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2020-12-31-accounts

Registered Charity No. 803355

Registered Charity No 803355

TRUSTEES’ REPORT

for the year ended 31[st] December 2020

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83a High Street, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 3DP Email: admin@hccuk.org www.hccuk.org

Huntingdonshire Community Church

Annual Trustees’ Report for the year ended 31[st] December 2020

Contents

Contents
Page
Legal and administrative information 3
Report of the trustees 4 to 14
Independent Examiner’s Report 15
Receipts and Payments Statement 16
Statement of Assets and Liabilities 20

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Huntingdonshire Community Church

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Charity number 803355
Trustees Jonathan Gray
Stephen Cawley
Timothy Anderson
Eldership team Timothy Anderson
Trevor Payne
Principal address
and registered office 83a High Street
Huntingdon
Cambs
PE29 3DP
Independent Examiner Carole Cowgill ACA
4 Penny Meadow
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP9 2UU
Bankers Barclays Bank
Market Hill
Huntingdon
Cambs
PE29 3AE
HSBC
132 High Street
Huntingdon
Cambs
PE29 3NG

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020

Introduction

The trustees present their report and financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2020. The accounts have been prepared under the Receipts and Payments method, which summarises bank and cash transactions during the year.

Trustees’ Responsibilities

Charity law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of its financial activities for that year. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud or other irregularities.

Organisation and Status

Huntingdon Community Church (HCC) operates under a Deed of Trust and was registered as a charity on 1[st] June 1990 with the charity registration number 803355. Its main purpose is the advancement of the Christian faith.

During the year, the Trustees were: Jonathan Gray, Stephen Cawley and Timothy Anderson.

Additional trustees are recommended by the church eldership to be approved by the current trustees.

The responsibility for managing the Trust on a day-to-day basis is delegated by the Trustees to the Eldership Team, one of whom, the church’s Senior Leader, is also a Trustee.

During the year, the Eldership Team consisted of Timothy Anderson and Trevor Payne.

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Public benefit

The charity trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit in section 4 of the 2011 Charities Act, and the supplementary guidance on the advancement of religion for the public benefit, published by the Charity Commission, in exercising their powers and duties.

REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

In 2020, HCC’s leadership worked to fulfil its charitable aims and objectives as laid out in the Charity’s trust deed. These are:

The Eldership Team annually reviews HCC’s objectives. In 2020, priorities were set to: provide pastoral support for the church members through the Covid pandemic; maintain a Sunday presence through online services; and, adopt a responsive stance towards meeting needs within the wider community.

The Board of Trustees met formally 3 times over the year (both physically and over Zoom) with further business being conducted via informal means of communication.

HCC delivers its charitable objectives through:

Our mission as a church is: ‘to enable people and communities in Huntingdonshire to thrive, through putting the power of God's love into action’.

The report that follows summarises the activities of the Trust over the past year. These activities were impacted severely by the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused cancellation of much of our programme and a shift to online means of communication from the end of March.

Many of our members either work or serve as volunteers in public office, voluntary organisations, education, or medical professions.

1. Sunday Gatherings, Small Groups and Pastoral Care Open to All The church provides the opportunity for members of all ages to meet together corporately on a weekly basis for worship, teaching, inspiration and fellowship. We also believe that mid-week small groups are excellent

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settings for us to grow and interact in a more personal and intimate environment. We offer ‘first line’ pastoral care to church members, referring more complex cases to the appropriate authorities.

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environment. At the same time, we introduced ‘Forest Church’, a socially-distanced creative form of church meeting in the surrounds of Hinchingbrooke Park, held in a socialdistanced manner. This was attended by a wide range of ages including teenagers, singles, couples and those with young families. It was a development of ‘Explore’, mentioned above, and was held bi-weekly. Together with the streamed service which could be joined at our town centre premises or at home, this gave 3 ways for people to connect with HCC on Sundays. This arrangement lasted until the end of October and the start of the second lockdown, when we returned to being online only with pre-recorded services.

2. Supporting and Equipping Members and Non-Members

Throughout the year we worked to enable people to fulfil their potential based on Christian values through one-to-one support, Sunday teaching, training and courses. In 2020 we ran the following training and resourcing opportunities:

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transition lessons to the primary schools across Huntingdon. Although schools work stopped during lockdown we were still able to provide primary schools with a creative online lesson for those transitioning to secondary schools in Huntingdon.

Many of the physical activities were planned to be repeated during the year, but could not be held due to the Covid pandemic.

3. Outreach Events that Demonstrate the Faith and Enrich the Wider Community and Family Life in Huntingdonshire and Beyond

Over 2020 we actively sought to engage and serve the community within Huntingdonshire. We undertook this in the following ways:

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considerable input to that organisation including, prior to the lockdowns, the running of youth cafés at 3 locations in the town. The team also undertook work into several local schools, leading assemblies and taking session for the Christian Union. Together with the Methodist Church in the town centre, Friday night youth sessions continued until lockdown. These included a meal and discussions time, traditional youth club activities, and trips out.

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area of Huntingdon, as well as to some care homes. The hampers contained routine food items, special Christmas items, and toys.

4. The 83a Centre

Our church building, ‘83a’, occupies an easily-accessible high street location. Using space that is not required for church activities, it enables us to provide, at affordable prices, other organisations to operate locally in serving townspeople.

The following organisations were hosted on a regular basis in our building in the first 2½ months of 2020, significantly furthering the public benefit derived from the building:

Huntingdon Area Money Advice (given free office space within the building) Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire Mind Huntingdon Psychological Wellbeing Service East Anglia Diabetic Eye Screening Service Choices Counselling Cambridge Deaf Organisation Road Victims Trust Cambridge Group Therapy Diane Cole Counselling Adrian Jackson Counselling Sefanit Inquai Counselling Overeaters Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous Janine Skyrme Pilates Class AG Family Support Royal Society of St George Peterborough Council Occupational Health Polish Saturday Language School Hands off Hinchingbrooke Hospital campaign Huntingdon Trades Council

Many of these activities had to stop during lockdown. Some re-started when restrictions were eased during the summer and continued during the second lockdown as guidelines permitted. Slimming World also started to hold regular meetings here in the Autumn.

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5. Working Together with Other Organisations

HCC worked in partnership with other like-minded organisations in achieving its objectives. Locally, HCC is a member of Churches Together in Huntingdon and Godmanchester. We are also part of a wider network of churches and ministries in the east of England known as ‘Ignite’. Ignite is part of Plumbline Ministries International.

LEADERSHIP AND STAFF

The Eldership Team, who have responsibility for the day-to-day running of the church, meet monthly to plan the spiritual direction and activity of the church. During November, the team retreated to Launde Abbey in Leicestershire for 24 hours, to consider vision and strategy for the coming year. Through the year, effort was put in to further define and embed our mission, vision and values. Consideration was also given to how the church would re-gather post-Covid, and what we could learn from the pandemic experience going forward.

Paid Staff

The eldership team was led by Tim Anderson , who worked 2½ days a week for HCC.

Trevor Payne has worked in a paid capacity for 4 hrs a week managing HCC’s admin and finance functions. He further served in a voluntary capacity in the church office such that he was working full-time in the office until the lockdown, and almost full time at home during lockdowns.

Ania Anderson continued as Family Support and Outreach Worker working 10 hrs a week.

Sarah Ford worked 3½ days a week as Administration Assistant but left on 16[th] April after illness.

Richard Schwier worked 32.5 hrs a week, leading youth work and also helping in the wider strategic direction of the church, including joining elders meetings. He was seconded to the Thrive youth ministry for 10 hours of this time per week. Richard made a considerable contribution to online services.

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Helen Cobby joined us on 1[st] February as a Family Worker employed for 15 hrs a week. She has worked to encourage and galvanise the families in the church, provide material and lead children’s and families sessions on Sundays and at Explore and Forest Church. She also spent a considerable amount of time on online services.

Dan Flint worked 5 hrs a week throughout the year as Toddler Group Project Worker, but was furloughed during the lockdown.

Justyna Kaczmarek worked 3 hrs a week as a Toddler Group Assistant throughout the year, and 3 hrs a week as a cleaner in the last 3 months of the year. She was furloughed during the lockdown.

Volunteers

Jean Casling continued in the role of Associate Pastor with pastoral and other responsibilities across the church.

Debby Flint met with the staff team for most of the year and ran some of the physical events that were held.

Many other members of the church served in a voluntary capacity at events and activities throughout the year.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Unrestricted income for the year was £120,655 (2019: £139,769) and unrestricted expenditure was £118,093 (2019: £126,090).

We retain significant funds in reserve (the Support Reserves fund) to cover salaries and other committed contract costs for a period of three months. Giving by church members was broadly stable across the year, with occasional one-off large donations. Centre lettings income, however, was severely impacted by the pandemic. A grant of £5,000 was received from the local council as a Covid Discretionary Business Grant and one of £2,500 from Huntingdon Freemen’s Trust towards refurbishment of our forecourt. There were several new givers amongst the church congregation.

The funds of the charity include restricted and designated funds for the following purposes:

Designated funds: Building Renovation; Support Reserves; Donations; Fixed Asset

Restricted funds: PA; Toddler Group; Special Needs; Community Needs; Building

Over the year, 17.5% of our income was given away to causes outside the core programme of the church.

RELATED PARTIES

During the year one trustee, Timothy Anderson, was engaged in remunerated activity and received £21,000 as ministry salary during the year. His wife, Ania Anderson, not a trustee, was also employed by the church and received a salary of £7,290.

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Registered Charity No. 803355 Huntingdonshire Community Church is a member of the Evangelical Alliance (Registered Charity Number 2123251 and seeks when and where it can to support the EA'S aims by prayer, financial giving and attendance at events. The Church is also a member of the network of churches comprislng plumbline Ministries International (Registered Charity Number 3272711. We support Plumbline both financially and by participating in Plumbline events and working towards Plumbline's objectives of planting and developing new churches across the country. This report and the financial statements were approved by the trustees on April 2021 and signed on their behalf by.. Stephen Cawlev Chairman Timothy Anderson Trustee 14

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HUNTINGDONSHIRE COMMUNITY CHURCH

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2020

Unrestricted
Restricted
Designated
Total Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
2020
Notes
£
£
£
£
Receipts
Donations and legacies
1
75,746
4,252
11,119
91,117
Income from Charitable Activities
2
32,335
32,335
Investment Income
55
55
Other income and Grants Received
3
12,519
1,750
2,500
16,769
Total Receipts
120,655
6,002
13,619
140,276
Payments
Worship and service - Staff costs
4
80,071
80,071
Worship and service - Other costs
5
14,458
34
14,492
Mission services
6
13,289
5,280
2,508
21,077
Outreach
1,561
252
1,813
Building maintenance and improvements
7
5,870
17,220
23,090
Governance costs
8
2,844
2,844
Total Payments
118,093
5,566
19,728
143,387
Net of Receipts/ (Payments)
2,562
436
(6,109)
(3,111)
Cash Funds b/f 1st January 2020
82,772
2,585
53,036
138,393
Cash Funds c/f 31st December 2020
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85,334
3,021
46,927
135,282
Total Funds
2019
£
87,900
54,299
96
11,595
153,890
71,941
18,790
31,292
6,940
11,151
2,700
142,814
11,076
127,317
138,393

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2020

Unrestricted Restricted
Designated Total Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
2020
£
£
£
£
1. Donations and legacies received
Fund receipts - Toddlers
0
87
87
Offerings
77,254
77,254
Gift aid
13,272
504
13,776
less tfrs to Donations fund
(3,120)
3,120
Special needs fund
(2,821)
2,821
Community needs fund
(640)
640
Support reserves
(7,999)
7,999
Toddler group
(200)
200
75,746
4,252
11,119
91,117
2. Income from charitable activities
Centre lettings
32,229
32,229
Reimbursements
106
106
32,335
0
0
32,335
3. Other income and Grants received
Donation recd from Freemens Charity
2,500
2,500
Miscellaneous receipts
3
1,750
1,753
Cross charge for youth worker
7,516
7,516
Covid 19 council grant
5,000
5,000
12,519
1,750
2,500
16,769
4. Worship and service - staff costs
Wages
77,190
77,190
less Covid 19 Job Retention Scheme Gran
(1,082)
(1,082)
Pensions
2,014
2,014
Staff socials
0
0
Conferences
1,001
1,001
Personal development/training
948
948
80,071
0
0
80,071
Total Funds
2019
£
386
73,130
14,384
87,900
54,085
214
54,299
650
3,024
7,921
0
11,595
69,004
0
1,568
170
389
810
71,941

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2020

Unrestricted Restricted
Designated Total Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
2020
£
£
£
£
5. Worship and service - other costs
Books/media
163
163
Children and Youth expenses
81
81
Craft materials
37
37
Internet/communication
1,737
1,737
Insurance
744
744
IT software/consumables
475
475
Stationery
160
160
PA items
1,918
1,918
Printing and postage
959
959
Refreshments
390
34
424
Subs/licences
2,333
2,333
Travel
181
181
Utilities
2,210
2,210
Venue hire
2,500
2,500
Worship group
2
2
Gifts to visiting preachers
568
568
14,458
34
0
14,492
6. Mission services
Donations
9,225
9,225
less Tfrs to Donations fund
(2,508)
2508
0
to Special needs fund
(5,055)
5,055
0
to Community needs fund
(225)
225
0
to Toddler group fund
0
Tithe to Plumbline
11,852
11,852
13,289
5,280
2,508
21,077
7 Building maintenance and improvements
Building maintenance
5,870
5,870
Building improvements
- forecourt refurbishment
15,120
15,120
- flat roof repair
2,100
2,100
5,870
0
17,220
23,090
8. Governance costs
Accountancy/ independent exam fees
500
500
Consultancy expenses
2,344
2,344
2,844
0
0
2,844
Total Funds
2019
£
509
427
0
1,554
2,128
198
713
2,223
512
1,803
2,266
755
3,569
1,166
19
948
18,790
16,621
0
0
0
0
14,671
31,292
11151
0
0
11,151
500
2,200
2,700

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS (continued)

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2020

9. Funds Movements

Unrestricted Income Funds
General Fund
Designated Funds
Building renovation fund
Donations fund
Support reserves
Total Unrestricted Funds
Restricted Income Funds
Special needs fund
Community needs fund
Toddler group fund
Building fund
Total Bank and Cash Funds
Funds at
Fund
01/01/2020
movements
2020
£
£
82,772
2,562
38,628
(14,721)
407
613
14,001
7,999
53,036
(6,109)
135,808
(3,547)
284
20
1,164
407
168
9
969
0
2,585
436
138,393
(3,111)
Funds at
31/12/2020
£
85,334
23,907
1,020
22,000
46,927
132,261
304
1,571
177
969
3,021
135,282

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Registered Charity No. 803355 HUNTINGDONS IREC MMUNITY CHURCH STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2020 Unr•strlct•d Rastrlcted Funds Funds OesSgna*ed Total Funds Funds 2020 Totsl Fund5 2019 Cash funds HSBC current account Barclays savings aw>unt Offi¢9 polly cash Total Monelary Assets 53.780 81.369 133 135 282 49.314 88.9S3 126 138 393 Othgr Monetary Assets Due from users of property Grft aid recoverable 1,160 1,160 9.841 2.327 Ftsnd ¢0 whlch asset belongs Not Book Value 2020 Cost Assets retalned for the charIt￿S own us Sofas PhotocopierlPrinter UThrestrfcted Unr88trictad 1,168 Freehold Land Fixed asset Freehold Building and Improvements Rgplacomenl of Uppor Flat Roof Forecourt refurbishmgnl Lower flat roof replac8m8nt Fixed a55et Fixèd asset Fixed asset FIK8d a$set 176,851 16,400 15,120 2,100 210471 173,313 12.300 14.616 12020) 12020} 202 250 Total flxed assets 275 359 262 250 Amount due When due Liabilities Dècember 20 invoice5 paid in January 21 Tithe due lo Plumbline Independent 8X8minerfs fee Staff PAYE, Nl and PensiD Unrestrlcted Unrestric18d Unr8Strict8d Unrestricted 810 550 701 Jan-21 Jan-21 Jan-21 il ￿11 L 20ZI, Slgna Slgned-.... Dale". Date-. 20