**CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1199380**
## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Unaudited Financial Statements**
**For the period ended**
## **31st December 2022**
## **GARDINER RUSSELL ACCOUNTING LIMITED**
Chartered Accountants
First Floor, 2 Castle Buildings 147-149 Telegraph Road
Heswall Wirral CH60 7SE
## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Financial Statements**
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' annual report|**1**|
|Independent examiner's report to the trustees|**3**|
|Statement of financial activities|**4**|
|Statement of financial position|**5**|
|Statement of cash flows|**6**|
|Notes to the financial statements|**7**|
**Page 1**
# **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Trustees' Annual Report**
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
The trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the period ended 31st December 2022.
## **Reference and administrative details**
**Registered charity name** Carmel The Annunciation **Charity registration number** 1199380 **Principal office** 12 Grosvenor Place Birkenhead Wirral CH43 1UA
## **The trustees**
Sr B M Baker (Mother Prioress) Sr R M Nye Rev N Doohan Sr P E Davitt Rev S Riley Sr M Villar Ms D Nye Mrs M Evans
**Independent examiner** Ben Russell FCA Gardiner Russell Accounting Limited First Floor, 2 Castle Buildings 147-149 Telegraph Road Heswall Wirral CH60 7SE
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) - Foundation, registered under a Trust Deed dated 20 June 2022.
Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
On appointment, the charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment a copy of the current version of this constitution and a copy of the CIO's latest Trustees' Annual Report and statement of accounts.
## **Objectives and activities**
The objective of the Charity is the advancement of the Roman Catholic religion through the religious and other charitable work of the Carmelite Monastery in such ways as the Trustees shall from time to time think fit.
**Page 2**
## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Trustees' Annual Report** _**(continued)**_
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
## **Achievements and performance**
This first period has been one of bringing the charity to life as well as continuing the work of Carmel, which has been established in the area for many decades. In September 2022 the Charity was delighted to welcome the Relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes for a brief visit. This was a time of great prayer and devotion, and an honour to be able to host the Relics.
Carmel continued to offer support to those of all faiths and none through their outreach work supporting poor families locally, as well as offering accommodation for priests seeking retreats, and facilities for days of recollection and study.
On a practical level, work has continued on measures to reduce the carbon footprint of the site. A bore hole has been dug and works carried on into the next year to commission it. Major repairs to the chapel have also been undertaken with a full repair of the roof.
## **Financial review**
During the period the charity benefitted from the transfer of assets from the previous unincorporated organisation, as well as significant donations. At the end of the period, the charity is in a sound financial position.
The trustees' annual report and the strategic report were approved on 31 October 2023, and signed on behalf of the board of trustees by:
The trustees' annual report was approved on 31 October 2023 and signed on behalf of the board of trustees by:
Sr B M Baker
Mother Prioress and Trustee
**Page 3**
## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the financial statements of Carmel The Annunciation ('the charity') for the period ended 31st December 2022.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's financial statements carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
Since the charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the financial statements do not accord with those records; or
3. the financial statements do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair' view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Ben Russell FCA Independent Examiner
First Floor, 2 Castle Buildings 147-149 Telegraph Road Heswall Wirral CH60 7SE
31 October 2023
**Page 4**
## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Statement of Financial Activities**
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
|||**Period from**|**20 Jun 22 to**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**31 Dec 22**||
|||Unrestricted||
|||funds|**Total funds**|
||**Note**|**£**|**£**|
|**Income and endowments**||||
|Donations and legacies|**4**|277,672|277,672|
|Investment income|**5**|171|171|
|Other income|**6**|102,491|102,491|
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|**Total income**||380,334|380,334|
|||`═════════`|`═════════`|
|**Expenditure**||||
|Expenditure on charitable activities|**7,8**|110,684|110,684|
|||`─────────`|`─────────`|
|**Total expenditure**||110,684|110,684|
|||`═════════`|`═════════`|
|||`─────────`|`─────────`|
|**Net income and net movement in funds**||269,650|269,650|
|||`═════════`|`═════════`|
|**Reconciliation of funds**||||
|Total funds brought forward||–|–|
|||`─────────`|`─────────`|
|**Total funds carried forward**||269,650|269,650|
|||`═════════`|`═════════`|
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.
**The notes on pages 7 to 13 form part of these financial statements.**
**Page 5**
## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Statement of Financial Position**
## **31st December 2022**
|||**31 Dec 22**|
|---|---|---|
||**Note**|**£**|
|**Fixed assets**|||
|Tangible fixed assets|**13**|135,978|
|**Current assets**|||
|Debtors|**14**|1,198|
|Cash at bank and in hand||136,809|
|||`─────────`|
|||138,007|
|**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**|**15**|4,335|
|||`─────────`|
|**Net current assets**||133,672|
|||`─────────`|
|**Total assets less current liabilities**||269,650|
|||`─────────`|
|**Net assets**||269,650|
|||`═════════`|
|**Funds of the charity**|||
|Unrestricted funds||269,650|
|||`─────────`|
|**Total charity funds**|**16**|269,650
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These financial statements were approved by the board of trustees and authorised for issue on 31 October 2023, and are signed on behalf of the board by:
Sr B M Baker
Mother Prioress and Trustee
**The notes on pages 7 to 13 form part of these financial statements.**
**Page 6**
## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Statement of Cash Flows**
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
||**31 Dec 22**|
|---|---|
||**£**|
|**Cash flows from operating activities**||
|Net income|269,650|
|_Adjustments for:_||
|Depreciation of tangible fixed assets|2,775|
|Other interest receivable and similar income|(171)|
|Interest payable and similar charges|82|
|Accrued expenses|4,335|
|_Changes in:_||
|Trade and other debtors|(1,198)|
||`─────────`|
|Cash generated from operations|275,473|
|Interest paid|(82)|
|Interest received|171|
||`─────────`|
|Net cash from operating activities|275,562|
||`═════════`|
|**Cash flows from investing activities**||
|Purchase of tangible assets|(138,753)|
||`─────────`|
|Net cash used in investing activities|(138,753)|
||`═════════`|
|**Net increase in cash and cash equivalents**|136,809|
|**Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period**|–|
||`─────────`|
|**Cash and cash equivalents at end of period**|136,809|
||`═════════`|
**The notes on pages 7 to 13 form part of these financial statements.**
**Page 7**
## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
## **1. General information**
The charity is a public benefit entity and a registered charity in England and Wales and is unincorporated. The address of the principal office is 12 Grosvenor Place, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH43 1UA.
## **2. Statement of compliance**
These financial statements have been prepared in compliance with FRS 102, 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland', the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (Charities SORP (FRS 102)) and the Charities Act 2011.
## **3. Accounting policies**
## **Basis of preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared on the historical cost basis, as modified by the revaluation of certain financial assets and liabilities and investment properties measured at fair value through income or expenditure.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the entity.
## **Going concern**
There are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees to further any of the charity's purposes.
Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular future project or commitment.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure declared by the donor or through the terms of an appeal and fall into one of two sub-classes: restricted income funds or endowment funds.
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## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements** _**(continued)**_
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
## **3. Accounting policies** _**(continued)**_
## **Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when entitlement has passed to the charity; it is probable that the economic benefits associated with the transaction will flow to the charity and the amount can be reliably measured. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:
- income from donations or grants is recognised when there is evidence of entitlement to the gift, receipt is probable and its amount can be measured reliably.
- legacy income is recognised when receipt is probable and entitlement is established.
- income from donated goods is measured at the fair value of the goods unless this is impractical to measure reliably, in which case the value is derived from the cost to the donor or the estimated resale value. Donated facilities and services are recognised in the accounts when received if the value can be reliably measured. No amounts are included for the contribution of general volunteers.
- income from contracts for the supply of services is recognised with the delivery of the contracted service. This is classified as unrestricted funds unless there is a contractual requirement for it to be spent on a particular purpose and returned if unspent, in which case it may be regarded as restricted.
## **Resources expended**
Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is classified under headings of the statement of financial activities to which it relates:
- expenditure on raising funds includes the costs of all fundraising activities, events, non-charitable trading activities, and the sale of donated goods.
- expenditure on charitable activities includes all costs incurred by a charity in undertaking activities that further its charitable aims for the benefit of its beneficiaries, including those support costs and costs relating to the governance of the charity apportioned to charitable activities.
- other expenditure includes all expenditure that is neither related to raising funds for the charity nor part of its expenditure on charitable activities.
All costs are allocated to expenditure categories reflecting the use of the resource. Direct costs attributable to a single activity are allocated directly to that activity. Shared costs are apportioned between the activities they contribute to on a reasonable, justifiable and consistent basis.
## **Tangible assets**
Tangible assets are initially recorded at cost, and subsequently stated at cost less any accumulated depreciation and impairment losses. Any tangible assets carried at revalued amounts are recorded at the fair value at the date of revaluation less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.
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## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements** _**(continued)**_
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
## **3. Accounting policies** _**(continued)**_
## **Tangible assets** _**(continued)**_
An increase in the carrying amount of an asset as a result of a revaluation, is recognised in other recognised gains and losses, unless it reverses a charge for impairment that has previously been recognised as expenditure within the statement of financial activities. A decrease in the carrying amount of an asset as a result of revaluation, is recognised in other recognised gains and losses, except to which it offsets any previous revaluation gain, in which case the loss is shown within other recognised gains and losses on the statement of financial activities.
## **Depreciation**
Depreciation is calculated so as to write off the cost or valuation of an asset, less its residual value, over the useful economic life of that asset as follows:
Freehold property
- 2% straight line
## **Impairment of fixed assets**
A review for indicators of impairment is carried out at each reporting date, with the recoverable amount being estimated where such indicators exist. Where the carrying value exceeds the recoverable amount, the asset is impaired accordingly. Prior impairments are also reviewed for possible reversal at each reporting date.
For the purposes of impairment testing, when it is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of an individual asset, an estimate is made of the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs. The cash-generating unit is the smallest identifiable group of assets that includes the asset and generates cash inflows that largely independent of the cash inflows from other assets or groups of assets.
For impairment testing of goodwill, the goodwill acquired in a business combination is, from the acquisition date, allocated to each of the cash-generating units that are expected to benefit from the synergies of the combination, irrespective of whether other assets or liabilities of the charity are assigned to those units.
## **Financial instruments**
A financial asset or a financial liability is recognised only when the charity becomes a party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at the amount receivable or payable including any related transaction costs.
Current assets and current liabilities are subsequently measured at the cash or other consideration expected to be paid or received and not discounted.
Debt instruments are subsequently measured at amortised cost.
Where investments in shares are publicly traded or their fair value can otherwise be measured reliably, the investment is subsequently measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognised in income and expenditure. All other such investments are subsequently measured at cost less impairment.
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## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements** _**(continued)**_
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
## **3. Accounting policies** _**(continued)**_
## **Financial instruments** _**(continued)**_
Other financial instruments, including derivatives, are initially recognised at fair value, unless payment for an asset is deferred beyond normal business terms or financed at a rate of interest that is not a market rate, in which case the asset is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest for a similar debt instrument.
Other financial instruments are subsequently measured at fair value, with any changes recognised in the statement of financial activities, with the exception of hedging instruments in a designated hedging relationship.
Financial assets that are measured at cost or amortised cost are reviewed for objective evidence of impairment at the end of each reporting date. If there is objective evidence of impairment, an impairment loss is recognised under the appropriate heading in the statement of financial activities in which the initial gain was recognised.
For all equity instruments regardless of significance, and other financial assets that are individually significant, these are assessed individually for impairment. Other financial assets are either assessed individually or grouped on the basis of similar credit risk characteristics.
Any reversals of impairment are recognised immediately, to the extent that the reversal does not result in a carrying amount of the financial asset that exceeds what the carrying amount would have been had the impairment not previously been recognised.
## **4. Donations and legacies**
||Unrestricted|**Total Funds**|
|---|---|---|
||Funds|**2022**|
||£|**£**|
|**Donations**|||
|Donations|260,304|260,304|
|Pensions received|17,036|17,036|
|Donations for altar breads|332|332|
||`─────────`|`─────────`|
||277,672|277,672|
||`═════════`|`═════════`|
## **5. Investment income**
|||Unrestricted|**Total Funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||Funds|**2022**|
|||£|**£**|
||Bank interest receivable|171|171|
|||`════`|`════`|
|**6.**|**Other income**|||
|||Unrestricted|**Total Funds**|
|||Funds|**2022**|
|||£|**£**|
||Transfer of funds from predecessor entity|102,491|102,491|
|||`═════════`|`═════════`|
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## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements** _**(continued)**_
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
## **7. Expenditure on charitable activities by fund type**
||Unrestricted|**Total Funds**|
|---|---|---|
||Funds|**2022**|
||£|**£**|
|Provision of facilities|109,348|109,348|
|Support costs|1,336|1,336|
||`─────────`|`─────────`|
||110,684|110,684|
||`═════════`|`═════════`|
## **8. Expenditure on charitable activities by activity type**
||Activities|||
|---|---|---|---|
||undertaken||**Total funds**|
||directly Support costs||**2022**|
||£|£|**£**|
|Provision of facilities|109,348|–|109,348|
|Governance costs|–|1,336|1,336|
||`─────────`|`───────`|`─────────`|
||109,348|1,336|110,684|
||`═════════`|`═══════`|`═════════`|
## **9. Net income**
Net income is stated after charging/(crediting):
||**31**|**Dec 22**|
|---|---|---|
|||**£**|
|Depreciation of tangible fixed assets||2,775
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## **10. Independent examination fees**
||**Period from**|
|---|---|
||**20 Jun 22 to**|
||**31 Dec 22**|
||**£**|
|Fees payable to the independent examiner for:||
|Independent examination of the financial statements|540|
|Other financial services|714|
||`───────`|
||1,254|
||`═══════`|
## **11. Staff costs**
The average head count of employees during the period was Nil.
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## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements** _**(continued)**_
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
## **12. Trustee remuneration and expenses**
No remuneration or other benefits from employment with the charity or a related entity were received by the trustees.
## **13. Tangible fixed assets**
|||**Freehold**|
|---|---|---|
|||**property**|
|||**£**|
||**Cost**||
||At 20th June 2022|–|
||Additions|138,753|
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||**At 31st December 2022**|138,753|
|||`═════════`|
||**Depreciation**||
||At 20th June 2022|–|
||Charge for the period|2,775|
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||**At 31st December 2022**|2,775|
|||`═════════`|
||**Carrying amount**||
||**At 31st December 2022**|135,978|
|||`═════════`|
|**14.**|**Debtors**||
|||**31 Dec 22**|
|||**£**|
||Prepayments and accrued income|1,198|
|||`═══════`|
|**15.**|**Creditors:** **amounts falling due within one year**||
Accruals and deferred income
**31 Dec 22 £** 4,335 `═══════`
## **16. Analysis of charitable funds Unrestricted funds**
|**Unrestricted funds**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**At**|
||At|||**31st**|**December**|
||20th June|2022|Income|Expenditure|**2022**|
|||£|£|£|£|
|General funds||–|380,334|(110,684)|269,650|
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## **Carmel The Annunciation**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements** _**(continued)**_
## **Period from 20th June 2022 to 31st December 2022**
## **17. Analysis of net assets between funds**
||Unrestricted|**Total Funds**|
|---|---|---|
||Funds|**2022**|
||£|**£**|
|Tangible fixed assets|135,978|135,978|
|Current assets|138,007|138,007|
|Creditors less than 1 year|(4,335)|(4,335)|
||`─────────`|`─────────`|
|**Net assets**|269,650|269,650|
||`═════════`|`═════════`|