2025-03-31-accounts - Fellowship For Christian Services

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 APRIL 2024 To 31 March 2025

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Fellowship for Christian Services

	Other names charity is known by	Other names charity is known by	Other names charity is known by	Kirkby Christian Fellowship (KCF)
	Registered charity number (if any) Charity's principal address		Registered charity number (if any)509762 Charity's principal address 69 Kennelwood Avenue Kirkby Liverpool Postcode L336UE ~~=—~~
	Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
	Trustee name	Office (if any)		Dates acted if not for whole year Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
1 Grahame Watts	1 Grahame Watts	Chair		The trustees themselves
2 Mar	2 MaryWatts			“
3 And	3 AndySmith	Treasurer		“
4 Mike Smith	4 Mike Smith			01/04/2024 – 31/12/2024 “
5 Paul Mavers	5 Paul Mavers			“
6 Rachel Mavers	6 Rachel Mavers			“
7 Simon Rodwa	7 Simon Rodway			“

10 Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year ~~———~~ Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information) ~~a~~ TAR 1 March 2012

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document Trust Deed (eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted Trust (eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods Nomination and majority vote of existing trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

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

Summary of the objects of the To promote the spreading of the gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ in charity set out in its accordance with the teaching of the gospel of Matthew Chapter 28 governing document

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the Promoting the Gospel. public benefit in relation to Offering support to existing churches through finance and ministry. these objects (include within Making of material and financial gifts to those in need to display the love this section the statutory of God in a tangible way. declaration that trustees have Promotion of activities that demonstrate the love of God in practical ways. had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grant making.
policy programme related investment.
contribution made by volunteers.

The Fellowship for Christian Services (KCF) activities have continued, as always, to operate through time freely given by the large body of church partners. There are no paid employees.

In respect of grant making and indeed for all expenditure, requests are prayerfully considered by the trustees. Other partners in the church contribute extensively to the day-to-day activities of KCF through specific focus ministry groups but this remains within a strong framework of accountability to the trustees. All monies remain immediately available to KCF. This is a deliberate policy to ensure that maximum resources are always available.

Other

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Donations Donations of £40547 are up from £37695 last year.

Gift Aid We were able to reclaim £9019 from HMRC for donations made under the Gift Aid scheme.

Insurance Claim

The insurance paid out £5709 on a claim following a break in in Jan 24.

Fundraising

Heaven Sent

Heaven sent is our largest outreach of the year and has become an annual event where we turn the church car park into Bethlehem with authentic buildings and live animals. The event takes place over 3 days. The first day is reserved for local schools with approximately four hundred school children attending.

The remaining days are open to the public. To keep this event free to the public, we usually raise funds through clothing sales during the year.

Fundraising from clothing sales, haircuts and cake sales raised £3235 towards this year’s “Heaven Sent Live Nativity” event.

Right to succeed

A grant of £1666.65 was obtained to provide new school uniforms for local families. This grant was topped up with funds from KCF to ensure that as many families as possible could benefit from this initiative.

Gifts

A total of £3674 was distributed as gifts this year. This includes a £2000 donation to All Saints School with will help with supporting local young people to go on a Lourdes trip.

Building Costs

Building costs continue to be one of our major expenses. We spent £24544 in this area which includes a cost of £5000 for a new secure door for the front of the building.

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Outreach Work

A total of £19179 was used in this area over the past year.

SHARe Knowsley

The charity has continued to support SHARe Knowsley by allowing them to host a weekly session at our building. SHARe provide a clothing bank, supplementary food items, and refreshments. The sessions have become very popular with asylum seekers with over seventy attending the drop-in sessions each week. Further information about this charity can be found at https://shareknowsley.org.uk/

KCF seeks to promote its activities without charge to the local community by the freewill giving of its members.

The church has a number of different outreach activities including…

Kairos Kids

A weekly meeting for children of all ages for bible teaching and worship.

Girls Night Inn

An outreach for girls with games, interactive bible messages, and crazy challenges.

Sunday Night

An open worship meeting with bible teaching and is open to all.

House Groups

Weekly meetings in smaller groups at people’s homes. A time to be a part of what God is doing in our community.

Friends and Fellowship

A monthly meeting designed specifically to cater for older people and attracts residents and staff from local nursing homes and those in residential accommodation.

Taxi Wash

A monthly free service to local taxi drivers where each taxi is given a quality hand wash whilst the drivers enjoy sausage, egg and bacon butties and tea or coffee. The service provides an opportunity in a relaxed atmosphere for taxi drivers to experience the love of God for them.

Heaven Sent

As discussed earlier, Heaven Sent Live Nativity is our largest outreach of the year where we turn our car park into Bethlehem with authentic buildings and live animals.

The event normally runs over 3 days with the first day reserved for local primary schools and the residents of local nursing homes.

Summary

This year income was £8416 more than expenditure meaning that we go into next year in a strong financial position.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The trustees monitor the financial activities of the fellowship monthly to ensure that all monies are spent appropriately and that there are sufficient funds to meet our commitments.

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Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

Our principal sources of income continue to be donations enhanced by
You may choose to include tax refunded on covenanted giving. We also conduct fundraising for
additional information, where specific activities, which has been supported by the public and local
relevant about: companies.
• the charity’s principal sources of funds (including Our key aims remain the same i.e., to promote the Gospel in any fundraising). understandable and tangible ways to church partners, visitors, and our
• how expenditure has local community. Our expenditure will be focussed on achieving these aims.
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

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) A J Smith

Full name(s) Andrew J Smith Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Treasurer etc)

Date 09/01/2026

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Charity Name No (if any) Fellowship for Christian Services 509762 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To ~~—~~ from 01/04/2024 31/03/2025 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Endowment Restricted funds Total funds Last year funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts DONATIONS 40,497 50 - 40,547 37,695 TAX REPAYMENT FOR DONATIONS UNDER 9,019 - 9,019 8,784 GIFT AID BANK INTEREST 396 - 396 358 FUNDRAISING 4,902 - 4,902 1,991 USE OF MINIBUS 80 - 80 90 COFFEE SHOP 515 - - 515 INSURANCE CLAIM 5,709 - - 5,709 - - - - - - Sub total (Gross income for AR) 56,215 4,952 - 61,167 48,918 ~~asso~~ A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - - Sub total - Total receipts 56,215 4,952 - 61,167 48,918 ~~——————~~ A3 Payments GIFTS 3,674 - - 3,674 5,305 OUTREACH WORK 14,228 4,952 - 19,179 12,388 BUILDING COSTS 24,544 - - 24,544 24,840 STATIONARY POST & PACKING 19 - - 19 - MINIBUS RUNNING COSTS 3,064 - - 3,064 2,450 PROFESSIONAL FEES 400 - - 400 400 LICENCES & DBS 873 - - 873 1,467 MUSIC/SOUND EQUIPMENT 1,588 COFFEE SHOP 1,497 - - 1,497 - UNCASHED CHEQUE - 500 - - - 500 -

Sub total 47,799 4,952 - 52,750 48,437

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - - Sub total - Total payments 47,799 4,952 - 52,750 48,437 ~~——————~~ Net of receipts/(payments) 8,416 - - 8,416 480 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 63,649 - - 63,649 63,169 Cash funds this year end 72,065 - - 72,065 63,649 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period ~~====~~ Unrestricted Restricted funds Endowment Categories Details funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B1 Cash funds Cash & Bank Accounts 72065 - - - - - CCXX R1 accounts (SS) ~~———— 1~~ - 18/01/2026 -

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets	Signature A J Smith Details Details Minibus Marquee Furniture Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details	72,065
	A J Smith	A.J. Smith

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

18/01/2026