Granville Street Evangelical Church, Aylesbury
Trustees’ Report for year ended 31st December 2022
Legal and Administrative Information
Trustees
David Parry Watkins (Secretary) Philip Jonathan Richardson David Leslie Wall
(appointed 30th November 1977) (appointed 23rd March 2012 (appointed 14th April 2012)
Registered office address Granville Street Church Granville Street Aylesbury HP20 2JR
Governing Document Constitution adopted 17th June 2021
Registered Charity Number: 1194843
Inland Revenue Charity Reference Number: XN69231
Bankers
CAF Bank Limited 25 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ
Solicitors
Pickup and Scott 8 Bourbon Street Aylesbury HP20 2RR
Independent Examiner
Matt Ryan FCCA Numbers Ltd 32 High Street Wendover, Bucks HP22 6EA
Report
Structure, governance and management
The charity is newly constituted as a CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation), and is is governed under a constitution adopted on 17th June 2021. Its predecessor was charity number: 294636.
Aims and Organisation
The objects of the CIO are “to advance the Christian faith in accordance with its statement of faith, in Aylesbury, throughout England and overseas, for the benefit of the public mainly but not exclusively through the holding of prayer meetings, religious education, religious ceremonies and to provide outreach and pastoral care for the community.
The church's public name is ‘Granville Street Church’; for legal, banking and administrative purpose, its name is ‘Granville Street Evangelical Church’.
Trustees’ responsibilities
The trustees are responsible for the management and administration of the charity. They acknowledge their responsibility to maintain proper accounting records, to prepare Annual Accounts which show a true and fair view of the activities of the charity and to take appropriate measures to protect the assets of the charity from major loss.
The total income is under the current £500,000 audit threshold in the Charities Act 2011 and the trustees have therefore agreed that the accounts should be independently examined rather than incurring the additional costs of audit.
This report is made under the Charities Act 2011 in accordance with the requirements of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008.
Review of activities
When planning the church’s activities for the year, the trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. The church is led by two elders and four deacons. The elders are trustees. During 2022 the church had suffered from the Covid restrictions of the previous year, and the informal membership of the church had decreased to about sixty adults and young people. However, the church continued to maintain a very active and sacrificial support of missionary and evangelistic work, in Aylesbury Vale and the UK and abroad.
Review of financial affairs
The church has no salaried staff, but does use the services of a small cleaning company. Church members (including the trustees) who undertake maintenance work and who choose to claim for that work are paid at a modest hourly rate. Church members (including the trustees) are reimbursed for any expenses incurred and claimed in connection with church activities.
The church was able to continue to let its church building during the week to a mental health support group and to a retired staff association and a Women’s Institute group, as it had in previous years.
Apart from these rental incomes, the church is wholly dependent on the giving of its members. Its own financial needs are modest, and in 2022 45% of the church’s income was allocated to external missionary and evangelistic work.
Property The Trust owns the church building; it does not own any other property.
Insurance The church building, and the Trust’s other assets and liabilities, are comprehensively insured.
Maintenance A programme of regular maintenance and replacement is followed to keep the church building in good order.
Investment Powers The Trust Deed implicitly authorises the trustees to make and hold investments using the funds of the charity. No such investments are presently held.
Payments to or on behalf of Trustees The trustees receive no payment for their services, and have received no expenses associated with their trusteeships.
Signed on behalf of the trustees David Watkins
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Granville Street Evangelical Church No (if any)
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/01/2022 31/12/2022
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations and gift aid 40,093 - - 40,093 -
Voluntary income 16,657 - - 16,657 -
Investment income 510 - - 510 -
- - - - -
Transfer of assets on - - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 57,260 - - 57,260 -
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 57,260 - - 57,260 -
A3 Payments
Charitable activites 49,963 - - 49,963 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 49,963 ] - - 49,963 -
A4 Asset and investment purchases,
(see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 49,963 - - 49,963 -
Net of receipts/(payments) 7,297 - - 7,297 -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
Transfer of cash funds on change of
status 156,946 - - 156,946 -
Cash funds this year end 164,243 - - 164,243 -
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
04/08/2023
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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 Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Shawbrook CAF account Lloyds Details Signature |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 110,000 - 46,399 - 7,844 - 164,243 - 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 David Watkins |
Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | |||
| OK | |||
| Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional) Date of approval |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
04/08/2023
2
Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/ Granville Street Evangelical Church members of On accounts for the year 31 December 2022 Charity no 1194843 ended (if any) Set out on pages 3&4
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2022.
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
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accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
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the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
- Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed: Name: Matt Ryan Relevant professional FCCA qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 32 High Street Wendover Bucks HP22 6EA
Date: 20 July 2023
1
October 2018
IER
Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .
N/A
2
October 2018
IER