## **CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHARITIES** TRUSTEE REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[st] DECEMBER 2022 ## **Trustees Annual Report** ## **Section 1: Legal and Administrative Information** Charity name: Congregational United Charities Registered Charity number: 232332 For the financial year beginning on: 01/01/2022 For the financial year ending on: 31/12/2022 Charity’s principal address: The Congregational Federation Ltd, 8 Castle Gate, Nottingham, NG1 7AS Charity’s business address: Newport Congregational Church, 98 Pyle Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1UH Governing document: Schemes of 17 February 1885 as varied by scheme of 22 April 1910, 20 January 1965 and 26 May 1993 How the charity is constituted: The charity was formed under a Charity Commission scheme Summary of the objects of the charity: - For the benefit of Christian worship and ministry - For the benefit of the Minister of Newport Congregational Church - In aid and for the benefit of the incidental account of Newport Congregational Church - For the general purposes of Newport Congregational Church - Towards the expenses of the chapel and the celebration of Divine Worship therein - • So long as the churches or congregations formerly assembling for Christian Worship in the chapels situated on Node-hill or Pyle Street, Newport, shall continue to be so used. The buildings shall be used for the purposes of Worship, children’s and young people’s work, for lectures and meetings on religious, literary, philanthropic and other subjects. This is generally for the purpose to promote the social and moral welfare of the congregation and other persons residing in Newport. - For the purpose of the religious instruction and education of children and young people belonging to the congregation and such other children as the trustees select and for such other purposes as the trustees select - For the education of children and young people belonging to the congregation and for such other purposes as shall be directed by the Members of the Church congregation. 1 ## **Section 2: Trustees and governance** Corporate Trustee: The Congregational Federation Ltd, 8 Castle Gate, Nottingham, NG1 7AS Directors of the corporate trustee who served in the year ending 31[st] December 2022 or at date of signing Mr J A Lyon (Chairperson) Mrs Susan Austin Revd C J Bamforth Damp Mrs E M Bentham Mr J D Bentham Mrs H Biggin Revd C Booton Mr E P Fenwick Revd C L Gillham Revd J Holloway Revd C James Revd F Y Kamara Rev O C Kinchin Revd S Nockels Miss M M C McGuinness Dr B W Mason Revd C J Stott Revd S Nockels Revd G Simonis Mr M Taylor Revd T Wilson **Appointed** 1st January 2022 **Resigned** 27th March 2022 **Appointed** 1st January 2022 **Resigned** 13th March 2023 **Resigned** 17th November 2022 **Appointed** 14th May 2022 **Appointed** 18th November 2022 **Resigned** 7th March 2022 **Appointed** 31st October 2022 **Resigned** 17th November 2022 ## **Company Secretary** Mr D M Tucker 2 Management Committee as at 31[st] December 2022: Rev Graham Akers Rev. Mark Evans Mrs Louise Randall Mrs Sandra Reading Mrs Lyn Savin Management committee selection method: The Management Committee are the Deacons of Newport Congregational Church. The Deacons are elected by the Church meeting, to become a Deacon, the person must be a Church member for at least a year. Deacons serve a three-year term but are eligible for immediate re-election at the end of the three year period. Until 2009 the strategic and day to day management of the charity was undertaken by the Management Committee, who acted as trustees. During 2009 the position was clarified that the Congregational Federation Limited was the corporate trustee. There has been and continues to be an assumed delegation of the day-to-day management of the charity to the Management Committee. 3 ## **Section 3: Activities and Achievements** Summary of the main activities and achievements of the charity during the year: During the year 2022 the charity has benefited the work of Newport Congregational Church. In planning our activities during the year we have borne in mind the Charity Commissioners guidance on public benefit at our Management and Trustee Committee Meetings. The focus of our activities remained the support of the work of Newport Congregational Church. The purpose of this support is to enable the church to continue to offer public Christian Worship, moral and spiritual teaching and guidance, to provide facilities for children and young people, providing support and recreation for the elderly and the same more generally for all age groups. We provided meeting facilities for various public bodies and associations, offering to all the comforts and consolations of the Christian faith. These provisions have been made available to the public regardless of personal background, faith, gender or circumstances. The Charity looked to support the Church Ministry in this past year. The Trustees were happy for the High Street Property 67a to be sold for £144,000. These funds are now set aside for fitting out the finally built Chapel building know as ‘The Langbridge Hall’ (which should be ready for use Easter 2023). CUC funds have been drawn upon to pay for the cost of renewing the foundations, for erecting the walls and putting the roof on, as well doing all the internal work for the building to be ready for multipurpose use including Church Worship. The rest of the Pyle Street Property has continued to be used for Church and Community needs, including various Ministries with babies, young children and their families. We also continue to provide various Ministries which include feeding people within the community. We continue to manage the Manse, 19 Kinchington Road, which had some work completed in refurbishing the Bathroom. The sad legacy of the Covid 19 Pandemic still impacts the life of the Church and its income. The CUC Trustees continued to support the life of the church in its financial support of the Church, in the cost-of-living crisis. We continue to honour God in feeding people spiritual and physical food. ## **Section 4: Policies** Grant-making policy: The only grant made is to Newport Congregational Church. ## **Section 5: Signature and Declaration** Declaration: I declare, in my capacity of director of the corporate trustee, that: - The trustees have approved the report above; and - • Have authorised me to sign it on their behalf Signed: Full name: Position: Date: 4 **Congregational United Charities 232332 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** 01.01.2022 31.12.2022 **To from** ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,280**
**-**
**3,116**
**-**
**652**
**151**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,280**
**-**
**3,116**
**-**
**652**
**151**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,280**
**-**
**3,116**
**-**
**652**
**151**
**5,199**
**50,000**
**144,558**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,280**
**-**
**3,116**
**-**
**652**
**151**
**5,199**
**50,000**
**144,558**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Rental Income for Nodehill|**1,280**||**-**||**-**||**1,280**||**3,520**| |Rental Income for 67a High Street|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**200**| |Interest Received|**3,116**||**-**||**-**||**3,116**||**3,480**| |Insurance Claim|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**854**| |NCC Repaid|**652**||**-**||**-**||**652**||**-**| |NCC Funds|**151**||**-**||**-**||**151**||**50,000**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**5,199**||**-**||**-**||**5,199**||**58,054**| ||**50,000**
**144,558**
**194,558**
**199,757**
**2,221**
**833**
**-**
**89,214**
**-**
**225**
**-**
**16,200**
**900**
**109,593**
**78,673**
**56,000**
**56,000**
**165,593**
**34,164**
**-**
**31,985**
**66,149**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,360**
**(32,360)**
**-**
**71,456**
**39,096**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| |COIF transferred|**50,000**||||||**50,000**||**-**| |High Street PropertySale|**144,558**||||||**144,558**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**194,558**||||||**194,558**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||**199,757**
**2,221**
**833**
**-**
**121,574**
**-**
**225**
**-**
**16,200**
**900**
**141,953**
**78,673**
**56,000**
**56,000**||| ||||||||||**58,054**| ||||||||||| |
Buildings Insurance|**2,221**||||||||**2,620**| |Repairs to manse|**833**||||||||**-**| |Loan Repayments & Interest|**-**||||||||**-**| |Pyle Street Costs|**89,214**||||||||**22,583**| |High Street Costs|**-**||||||||**585**| |NCC Funds Used|**225**||||||||**-**| |Legal Fees|**-**||||||||**185**| |Grant to NCC|**16,200**||||||||**16,200**| |Finance costs|**900**||||||||**1,100**| |**_Sub total_**|**109,593**||||||||**43,273**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |
COIF|**78,673**||||||||**-**| |To NCC|**56,000**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**56,000**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||**-**||**197,953**||**43,273**| ||||||**-**||**1,804**||| ||**34,164**||**(32,360)**||**-**||**1,804**||**14,781**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**31,985**||**71,456**||**-**||**103,441**||**75,615**| ||**66,149**||**39,096**||**-**||**105,245**||**90,396**| 5 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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**|Signature
To be paid to NCC
**Details**
**Details**
The Manse, Kinchington Road, Newport
The Centre, 98A Pyle Street, Newport
Lloyds Bank Current Account
Lloyds Bank Deposit Account
Held By NCC
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
COIF
Rent arrears from Nodehill property
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**20,528**
**45,621**
**66,149**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**39,096**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||**20,528**|||| |||**45,621**|**39,096**||| ||||||| |||**66,149**|**39,096**||| |||OK|||OK| ||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||**Current value**
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approval| ||||||| ||||||| 6 ## **GARETH HUGHES BA, FORMER CPFA ACCOUNTANT** Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Congregational United Charities. I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Congregational United Charities (the Trust) for the year ended 31st December 2022. ## **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 all 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: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts did not accord with those records; or 3. the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content 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. Sunnyside High Street Newchurch Isle of Wight PO36 0NJ 7