s love in community.
- Area pastoral Connect groups and leaders continue to be encouraged to find ways to connect in these groups, with the hope that this will help grow regular small group meetings.
To create intentional, specific engagement with community: ongoing
- Soul Space outreach at Jubilee Jamboree and Christmas event.
- Southwater Rocks/A Host of Angels – creative community outreach, impactive and involving of wider community contacts.
- Conversational/participatory worship to encourage connection and confidence.
- Engagement with Community Fridge initiative
- Connect & Play mums, carers, babies & toddlers group began in April 2022, an intentionally Christian ethos provision for that specific cohort
To apply for membership to Horsham Churches Together: completed, with ongoing engagement To help set up a Community Fridge: completed, ongoing.
## **Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set** SORP Para 1.41
No fundraising activity occurred during the financial year.
## **Investment performance against objectives** SORP Para 1.41
None of the charity’s financial assets were invested during the financial year.
## **Financial Review**
## **Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period** SORP Para 1.21
For the General Fund (unrestricted), expenditure exceeded income by £1,343 which combined with an internal transfer of £3,000 to the Youthworker Fundraising Fund produced an overall deficit of £3,343. This resulted in a reduction in the accumulated balance from £19,012 at the previous year end (2021) to £14,669 as at 31[st] December 2022. The main restricted fund, the Youthworker Fundraising Fund, had net receipts of -£1,794 and a year end balance of £10,305 (£12,098 at 31.12.21), representing 1.5 years’ planned expenditure. The income to the Staffing Fund (restricted) is intended to be fully expended each year, and therefore had nil net receipts and a zero balance at the year end as planned. The other restricted funds, Soul Space and Open the Book had no income or financial outlays during the year so the year end balances remained at £1,923 and £321 respectively.
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**Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held** SORP Para 1.22
The church’s policy for holding reserves is that an amount equating to 3 months’ budgeted expenditure should be held. This is intended to ensure that in the event of either unforeseen operational costs, or a significant reduction in income or the charity being wound up, there are sufficient funds available to meet the church’s financial commitments, particularly regarding payments that would be due to employees in those circumstances. Reserves are freely available to be spent for any purpose consistent with the church’s charitable purposes, and at any time. The policy is reviewed annually.
**Amount of reserves held** SORP Para 1.22
£11,060
**Reasons for holding zero reserves** SORP Para 1.22
Not applicable
**Details of fund materially in deficit** SORP Para 1.24
No fund was materially in deficit at the year-end.
**Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern** SORP Para 1.23 There are no uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
## **Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)** SORP Para 1.25
CIO Foundation Constitution
## **How is the charity constituted?** SORP 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** SORP Para 1.25
In discussion with the Charity Commission we included clauses in our constitution Section 6: “Benefits and payments to charity trustees and connected persons”, sub clause (2) Scope and powers permitting trustees’ or connected persons’ benefits, in order to enable a charity trustee or connected person to receive payment for serving as a Pastor of the CIO, provided that this does not lead to a majority of charity trustees being remunerated and provided that the following sub-clauses (i) to (v) are satisfied.
The Trustees took the decision to approve this paid role and structure it into 2 p/t posts. We can affirm that the other charity trustees are satisfied i) that it is in the best interests of the CIO to pay a Pastor rather than requiring the Pastor to be self-supporting financially having considered the advantages of disadvantages of each approach; ii) that the details of the payment are set out in an agreement between the CIO and the Pastor; iii) the remuneration package does not exceed what is reasonable in the circumstances taking into account regional variations; (iv) that the reasons for the decision of the charity trustees is recorded in their minute book; and (v) that the trustees concerned must be absent from the part of any meeting at which the level of payment is being discussed or determined and must not vote on any such matter or be counted in the quorum for the part of the meeting during which such matters are discussed. However in relation to discussions concerning the performance of duties of his or her office, the trustee in question shall have the opportunity to address the meeting and respond to any points of concern that are raised. The Trustees can affirm that these sub clauses have been adhered to.
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In appointing new Trustees, Section 10 “Appointment of charity trustees” and sub clauses (1) and (2) have been followed in the appointment of new trustees in addition to the first charity trustees. Before being appointed at a duly constituted Trustee meeting, new Trustees are invited to submit a brief personal statement outlining any relevant experience and interests that they bring to their role.
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
**Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees** SORP Para 1.51 In accordance with the constitution Section 11 “Information for new charity trustees” a copy of the current version of the constitution; and the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of accounts are made available to all new Trustees. Additionally all Trustees are required to have a DBS, avail themselves of training in Safeguarding for Trustees, and are given a copy of the current Safeguarding policy.
**The charity’s organisational structure & wider network with which the charity works** SORP Para 1.51 Governance, HR, and safeguarding, and the oversight of our aims, object, purposes and finances, is undertaken by our Trustees in line with our constitution and Charity law requirements. Membership of the CIO is as detailed in Section 16, and consists of Trustees only for the time being. Trustee responsibilities, decisions, delegated powers, meeting requirements, procedures and record keeping are as detailed in the constitution Sections 4 – 7; 9 - 15, 17, 20 - 28. In relations to Sections 26 – 28 there have been no new rules or byelaws created, no disputes, and there have been no amendments to the constitution.
The LT work with the Pastor and Assistant Pastor in the oversight of our missional activities, ensuring these are in line with our vision and values, and directed at those whom we consider to be beneficiaries. In terms of wider networks we are now a member church of the UK Pioneer Network, itself a member of Churches Together in England, and we are also a member church of Horsham Churches Together. The Statement of Faith and Mission as submitted to the Charity Commission has been slightly amended to take account of our being accepted into membership of the Pioneer Network.
## **Relationship with any related parties** SORP Para 1.51
Following a highly relational process involving conversations and prayer, our governance processes and statement of faith were submitted to the Pioneer Network leadership as part of our application to join the Network. After an in depth congregational study and reflection on Pioneer’s Core Values, Connect became part of the UK Pioneer Network of churches at the Pioneer Annual Conference held in March 2022, following unanimous votes at the Leadership Team and Trustees meetings, a decision which was also agreed unanimously by worshipping members.
We were also accepted as a member church of Horsham Churches Together in June 2022.
## **Reference and Administrative details**
Charity name: Connect: Southwater Community Church Registered charity number: 1193477 Charity’s principal address: c/o 32 Sloughbrook Close, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 5JD
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Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity:
**Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted Body entitled to appoint trustee** Rev Kathryn Jones Chair 10.2.2021 ongoing to Feb 2025 CSCC Trustee Board Mrs Tina Andrews 10.2.2021 ongoing to Feb 2024 CSCC Trustee Board Mrs Juliet Fuller 10.2.2021 ongoing to Feb 2023 CSCC Trustee Board Mr Iain Jones 10.2.2021 ongoing to Feb 2023 CSCC Trustee Board Mrs Fiona Lowther 10.2.2021 ongoing to Feb 2023 CSCC Trustee Board Mr Ian Johnston 18.10.2022 ongoing to Oct 2025 CSCC Trustee Board Mrs Rosemary Johnston 18.10.2022 ongoing to Oct 2025 CSCC Trustee Board
**Corporate trustees: names of the directors at the date the report was approved:** None/not applicable **Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity:** None/not applicable **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others:** None/not applicable
## **Additional information (optional):**
**Name of Pastor and Assistant Pastor:** Kath Jones/Juliet Fuller **Exemptions from disclosure:** None/not applicable
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees’ Annual Report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s):**
**Full name(s): Kathryn Jones Tina Anne Andrews**
**Position: Chair/Lead Pastor Trustee and Leadership Team Member**
**Date: 27[th] October 2023**
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## **Connect Southwater Community Church**
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
31 December 2022
## **Registered Charity - Registration number 1193477**
## Minister and Chair of Trustees
|Minister and Chair of Trustees|Minister and Chair of Trustees|
|---|---|
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|Rev Kath Jones||
|Trustees||
|Tina Andrews|Rosemary Johnston|
|Fiona Lowther||
|Iain Jones||
|Ian Johnston||
Approved by the Trustees on 27 February 2023
Chair:
Trustee:
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## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 December 2022**
||**SECTION A**|||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Totals this**
**year**|**Totals this**
**year**|**Totals last**
**year**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**||
|a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|||||||
|a2|Offerings andTax recovered|||28,916||**28,916**||26,041||
|a3|Bank interest|||||||||
|a4|Start-uploans|||||||||
|a5|Transfer fromSCMC|||||||14,398||
|a6|Other receipts|||615|4,897|**5,512**||17,441||
|a7|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|||**29,531**|**4,897**|**34,428 **|**(a7)**|**57,880**||
|||||||||||
||**SECTION B**|||||||||
|b1|**PAYMENTS**|||||||||
|b2|Salaries and benefits|||25,587|3,600|**29,187**||24,247||
|b3|Donations|||250||**250**||800||
|b4|Rent|||1,537||**1,537**||1,058||
|b5|Insurance|||206||**206**||224||
|b6|Loan repayments|||||||9,940||
|b7|Otherpayments|||3,017|6,368|**9,385**||3,333||
|b8|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**|||**30,597**|**9,968**|**40,565 **|**(b9)**|39,602||
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||**SECTION C**|||||||||
|c1|**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR**
**(a6-b8)**|||(1,066)|(5,071)|**(6,137)**||18,278||
|||||||||||
|c2|Total funds brought forward from
last year|||19,012|14,343|**33,355 **|**(c6)**|15,077||
|||||||||||
|c3|**(c1+c2)**
**Sub total**|||17,946|9,272|**27,218**||33,355||
|||||||||||
|c4|Transfers and adjustments|||(3,277)|3,277||**(c7)**|||
|||||||||||
|c5|**TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR**
**(c3+c4)**|||**14,669**|**12,549**|**27,218 **|**(c8)**|33,355|**(c6)**|
||**SECTION D**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|d|**£**
**£**
**(these amounts are not to be included intotal receipts/payments figures**
**FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS**|||||
|d1|Balance broughtforwardfrom last year||185||141|
|d2|Offerings/Gifts- receivedforexternalorganisations||||1,551|
|d3|Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations||185||1,507|
|d4|**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID** (d1+d2-d3)||||**185**|
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||**SECTION E**
**SUMMARY OF CHURCH ACC**|**SECTION E**
**SUMMARY OF CHURCH ACC**|**OUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS**|**OUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS**|**OUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS**|**OUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS**|||||||Closing balances
220
uld normally be|Closing balances
220
uld normally be||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**SECTION E**|||||||||||||||
||Summary of the Church accoun
Restricted funds unless it could||ts for the period ended 31 December 2022 an
be clearly shown that they could be used for a||||d Internal Organisations. Note that the funds of
ny purpose.||||an Internal Organisation wo||uld normally be|||
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||**INTERNAL**
**ORGANISATIONS**||Receipts||Payments||Net Receipts/
Payments||Adjustments||Opening balances||Closing balances|||
|e1|Connect and Play (was
Little Stars)||349||636||(287)||||507||220|||
|e2||||||||||||||||
|e3||||||||||||||||
|e4||||||||||||||||
|e5||||||||||||||||
|e6||||||||||||||||
|e7||||||||||||||||
|e8|Sub total of Internal
Organisations funds||349||636||(287)
**(6,137)**
**(6,424)**||||507|**(e11)**|220|**(e12)**||
|e9|**Church accounts (totals**
**brought forward from page**
**2 - totals column)**||**34,428**|**(a7)**|**40,565 **||**(6,137)**|||**(c7)**|**33,355 **|**(c6)**|**27,218**|**(c8)**||
|e10|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD**
**BY CHURCH**||**34,777**||**41,201**||**(6,424)**||||**33,862 **|**(x)**|**27,438**|**(y)**||
||||**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||**TOTAL**
**PAYMENTS**|||||||||||
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||**SECTION F**||**LIABILITIES**
**Dat 31 December 20**||**22**
||||**OPENING**
**BALANCES**||||**CLOSING**
**BALANCES**
27,218|||
||**CHURCH -CASH FUNDS HEL**|||||||||||||||
|f1|Cash in hand|||||||||||||||
|f2|Bank Current Account||||||||33,355||||27,218|||
|f3|Bank Deposit Account|||||||||||||||
|f4||||||||||||||||
|f5||||||||||||||||
|f6|Other funds|||||||||||||||
|f7|**SUB TOTAL - Church account**||**s**||||||**33,355**|(c6)|||**27,218**|(c8)||
|f8|Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)||||||||**507**|(e11)|||**220**|(e12)||
|f9|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**||||||||**33,862**|(x)|||**27,438**|(y)||
|||||||||||||||||
||**SECTION G**
**OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES**||||||||At
31-Dec-21||||At
31-Dec-22|||
|g1|Investments (includeEndowments)|||||||||||||||
|g2|Land & Buildings (see notes re Insurance
value)|||||||||||||||
|g3|Loan(s)-showamount outstanding at yearend|||||||||||||||
|g4|Other Liabilities|||||||||||||||
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Connect Southwater Community Church
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
31 December 2022
Registered Charity - Registration number 1193477
Minister and Chaif of Trustees
Rev Kath Jones
Trustees
Tina Andrews
Rosemary Johns*on
Fiona Lowther
lain Jones
lan Johnston
Approved by the Trustees on 27 February 2023
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Totals lasl
year
ISECTION A
afj IRECEIPTS
Note
a2 Iofferin
s and Tax recovered
28,916
28.9161
26,041
a3
Bank interest
a4
la5
Start-up loans
Transfer from SCMC
14.398
Other receipts
la7 ITOTAL RECEIPTS
6151
29,5311
4,8971 I
4,897
34,4281 la71
57,880
ISECTION 8
PAYMENTS
b1
b21 Salaries and benefits
25,5871
250
3,600
29.1871
250
24.2471
8001
Ib31 Donations
b4 IRenl
b5 Insumnce
1,537
206
1,537
206
1,058
224
b6 ILoan re
Other payments
b8 ITOTAL PAYMENTS
9,940
3.333
39.602
6,3681 i
9,968
9,3851
40,5651 {b9)
30,597
SECTION C
NET RECÈIPTSIPAYMENTS
c1 IFOR THE YEAR
TITolal funds brought forward from
last year
{a6-b81
1,066
(5,0711
(6,137)
18,278
19,012
14.343
- L 33,3551
c6}
15,077
c3 Isub total
{c1+c21
17.946
9,272
33,355
c4 ITransfers and ad'uslmenls
3.277)
3.277
c7
Ic5 ITOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR
Ic3+c41
14,669
12,549
27,218
{c8)
33,355
Ic61
|sECTION D
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED ANO PASSEO ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS
these amounts are not to be included in total recei
ments fi
ures
d1
Balance brou
hl forward from last
ear
185
141
d2
Offerings]Gifts- received for external o
anisations
1,551
d3
OfferingslGifts passed to external organisations
1,507
d4
BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID
Id1 +d2431
185
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SUMMARY OF CHURCH ACCOUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISAllONS
SECTION E
Summary ol the C[ch arAx>unLsfDr eno80 31 Deceinber2022 and IntEmal 00n1$#t8 Nots that the hJnd$of¥ Int#nal Organion wwld rllY
Re$tn¢led funds unless Il couknl be deady shcvm th* tr$Y¢W]d bè forany pUfjXe
Ir4TERNAL
IoRGAN15ATIONS
Nei R1p I I
usmients
Own
balaneesl
I Ckn51
balar1 I
3491
6365
287
507
2201
ni*na
Organisaiion5
3491
636
1287} 1
507
811
ICh*rch •ccou*ts Itots
Ibrouyhtf(Yw8ry1 from pjg
1071
40.565
16.13711
Icy)
33.355
liivIBY CHURCH
CDpbDue on a separate sheet
If necESSary bnng the
toiais Trorwaro
41.201
33.8621 Ix
27A381
TOTAL RECEIPTS
TorAL
PAYMENTS i
SECTION F
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND U
OPENlflG
BALANCES
CLOSING
8ALANCES
¢HLIRGH- CASH FiJNDS HELO •t3t DAC8mr 2022
n i¢a¥h in hand
Ip IBank CurrenlAectyJnl
ID IB8rth O
33.355
27.2181
SUB TOTAL- Church *OUts
Total funds held by Inlernal Organisabtins (th&ckn$ing
1% balancelolal trom aVe1 le121
33.3551 ICSI
27,2181 Ic81
507
220 le121
IN ITOTAL CASH Fuf4DS HELD BY CHURCH
33.8621 Ixl
27.4381 lyl
.SECTION G
Al
At
OTHER ASSETS and LWBIUTIES
31.DeG-21
31-C*¢-22
InvÉsiwL8
ind* Enttthvmerlts
Lano & 8udOI
-LSe0 notesT¥ Insuran waluJe_
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arend
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DECLARATIONS
Accountant
I coTrfirni that I have prepared the accounts from the records of the Church and that they include al.,
fLsnds under the conlrol of the Trustees
Signatvre of Accountant
Name
[Nc5
Address
¥112 SJ,)
Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of
Connect Southwater Community Church
This RerKgrt is on the Church Accounts fof the pèriod enijed 31 lknember 2022
Respective re5ponsibillties of Trustees and Examiner
The charity's tntstees are responsible for the preparatr.on of the accounts. The charrt5ls trustees consider that an
audrt is not lequired for this year under sectrt 144 of the Charities Act 2011 {the Charities Act) and that an
independent examination Is needed.
It is my reswnsibility lo".
Examine the accounts under Section 145 of the charib.es Act
to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity
Commission (under Section 14515llbl of the Chanties Act), and
lo state whether particular mattefs have come to my attention.
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Basis ol Indepgndgnt Exarniner's Report
y examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission An
examination Includes a review of the aonng records kept by the charity and a comparison o* the accounis
PTesented wth those records. It also includes considerabon of any unusual Ttems or di5d05ures In the accounts.
and seeking explanations from the tnjstees conceming any such matters. The procedures undertaken do nol
provide all Ihe evidence that would be required In an audiL and consequèntly no opinion Is given as lo whether
the accounts present a'true and fairf view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement
below.
Independent Examinerfs Statemerrt
In connects.on with my examinatson, no matter has come to my attentson {other than that disclosed below'l".
whth gives me reasonable cause to believe Ihal In any mater1 iespect the reauirements.
. lo keep accoLtnting records in accordance Trmth section 130 of the charib.es Act
. to prepare accounts which accord with the accountsng records and cnmpty vthh the aecounts.ng
requirements of the cttarrt Act have not been mel.. or
121
to which. in my opinion. attenkn.on shoukl be drawn in order to enable a proper understsnding of the
accounts lo be reached
- Please delete the wortls in the brackets rfthey do not apply appropriate
. Please cirde as appffjpri8te
Name
Signature
Relevant Professional qualifjcation or boty
Address
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Connect Southwater Community Church
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
31 December 2022
Registered Charity - Registration number 1193477
Minister and Chaif of Trustees
Rev Kath Jones
Trustees
Tina Andrews
Rosemary Johns*on
Fiona Lowther
lain Jones
lan Johnston
Approved by the Trustees on 27 February 2023
Chair..
Trustee..
1 01>
ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 December 2022
Unrestricted Restricted Totals this
Fund8
Funds
year
Totals lasl
year
ISECTION A
afj IRECEIPTS
Note
a2 Iofferin
s and Tax recovered
28,916
28.9161
26,041
a3
Bank interest
a4
la5
Start-up loans
Transfer from SCMC
14.398
Other receipts
la7 ITOTAL RECEIPTS
6151
29,5311
4,8971 I
4,897
34,4281 la71
57,880
ISECTION 8
PAYMENTS
b1
b21 Salaries and benefits
25,5871
250
3,600
29.1871
250
24.2471
8001
Ib31 Donations
b4 IRenl
b5 Insumnce
1,537
206
1,537
206
1,058
224
b6 ILoan re
Other payments
b8 ITOTAL PAYMENTS
9,940
3.333
39.602
6,3681 i
9,968
9,3851
40,5651 {b9)
30,597
SECTION C
NET RECÈIPTSIPAYMENTS
c1 IFOR THE YEAR
TITolal funds brought forward from
last year
{a6-b81
1,066
(5,0711
(6,137)
18,278
19,012
14.343
- L 33,3551
c6}
15,077
c3 Isub total
{c1+c21
17.946
9,272
33,355
c4 ITransfers and ad'uslmenls
3.277)
3.277
c7
Ic5 ITOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR
Ic3+c41
14,669
12,549
27,218
{c8)
33,355
Ic61
|sECTION D
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED ANO PASSEO ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS
these amounts are not to be included in total recei
ments fi
ures
d1
Balance brou
hl forward from last
ear
185
141
d2
Offerings]Gifts- received for external o
anisations
1,551
d3
OfferingslGifts passed to external organisations
1,507
d4
BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID
Id1 +d2431
185
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2of?
SUMMARY OF CHURCH ACCOUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISAllONS
SECTION E
Summary ol the C[ch arAx>unLsfDr eno80 31 Deceinber2022 and IntEmal 00n1$#t8 Nots that the hJnd$of¥ Int#nal Organion wwld rllY
Re$tn¢led funds unless Il couknl be deady shcvm th* tr$Y¢W]d bè forany pUfjXe
Ir4TERNAL
IoRGAN15ATIONS
Nei R1p I I
usmients
Own
balaneesl
I Ckn51
balar1 I
3491
6365
287
507
2201
ni*na
Organisaiion5
3491
636
1287} 1
507
811
ICh*rch •ccou*ts Itots
Ibrouyhtf(Yw8ry1 from pjg
1071
40.565
16.13711
Icy)
33.355
liivIBY CHURCH
CDpbDue on a separate sheet
If necESSary bnng the
toiais Trorwaro
41.201
33.8621 Ix
27A381
TOTAL RECEIPTS
TorAL
PAYMENTS i
SECTION F
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND U
OPENlflG
BALANCES
CLOSING
8ALANCES
¢HLIRGH- CASH FiJNDS HELO •t3t DAC8mr 2022
n i¢a¥h in hand
Ip IBank CurrenlAectyJnl
ID IB8rth O
33.355
27.2181
SUB TOTAL- Church *OUts
Total funds held by Inlernal Organisabtins (th&ckn$ing
1% balancelolal trom aVe1 le121
33.3551 ICSI
27,2181 Ic81
507
220 le121
IN ITOTAL CASH Fuf4DS HELD BY CHURCH
33.8621 Ixl
27.4381 lyl
.SECTION G
Al
At
OTHER ASSETS and LWBIUTIES
31.DeG-21
31-C*¢-22
InvÉsiwL8
ind* Enttthvmerlts
Lano & 8udOI
-LSe0 notesT¥ Insuran waluJe_
- show 8mourfouiStandiD
arend
3vt5
DECLARATIONS
Accountant
I coTrfirni that I have prepared the accounts from the records of the Church and that they include al.,
fLsnds under the conlrol of the Trustees
Signatvre of Accountant
Name
[Nc5
Address
¥112 SJ,)
Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of
Connect Southwater Community Church
This RerKgrt is on the Church Accounts fof the pèriod enijed 31 lknember 2022
Respective re5ponsibillties of Trustees and Examiner
The charity's tntstees are responsible for the preparatr.on of the accounts. The charrt5ls trustees consider that an
audrt is not lequired for this year under sectrt 144 of the Charities Act 2011 {the Charities Act) and that an
independent examination Is needed.
It is my reswnsibility lo".
Examine the accounts under Section 145 of the charib.es Act
to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity
Commission (under Section 14515llbl of the Chanties Act), and
lo state whether particular mattefs have come to my attention.
2015 church R and P.$
4of5
Basis ol Indepgndgnt Exarniner's Report
y examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission An
examination Includes a review of the aonng records kept by the charity and a comparison o* the accounis
PTesented wth those records. It also includes considerabon of any unusual Ttems or di5d05ures In the accounts.
and seeking explanations from the tnjstees conceming any such matters. The procedures undertaken do nol
provide all Ihe evidence that would be required In an audiL and consequèntly no opinion Is given as lo whether
the accounts present a'true and fairf view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement
below.
Independent Examinerfs Statemerrt
In connects.on with my examinatson, no matter has come to my attentson {other than that disclosed below'l".
whth gives me reasonable cause to believe Ihal In any mater1 iespect the reauirements.
. lo keep accoLtnting records in accordance Trmth section 130 of the charib.es Act
. to prepare accounts which accord with the accountsng records and cnmpty vthh the aecounts.ng
requirements of the cttarrt Act have not been mel.. or
121
to which. in my opinion. attenkn.on shoukl be drawn in order to enable a proper understsnding of the
accounts lo be reached
- Please delete the wortls in the brackets rfthey do not apply appropriate
. Please cirde as appffjpri8te
Name
Signature
Relevant Professional qualifjcation or boty
Address
53
il TÉ1tr*MP7J
J. I
Dale
a¥ (X7oB8L2Di3
201S thurth R artd P.xls
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