Allerton United Reformed Church
Trustees Report for 2020
During the course of the year, no new members joined th¢ ¢hur¢h etther by Profession of
Faith or by Transfer from other churches and 6 members wer¢ removed from the Roll by
death or for other ieasons. number of nam¢s on the Roll of Members decreased to 66.
Pastoral care of church members was exercised infornialty by the Minister and indrvidual
members and fomially by the Elders working through 7 Eld¢rs Districts. Pastoral care
focus¢d partiadarly on helpin8 and encouragin8 the housebound, the sick, the bereaved
and the troubled. esp)ecialty in the ¢ont¢xt of the pandemi¢.
The con8rc8ation met for the public worship of God in the Urrited Refonned Church
tradition on those few Sunday mornings loWed for by lockdown guidelin¢s.
The Chtldren's Organisations ceased to et for rnh of th¢ year due to the lockdown
guiddines. Some were able to keep in touch using Zoom.
The Adult Or8anisations also ceased to meet thJ¢ to the lockdown guid¢Eines.
All th¢ regular social and fundraisins events w¢re wicelled.
The external national organisation Al-Anon, supporting the families of Alcoholics. also
spended its m¢etin83.
Th¢ church supported several clJaritabl¢ causes including th¢ URC Commitment foT Life
Scheme in support of World Development. The Congregational Benevolent Fund gave
donations to several national and local causes. Individuals and church organigations
supported causes such as CJair¢ Hou8¢. The church is an awr¢dited Fair Trade Church.
At a naiional level. t church 5UPPOrted URC nattonal and international charktable projerts
through its monthly contributions io ihe Ministry and Mission Fund and through donation5
to Christian Aid.
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|**ALLERTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH**
**31/12/2020**
**INCOMING RESOURCES**
Donations, legacies and similar incoming resources
1a
(Freewill offering, plates, gift aid and other)
Income from activities in furtherance of charitable objectives
1b
(Funerals and Magazine)
Fundraising Activities
1c
Investment income CCLA / COIF and Mersey Synod Trust
1d
Other incoming resources
1e
Adjustment
Historic discrepancy; adjustment to align published
balance brought forward 1/1/20 to actual figure;
we actually had £13.89 more than the published figure.
**TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES**
**RESOURCES EXPENDED**
Appeals, donations, outreach
2a
Note that sums received by way of appeals for other charities, etc
are not strictly part of our income or expenditure, but rather they
In line with advice received, these are now reported separately fro
Costs of activities for charitable objectives
2b
Support costs + sundry payments
2c
Investment Pool Mersey Synod
2d
**TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**
**NET INCOMING/OUTGOING RESOURCES**
**TOTAL FUNDS BROUGHT FORWARD at**
**LESS FUNDS HELD IN TRUST FROM 2019**
**Hence TOTAL FUNDS at**
**LETTINGS INCOME**
Total lettings income
Total income
**Percentage of income due to lettings**
Maximum percentage permitted by Charity Commissioners|**STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
**Undesignated**
**Designated**
**Total**
45,168.14
240.00
45,408.14
264.10
0.00
264.10
2,516.20
0.00
2,516.20
1,216.08
0.00
1,216.08
17,380.03
1,135.34
18,515.37
13.89
13.89
**66,558.44**
**1,375.34**
**67,933.78**
0.00
425.00
425.00
., and then paid out to those charities,
are sums held in trust.
m our internal church accounts.
47,977.84
4,294.09
52,271.93
1,043.05
0.00
1,043.05
1,167.54
0.00
1,167.54
**50,188.43**
**4,719.09**
**54,907.52**
**16,370.01**
**-3,343.75**
**13,026.26**
**57,446.41**
**1,105.53**
**69,367.14**
11,173.00
67,933.78
**16.4%**
60.0%
**01 January 2020**
**31 December 2020**|
|---|---|
|**ALLERTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH**
**BALANCE SHEET**
**31/12/2020**
**FIXED ASSETS**
Investment Pool held by Mersey Synod; now wound up.
Proceeds of sale paid into bank
Piano
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Bank: Current Account
Coif Account
Bank: Savings Account
Cash Float
Sundry Debtors
Note that Cash Float is actually FWO offertory for 27 December
in dated envelopes, but not actually received until after the New Y
so credited as for 27 December in order to credit it to the correct w
but treated as immediately transferred to Cash Float in order to re
Subsequently banked 12 January 2021.
**TOTAL ASSETS**
**TOTAL FUNDS (i.e. assets other than equipment)**
**CURRENT LIABILITIES**
Outstanding M&M commitment
Agreed partial deferral because of impact of Covid restrictions
Cheques issued and in pipeline
**TOTAL LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS**
General Account
Legacies and In Memoria
Children and Youth
Organ Fund
Flower Fund
Benevolent Fund
Special Covid Equipment
Equipment
**Total Assets (i.e. Total of Funds plus listed Equipment)**
**Current Account Uncommitted Funds**
Balance
Cheques issued and in pipeline
Uncommitted Funds
Note that total of designated funds exclude|**Undesignated**
**Designated**
**Equipment,**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**etc.**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
0.00
0.00
2,000.00
2,000.00
0.00
0.00
**0.00**
**0.00**
**2,000.00**
**2,000.00**
2,496.37
2,496.37
13,262.80
13,262.80
**CC #**
19,464.25
34,464.27
53,928.52
**Sav#**
182.40
182.40
0.00
**35,405.82**
**34,464.27**
**69,870.09**
ear;
eek,
concile with the banking.
**35,405.82**
**34,464.27**
**2,000.00**
**71,870.09**
**35,405.82**
**34,464.27**
**69,870.09**
10,710.00
0.00
10,710.00
251.17
0.00
251.17
0.00
0.00
0.00
**10,961.17**
**0.00**
**10,961.17**
**10,961.17**
**0.00**
**10,961.17**
**24,444.65**
**34,464.27**
**2,000.00**
**60,908.92**
6,132.82
0.00
6,132.82
29,273.00
10,100.20
39,373.20
0.00
805.67
805.67
0.00
22,554.85
22,554.85
0.00
421.13
421.13
0.00
582.42
582.42
0.00
-261.88
-261.88
**35,405.82**
**34,464.27**
**69,608.21**
2,000.00
2,000.00
**35,405.82**
**34,464.27**
**2,000.00**
**71,608.21**
2,496.37
251.17
**2,245.20**
s the "Covid Fund", which is in deficit.|
|---|---|
## **ALLERTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH**
|**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL**
**STATEMENTS**
**31/12/2020**
**1. INCOMING RESOURCES**
1(a) Donations, legacies and similar incoming resources
Freewill offerings
Gift Aid Yellow Envelopes
Collection Plates
Legacies, In Memoriam, & Other Donations
Premises - Special COVID Precautions & Equipment
1(b) Income from activities in furtherance of charitable objectives
Weddings, Funerals, Baptisms + Fees
Tea and Coffee Donations
Messenger Sales & Advertising
Reform Subscriptions
1(c) Income from activities for generating funds
RADS Theatre Dinner
Musical Evening 29 Feb
Sale of Plants & Marmalade
Open Door Coffee Morning
Craft Group, in lieu of Christmas Fayre
Christmas Raffle
C hristmas Card sales
1(d) Investment income
Bank interest received
CCLA Interest retained
Investment Pool with Mersey Synod; Fluctuation
Investment Pool with Mersey Synod; Forced Sale, due
to pooled investment winding up despite our clear objections.
1(e) Other incoming resources
Premises and organizations' donations* (see below)
Grants and other premises income (excluding lettings)
RADS
Tax Refund - Gift Aid
Benevolent Fund (income see note 5)
Flower Fund income
Sundry
Youth & Children
Heart of Liverpool Pastorate; Minister's expenses from
other Churches
St. Stephen's; reimbursement for their humidity sensor
(paid from, and reimbursed to, Organ Fund)
***Premises Income and Organization Donations**
3 Storage containers:
Guides
Rangers
GuidesRADS
Al-Anon
Barnabas Bible Study Group
Beavers
Belly Dancing
Caterpillar Music
Ceroc Dance Group
Dance Group
Guides
Healthy hearts
Kumon
Monday Club
Music Theory Group
Carlton House
Other lettings
Rainbows
4th Allerton Scouts
Tai Chi
Tots & Co
Tumble Tots
VIP Puppets
Yoga
Zumba
The Little Laboratory
Birthday and Other Parties
Giggling Tots
Diddi Dance
Strengthening Wellbeing Together
Barefaced Fit
Ballroom Dancing
Craft Group
Cinderella Panto Filming
Tread Classes
Teeny Tiny Tots|**Undesignated**
**Designated**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
20,918.31
20,918.31
1,940.00
1,940.00
2,661.50
2,661.50
19,648.33
19,648.33
240.00
240.00
0.00
0.00
**45,168.14**
**240.00**
**45,408.14**
2.00
2.00
40.00
40.00
13.60
13.60
208.50
208.50
**264.10**
**0.00**
**264.10**
1,069.20
1,069.20
493.00
493.00
174.00
174.00
43.00
43.00
150.00
150.00
361.00
361.00
226.00
226.00
0.00
0.00
**2,516.20**
**0.00**
**2,516.20**
Fun #
29.28
29.28
34.77
34.77
-15.51
-15.51
1,167.54
1,167.54
**1,216.08**
**0.00**
**1,216.08**
11,173.00
0.00
11,173.00
0.00
0.00
2,000.00
2,000.00
4,181.29
0.00
4,181.29
461.68
461.68
0.00
0.00
25.74
25.74
132.00
132.00
500.00
500.00
41.66
41.66
0.00
**17,380.03**
**1,135.34**
**18,515.37**
210.00
210.00
200.00
200.00
210.00
210.00
120.00
120.00
0.00
0.00
200.00
200.00
200.00
200.00
1,020.00
1,020.00
490.00
490.00
445.00
445.00
240.00
240.00
80.00
80.00
1,392.00
1,392.00
50.00
50.00
75.00
75.00
0.00
0.00
100.00
100.00
0.00
0.00
836.00
836.00
440.00
440.00
800.00
800.00
495.00
495.00
0.00
0.00
1,095.00
1,095.00
335.00
335.00
45.00
45.00
250.00
250.00
270.00
270.00
140.00
140.00
75.00
75.00
120.00
120.00
315.00
315.00
220.00
220.00
500.00
500.00
135.00
135.00
70.00
70.00
0.00
0.00
**11,173.00**
**0.00**
**11,173.00**|
|---|---|
|**ALLERTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH**
**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL**
**STATEMENTS**
**31/12/2020**
**2. RESOURCES EXPENDED**
2(a) Appeals and donations received 2019 & paid out 2020, NET EXP
Benevolent Fund expenditure (see note 5)
Person in Need; authorised by Tim Meadows
Other Outreach
2(b) Costs of activities for charitable objectives
**Ministerial and Service Expenses**
Ministry & Mission
Minister's expenses
Pulpit fees
Organists' fees
Licensing fees (CCLI, etc.
Materials for Worship
Defibrillator Consumables
**Church premises**
Heating and Lighting
Cleaning (salary, materials + equipment)
Water (Church and Manse)
Fire extinguisher maint
Pest Control
Insurance
**Other**
Premises Expenditure* (see below)
Premises - Special COVID Precautions & Equipment
Publicity
Children and Youth
Organ Fund expenditure (includes humidity sensor for
St. Stephen's, since reimbursed)
Flower Fund expenditure
Fundraising floats / expenses
2(c) Support costs and sundry expenses
Printing, stationery, postage and telephone
Secretary's Expenses
Accountancy Fees (Invoice still awaited at year end)
* Sundry Expenses
* Note that Sundry Expenses include £25 annual registration
plus £30 for leaving gift for Moderator, and £20 for a retire
2(d) Investement Pool Mersey Synod
Forced sale of holding when fund wound up;
entered at cell C 166 as investment income,
and paid into bank.
***Premises General Expenditure**
Brian Merrett; Proven Hall Roof
P A Lahogne; storage cupboard, Choir Room
Electrikom
David Jones, paint, etc.
Mike Pugh, sum overdue from April 2019 to the late Denise
Pugh. Reimbursemnet for payment to Ni-Pi for electrical
work, April 2019
Brian Merrett; painting & other work in Proven Hall
David Jones,; paint, etc.
Mersey Synod; 2019 payment for Building Survey Scheme.
Paid late by oversight
Proven Hall floor; Traditional Floori8ng UK Ltd.
D & I Roofing, paid by BACS; emergency repairs following
water ingress and flood in corridor.
D & I Roofing, paid by BACS; emergency leak repair
Mersey Synod; Annual (2020) Contribution to Building
Survey Scheme
D&I Roofing; emergency repair (water ingress)
New keys
Sue Pickering of 202 Mather Avenue; contribution towards
cost of replacement fence to common boundary, following
resolution of Managers
New keys
D&I Roofing; emergency repairs|**Undesignated**
**Designated**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
ENDITURE (see not
25.00
25.00
400.00
400.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
**0.00**
**425.00**
**425.00**
16,935.60
16,935.60
0.00
60.00
60.00
810.00
810.00
539.28
539.28
71.49
71.49
218.40
218.40
**18,634.77**
**0.00**
**18,634.77**
6,039.90
6,039.90
9,735.00
9,735.00
1,458.11
1,458.11
297.84
297.84
384.00
384.00
4,147.26
4,147.26
**22,062.11**
**0.00**
**22,062.11**
6,952.96
2,800.00
9,752.96
501.88
501.88
328.00
328.00
336.04
336.04
398.97
398.97
0.00
0.00
257.20
257.20
**7,280.96**
**4,294.09**
**11,575.05**
958.22
958.22
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
84.83
84.83
**1,043.05**
**0.00**
**1,043.05**
fee for Liverpool Free Church Federal Council,
ment gift for one of our volunteer workers.
1,167.54
1,167.54
**1,167.54**
**0.00**
**1,167.54**
0.00
650.00
200.00
850.00
1,248.41
1,248.41
740.00
740.00
42.45
42.45
186.00
186.00
2,600.00
2,600.00
39.00
39.00
135.00
135.00
2,034.00
2,034.00
120.00
120.00
140.00
140.00
135.00
135.00
140.00
140.00
29.10
29.10
500.00
500.00
14.00
14.00
800.00
800.00
**6,952.96**
**2,800.00**
**9,752.96**|
|---|---|
## **ALLERTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH**
|**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**31/12/2020**
**3. FUND ACCOUNTS**
**(a) Youth and Children (Junior Worship & Holiday Club)**
**(b) Organ Fund**
**(c) Flower Fund**
**(d) Benevolent Fund**
**(e) Special COVID Precautions & Equipment**
Note that figure brought forward for Benevolent Fund is that PRIO
being debited to the bank, as these were still in the pipeline at th
**4. APPEALS - SUMS RECEIVED 2019 & PAID OUT 2020**
Christingle 2019 (for Claire House)
Christian Aid Commitment for Life 2019
**Total**|**b/f 1/1/2020**
**Income**
**Expenditure Current Total**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
1,009.71
132.00
336.04
805.67
Fu
nd
s
Ch
ec
ks
u
m
#
22,912.16
41.66
398.97
22,554.85
421.13
0.00
0.00
421.13
520.74
461.68
400.00
582.42
N/A
240.00
501.88
-261.88
R to cheques for December 2019 donations
e year end.
**Net**
**b/f 1/1/2020**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**Expenditure**
474.48
N/A
474.48
0.00
631.05
N/A
631.05
0.00
Paid ve
0.00
**1,105.53**
**0.00**
**1,105.53**
**0.00**|
|---|---|
Note that sums received by way of appeals for other charities, etc., and then subsequently paid out to those charities, are not strictly part of our income or expenditure, but rather they are sums held in trust. Although it makes no significant practical difference, in line with advice received these are now (as from 1 Jan 2020) reported separately from our own internal church accounts.
|**5. BENEVOLENT FUND EXPENDITURE DETAILS**
Balance as at
1/1/2020
Pipeline as at
1/1/20
Income
Current totals|Running Total
520.74
520.74
400.00
120.74
461.68
582.42
582.42
582.42
582.42
582.42
**982.42**
**400.00**
**582.42**|
|---|---|
(HARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
FUNDS HELD IN CONNECTION llllTH ALLERTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
On accounts for the year
ended
3111212020
Charity no
(If any)
225517
Set out on pages
1 to 5 attached
report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charily {"the Trust'l for the year ended 31 December 2020
As the charily's truslees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
('Ihe Act.).
Responsibiltles and
basis of report
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 all the applicable Direclions given by the Charity Commission
under sedion 145{5){b) of the Aci.
Independent Where he charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 l am qualified to
examiner's statoment undertake the examination by being a qualified member of the ICAEW.
I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have
come lo my attention in connection with the examination (other than that
disclosed below ') which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect..
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130
of the Charrties Act. or
the accounts did not accord with Ihe a¢¢ounting records., or
the account5 did not comply with the applicable requirements
conceming the form and content of account5 set out in the Charities
(Accounls and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a Irue and fair. view which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examinalion.
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.
Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not 8ppIy.
Signed:
Date:
15 June 2021
Name:
Timothy Vogel
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
FCA
IER
Oct 2018
(if any):
Address:
7a Com Exchange. The Market pla Swaffftam PE37 7AB
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete If the examiner needs to highlight material matters ot concern
(see CC32, Independent examination of charrty accounts.. directions and
guidance for examiners).
Glve here brlef details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
None
IER
Oct 2018