## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Month Year Day Month Year **From** 15 June 20222 **To** 31 December 2022
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Bishop’s Stortford and Sawbridgeworth Street Pastors
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1199311
|**Charity's principal address**|Bishop’s Stortford Baptist Church|Bishop’s Stortford Baptist Church|
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||Twyford Road||
||Bishop’s Stortford||
||**Postcode**|**CM23 3LJ**|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||John Walford|Chair|||
||Corinne Lewis|Secretary|||
||HilaryMcNeeney|Treasurer|||
||Richard Townsend||||
||Paul McCafferty||||
||Choe Ribeiro||||
## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Philippa Roy-Chowdhury Coordinator (employee)
**Section B Structure, governance and management**
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## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Foundation Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation Registered 15[th] June 2022 How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) There must be a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 9 trustees. New Trustee selection methods trustees are appointed by the existing trustees for a minimum term of 3 (eg. appointed by, elected by) years. Each must subscribe to the vision and mission of the Street Pastor movement, and must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
New trustees meet with an existing trustee who acts as a mentor and You **may choose** to include offers an opportunity to shadow or work in partnership together. All additional information, where trustees are issued with the policies and procedures of Street Pastors, relevant, about: along with the Charity Commission’s core guidance ‘The Essential policies and procedures Trustee’. Training is also provided by our umbrella body, Ascension Trust. adopted for the induction and training of trustees; The charity works in close partnership with local police and the local authority. This is known as the ‘Urban Trinity’.
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider The principal risk facing the charity would be lack of grant funding. If this
- network with which the charity happened, we would continue to operate with volunteers, using donations
- works; from local churches to purchase resources and training, but we would not
- relationship with any related be able to employ a coordinator. parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To advance the Christian Faith in accordance with the Street Pastor Licence Agreement with The Ascension Trust, through:
- I. the provision of public pastoral care services to help people on the streets and other public places, giving guidance, support and signposting which assist in preserving public order, avoid anti-social behaviour, relieve sickness and preserve health and by
- II. enlightening others about Christianity through raising awareness and understanding of ecclesiastical relevance to community and public life, mobilising the Church ecumenically to unity of worship and to advance the Christian Faith by carrying out the mission and outreach work of the Gospel for the benefit of the public.
To develop the capacity and skills of socially disadvantaged groups in our community in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society; in particular but not exclusively through raising awareness, promoting, sustaining and increasing individual and collective knowledge, skills and expertise, through the practical development of individual capabilities, competences, skills and understanding through formal training, informal talks and capacity building in voluntary services, according to Christian
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principles and the Street Pastor Urban Trinity principle of church, police and local government working together for the benefit of the community.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
We are fully trained volunteers from local churches in Bishops Stortford and Sawbridgeworth who care about our community. We visit the town centre weekly on Friday or Saturday nights, in mixed teams of men and women, aiming to care for, listen to, and help people who are out and about in our town, especially those who are vulnerable or at risk of harm.
When planning our work in the community, the trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. We are non-judgemental and only speak about our faith with others when asked to do so. We strive to demonstrate our faith by caring for others: people of all faiths and of no faith.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
Volunteers are integral to our work in the community. During this initial period of the CIO, we had 14 volunteer Street Pastors who would take turns to go out on patrol in teams of 3 or 4 each week between the hours of 10pm – 2am, helping to keep people safe. We also had a team of 4 Prayer Pastors, who would take turns to meet with the team each week and pray for them. Our trustees are also volunteers. Our work would not be possible without our volunteers.
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
Although we have not yet operated financially though this accounting **Summary of the main** period, our new CIO registration has enabled us to recruit new volunteers **achievements of the charity** and trustees. It has helped us to demonstrate our commitment and **during the year** responsibility to our volunteers, and to the people we encounter on the streets.
Since the end of this accounting period, we have been winding up our previous charity and will be operating fully from our new CIO.
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## **Section E Financial review**
During this 6 month accounting period it was not necessary to hold **Brief statement of the** reserves as the charity was not operating financially. **charity’s policy on reserves** Going forward, we will hold a reserve of £5,000 to cover running costs for a 6 month period. Our reserve statement comes into effect from 11[th] April 2023 when our new bank account became effective.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
The charity’s principal sources of funding will come from grant You **may choose** to include applications made to local authorities, and donations from local churches, additional information, where businesses, and individuals. relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
This charity had no money or other assets during this financial period. No income or expenditure was incurred during this financial period as the previous charity was still in operation.
## **Section G Declaration**
**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**|John Walford|Hilary McNeeney|
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||John Walford|Hilary McNeeney|
||Chair|Treasurer|
||28 November 2023||
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
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