## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **From 01 January 2024 To 31 December 2024** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Panshanger United Church **Other names charity is known by** Panshanger Church **Registered charity number (if any)** 269738 **Charity's principal address** Panshanger Church 24 Hardings WELWYN GARDEN CITY **Postcode** AL7 2EJ ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Rev Paul Edward Minister Members
Seymour
2 Nicholas Andrew Elder Members
Evans
3 Matthew Slater Elder Members
4 Nicolette Clare Elder Members
Camburn
Susan Frances Elder Members
5
Markwick
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
N/A N/A
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**TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** N/A N/A N/A ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **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[Association ] - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by)[Annual Election by Members ] ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** N/A You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - 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 promotion, advancement and development of such joint work of the participating churches as shall further the Christian religion in the area covered by the Local Ecumenical Project. **TAR** 2 - Sharing of buildings for the purpose of public worship or other public purposes for the advancement of the Christian religion - Coordination of charitable activities in the local area - Raising of voluntary funds - Youth work **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)** **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** N/A You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** 3 ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** - Continuing to support the congregation and wider community in the pursuance of Christian faith. **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** 6 months’ reserves are retained **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** - N/A ## **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); - Funding is largely provided by Members, with additional support through the Gift Aid scheme - There is no investment policy, and all funds are retained as cash at banks. - 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.** **Approved on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Paul Seymour **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** **etc)** Minister **Date** 27/04/2025 **TAR** 5 **----- Start of picture text -----**
Panshanger United Church No (if any)
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
Period start date Period end date
For the period from To
1st January 2024 31st December 2024
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted fundsRestricted fundsEndowment funds Total funds Last year
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Church fees 228 - - 228 109
Congregational giving 43,117 50 - 43,167 47,444
Gift aid recovered - - - - 12,120
Grants - - - - -
Church hall Lettings 7,756 - - 7,756 5,757
Interest received 2,015 - - 2,015 1,881
Stay & Play 3,096 - - 3,096 2,644
Micellaneous income 1,558 - - 1,558 1,134
Sub total (Gross income for
AR) 57,770 50 - 57,820 71,089
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 57,770 50 - 57,820 71,089
A3 Payments
Administration 3,403 - 3,403 3,865
Charitable donations - - -
Equipment - - - -
Ministerial Expenses 765 - 765 626
Outreach 2,965 - 2,965 2,785
Parent Churches 53,207 - 53,207 52,771
Premises 5,854 5,389 11,243 8,240
Salaries and Staff Costs 2,326 - 2,326 2,118
Sundry Expenditure 60 - 60 31,911
Worship Needs 676 - 676 881
- - -
Sub total 69,256 5,389 - 74,645 103,197
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 69,256 5,389 - 74,645 103,197
Net of receipts/(payments) (11,486) (5,339) - (16,825) (32,108)
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 91,922 8,614 - 100,536 132,644
Cash funds this year end 80,436 3,275 - 83,711 100,536
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 27/10/2025 1 |**Section B Statement**|**of assets and liabilities at**|**of assets and liabilities at**|**of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**||**Details**|**Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment fund**|||||||| |||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|| |**B1 Cash funds**||Lloyds TSB||**8,424**|||**3,275**||**-**|| |||CAF||**72,083**|||**-**||**-**|| |||Prepayment card||**29**||||||| |||Hall deposits - See below||**(100)**|||**-**||**-**|| |||**_Total cash funds_**||**80,436**|||**3,275**||**-**|| ||**Details**
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**Unrestricted fundsRestricted fundsEndowment fund**
**to nearest £**
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**Current value (optiona**|||||||| |**B4 Assets retained for the**|||||||**-**||**-**|| |**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||**-**||**-**|| |||**Details**|**d to which liability re **||**Amount due (optiona **|||**When due (optional)**||| |**B5 Liabilities**||Hall Hire deposits||Unrestricted|||**100**|||| ||||||||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**|||| ||||||||**-**|||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature||Print|Name||||Date of approval|| |||||Paul Seymour|||||27/04/2025|| |||||||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 27/10/2025 2 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Panshanger United Church **On accounts for the year** 31[st] December 2024 **Charity no** 269738 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2024. **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:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|**Date:**|| |---|---|---| |||28/04/2025| |||| ||David Watts|| |||| ||FCA
ICAEW|| |||| ||27A Ravenscroft Park|| ||Barnet, Herts, EN5 4NH|| |||| **October 2018** 1 **IER** **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** 2 **IER**