
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From: 01.01.2020   Period start date      To:  31.12.2020     Period end date Charity name: FULL GOSPEL BUSINESSMEN UK & IRELAND Charity registration number:275987** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|The purpose of the charity is to advance,<br>promote and maintain in the UK, Ireland<br>and overseas, the teachings and purposes<br>of the Christian religion and, in particular,<br>but without restricting or limiting the<br>generality of the forgoing, the spreading of<br>the Gospel among men and women of<br>business and others.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17<br>and 1.19|The holding of regional fellowship meetings<br>for the purpose of sharing, mentoring,<br>ministry and prayer.<br>We organise a national annual weekend<br>conference, which is open to non-<br>members. This provides a time of<br>fellowship and encouragement through<br>prayer, music and teaching.<br>Outreach meetings and street meetings are<br>organized by local groups, where members<br>of the public are invited to hear how people<br>like them have come to know Jesus Christ<br>as their Lord and Saviour.|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees of Full Gospel Businessmen<br>UK & Ireland have regarded the guidance<br>given by the Charity Commission on public<br>benefit.|





## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

||SORP<br>reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38||
|Other|||



## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP<br>reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|In 2020, we introduced  a new edition of<br>‘Voice’ that was printed in Welsh as well as<br>English: for distribution to the public.<br>Due to Covid 19 distribution of this booklet<br>has not been implemented.  The booklet<br>encourages women as well as men to seek<br>a Christian life with Jesus Christ.<br>Such testimonies relate how lives have<br>been transformed, which might be a<br>restored marriage, overcoming addictions,<br>family reconciliation, physical and mental<br>healing or other personal problems<br>overcome, all of which have a beneficial<br>effect on the wider community.<br>We have other resource materials that help<br>reach others for Christ more effectively.<br>In previous years we have been involved<br>with the annual Global Outreach Day, which<br>mobilises Christians in over 200 nations to<br>bring the Gospel through sharing<br>testimonies with friends, neighbours and<br>members of the public.<br>Due to Covid 19 we have not been able to<br>use street outreach to share our real-life<br>stories, which we would normally do<br>verbally and through handing out FGB<br>Voice magazines to members of the<br>general public and through house-to-house<br>visits.|





|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41|By God’s Grace, many people are reached<br>for Christ and empowered by the Holy<br>Spirit for Life, and identified needs are<br>supported in appropriate ways.|
|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||



## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|Income for 2020 saw an increase of<br>approximately £1500.00 on previous year,<br>which was attributed to a number of small<br>donations/gifts.<br>Spending had increased by approximately<br>£2000.00 which covered increase in<br>salaries and purchase of outreach<br>materials.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|No reserves are held|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Zero|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|We have not found it necessary to hold any<br>reserves, as member donations are regular<br>and any shortfall would be made up by the<br>Trustees.|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|We have no concerns about the<br>continuation of the charity.|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47|The main income is through freewill<br>donations by members and other<br>supporters, without any fundraising<br>initiatives.|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|<br>Para 1.25|Rules of The Association known as: Full<br>Gospel Businessmen UK & Ireland|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated Association|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|The number of FGB National Council<br>Members and Trustees of the Charity shall<br>be such number as the Council shall from<br>time to time determine being a total of not<br>less than eight nor more than twenty<br>appointed in one of the following manners,<br>that is to say:<br>•<br>Nomination by members of the<br>Association<br>in<br>each<br>of<br>such<br>geographical areas within the United<br>Kingdom as the Council shall from<br>time to time designate for such<br>purpose;<br>•<br>Qualification as ex-officio Council<br>Members being such officials as the<br>Council shall from time to time<br>determine<br>(including<br>without<br>prejudice<br>to<br>the<br>foregoing<br>the<br>Secretary of the Association if he<br>shall not already be a Council<br>Member and the Treasurer of the<br>Association for the time being and<br>any Executive Officer from time to<br>time appointed by the Council in<br>relation<br>to<br>the<br>affairs<br>of<br>the<br>Association);<br>•<br>Appointment by the Council at its<br>discretion as co-opted Council<br>Members and Trustees of the<br>Charity|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider|||





|network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|Full Gospel Businessmen UK & Ireland|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|FGB, FGB UK, FGBMFI(UK & Ireland), Full Gospel<br>Businessmen’s Fellowship (UK & Ireland)|
|Registered charity number|275987|
|Charity’s principal address|PO Box 11, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6QP|



## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**<br>**whole year**|**Name of**<br>**person (or**<br>**body) entitled**<br>**to appoint**<br>**trustee (if**<br>**any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Dr Barrie Lawrence|Chairman|||
||Peter Spreckley||||
||Stuart John Cripps|Executive Officer|||
||Geoffrey<br>Haresceugh|Treasurer|||
||Clive Addison|Secretary|||
||Alfred R Cordy||||
||Trevor Bendrien||||
||Harold Magee||||
||Jacob John||||
||Terrence Lowe||||
||Roger Hughes||||
||FinlaySeaton||||
||David Riley||||
||Jack Pomfret||||
||||||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 

## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of Name Address adviser** 

## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

**Other optional information** 



## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Stuart John Cripps **Position (e.g.** Executive Officer **Secretary, Chair, etc)** 

**Date** 30 June 2021 




**FUULL GOSPEL BUSINESSMENS FELLOWSHIP No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/01/2020 31/12/2020 **To from** 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £** 

**Total funds Last year to the nearest £ to the nearest £** 

## **A1 Receipts** 

|**A1 Receipts**|**esce**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**esce**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**oe**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|SEE ATTACHED ACCOUNTS|**79,390**||**-**||**-**||**79,390**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**79,390**||**-**||**-**||**79,390**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
|||||||||||
|SEE ATTACHED ACCOUNTS|**79,213**||**-**||**-**||**79,213**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|



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||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**79,213**||**-**||**-**||**79,213**||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**177**||**-**||**-**||**177**||**-**|
||**-**|<br>|**-**|<br>|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**177**||**-**||**-**||**177**||**-**|



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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>NONE HELD<br>**Details**|**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>NONE HELD<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||||OK|
||||||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||NON HELD||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|



**B3 Investment assets** 

|**Details**|**Details**|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|NON HELD||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
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## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** 

## **B5 Liabilities** 

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

|**Details**|**Details**|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|NONE HELD||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
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|**Details**|**Details**|**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**|**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**|**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**|**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**|**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|||
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|Signature|Print Name<br>STUART JOHN CRIPPS|Date of<br>approval|
|---|---|---|
||STUART JOHN CRIPPS|25/06/2020|
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
membors of
On accounts for the year
ended
2020.
Charity no
(if any)
275787
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts ofthe above
charity (Yhe Trust") for Ihe year ended
Responsibilities and
basis of report
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
I'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)Ib) of the Act.
Independent ￿he charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to
examiner's statsment undertake the examination by being a qualified member of linsert name of
applicable listed bodyll. Dalete I l rfnot applicable.
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material mattèrs have
ome to 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 Charities Act. or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
conceming 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 fairf view which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no COn￿rnS and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in
order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
Name:
Relevant professional
qualificationls) or body
IER
Oct 2018