## General Assembly of Our Lord Jesus Christ Inc.
## Annual Report
## 2024
## Charity No: 284747
## Locaton
Mount Olive Apostolic Church
Temple Bar, Willenhall, WV13 1SD
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## Contents
- Legal & Administratve details Page 3
- Reports of the Trustees Page 4 -6 Statement of Financial Actvites Page 6 Independent Examiner’s Report Page 7 Balance Sheet Page 8 - 11
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## Governing Document
General Assembly of Our Lord Jesus Apostolic Inc. Temple Bar, Willenhall, West Midlands, WV13 1SD is registered with the Charity Commissioners (No: 284747) and constituted by the of Trust
## Governing Body: Trustee Responsibilites
The Trustees are responsible for both the strategic governance and the financial oversight of the charity.
## Governance and Administraton
The Trustees oversee the following key areas:
Committee Appointments: Appointing members to the administrative committee.
Trustee Development: Setting and implementing policies and procedures for Trustee induction and training. Organizational Framework: Establishing and maintaining the organizational structure.
Financial Policies: Selecting and consistently applying appropriate accounting policies in line with regulatory requirements.
Compliance with SORP: Adhering to the methods and principles set out in the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP).
## Financial Stewardship and Safeguarding
The Trustees are also accountable for:
Accurate Financial Records: Ensuring proper accounting records are kept to accurately reflect the charity’s financial position and to enable compliance with the Charities Act, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations, and the trust deed.
Asset Protection: Safeguarding the charity's assets and implementing reasonable controls for the prevention and detection of fraud and other financial irregularities.
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## Trustee’s Report
## Board of Trustees
|Bishop Floyd Downie|- Chair|Appointed to Chair – 14thDecember 2019|
|---|---|---|
|Elder Keith Nelson|- Secretary|Appointed to Secretary – 14thDecember 2019|
|Missionary Augustne Nelson|- Treasurer||
|Evangelist Garfeld Gardner|- Trustee||
|Elder Mark Robb|- Trustee|Resigned – 16thMarch 2020|
|Minister Godfrey Williams|- Trustee|Appointed – 14thDecember 2019|
|Missionary Angela Downie|- Trustee|Appointed – 14thDecember 2019|
## Objectve: Advance the Christan Faith
We aim to advance the Christan faith across the UK by teaching the foundatonal doctrines and beliefs of the apostles and establishing new church communites. This is accomplished through consistent worship services, comprehensive Bible studies, and dedicated periods of prayer and fastng.
## Mission: Reconciliaton with God
As commissioned followers of God, we endeavor to foster reconciliaton between humanity and God. Our approach is grounded in scriptural examples, which we follow to correctly guide and reconnect people with the divine. We strive to communicate the truth of the scriptures to all, free from man-made interpretatons, and to reveal how God can transform lives.
## Community Infuence and Outreach
We are commited to being a positve infuence within our communites by spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ and providing practcal support whenever possible. Through this work, we help believers understand their roles and responsibilites within God's plan.
## Goals
- Youth Empowerment: Develop and expand our youth empowerment program to create a positve societal impact. To achieve this, the charity will increase the number of youth-focused meetngs and actvites, including Bible studies, outdoor evangelism, career guidance workshops, empowerment seminars, and social trips.
- Congregatonal Growth: Increase the frequency of formal church meetngs, such as Bible study and intercession, to create more opportunites for congregatonal interacton and spiritual growth, thereby fulflling our core purpose.
- Strategic Partnerships: Pursue and strengthen collaboratve partnerships with other charites to broaden our reach and provide support to a greater number of disadvantaged community members.
- Leadership Development: Invest in the growth of our leadership by organizing and ensuring their atendance at relevant training and leadership seminars.
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## Volunteer and Donor Recognition
The Board of Trustees wishes to express its heartfelt appreciation to all individual church members and community volunteers who dedicated their time and resources to support the charity's activities during the year. Your invaluable contributions and generous donations were instrumental to our success.
## Reserve Policy
- Compliance: The Trustees have reviewed the charity's reserves policy, fulfilling the requirements set by the Charity Committee.
- Emergency Reserve: All unrestricted funds have been designated as an emergency reserve.
- Purpose: This reserve is intended to cover the charity's financial obligations during any potential shortfall in income or unforeseen increase in expenditure.
## Risk management:
- The trustees continue to assess and monitor the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.
## Actvites and Achievements
The organizaton successfully conducted a range of spiritual and community-focused actvites throughout the year.
- Youth Event: Our annual three-day youth event was held in February, atractng atendees from across the country. The event centered on the preaching of God's Word and communal praise. Youth partcipants took on key roles, including composing and performing original songs, creatng identty rosetes, and being publicly recognized for their contributons.
- Natonal Holy Convocaton: We hosted our annual Natonal Holy Convocaton, which featured daily sessions with internatonal speakers. Services were tailored to diferent groups, including youth, men, women, missionaries, and ministers.
- Church Anniversaries: All our churches celebrated their annual anniversaries, marking their presence in the community with food and worship.
- Community and Outreach: The annual Sunday school sports day was a success, successfully bringing together diferent church assemblies and the local community. Weekly Day Centre sessions for seniors contnued, providing sewing and craf actvites.
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## Future Plans
- Program Contnuity: We intend to resume our regular in-person activities as soon as circumstances permit. In addition, we will integrate successful virtual programs, particularly those conducted via Zoom, into our weekly schedule to expand accessibility.
- Community Development: We will maintain our current range of spiritual and community-based activities. We plan to actively foster new partnerships within the community to further develop collaborative projects in our local areas.
- Facility Improvement: We hope to proceed with necessary refurbishment projects to our church facilities. These improvements are required to support the church's growth and address wear and tear from increased usage.
## Financial Review
- The total incoming resources for the year amounted to £137,377K and the total resources expended amounted to £99,182K leaving a net surplus for the year of +£38,195K The balance of funds as of 31[st] December 2024 was +£77,508K
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## Independent Examiner’s Report
General Assembly of Our Lord Jesus Christ Apostolic Inc. Charity no 284747
To the trustees of General Assembly of Our Lord Jesus Christ Apostolic Inc.
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the year ended 31/12/2024.
As the charity's trustees, 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.
The charity’s gross income does not exceed £250,000 therefore, it is not a requirement for me to be qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of any certified bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination to cause me any concern in any material respect in relation to:
- 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 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.
Date: 17[th] October 2025
Rosemary Lewis
159 Yale Road Willenhall West Midlands WV13 2J
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|**Charity Name**
**General Assembly of Our Lord Jesus Christ Inc.**|**Charity Name**
**General Assembly of Our Lord Jesus Christ Inc.**|**Charity Name**
**General Assembly of Our Lord Jesus Christ Inc.**|**No (if any)**
**284747**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||
|**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/01/2019|**To**|Period end date
31/12/2019|
**CC16a**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**137,377**
**137,377**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**137,37**
**7**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**137,377**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**137,377**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Charitable Receipts|**137,377**|||||**103,767**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**137,377**|||||**103,767**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**|||||||
||**137,37**
**7**|**-**|**-**|**137,377**||**103,767**|
## **A3 Payments**
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Charitable Payments|**99,182**||**-**||**-**||**99,182**||**96,269**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**99,182**||**-**||**-**||**99,182**||**96,269**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||||
|**_Sub total_**||||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**|**99,18**
**2**||**-**||**-**||**99,182**|||**96,269**||
|||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**38,19**|||||||**38,19**||||
||**5**||**-**||**-**|||**5**||**7,498**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**38,06**|||||||||||
||**7**||**-**||**-**||**38,067**|||**-**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**76,26**|||||||||||
||**2**||**-**||**-**||**76,262**|||**7,498**||
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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## **Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
**Details** Banked Cash
## _**Total cash funds**_
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
## **Details**
## **Details**
## **Details**
## **Details**
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**61,454**
**1,301**
**-**
**62,755**
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**13,507**
**-**
**-**
**13,507**
Agreement
Error
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||OK|
|||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||**-**||
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## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
**-**
|Signature|Print Name
Floyd Downie
Keith Nelson|Date of
approval|
|---|---|---|
||Floyd Downie|17thOctober 2025|
||Keith Nelson|17thOctober 2025|
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