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2021-12-31-accounts

Registered Charity No. 803355

Registered Charity No 803355

TRUSTEES’ REPORT

for the year ended 31[st] December 2021

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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 2021

Contents

Contents
Page
Legal and administrative information 3
Report of the trustees 4 to 17
Independent Examiner’s Report 18
Receipts and Payments Statement 19
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
Core Leadership team Timothy Anderson
Rebekah Bennett
Richard Schweir
Helen Cobby
Jean Casling
Principal address
and registered office 83a High Street
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 3DP
Independent Examiner Carole Cowgill ACA
4 Penny Meadow
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP9 2UU
Bankers Barclays Bank
Market Hill
Huntingdon
Cambs
PE29 3AE
HSBC
Market Hill
St Ives
Cambs
PE27 5AP

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021

Introduction

The trustees present their report and financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2021. 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 situation 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 Core Leadership Team, one of whom, the church’s Senior Leader, is also a Trustee.

During the year, the Core Leadership Team consisted of Timothy Anderson, Rebekah Bennett, Richard Schwier, Helen Cobby & Jean Casling.

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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 2021, HCC’s leadership worked to fulfil its charitable aims and objectives as laid out in the Charity’s trust deed. These are:

The Core Leadership Team annually reviews HCC’s objectives. In 2021, 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 2 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 Vision 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. Many of these activities have happened on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic and have been impacted by the virus. 2021 has predominately been spent relaunching & restarting many of our activities that happened pre COVID-19. Not all activities relaunched in 2021.

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,

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teaching, inspiration and fellowship. We also believe that mid-week small groups are excellent 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.

Youth and Children’s programmes continued to run on-line on zoom for the first six months of the year, giving support and spiritual encouragement through challenging times.

Adapting to the challenges and opportunities presented by Covid we developed the following approach to our Sunday format:

January to Easter 2021:

Online Church - pre-recorded video was streamed through the Church Online portal covering teaching series and church news and prayers based on the following series:

Spring/Summer 2021:

Post the second lockdown in Easter we began to explore creative ways of regathering in safe and legal ways that led to a number of new initiatives:

Forest Church – we returned to a monthly outdoor service, initially experimented with in the first lockdown, where in groups of 6, for families, children and adults who could engage with interactive prayer and bible stations in an innovative format located at Hinchingbrooke Park. This became powerful for our families. This became a once-a-month event.

Filling Stations – a monthly hours service at the church centre, 83a offering a reflective and renewing space with recorded music, communion, meditation and prayer. These grew in attendance and value for people.

Sunday Service Watch Parties – Still streaming recorded services on-line we opened up 83a for people to come down to watch the services in person on the big screen, beginning to introduce a regathering of the church. Attendance slowly grew in number and appreciation over time, particularly for those who had been isolating on their own. Over the Spring and summer, we took two mini-series. Firstly, looking at How Jesus Transforms our lives, looking at issues of anxiety and relationships. Secondly a miniseries from the book of Acts and the early church, allowing it to shape and inform how we think about coming out of lock down as a church and what it means to be ‘Church’. This formed our thinking about the importance of our values around being Jesus centred, relationally connected, community focused and life transforming.

The Summer Sundays allowed us to innovate further with returning to in-person live meetings at 83a with two shorter services back-to-back. The first with an adult focus, socially distanced and the second, a family service based around family ‘bubbles’ at tables led by our Children’s and Youth work team. We based the summer series in the Fruit of Spirit, looking at character and

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competencies coming out of lockdown. New people began to join us during the summer who had been watching us online.

Church in the Garden. In September, continuing to regather in safe ways, we ran a series of outdoor services in Broughton in the garden of some members of our congregation where we were able to sing again, have a short interactive talks and testimonies together.

Autumn 2021.

With restrictions lifting from October, we returned to a varied Sunday programme including: 1) meeting again at the Cromwell Academy in Hinchingbrooke for hour length services in adult, youth and children tracks maintaining social distancing. 2) Providing more space and a different location, we launched Café Church at Thongsley Primary School. Over this term we took a teaching series based in the book of Nehemiah. This new rhythm of Sundays helped support us coming back along new lines that valued relationships, conversations, interactive learning and spiritual experience, that can be open and accessible also to guests wanting to explore faith.

Week 1 – Forest Church Week 2 – Cromwell Academy Week 3 – Café Church – at Thongsley School Week 4 - Cromwell Academy

The term concluded with a family focused guest Christmas Café Sunday on 12[th] December which was well attended by guests and members and involved crafts and drama telling the account of the birth of Jesus. This was followed by a guest Carol service the following weekend back at Thongsley Primary School on Sunday 19[th] December 2021.

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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 2021 we ran the following training and resourcing opportunities:

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Through other church partnerships and through his employment with Thrive, our youth worker also played an active role in engaging with young people in schools, including at assemblies, Christian Union groups, in groupwork and offering year 6 transition lessons to the primary schools and Youth Cafes across Huntingdon. Coming out of lockdown, Thrive’s mentoring and lunchtime group work In St Peters School continued. We saw a continuous demand for the service and where we saw an increase in the building of the trust established and the increased levels of need for supporting mental health and wellbeing for local young people coming out of lockdown.

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

Though with much restriction, over 2021 we actively sought to engage and serve the community within Huntingdonshire. We undertook this in the following ways:

Toddler Group The Family Support and Outreach Worker continued to run the HCC Rainbow Toddler Group, which aims provide one-to-one support for families within and outside the church community and to develop programmes and events to enhance the well-being of families, parents and children in Huntingdon and the surrounding areas. The Group reopened in April 2021 with 2 x 45min sessions open to 8 families booking on-line per session. In May this increased to 10 families per session. In September it reopened for 2 x 1hr sessions with capacity for 12 families per sessions. We saw an increase in bookings, with bookings reaching full capacity over the year. We conducted a feedback report in 2021, our findings of this report showed that the majority of people attending the group where new and had started coming to the group post covid. There was strong feedback that stated most parents enjoyed bringing their children to the group for the social interaction between other children. The welcoming atmosphere and friendly environment were also highlighted in the report.

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newcomers or people who are on their own to meet in a social setting after church, deepen their connections and find out more about the church. Due to Covid, only one such lunch was held. These restarted in the autumn of 2021 providing people a space to connect, socialise and get to know each other.

In May 2021 as a response to the COVID19 Pandemic. HCC were able to raise £3,000 for ventilators in India. These funds went to support a local hospital where one of our Church members returned to work shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 throughout of 2021, 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 Probation Service Slimming World

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Centre 33

Many of these centre users had to stop during lockdown. Some re-started when restrictions were eased during the summer and continued during the second lockdown as guidelines permitted. We did however see a decrease in some of the above users returning to the centre post lockdown. However we have since seen the new independent counsellors utilising the space. Some of our bigger centre users did not return post lockdown.

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 Core Leadership 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 October, the team retreated to Houghton 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 Core Leadership team was led by Tim Anderson , who worked 2½ days a week for HCC.

Rebekah Bennett was employed by HCC from July 2021 and came on board as the Operations Manager. Rebekah became part of our Core leadership team and part of our Executive staff team. Rebekah was employed for 32 hours a week heading up all operations aspects of the Church, line managing staff teams and managing our centre 83a.

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

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Richard Schwier worked 32.5 hrs a week, leading youth work and also helping in the wider strategic direction of the church, including joining core leadershipmeetings. He continued to be secondedto the Thrive youth ministry for 10 hours of this time per week.

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

Dan Flint worked 5 hrs a week throughout the year as Toddler Group Project Worker

Justyna Kaczmarek worked 3 hrs a week as a Toddler Group Assistant throughout the year, and 5hrs a week as a cleaner in the last 3 months of the year.

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 the majority of the year. Debby Left the team in December 2021.

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 £163,924 (2020: £120,655 ) and unrestricted expenditure was £122,652 (2020: £118,093). The Trustees have reviewed the reports and concerns and consider the charity is a going concern.

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. We also received a legacy donation from a member of the Church that passed away, this was to sum of £10,000. We received a further payment of £25,000 from our insurance company as a loss of income during COVID-19.

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

RELATED PARTIES

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During the year one trustee, Timothy Anderson, was engaged in remunerated activity and received £21,630 as ministry salary during the year. His wife, Ania Anderson, not a trustee, was also employed by the church and received a salary of £7,508.70

Huntingdonshire Community Church is a member of the Evangelical Alliance (Registered Charity Number 212325) 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 comprising Plumbline Ministries International (Registered Charity Number 327271). 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 and signed on their behalf by:

Stephen Cawley Chairman

Timothy Anderson Trustee

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HUNTINGDONSHIRE COMMUNITY CHURCH

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2021

**Unrestricted ** Restricted Designated Total Funds
Funds Funds Funds 2021
Notes £ £ £ £
Receipts
Donations and legacies 1 92,040 2,587 3,310 97,937
Income from Charitable Activities 2 25,068 25,068
Investment Income 8 8
Other income and Grants Received 3 46,808 2,451 49,259
Total Receipts 163,924 5,038 3,310 172,272
Payments
Worship and service - Staf costs 4 82,591 82,591
Worship and service - Other costs 5 11,134 194 11,328
Mission services 6 23,271 4,318 1,859 29,448
Outreach 2,127 2,127
Building maintenance and improvements 7 1,959 195 2,154
Governance costs 8 1,570 1,570
Total Payments 122,652 4,707 1,859 129,218
Net of Receipts/ (Payments) 41,272 331 1,451 43,054
Cash Funds b/f 1st January 2021 85,334 3,021 46,927 135,282
Cash Funds c/f 31st December 2021 9 126,606 3,352 48,378 178,336

Registered Charity No. 803355

Total Funds 2020

£

91,117 32,335 55 16,769 140,276

80,071 14,492 21,077 1,813 23,090 2,844 143,387

(3,111) 138,393 135,282

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HUNTINGDONSHIRE COMMUNITY CHURCH

REPORT AND ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED

31ST DECEMBER 2021

Registered Charity Number – 803355 Address: 83a High Street Huntingdon Cambridgeshire PE29 3DP

Registered Charity No. 803355

HUNTINGDONSHIRE COMMUNITY CHURCH

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS (continued)

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2021

9. Funds Movements

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		 Cash
Funds at
Fund
1/1/2021
movements
2021
£
£
85,334
41,272
23,907
1,020
1,451
22,000
46,927
1,451
132,261
42,723
304
268
1,571
177
63
969
3,021
331
135,282
43,054		 Cash
Funds at
12/31/2021
£
126,606
23,907
2,471
22,000
48,378
174,984
572
1,571
240
969
3,352
178,336

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HUNTINGDONSHIRE COMMUNITY CHURCH

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2021

1. Donations and legacies received
Fund receipts - Toddlers
Oferings
Gift aid
less tfrs to Donations fund
Special needs fund
Community needs fund
Support reserves
Toddler group
2. Income from charitable activities
Centre lettings
Reimbursements
3. Other income and Grants received
Donation recd from Freemens Charity
Audrey Royston legacy
Insurance loss of income receipt
Miscellaneous receipts
Cross charge for youth worker
Covid 19 council grant
4. Worship and service - staf costs
Wages
less Covid 19 Job Retention Scheme Grants
Pensions
Staf socials
Conferences
Personal development/training		 Unrestricted Restricted
Designated
Total Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
2021
£
£
£
£
257
257
84,057
190
84,247
12,963
470
13,433
(3,120)
3,120
(1,860)
1,860
92,040
2,587
3,310
97,937
24,963
24,963
105
105
25,068
0
0
25,068
1,241
1,241
10,000
10,000
25,000
25,000
5,606
1,210
6,816
6,202
6,202
0
46,808
2,451
0
49,259
81,527
81,527
(2,475)
(2,475)
2,138
2,138
468
468
0
0
933
933
82,591
0
0
82,591

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HUNTINGDONSHIRE COMMUNITY CHURCH

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2021

**Unrestricted ** Restricted Designated Total Funds
Funds Funds Funds 2021
£ £ £ £
**5. ** Worship and service - other costs
Bank charges 6 6
Books/media 107 107
Children and Youth expenses 580 580
Craft materials 143 143
Internet/communication 1,425 1,425
Insurance 968 968
IT software/consumables 974 974
Miscellaneous gifts/expenses 145 145
Stationery 191 191
PA items 0 0
Printing and postage 120 120
Refreshments 284 9 293
Subs/licences 2,914 2,914
Toddler group materials 353 185 538
Travel 122 122
Utilities 1,503 1,503
Venue hire 1,164 1,164
Worship group 0 0
Gifts to visiting preachers 135 135
11,134 194 0 11,328
**6. ** Mission services
Donations 13,443 13,443
less Tfrs to Donations fund (1,859) 1859 0
to Special needs fund (4,318) 4,318 0
to Community needs fund 0
to Toddler group fund 0
Tithe to Plumbline 16,005 16,005
23,271 4,318 1,859 29,448
**7 ** Building maintenance and improvements
Building maintenance 1,959 195 2,154
Building improvements
- forecourt refurbishment 0
- fat roof repair 0

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HUNTINGDONSHIRE COMMUNITY CHURCH

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2021

8. Governance costs
Accountancy/ independent exam fees
Consultancy expenses
Legal fees		 Unrestricted Restricted
Designated
Total Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
2021
£
£
£
£
1,959
195
0
2,154
550
550
0
1,020
1,020
1,570
0
0
1,570

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Total Funds 2020

£

87 77,254 13,776

91,117

32,229 106 32,335

2,500 0 0 1,753 7,516 5,000

16,769

77,190 (1,082) 2,014 0 1,001 948

80,071

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Total Funds 2020

£

0 163 81 37 1,737 744 475 0 160 1,918 959 424 2,333 0 181 2,210 2,500 2 568

14,492

9,225 0 0 0 0 11,852

21,077

5,870 15,120 2,100

Registered Charity No. 803355 Total Fund4 2020 23.090 500 2.344 2.844

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HUNTINGDONSHIRE COMMUNITY CHURCH

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2021

UnrestrictedRestricted UnrestrictedRestricted **Designated ** Total Funds
Funds Funds Funds 2021
£ £ £ £
Cash funds
HSBC current account 91,639
Barclays savings account 86,377
Ofce petty cash 320
Total Monetary Assets 126,606 3,352 48,378 178,336
Other Monetary Assets
Due from users of property 5,360 5,360
Gift aid recoverable 4,709 4,709
10,069 0 0 10,069
Fund to which Net Book
asset belongs Cost Value 2021
£ £
Assets retained for the charity's own use
Sofas Unrestricted 1,168 0
Photocopier/Printer Unrestricted 3,720 0
Freehold Land Fixed asset 60,000 60,000
Freehold Building and Improvements Fixed asset 176,851 169,777
Replacement of Upper Flat Roof Fixed asset 16,400 11,480
Forecourt refurbishment (2020) Fixed asset 15,120 13,860
Lower fat roof replacement (2020) Fixed asset 2,100 1,916
210,471 197,033
Total fxed assets 275,359 257,033
Amount due When due
Liabilities £
December 21 invoices paid in January 22 Unrestricted 0
Tithe due to Plumbline Unrestricted 970 Jan-22
Independent examiner's fee Unrestricted 575 Jan-22
Staf PAYE, NI and Pension Unrestricted 1,214 Jan-22
2,759

Signed:……………………………..

Date:……………….

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Total Funds 2020 £

53,780 81,369 133 135,282

1,160 1,167 2,327

Registered Charity No. 803355 Independent Examinerfs Report to the Trustees of Huntingdonshire Community Church for the year ended 31" December 2021 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above Charity for the year ended 31, December 2021. Responsibilities and basis of report A5 the charity's trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 20111"the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Charit￿5 accounts carried out Ljnder section 145 of the 2011 Act, and , in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Dirertions given by the Charity Commission (under section 14515llbl of the Act. Independent examlnerfs statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which give me cause to believe that, in any material respect, the accounting records were not kept in accordance with settion 130 of the Charities Act. or the accounts dcf not accord with the accounting records. I have no concerns, and have come acro55 no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ,,I,I,, Mrs Carole Cowglll ACA 4 Penny Meadow. Capel St Mary, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP9 2UU ICAEW CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT