Docusign Envelope ID: A08BB038-340D-46D1-ACB5-4EEC0BFCC57E **To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 6 4 2023 5 4 2024 **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Family Life and Relationships Trust **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1205095 **Charity's principal address** Hawking Sopers, Spithandle Lane, Steyning, West Sussex **Postcode BN44 3DY** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Jeremy Allan
Jennings|||| ||Patricia Margaret
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Elsdon-Dew|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| ||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |||||| **TAR** March **2012** 1 Docusign Envelope ID: A08BB038-340D-46D1-ACB5-4EEC0BFCC57E **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Nicholas Lee ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) New trustees are appointed by resolution passed at a properly convened Trustee selection methods meeting of the charity trustees. They are selected based on their skills, (eg. appointed by, elected by) knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - 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; - relationship with any related parties; -  trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **TAR** March **2012** 2 Docusign Envelope ID: A08BB038-340D-46D1-ACB5-4EEC0BFCC57E The object of the charity for the public benefit is the advancement of the Christian religion through the provision of retreat spaces to be used by **Summary of the objects of the** those in leadership roles in the Church of England, and other churches in **charity set out in its** communion with it, to promote spiritual growth, support healthy marriages **governing document** and family relationships, restore mental health and promote wellbeing The Charity has provided a safe and secluded retreat space, in the form of a Cottage, for clergy in the Church of England and other Christian denominations, in addition to personalised support and free access to the Family Life courses produced by Nicky and Sila Lee with Alpha International. Clergy and other church leaders and their families have been able to use the Cottage and its outside grounds as a retreat space. Nicky and Sila Lee, who live nearby, have provided pastoral support, especially in the area of family life. They have made their online Marriage and Parenting **Summary of the main** Courses available for any of these couples and parents and have been **activities undertaken for the** available to conduct aspects of these courses in person, if preferred and **public benefit in relation to** requested by the clergy. They have also offered advice and training on **these objects (include within** using these courses in the clergy's home church and local community. **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)** **TAR** March **2012** 3 Docusign Envelope ID: A08BB038-340D-46D1-ACB5-4EEC0BFCC57E You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **TAR** March **2012** 4 Docusign Envelope ID: A08BB038-340D-46D1-ACB5-4EEC0BFCC57E Section D Achievements and erformance p The Cottage was occupied for 102 days/nights over an eight month **Summary of the main** period (from August 2[nd] 2023, when the charity started to welcome **achievements of the charity** guests, to April 5[th] 2024) by 26 couples / families in church leadership **during the year** positions, including one church staff team from a local church in Brighton. They all reported the benefit to their mental and spiritual wellbeing and the importance to their marriage / family life of this retreat away from their normal duties and the pressures of ministry. Nicky and Sila Lee met personally to give pastoral support for all but four couples of those who stayed. These were some of the comments made at the end of their stay: ‘ _‘It has been a hugely joyful and restorative time for us as a family, and we leave feeling ready to take on whatever may be next. This place is special!’ (Church leaders in Nottingham) ‘As a clergy couple with a young child (and a limited budget!), this break has been invaluable… the space to unwind, walk, create, cook, chat is everything when it comes to us feeling rested, and this place has allowed for that. The headspace I have personally felt has been incredible and, at this stage of life and ministry, priceless. Thank you for providing a space that makes it easy to connect with God, family, nature and creativity – please can we come back?!’ (Vicar in the Midlands) ‘This little last-minute stay has proven to be an almighty blessing to our family… As a clergy couple, time for us simply to be – and breathe – has been a total gift and we know that this will be a time to remember. God bless all those who rest here!’ (Clergy wife from London) ‘What a wonderful staff day we have had! Such a blessing to us all, spending time together in such a beautiful and restful retreat. This is certainly something which was much needed after a busy season of church-planting… This has been very restorative and a chance to reflect on the season just gone, as well as a chance to plan, dream and pray together for the season ahead’ (Vicar of church plant in Brighton) ‘We leave feeling rested and energised! The quietness here has fed our souls and the stunning countryside has been a joy to walk through. This cottage is a place of peace, where we have regained a sense of God’s goodness, as we believe others will too in the years to come’ (Clergy couple in Tollington Park, London) ‘It is such a place of peace – the Holy Spirit really permeates this house. We have had such a busy period at church recently and this was the rest we needed’ (Clergy couple who are part of a church planting team in Basingstoke) ‘Thank you for a wonderful and blessed week – holidays on a clergy stipend can be challenging, and this came at the right time for us. We thank God for making it possible. Hearing the cows moo and the owls at night are all sounds the children don’t hear back in Balham’ (Clergy couple with children aged 5 and 2) ‘ Having been somewhat grumpy about time off and a long journey at a busy time of ministry, I was amazed at the almost immediate sense of weights being lifted off my shoulders as we entered this lovely cottage – what a relief to come away and recoup in a place that feels like the warm hug of a dear friend’ (Church planter in Retford)_ **TAR** March **2012** 5 Docusign Envelope ID: A08BB038-340D-46D1-ACB5-4EEC0BFCC57E ## Section D Achievements and erformance p **TAR** March **2012** 6 Docusign Envelope ID: A08BB038-340D-46D1-ACB5-4EEC0BFCC57E ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the** The charity aims to keep enough reserves to cover three months’ expenditure **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); The CEO of the charity, Nicky Lee, and his wife, Sila, write to potential donors when funds are needed. All income to the charity has been to used to pay for necessary expenditure on the cottage, mainly comprising rent, council tax, cleaning, electricity and heating oil. - 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** ## **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)** Jeremy Jennings **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 17.01.24 **TAR** March **2012** 7 Docusign Envelope ID: A08BB038-340D-46D1-ACB5-4EEC0BFCC57E |**Family Life and Relationships Trust**||**1205095**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |5.4.23
Period start date
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|6.4.24
Period end date||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**24,884**
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**24,884**
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**to the nearest £**| |Donations|**24,884**||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**24,884**||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |Firewood|**180**||**-**||**-**||**180**||**-**| |Hedgecutting|**173**||**-**||**-**||**173**||**-**| |Council tax|**2,608**||**-**||**-**||**2,608**||**-**| |Electricity|**1,320**||**-**||**-**||**1,320**||**-**| |Rent of HawkingSopers cottage|**14,400**||**-**||**-**||**14,400**||**-**| |Cleaning|**1,500**||**-**||**-**||**1,500**||**-**| |TV license|**159**||**-**||**-**||**159**||**-**| |Heatingoil|**931**||**-**||**-**||**931**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**21,271**||**-**||**-**||**21,271**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**-**||**3,613**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1/17/2025 1 Docusign Envelope ID: A08BB038-340D-46D1-ACB5-4EEC0BFCC57E ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**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**|NatWest current account 90364988
NatWest 35 day account 90364953
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|NatWest current account 90364988
NatWest 35 day account 90364953
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