**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 23 08 2024 **To** 31 03 2025
**To**
Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Melbourne Hall Evangelical Free Church
**Other names charity is known by** Melbourne Hall
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1209741
**Charity's principal address** St Peters Road
Leicester
**Postcode LE2 1DB**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Mr CJ Boulter Elder Church members
2 Mr JJ Boulter Deacon Church members
3 Mr GC Bown Deacon Church members
4 Mr CH Grosvenor Secretary & Elder Church members
5 Mr PL Mackenzie Pastor & Elder Church members
6 Mr WD Miller Elder Church members
7 Mr T Oldridge Treasurer & Deacon Church members
8 Mr M Shirfield Deacon Church members
9 Mr MW Simpkin Deacon Church members
10 Mr TS Smith Deacon Church members
11 Mr R Wilson Deacon Resigned 01.12.2024 Church members
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
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**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Constitution
How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trust
Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Appointment by Church members meeting
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
The Charity (CIO) was dormant for the duration of the financial year awaiting the transfer of assets and closure of the old CUA charity which took place on 31[st] May 2025.
- 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.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The purpose of the Church shall be the advancement of the Christian faith in accordance with the Basis of Faith primarily but not exclusively **Summary of the objects of the** within Leicester and the surrounding neighbourhood; and such other **charity set out in its** charitable purposes as shall in the opinion of the Managing Trustees of **governing document** the Church in a general meeting further the work of the Church
||**Objectives and activities**|
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||The purpose of the Church shall be the advancement of the Christian
faith in accordance with the Basis of Faith primarily but not exclusively
within Leicester and the surrounding neighbourhood; and such other
charitable purposes as shall in the opinion of the Managing Trustees of
the Church in a general meeting further the work of the Church|
|**Summary of the main**
**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)**|Our church activities are detailed below. These are all open to the
general public.
**Sunday’s**
9:45am
Sunday School (9 to 18 yrs)
10:45am
Morning Service
– Creche (0 to 2 yrs)
– Sunday School (3 to 8 yrs)
– Lord’s Supper (third Sunday)
– Fellowship Lunch (third Sunday)
5:30pm
Prayer Meeting
6:00pm
Evening Service
– After Church Fellowship (second & fourth Sunday)
– Young People’s After Church +15 yrs (third Sunday)
**Tuesday’s**
6:45pm
Girls’ Brigade
6:45pm
Boys Club
6:45pm
iNvestigators
7:30pm
City Centre Outreach
**Wednesday’s**
7:30pm
Bible Study & Prayer Meeting
**Thursday’s**
10:00am
Women’s Group (second Thursday)
7.30pm Women’s Bible Study (third Thursday)
**Saturday’s**
6:30pm
YPF / +10 yrs Youth Group (last Saturday)
All activities are open to the general public. We have read the Charity
Commission guidelines on Public Benefit and have had regard to the
public benefit guides PB1, PB2 and PB3.|
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**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grant making;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The Charity has been dormant during the year awaiting the closure of the CUA charity.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** The Church Officers constantly review the level of funds and seek to **charity’s policy on reserves** ensure sufficient is carried forward to meet anticipated expenditures necessary to enable the church to continue its activities and to maintain its properties in good condition.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None of the funds are 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);
- 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)** C Grosvenor
**Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** CHAIR **etc)**
**Date**
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## Melbourne Hall Evangelical Free Church
## Unrestricted & Restricted Funds
## As at 31st March 2025
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Fund Opening Income Expenditure Transfers Closing
Balance Balance
23/08/2024 31/03/2025
£ £ £ £
General 0 0 0 0 0
Capital Fund 0 0 0 0
Missionary Fund 0 0 0 0 0
Girls Brigade/Boys Brigade (R) 0 0 0 0 0
Ministry Capital Fund 0 0 0 0
No 2 Capital Fund 0 0 0 0 0
Retirement Fund (R) 0 0 0 0
YPF (R) 0 0 0 0 0
Sunday School (R) 0 0 0 0 0
Gift Day (R) 0 0 0 0
Sundry Donations (R) 0 0 0 0
Totals 0 0 0 0 0
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||Signature
Print Name
C Grosvenor
C Boulter
CLIVE GROSVENOR
CARL BOULTER|Date of
Approval
25.06.25
25.06.25|
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|Signed by two Trustees
on behalf of all the Trustees|||