Charity registration number꞉ 1206258
FREEDOM CHURCH CARDIFF TRUSTEES' REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD 19 DECEMBER 2023 TO 31 MARCH 2025
Freedom Church Cardiff Contents
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| Trustees'Report | 1—4 |
| IndependentExaminer'sReport | 5 |
| StatementofFinancialActivities | 6—7 |
| StatementofFinancialPosition | 8 |
| NotestotheFinancialStatements | 9—13 |
Freedom Church Cardiff Trustees' Report For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the period ended 31 March 2025.
Objectives and Activities
Aims and Objectives
The core objectives of Freedom Church Cardiff, are summarised as follows꞉
The advancement of the Christian religion mainly, but not exclusively, by means of꞉ broadcasting Christian messages of an evangelistic and teaching nature; holding meetings; and producing or distributing literature about Christianity. The prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship anywhere in the world by providing or assisting through all necessary support to help individuals be self‑sufficient. To advance in life and help young people through activities, training and support. The relief of persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress, or who are aged or sick.
Our mission statement captures the essence of these aims; 'Connecting anyone anywhere to a life‑changing relationship with Jesus'. Our vision at Freedom Church Cardiff is to see ‘A Large Vibrant Life Giving Generous Church’.
Core long term objectives are to꞉
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● Grow our church and begin new churches.
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● Develop and diversify our approach to building church.
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● Strategically develop our staff and volunteer teams to support the growth of the church and to serve and engage the local community.
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● Increase our digital platform and broadcast capabilities thereby increasing engagement in person and online.
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● Continue to strengthen our financial planning capability, increasing our financial stability whilst remaining generous in our giving.
We continue to foster strong relationships with churches around the world maintaining close links with sister church communities in Europe, North America, East Africa, South Africa, India and South East Asia. We benefit greatly from these close partnerships, and offer help where beneficial.
Freedom Church Cardiff relies heavily on the contribution of volunteers who are actively involved in almost every aspect of Freedom Church Cardiff and the delivery of our services, events, ministries and programmes. A large percentage of our church members volunteer at our events supporting the staff and leadership team, and we are very grateful for their time, passion, and skills.
Public Benefit Core to our approach as a charity is the objective of generating a public benefit. We continue to do this in all of the areas of our activity. The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 4 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. The CIO complies with the Code of Fundraising Practice. It does not engage the services of professional fundraisers commercial participators.
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of Section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
Achievements and Performance
Main Achievements
The 2024‑25 year has been an exciting year which ushered in a new era in Freedom Church Cardiff. At ‘The Charge’, which is our Annual leaders gathering held in October 2023, it was announced that a localised ministry in Cardiff would be launched from our central church location, Freedom Church Hereford. This move provided for local church leadership with increased autonomy to better reach our local community promoting healthy and sustainable growth in our church. We remain part of the Freedom Nation and under the ultimate leadership of our senior pastors and directional leadership team.
Freedom Church Cardiff gained Charity status in January 2024 and the first board of Trustees was established. A major step towards increasing the capacity of the church to achieve our charitable aims, vision and core aims was to employ our incumbent Lead Pastor in a full time capacity May 2024. With this we were able to provide a live message each week in place of a pre‑recorded broadcast and we are confident that this has contributed significantly to our growth and connectivity to our community. An associate Pastor was also appointed for one day a week to oversee our women’s ministry known as ‘She’ and to act as our Safeguarding Lead. In this year we saw our church in Cardiff grow from an average weekly congregation of 127 people to an average of 156 people each week. 17 people were baptised during the year and 28 people responded to the message of the Gospel indicating they wanted to give their life to Jesus.
The diversity of our congregation continues to increase each week notably with the numbers of young people in attendance. The church this year increased it’s reach into many different spheres such as professionals, students, entrepreneurs, creatives, single parents, increased age diversity and nationalities reflecting the community we serve. During the reporting period we have provided opportunities for people to join together and learn more about our faith and how it applies in everyday life. This included a marriage course helping to build strong marriages, a Bible course unpacking the timeless truths of the Bible and helping people understand the context and the content of it. A community group met and helped individuals with practical needs such as transforming the garden of a single mum undergoing treatment for cancer to become a place her and her children can enjoy. At Christmas we supported Boomerang and Age Cymru with their Christmas projects with our church donating gifts to be distributed by those local organisations.
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Freedom Church Cardiff Trustees' Report (continued) For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
Main Achievements ‑ continued
26 young people attended Rocknations, a youth conference in Bradford. This incredible event saw our young people impacted by the messages and the worship while giving them the opportunity to travel and see other expressions of the Christian faith..
Our Leadership Night School is where we train and equip emerging and developing leaders within our church with the skills learnt being transferable to apply in all aspects of life and faith. This is our only paid course covering the cost of venue hire, materials and teaching and this reflects the benefits of the course to the individual and the commitment required by all involved. The costs include tickets to our annual church conference The Cave, and our annual leaders event The Charge.
During this reporting period a significant proportion of our spend has been on venue hire for our meetings and events and storage costs for equipment and our aim for the 20205 to 2026 reporting period is to reduce storage costs and spend on private venue hire by securing offices to serve our community with a place to gather, for ministry operations to be based and for a continued increase in the quality of broadcast media.
2024 to 2025 has been a year of foundation laying in our processes and policies, a year of growth in our leaders and congregation and has set the stage for future generations to continue to build a vibrant, life giving, generous church.
Structure, Governance and Management
Governing Document
Freedom Church Cardiff is a constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and is part of a movement of churches known as Freedom Church.
Trustee Selection Methods
Trustees of Freedom Church Cardiff are recruited and appointed from within the organisation's membership.
Trustees are recruited for an initial term of three years taking our current board into December 2026. Changes to the board will be made by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment, the trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. All new trustees are provided with the Charity Commission's guidance on the duties of a trustee.
Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
The board of trustees is charged with ensuring that Freedom Church meets its charitable aims in an appropriate, legal and accountable manner
The trustees provide governance oversight to the church's Pastors who work closely with our directional leadership team and area leaders to apply that governance, accountability and process to the everyday operations of the church. The safety and wellbeing of our church members and staff remains a key priority for us and therefore we have continued our investment in safeguarding training for all our Trustees, staff and volunteers. A large number of the decisions relating to the CIO are made by the Pastors and directional leadership team but are subject to the accountability, approval and oversight of the board of trustees. The board of trustees makes all decisions relating to remuneration of staff and use benchmarked salaries against equivalent roles in other sectors.
The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The law applicable to charities in England and Wales, the Charities Act 2011, Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charity for that period.
In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; observe the methods and principles in the Charity SORP; make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; * prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
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Freedom Church Cardiff Trustees' Report (continued) For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
Reference and Administrative Details
Trustees
Miss Joanne Sutcliffe ‑ Chair (appointed 19/12/2023) Mrs Ominogho Otote ‑ Trustee (appointed 19/12/2023) Mr Daniel Martin ‑ Trustee (appointed 19/12/2023)
Charity Number
1206258
Principal Address
Freedom Church Unit 2 Coopers Yard Curran Road Cardiff CF10 5NB
Independent Examiner
Thompson & Co Thompson & Co SME House Holme Lacy Industrial Estate Hereford HR2 6DR
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Freedom Church Cardiff Trustees' Report (continued) For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by꞉
Mrs Omonigho Florence Otote (Feb 4, 2026 19:56:51 GMT) Daniel Martin (Feb 5, 2026 08:05:34 GMT) Miss Joanne Sutcliffe Mrs Ominogho Otote Mr Daniel Martin Trustee Trustee Trustee 04/02/2026
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Freedom Church Cardiff Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Freedom Church Cardiff For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Freedom Church Cardiff (the Trust) for the period ended 31 March 2025.
Responsibilities and Basis of Report
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation 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 Examiner's Statement
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꞉
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1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
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3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and contents 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.
Thompson & Co
04/02/2026 SME House Holme Lacy Industrial Estate Hereford HR2 6DR
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Freedom Church Cardiff Statement of Financial Activities For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
| Notes INCOMEANDENDOWMENTSFROM꞉ Donationsandlegacies 3 Charitableactivities꞉ Kids LeadershipAcademy She Zeal Othertradingactivities 4 Investments 5 EXPENDITUREON꞉ Charitableactivities꞉ 7 Barbarians Cafe CommunityStream CreativityStream Events Facilities Finance GuestServices Kids LeadersTeam LeadershipAcademy Marketing OutreachEvents Pastors Production/Worship ProfessionalServices She Streams SundayNightChurch SundayServices Volunteering YoungAdults Zeal NETINCOME NETMOVEMENTINFUNDS RECONCILIATIONOFFUNDS꞉ Totalfundsbroughtforward TOTALFUNDSCARRIEDFORWARD 15 |
Unrestricted funds £ 198,571 96 880 1,157 620 660 147 |
Restricted funds £ 1,415 ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ |
31March 2025 Totalfunds £ 199,986 96 880 1,157 620 660 147 |
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| 202,131 | 1,415 | 203,546 | |
| (196) (1,783) (688) (29) (1,275) (49,905) (16,146) (321) (2,461) (700) (616) (766) (510) (37,476) (2,993) (2,660) (3,355) (667) |
‑ ‑ (10) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ (43) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ (30) ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ |
(196) (1,783) (698) (29) (1,275) (49,905) (16,146) (321) (2,504) (700) (616) (766) (510) (37,506) (2,993) (2,660) (3,355) (667) |
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| (150) (1,438) (2,561) (130) (5,866) |
‑ (100) ‑ ‑ ‑ |
(150) (1,538) (2,561) (130) (5,866) |
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| (132,692) | (183) | (132,875) | |
| 69,439 | 1,232 | 70,671 | |
| 69,439 ‑ |
1,232 ‑ |
70,671 ‑ |
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| 69,439 | 1,232 | 70,671 |
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Freedom Church Cardiff Statement of Financial Activities (continued) For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
The notes on pages 9 to 13 form part of these financial statements.
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Freedom Church Cardiff Statement of Financial Position As At 31 March 2025
| Notes FIXEDASSETS TangibleAssets 11 CURRENTASSETS Debtors 12 Cashatbankandinhand Creditors꞉AmountsFallingDueWithinOneYear 13 NETCURRENTASSETS(LIABILITIES) TOTALASSETSLESSCURRENTLIABILITIES NETASSETS FUNDSOFTHECHARITY RestrictedFunds UnrestrictedFunds TOTALFUNDS 15 Onbehalfoftheboard MissJoanneSutcliffe Trustee MrsOminoghoOtote Trustee MrDanielMartin Trustee 04/02/2026 Mrs Omonigho Florence Otote (Feb 4, 2026 19:56:51 GMT) Daniel Martin (Feb 5, 2026 08:05:34 G |
Unrestricted funds £ 3,656 |
Restricted funds £ ‑ |
31March 2025 Totalfunds £ 3,656 |
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| 3,656 3,130 73,369 |
‑ ‑ 1,232 |
3,656 3,130 74,601 |
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| 76,499 (10,716) |
1,232 ‑ |
77,731 (10,716) |
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| 65,783 | 1,232 | 67,015 | |
| 69,439 | 1,232 | 70,671 | |
| 69,439 | 1,232 | 70,671 | |
| MT) | 1,232 69,439 |
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| 70,671 | |||
The notes on pages 9 to 13 form part of these financial statements.
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Freedom Church Cardiff Notes to the Financial Statements For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
- General Information Freedom Church Cardiff is a charitable incorporated organisation registered with the Charity Commission, registered charity number 1206258. The principal address is Freedom Church, Unit 2 Coopers Yard, Curran Road, Cardiff, CF10 5NB.
| 2. AccountingPolicies 2.1. BasisofPreparationofFinancialStatements ThefinancialstatementshavebeenpreparedinaccordancewiththeCharitiesSORP(FRS102)"AccountingandReportingbyCharities꞉StatementofRecommendedPr accordancewiththeFinancialReportingStandardapplicableintheUKandRepublicofIreland(FRS102)(effective1January2019)",FinancialReportingStandard10 andRepublicofIreland"andtheCharitiesAct2011. ThecharityisaPublicBenefitEntityasdefinedbyFRS102. 2.2. IncomingResources AllincomeisrecognisedintheStatementofFinancialActivitiesoncethecharityhasentitlementtothefunds,itisprobablethattheincomewillbereceivedandtheamo 2.3. DonatedGoodsandServices Donatedgoodsandservicesarerecognisedatopenmarketvaluewhenthebenefitisreliablymeasureable 2.4. ResourcesExpended Liabilitiesarerecognisedasexpenditureassoonasthereisalegalorconstructiveobligationcommittingthecharitytothatexpenditure,itisprobablethatatransferofe amountoftheobligationcanbemeasuredreliably.Expenditureisaccountedforonanaccrualsbasisandhasbeenclassifiedunderheadingsthataggregateallcostrelate toparticularheadingstheyhavebeenallocatedtoactivitiesonabasisconsistentwiththeuseofresources. 2.5. TangibleFixedAssetsandDepreciation Tangiblefixedassetsaremeasuredatcostlessaccumulateddepreciationandanyaccumulatedimpairmentlosses.Depreciationisprovidedatratescalculatedtowriteof value,overtheirexpectedusefullivesonthefollowingbases꞉ ComputerEquipment 33.33%straightline Individualfixedassetscosting£500ormoreareinitiallyrecordedatcost,lessanysubsequentaccumulateddepreciationandsubsequentaccumulatedimpairmentlosses. valuewithgainsandlossesrecordedthroughthestatementoffinancialactivities. 2.6. CashandCashEquivalents Cashandcashequivalentsarebasicfinancialassetsandincludecashinhandanddepositsheldatcallwithbanks,othershort‑termhighlyliquidinvestmentsthatmature andarereadilyconvertibletoaknownamountofcashwithinsignificantriskofchangeinvalue,andbankoverdrafts. 2.7. ForeignCurrencies Monetaryassetsandliabilitiesinforeigncurrenciesaretranslatedintosterlingattheratesofexchangerulingatthestatementoffinancialpositiondate.Transactionsinf rulingonthedateofthetransaction.Exchangedifferencesaretakenintoaccountinarrivingattheoperatingsurplus. 3. IncomefromDonationsandLegacies Donationsandgifts Donatedgoods,facilitiesandservices |
acticeapplicableto 2"TheFinancialRe untcanbemeasure conomicbenefitswi dtothecategory.W fthecostofthefixe Freeholdproperty‑ innomorethanthre oreigncurrenciesar Unrestricted funds £ 197,327 1,244 |
charitiespreparingt portingStandardap dreliably llberequiredinsett herecostscannotb dassets,lesstheire whereapplicable‑ emonthsfromthe etranslatedintoster Restricted funds £ 1,415 ‑ |
heiraccountsin plicableintheUK lement,andthe edirectlyattributed stimatedresidual isrecordedatfair dateofacquisition lingattherate 31March2025 Total funds £ 198,742 1,244 |
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| 198,571 | 1,415 | 199,986 |
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Freedom Church Cardiff Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
| 4. IncomefromOtherTradingActivities Saleofdonatedandboughtingoods Cafesales 5. InvestmentIncome Bankinterestreceivable 6. NetIncome/(Expenditure) Thenetincomeisstatedaftercharging/(crediting)꞉ Depreciationoftangiblefixedassets‑owned 7. AnalysisofExpenditure Activities undertaken directly Supportcosts (seenote8) £ £ Barbarians 32 164 Cafe 1,517 266 CommunityStream ‑ 698 CreativityStream 29 ‑ Events 64 1,211 Facilities ‑ 49,905 Finance 14 16,132 GuestServices 168 153 Kids 1,736 768 LeadersTeam 408 292 LeadershipAcademy 4 612 Marketing ‑ 766 OutreachEvents ‑ 510 Pastors 220 37,286 Production/Worship 358 2,635 ProfessionalServices ‑ 2,660 She 1,306 2,049 Streams[All] 607 60 SundayNightChurch ‑ 150 SundayServices 314 1,224 |
31March2025 Unrestricted funds £ 443 217 660 31March2025 Unrestricted funds £ 147 31March2025 £ 1,812 31March2025 Total £ 196 1,783 698 29 1,275 49,905 16,146 321 2,504 700 616 766 510 37,506 2,993 2,660 3,355 667 150 1,538 ...CONTINUED |
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Freedom Church Cardiff Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
| Volunteering YoungAdults Zeal 8. SupportCosts Employeecosts Premisesexpenses General administration Depreciation 9. StaffCosts Staffcostswereasf Wagesandsalaries Otherpensioncost |
Barbarians £ ‑ ‑ 164 ‑ |
Cafe £ ‑ 1 265 ‑ |
Community Stream £ ‑ ‑ 698 ‑ |
Events £ ‑ 1,209 2 ‑ |
Facilities £ ‑ 37,490 12,415 ‑ |
Finance £ 32 ‑ 16,100 ‑ |
GuestServices £ ‑ ‑ 153 ‑ |
Kids £ ‑ 223 545 ‑ |
1,369 130 413 |
1,192 ‑ 5,453 |
2,561 130 5,866 |
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| 8,689 | 124,186 | 132,875 | ||||||||||||
| LeadersTeam £ ‑ 23 269 ‑ |
Leadership Academy £ 4 110 498 ‑ |
Marketing £ ‑ ‑ 766 ‑ |
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| 164 | 266 | 698 | 1,211 | 49,905 | 16,132 | 153 | 768 | 292 | 612 | 766 | ||||
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31March2025 £ 33,148 575 |
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| 33,723 |
No employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) for the reporting period of more than £60,000. 10. Average Number of Employees Average number of employees during the period was꞉ 2 11. Tangible Assets
| Cost Asat19December2023 Additions Asat31March2025 Depreciation Asat19December2023 Providedduringtheperiod Asat31March2025 NetBookValue Asat31March2025 Asat19December2023 |
Computer Equipment £ ‑ 5,468 |
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| 5,468 | |
| ‑ 1,812 |
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| 1,812 | |
| 3,656 | |
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Freedom Church Cardiff Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
- Debtors
| 2. Debtors |
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| Duewithinoneyear Tradedebtors Otherdebtors 3. Creditors꞉AmountsFallingDueWithinOneYear Tradecreditors Othercreditors Taxationandsocialsecurity Accrualsanddeferredincome |
31March2025 £ 78 3,052 |
| 3,130 | |
| 31March2025 £ 8,774 168 349 1,425 |
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| 10,716 |
- Creditors꞉ Amounts Falling Due Within One Year
14. Pension Commitments
The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the charity in an independently administered fund. During the period the charge to the statement of financial activities in respect of defined contribution schemes was £575.
At the statement of financial position date contributions of £168 were due to the fund and are included in creditors.
- Movement in Funds
| 5. MovementinFunds |
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| Unrestrictedfunds General꞉ Generalunrestrictedfund Restrictedfunds Restricted Totalfunds |
Asat19 December2023 £ ‑ ‑ |
Income £ 202,131 1,415 |
Expenditure £ (132,692) (183) |
Asat31March 2025 £ 69,439 1,232 |
| ‑ | 203,546 | (132,875) | 70,671 |
16. Transactions with Trustees
None of the trustees received any remuneration or any other benefits from an employment with the charity or a related entity during the current year.
During the period the expenses reimbursed to the trustees or paid directly to third parties were as follows꞉
Other Expenses
31 March 2025 £ 142
Number of trustees reimbursed for expenses during the period was 2
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Freedom Church Cardiff Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the Period 19 December 2023 to 31 March 2025
17. Related Party Disclosures
Silk Futures CIC
Toni Andrews ‑ Employee ‑ is a Director
During the reporting period, the Charity paid £1,250 to Silk Futures CIC for AV Equipment. At the balance sheet date, there was a balance of £Nil owing to the related party
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