## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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|**From**|**02**|**10**|**2023**|**To**|**01**|**10**|**2024**|
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name CHRIST DIVINE GRACE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES**
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1194648**
**Charity's principal address**
FLAT 7 CLIFFORD LAWTON HOUSE 3 WHISTON ROAD HACKNEY E2 8BN **Postcode**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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14|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
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||CHRISTINE MENSAH SAFORO|Chairperson|||
||LORRETA JACKSON|Secretary|||
||DIANA ACHEAMPONG|Treasurer|||
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) -** N/A
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **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**|||
|Accountant|Edward Adu-Bonsu|Certified Accountants Ltd, 3 Woodman Parade, Woodman
Street, London E16 2LL|
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
N/A
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO – FOUNDATION (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected by the board of Trustees Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
N/A
- 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.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The Charitable objects of the charity are:
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF CHURCH PRAYER MEETINGS, CHRISTIAN LECTURES, PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS, PASTORAL CARE, PRODUCING AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE ON CHRISTIANITY TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
- (1) Weekly Sunday Worship Service (Online): 2pm - 4pm
- (2) Weekly Wednesday Prayer Meetings (Online): 3pm – 5pm
**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)**
- (3) Weekly Saturday Afternoon Prayer Meetings (Online): 12noon – 3pm.
- (4) Preaching of Christian Sermons on Social Media – Facebook and YouTube.
- (5) Preaching of Christian Sermons on Online Television – OMEGA Live TV.
- (6) Monthly Charitable Donations to Great Ormond Street Hospital.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
N/A
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity** Our main achievements during the period were as follows: **during the year (1) Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ** The charity continued to increase its efforts in spreading the Gospel by preaching the word of God on social media including Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp groups. **(2) Prayers** We offered prayers to members of the general public including those who were not members of the church.
## **Section E Financial review**
Any financial reserves realised from the charity’s operations shall be **Brief statement of the** used to augment the charity’s activities. **charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** N/A **in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)**
The charity’s principal source of funds consists of voluntary donations You **may choose** to include from the trustees and people who attend the charity’s activities. 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.
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## **Section F Other optional information**
N/A
## **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)** CHRISTINE MENSAH SAFORO **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** CHAIRPERSON **etc) Date** 30/07/2025
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||**CHRIST DIVINE GRACE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES**|**CHRIST DIVINE GRACE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES**|**CHRIST DIVINE GRACE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES**|Charity No
(if any)|
**1194648**|**CC17a**|
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||Annual accounts for the period||||||
||Period start date|**02/10/2023**|**To**|Period end date|**01/10/2024**||
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|**Section A**|**Statement**|**of financial activities**|||||
|**Recommended**
**categories by activity**
**Details of own**
**analysis**
Note
**Incoming resources (Note 3)**
**Incoming resources from**
**generated funds**
Voluntary income
S01
Activities for generating funds
S02
Investment income
S03
**Incoming resources from**
**charitable activities**
S04
**Other incoming resources**
S05
S06
**Resources expended (Notes 4-8)**
**Costs of Generating Funds**
Costs of generating voluntary income
S07
Fundraising trading costs
S08
Investment management costs
S09
**Charitable activities**
S10
**Governance costs**
S11
**Other resources expended**
S12
S13
S14
S15
S16
S17
S18
S19
S20
S21
**_Total funds carried forward_**
**Total funds brought forward**
**_Net movement in funds_**
**_Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before_**
**_transfers_**
Gains and losses on investment assets
Gains and losses on revaluation of fixed
assets for the charity’s own use
**Other recognised** **gains/(losses)**
**_Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before_**
**_other recognised gains/(losses)_**
**Gross transfers between funds**
**_Total resources expended_**
**_Total incoming resources_**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**income**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total this**
**year**
**Total last**
**year**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
F01
F02
F03
F04
F05|||||
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|||914|-|-|914|_2,620_|
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|||**914**|**-**|**-**|**914**|**_2,620_**|
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|||714|-|-|714|_1,775_|
|||200|-|-|200|_200_|
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|||**914**|**-**|**-**|**914**|**_2,150_**|
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|||575|-|-|575|_105_|
|||**575**|**-**|**-**|**575**|**_575_**|
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## **Section B Balance sheet**
|**Fixed assets**
**Tangible assets (Note**
**9)**
**Investments (Note**
**10)**
**_Total fixed assets_**
**Current assets**
**Stock and work in progress**
**ebto s**
**( ote**
**11)**
**(Short term) investments**
**Cash at bank and in hand**
**_Total current assets_**
**Creditors: amounts falling**
**due within one year**
**(Note 12)**
**_Net current assets/(liabilities)_**
**_Total assets less current_**
**_liabilities_**
**Creditors: amounts falling**
**due after one year**
**(Note 12)**
**Provisions for liabilities and**
**charges**
**_Net assets_**
**Funds of the Charity**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted income funds (Note**
**13)**
**Endowment funds(Note 13)**
**_Total funds_**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Note
B01
B02
B03
B04
B05
B06
B07
B08
B09
B10
B11
B12
B13
B14
B15
B16
B17
B18
B19
B20|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
F01|**Restricted**
**income**
**funds**
**£**
F02|**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**
F03|**Total this**
**year**
**Total last**
**year**
**£**
**£**
F04
F05|**Total this**
**year**
**Total last**
**year**
**£**
**£**
F04
F05|
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|||**575**|**-**|**-**|**575**|_575_|
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|||Signature||Date of
approval
Print Name|||
|||||**CHRISTINE MENSAH SAFORO**||**30/07/2025**|
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## **Section C Notes to the accounts**
## Note 1 **Basis of preparation**
## _**This section should be completed by all charities** ._
## **1.1 Basis of accounting**
These accounts have been prepared on the basis of historic cost (except that investments are shown at market value) in accordance with:
- Accounting and Reporting by Charities – Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP 2005);
• and with* Accounting Standards; or ü Financial Reporting Standards for Smaller Enterprises (FRSSE);
- and with the Charities Act.
## **1.2 Change in basis of accounting**
There has been no change to the accounting policies (valuation rules and methods of accounting) since last year.
## **1.3 Changes to previous accounts**
No changes have been made to accounts for previous years.
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## **Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
## **Note 2 Accounting policies**
_**This standard list of accounting policies has been applied by the charity except for those deleted. Where a different or additional policy has been adopted then this is detailed in the box below.**_
## **INCOMING RESOURCES**
|**Recognition of incoming**|These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:|
|---|---|
|**resources**|• the charity becomes entitled to the resources;|
||• the trustees are virtually certain they will receive the resources; and|
||• the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.|
|**Incoming resources with**|Where incoming resources have related expenditure (as with fundraising or contract income) the|
|**related expenditure**|incoming resources and related expenditure are reported gross in the SoFA.|
|**Grants and donations**|Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the charity has unconditional|
||entitlement to the resources.|
|**Tax reclaims on donations and**|Incoming resources from tax reclaims are included in the SoFA at the same time as the gift to|
|**gifts**|which they relate.|
|**Contractual income and**|This is only included in the SoFA once the related goods or services have been delivered.|
|**performance related grants**||
|**Gifts in kind**|Gifts in kind are accounted for at a reasonable estimate of their value to the charity or the amount
actually realised.|
||Gifts in kind for sale or distribution are included in the accounts as gifts only when sold or|
||distributed by the charity.|
||Gifts in kind for use by the charity are included in the SoFA as incoming resources when|
||receivable.|
|**Donated services and facilities**|These are only included in incoming resources (with an equivalent amount in resources expended)|
||where the benefit to the charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and material_._The value|
||placed on these resources is the estimated value to the charity of the service or facility received.|
|**Volunteer help**|The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the accounts but is described in the
trustees’ annual report.|
|**Investment income**|This is included in the accounts when receivable.|
|**Investment gains and losses**|This includes any gain or loss on the sale of investments and any gain or loss resulting from|
||revaluing investments to market value at the end of the year.|
|**EXPENDITURE AND LIABILITIES**||
|**Liability recognition**|Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the|
||charity to pay out resources.|
|**Governance costs**|Include costs of the preparation and examination of statutory accounts, the costs of trustee|
||meetings and cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters.|
|**Grants with performance**|Where the charity gives a grant with conditions for its payment being a specific level of service or|
|**conditions**|output to be provided, such grants are only recognised in the SoFA once the recipient of the grant|
||has provided the specified service or output.|
|**Grants payable without**|These are only recognised in the accounts when a commitment has been made and there are no|
|**performance conditions**|conditions to be met relating to the grant which remain in the control of the charity.|
|**Support Costs**|Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a|
||basis consistent with the use of resources, eg allocating property costs by floor areas, or per|
||capita, staff costs by the time spent and other costs by their usage.|
|**ASSETS**||
|**Tangible fixed assets for use**|These are capitalised if they can be used for more than one year, and cost at least £500. They|
|**by charity**|are valued at cost or a reasonable value on receipt.|
|**Investments**|Investments quoted on a recognised stock exchange are valued at market value at the year end.|
||Other investment assets are included at trustees' best estimate of market value.|
|**Stocks and work in progress**|These are valued at the lower of cost or market value.|
||N/A|
|**POLICIES ADOPTED**||
|**ADDITIONAL TO OR**||
|**DIFFERENT FROM THOSE**||
|**ABOVE**||
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## **Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
## **Note 3 Analysis of incoming resources**
## _**Incoming resources may be further analysed if this would help the reader of the accounts.**_
|**Activities for generating funds**
**Investment income**
**Incoming resources from**
**charitable activities**
**Voluntary income**|**Analysis**|**This year**
**Last year**
**£**
**£**|**This year**
**Last year**
**£**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|
||Voluntarydonations received|914|2,620|
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||**Total **|**914**|2,620|
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## **Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
## **Note 4 Analysis of resources expended**
## **Resources expended may be further analysed if this would help the reader of the accounts.**
|**Investment**
**management costs**
**Costs of generating**
**voluntary income**
**Fundraising trading**
**costs**
**Governance costs**
**Charitable activities**|**Analysis**|**This year**
**Last year**
**£**
**£**|**This year**
**Last year**
**£**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|
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||Rental cost of place of worship.|-|2,175|
||Online streaminingcosts|576|-|
||Telephone cost|138|-|
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||**Total**|**714**|2,175|
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||Accountant Fee|200|300|
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||**Total**|**200**|300|
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**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
## **Note 5 Support Costs**
_**Please complete this note if the charity has analysed its expenses using activity categories and has support costs.**_
|**Support cost type**|**Fundraising activity**
**£**|**Charitable Activity**
**£**|**Governance Activity**
**£**|**Total Cost**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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|**Total**|-|-|-|-|
## **Note 6 Details of certain items of expenditure**
## **6.1 Trustee expenses**
_**Please provide details of the amount of any payment or reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses made to trustees or to third parties for expenses incurred by trustees. If no expenses were paid, please enter ‘None’ in the appropriate box(es).**_
**Number of trustees who were paid expenses Nature of the expenses Total amount paid**
|**This year**|**Last year**|
|---|---|
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|**£**|**£**|
## **6.2 Fees for examination or audit of the accounts**
_**Please provide details of the amount paid for any statutory external scrutiny of accounts and other services provided by your independent examiner or auditor. If nothing was paid please enter NONE in the appropriate box(es).**_
|**_provided by your independent examiner or auditor. If nothing was paid_**
**_box(es)._**|**_please enter NONE in_**|**_the appropriate_**|
|---|---|---|
||**This year**|**Last year**|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Independent examiner’s or auditors' fees for reporting on the**|||
|**accounts**|||
|**Other fees (for example: advice, consultancy, accountancy services)**|||
|**paid to the independent examiner or auditor**|**200**|200|
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