BERESFORD ROAD EVANGELICAL CHURCH
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] MARCH 2021 Registered Charity Number 286941
Beresford Road Evangelical Church for the year ended 31 March 2021
Contents
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| Trustees report | 1-2 |
| Receipts and payments accounts | 3-4 |
| Statement of assets ad liabilities | 5 |
| Independent examiners report | 6 |
Beresford Road Evangelical Church Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 March 2021
Trustees annual Report. April 2020 – March 2021
Covid 19
As we all know, in March 2020, Britain, as with many countries around the world, went into lockdown, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. All work ceased at BREC, both within the fellowship and at Footprints coffee shop. Sunday services moved to Zoom online and these are led by different members of the Church. Following government announcements regarding financial support, the decision was taken to put our Pastor Cliff Beckett on furlough. We also had to do the same with the managers of the church coffee shop Footprints.
Beresford Road
As stated above, all activities have ceased this year during lockdown. We placed our pastor, Cliff Beckett, on furlough and members have been leading sevices online, on Zoom. Cliff was on full furlough until August 2020; he then was on part time furlough and produced one YouTube messagea week for members to watch. As lockdown was lifted in the summer, the church did a socially distanced tidy-up of the church car park - the first time the church has physically come together since the beginning of the pandemic. This was a good time to catch up and assess the building of the church and the ar park,having not been used for many months.
As we know, the pandemic had its second wave later into the Autumn and Christmas. All servces remained online and other work with the children and young people and parent and toddlers had ceased, in line with government guidance. We hope this will resume, when restrictions allow.
Footprints – Community Coffee Shop
Due to COVID, we placed the managers on furlough. We applied for the grant from the government to try to sustain the work of Footprints, when lockdown restrictions were eased. However, in assessing the situation, and with rent needing to be paid, the sad decision was taken to close Footprints. This was very difficult for the church, but whilst we see the physical closure of the shop, the work will continue in a different form from the base of the church. The managers have been paid a redundancy package, to enable them to be supported at this difficult time.
The pandemic has provided the opportunity for the church to provide Food in School Holidays (FISH), alongside other churches within Lowestoft. This is something we intended to continu, as a church, in the months ahead.
CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
This is an ongoing process, due to the complexities of the possible amalgamation of commodore mission and Beresford Road. In March 2021, the trustees met to discuss this in detail and we decided that we needed to move forward with the CIO document for Beresford Road, regardless of the decision of joining with Commodore mission. This will now actively be pursued in the coming months.
Building works
Other than keeping on top of the car park and maintenance of the building, nothing has taken place this year.
Commodore Mission
The same situation has happened with COmmodore Mission as with Beresford Road, due to the pandemic. All services stopped during lockdown and few of the members from Commodore, joined with Beresford Road on Zoom. When lockdown restrictions were ;ofted, some socially distanced services were held at Commodore, following the strict COVID rules. Some of these were led by our Pastor, Cliff Beckett and some services were attended by a few of Beresford Road members.
A decision regarding the amalgamation of Beresford Road and Commodore Mission will be taken later this year, once pandemic restrictions enable the two churches to assess there situations.
Children’s work
This has stopped due to COVID restrictions.
Into 2021/22
We continue to seek God’s guidance and leadership as we look forward to another year. COVID 19 has a significant impact on the work of the Church, but we trust the Lord will lead us, as he has led us thus far.
All matters which should concern the trustees, that are financial, social inclusion, child protection, criminal records bureau, racism and general transparency within the community and in the larger area of Christian unity and fellowship, have been kept continuously under review.
Signed on on behalf of the trustees:
J. Cartlidge M. Griggs J. Chandler C. Beckett
cc. All other trustees and Church Pastor
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| Beresford Road Evangelical Church Charity Name |
286941 No (if any) |
CC16a | |||||
| Receipts andpayments accounts | |||||||
| For the period from |
Period start date 1st April 2020 |
To | Period end date 31st March 2021 |
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| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||
| Unrestricted funds - BREC to the nearest £ A1 Receipts |
Unrestricted funds - Footprints to the nearest £ |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Donations | 19,735 | 60 | 100 | 19,895 | 36,805 | ||
| Coffee Shop | - | 50 | 50 | 15,983 | |||
| Credit | - | - | |||||
| Legacy | - | - | |||||
| Other Income | - | - | 87 | ||||
| Donations for Tearfund | - | - | |||||
| Donations for external organisations | - | - | - | 649 | |||
| Pollingstation fee | - | - | 90 | ||||
| Gift aid refund lastyear | 7,828 | 7,828 | 9,202 | ||||
| Government Job Retention Scheme Grant | 18,130 | 18,130 | |||||
| Government Business supportgrant | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||
| Interest received | - | - | |||||
| Sub total (Gross income for AR) | 45,693 | 10,110 | 100 | 55,903 | 62,816 | ||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Sub total Total receipts |
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45,693 |
10,110 | 100 | 55,903 | 62,816 |
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| A3 Payments | Unrestricted funds - BREC to the nearest £ |
Unrestricted funds - Footprints to the nearest £ |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ |
Last year to the nearest £ |
| Cost ofgoods | 345 | 345 | 6,322 | ||
| Footprints Rent | 1,250 | 1,250 | 3,000 | ||
| Electricity | 280 | 280 | 1,529 | ||
| Water,rates,waste & licences | 314 | 314 | 1,727 | ||
| Insurance | 163 | 163 | 454 | ||
| Legal/professional | 1,618 | 1,618 | 1,140 | ||
| Gifts | - | 100 | 100 | 410 | |
| Vinjeru | 300 | 300 | 300 | ||
| Machine lease | - | - | |||
| Givingto Christian Work | - | - | |||
| FIEC membership | 547 | 547 | 547 | ||
| OMF International | - | - | |||
| Tear Fund | - | - | |||
| Livinf word/Passion for life | - | - | |||
| CCPAS | 129 | 129 | 157 | ||
| Pulpit supplies/visiting preachers | - | - | 800 | ||
| Elli Whitaker | - | - | |||
| Other church support | - | - | |||
| Gracious Goodness | - | - | |||
| Housekeeping& Maintenance expenses | - | - | |||
| Anglian Water | 1,101 | 1,101 | 159 | ||
| Essex & Suffolk Water | - | - | |||
| Electricity | 811 | 811 | 1,046 | ||
| BT | 623 | 623 | 716 | ||
| Church insurance | 1,406 | 1,406 | 1,318 | ||
| Church equipment | 221 | 221 | 58 | ||
| Photocopier | 143 | 143 | 143 | ||
| Piano tuning | - | - | |||
| Church repairs/improvements | 440 | 440 | 3,411 | ||
| Cleaning | - | - | |||
| Kitchen supplies | - | - | |||
| Other housekeepingand maintenance | - | - | |||
| Other expenses | - | - | |||
| Church work expenses | - | - | |||
| Pastor | 19,794 | 19,794 | 20,071 | ||
| HMRC Tax & NI | 3,746 | 3,746 | 5,652 | ||
| Pensions | 1,328 | 1,328 | 1,534 | ||
| Youth work | - | - | 264 | ||
| Childrens work | - | - | |||
| Toddlersgroup | - | - | |||
| Conference costs | - | - | 630 | ||
| Manse expenditure | - | - | |||
| Computer/office equipment | - | - | |||
| Office supplies - stationary | 6 | 6 | - | ||
| CCLI music license | - | - | 327 | ||
| Christmas expenses | - | - | |||
| Easter | - | - | |||
| Bookshops | - | - | |||
| Church equipment | - | - | |||
| Other expenses | 55 | 55 | 4,041 | ||
| Coffee shop | - | - | |||
| Coffee Shopadministration | - | - | |||
| Footprints wages | 2,253 | 5,000 | 7,253 | 16,066 | |
| Payments to Footprints | - | - | 87 | ||
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| Sub total | 34,221 | 6,402 | 1,350 | 41,973 | 71,909 |
| 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 |
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| 34,221 | 6,402 | 1,350 | 41,973 | 71,909 | |
11,472 |
3,708 | - 1,250 | 13,930 | (9,093) | |
| (2,000) | 1,750 | 250 | - | ||
| 1,392 | 2,633 | 1,264 | 5,289 | 14,382 | |
10,864 |
8,091 | 264 | 19,219 | 5,289 |
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted
funds - BREC funds - funds
Categories Details footprints
to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
B1 Cash funds Current account 10,864 215
Deposit account - closed 15/04/2016 - - -
Footprints acount 8,091 49
Total cash funds 10,864 8,091 264
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s)) OK OK OK
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds
Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets - - -
- - -
Details Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets - -
- -
Details Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the charity’s - -
own use - -
Fund to which Amount due When due
Details liability relates (optional) (optional)
B5 Liabilities -
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of Date of
all the trustees approval
Matthew Griggs 13.06.2022
John Chandler 13.06.2022
Julie Cartlidge 13.06.2022
Cliff Beckett 13.06.2022
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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF BERESFORD ROAD EVANGELICAL CHURCH
I report on the accounts of the Trust for the year ended 31 March 2021 that are set out on Pages 3 to 4.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees of the Trust 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 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
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accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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the accounts do not accord with those records; or
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the accounts do 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 confirm that there are no other matters to which your attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Mark Johnstone FCA Argents Chartered Accountants 15 Palace Street Norwich NR3 1RT
14 June 2022