## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01JAN2024 Period start date To 31DEC2024 Period end date** **Charity name: St. John’s Church Ashbourne** ## **Charity registration number: 515193** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Advancement of the Christian faith,**
**particularly by the provision and**
**maintenance of St. John’s church**
**Ashbourne for public worship and other**
**charitable and community activity.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Church services as part of the Church of**
**England. Provision of facilities for**
**charitable and community activities.**
**Ashbourne Baptist church and**
**Ashbourne Christian Fellowship also**
**use the facilities for regular worship and**
**the ACE youth charity is based here.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The trust is run entirely by volunteers.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**In addition to the regular services the**
**church has provided a venue and**
**facilities for other local Christian**
**groups, charities and community**
**activities. We provide a resource to**
**local community groups that offer**
**activities that mitigate social isolation**
**and mentor young people. The**
**Community Hall is also home to the**
**office of Ashbourne Arts.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity is able to meet its**
**commitments and has no significant**
**creditors or debtors.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserve fund is approximately two**
**months’ running costs, in line with**
**Church of England guidance.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£6,000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The C of E congregation is very small**
**but the majority of the charity’s income**
**comes from rental of buildings and this**
**income seems stable.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Rental of church, church hall, adjoining**
**house and office space. However the**
**house is currently vacant, undergoing**
**renovation.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Increasing energy costs, potential**
**competition from other venues for local**
**groups to meet. Cost of house**
**renovation, and loss of rental income,**
**following discovery of dry rot.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees are appointed by the existing**
**trustees and serve for 5 years, after**
**which they may be re-appointed.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**St. John’s is a Peculiar Church within**
**the Church of England and is part of the**
**Parish of Ashbourne. The charity works**
**locally with Ashbourne Churches**
**Together.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|St. John’s Church Charity| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|St. John’s Church Ashbourne| |Registered charity number|515193| |Charity’s principal address|St. John’s Church
Buxton Road
Ashbourne
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Nicholas Bishop|Chair||Trustees| ||Glenn Hughes|Treasurer||Trustees| ||Keith Lomas|||Trustees| ||Monica Cope|||Trustees| ||Andrew Cox|||Trustees| ||BeverleyOakley||01JAN – 20JUL|Trustees| ||Glynn Bevan|||Trustees| ||Julie Hughes|||Trustees| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||| ||||| |**Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**n/a**|||| ||**n/a**||| ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2024 ## **St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report for the twelve months ending 31[st] December 2024** ## **Summary** General fund income for 2024 was similar to that in 2023, when exceptional items are taken into account. A reduction in rent from the house, due to it being vacated, was offset by additional church bookings and an increase in interest earned, after closing the NSI account and moving funds to the CBF deposit account, which pays a higher rate of interest. Gas and electricity costs increased by nearly £200 compared to 2023. Most of this increase was for electricity used in the church, perhaps reflecting the increased use and a period where the main (oil) heating was not working. We signed a new 3-year fixed-rate agreement for gas and electricity, ending in August 2027. Spending on upkeep of buildings was lower this year (this does not include the house refurbishment, the cost of which is being taken from the major maintenance fund). We have been able to cover all necessary expenditure and contributed £1,000 to the Church of England Common Fund. We finished the year with no outstanding creditors or debtors. The General Fund shows a year-end surplus of £1,862 but this includes income from an insurance claim, together with the associated expenditure, and also a transfer of £2,000 to our reserve fund. Without these exceptional items the surplus would be £3,454. The General fund value is now £19,781. The Major Maintenance fund is much reduced, due to the work needed on the house following the discovery of dry rot. We have spent over £20,000 on this so far and will probably need to spend a similar amount again to complete the full refurbishment. Glenn Hughes Treasurer, St. John’s Church Charity January 2025 St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2024 ## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31DEC2024** |**Assets**|**2024**
**£**
3,652.95
26,363.86
1,576.38
27,687.90
-250.00
59,031.09
6,000.00
29,264.28
3,344.23
641.41
19,781.17
59,031.09|**2023**
**£**| |---|---|---| |Bank current account (co-op)
CBF Deposit account (CCLA)
CCLA COIF charities Investment Fund
BLK charities UK Bond fund
payments pending
**Funds**||43,430.87
245.73
1,541.56
28,969.74| |||74,187.90
4,000.00
30,511.30
21,116.40
641.41
17,918.79| |Reserve fund
Investment fund
Major maintenance fund
Warm Spaces Fund
General fund||| |||74,187.90| ## **Property** **St. John's church, Ashbourne and St. John's church hall (inc. cottage)** Building and contents insured by the trustees for up to £13.3m St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2024 |**Bank account reconciliation**
**2024**
**Opening balances**
67238886
Co-op charity
account
612193001D CBF deposit account
**Transactions**
general fund payments
general fund receipts
reserve fund receipts
investment fund receipts
investment fund payments
maintenance fund receipts
maintenance fund payments
warm spaces fund receipts
warm spaces fund payments
**closing balance**
**Year end balance from statements**
67238886
Co-op charity
account
612193001D CBF deposit account
less payments pending -
PCC
Admin
plus deposits post year end|**(figures in £)**
43,430.87
245.73
-33,643.77
35,506.15
2,000.00
1,214.68
-1,214.68
4,800.00
-22,572.17
0.00
0.00| |---|---| ||29,766.81| ||3,652.95
26,363.86
-250.00
0.00| ||29,766.81| St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2024 ## **Details of individual funds** |**1. General Fund (unrestricted)**
**Receipts**|**1. General Fund (unrestricted)**
**Receipts**|**2024**
**£**
0
749
0
154
5,010
15,221
2,880
2,794
2,333
6,365
35,506
1,000
20
172
3,460
1,020
564
1,244
3,827
2,218
895
0
1,040
3,573
191
4,800
0
0
1,662
0
7,957
33,644
1,862
3,454|**budget**
**£**
0
600
0
0
4,000
15,000
2,880
5,000
2,400
0
29,880
1,000
0
200
3,800
900
800
1,400
4,000
2,500
1,000
1,000
1,000
3,600
200
4,800
0
0
900
2,500
2,000
31,600
-1,720|**2023**
**£**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||0
620
1,350
84
3,825
15,276
2,805
4,939
439
1,214| ||pledged
collection
donation
fees
church rent
hall rent
office rent
house rent
interest
other
TOTAL RECEIPTS
**Payments**|||| |||||30,552| |||||1,000
0
105
3,322
816
652
1,173
3,718
4,287
728
925
50
3,600
167
4,800
0
50
802
3,292
1,154| ||diocese
gifts / charity
services
insurance
church electricity
hall electricity
hall gas
church oil
church upkeep
hall upkeep
house upkeep
grounds upkeep
cleaning
water
major maintenance fund
organist
verger
admin
projects
other
TOTAL PAYMENTS
EXCESS / (DEFICIT)
Excess minus exceptional (other) items|||| |||||30,643| |||||-91| St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2024 ## **General fund sources of income** **==> picture [297 x 550] intentionally omitted <==** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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insurance
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## **General fund expenditure** ## St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2024 |**2. Investment Fund (unrestricted)**
**Receipts**|**2. Investment Fund (unrestricted)**
**Receipts**|**2024**
**£**
43
1,172
35
-1,282
-32
1,215
1,215
-1,247
**2024**
**£**
4,800
0
0
0
4,800
22,572
22,572
-17,772|**2023**
**£**| |---|---|---|---| ||||42
1,172
130
471| |income derived from COIF
income derived from BLK
unrealised gain / loss COIF investment
unrealised gain / loss BLK investment
TOTAL RECEIPTS
**Payments**
transfer to other funds
TOTAL PAYMENTS
EXCESS / (DEFICIT)
**3. Major Maintenance Fund (unrestricted)**
**Receipts**|income derived from COIF
income derived from BLK
unrealised gain / loss COIF investment
unrealised gain / loss BLK investment
TOTAL RECEIPTS
**Payments**||| ||||1,814| ||||1,214| ||||1,214| ||||600
**2023**
**£**| ||||4,800
0
0
0| ||transfer from other funds
donation
interest
other
TOTAL RECEIPTS
**Payments**||| ||||4,800| ||||| ||House refurbishment
TOTAL PAYMENTS
EXCESS / (DEFICIT)||| ||||0| ||||4,800| St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2024 |**4. Warm Spaces Fund (restricted)**
**Receipts**|**4. Warm Spaces Fund (restricted)**
**Receipts**|**2024**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
0
0|**2023**
**£**| |---|---|---|---| ||||0
0| ||donation
other
TOTAL RECEIPTS
**Payments**||| ||||0| ||||0
219| ||heating
other
TOTAL PAYMENTS
EXCESS / (DEFICIT)||| ||||219| ||||-219| ST. JOHN'S CHURCH CHARITY INDEPENDENT EXAMINE￿$ REPORT YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2024 CHARITY NAME- ST. JOHN'S CHURCH CHARITY CHARITY NUMBER- 515193 Independent Examlnerfs report to the trustees of SL John's Church Charfty Trust We report to the trustees on our examinatlon of the accounts of the St. John's Church Charlty Trust (the Trust) for the year ended 31 December 2024. Responslbllltles and ba51$ of report As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responslble for the preparation of the accounts in accordance wlth the requlrements of the Charlties Act 2011 ('the ACV). We report In respect of our examlnation of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out our examination we have followed all the applicable Dlrectlons glven by the Charity Commission under sectlon 145(51{bl of the Act. Independent examlnerfs ststement We have completed our examination. We confirm that no material matters have come to our attentlon in connertion with the examlnation giving us cause to believe that in any material respect.. accountlng records were not kept in respert of the Trust as requlred by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records. We 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. Signed: Relevant professional qualification or membership of professional bodies:...... ...... Address: .. 1 &1. OÉ(SYCAI￿É Dc6 ICR