| Structure, Governance and Management |
Structure, Governance and Management |
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| The Association was constituted on 10th March 1871. The Association is registered |
as a charity | under | reference | number | |||||||
| 276352. | |||||||||||
| The Committee | |||||||||||
| The following extracts are taken from the Constitution and Rules ofthe Association. |
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| 7. 1 | The Committee are charity trustees ofthe Association and its property and funds. |
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| 7.2 | The Committee when complete consists of |
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| 7,2 I | twenty elected members elected in accordance with this clause or such other policies and |
procedures | as may | be | |||||||
| adopted from time to time. |
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| 7 2 2 | the District Representatives | ||||||||||
| 72 3 | the Treasurer | ||||||||||
| 7.3 | Up to 3 persons, who shall not be trustees or have any voting rights, may be co-opted by and |
to the | committee | for | the | ||||||
| period up to the next AGM. |
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| 7,4 | Election to Committee membership is open to any individual who is a member |
ofa Member | church | and | approved | for | |||||
| election by that Member church. Notwithstanding clause 7.1.an employee ot' |
the Association | may be a member | of | the | |||||||
| Committee tv ith the prior written consent ofthe Charity Commission. |
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| 7 6 | The election ofCommittee members is by secret ballot. |
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| 7.6 | No person shall be an elected member unless the number ot'votes he or she |
receives | equals | or exceeds | the number | ||||||
| which is one third of the Messengers (from Member churches) present at the relevant AGM. |
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| 7.7 | Subject to clause 7.9 the election or appointment ofeach Committee member |
(except co-optees) shall be | for | a tenn | of | ||||||
| three &ears. Cominiuee members shall (ifotherwise qualitied) be eligible for re |
election | or reappointment | as | from | the | ||||||
| mid ofsuch term. | |||||||||||
| 7.8 | Every Committee member must sign a declaration ofwillingness to act as a charity trustee of the Association |
before | he | ||||||||
| or she is eligible to vote at any meeting ofthe Committee. |
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| 7.13 | The membership of (he Committee shall so far as possible (and consistent |
with the |
above | provisions) | be | balanced | |||||
| equally between individuals in full time pastoral or other Christian ministry and individuals |
from other backgrounds, | ||||||||||
| especially those ivith experience of property, financial, legal and administrative |
matters, | that is to say individuals | who | ||||||||
| are or have been engaged in a profession, business ortrade. |
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| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | ||
| No/e | Funds f |
Fundsf | Funds f |
Funds | |
| Income from: | |||||
| Donations and legacies |
144,602 | 130,732 | 275,334 | 2(2.5411 | |
| Charitiable activities |
24.854 | 2.072 | 26.976 | 49.822 | |
| Investments | 89,986 | 16,688 | 106,674 | 95.626 | |
| Other Income: Surplus on sale offixed asset | 132,783 | 132.783 | |||
| Total Income | 392 225 | 14 492 |
541. 17 | 3511,11 3 | |
| Expenditure on: |
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| Raising funds | 14,560 | 1.212 | 15,772 | 9,672 | |
| Charitable activities Total expenditure |
38 459 |
232,599 23301 |
600,498 6 6» |
519,879 | |
| Operating (deficit) |
9,766 | (84,319) | (74,553) | (171,508) | |
| Net gains /(losses) on investments | |||||
| Realised gains / (losses) on investments Unrealised gains on investments Total net gains / (losses) on investments |
12 | 37,355 64 43 5 |
8,233 ~2.350 5803 |
45,588 IS,893 0 483 |
(92,987) 7 ~05.028 |
| Net income / (expenditure) |
211,364 | (78,436) | 132,928 | (256,536) | |
| Transl'ers between funds Net movement in funds |
~4»» | ~56536 | |||
| Reconciliation offunds: |
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| Funds brought forward |
0 | 7. 1 117 |
7.37 .I I | ||
| Funds carried forward | 68 » | 6»3 3 |
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7 2*3.134 |
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| "Anolys/s offinanc/ol | oclivilies forprevious year s | 2020 | |||
| Unreslricred | Resrr/cled | 2020 | |||
| Funds | Funds | Foso/funds | |||
| f | f | ||||
| Income and endowments | from: | ||||
| Donations and legacies |
73,813 | 138.782 | 212,595 | ||
| Charitable activities |
47,504 | 2,318 | 49,822 | ||
| Investments | 781106 | 7540 | 95.626 | ||
| Total income and endowments | 099 403 | 158640 | 4 | ||
| Expenditure on: |
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| Raising funds | $,484 | 1,188 | 9,672 | ||
| Charitable activities |
325 056 | 194 823 | 519879 | ||
| Total expenditure | 333 540 | 1960 | 5 955 | ||
| Operating (deficit) |
(134,137) | (37,371) | (171,50$) | ||
| Net gains /(losses) on investments: Realised (losses) on investments Unrealised (losses) / gains on investments Total net (losses) / gains on investments |
(91,536) ~4 ~ill ~4 0 |
(1.452) 20 894 9442 |
(92,988) ~85.DX8 |
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| Net (expenditure) | (238,607) | (17,929) | (256,536) | ||
| Transfers between funds |
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| Reconciliation offunds: |
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| Funds brought forward |
6 747 363 | 629.349 | |||
| Funds carried forward | 7 110 1 6 |
| AT | 31STDECEM | BER 2021 | ||||||
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| A(ate | 2021 f |
2020f | ||||||
| Fixed assets | ||||||||
| Tangible assets | II | 3,913.802 | 2,876.1 7 1 | |||||
| Investments | 12 | 3 011.678 | 3 | 956,970 | ||||
| 6,925,480 | 6,833,141 | |||||||
| Current assets |
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| Loans | 13 | 2.660 | 13,200 | |||||
| Debtors | 14 | 18.337 | 22.034 | |||||
| Cash deposited with |
Grace Baptist Charities Ltd | 354,504 | 309,055 | |||||
| Cash in hand |
313 | 318 | ||||||
| Total Current assets | 375,814 | 344,607 | ||||||
| Liabilities | ||||||||
| Creditors: Amounts | falling due within one year: | |||||||
| Other creditors | 15 | 48,190 | 57,572 | |||||
| Net current assets | 6 4 | 287 035 | ||||||
| Total net assets | 18 | 7253 04 |
7 | 20 176 | ||||
| The funds ofthe charity: | ||||||||
| Unrestricted funds |
16 | 6,720,120 | 5,808.756 | |||||
| Revaluation Reserve |
(unrestricted) | 700 000 | ||||||
| Total Unrestricted | Funds | 6,720,120 | 6,508,756 | |||||
| Restricted funds |
17 | 344,752 | 423.188 | |||||
| Revaluation reserve |
(restricted) | 188,232 | 188 3 | |||||
| Total restricted funds |
532,984 | 611.420 | ||||||
| Total funds | 18 | 7,253,104 | 7 | 120 176 |
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| Statement ofcash flows: | To/til Faut/s | Total Faut/2 | |||||||
| Table | f | ||||||||
| Cash flows from operating activities: Net cash provided by (used in) operating |
activities | \20L3 11 |
~5,09 | ||||||
| Cash flows from investing activities: |
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| Dividends, interest and rent I'mm investmenis |
90.289 | 81,982 | |||||||
| Proceeds from sale ofproperty | 5(4,7(8 | ||||||||
| Purchase ofproperty and equipment |
(1,429,012) | (3.397) | |||||||
| Proceeds from sale ofother investments | 1,150,000 | 6,066 | |||||||
| Proceeds fram sale ofinvestments Purchase ofinvestments |
504,760 ~51.984 |
336.437 ~325.006 |
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| Net cash provided by investing activities |
771 | 96.082 | |||||||
| Change in cash and cash equivalents |
in | the reporting | period | 45,444 | (129,009) | ||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning |
ofthe reporting | period | 309,373 | 438.382 | |||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at the end |
of | the reporting | period | B | 54 817 | 309 3 3 | |||
| Table A - Reconciliation ofnet income |
/ | (expenditure) | to | net cash flow | |||||
| from operating activities: |
2021 f |
2020 f |
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| Net income / (expenditure) for the reporting |
period (as per | ||||||||
| the statement offinancial activities) |
132,928 | (256,536) | |||||||
| Depreciation charges |
8,109 | 7,726 | |||||||
| Equipment reclassified as expenditure |
(ie. | written off) | 1.336 | ||||||
| (Gains) / losses on investments | (207.481) | 85.028 | |||||||
| Dividends, interest and rent from investments |
(90,289) | (81.982) | |||||||
| Prolit on sale offixed assets | (132.783) | ||||||||
| Decrease in debtors |
14,237 | 17.186 | |||||||
| (Decrease) / increase in creditors |
3,487 | ||||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) operating |
activities | ~103.3» | |||||||
| Table B- Analysis ofcash and cash equivalents: | |||||||||
| Cash in hand | 313 | 318 | |||||||
| Cash in hand with Grace Baptist Charities |
Ltd | 354,504 | 309.055 | ||||||
| Total cash and cash equivalents | 4.11 7 | 309 3 3 |
| 2 | INCOME | FROM DONATIONS | FROM DONATIONS | FROM DONATIONS | 4fi LEGACIES | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 |
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| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | |||||||
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| Donations | from churches | 34.564 | 19,326 | 53.890 | 46.609 | |||||
| Other donations | 1,660 | 17,368 | 19.028 | 21,957 | ||||||
| Grant from | Grace Baptist Charities | Ltd | 58.378 | 58.378 | 47.191 | |||||
| Other grants received | 50,000 | 88,518 | 138,518 | 87,380 | ||||||
| JRS Grant | - Furlough | 144 602 | 5.520 3073» |
5.520 5 334 |
9,458 » 59 |
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| 3 | INCOME | FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES | ||||||||
| Rent received from tangible | assets | 23,237 | 23,237 | 35,156 | ||||||
| Income from other charitable | activities | 1 617 | 2.072 | 3 689 | 14.66 | |||||
| 24 854 | 9 | 98» | ||||||||
| 4 | INCOME | FROM INVESTMENTS | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | ||||
| Un restricted | Restricted | Total | Total | |||||||
| f | f | f | ||||||||
| Investments | listed on recognised | stock exchange | 80.147 | 2.446 | 82.588 | 71.054 | ||||
| Investments | properties - regular | income | 125 | 12,600 | 12.725 | 19,331 | ||||
| Deposit interest | 9.719 | 1.642 | 11.361 | 5.241 | ||||||
| 89986 | 6.688 | 06 67 | 62 | |||||||
| 5 | EXPENDITURE ON RAISING | FUNDS | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | ||||
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | |||||||
| f | f | f | ||||||||
| investment | property expenditure |
2,547 | 551 | 3,098 | (1.994) | |||||
| Investment | management | 12,0(3 | 661 | 12,674 | 11,666 | |||||
| 14.560 | 1.212 | 15772 | 9 672 |
| 6 | EXPENDITURE ON | EXPENDITURE ON | EXPENDITURE ON | EXPENDITURE ON | CHARITABLE EXPENSES | CHARITABLE EXPENSES | CHARITABLE EXPENSES | CHARITABLE EXPENSES | CHARITABLE EXPENSES | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | |||
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| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | ||||||||||||||||
| Note | f | f | f | f | |||||||||||||||
| Staff Costs | 7 | 191,384 | 77.128 | 268,512 | 257,854 | ||||||||||||||
| Property expenditure | 65.109 | 27. | 154 | 92.263 | 81.089 | ||||||||||||||
| Grants payable | |||||||||||||||||||
| Churches and institutions |
28.167 | 112.197 | 140.364 | 84.614 | |||||||||||||||
| Individuals | 39,169 | 11,410 | 50,579 | 60,871 | |||||||||||||||
| Home Mission costs | exc. Personnel | 2.303 | 2.303 | 802 | |||||||||||||||
| Office and stationery | costs | 21,245 | 2,360 | 23,605 | 14,297 | ||||||||||||||
| Photocopier costs including | rentals | 2,363 | 2,363 | 2,173 | |||||||||||||||
| Depreciation | 9,445 | 9,445 | 7,726 | ||||||||||||||||
| Website & publications | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Management charge |
20 | 20 | 20 | ||||||||||||||||
| Trustee's indemnity |
insurance | 863 | 863 | 863 | |||||||||||||||
| Bank charges & interest | 290 | 27 | 317 | 296 | |||||||||||||||
| 358 5 |
232.599 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Governance costs: |
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| Legal and professional | fees | 1,857 | |||||||||||||||||
| Auditors' fees |
10 | 4,592 | 4,592 | 4,472 | |||||||||||||||
| Casts ofmeetings | 5272 | 2,895 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 864 | 9864 | 9224 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total Expenditure | on | charitable | activities | 367 899 | 232 | 599 | 600,498 | 519,879 | |||||||||||
| 7 | STAFF COSTS | 2021 | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total staff emoluments | for the year | were as follotvs | f | f | |||||||||||||||
| Salary Costs | 222.777 | 217.000 | |||||||||||||||||
| National Insurance |
costs | 17.159 | 16.138 | ||||||||||||||||
| Employer's pension |
contributions | i7.208 | i6.06 i | ||||||||||||||||
| Benefits in kind- season tickets |
1.520 | 3,107 | |||||||||||||||||
| Other staff travel etc. Staff training & conferences |
8.197 6" |
4.020 528 |
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| There were na pension | contributions | outstanding | at year end. (2020:nil). No employee | received | remuneration | amounting to |
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| more than f60 000 | in | the current | & ear ar previous | year. | Included | in salary costs above | is | a termination | payment | off12528 | |||||||||
| in lieu ofnotice. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The average number |
of | staff | by head count and full-time equivalent |
during the year was: |
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| Head Count | Fte | Head | Count | Fte | |||||||||||||||
| Ave. No | Ave. | No | Ave. No | Ave. No | |||||||||||||||
| Association office staff | 7.0 | 4.2 | 70 | 3.9 | |||||||||||||||
| Home Mission staff | 3.0 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 2.4 | |||||||||||||||
| Total staff | 10.0 | 5.5 | 10.0 | 6.3 |
| Secretary and Finance OBicer. Th | e | tota | l employee | benetits rece |
ived by these pers |
onnel irere. |
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| 2021f | 2020 f |
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| Salaiy costs | 137,332 | 135,311 | |||||||
| National Insurance costs |
15.014 | 14,076 | |||||||
| Employer's pension contribution |
10.726 | 11,617 | |||||||
| Benefits in kind |
150 | 883 | |||||||
| 163223 | 16 887 |
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| 9 | GRANTS PAYABLE | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | ||||
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | ||||||
| Grants payable to churches and |
institutions: | f | f | ||||||
| Affinity | 5,254 | 5,254 | 5,254 | ||||||
| Hayes Lane Baptist Church. Brom | icy | 11,152 | 11.152 | 4,862 | |||||
| St. John's Wood Road Baptist Church | 56,978 | 56,978 | 49,773 | ||||||
| Gadebridge Baptist Church |
5,000 | ||||||||
| Grace Baptist Mission | 400 | ||||||||
| Grace Baptist Church, Stratford |
1,920 | ||||||||
| Grace Church, Walthamstow (Churches |
Aid Fund) | 5,000 | 5,000 | 495 | |||||
| Kent Gospel Partnership | 200 | ||||||||
| Rehoboth Baptist Church, Horsham |
(Training) | 5,785 | 5,785 | 4,225 | |||||
| Prettygate Baptist Church, Colchester (Training) |
2,850 | 2,850 | 3,235 | ||||||
| Prettygate Baptist Church, Colchester (Churches |
Aid Fund) | 5,000 | 5,000 | ||||||
| Kings Road Baptist Church, Chingford | (Churches | Aid Fund) | 4.000 | 4,000 | |||||
| Small Training Grants ( Churches |
Aid Fund) | 1,250 | |||||||
| Grace Baptist Church, Bexleyheath |
2,500 | ||||||||
| Grace Baptist Church, Ebbstleet | 247 | 44.068 | 44.314 | ||||||
| Monnow Road Baptist Church, Bermondsey |
3,000 | ||||||||
| The Village Church, Greenwich |
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| 28,136 | 112 197 | 140333 | 84 614 |
| Grants payable to individuals: | Grants payable to individuals: | 2021 f |
2020 f |
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| Training Fund - unrestricted |
(4grants) | 38,699 | 45,591 | |
| Churches Aid Fund - unrestricted |
(2grants) | 470 | 650 | |
| Benevolent Fund - restricted |
(5grants) | 2,275 | 5,675 | |
| Pastors' Retiring &Widows' | Fund | - restricted (9 beneficiaries) | 9 135 | 8 955 |
| 50579 | 60 87 |
| The company s auditors |
niade the I'ollou:ina charges: | 2021f | 2020 f |
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| Fee for audit ofaccounts | 4,560 | 4,440 | ||||
| Fee for other seivices | 32 | 32 | ||||
| 4.592 | 4.472 | |||||
| 11 | TANGIBLE ASSETS | |||||
| Held in futherance ofthe | charity's objects: | Fixtures, | ||||
| Freehold | Leasehold | fittings and | ||||
| property f |
property f |
equipment | Total f |
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| Market Value / Cost | ||||||
| At 1st January 2021 | 2,538,428 | 315,600 | 41,211 | 2,895,239 | ||
| Disposals Additions |
(381,935) 1427» |
(6,277) | (388,212) 4»» |
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| At 31stDecember 2021 | 3,583,705 | 315,600 | 36.734 | 3 936.039 | ||
| Depreciation | ||||||
| At 1st January 2021 | 19,068 | 19,068 | ||||
| Disposals | (4,941) | (4,941) | ||||
| Additions | 8 | 8 110 | ||||
| At 31stDecember 2021 | 22,237 | 22 237 | ||||
| Net book value | ||||||
| At 31stDecember 2021 | 3 %3 705 | 315.600 | 4.4 7 | 3.9 3 80 | ||
| At 31stDecember 2020 | 2 538 428 | 31:,600 | 22 143 | 2.876.1'/1 | ||
| 12 | INVESTMENTS | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | ||
| Investment | Quoted | Total | ||||
| properties f |
investments | f | ||||
| Market value at 1st January 2021 | 1,507.732 | 2,449.239 | 3.956.971 | |||
| Aililluoiis | 501,984 | 501,984 | ||||
| Disposals | (1.150.000) | (459,171) | (1.609.171) | |||
| Unrealised (losses) / gains Market value at 31stDecember 2021 |
161 894 161894 35773». .4»1 . 7 |
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| At Cost | ||||||
| As at 31st December 2021 | 169500 | 394 285 | 3 8 |
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| As at 31stDecember 2020 | 8»5 | 4 | 876 410 |
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| 14 | DEBTORS | ||||||||
| Other Debtors | 16.513 | 21.878 | |||||||
| Prepayments | 1,824 156 18337». 4 |
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| 15 | CREDITORS | 202/f | 2020 | ||||||
| Other creditors | 48,190 | 57,572 | |||||||
| 48.190 | 57.572 | ||||||||
| Brought | Carried | ||||||||
| Income | Expenditure | Transfers | Other Gains | forward | forward | ||||
| 16 | UNRESTRICTED FUNDS | 2021 f |
2021 f |
2021 f |
/(Losses) f |
I/I/2021 f |
31/I2/2021 f |
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| General Fund |
341,740 | (320,655) | (25,000) | 201,598 | 5,959,302 | 6,156,985 | |||
| Churches Aid |
Fund | 485 | (14.470) | 25.000 | 88.301 | 99.316 | |||
| Training Fund |
50,000 | (47,334) | 153 | 2,819 | |||||
| Walthamstow | Manse | 461 000 | 461 000 | ||||||
| 201398 | 6. 00.736 | 6720. 1 | |||||||
| Figures for previous yearfor | comparison | ||||||||
| Brought | Carried | ||||||||
| Income | Expenditure | Transfers | Other Gains | forward | forward | ||||
| 2020 | 2020 f |
2020 f |
2020f | /(Losses) | I/I /2020 f |
31/12/2020 f |
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| General Fund | 199,401 | (267.898) | (104,470) | 6,132.269 | 5,959,302 | ||||
| Churches Aid |
Fund | (11,820) | 100,121 | 88,301 | |||||
| Training Fund Walthamstow |
Manse | 199 | 403 | (53,051) ~77 4 333,540 |
53,204 46 769 153 46» 73«8.»6 |
| 202I | 202/ | 202I | 202I | ||||
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| 18 | ANALYSIS | OF NET ASSETS | Timgible | Nel cnrrent | |||
| Investments | nssels | assets | Total | ||||
| Currenlyeor | f | f | f | ||||
| Unrestricted | Funds | 2.594,527 | 3,913.802 | 211.791 | I3,720.12i) | ||
| Restricted | Funds | 7 | 115,833 | 532.984 | |||
| 3 OII 678 | 3 913 80 | 327624 | |||||
| 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | ||||
| Tangible | Nel current | ||||||
| Figures for | previous yearfor comparison | Inveslmenls f |
assets | assets | Total f |
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| Unrestricted | Funds | 3,640,928 | 2,880.500 | 225,935 | 6.747,363 | ||
| Restricted | Funds | 4» | 6293 9 | ||||
| 4 0 3 428 |
44» I | 376» |