## **Charity Commission Annual Return 2025**
## LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH
Charity registration number: 1195293
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**This document is a record of the information provided in the Annual Return 2025.**
## **PART A - Charity information**
## **Financial period**
**Financial period start date**
01/04/2024
## **Financial period end date**
31/03/2025
## **Income and spending**
**Income £**
£ 16,686
## **Spending £**
£ 17,523
**Number of contracts from government**
**How many contracts (other than grant agreements) did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?**
0
## **Number of grants from government**
**How many grants did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?**
0
## **Income breakdown**
**Donations and legacies (excluding Endowments Received)**
£ 14,599
## **Charitable activities**
£ 0
**Other trading activities**
£ 1,718
**Investments**
£ 0
**Other**
£ 369
## **Grantmaking**
**Is grant making the main way your charity carries out its purposes?** No
## **Recipients of grants**
**Please round all figures to the nearest pound (do not enter decimal points or commas). Individuals**
£ 0
## **Other charities**
£ 0
## **Other organisations that are not charities**
£ 0
## **Trustee payments**
**Excluding out of pocket expenses, for what were any of the trustees paid during the financial period for this return?**
e. None of the trustees have been paid
**Did any of the trustees resign and take up employment with your charity in the financial period of this return?** No
## **Income from outside the UK**
**Did your charity receive income from outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** No
## **Delivering activities outside the United Kingdom**
**Did your charity deliver charitable activities outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** No
## **Spending outside of the United Kingdom**
**Did your charity spend funds outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** No
**Total Spending outside of the United Kingdom**
£
## **Trading subsidiaries**
**Does the charity have any trading subsidiaries?** No
**Employment contract types**
**People were permanently employed by your charity**
0
**People were on fixed-terms contracts with your charity**
0
## **Self-employed people were working for your charity**
1
## **Total overseas employees**
**How many of the people above work on behalf of your charity outside of the United Kingdom?** 0
## **Total employee payroll**
**What was the total amount spent on employee payroll during the financial period relating to this return?** £ 0
## **Employees' salaries**
**Did any of your charity's employees receive total employment benefits of £60,000 or more in the financial period of this annual return?** No
## **Governance policies**
**Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures**
No
## **Safeguarding policy and procedures**
Yes
## **Financial reserves policy and procedures**
No
**Complaints policy and procedures**
Yes
**Serious incident reporting policy and procedures**
Not applicable
## **Internal risk management policy and procedures**
No
## **Trustee expenses policy and procedures**
Not applicable
## **Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures**
Not applicable
**Investing charity funds policy and procedures**
Not applicable
**Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures**
Not applicable
## **Bullying and harassment policy and procedures**
No
## **Social media policy and procedures**
Not applicable
**Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures** Not applicable
## **Safeguarding**
**Has your charity provided services to children and/or adults at risk in the financial period of the return?** No
## **External risk and impact**
## **Donations**
Negative
## **Other income - grants**
Unknown
## **Other income - contracts**
Not applicable
## **Other income - investment**
Not applicable
## **Expenditure on charitable activities**
No impact
## **Expenditure on overheads**
No impact
## **Number of volunteers**
No impact
## **Number of employees**
Not applicable
**Number of trustees**
No impact
## **Fundraising activities**
Not applicable
## **Capacity to deliver services**
No impact
## **Total service demand**
Unknown
## **Volunteers**
**Excluding trustees, provide an estimate of the number of volunteers who carried out charitable activities on behalf of your charity in the United Kingdom during the financial period of this return?**
4
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## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 1 April 2024 **Period start date To** 31 March 2025 **Period end date Charity name:** LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH
**Charity registration number:** 1195293
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|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 prayer and teaching meetings
during term-time held in a church hall
Regular Bible-teaching courses on-line by
our director
Occasional prayer ministry for individuals
by team members using Sozo principles
(for which those concerned have been
trained)|
|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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SORP reference
We are not a grant-making charity
Para 1.38
Policy on grant making
N/a
Para 1.38
Policy on social investment
including program related
investment
Our need for volunteers reduced since we
Para 1.38 gave up our own building; hence we have
Contribution made by far fewer, but a small number who regularly
volunteers attend our meetings support in practical
ways, along with our trustees and honorary
treasurer
Other
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## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
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|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|
|---|---|---|
|SORP reference|||
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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|About 15 people regularly attend our
weekly meetings in a village near Norwich,
and another 12 regularly join our director’s
online bible teaching courses. Each course
has seven weekly sessions with a short gap
between each one to fit round holidays etc.
Not all of our supporters are regular church
members, and have come to regard our
meetings as a vital means of fellowship.
They are willing to share problems and
issues within the group, who pray and
share together.
Sozo sessions have proved a very effective
means of sharing often longterm problems
and finding freedom from their effects as a
result.|
|**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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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
In the three?years since we moved into our
current location, numbers have steadied
and although they are relatively small, the
ministry is very important to those who
come. They come from quite a wide area,
and include a small number of locals.|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|We don’t fundraise, but rather depend on
the generosity of our supporters, together
with offerings taken at our meetings and
income received from our booklets.|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|n/a|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Income and expenditure have both dropped
over the years since covid, but we manage
to keep going and remain solvent. We have
reduced the amount our director receives,
and no longer employ an administrator|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Our only policy now is not to break into our
savings account which we are succeeding
in.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£981|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Although we have declined significantly, we
have settled into being a small ministry
significantly meeting the needs of a small
number of people. Not having our own
building is a blessing; we are also all getting
older, but expect to continue well into 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:|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Partnership giving
Meetings offerings
Occasional gifts, including a recent legacy
Sale of resources
Gift Aid|
|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|Getting old – both LHN director, trustees
and volunteers and also those we serve.
We have no ‘young blood’ waiting in the
wings.|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|CIO governing document|
|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|Recommendations come from the director
and/or the existing trustees.|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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 recommend the Charity Commission’s
booklet on how to be a trustee|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|We are not officially connected with any
wider network although we have good
working relationships with a number of local
churches/Christian organisations|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|LHN works closely with East Anglia Friends
of Israel, and our director is secretary of
Norwich Council of Christians and Jews|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Light House Norwich
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number 1195293
Charity’s principal address 50 St Mary’s Road, Framingham Earl, Norwich NR14 7SS
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
whole year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Gail Halley Chair of Trustees From 26/04/21 Director and existing trustees
2 Roy Floyd Trustee From 26/04/21 Ditto
3 Karen Floyd Trustee From 26/04/21 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 Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **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**||
|---|---|
||Gail Bennet Halley|
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Chair of Trustees|
||2 January 2026|
||2 January 2026|
**LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH**
## **Charitable Trust**
Charity Number 1195293 (England and Wales)
## **Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025**
## **Period of Accounts**
**Start date: 1 April 2024**
**End date: 31 March 2025**
## **LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH**
**Contents of the Financial Statements**
**For the Period Ended 31 March 2025**
**Profit and Loss Account**
**Balance Sheet**
**Additional Notes**
**Report**
## **LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH**
## **Income and Expenditure**
## **For the Period Ended 31 March 2025**
||**2025**|**2024**|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Income**|||
|Donations, Offerings & Misc Income|5,664|3,692|
|Partnership Giving|8,935|12,758|
|Sales of Resources|1,718|2,032|
|Gift Aid Claim|0|0|
|Difference|369|0|
|**Total**|**16,686**|**19,993**|
|**Less Expenditure**|||
|Director’s Fees|12,000|14,685|
|Giving & Miscellaneous|3107|1,511|
|Resources|760|0|
|Repayment of Loan|0|1,000|
|Miscellaneous|706|0|
|Insurance|127|138|
|IT Expenses|181|86|
|Printing & Stationery|222|433|
|Postage & Packing|336|77|
|Membership Fees|84|0|
|Utilities|0|100|
|**Total**|**17,523**|**18,030**|
|Excess / Loss for the year|**(837)**|**1,963 **|
|Less Depreciation|20|**23**|
||**(817)**|**1,940**|
## **LIGHT HOUSE NORWICH**
## **Balance Sheet**
## **As of 31 March 2025**
||**2025**|**2024**|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Fixed Assets – at cost**|||
|Equipment|210|233|
|Less Depreciation|20|23|
||______|-____|
|Total Fixed Assets|190|210|
|**Net current assets**|||
|Current Account|3,641|4,263|
|Savings Account|981|966|
|**Less Current Liabilities**|0|0|
||**_____**|**______**|
|**Total Net Assets**|**4,622**|**5,439**|
||**_____**|**______**|
|**Represented by :**|||
|Brought Forward|5,439|1,857|
|Surplus (Deficit) in year|(817)|1940|
|Income from Call to Prayer|0|1,642|
||______|______|
|Carried forward|4,622|5,439|
## **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 ……….5 January 2026…………………………**
**The notes form part of these annual accounts**