Without Walls
Company limited by guarantee
Trustees’ Annual Report Year ended 31 August 2025
The trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 August 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statements of Recommended Practice (SORP) “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” (FRS 102) in preparing the annual report and financial statements of the charity.
Objectives, Activities and Public Benefit
Without Walls is a growing community of Christians, committed to our own local churches, sharing a common inter-church Kingdom dream. We believe that God will use His local church more completely and as a greater blessing to our town and beyond as we sacrificially seek to increase our togetherness. Encouraging rhythms of inter-church Kingdom praise, prayer, fellowship and outreach. Believing that those around us will experience a more beautiful and life-transforming Bride as we are built together.
Our desire is to emphasise the beauty and power of the Bride of Christ. To encourage every believer, everywhere, to stand in unity so that together and not in isolation, we can be used more powerfully by Jesus. As Christians come together in unity to employ and share our unique and diverse gifting, we are like the varied strokes of colour painted from the artist’s palette used to create a stunning image of God’s Kingdom.
We encourage believers to thrive in their local churches while at the same time coming together without walls to radiate the full colour and beauty of the Bride of Christ. A beauty that is irresistibly attractive and infinitely powertul.
Achievements and performance
One Church One Day
This past year we have continued to support and maintain the OneChurchOneDay (Ballymena Prays) initiative. In 2024-2025 there were seventeen churches involved. Our commitment involves composing a monthly prayer digest of prayer thoughts (with local, national, and international items) to stimulate prayer across the participating churches.
Church Leaders Meetings
In 2024/25 our work building connections, relationships of trust and collaboration between Church leaders grew significantly in impact, building on the initiative addressing the Ballymena Drugs Crisis, reported on in last year’s submission entitled “Achievements 2023-24 - Trustees report to the Charity Commission.doc” and developed further in the paragraph below.
Initiative addressing the Ballymena Drugs Crisis
In September 2024, Without Walls continued to support an initiative from some church leaders in the town, involving the local PSNI Neighbourhood Team sharing their concerns at the growing drugs crisis in the town, and asking the local churches to help address the problem. Without Walls facilitated a well-supported gathering, in the Ballymena Town Hall on 8° November 2024, of 80 key individuals including the local PSNI, 24 church leaders plus outreach workers and other concerned individuals in the local churches and community. This was an awareness- raising gathering addressed by the PSNI, a recovering addict, a father who had lost his adult son to one pill he had swallowed at a party, and an addiction worker. It served as a wake-up call to many and led to the following activity supported and/or facilitated by Without Walls:
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Without Walls
Company limited by guarantee
Trustees’ Annual Report Year ended 31 August 2025
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¢ A steering team of 12 Christian leaders in the town, meeting every 4-6 weeks and chaired by the leader of a large Presbyterian church in the town to take forward the churches’ response to the drugs crisis. This group, dubbed the “Oasis Group’, has prioritised the following three strands of response: o United and focused prayer across the churches regarding the drugs crisis. This included weekly “crack of dawn” prayer on a Wednesday morning (ongoing), 52 days of prayer (an hour a day in the town hall whenever it was open between Good Friday and Pentecost Sunday).
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Education and Mobilisation of the congregations in the town concerning church and community transformation (CCT) with regards to addressing not just the drugs crisis but other issues in the community. The CCT process, led by Diane Holt and Thrive Ireland is ongoing as an audit of churches, and listening and practical collaboration response to challenges facing our community.
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© Rehab solutions for recovering addicts. This strand has involved looking at how churches can work together to support recovering addicts and signpost them to experienced and specialist organisations such as Teen Challenge and the Christian Family Centre (Armoy & Ballyards Castle).
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e February 2025 — in the Adair Arms Hotel - a meeting of approximately 40 leaders of churches and outreach groups to hear from Diane Holt of Thrive Ireland anda couple of church leaders, and roundtable conversation regarding the churches’ response to the drugs crisis.
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e June 2025 — in the Leighinmohr House Hotel - a meeting of approximately 40 leaders of churches and outreach groups to firm up the churches’ engagement with the CCT process, and also a response to the riots that took place in the town and beyond over undocumented migrants.
The Venue
WW has continued to use it for the Core Prayer Team gatherings and other gatherings linked to our aims and objectives.
PRAYER SPACE in October 2024
Prayer space concerning Halloween, at The Venue — ran from 9Yam-9pm on the Saturday, 26'" October with 12 churches/ prayer groups hosting an hour each.
Alphabet Group
Every two months on the final Wednesday of the month we continued to host a gathering of prayer leaders from different prayer groups across the town for fellowship and encouragement: Genesis business prayer, Revive, Ballymena House of Prayer, Ballymena Church Members Forum and the Crack of Dawn team. It was agreed to halt these gatherings in the light of new dynamics around prayer networking in the town.
Financial review
Net expenditure for the year was £375 (2024: £183). Due to the size of the charity, reserves are not required.
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Without Walls Company limited by guarantee
Trustees’ Annual Report Year ended 31 August 2025
Statement of Trustees Responsibilities
The trustees are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements of the charity in accordance with applicable law and generally accepted account practice.
As the total income does not exceed £250,000, the Trustees have elected under Section 64(3) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 to prepare a receipts and payment account and a statement of assets and liabilities.
The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate records that are sufficient to show and explain the charity's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time its financial position. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Annual Report was approved by the Trustees on 9 April 2026 and signed on its behalf by:
Kenneth Revie Trustee
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