Drummond Gospel Hall - Annual report for the period ended 31/12/2023
Drummond Gospel Hall CIO Annual Report for the period ended 31/12/2023
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Drummond Gospel Hall - Annual report for the period ended 31/12/2023
## **Drummond Gospel Hall**
Registered Charity Number 1195957 (England and Wales)
## **Annual report for the period ended 31/12/2023**
## **Trustees**
At the end of the year, the trustees were
- Derek Charles Walter Sercombe
- Reginald Garfield Carnall
- Neil Bedford Harkness
## **Objects**
The objects of the CIO are
- To advance the Christian faith for the public benefit in accordance with the statement of beliefs and practices in the Schedule hereto attached in Bournemouth and in such other parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the charity trustees may from time to time think fit;
- To prevent and relieve poverty and financial hardship in Bournemouth and in such other parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the charity trustees may from time to time think fit.
## **Scope of the report**
The CIO was incorporated on 28/9/2021.
The scope of this second annual report is from 01/01/2023 to 31/12/2023.
## **The Assembly that meets at Drummond Gospel Hall**
The CIO exists to assist with the administration of the funds of the Assembly that meets at Drummond Gospel Hall, Drummond Road, Bournemouth.
During the period covered by this report, the number in fellowship in the Assembly has dropped so that there are now about 15 who are able to meet. Some of those in fellowship are more elderly and this affects the activities that can be carried out.
## **Activities**
Assembly activities
The Assembly continues to meet regularly each week for the Breaking of Bread, Worship, Prayer, Bible teaching and Gospel preaching.
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However, the reduced numbers has meant that the weekly coffee morning has had to be discontinued.
There are no activities which are provided specifically for vulnerable adults of children.
At Easter and Christmas, supper was arranged for after the services on the Sunday evenings. Invitations were given to about 1000 households in the area around Drummond Gospel Hall. At Christmas, a similar number of calendars were distributed, also in the neighbourhood of the hall.
Support for full time Christian workers and evangelists continues with regular monthly offerings by the members of the congregation specifically for this purpose. These offerings provide, typically, more than the other offerings for the running of the Assembly. The gifts that are given are supplemented from general funds as well.
In particular, there have been one offerings made for work undertaken by a similar Assembly in Lutsk, Ukraine. £1,000 has been sent which has helped to support daily feeding of over 200 people who have faced difficulties following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This number includes many children for whom an orphanage is now in operation. Funds have been given to another charity, Operation Brotherly Love (Registration Number 1037681), to help with refugees arriving from Ukraine and for the Care Home that they run. Operation Brotherly Love operates in Romania.
Other missionaries and full time evangelists were supported in Zambia (Share Africa) Brazil, Romania, Canada, Ireland, Botswana, Angola and elsewhere.
CIO activities
The CIO met a number of times during the year and assisted the Assembly with these gifts.
## **Accounts**
We note, from the guidance given on the Charity Commission website (Charity Reporting - paragraph 1.4), that the accounts to not require external examination as the gross income is less that £25,000.
The accounts have been kept by the Church Treasurer and audited internally by a retired Company Director.
Bank accounts
Funds are held as follows:
_General operating funds – Current Account at Santander plc_
General operating funds comprise:
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- Restricted funds – those specified for a particular purpose. In all cases, this has been for supporting missionaries and mission work
- Unrestricted funds – offerings made for the running of the Assembly and maintenance of the building
_Reserve funds – Teachers Building Society_
These funds are result of a grant that was made when the hall was rebuilt during 1999-2000, together with some legacies. The fund is kept in case of more substantial work being needed on the building fabric.
Overall movement of funds
## _Summary_
|Income|||14,091|14,091|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|Expenditure||||12692|
||||||
|Excess of Income over
Expenditure||||1,399|
||||||
|Brought forward from
31/12/2023|||30,996||
||||||
|**Carried Forward**||**32,395**|||
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## _Movement of funds by Bank Account_
|||||Current
Account|Reserve
Account|Reserve
Account|Reserve
Account||Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||||
|||||£|||£||£|
|**Income**||||||||||
||Unrestricted
income|General oferings||9,875|||||9,875|
||Restricted
income|Missionary
Oferings||3,810|||||3810|
||Interest||||||306||306|
||Endowments||||||||0|
||Santander
Compensation|||100|||||100|
|**Total income**||||**13,785**|||**306**||**14,091**|
|||||||||||
|||||||||||
|**Expenditure**||||||||||
||Building
Maintenance
and Insurance|||1425||||||
||Energy and
Utilities|||1,488||||||
||Publicity|||585||||||
||Speakers
expenses|||1,055||||||
||Legal costs|||776||||||
||General running
costs|||1713||||||
||General
MissionaryWork|||5,650||||||
|||||||||||
|||||||||||
|**Total Expenditure**||||**12,692**|||**0**||**12,692**|
|||||||||||
||Excess of Income over expenditure|||1,093|||306||1,399|
|||||||||||
||Brought forward|||12,082||18,914|||30,996|
|||||||||||
|**Carried forward**||||**13,175**||**19220**|||**32,395**|
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## _Movement of funds by Fund type_
|||Unrestrict
ed|Unrestrict
ed|Unrestrict
ed|Restrict
ed|Restrict
ed|Reserv
e|Reserv
e|Reserv
e|||Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||£||£|||£|||£|
|**Inco**
**me**|||||||||||||
||Across all funds|||9,975||3,810|||306|||14,091|
||||||||||||||
|**Total income**||||9,975||3,810|||306|||14,091|
||||||||||||||
|**Expenditure**|||||||||||||
||Building Maintenance and
Insurance|||1425||||||||2,106|
||Energyand Utilities|||1,488||||||||1,488|
||Publicity|||585||||||||585|
||Speakers expenses|||1055||||||||1055|
||Legal costs|||776||||||||776|
||General runningcosts|||1713||||||||1,031|
||General MissionaryWork|||1,840||3,810||||||5650|
||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||
|**Total Expenditure**||||8,882||3,810|||0|||12,692|
||||||||||||||
||Excess of Income over
expenditure|||1,093||0|||306|||1399|
||||||||||||||
||Brought forward||12,082|||0|18,914|||||30,996|
||||||||||||||
|**Carried forward**|||**13,175**|||**0**||**19,22**
**0**|||**32,395**||
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## _Income and Expenditure breakdown_
|_Income and Expenditure breakdown_|_Income and Expenditure breakdown_|||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Building Maintenance and Insurance**||**1426**||
||BuildingInsurance||1,283|
||**costs**||**776**||
||Legal (Trustees and
Registration)||776|
|||||
|**General running costs**||**1,713**||
||Cleaning||280|
||Postage|||
||Magazines||300|
||Sundries||153|
||Catering||202|
||Alarm(security)||475|
||Membership||97|
||Fireprotection||205|
|**General Missionary**||**5,650**||
||Missionaries||5,650|
|||||
|**Ukraine**
**relief**|**Included in missionaries**|||
|||||
|||||
|**Totals**||**12,69**
**3**|**12,693**|
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## _Gifts to Missionaries and Mission work_
||||General Missionary
Work|General Missionary
Work|Ukraine Relief|Ukraine Relief|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Incom
e|Expenditure|Inco
me|Expendit
ure|
|2023|||£|£|||
|Jan|Share Africa||230|350|||
|Feb|George and Ros Khalil|Israel|310|500|||
|March|Paul and Sue Williams|Romani
a|360|500|||
|April|Jef and Denise Watson|Brazil|250|400|||
|May|Operation Brotherly
Love|Romani
a|250|400|||
|June|Peter and Elaine Smith|Canada|240|400|||
|July|Stephen Gillham|Dorset|395|500|||
|Aug|Timothy and Rhoda
Sloan|Ukraine|715|1000|||
|Sept|Gareth and Margaret
McMeekin|Ireland|300|400|||
|Oct|Gospel for Scotland|Scotlan
d|260|400|||
|Nov|Colin and Christine
Raggett|Botswa
na|190|400|||
|Dec|Brian & Debbie Howden|Angola|210|400|||
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|||**General Funds**
**subsidy:**||**1,940**|||
_Costs associated with the building and maintenance_
||0|
|---|---|
|||
|||
|||
|Boiler Service|78.00|
|Piano Tuning|65.00|
|Total|**143.0**
**0**|
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## Assets
Legal ownership of the building and grounds of Drummond Gospel Hall resides with a separate legal Trust established on 19/2/1930. At the time of preparing this report, the CIO Trustees were also trustees of the building.
The CIO has no assets other than the funds in the Santander Bank account and the Teachers Building Society account
## Sources of income
Sources of income are
- From the weekly offerings made by the members of the Assembly
- Occasional gifts from visitors
- Occasional legacies
No funds are sought from the public and there is no “fundraising” activity.
## GiftAid
The CIO does not claim GiftAid.
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