## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 1 Jan 2024 **To** 31 Dec 2024
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1194769
OLD CITY HALL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
|**Charity's principal address**|
13 The Lane|
13 The Lane|
|---|---|---|
||West Mersea||
||Colchester Essex||
||**Postcode**|**CO5 8 NT**|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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18|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||ANDREW
FRENCH|CHAIR|||
||ROSEMARY
LEACH|SECRETARY|||
||DAVID
STEVENSON|SAFEGUARDING|||
||COLIN SMITH||||
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
|---|---|
|NONE||
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**TAR**
March **2012**
1
## **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**|||
|**Hon Treasurer**|John Fensom|40 Empress Avenue West Mersea Essex CO5 8EX|
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
CIO FOUNDATION CONSTITUTION Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO With four trustees How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Volunteers Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
CHURCH GROWTH TRUST
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The object of the CIO is to advance the Christian faith for the benefit of the public of Mersea Island Essex, and neighbouring districts, through: (a) the provision of a building to hold worship services and events open to the public (b) contributing to a better society by promoting social cohesion and social capital (c) providing pastoral care, Christian education and social support
**TAR**
March **2012**
2
**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)**
Regular Sunday Services
Monthly Coffee mornings
Monthly Men’s breakfasts
Monthly Prayer meetings
It is certified that:-
All information provided has been checked by the Trustees and is correct and complete to the best of our knowledge.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
Several grants to other charities and organisations have been made in this reporting year.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
West Mersea Beach Club £100.00 Open Doors £100.00 Good News (Gideons) £100.00
N/A
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
N/A
- contribution made by volunteers.
**TAR**
March **2012**
3
Section D Achievements and performance
**TAR**
March **2012**
4
Section D Achievements and erformance p
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Monthly Prayer meetings Continuation of Sunday Services Men’s Breakfasts and Ladies Coffee mornings each once a month 2024 has been an exceptional year for internal fundraising towards the Building enhancement project generating £21871 (including Gift Aid) We also approached external grant funders and secured £5520 and a further £3000 pledged when the project is ready to proceed. Applications will continue into 2025.
**TAR**
March **2012**
5
## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** Reserves are carried forward to subsequent years for the benefit of the **charity’s policy on reserves** church
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- Congregation donations towards God’s work (including other charities and organisations. Fundraising for the building project.
- how expenditure has Grants to other charities totalling £300.00
- supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and N/A objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|Original signed|Original Signed|
|---|---|---|
||ANDREW JAMES FRENCH|DAVID RALSTON STEVENSON|
||
CHAIR|SAFEGUARDING|
||24 February 2025||
||24 February 2025||
**TAR**
March **2012**
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**Charity Name No (if any) OLD CITY HALL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP 1194769 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from 01-Jan-24 31-Dec-24**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,787**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,787**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,787**
**234**
**288**
**253**
**203**
**431**
**250**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,659**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,659**
**1,128**
**-**
**1,017**
**2,145**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**27,391**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,391**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,391**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,365**
**-**
**-**
**4,365**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,365**
**23,026**
**-**
**3,727**
**26,753**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,787**
**27,391**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,178**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,178**
**234**
**288**
**253**
**203**
**431**
**250**
**4,365**
**-**
**-**
**6,024**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,024**
**24,154**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|generalpurpose fund|**2,787**|||||**2,615**|
|buildingfund|**-**|||||**6,146**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**2,787**|||||**8,761**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**8,761**|
||||||||
|generalpurpose fund|**234**|||||**368**|
|insurance|**288**|||||**418**|
|electricity|**253**|||||**636**|
|water|**203**|||||**183**|
|ministry|**431**|||||**630**|
|grants|**250**|||||**665**|
|buildingfund|**-**|||||**11,628**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**1,659**|||||**14,528**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**14,528**|
||||||||
||**1,128**|**23,026**|**-**|**24,154**||**- 5,767**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**1,017**|**3,727**|**-**|**4,744**||**1,782**|
||**2,145**|**26,753**|**-**|**28,898**||**- 3,985**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
15/02/2025
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|**ORIGINAL SIGNED**
Signature
**ORIGINAL SIGNED**
**Details**
**Details**
CASH AT BANK
CASH AT HAND
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,792**
**26,753**
**353**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,145**
**26,753**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**ANDREW FRENCH**
**DAVID STEVENSON**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
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||||Date of
approval|
||**ORIGINAL SIGNED**|**ANDREW FRENCH**|**15-Jan-25**|
||**ORIGINAL SIGNED**|**DAVID STEVENSON**|**15-Jan-25**|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
15/02/2025
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Old City all Christian FellowshipH
## FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year to 31[st] ecemD ber 2024
Charity umN ber 1194769
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## Old City all Christian FellowshipH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year to 31[st] ecemD ber 2024
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|Charity Information|||||3|
|Trustees eport
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|Statement of Financial|cti
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|alance Sheet
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The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts.
Accountants eportR
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Old City all Christian FellowshipH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year to 31[st] ecemD ber 2024
Charity registration number 1194769 Trustees Andrew French Rosemary eachL Colin Smith David Stevenson Bankers Barclays Accountants Neil oL xley ccountancy SerA vices
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## Old City all Christian FellowshipH
## TRUSTEES REPORT
For the year to 31[st] ecemD ber 2024
Old City Hall is a charitable CIO incorporated on the 29 April 2021 and registered as a charity. The organisation of the work is in the hands of the trustees. The governing documents provide for new trustees to e appointedb by the current trustees.
The o **bj** ects of the charity are to advance the Christian faith for the enefitb of the people of Mersea Island, sseE x and neighbouring districts through the provision of a uilding to hold worship serb vices and events open to the public, contributing to a etter society y promoting social cohesion andb b social capital and providing pastoral care, Christian education and social ’ support. The main area of the charity s operations is the county of sseE x.
**D** uring the year funds received from all sources have een used to maintainb a congregation and uilding in Mersea with its associated actib vities.
## Financial position
The accounts on pages and 4 set out the transactions for the period3 . The trustees are satisfied with the overall position. The trustees are confident that the long-term iav bility of the company is not in uestionq .
## **R** eser **v** es policy
The trustees have examined the charity’s requirements for reserves in the light of the main risks to the organisation and consider that the unrestricted funds held y the charity should etween b b 3- and 21 -months expenditure.
## Future plans
The trustees plan to continue and grow the activities of the fellowship in forthcoming years.
…………………
Trustee
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## Old City all Christian FellowshipH STATEMENT F FIO NANCIAL CTIA VITIE For the year to 31[st] ecemD ber 2024
|nrestricted estricted
U
R
Total
Funds
Funds
ote
N
£
£
£
Incoming resources
ifts and onations 2,
G
D
787
2 ,
0,
7 391
3
178
Total Incoming esources
**R**
2,**787**
2 ,
**7 391**
0,
**3**
**178**
Charita le e penses
b
x
eneral Costs
G
2 4 2 4
3
3
uilding and office costs 44 4,
, 0
B
7
365
5 1 9
Ministry e penses 4
4
x
31
31
rants and o erseas e ps 2 0 2 0
G
v
x
5
5
Total Charita le e penses ,
4,
,024
b
x
1 659
365
6
dministrati e e penses
A
v
x
ccountancy
A
0
Total resources e pended
**x**
,
**1 659**
4,**365**
,024
**6**
Surplus for year , 2 2 ,02 24,
4
1 1 8
3
6
15
etained profit rought forward ,0
, 2 4, 44
R
b
1
17
3 7 7
7
etained profit carried forward 2, 4 2 ,
2 ,
R
1 5
6 753
8 898
alance sheet
B
s at
A
31stecem er 2024
D
b
£
£
£
Current assets
an account 2 , 4
B
k
8 5 5
Cash
353
Total current assets2 ,
**8 898**
Current lia ilities
b
2
0
et assets
**N**
2 ,
**8 898**
nrestricted funds 2, 4
U
1 5
estricted funds
R
2 ,
6 753
Total funds2, 4 2 ,
**1 5**
**6 753**
2 ,
**8 898**
n ehalf of the Trustees
O
b
……………………………………|nrestricted estricted
U
R
Total
Funds
Funds
ote
N
£
£
£
Incoming resources
ifts and onations 2,
G
D
787
2 ,
0,
7 391
3
178
Total Incoming esources
**R**
2,**787**
2 ,
**7 391**
0,
**3**
**178**
Charita le e penses
b
x
eneral Costs
G
2 4 2 4
3
3
uilding and office costs 44 4,
, 0
B
7
365
5 1 9
Ministry e penses 4
4
x
31
31
rants and o erseas e ps 2 0 2 0
G
v
x
5
5
Total Charita le e penses ,
4,
,024
b
x
1 659
365
6
dministrati e e penses
A
v
x
ccountancy
A
0
Total resources e pended
**x**
,
**1 659**
4,**365**
,024
**6**
Surplus for year , 2 2 ,02 24,
4
1 1 8
3
6
15
etained profit rought forward ,0
, 2 4, 44
R
b
1
17
3 7 7
7
etained profit carried forward 2, 4 2 ,
2 ,
R
1 5
6 753
8 898
alance sheet
B
s at
A
31stecem er 2024
D
b
£
£
£
Current assets
an account 2 , 4
B
k
8 5 5
Cash
353
Total current assets2 ,
**8 898**
Current lia ilities
b
2
0
et assets
**N**
2 ,
**8 898**
nrestricted funds 2, 4
U
1 5
estricted funds
R
2 ,
6 753
Total funds2, 4 2 ,
**1 5**
**6 753**
2 ,
**8 898**
n ehalf of the Trustees
O
b
……………………………………|2023
£
,
8 761
,
**8 761**
368
2,
1
865
0
63
665
4, 2
1
5 8
4, 2
**1**
**5 8**
,
-5 767
,02
1
3
4, 44
-
7
202
3
4,0
69
675
4, 44
**7**
0
4, 44
**7**
,0
1
17
, 2
3 7 7
4, 44
**7**
|
|---|---|---|
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2 ,
**8 898**
||
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## Old City all Christian FellowshipH A company limited y guaranteeb
Notes to the accounts
## For the year to 31[st] ecemD ber 2024
## **1. A** ccounting policies **.**
The accounts have een prepared in accordance with applicab ble accounting standards. There were no material departures from those standards.
## a) asis of preparation of financial statementsB .
The financial statements have een prepared under historical cost accounting rulesb . The effect of events relating to the year which occur efore the date of approb val of the financial statements y b the trustees, have een included in the statements to the eb xtent required to show a true and fair view of the state of affairs at the year end and the results for the period ended on that date.
## b) Fund accounting.
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees for furtherance of the general objectives of the charity. estricted funds are suR bjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed y the donor or through the terms of an appealb . The restricted funds are for relief of poverty or need in the congregation or community.
c) Income resources.
Income is included on receipt. The alue of serv vices provided y olunteers has not een includedb v b in these accounts.
d) esources eR xpendable.
Expenses are recognised on payment
.
e) capital equipment.
The costs of minor additions or those less than £3000 are not capitalised ut any fib xed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. epreciation is proD vided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the asset over its expected useful life, in all cases estimated at four years.
2 **.** Creditors **.**
Amounts falling due within one year- Trade creditors 0 p£ /y 0£
**3.** Trustee remuneration and related party transactions **.**
No trustee received any remove remuneration during the year. o trustee had any personal N interest in any contract or transaction entered into y the charity during the yearb .
4 **.** Ta **x** ation **.**
As a charity ld City all Christian Fellowship is eO H xempt from taxation on income and gains to the extent that these are applied to the charitable objects. o taN x charges have arisen in the charity.
## **5.** nalysis of net assets etween funds **A b .**
nrestricted funds estricted funds TotalU R net current assets 2,145 26,753 28, 898 **6.** Funds **.**
The restricted fund is for the uilding pro ectb j .
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Independent examiners report to the trustees of
Old City all Christian FellowshipH
I report on the accounts of the trust for the year ended 31st ecemD ber set out on pages and 5 6.
## **R** especti **v** e responsi **b** ilities of trustees and e **x** aminer **.**
As the charity s trustees you are responsi' ble for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of section 43 2( ) of the Charities ct A 1993 The ct( A ) does not apply. It is my responsibility to state, on the asis of procedures specified in the eneral irections gib G D ven by the Charity Commissioners under section 43 (7)(b) of the ct, whetherA particular matters have come to my attention.
## **B** asis of independent e **x** aminers report **.**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the eneral irectionsG D given y the Charity Commissionersb . n eA xamination includes a review of the accounting records ept y the charity and a comparison of the k b accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would e b required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the iew giv ven y the accountsb .
## Independent e **x** aminers statement **.**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
- (1) Which gives me reasonable cause to elieb ve that in any material respect the requirements
- to eep accounting records in accordance with section 4k 1 of the ctA and;
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the ctA
have not een metb ; or
- (2) To which, in my opinion, attention should e drawn in order to b enable proper understanding of the accounts to e reachedb .
Neil oL xley
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