BERESFORD ROAD EVANGELICAL CHURCH
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] MARCH 2024 Registered Charity Number 286941
Beresford Road Evangelical Church for the year ended 31 March 2024
Contents
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| Trustees report | 1 |
| Receipts and payments accounts | 2 |
| Statement of assets ad liabilities | 3 |
| Independent examiners report | 4 |
Beresford Road Evangelical Church Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 March 2024
Beresford Road
Another year passes by and the one thing we can say as a church is that the Lord provides. Without question, it has been a year of seeing how the Lord would provide for the church, as we have struggled with more folk leaving the church. With less money coming in to support the activities and the upkeep of the buildings and regular bills we did wonder how we would manage. But God has provided.
Last October (2022) we made our Pastor redundant. Despite this he decided to stay on with the church and has continued to minister on a Sunday. To help finance himself, he has started up his own business, providing him with enough money to cover his outgoing costs. He ministers to the church each Sunday and once a fortnight on a Wednesday for the regular prayer meeting and bible study. As the year has gone on, we have been able to go through the finances of the church and identified areas in which we could save money. With this, and regular giving from those attending, and those in the membership, we felt it right to ask Cliff, our former pastor, to start invoicing us for his time in ministry.
Whilst others in the fellowship have left this year, and two of them being on the leadership team, God has continued to give strength and help to those left to continue with the work of the church. We are still holding our coffee morning drop ins on a Monday and Friday and on a Friday, we still have our community pantry, alongside the coffee morning, which now supports round 50 families.
Sunday morning and evening services have been regularly attended by those in membership and others who are regular attendees, but not members. Meetings continue to be broadcast on zoom, as we still have others away from the fellowship who like to attend. The Sunday school continues, but on a much-reduced basis and only when required. We have very few children in attendance, and this is sporadic at best, but we are always ready for when they are at church, providing them with Biblically based stories and activities.
Footprints – Community Coffee drop in.
This continues at the church on a Monday and Friday morning. It is now well established and well attended. Friday is particularly well attended due to the pantry running alongside.
CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
The formalities of this are now complete and we have submitted our application, having updated our constitution and rules for the church. We are now waiting for the last stages to be completed, so that we are officially a CIO church.
A local pantry
From supporting a few families last year, we are now supporting nearly 50 families with the pantry. This has been an amazingly positive experience, and we have been able to help many families, not just with food issues, but mental health and spiritual solace. We continue to be blessed by the provision of monetary grants from Government organisations and food donations from local supermarkets and Fair Share. We pray that these will continue, so that we can further help others in need.
Our local MP, Peter Aldous has visited a number of times over the last year and has been impressed by the number of families supported by the work. We trust our new MP will be able to visit as regularly.
Building works
We continue to maintain our outside areas and buildings. We have changed another room within the church to a storeroom, accommodating more stock items for the pantry. We have continued to re-decorate areas of the church building to ensure it is welcoming to those who visit.
Into 2024/25
We continue to seek God’s guidance and leadership as we look forward to another year. We want to explore how, as a church, we can continue supporting the local community and seek guidance as to how we grow and develop as a fellowship, without a full time pastor.
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.
J. Power – Chairman
J. Cartlidge – Secretary cc. All other trustees and Church Pastor Date: 16 December 2024
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Charity Name No (if any) Beresford Road Evangelical Church 286941 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 1st April 2023 31st March 2024
Section A Receipts and payments
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds - BREC to the nearest £ |
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 £ |
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| Donations | 14,184 | - | 14,184 - 5,730 8,000 - 376 8 - 28,298 |
29,003 | ||
| Legacy | - | - - - - 376 8 - 384 |
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| Subscriptions | - | 5,730 | 288 | |||
| Grants | - | 8,000 | 7,678 | |||
| Gift aid | - | - | 3,166 | |||
| Donations for external organisations | 575 | |||||
| Other income | - | 824 | ||||
| Interest | - | - | - | |||
| - | - 13,730 |
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
14,184 |
41,534 | ||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Sub total | - | - | ||||
| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 384 | 13,730 | 28,298 | 41,534 | |||
| Cost ofgoods | - | - - - 300 - - - - - 50 94 - - - - - - 444 |
7,558 | 7,558 4,200 - 2,921 - 170 547 447 300 - 1,000 - 1,594 2,525 692 - 2,551 840 1,055 780 50 124 51 - 1,600 - - - 29,005 |
1,529 | |
| Pastor | 4,200 | - | 18,671 | |||
| Youth work | 50 | |||||
| HMRC Tax and NI | 2,921 | - | 3,211 | |||
| Pensions | 1,000 | |||||
| CCPAS | 170 | 215 | ||||
| FIEC membership | 547 | 547 | ||||
| CCLI Music licence | 447 | 418 | ||||
| Donationsgiven | 300 | |||||
| Grantsgiven | 325 | |||||
| Gifts | 1,000 | - | ||||
| Other church supportgiven | 5,872 | |||||
| Inurance | 1,594 | - | 1,556 | |||
| Heat,light and water | 2,525 | - | 1,583 | |||
| Telephone | 692 | - | 604 | |||
| Cleaning | 258 | |||||
| Repairs andmaintenance | - | 2,551 | - | |||
| Travel and delivery | 840 | - | ||||
| Office and administration costs | 1,055 | 4,204 | ||||
| Legaland professional fees | 780 | 1,211 | ||||
| Bank charges | - | |||||
| Chritmas expenses | 30 | - | - | |||
| Other sundryexpenses | 19 | 32 | 206 | |||
| Church equipment and Bibles | - | - | 811 | |||
| Pantryand footprints equipment | - | 1,600 | 5,645 | |||
| Food in School Holidays(FISH)costs | - | - | 3,432 | |||
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| - | - 13,581 |
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| **Sub total ** | 14,980 | 51,648 | ||||
| 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 |
29,005 | |||||
| 444 | 13,581 | 51,648 | ||||
| (796) | (60) | 149 | (707) | (10,114) | ||
| 3,811 | - 1,666 1,606 2 |
(3,811) |
- 13,417 12,710 |
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| 5,005 | 6,746 | 23,531 | ||||
| 8,020 | 3,084 | 13,417 | ||||
| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at | the end of the period | the end of the period | |
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| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets |
Signature Details Details Current account Cash Details Footprint account Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details |
Unrestricted funds - BREC to nearest £ 8,017 - 3 - |
Unrestricted funds - Footprints to nearest £ |
Restricted funds to nearest £ |
| - 1,597 9 - |
455 | |||
| 2,624 | ||||
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| 8,020 | 1,606 | 3,084 | ||
| OK Unrestricted funds - BREC to nearest £ - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates |
OK | |||
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| Date of approval |
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| 16/12/2024 | ||||
| 16/12/2024 |
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Charity registration number 286941
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 2024 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 3.
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
Date: 19 December 2024
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