**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 August 2023 to 31 July 2024 ## **Reference and administration details** **Charity name** **Registered charity number Charity’s principal address** ARBROATH TOWN MISSION SCIO SC047587 95 Grant Road Arbroath Postcode: DD11 1JU ## **Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report** **Dates acted if Trustee name Office not for whole year 1** Chairperson Vice Chairperson/ **2** Secretary **3 4 5 6** Treasurer **Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee** Arbroath Town Mission SCIO Arbroath Town Mission SCIO Arbroath Town Mission SCIO Arbroath Town Mission SCIO Arbroath Town Mission SCIO Arbroath Town Mission SCIO ## **Names of all other charity trustees during the period** ## **Name** **Dates acted if not for whole year** 1 ## **Structure, governance and management** **Constitution** The Arbroath Town mission is governed by its constitution. The centre is registered as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) and was registered in its current legal form on 17 July 2017. **Trustee recruitment and appointment** The centre recruits on an ad hoc basis when required. The trustees are responsible for approving the policies and direction of the charity. The board may, at any time, appoint new trustees onto the board. Trustees vacate office after three years but are eligible for re-election at the annual general meeting (AGM). Trustees may also be appointed by election at the AGM. Trustees must profess a Christian faith and be a member of Arbroath Town Mission unless they are appointed on the basis of any specialist skills or experience that they can offer. **Organisational structure and decision making** The structure of the organisation consists of: - The members, who have the right to attend members' meetings and have important powers under the constitution; in particular, the members make decisions on changes to the constitution itself. - The Board of trustees, who are collectively responsible for the governance, management and administration of the organisation. - The trustees, who seek to meet on a monthly basis, administer the charity with the elders overseeing the work of the Church. ## **Objectives and activities** **Charitable policies and objectives** The objectives of the charity are:- - The advancement of the Christian faith and the promotion of evangelical and Christian work primarily in the Arbroath area, throughout Scotland and the rest of the World, by all means consistent with the teachings of the Christian Bible, including worship, ministry, mission, prayer, witness, education, community service and the support of agencies and individuals and other charitable organisations involved in Christian missionary work and the relief of poverty or other social needs. - The relief of need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage through the exercise of pastoral care and practical compassion and through the services provided to the most vulnerable members of the community. - To provide facilities, services and recreational activities in the interest of social welfare to support and improve the conditions of life for the inhabitants of the Arbroath area. 2 ## **Objectives and activities (continued)** **Summary of the main activities in relation to these objects** The main activities of the organisation are the organising and running of Sunday worship services and other church gatherings, and the running of various projects for the community, including a children’s clothes bank and Girls Group. ## **Achievements and performance** **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the financial period** We have seen a year of steady progress. Our numbers have grown to a congregation with over 50 attending our Sunday morning meeting. Our Girls Club has proved very popular and each Thursday around fifteen girls meet with a variety of activities on offer. We also have weekly Bible study and prayer meetings, which around twelve of the congregation regularly attend. Coffee mornings have also been held that opens up the Mission to the public and we are seeing increasing numbers attending these events. We have also been able to repair various parts of the building towards making it wind and water tight, although we face further expenses in this area, but are confident in surmounting this challenge. Subsequent to the reporting period, The Lighthouse Kids Clothes Bank has since been taken over by the church into whose building it moved last year. Looking back over the year, we have overcome many challenges and problems because of the commitment and hard work of the membership acting together for the benefit of the Town Mission. ## **Financial review** **Going concern** The Trustees consider the charity to be in a stable financial position and are confident they will have sufficient funds to continue operating and meet all liabilities for the foreseeable future. Therefore, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. 3 ## **Financial review (continued)** **Reserves Policy** The trustees of the Mission seek, as a general rule, to maintain at all times adequate funds to cover against essential building repairs as well as - should it ever be necessary - the potential costs of winding up of the charity and any associated expenses. ## **Plans for future periods** The Town Mission will continue to be a place of worship in the current premises and look to reach out to the community in various ways as and when financial constraints allow. ## **Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signatures Full names Position** Chairperson Treasurer **Date** 4 ## **Independent examiner’s report on the accounts** ## **Report to the trustees/members of** Arbroath Town Mission SCIO |**Registered charity**
**number**|SC047587|SC047587|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**On the accounts of the**||Period start date|||Period end date||| |**charity for the period**|Day|Month|Year||Day|Month|Year| ||01|August|2023|to|31|July|2024| |**Set out on pages**|||||||| **Respective** The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance **responsibilities of** with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the **trustees and examiner** Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). The charity trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. **Basis of independent** My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the 2006 Accounts **examiner’s statement** Regulations. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and, consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and - • to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations have not been met, or 2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** **Date:** `16-Jan-2025` 5 ARBROATH TOWN MISSION SCIO SC047587 OSCR Receipts and paym8nts accounts Ytt 7•iai T+X*fw¢is last A1 R•UIPts Al Sub 10 4S,W4 41,914 J14 40.914 paymerts r£¢atr¥JthctytrJ Gth*[￿et091S'. A2 Sub i•i•l 26,•57 26,•57 1440$ A6Tr•nsl•rntoifftOml￿nd¥ 14403 AR8ROATH TOWN Mk8Sh)N SC SC047587 B1 Cath*J ITA14 i K•)JJ JT T*1 **ARBROATH TOWN MISSION SCIO** **SC047587** |**C1 Basis of accounting**|The accounts have been prepared on the Receipts and Payments basis in accordance with the| |---|---| ||Charities & Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Account (Scotland) Regulations| ||2006 (as amended).| |**C2 Nature and purpose of**|Unrestricted funds are those that may be used at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the| |**funds**|objects of the charity. The trustees maintain a single fund for the running of the Church and all related| ||charitable activities.| ||Restricted funds may only be used for specific purposes. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor| ||or when funds are raised for specific purposes.| **C3 Related Party - Trustee Remuneration** No remuneration or expenses were paid to the Charity Trustees, or persons connected to a Trustee, during the year (2023/24) in accordance with the provisions outlined under section 67 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, as approved by the trustees. **C4 Related Party - Trustee Expenses C5 Other Information** The Freehold Property continues to be held at £235,000; as per the valuation that was carried out in the 2018-19 financial year (prior to coronavirus restrictions). 8 ARBROATH TIYIVN MISSDN SCIO SC047587 fslj of rtt•(Pts abld P•yfv*IIts D1 DOtI•U•blS Illi 39gJ4 D2 arants Tml pprlr*l Toi TLMbl p•nL l• 1,1 Izo 1,951 D4 Payrnnts dir•ctyiochar*abl• aeivM*s Tc*i p•ffoa TfA•l l•ii R•w & R•r#Yivgkn 11YJJ 6n 1J 11235 1,24) V1%*ryPrPar￿r￿ 1)) 1JJ Lryl & 4115 412 10 T