## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/01/2024 Period start date To 31/12/2024** ## **Period end date** ## **Charity name: The King’s Church** ## **Charity registration number: 702000** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|1. The advancement of the Christian Faith
and the worship of God.
2. The relief of persons who are in
conditions of need hardship or distress or
who are aged or sick.
3. The advancement of education on the
basis of Christian principles.| |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|The King's Church is committed to enabling
as many people as possible to worship at
our church and to become part of our
church community. We provide varied
services and activities to try to assist as
many people as possible. The trustees
have considered the Commissions
guidance on public benefit and, in
particular, the specific guidance on
charities for the advancement of religion. In
particular we try to enable ordinary people
to live out their faith as part of our
community through: worship, prayer,
discipleship, pastoral care, mission and
outreach work. Main areas of activity were:
Children's Work, Youth Work, Special
Events, Visitation, Mission Work, Various
Courses, Weekly Drop-ins, School Work,
Community Choir and Community Projects.
ln addition to these activities the Church
held regular weekly services which are
open to all. Links have been maintained
with other local churches and joint ventures
undertaken with them. We have also
maintained links with local schools and the
wider voluntary and community sector. We
have also helped with mission work abroad
particularly in lndia and Uganda. To
facilitate this work, it is important that we
maintain the fabric of The King's Church
Thornton Centre.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance|Para 1.18|The trustees confirm they have had regard
to the Charity Commission guidance on
public benefit.| issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit ## **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|Most church members work as unpaid
volunteers in the various church ministries
to help further the charity's objectives| |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|Weekly church services for the
community
Weekly children's activities plus special
events
Weekly youth group plus special events
Special events through the year for adults
and children
Regular visits to the elderly, housebound
and bereaved to provide comfort, prayer
and support
Christian mission work in the UK and
abroad
Weekly drop in 'The Hub' to provide
friendship and support
Weekly Community Choir
Weekly 'Stay & Play' for babies, toddlers
& pre-school, accompanied by their
guardians| ## **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 trustees have reviewed the charity’s
financial position at the end of the period.
The charity continues to be funded by
donations from the members of the church
congregation. Expenses exceeded income
in part due to timing differences of
payments for seconded and salaried staff.
The deficit was funded by unrestricted
reserves. The trustees consider that the
charity remains on a solid financial footing,
with stable long term trend of donation
income, and reduced outgoings forecast for
the following year.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|£7,500 has been allocated by the trustees
as an operating reserve to cover
fluctuations in receipts and payments and
for contingencies.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£7,500| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|NA| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|NA| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|NA| 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|
lncome principally came from regular giving
and one-off gifts from church members and
associated gift aid tax refunds.| |---|---|---| |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|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||Declaration of trust dated 10 July 1989 as
amended by special resolution dated 25
February 1996| |---|---|---| |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|Appointed by the elders or recognised
spiritual leaders of the church| ## **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|| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||The trustees regularly reviewed and
updated policy and procedures related to:
finances, safeguarding and health and
safety.| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The King’s Church| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|70200| |Charity’s principal address|2 Drummond Road
Thornton
L23 9YP| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||D M Lake|Chair||| ||C H Lake|Treasurer||| ||R A Da Mota|||| ||S Hayes|||| ||J Morrin||11/02/2024-31/12/2024|| ||B Pickering||11/02/2024-31/12/2024|| ||R Da Mota||01/02/2024-11/02/2024|| ||L M Hayes||01/02/2024-11/02/2024|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |The Official Custodian for
Charities holds the title for
The King's Church Thornton
Centre||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets NA held in this capacity Name and objects of the NA charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for NA 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 Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **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)** D M Lake **Full name(s)** David Mark Lake **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)** **Date** 08/09/2025 ||**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**The King's Church**
**702000**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/1/2024
12/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee eee_~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**The King's Church**
**702000**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/1/2024
12/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee eee_~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**The King's Church**
**702000**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/1/2024
12/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee eee_~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**The King's Church**
**702000**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/1/2024
12/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee eee_~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**The King's Church**
**702000**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/1/2024
12/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee eee_~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**The King's Church**
**702000**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/1/2024
12/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee eee_~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**The King's Church**
**702000**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/1/2024
12/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee eee_~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**The King's Church**
**702000**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/1/2024
12/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee eee_~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**The King's Church**
**702000**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/1/2024
12/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee eee_~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**The King's Church**
**702000**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/1/2024
12/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee eee_~~| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**|||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||| |Church Ministries lncome|**1,292**||**-**||**-**||**1**|**1,292**||**1,136**| |Hire of Church hall|**1,080**||**-**||**-**||**1**|**1,080**||**500**| |Gifts and Offerings|**44,698**||**2,850**||||**47**|**47,548**||**54,345**| |HMRC Gift Aid Refunds|**9,288**||**-**||**-**||**9**|**9,288**||**11,979**| |lnterest|**922**||**-**||**-**||**922**|**922**||**871**| |Miscellaneous lncome|**76**||**-**||**-**||**76**|**76**||**790**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**57,356**
_(Gross income for AR)_||**2,850**||**-**||**60,206**|**60,206**||**69,621**| |**Old PA equipment**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**340**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**340**
**_Total receipts_ 57,356**
**2,850**
**-**
**60,206**
**69,961**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
~~——_———~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Church administration|**1,905**||**-**||**-**||**1**|**1,905**||**1,730**| |Church Ministries|**2,557**||**23,972**||**-**||**26**|**26,529**||**29,937**| |Giftsgiven|**6,835**||**-**||**-**||**6**|**6,835**||**7,541**| |Premises|**10,333**||**-**||**-**||**10**|**10,333**||**10,578**| |Premises - Improvements|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| |Employment costs|**20,483**||**-**||**-**||**20**|**20,483**||**23,698**| |Bank charges|**183**||**-**||**-**||**183**|**183**||**155**| |Sundryexpenses|**76**||**-**||**-**||**76**|**76**||**790**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ 42,372**|||**23,972**||**-**||**66**|**66,344**||**74,429**| |Assetpurchases
**72**
**-**
**-**
**72**
**412**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 72**
**-**
**-**
**72**
**412**
**_Total payments_ 42,444**
**23,972**
**-**
**66,416**
**74,841**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
~~—————~~||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 14,912**
**- 21,122**
**-**
**- 6,210**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**- 21,122**
**21,122**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**41,506**
**-**
**-**
**41,506**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 35,296**
**-**
**-**
**35,296**
~~SS]~~||||||||||**- 4,880**
**-**
**-**
**- 4,880**
~~4~~| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Cash accounts
Bank current accounts
Deposit account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Church building
Furniture, fixtures and fittings
PA & AV equipment
Office equipment
Kitchen equipment
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**127**
**5,999**
**29,171**
**35,297**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |Signature
D M Lake|Print Name
David Lake|Date of
approval| |---|---|---| |D M Lake|David Lake|9/8/2025| |||| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees "rrt£ ¥IFLS Cb¥LL2¢ tl On accounts for the year ended 31 IILJ201 Charity no (if any) 70ZOOO Set out on pages *02 I report to the trustees on rny examination of the accounts of the above charfty ('Ihe Trusf) for the year ended 3111tr120>¥. As the charitys trustees, you a￿ responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (°the Actr). Responsibilities and basis of report I report in respect of my examination of the Trusfs accounts rArried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent rr examinerfs statement applI￿￿ete [ l if not applicable. I have completed my examlnation. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination {othep6 éise1e￿) vthich gives me cause to believe that in. any rnaterial respecL the accounb'ng records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act. or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements conceming the fonn and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 1rue and fairf view which Is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no COr￿mS and have come across rrf) 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. ' F¥ease delete the woft*s in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Signed: Date: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body IER Oct 2018 (if any): Address: 14* l/JE&T LI￿É￿otsL Section B Disclosure Onty complete rf the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concem (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examin6rs). Give here brief details of any items that the examinerwishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018