BELFAST DOMESTIC MISSION TO THE POOR OF BELFAST FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023
BELFAST DOMESTIC MISSION TO THE POOR OF BELFAST FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR TO 31 MARCH 2023 Contents Page Number Charity Inforn]ation Trustees, Report Independent Exarniner's Report Receipts and Payments Account Statement of Assets and Liabilities
BELFAST DOMESTIC IsSIoN TO THE POOR OF BELFAST CHARITY INFORMATION Trustees at 31 March 2023 The Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland Trustee Company Rev Chris Hudson Ms Monica Burns istered Charitv Number 103374 Inde endcnt Examiner Gavin Reid and Company Unit I 212-218 Upper Newtownards Road Belfast BT4 3ET Bankers Danske Bank PO Box 183 Donegall Square West Belfast BTI 6JS
BELFAST DOMESTIC MISSION TO THE POOR OF BELFAST Trustees, Report Year ended 31 March 2023 l. Belfast Domestic Mission for the Poor of Belfast (known as Belfast Domestic Mission or the Mission) was established in 1852, to help alleviate poverty, supporting Sunday Schools and discussion groups and providing practical support to those in need. This is the public benefit we promote. There is no hann or private benefit fi.om our puryoses and we have had regard to the Charity Commission's public bencfit requirement statutory guidance. 2. Our Charity Number is 103374. Trustees registered with the Charity Commission are R Paul Hamilton and the NSPCI Trustees Company. The official address of the Mission is All Souls, Church, 5 Elmwood Avenue, Belfast BT9 6AZ. 3. As our communities return to a semblance of nonnality, the Trustees report that activities on behalf of the Belfast Domestic Mission are increasing. The sad and untimely death of Member Jonathan Hamilton was noted. 4. Donations to the NSPCI Widows Fund and to Sunday Schools recommenced, as churches get back to nonrAal. Disbursement of £20 and £25 TESCO vouchers continue, to lamilies and individuals identified locally as being in need. Help for purchase of school unifonns and shoes was provided to two families. 5. The Mission received M&G dividends of £5,719 as well as Department for Communities dividends of £152 and £76 in inlei.est from the bank. The bank balance of the Mission at the end of the financial year is £45,554 as noted in the accompanying accounts. 6. The Trustees and Members were able to resume meetings in person, apart from two members who are ill and frail. Communicalion continues by phone and, for those with access, by email. 7. It was agreed that Sunday Schools and the Reading Campaign would be supported with an increased donation from financial year 202312024. Rev Chris Hudson reported that it was unnecessary to continue to provide financial support to the NSPCI Widows Fund, a situation which can be reviewed, should the Fund's financial situation change significantly for the worse.
- Discussions are underway with a food bank and hostel in west Belfast, to pursue the possibility of starting classes for families to help them cook and eat more nutritious meals, especially for families which rely on foodbanks.
- A larger float of TESCO vouchers is being made available for disbursement, following the decision last year to aim for a spend of at least £5,000 per annum to taiget the poor of Belfast through practicaI support. Signed on behalf of the Trustees Rev Robeii McKec
BELFAST DOMESTIC MISSION TO THE POOR OF BELFAST INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES ON THE UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF BELFAST DOMESTIC MISSION TO THE POOR OF BELFAST In accordance with our engagement, and in order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have compiled the financÉal statemenl of the charity which comprise the Receipls and Payments Account, the Statement of Assets and Liabilities and the related notes from the books of accounl and inforniation and explanations you have given to us. This report is made to the charity's truslees in accordance with the tenns of our engagement. Our work has been undeitaken so that we might compile the financial statements that we have been engaged to compile, report to the trustees that we have done so and state those matters that we have agreed to state to them in this report and for no other puryose. To the fullest extent perniitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity's irnstees, as a body, for our work or for this report. We have caiTied out this engagement in accordance with guidance issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and have complied with the ethical guidance laid down by the Institute relating to members undertaking the compilation of financial statements. You have acknowledged on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities for the year ended 31 March 2023 your duty to ensure that the company has kept proper books of account and to prepare financial statemcnts that give a true and fair view under the Companies Act 2006. We have not been inslrucled to cary out an audit of the financial statements. For this i'eason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the financial stalements. Gavin Reid and Company Chartered Accountants Unit I 212-218 Upper Newtownards Road Belfast BT4 3ET 10 October 2023
BELFAST DOMESTIC MISSION TO THE POOR OF BELFAST RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 2023 2022 INCOME M&G dividends DFC dividends Bank interest 5,719 152 76 5,137 151 48 EXPENDITURE Donations Minislers, Widows Fund All Souls Church Kids Club First chui.ch Rosemary Street Newtownards Sunday School Bank fees 335 200 100 100 100 200 24 866 224 SURPLUS FOR THE YEAR 5.081 5,112 FUNDS BROUGHT FORWARD AT I APRIL 2022 FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD AT 31 MARCH 2023 There were no recogniscd gains or losses other than those included in the Receipts and Payments Account above.
BELFAST DOMESTIC MISSION TO THE POOR OF BELFAST STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT 31 MARCH 2023 2023 2022 FIXED ASSETS Investments 12,857 12,857 CURRENT ASSETS Bank cuent account TOTAL ASSETS CAPITAL AND RESERVES Balance brought fonvard Surplus for the year 40,473 35,361 Balance carried forward 45
BELFAST DOMESTIC MISSION TO THE POOR OF BELFAST STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES (CONTINUED) TRUSTEE'S STATEMENTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2023 In approving these financial statements as trustee of the charity I hereby confirni: (a) that l acknowledge my responsibilities for: (l ) ensuring that the charity keeps accounting records. and (2) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of aflairs of the charity as at the end of the financial year and of its surylus for the year then ended. The financial statements were approved by the Trustees on l O October 2023 and signed on its behalf by Rev Robert McKee