## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period**
**From: Period start date April 2023 To: Period end date February 1 2024**
**Charity name:Holy Ghost Fire Center**
**Charity registration number:1197926**
**Company number:AR23-CIO-DEF1-11a**
## **Objectives and activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To advance the Christian faith through**
**having a place for worship and gathering**
**for worship and the holding of prayer**
**meetings, lectures, public celebration of**
**Christian festivals, producing and or**
**distributing literature to enlighten others**
**about the Christian Religion.**|
|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|**The church was established in April 2023**
**on its current site and now has a formal**
**membership of approximately 70 in**
**number.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees aim to provide well furnished**
**premises to cater for the wide range of**
**activities undertaken in the building.**
**During the year the church has employed**
**full and part time workers to achieve its**
**objectives.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
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|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The church welcomes everyone who is**
**coming to be a part of our spiritual**
**activities and it supports them without**
**asking for money. However, the church**
**welcomes free donations in the forms of**
**offering and tithes according to the**
**Christian religion and faith, but no one is**
**forced to give or donate anything. Until**
**now, no one has given any offering or**
**tithes as we are in our formative years.**|
|Other||**Membership is ten (10)**|
## **Achievements and performance**
|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|**During the year, the church welcomed**
**Additional members-Reading voluntary**
**action, held its general meeting. These**
**activities are principally providing advice,**
**giving charities and similar public bodies**
**with the support and information needed**
**for those organisations to help people**
**disadvantaged by poverty,age,ill-health,**
**disability, financial hardship and similar**
**issues.**|
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**The spiritual objectives of the charity is**
**being achieved as it has been a centre for**
**spiritual support and growth. Our aim is**
**to ensure everyone who comes is**
**supported to grow in their Christian faith**
**and we have been making progress in**
**that direction.**|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Our primary focus is not on raising**
**money but to ensure people grow. There**
**has not been any fundraising activities**
**carried out yet since the beginning of the**
**charity (ministry).**|
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|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial review**
|**Financial review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**From inception, there hasn't been**
**fundraising the ministry has been about**
**supporting people spiritually and**
**emotionally.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity shall have a bank account**
**opened in its name to hold and save every**
**fundraising activity or offerings and tithes**
**. We are yet to open the account for the**
**purpose of saving the charity’s finances.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Currently there is no reserves as we**
**haven’t had any income**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**No fundraising activities have been done**
**so far and no one has given any offering**
**or tithes.**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The uncertainties we have is if it**
**continues for too long without any**
**voluntary financial support or income**
**from members it could threaten our**
**continued existence. We do hope we**
**would be able to raise funds as we grow**
**in number.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**The charity’s principal sources of funding**
**is individual free will donations, tithes and**
**offerings.**|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**No fundraising has been achieved for the**
**first financial year.**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The principal risk facing the charity is**
**financial stability, the lack of financial**
**support and free will donations is the**
**major risk as we will not be able to**
**support members financially should they**
**require any kind of financial assistance in**
**difficult times. Also, we will not be able to**
**acquire our own physical facilities.**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, governance and management**
|Description of charity’s trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document:
for example,trust deed,
memorandum and articles of
association etc|Para 1.25|**Deed of trust.**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
for example limited company,
unincorporated association,
CIO|Para 1.25|**Trust**|
|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|**Trustees where appointed at the general**
**meeting of the charity.**|
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Para 1.51 Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The organisational structure is the Lead**
**Pastor (trustee), other trustees and**
**members of the charity. The Lead Pastor**
**(Uche Ikejiaku) takes decisions as**
**appropriate And approved by the trustee**
**members, he is responsible for preaching,**
**bible study and organising church**
**services on Sundays . Presently , the**
**charity is not networking with any third**
**party or wider network.**|
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|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**The charity presently has not affiliations**
**or relationships with any related parties.**|
|Other|||
## **Reference and administrative details**
|Charity name|**Holy Ghost Fire Center.**|
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|Other name the charity uses|**__________**|
|Registered charity number|**1197926**|
|Charity’s principal address|**105 Croft Street Swansea SA1 1QD**|
|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
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Lazarus Ozor||For the period|-------|
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||Pastor Uche
Ikejiaku|Lead Pastor|For the period|--------|
||Nkechinyere
Ikejiaku||For the period|---------|
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name** Pastor Ifeanyi Lazarus Ozor **Pastor Uche Ikejiaku Nkechiyere Ikejiaku**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**
**Pastor Ifeanyi Lazarus Ozor**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
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|**Pastor Uche Ikejiaku**|||
|**Nkechinyere Ikejiaku**|||
## **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 company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors**
**Signature(s)** Uche Ikejiaku
**Full name(s)** Pastor Uche Ikejiaku
**Position (for example** Lead Pastor/Trustee **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 30/05/2024