## **APPENDIX 1** ## OSC **r** |**Trustees’ Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for theperiod**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Period start date||||Period end date||| ||Day|Month|Year||Day|Month|Year| |
From|**1**|**March**|**2025**|**To**|**28**|**February**|**2026**| Office of the Scottish **Charity Regulator** ## **Reference and administration details** **Charity name** Victory Hill Church **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number SC050771 Charity’s principal address** BF1 235 Dalry Road Edinburgh **Postcode** EH11 2JG ## **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 (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**1**
**2**
**3**
**4**
**5**
**6**
**7**
**8**
**9**
**10**
**11**
**12**
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**19**|Sam Freeman|||| ||Angus Freeman||1 June 2025 onwards|| ||Josh Davies|Lead pastor|1 October 2025 onwards|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **1** **APPENDIX 1** ## **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**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |Bethan Grech|1 March 2025 to 15 September 2025| |Gareth Wales|1 March 2025 to 26 January 2026| ||| ## **Structure, governance and management** |**Type of governing document**|The charity is governed by the Charity Constitution.| |---|---| |**Trustee recruitment and appointment**|The board may at any time appoint any person as a charity trustee, by| ||way of a resolution passed by the majority vote, at a board meeting.| |**Objectives and activities**|| |**Charitable purposes**|The Church's purpose is the advancement of the Christian religion in| ||Scotland and the world for the public benefit through the maintenance in| ||Edinburgh of a body of Christian believers founded on the Basis of Faith| ||and engaged in serving God through worship, discipling, pastoral care| ||and outreach.| |**Summary of the main activities**|As a church we have conducted weekly services enabling Christian| |**in relation to these objects**|believers to gather, worship and grow in their understanding of the faith.| ||We have also opened our services to those of other faiths to come and| ||explore the Christian religion in order to advance the faith within the city| ||and beyond. During the week we have pastoral meetings to mutually| ||disciple one another. Our outreach is done through our more popular| ||services such as during Christmas and Easter, holding meetings and| ||handing out literature, as well as volunteering and going into the| ||community in order to provide| ||support where we can.| **2** **APPENDIX 1** ## **Achievements and performance** |**Summary of the main achievements**
**of the charity during the financial**
**period**|Victory Hill Church received charitable status on 15 February 2021. By
February 2026 the membership of Victory Hill reached 56, which
represents growth over the previous year. This includes a number of
children for whom we run a separate class. Our weekly services have
visitors in addition and so the room we hire at the Grassmarket
Community Project became too small for our needs. At the start of
January 2026 we moved to St Martins Community Centre, where we hire
the main hall and separate meeting rooms for the children’s class.
The move of venue has enabled us to serve the immediate community by
running a Street Café on the front step of the venue for a couple of hours
on a Sunday before our service, providing free teas and coffees and a
chance to chat with people. This has been well received and we have
upwards of 10-20 people stopping for a drink and conversation.
Our growth required us to employ a Lead Pastor. Josh Davies started in
September 2025 full time in this role.
Our receipts this financial year was £68,034, a 23% increase over
2024/25. Our main source of receipts was from donations. Our
payments were £66,375, the majority of which related directly to our
charitable activities, 104% higher than in 2024/25.| |---|---| ## **Financial review** |**Brief statement of the charity’s policy**
**on reserves**
**Details of any deficit**
**Donated facilities and services (if any)**|It is the intention of the trustees to maintain free reserves of 3 months
expenditure.| |---|---| ||There is no deficit| ||None| **3** ## **APPENDIX 1** **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)** Sam Freeman **Position (e.g. Chair)** Trustee **Date** 09 July 2026 ||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Victory Hill Church**|||||||||||||Enter SC No.
| |||**Victory Hill Church**|||||||||||||~~b l~~
**SC050771**| |||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||||||| |||**For the period**
**from**||Period st||ar|t date|||Period end date|||||| |||||Day|Mon|th||Year|**to**|Day|Month||Year||| |||||1|March|||2025||28|February||**2026**||| ||||||||||||||||| ||**Section A Statement of**|**receipts and**||**payments**|||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**|||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**
**current period**|||**Total funds last**
**period**| |||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**| ||**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||| ||Donations|**40,218**||||||||||**40,218**|||**43,541**| ||Gift Aid|**10,497**||**133**||||||||**10,630**|||**10,539**| ||Delegate Income|||||||||||**-**|||**100**| ||Loans repaid|||||||||||**-**|||**1,000**| ||Legacies|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Grants|||**13,700**||||||||**13,700**|||| ||Receipts from fundraisingactivities|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Gross tradingreceipts|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Income from investments other than
land and buildings|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Rents from land & buildings|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Gross receipts from other charitable
activities|**684**||**2,802**||||||||**3,486**|||| |||||||||||||**-**|||| ||**_A1 Sub total_**|**51,399**||**16,635**|||**-**|||**-**||**68,034**|||**55,180**| ||||||||||||||||| ||**A2 Receipts from asset &**
**investment sales**||||||||||||||| ||Proceeds from sale of fixed assets|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Proceeds from sale of investments|||||||||||**-**|||| ||**_A2 Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**| ||**_Total receipts_ **|**51,399**||**16,635**|||**-**|||**-**||**68,034**|||**55,180**| ||||||||||||||||| ||**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||| ||Expenses for fundraising activities|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Gross trading payments|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Investment management costs|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Payments relating directly to
charitable activities|**40,993**||**17,508**||||||||**58,501**|||**29,008**| ||Grants and donations|**7,724**||||||||||**7,724**|||| ||Governance costs:|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Audit / independent examination|**150**||||||||||**150**|||**1,200**| ||Preparation of annual accounts|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Loans|||||||||||**-**|||**1,000**| ||Legal costs|||||||||||**-**|||| ||Other|||||||||||**-**|||| |||||||||||||**-**|||| ||**_A3 Sub total_ **|**48,867**||**17,508**|||**-**|||**-**||**66,375**|||**31,208**| ||||||||||||||||| ||**A4 Payments relating to asset and**
**investment movements**||||||||||||||| ||Purchases of fixed assets|||||||||||**-**|||**1,216**| ||Purchase of investments|||||||||||**-**|||| ||**_A4 Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**1,216**| ||||||||||||||||| ||**_Totalpayments_ **|**48,867**||**17,508**|||**-**|||**-**||**66,375**|||**32,424**| ||||||||||||||||| ||**_Net receipts / (payments)_**|**2,532**||**873)**
**(**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,659**|||**22,756**| ||||||||||||||||| ||**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**|**1,161)**
**(**||**1,161**||||||||**-**|||| ||||||||||||||||| ||**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**1,371**||**288**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,659**|||**22,756**| ||||||||||||||||| **Victory Hill Church** **SC050771** ## **Section B Statement of balances** |**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total current**
**period**|**Total last**
**period**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Cash and bank balances at start of year|||**44,831**|**955**||||**45,786**|**23,030**| ||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts
andpayments account|||**1,371**|**288**||||**1,659**|**22,756**| ||||||||||**-**|| ||||||||||**-**|| ||**Cash and bank balances at end of**
**year**|||**46,202**|**1,243**|**-**|**-**||**47,445**|**45,786**| ||(Agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|||-|-|-|-||-|-| |||||||||||| ||**Details**|||||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**||**Market valuation**|**Last year**| ||||||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B2 Investments**||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| ||||||||**Total**||**-**|
**-**| |||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Cost (if available)**||**Current value (if**
**available)**|**Last year**| ||||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B3 Other assets**|Fixed Asset - Audio kit for sermons||||Unrestricted||**1,216**||**1,216**|1216| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||**Total**|**1,216**||**1,216**|**1,216**| |||||||||||| ||**Details**|||||**Fund to which l**|**iability relates**||**Amount due**|**Last year**| ||||||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B4 Liabilities**|Independent examination fee|||||Unrestricted|||**300**|**1,200**| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| ||||||||**Total**||**300**|**1,200**| |||||||||||| ||**Details**|||||**Fund to which liability relates**|||**Amount due**
**(estimate)**|**Last year**| ||||||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B5 Contingent liabilities**||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| ||||||||**Total**||**-**|
**-**| |||||||||||| |**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**|**Signature**|||||**Print Name**||||**Date of**
**approval**| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| ||**Victory Hill Church**|**Victory Hill Church**|**Victory Hill Church**|**Victory Hill Church**|**Victory Hill Church**|**Victory Hill Church**|**Victory Hill Church**|**Victory Hill Church**|**Victory Hill Church**|**SC050771**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||| |**Section C Notes to the Accounts**||||||||||| |||||||||||| |**C1 Nature and purpose of**
**funds**_(may be stated on_
_analysis of funds worksheets)_|Unrestricted funds are incoming resources generated for the objectives of the charity without further
specificed purpose and are available as general funds.|||||||||| |||||||||||| ||**Type of activity or project supported**||||||**Individual /**
**institution**||**Number of**
**grants made**|**£**| |**C2 Grants**||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| ||||||||||**Total**|**-**| |||||||||||| |**C3a Trustee remuneration**|If no remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected
to a trustee cross this box (otherwise complete section 3b)|||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| ||**Authority under which paid**|||||||||**£**| |**C3b Trustee remuneration -**
**details**|Salary and moving costs paid to Josh Davids for Pastoral role|||||||||**14,480**| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |**C4a Trustee expenses**|If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then c
(otherwise complete section 4b)|||||||ro|ss this box|| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| ||||||||||**Number of**
**trustees**|**£**| |**C4b Trustee expenses -**
**details**|Sam Freeman Travel Expenses||||||||**1**|**838**| ||Angus Freeman Travel Expenses||||||||**1**|**134**| ||Zack Pramod Travel expenses||||||||**1**|**120**| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| ||**Nature of relationship**||||**Nature of transaction**||||**Transaction**
**amount (£)**|**Balance**
**outstanding at**
**period end (£)**| |**C5 Transactions with**
**trustees and connected**
**persons**||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |**C6 Other information**||||||||||| |||||||||||| **SC050771** **Victory Hill Church** ## **Additional analysis (1)** |||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Analysis of receipts and payments**||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |**1 Donations**||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total current**
**period**||**Total last**
**period**| |||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |Offerings||**40,218**||||||||**40,218**||**43,541**| |Gift Aid||**10,497**||**133**||||||**10,630**||**10,539**| |Delegate Income||||||||||**-**||**100**| |Loans repaid||||||||||**-**||**1,000**| |**Total**||**50,715**||**133**||**-**||**-**||**50,848**||**55,180**| |||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |**2 Grants**||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
~~**funds**~~||**Restricted funds**||||||**Total current**
~~**period**~~||**Total last**
~~**period**~~| |||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |Regions Beyond UK grant||||**6,000**||||||**6,000**||| |Jubillee Church||||**5,600**||||||**5,600**||| |Redeemer||||**1,200**||||||**1,200**||| |Kings Arms||||**900**||||||**900**||| |**Total**||**-**||**13,700**||**-**||**-**||**13,700**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |**3 Gross receipts from other charitable activities**||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total current**
**period**||**Total last**
**period**| |||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |**Total**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |||reference error||reference error||-||-||reference error||-| |||||||||||||| |**4 Payments relating directly to charitable activities**||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total current**
**period**||**Total last**
**period**| |||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |Venue hire||**18,630**||||||||**18,630**||**14,526**| |Cateringexpenses||**841**||||||||**841**||**1,261**| |Sound and stage equipment||**1,148**||||||||**1,148**||**1,921**| |Publicity||||||||||**-**||| |Christmas hampers for members/visitors||||||||||**-**||| |Website expenses||**559**||||||||**559**||| |Wages & PAYE||**10,521**||**8,800**||||||**19,321**||| |Pension||**964**||||||||**964**||| |Subscriptions||**1,562**||||||||**1,562**||**999**| |IT equipment||**52**||||||||**52**||| |Insurance||**492**||||||||**492**||**469**| |Travel||**65**||||||||**65**||**13**| |Event costs and equipment||**1,898**||**1,968**||||||**3,866**||**1,516**| |Printing||**30**||||||||**30**||| |Mission Support/Pastoral care||**3,158**||**6,740**||||||**9,898**||**6,335**| |Training & Consultancy||**275**||||||||**275**||**529**| |
Accountancy||**798**||||||||**798**||**1,779**| |Visa costs||||||||||**-**||**2,075**| |Loans||||||||||**-**||**1,000**| |**Total**||**40,993**||**17,508**||**-**||**-**||**58,501**||**32,423**| |||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| **SC050771** ## **Additional analysis (2)** |||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds**||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**fund 1 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**||**Unrestricted**
**fund 2 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**||**Unrestricted**
**fund 3 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**||**Unrestricted**
**fund 4 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**||||| |||||||||||**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds**||**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds last**
**period**| |**Receipts**||||||||||||| |Donations||**40,218**||||||||**40,218**||**40,179**| |Gift Aid||**10,497**||||||||**10,497**||**10,539**| |Delegate Income||||||||||**-**||**100**| |Loans repaid||||||||||**-**||**1,000**| |Legacies||||||||||**-**||| |Grants||||||||||**-**||| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities||||||||||**-**||| |Gross tradingreceipts||||||||||**-**||| |Income from investments other than land and
buildings||||||||||**-**||| |Rents from land & buildings||||||||||**-**||| |Gross receipts from other charitable activities||**684**||||||||**684**||| |**_Sub total_**||**51,399**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**51,399**||**51,818**| |||||||||||-||| |**Receipts from asset & investment sales**||||||||||||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets||||||||||**-**||| |Proceeds from sale of investments||||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**||**51,399**||**-**||**-**||**-**
||**51,399**||**51,818**| |||||||||||-||| |||||||||||||| |**Payments**||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraisingactivities||||||||||**-**||| |Gross trading payments||||||||||**-**||| |Investment management costs||||||||||**-**||| |Payments relatingdirectlyto charitable activities||**40,993**||||||||**40,993**||**26,601**| |Grants and donations||**7,724**||||||||**7,724**||| |Governance costs:||||||||||**-**||| |Audit / independent examination||**150**||||||||**150**||**1,200**| |Preparation of annual accounts||||||||||**-**||| |Loans||||||||||**-**||**1,000**| |Legal costs||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**||**48,867**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**48,867**||**28,801**| |||||||||||-||| |**Payments relating to asset and investment**
**movements**||||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets||||||||||**-**||**1,216**| |Purchase of investments||||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,216**| |||||||||||-||| |**_Total payments_**||**48,867**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**48,867**||**30,017**| |||||||||||-||| |**_Net receipts / (payments)_**||**2,532**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,532**||**21,801**| |||||||||||||| |**Transfers to / (from) funds**||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||||| |**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**||**2,532**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,532**||**21,801**| |||||||||||cross ref error||| |||||||||||||| |**Nature andpurpose of funds**||||||||||||| |Unrestricted funds are incoming resources generated||for the objectives of the charity without further specificed purpose and ar|||||||e|available as general funds.||| **SC050771** |||**Victory Hill**|**Victory Hill**|**Church**|**Church**|||||||**SC050771**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||||| |**Additional analysis (3)**||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |**6 Breakdown of restricted funds**||||||||||||| |||**Restricted fund**
**1 - enter name**
**of fund below**||**Restricted fund**
**2 - enter name**
**of fund below**||**Restricted fund**
**3 - enter name**
**of fund below**||**Restricted fund**
**4 - enter name**
**of fund below**||||| |||**Weekend Away**||**RB Global**
**Offering**||**Pastoral**
**Support**||**Agency conduit**||**Total restricted**
**funds**||**Total restricted**
**funds last**
**period**| |**Receipts**||||||||||||| |Donations||||**1,202**||||||**1,202**||**3,362**| |Legacies||||||||||**-**||| |Grants||||||**13,700**||||**13,700**||| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities||||||||||**-**||| |Gross tradingreceipts||||**25**||||||**25**||| |Income from investments other than land and
buildings||||||||||**-**||| |Rents from land & buildings||||||||||**-**||| |Gross receipts from other charitable activities||**60**||||**588**||**1,060**||**1,708**||| |**_Sub total_**||**60**||**1,227**||**14,288**||**1,060**||**16,635**||**3,362**| |||||||||||-||| |**Receipts from asset & investment sales**||||||||||||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets||||||||||**-**||| |Proceeds from sale of investments||||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**||**60**||**1,227**||**14,288**||**1,060**||**16,635**||**3,362**| |||||||||||-||| |||||||||||||| |**Payments**||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraising activities||||||||||**-**||| |Gross trading payments||||||||||**-**||| |Investment management costs||||||||||**-**||| |Payments relating directly to charitable activities||**1,968**||||**14,480**||**1,060**||**17,508**||**2,407**| |Grants and donations||||||||||**-**||| |Governance costs:||||||||||**-**||| |Audit / independent examination||||||||||**-**||| |Preparation of annual accounts||||||||||**-**||| |Legal costs||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**||**1,968**||**-**||**14,480**||**1,060**||**17,508**||**2,407**| |||||||||||-||| |**Payments relating to asset and investment**
**movements**||||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets||||||||||**-**||| |Purchase of investments||||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||-||| |**_Totalpayments_**||**1,968**||**-**||**14,480**||**1,060**||**17,508**||**2,407**| |||||||||||-||| |**_Net receipts /(payments)_**||**1,908)**
**(**||**1,227**||**192)**
**(**||**-**||**873)**
**(**||**955**| |||||||||||||| |**Transfers to /(from) funds**||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||||| |**_Surplus /(deficit) foryear_**||**1,908)**
**(**||**1,227**||**192)**
**(**||**-**||**873)**
**(**||**955**| |||||||||||cross ref error||| ||||||||||||||