## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 12 January 2023 **To** 31 March 2024 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** ACOUSTIC 84 COMMUNITIES **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1201559 **Charity's principal address** 8 Mulberry Gardens Charlton Down ## DORCHESTER > **Postcode DT2 9FJ** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||Benjamin Lucas|Chair||| |||Caroline Couzens|Trustee|Proposed for 2024|| |||Christine Leach|Trustee||| |||Kimberly
Huntington|Trustee||| |||Christopher Leach|Trustee(Secretary)||| |||Rev. Emma Lucas|Trustee||| |||KayElliott|Trustee||| |||Peter House|Trustee(Treasurer)||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| |||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| |||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| ||||||| ||||||| March **2012** **TAR** 1 |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** CIO Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Association registered January 2023 How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by Trustees board. Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** - We have developed the following policies: - You **may choose** to include additional information, where Safeguarding: - relevant, about: We are developing a Safeguarding policy. 2 trustees have undergone - policies and procedures safeguarding training provided by Baptist Union of Great Britain level 3. adopted for the induction and The remaining trustees will do the training in 2024. training of trustees; Finance control: - the charity’s organisational We have a finance committee of Trustees who hold regular meetings to - structure and any wider approve and review the payment of fees, grant payments and other - network with which the charity expenditure. - works; - relationship with any related We have regular Trustee meetings to determine direction and evaluate parties; progress. - trustees’ consideration of In addition to the Baptist Union of Great Britain we associate with - major risks and the system Threshold network in Lincoln, Poole Missional Communities, Southern - and procedures to manage Counties Baptist Association, Rural Ministries and Dorset Pioneer - them. Network. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** March **2012** **TAR** 2 To see a Christian light in every place and space in Dorset. Acoustic84 communities equips people to missionally listen in their **Summary of the objects of the** context. Supports the creation of Christian communities through boats **charity set out in its** and harbours. All with the desire to see Gods Kingdom. **governing document** Regular meetings of small groups of Christians (Boats) for encouragement, prayer, Bible study and general sharing of life together. Monthly meetings of clusters of Boats (Harbours) for worship, teaching, Bible study. Annual meetings with associated groups. Trustees are aware of the guidance on public benefit and have taken this **Summary of the main** into consideration when making decisions. **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)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 Acoustic 84 pays fees and expenses for teaching, guidance, and pastoral care. It also provides grants and expenses for individuals who attend conferences to support their role as missional listeners and leadership of boats. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: Each boat relies on the voluntary support of its members to organise  policy on grantmaking; meetings, encourage each other to listen and respond to the “cry” of the  policy programme related community. investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance Consolidation of boats in Charlton Down and Poundbury. **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** Baptising new members. **during the year** In September we formed a link with a missional listener in Weymouth. Developing relationships with Stoborough Baptist and Parkstone Baptist churches which may lead to the formation of new boats. We jointly began the Threshold Network in Lincolnshire and Norway. ## **Section E Financial review** March **2012** **TAR** 5 N\A **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** Principal sources of income are in the form of grants from: You **may choose** to include additional information, where Southern Counties Baptist association, relevant about: the charity’s principal Rural ministries. - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); In addition, we receive donations from individuals. - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; Expenditure has supported the objectives and achievements. - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** March **2012** **TAR** 6 |**Signature(s)**
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**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Christopher Charles Leach|| ||Trustee / Secretary|| ||20thJanuary 2025|| March **2012** **TAR** 7 ||**Acoustic 84 Communities**
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|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|May-23|**To**||| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**
Garnts
**23,547**
Donations
**1,220**
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**-**
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**24,767**
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**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 24,767**
**A3 Payments**
Fees
**19,063**
Expenses
**2,072**
Hall hire
**575**
Sundries
**412**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**_Sub total_ 22,122**
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**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 22,122**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 2,645**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
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**_Cash funds this year end_ 2,645**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Garnts||**-**
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**(see table).**|||||| ||||||| ||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||| |||**-**|**-**|**24,767**|**-**| ||||||| |
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**-**|**19,063**
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**575**
**412**
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**22,122**|**-**| |Expenses|||||**-**| |Hall hire|||||**-**| |Sundries|||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|||||**-**| |||**-**
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**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **|||||| |||**-**|**-**|**22,122**|**-**| ||||||| |||**-**
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**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||**2,645**
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Print Name
Christopher Leach
Peter House
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**(optional)**| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||Date of
approval| ||Christopher Leach|7th January2025| |Digital signature unavailable|Peter House|**7th January 2025**|