2025-12-31-accounts

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	Period start date				Period end date
	Day	Month	Year		Day	Month	Year
From	01	01	2025	To	31	12	2025

Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator

Reference and administration details

Charity name New Community Church Inverurie Other names charity is known by Registered charity number SC040162 Charity’s principal address The Grange

SC040162 The Grange Warthill Inverurie Aberdeenshire Postcode AB51 5BP

Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report

	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Iain W Grieve
	Richard M Aspden	Chair / acting ~~treasurer~~
	Jennifer Beaumont	Secretary
	Lesley Macdonald

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Reference and administration details

Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)

Name	Name	Dates acted if not for whole year
Structure, governance and management
Type of governing document Trustee recruitment and appointment
	The charity is a Trust run according to the purposes and administration set out in the constitution
	We have a policy in place for the appointment and training of new trustees. Only a church member may be appointed as a trustee as described in the Church constitution. The legal requirements and responsibilities of a trustee will be detailed with reference to the role of a trustee as described on the OSCR ~~website: https://www.oscr.org.uk/managing-a-charity/trustee-duties/~~
Objectives and activities
Charitable purposes Summary of the main activities in relation to these objects
	(a) the advancement of the Christian Religion by the proclamation of the good news of Jesus Christ principally in Inverurie and the immediately surrounding area, but also throughout the North East of Scotland and Scotland as a whole and to support both financially and in all practical ways those engaged in the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world. (b) the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage both in Inverurie and the immediately surrounding area but also throughout the United Kingdom
	During the year under review the church has continued to support and encourage ecumenical and mission work, largely in and around the Inverurie area. We have held regular services that are open to everyone and joined with churches of other denominations for particular celebrations such as Easter. The church has worked with other local charities exploring the possibility of broadening our support and care in the community and continued the policy of providing help to those who, by reason of age, ill-health or disability require assistance in Inverurie and the surrounding areas.

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Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the financial period

We meet in the Fly Cup meeting rooms, upstairs from the Fly Cup cafe. They have been very welcoming and we meet now every Sunday at 11am. Services are advertised on Facebook and a church webpage and are open to all comers. We have continued an on-line prayer meeting on Thursday evenings, overcoming the problem of travel for our scattered congregation. We have continued to visit those members who are especially disadvantaged and maintained contact with those who are still struggling to return post-covid to offer what support we can. We continue to support an individual who is now engaged by OMF (a UK charity) to develop opportunities for ministry to Chinese speakers in the north of Scotland. This is proving quite exciting as there are numerous students attending a branch of the Glasgow School of Art near Forres as well as many families employed in various catering outlets throughout the north-east.

Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any deficit Donated facilities and services (if any)	We do not hold any reserves
	We now hold a working balance due to reclaiming Gift Aid on donations made over previous years.
	None

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Other optional information

Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) ») Full name(s) Richard Malcolm Aspden Position (e.g. Chair) Chair Date 8[th] January 2026

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