## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 6 APRIL 2021 **To** 5 April 2022 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** New Life Church Letchworth Trust **Other names charity is known by** New Life Church Letchworth **Registered charity number (if any)** 299705 **Charity's principal address** 47 Shott Lane New Life Church Letchworth Trust Letchworth **Postcode SG6 1SD** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** DEC 2022 1 |**Names and addresses of**|**advisers (Optional information)**|**advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Trust Deed Type of governing document Declaration of Trust 6 April 1988 (eg. trust deed, constitution) Memorandum of Resolution 19 April 1988 Trust How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by existing trustees in conjunction with Church Elders - Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: New Life Church Letchworth is also governed by New Life Church CIO which was formed in February 2021. The Church is gradually moving all operational and administrative functions to the CIO. - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** The objects of the charity, as stated in its declarations of trust are: **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** - The advancement of the Christian Faith in accordance with the doctrines set out in the declaration of trust and the worship of God in Hertfordshire and elsewhere by any means whatsoever including the preaching and proclamation of the Christian gospel and the teaching of Christian doctrine and principles and the pastoral care of Christian people and the printing and distribution of the bible and Christian literature. **TAR** DEC 2022 2 - The relief of persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress or who are aged or sick. - The advancement of education on the basis of Christian principles and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the provisions of such education in any educational establishment and if the trustees so decide the provision of one or more charitable education establishments for the general education of children or adults on the basis of such Christian principle. Notwithstanding the restrictions the Covid epidemic has had on social gatherings the Trust has continued to meet remotely or in person throughout the period, providing both adult and children and young person's spiritual education and support on a weekly basis. The Trust also coordinates and supports a scheme which provides meals to families during the school holidays, called Make Lunch. The Trust also supports local schools by providing a one to one mentor to pupils who are deemed by the school to be at risk of exclusion. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** The charity trustees have due regard to the guidance on public benefit **public benefit in relation to** published by the commission in exercising their powers and duties. **these objects (include within this section the statutory** Please also see the guidance below: **declaration that trustees have** https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uplo **had regard to the guidance** ads/attachment_data/file/588307/PB3_Reporting.pdf **issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **TAR** DEC 2022 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **TAR** DEC 2022 4 |Section D|Achievements andperformance| |---|---| |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|New Life Church Letchworth Trust (the Trust) administered New Life
Church Letchworth (the Church), until February 2022 when this was
transferred to New Life Church CIO. This report has been split into 2
periods:
**1.From April 2021 until February 2022**when
The Trust employed three part-time (0.8, 0.4 and 0.2) staff. The staff
were transferred over to the CIO on 1st February 2022. The Trust has
also continued to support several charitable trusts and Christian workers
including Alan Scotland who has provided oversight into the Church for
many years. The Charitable Trusts supported during 2021-22 with
regular monthly donations have included:-
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Global Horizons
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Transforming Lives for Good
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Christian Initiative to Schools in Letchworth & District
Additionally the Trust has supported the Rekai Tangwena Children’s
Home in Nyanga (Mangondoza Township), Zimbabwe. The Children’s
Home is linked to Holy Cross Church in Nyanga. A regular sponsorship
scheme has been administered to provide regular and committed
assistance with food, clothing & education for around 18 children. This
funding has been channelled through the charity SOZO (Support of
Zimbabwe’s Orphans).
Other donations and support has been given to:-
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Mission workers in the UK and overseas
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Letchworth Foodbank
In recent years the Church has been partnering with the charity
Transforming Lives for Good (TLG). TLG has trained volunteers to go
into local schools to provide personal mentoring and guidance. Several
members of the Church have committed to the programme.
The Church has worked with two schools in Letchworth and coaches are
committed to giving an hour per week over the academic year to work
with individual students. The Trust employed a part time family &
community pastor. Part of this role is to further the work of TLG in the
local area. Last year the Trust received a grant from the Letchworth
Heritage Foundation to run a TLG Make Lunch programme, and we are
grateful for an additional small grant to support the running of this
programme. Make Lunch enables and equips churches to provide free,
hot and healthy meals to children and families that could otherwise go
hungry.
The Church has continued to use Letchworth Free Church (LFC) Hall and
the North Herts District Council owned Howard Hall for its Sunday
service, various meetings and activities throughout the week. We have
been grateful to LFC for hosting us and have been able to continue invest
our funds and resources in making improvements to the Hall for our
mutual benefit. The Church has continued to work, particularly in prayer
and outreach, with other local churches in and around Letchworth.
The Trustees have set up a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
to administer the Church. The administration of the church was
transferred to the CIO on 1st February 2022.
The Trustees have recognised the need for larger and more suitable
premises for its Sunday service and other meetings and activities for the
community. In the longer term this may well require the purchase or
building of suitable premises. A designated fund has been allocated for| **TAR** DEC 2022 5 ## Section D Achievements and performance this and this fund has been transferred to the CIO. Because of the ongoing restrictions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic it was necessary to again suspend Sunday meetings and other gatherings. Throughout the reporting year the Church has continued to invest in and improve our use of on-line applications and Communications. The donations received by the Trust are almost entirely through the giving of people within the Church. Our reserves are important for the Church particularly during the ongoing of uncertainty from COVID-19 and the economy. The trustees will continue to regularly review income and expenditure and ensure that resources are expended effectively in furthering the aims of the Trust. **2. 1st February to 5th April 2022** The activity during this period has been to move the financial systems and regular donations over to the CIO. This included accounting for Gift Aid amounts. **Plans for coming year** It is envisaged that once all the financial elements have been transferred over to the CIO the Trust will remain albeit in a dormant state until such time as it is deemed prudent to wind it up. **TAR** DEC 2022 6 ## **Section E Financial review** The trustees believe that a minimum unrestricted reserve is required to **Brief statement of the** effectively administer New Life Church Letchworth. The minimum reserve **charity’s policy on reserves** is required for the following reasons:To ensure that all bills and payments are paid promptly To allow for short term fluctuations in income To ensure that New Life Church Letchworth can respond financially to unforeseen needs that may arise locally, nationally or internationally. To ensure that contractual (mostly employment related) and moral commitments are maintained. At the end of the accounting period the unrestricted reserves stood at £48,756. These reserves will be drawn on to cover the planned expenditure for the next year. The Church’s reserve policy is provided for in the Charitable Incorporated organisation. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **TAR** DEC 2022 7 **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** John Harvey King **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 16/12/2022 **TAR** DEC 2022 8 **----- Start of picture text -----**
Charity Name No (if any)
New Life Church Letchworth 299675
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
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from 06/04/2021 05/04/2022
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest to the nearest to the to the nearest to the nearest
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A1 Receipts
Tithes 62,633 9,985 - 72,618 78,639
Offerings 984 - 984 6,625
Grants - - 900
Gift Aid 17,106 857 - 17,963 17,768
Interest 7 - 7 30
Contra Payments 283 - 283 536
Other income 4,000 - - 4,000 -
Sub total (Gross income for
10,842 - 95,854 104,498
AR) [ 85,012 ]
A2 Asset and investment
sales, (see table).
69,000 - - 69,000
Manse charge repayment
- - - - -
Sub total 69,000 - - 69,000 -
Total receipts 154,012 10,842 - 164,854 104,498
A3 Payments
Employment costs 50,177 - 50,177 59,747
Leadership network support
7,280 - - 7,280 10,920
Ministry, church services &
events 5,098 - - 5,098 8,044
Offerings, gifts and projects
345 5,595 - 5,940 11,315
Premises 4,278 - - 4,278 4,882
Administration £6,329 - - 6,329 5,323
Transfer of funds to CIO - new
legal entity 149,536 6,601 - 156,137 -
Sub total 223,044 12,196 - 235,241 100,231
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Electical Equipment and
Furniture - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 223,044 12,196 - 235,241 100,231
Net of receipts/(payments) - 69,032 - 1,354 - - 70,386 4,267
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end £117,788 2,427 - 120,215 115,948
Cash funds this year end
48,756 1,073 - 49,829 120,215
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16-Dec-22| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A IndepeiTrdeiit E%311iiri¢ r s Report Report to thè truste memb•r¥ ol Llfe C*urch L8lchwth Trust On accounts for the y•ar 5 WI 2022 Charlty no (rf any) 299705 S•t out on 1.2 of the CC16a rerwJt I report to the trustees my exarn￿1.0ft d the acc(xints of the abov6 charity (Ihe Tru￿) for the year ended 5 AFrf 21J22 Regponsiblliti88 and As the tharty tnjstees of the Tn& w ar6 responsible for Ihe prep*ation basis of r•port of the acc4Kuts Ihe requirernents of the Ch&tties A 2011 (Ihe knri I rep(xt in res￿ of my eyamination of the Tnjsfs ac£ounts carried out under SeCtic￿ 145 of the 2011 Ad and in carryFng out my examinab'on, I hav8 the awAicable Dir8Ctlcffts given by the Charity Commission under se(#ion 145(5Mb) of the Ad. Independent I have Compleled my examination. I confmi that no material matters have examinerfs statement come to my att*rticffl {1th8r than that disdosed below ') in connection *ryth the examination whk* gr¥es me cause to believe that In. any material theArtor the accounts Ikj acoxd ￿ryth the aC£￿IrtIng re(￿S I have no ccThxns have ccmne auoss no otrw matt8rs in (Thnaclion ¥Mth Ihe examlnaticft Io attenlion Sh￿1￿ te dra￿7 in order to enable a prow UndWstandw￿ of the accoun18 to be fead*d. . Please dejete the in the brdckets rfthey do not apply. Slgned.. 17 D8￿mber 2022 Magdalena Shotter fram ATS AcrA￿nthg Tax Sothcxtrs Ltd Name: Relevant professlonal quallfication(sl or body {If aryl: FCA (F8UTh rf the Institute crf Clwtwod Acc4JJntants of England arnj Wales Add 6 corf￿ Ck)$0 Finchampsiead wokn.￿h8rn, RG40 4PA IER October 2018