## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 1 Jan 2025 **To** 31 Dec 2025
## Section A Reference and administration details
OLD CITY HALL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1194769
**Charity's principal address** 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)**|
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||COLIN SMITH|RESIGNED|1 JAN 25 to 19 AUG 25||
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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**|
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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)**|
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|**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 three trustees A 4[th] Trustee to be appointed at next meeting 3 How the charity is constituted February 2026. (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 CHURCH GROWTH TRUST network with which the charity works;
- 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
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**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 Next Chapter £200.00 Good News (Gideons) £50.00 Asia Link £100.00
N/A
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
N/A
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
**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 2025 has seen a steady progress towards the building fund target. The current shortfall is £34,259. We are preparing 22 applications to external grant funders in the hope of hitting the target in the second quarter of 2026. “Spades in the ground” in the 3[rd] quarter. The Church has purchased monthly, 200 copies of “ _GOOD NEWS NEWSPAPER_ ” for free distribution to residences in the immediate vicinity of the building. There has been a successful response and circulation will be increased to 250 copies in March 2026.
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## **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
**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 Congregation donations towards God’s work (including other charities sources of funds (including and organisations. Fundraising for the building project. any fundraising);
- how expenditure has Grants to other charities totalling £450.00
- 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|
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||ANDREW JAMES FRENCH|DAVID RALSTON STEVENSON|
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CHAIR|SAFEGUARDING|
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|**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**|||
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|**OLD CITY HALL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP**||**1194769**|||
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|Period start date
**For the period**
**from**
1-Jan-25|**To**|Period end date
31-Dec-25|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|GENERAL PURPOSE FUND|**2,595**||**-**||**-**||**2,595**||**2,787**|
|BUILDING FUND|**-**||**10,482**||**-**||**10,482**||**27,391**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**2,595**||**10,482**||**-**||**13,077**||**30,178**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**30,178**|
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|GENERAL PURPOSE FUND|**601**||||||||**234**|
|INSURANCE RENT|**1,527**||||||||**288**|
|ELECTRITY|**409**||||||||**253**|
|WATER|**209**||||||||**203**|
|MINISTR|**638**||||||||**431**|
|GRANTS|**450**||||||||**250**|
|BUILDING FUND|**-**||||||||**4,365**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**3,834**||||||||**6,024**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
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||**- 1,239**||||||||**24,154**|
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||**906**||||||||**28,898**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
6/7/2026
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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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
MONEY AT BANK
CASH AT HAND
**Details**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
MONEY AT BANK
CASH AT HAND
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**514**
**394**
**-**
**908**
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**514**
**394**
**-**
**908**
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**36,324**
**-**
**-**
**36,324**
Agreement Error
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**36,324**
**-**
**-**
**36,324**
Agreement Error
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||||||**-**|
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||||||||OK|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||Signature||Print Name
ANDREW FRENCH
DAVID STEVENSON|||||
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approval|
||||ANDREW FRENCH||||3-Feb-26|
||||DAVID STEVENSON||||**3-Feb-26**|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
6/7/2026
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