## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Churches together in Basildon **Other names charity is known by** Project 58:7, School Teams Ministry **Registered charity number (if any)** 267593 **Charity's principal address** 16 Norsey Close Billericay Essex **Postcode CM11 1AP**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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McLaren||||
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**TAR**
March **2012**
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**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected by Members Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
The Trustees have adopted policies that are relevant to the organisation in key areas e.g. Finance and Safeguarding.
These policies are reviewed annually by Trustees.
- 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**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The Charity's objects are to develop the work of the Christian church in Basildon and the surrounding area by the advancement of the Christian religion; relief of poverty, suffering, sickness and distress, the advancement of education and other such activities as charitable and in accordance with English law.
**TAR**
March **2012**
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The main activities of CTB are:
- a) To enable churches in Basildon to bear a more united witness in the community and to serve it more effectively.
- b) To provide a free hot meal and drink throughout the year 6 days a week and support to any adult in need or rough sleepers or homeless.
**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)**
- c) To bring a Christian message to primary and junior schools in Basildon, by attending and running assemblies on termly basis
- d) In partnership with schools, colleges and other local agencies, we work to enhance the safety and emotional well-being of students through caring, listening and helping
We also provide a forum to share and assist other local Christian organisations or activities in the local area, to help the young, old, vulnerable and those with financial or other needs.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
**TAR**
March **2012**
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
This year has been a challenging one, normal activities have been curtailed by Covid. Despite the difficulties we have been able to continue some of our activities thanks to the generosity of our supporters and the dedication of our volunteers. There have been no joint church celebrations in the year due to the restrictions.
The support for the homeless (58:7) operated 6 nights a week providing a free hot meal and drink, although because of restrictions this had to be outdoors and with social distancing. Guest numbers varied from 6 to the upper teens. We provided clothes where needed and in the colder months, sleeping bags and tents. The reduction in numbers was due to additional support by the government in housing the homeless, but later in the year numbers increased, not from the homeless community but other people who needed our support.
Looking ahead no one knows how rough sleepers and homelessness will develop over the next few years but the local council is committed to supporting the homeless and disadvantaged. We are expecting in the long term there will be far fewer rough sleepers than we used to but even that is changing.
Our school activities (STM) continued in the period, when we were unable to access the schools we provided high quality video presentations that were available to schools to use for their assemblies via YouTube. Towards the end of the financial year, we were able to return to 14 of our schools and continue to bring a Christian message to 24 school assemblies each term. For the other 11 schools we continued to provide media via YouTube.
Our School Pastors activities were curtailed for some of the year, but we currently volunteer in one local school to support both pupils, staff and parents.
**TAR**
March **2012**
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The Trustees review the level of reserves on a quarterly basis to ensure funds are sufficient for current activities to continue.
**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);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
The main source of income is from affiliation fees of the member churches and donations from those churches and their members. This is normally supplemented with fundraising, this has been curtailed due to the pandemic.
Despite these restrictions, funds have been sufficient to support the children’s and homeless ministries. We are grateful to our supporters for their continued backing.
- 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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date**
**TAR**
March **2012**
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|**Churches together**|**in Basildon**|**267593**|||
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|1st October 2020|30th September
2021
**To**|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**1,400**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**108**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,008**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,008**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**621**
**129**
**201**
**35**
**986**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**986**
**1,022**
**-**
**979**
**2,001**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**440**
**25,611**
**1,726**
**1,539**
**1**
**-**
**-**
**29,317**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,317**
**23,281**
**2,304**
**583**
**78**
**-**
**313**
**698**
**27,257**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,257**
**2,060**
**-**
**42,449**
**44,509**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,400**
**440**
**26,111**
**1,726**
**1,647**
**1**
**-**
**-**
**31,325**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,325**
**23,281**
**2,304**
**583**
**621**
**129**
**201**
**78**
**-**
**313**
**733**
**28,243**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,243**
**3,082**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Affiliation fees|**1,400**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,400**||**1,500**|
|Offerings|**-**|||**440**||**533**|
|Donations|**500**|||**26,111**||**26,188**|
|Fundraising|**-**|||**1,726**||**6,206**|
|Gift aid|**108**|||**1,647**||**3,442**|
|Interest|**-**|||**1**||**18**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**2,008**|||**31,325**||**37,887**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
||||**-**|**31,325**||**37,887**|
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|Salaries and relatedpayments|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**23,281**||**25,458**|
|Cooks expenses|**-**|||**2,304**||**5,300**|
|Storage costs|**-**|||**583**||**1,828**|
|Insurance|**621**|||**621**||**586**|
|Safeguarding|**129**|||**129**||**120**|
|Licenses|**201**|||**201**||**346**|
|Rent||||**78**||**1,919**|
|Donations||||**-**||**854**|
|Training||||**313**|||
|Other|**35**|||**733**||**1,941**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**986**|||**28,243**||**38,352**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
||||**-**|**28,243**||**38,352**|
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**3,082**||**- 465**|
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**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**979**|**42,449**||**43,428**||**43,893**|
||**2,001**|**44,509**|**-**|**46,510**||**43,428**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
16/01/2022
1
## **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
**Details**
Current account
Savings account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,001**
**31,876**
**-**
**12,633**
**-**
**-**
**2,001**
**44,509**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
16/01/2022
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Churches together in Basildon **On accounts for the year** 30[th] September 2021 **Charity no** 267593 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-7
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **30/ 09 /2021** .
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed:** J Seager **Date:** 08/01/2022 **Name:** John Seager **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** 27, Danbury Down Basildon
Essex SS14 2SP
**October 2018**
**IER**
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**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**October 2018**
**IER**
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