## **Carrickfergus Gateway Trust** **Trustees’ Annual report and Statement of Receipts and Payments and Assets and Liabilities** **For the year ended 31 March 2023** **Charities Number: NIC106121** **Carrickfergus Gateway Trust Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023** ## **Contents** ||Pages| |---|---| |References and administrative details of the Charity|1| |Trustees’ report|2 - 3| |Independent Examiners Report to the Trustees|4| |Receipts and payments account|5| |Statement of assets and liabilities|6| |Notes to the financial statements|7| **Carrickfergus Gateway Trust Year ended 31 March 2023** ## **References and administrative details** Charity Name: Carrickfergus Gateway Trust (also known as Harbour Faith Community) Charity Registration Number: NIC106121 Contact Address: 8a Governors Place Carrickfergus BT38 7BN ## **Trustees** Mr John Glass (appointed 22 September 2022) Mr Bill Lockhart (appointed 19 July 2023) Ms Lucy Ford (appointed 19 July 2023) Mr Ivor Mitchell (appointed 19 July 2023) Miss Elaine Shanks Mr Robert Crowe (resigned 22 September 2022) Mr Peter Johnston (resigned 22 September 2022) Mr William Sproule (resigned 19 July 2023) Ms Andrea McNaghten-Quinn (resigned 16 February 2022). ## **Principal Office-bearers** Minister: Steve Ames Acting Chair of Trustees: John Glass Administrator: Michael McCann ## **Independent Examiner** CG Taggart Accountancy Services Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditor 17 Cypress Crescent Donaghadee Co Down BT21 0QG ## **Bankers** Danske Bank Business Banking P.O. Box 183 Donegall Square West Belfast BT1 6JS 1 **Carrickfergus Gateway Trust Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2023** The trustees present the annual report and statements of Receipts and Payments and Assets and Liabilities for Carrickfergus Gateway Trust for the year ended 31 March 2023. ## _**Objectives and Activities**_ The charity’s purposes (‘the purposes’) are to express and promote the precepts of the Christian faith through engagement with the general public and in particular with the disadvantaged, the sick, the elderly and the young by: nurturing the spiritual development of members by holding meetings for corporate worship, providing information regarding spiritual beliefs and the activities of the organisation to members and the general public, providing pastoral care to members to nurture their spiritual development, undertaking religious ceremonies such as baptisms, weddings and funerals and undertaking other activities consistent with the above. ## _**Achievements, Performance & Public Benefit**_ Carrickfergus Gateway Trust, through Harbour Faith Community, utilises its Church Building to provide weekly services of public worship, open to all, which contribute to spiritual well-being of participants and the reinforcement of Christian values. Through the minister, and those who assist him, the church provides pastoral care to any who request it and undertakes religious ceremonies such as weddings and funerals. In cooperation with the other churches in the town of Carrickfergus there are a number of joint events each year for the whole community and for all ages. Its buildings are used by other community and church organisations to benefit the people of Carrickfergus. These activities implement our charitable purposes and provide public benefit. ## _**Financial Review**_ The trust is in a secure financial position at 31 March 2023 with an in year surplus and reasonable reserves to meet unforeseen liabilities. Our goal is to maintain reserves of at least 2 months expenditure which we almost have at the year end. At 31 March 2023 unrestricted cash funds amounted to a surplus of £13993 (31 March 2022 - £10356) and Restricted cash funds amounted to a surplus of £145 (31 March 2022 – a surplus of £145). ## _**Going Concern**_ Our income and costs should be able to be maintained at or below current levels. Additional funds for capital costs will be able to be raised separately. In the light of this the trustees have reviewed the budgets for the year ahead and are satisfied that there are adequate funds in place to ensure that the Trust can continue its activities for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 can be signed off as a going concern. ## **Structure, Governance and Management** ## _**Governing Document and Constitution of the Charity**_ The trust operates under a Trust Deed dated 21 March 2016 which superseded previous documents. ## _**Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees**_ Trustees are appointed by invitation and agreement of the existing Trustees based upon the skills and experience that they can contribute to board. There are a minimum of 3 Trustees. Meetings of the trustees are held at least twice a year. 2 C4rrlckfef8US Gatthiay Trust Trustets, Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2023 Icontlnuedl Poy and remunemtlon The mlnister works on a part-tlme basls and hls salary Is based upon 3 213rds workin8 week. OT¢antsatlonolStrurtVTe The Irustees. whlle responsible for the overall management of the church, delegate the day to day management to the mlnSster and the adminlstrator. Complltsnte wlth Publlc Benefit TheTrust has given careful consideration io the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland's Euidan¢e on public benefit to ensure that the attivities entered tnto durin8 the year have helped to achieve the church's purpose and objectives, as well as providing public benefit. Statement OA Trustees. Responslbllltles The trustees are responsible for preparing the TrustEes' Report and the statement of receipts and payments and statemefit of assets and liabililies in accordance w*th applicable law and regulations. The law applicable to charities in Northern Ireland with Income of les5 than £250,000 requires the trustees to prepare Statement of receipts and payments and a 5taternent of assets and liabilllies for each financial year. The trustee5 are responsible for keepinB accountlng recorils that are sufficient to show and explain the Trust's transactions arld disclose with reasonable accurary at any time the assets and liabilities of the Trust. They are èlso responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Trust and hence for taking reasonable steps lor the prevention and detection of fraud and other Slgned on Behalf of the Trustees o 6L*t-S WI LLI 4-M LL9ck14T￿T Trustee I Trustee 2 Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Carrlckfergus Gateway Trust I report on the a¢counts of the charity forthe year ended 31 March 2023 which are set out on pages 5 to 7. Respective responsibilities of trustees and examlner As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the Charities Act {Northern Ireland) 2008. It15 my re5ponsibllity to: examlne the account5 under sectlon 65 of the Charltles Act; follow the procedures laid down in the general Dlrèctlons glven by the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland under section 65{9){b} of the Charities Act; and state whether partlcular matters have come to my attention. Basis of Independent examlner's report I have examined your cha rity accounts as required under section 65 of the Charities Act and my examination was carried out In accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commis51on for Northern Ireland under section 6519llb) of the Charities Act. My examination Included a review of the accountlng records kept by the ¢harlty and a compar150n of the accounts presented wlth those records. It also Included Consideratlon of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as charity trustees concernin8 any such matters. My role is to state whether any material matters have eome to my attentlon glvln8 mè cause to belSeve: I, That accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 63 of the Charities Act 2. That the accounts do not accord with those accountin8 records 3. That the accounts do not comply wlth the accounting requirements of the Charities Act 4. That there is further Informatlon needed fora proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Independent examlner's ststement I have completed my examination and have no concerns in r&spect of the matters111 to14} listed above and. in connection with following the Directions of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, I have found no matters that requlre drawing to your attention. Grace Toogart FCA CG Taggart Accountancyservices Chartered Accountants and Registered Audltors 17 Cypress Crescent Donaghadee Co Down BT21 OQG Dote •Wl* •nd P•wTh•ftii ih• •fid•d 11 Mwth IOIJ 1•4vki•d j ioij io?J 2023 lJ)96 71296 6149 $164 7107 7495 4720 TIM I+￿1 Gfft A)¢l•d kn•ilofii 4164 4RrJ) fbi•nl lotil V4tt11¥u J851 J4S• 166 1002 J458 prf¥￿1￿￿•l (lffl(• Don•tlghi io rh•r+i•W ¢•u Iso 146 646 443 ItthppNltrNt E*•rnlnw 14690 mthbll* pho 670 159 307 ).48n J6J7 670 159 Toi•l P•¥mtryts l#(vis ol vIKdptt •¥w P•ym•nts ￿ th• 37 C•5h iQ3 Tn*kn• I St•itff*rtt of Assets and Llabilitles as at 31 Marth 2023 Note Unrestrfcted Funds 2023 Restrlcted Funds 2023 Endowment Funds 2023 Total 2023 Total 2022 C¥h Fvnd5 105 14S 45 41 Tot& Cash Funds 13 F¥eetrK*J lar￿ arnl Buildir4s i{b} ilb) .,eer_￿up and Offites Totsl Ta￿lble Fixtd Assets 666 1388 1243 145 iio Its41 13416 Total Fur Tha? ￿£1￿ no restricted bJTrds al 31 Marth 2023131 Marth 2022- £nill. TTuslee I (4h/ C￿*rf5 Loclc rtrtlL i Date **Carrickfergus Gateway Trust Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023** ## **1. Accounting policies** Set out below are the principal accounting policies which have been adopted in the compilation of the Receipts and Payments Account and the Statement of Assets and Liabilities ## **(a) Receipts and Payments Account** All items of income and expenditure included within the Receipts and Payments Account have been accounted for on a cash receipts basis. ## **(b) Statement of Assets and Liabilities** ## _**Assets retained for the Trust’s own use**_ The assets of the Trust, retained for its own use comprise:- Church Building and Offices at Governors’ Place, Carrickfergus, and Shop and Offices on West Street, Carrickfergus. These are included in the accounts at a reasonable estimate of current market value. ## 2. **Tax Relief on Gift-Aided donations** £382 of tax recoverable on unrestricted Gift-aided donations in the year to 31 March 2023 and earlier years has been claimed after the year end (Year to 31 March 2022 - £215). ## 3 **. Transactions with the Trustees** No trustee received any remuneration or reimbursement of expenses during the year. No trustee or a person related to a trustee had any personal interest in any contract or transaction entered into by the charity during the year. 7