Registered Charity 1017000
REFORMATION TODAY
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
Contents:
1-2 Trustees’ Report 3 Independent Examiner's Report 4 Receipts and Payments Account 5 Statement of Assets and Liabilities
David Cooke & Co Chartered Accountants 5 Briar Close Banbury Oxon OX16 9DS
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REFORMATION TODAY
Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
The Trustees have pleasure in submitting their report and the financial statements of The Reformation Today Trust for the year ended 31 March 2025.
Reference and Administrative Details Reformation Today is a registered charity, no. 1017000. Its address is: 9 Ffordd Trem y Foel, Mold, Flintshire, CH7 1NG. The Trustees who served during the year were as follows: Hugh Collier Robert Strivens (resigned 8/1/25) Andrew King Paul Brunning Oliver Allmand-Smith Alexander Arrell (appointed 7/5/25) Stephen Dunning
Structure, Governance and Management Reformation Today is an unincorporated association governed by its Trust Deed and administered by its Trustees. In accordance with the Trust Deed, new trustees may be appointed by the vote of the existing trustees at a duly convened trustees’ meeting.
Objectives and Activities
The principal object of Reformation Today is to promote the Christian faith, and in particular the Biblical and historic heritage represented by the 1689 Confession of Faith. It does this by means of publishing its magazine, “Reformation Today”, organizing the Carey Conference for those in Christian ministry and leadership, and supporting African Pastors’ Conferences (APC).
Achievements and Performance The Reformation Today trust oversees the production and distribution of the Reformation Today magazine; the Reformation Today website; the annual Carey Conference for church leaders and their wives and a day conference called ‘Anchored’ which focuses on the 1689 Baptist confession of faith. It also oversees UK support for the African Pastors Conferences and for a small number of books and booklets published under Carey publications.
Aaron Prelock, as editor of RT magazine, has done a great job in producing magazines that are rich and varied in content, applying the eternal truths of God’s word, and the historic confessions, to our present age and pastoral concerns. The trustees are thankful to Aaron for his excellent work. Despite the quality of the magazine, the challenge continues to be low numbers of readers and trustees are now seeking to gain a wider, and hopefully younger, readership through offering the magazine in a digital form. This is just being put in place, and we will prayerfully look for an upturn in those purchasing the magazine in that format. We believe there is still a need to get the material that the magazine holds into the hands of a new and younger readership.
We held our Carey Conference in January. Speakers were Brooks Buser, who spoke three time about World Mission, Enoch Adekoya, Austin Walker, Lewis Allen and Sarah Allen, who did the ladies’ track. The number of delegates was just under 100, including a handful of non-residents. Numbers were slightly lower than usual; however, the conference was still a time of helpful teaching and rich fellowship. It was held at King’s Park, Northampton for the first time and the trustees have decided to hold it there again in the future as the venue was suitable with meetings and the dining hall and bedrooms all in close proximity. The conference centre has also been more accommodating and shown more flexibility. Our main speaker for January 2026 is Peter Williams, Principal of Tyndale House, which fits in with it being the quincentenary of
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REFORMATION TODAY Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)
Achievements and Performance (continued) Tyndale’s completion of printing his English New Testament. Brochures have been sent out as well as an email reminder to previous delegates and we trust that the conference will once again be a blessing and encouragement at the outset of a new year.
Anchored’ study day conferences have been held — the purpose of each of these is to focus on a section from the 1689 confession and have papers looking at the theology, but also the practical and pastoral outworking of the doctrine. These have been well attended and there are plans for future days.
African Pastors’ Conferences are thriving and the reports from individual conferences are greatly encouraging. The theme for the last year has been the doctrine of God and a number of books has been given to those who attend, many of whom have little training and few resources. The Trust helps with overseeing some of the financial support for the African Pastors’ Conferences and Oliver Allmand-Smith, one of our trustees, is a director of APC. We were pleased to appoint Alex Arrell as a new trustee this year. Alex has been involved in the anchored study days but has also come on board to revamp the RT website. It is hoped that this will lead to the website being more useful for promoting RT and encouraging and promoting Reformed Baptist work throughout the UK. There continue to be requests to use publications that RT have published in the past. These are assessed on an individual basis, but generally the trustees are keen for older material to be used, with an acknowledgement of where it has come from and links to the RT website.
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As ever, as a Trust, we acknowledge our dependence on the Lord for His help in all we do and give thanks for His faithfulness in sustaining us. Public benefit In carrying out its activities in the year under review, the trustees have had regard to the public benefit guidance issued by the Charity Commission, and are satisfied that the activities mentioned above have all been for the public benefit. Review of Finances The results for the year are set out on page 4. The trustees consider the financial state of affairs of the Trust to be satisfactory. It is not the aim of the Trust to accumulate financial reserves. However, funds have to be kept in hand for the following purposes: 1. Provision for subscribers in the event of a sudden end to the magazine’s publication, and production and postage costs for 4 issues of the magazine in the event of a sudden loss of income from subscriptions;
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- Planning and booking expenses for the Carey Conference; 3. Funds for the publication of new books; 4. Planning and expenses for the African Pastors’ Conferences; 5. Funds for future projects which have been proposed and are currently in development.
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The current reserves of the Trust have been reviewed and considered appropriate for these purposes.
ON BEHALF OF THE TRUSTEES é H Collier, Trustee Date: q \ 2
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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF REFORMATION TODAY
| report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025 set out on pages 4 and 5.
Respective responsibilities of trustees and independent examiner The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 44(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act)) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to: e Examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act; e To follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under section 145 (5) (b) of the 2011 Act; and e Tostate whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basis of independent examiner's report My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. 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 seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
Independent examiner's statement | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which give me cause to believe that, in any material respect
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e the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or e the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or e the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. | have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. wen
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David Cooke MA (Oxon) FCA FCIE Chartered Accountant David Cooke & Co 5 Briar Close | Oxon.Banbury 0X16 9DS Date: _! | 11%
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Reformation Today
Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 31 March 2025
| Restricted | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General | Fund | ------------Designated Funds-------- | 2025 | 2024 | |||
| Receipts | Fund | AfricanPastors' | Reformation | Carey | Anchored | Total | Total |
| Conference | Today | Conference | Conferences | ||||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Gifts & Donations |
- | 21,310 | 183 | 814 | - | 22,307 | 16,179 |
| Gift Aid Donations | - | 2,360 | 955 | . | - | 3,315 | 1,425 |
| Sales ofbooks, magazines | - | - | 253 | - | - | 253 | 879 |
| Conference Fees | - | - | - | 19,907 | 1,130 | 21,037 | 17,716 |
| Magazine subscriptions | - | - | 3,885 | - | - | 3,885 | 4,633 |
| Otherincome | 250 | - | - | - | - | 250 | 9 |
| Total Receipts | 250 | 23,670 | 5,276 | 20,721 | 1,130 | 51,047 | 40,841 |
| Payments | |||||||
| Printing/Binding costs | - | - | 3,623 | - | - | 3,623 | 3,344 |
| Purchase ofbooks | - | 21,382 | - | - | - | 21,382 | 12,982 |
| Conference costs | - | - | - | 20,432 | 716 | 21,148 | 17,885 |
| Postage | - | - | 4,076 | - | - | 4,076 | 3,786 |
| Website costs | 202 | - | 86 | 534 | 384 | 1,206 | 53 |
| Bank and PayPal charges | - | 81 | 84 | 245 | 29 | 439 | 315 |
| Gifts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6,955 |
| Independent examination | - | 170 | 170 | 170 | - | 510 | 570 |
| Sundry expenses | 6 | - | - | - | = | 6 | so) |
| 208 | 21,633 | 8,039 | 21,381 | 1,129 | 52,390 | 45,899 | |
| Surplus/(Deficit) | 42 | 2,037 | (2,763) | (660) | 1 | (1,343) | (5,058) |
| Transfer betweenfunds | (42) | - | 21 | 21 | - | - | - |
| - | 2,037 | (2,742) | (639) | 1 | (1,343) | (5,058) | |
| Balance brought forward | - | 7,166 | 6,338 | (1,551) | - | 11,953 | 17,011 |
| Balancecarriedforward | - | 9,203 | 3,596 | (2,190) | 1 | 10,610 | 11,953 |
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Reformation Today
Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31 March 2025
| Restricted | |||||
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| General | Fund | ------------Designated Funds-------- | 2025 | 2024 | |
| Fund | AfricanPastors’ | Reformation Carey Anchored |
Total | Total | |
| Conference | Today Conference Conferences |
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| £ | £ | £ £ £ |
£ | £ | |
| Assets | |||||
| Cash and bank balances: | |||||
| Bankaccounts | - | 9,373 | 2,321 (2,190) 1 |
9505 | 11,445 |
| PayPalAccount Cash |
- - |
- - |
991 - - 54 - - |
991 54 |
452 56 |
| a . 9,373 3,366 (2,190) 1 10,550 11,953 |
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| Liabilities | |||||
| IndependentExaminersfee | - | (170) | (170) (170) - |
(510) | (570) |
| NetAssets | a - 9,203 3,196 (2,360) 1 10,040 11,383 ee eSaOOo—=™o""” |
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