New Ground Ireland Limited
Trustees' Report
The trustees, who are directors for the purposes of company law, present the annual report together with the financial statements of the charitable company for the year ended 30 April 2025.
Objectives and activities
Public benefit
The principal activities remain those of fund raising for religious and charitable purposes and focused on four key areas of Ministry:
Disciple Making
The primary ministry of New Ground Ireland is to make disciples of Jesus who will also become disciple makers.
Journeying one-on-one with people and training them to lead discovery groups where some key contacts live.
Training
We have continued developing our friendships with partners in South Africa and USA. Another partnership has been developing with Forge Ireland, an organisation which provides training for pioneers.It has been very encouraging to see trainees begin to pursue their dreams and fulufil their purpose in various projects and pioneering initiatives
Pioneering Outreach Ministry
Our friendships continued with many throughout Ireland during this period. However, while training will be provided to churches and individuals through Ireland, our focus will be in Mid-Ulster.
Also, we have begin to actively explore a pioneering base in Mid-Ulster. We intend to pursue this further as we consider specific steps.
Fund Raising
During this period we have been building relationships with individuals,, Charitable Trusts, churches and some businesses who have a desire to help finance our ministry.
We have found this to be increasingly challenging.
Trustees and officers
The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:
Trustees:
Mrs Karen Oliver Mr Andrew Murdock Mr David Legge
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New Ground Ireland Limited
Trustees’ Report
Structure, governance and management
Organisational structure
The charitable company is a company limited by guarantee, not having share capital.
The charitable company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association.
Statement of trustees' responsibilities ‘ The trustees (who are also the directors of New Ground Ireland Limited for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees’ report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic ofIreland”.
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the State of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
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observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable- and prudent,
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state whether applicable accounting standards, comprising RRS 102 have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed-and explained in the financial statements; and
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that can disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to.ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities,
The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on 19 January 2026 and signed on its behalf by:
MrsKewKaren Oliver 7 , Trustee
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