## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 1 April 2023 **Period start date To** 31 March 2024 **Period end date**
**Charity name:** Light House Norwich
**Charity registration number:** 1195293
## **Objectives and Activities**
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reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To encourage people in their walk of faith**
**through Bible-teaching and prayer**|
|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.|Para 1.17
and 1.19|**Weekly teaching, prayer and fellowship**
**meetings during termtime**
**Prayer ministry when requested by**
**individuals**
**Prayer groups for specific needs, esp the**
**Persecuted Church, Israel & the Middle East**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have read and understood the**
**Charity Commission’s guidance on the**
**subject of public benefit**|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**We are not a grant-making charity**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/a**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The trustees do most of work which was**
**covered by a team of volunteers when we**
**were a bigger organisation with our own**
**premises; in addition a number of our**
**regular supporters help in lots of ‘behind-**
**the-scenes’ ways: hospitality, clearing**|
**up, preparing the room where we meet; also leading worship.** Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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.|Para 1.20|**In January 2023 we started meeting in a**
**building attached to the church which our**
**director attends. We have had more local**
**support and have gradually built up a**
**small but faithful fellowship whose**
**members attend more or less every week**
**plus a number who come less frequently.**
**We have built up mutual trust, and our**
**regular fellowship consider LHN meetings**
**to be a ‘safe place’ to share together. For**
**those who for a variety of reasons do not**
**attend regular church, the relationships we**
**have one with another are very important.**
**However, we are not a ‘closed’ group and**
**anyone is very welcome to come and taste**
**what we offer; some stay and others don’t.**|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**We didn’t have official objectives but our**
**hope was that we would connect with**
**people in an area where we already had**
**contacts; and indeed, during the past**
**year, a group has gradually gathered,**
**made up of new contacts and old.**|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We don’t fundraise as such, though have**
**in the past occasionally put out requests**
**for funding for specific needs. We have**
**been encouraged by the regular and**
**generous giving of our supporters.**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**n/a**|
|Other||**n/a**|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Our outgoings have reduced significantly**
**now that we are no longer maintaining a**
**building; we pay our director a fee,**
**contribute to the church fuel bill and still**
**have public liability insurance.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Our only reserves are a small savings**
**account which would barely cover a**
**month’s outgoings.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£990**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**As above**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**As we lived within our means during this**
**past year, we have no reason to suppose**
**we can’t continue with things as they are**
**for the foreseeable future.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**As before: partners’ regular giving;**
**offerings from our meetings; sale of**
**resources; Gift Aid claim (significantly**
**down); occasional one-off gifts**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Obviously the world is a risky place at the**
**moment – and we are all getting older.**
**But we believe that the current instability**
**increases people’s interest in seeking**
**and finding out more about God, and this**
**could increase our raison d’etre in this**
**part of the world.**|
|Other||**n/a**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|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|Para 1.25|**The initiative and appointment of trustees**
**comes from the director and existing**
**trustees**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**We have been helped by the Charity**
**Commission’s booklet on how to be a**
**trustee**|
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Light House Norwich is part of**
**Transforming Norwich, a group of local**
**churches and ministries**|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**Our director, Jill Gower, is also director**
**of East Anglia Friends of Israel and**
**secretary of Norwich Council of**
**Christians and Jews.**|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Light House Norwich|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1195293|
Charity’s principal address 50 St Mary’s Road, Framingham Earl, Norwich NR14 7SS
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Gail Halley Acting Chair Whole year Jill Gower and all trustees
2 Roy Floyd Whole year ditto
3 Karen Floyd Whole year ditto
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|n/a|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|n/a|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|n/a|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**|
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|**adviser**|||
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
|Jill Gower, Director|||
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**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**||
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||Gail Bennet Halley|
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Acting Chair|
||12 January 2025|
||12 January 2025|
## **LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH**
## **Charitable Trust**
Charity Number 1195293 (England and Wales)
**Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31[st ] March 2024**
**Period of accounts Start**
**date: 1st April 2023 End date: 31st March 2024**
## **LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH**
**Contents of the Financial Statements For the Period Ended 31st March 2024**
**Profit and Loss Account Balance Sheet Additional notes Report**
## **LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH**
## **Income and Expenditure**
## **For the Period Ended 31st March 2024**
||**2024**|**2023**|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Income**|||
|Donations, Offerings & Misc Income|3,692|5,888|
|Partnership Giving|12,758|12,707|
|Sales of Resources|2,032|3,063|
|Gift Aid Claim|1,511|2,451|
|Building Income||216|
|**Difference**||**269**|
|**Total**|**19,993**|**24,594**|
|**Less Expenditure**|||
|Director's / Team Members' Fees|14,685|21,454|
|Giving & Miscellaneous|1,511|900|
|Repayment of Loan|1,000||
|Resources||868|
|Equipment & Furniture|||
|Insurance|138|556|
|IT Expenses|86|300|
|Printing & Stationery|433|64|
|Postage / Packing|77|279|
|Membership Fees||207|
|Travel Costs||21|
|Rent||2,344|
|Utilities / Housekeeping|100|2,281|
|Telephone & Broadband||421|
|**Total**|**18,030**|**29,695**|
|Excess / Loss for the year|1,963|(5,101)|
|Less Depreciation|23|26|
||**1,940**|**(5,127)**|
## **LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH**
## **Balance Sheet**
|**Balance Sheet**|||
|---|---|---|
|**As at 31st March 2024**
**Fixed Assets — at cost**
**Equipment**
**Less Depreciation**
**Total Fixed Assets**
**Net current assets**
**Current Account**
**Savings Accou nt**
**Less Current Liabilities**
**Total Net Assets**
**Represented by:-**
**Brought forward**
**Surplus (Deficit) in year**
**Income from Call to Prayer**
**Carried forward**|**2024**
**£**
**233**
**23**
**210**
**4,263**
**966**
**0**
**5,439**
**1,857**
**1,940**
**1,642**
**5,439**|**2023**
**£**
**259**
**26**|
|||**233**
**1,624**
**0**
**0**
**1,857**
**6984**
**(5,127)**
**0**
**1,857**|
## **LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH**
## **Balance sheet statements**
The foregoing account has been examined with the books and vouchers produced, and is certified to be in accordance therewith.
Signed Independent Examiner Date Signed Hon. Treasurer Date
## **The notes form part of these annual accounts**