## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 01/08/2024 Period start date To 31/07/2025 Period end date**
**Charity name:** ERITREAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ST BUNETEKLEHAIMANOT CHURCH
**Charity registration number:** 1200917
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION,
PARTICULARLY THE ORTHODOX FAITH, BY
ORGANISING, PROVIDING, AND DEVELOPING
CHURCH SERVICES AND ANCILLARY RELIGIOUS
ACTIVITIES.
TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ALONG
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LINES, PARTICULARLY
CONCERNING THE ERITREAN LANGUAGE AND
CULTURE.|
|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||
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18||
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers
Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
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|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|
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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|The Church has provided access to its services
to all parishioners for a peaceful worship
the Trustees have ensured the Church
delivered its objectives proportionately and
peacefully to the congregation.
The Trustees are committed to ensuring
regulatory compliances are met by filing
accounts and returns within the statutory filling
periods and monitoring the
operation of effective financial and operational
controls.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 financial position at the end of the period Statement explaining the Para 1.22 policy for holding reserves stating why they are held Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 reserves Details of fund materially in Para 1.24 deficit Explanation of any Para 1.23 uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25||
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25||
|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||
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
Charity name Other name the charity uses Registered charity number Charity’s principal address
Names of the charlty trustees who manage the charlty
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## **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**
Declaratlons
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees. report above.
Signed on b¢ho11 of the charlty's trustees
Slgnature(s)
Full namè(s)
MISGHNA HABTEYESUS
KAHSAY
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Chalr, etc)
Chair
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Charity Name No (if any)
ERITREAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ST ABUNE TEKLEHAIMANOT CHURC 1200917
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/08/2024 31/07/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Membership contribution 21,580 - - 21,580 -
Collection & Church Boxes 11,505 - - 11,505 -
Voluntry Contribution 26,200 - - 26,200 -
Baptism 1,600 - - 1,600 -
- - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 60,885 - - 60,885 -
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 60,885 - - 60,885 -
A3 Payments
Venue Hire and Heating 3,640 - - 3,640 -
Management and administration of the charity 4,500 - - 4,500 -
Professional fees 150 - - 150 -
Travel & Substance 3,247 - - 3,247 -
Subscriptions 7,900 - - 7,900 -
Adminstration costs 1,720 - - 1,720 -
Bank charges 277 - - 277 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 21,434 ] - - 21,434 -
A4 Asset and investment purchases,
(see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments [ 21,434 ] - - 21,434 -
Net of receipts/(payments) 39,451 - - 39,451 -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end 39,451 - - 39,451 -
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
19/11/2025
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all
the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**
**own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
2|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**72,982**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**72,982**
**-**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**When due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
Print Name
19/11/2025|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name ERITREAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ST ABUNE TEKLEHAIMANOT **members of** CHURCH
**On accounts for the year** 31/07/2025 **Charity no** 1200917 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 03 / 2024.**
**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed: Name:** D Shire **Relevant professional** CIMA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 62 Bloomfield Road Leicester LE2 6LA
**Date:** 24/10/2025
1
**October 2018**
**IER**
**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
2
**October 2018**
**IER**