Trustees' Annual Report for the period
From
Period start date Period end date 1[st] Jan 2025 31[st] Dec 2025 To
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name
Newcastle Reformed Evangelical Church
Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1063002
NREC
Charity's principal address
Hoylake Avenue
Benton Newcastle upon Tyne Postcode NE7 7UN
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole **year ** |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| R Curnow | Church Meeting | |||
| A Thomas | Church Meeting | |||
| R Smith | Church Meeting | |||
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Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
A Constitution based upon the Westminster Confession of 1645 and the Type of governing document Baptist Confession of 1689 but includes issues relevant to the Church in (eg. trust deed, constitution) the 21[st] Century Trust Deed How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by the Church Meeting Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
The Church Meeting has approved the following policies: Safeguarding Children and Adults Health & Safety Fire
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures These were reviewed and updated in 2025 and will be updated again adopted for the induction and when necessary. training of trustees;
There are named leaders for all the main activities and they are responsible for carrying out risk assessments relating to their respective activities.
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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In April 2025 our Designated Safeguarding Lead attended an online
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• relationship with any related safeguarding training session parties;
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trustees’ consideration of A Safeguarding training event was carried out in March 2019 led by Thirtymajor risks and the system One Eight, previously known as CCPAS and procedures to manage them. Several members of the Church have had First Aid Training carried out by St John’s Ambulance Service
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Section C Objectives and activities
Objectives
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
The church is committed to reaching out into the whole community within realistic geographical reach of the building. We seek to share the Good News of the Gospel i.e. that salvation is found through faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the Cross of Calvary.
Activities
There are several activities, which reflect our commitment to the community: -
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Worship on Sundays at 10.30am & 6.00pm to which all are welcome.
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Bible study and prayer on Wednesday evenings
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Provision of pastoral care
Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)
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Outreach into the community through door to door visiting, meeting people at the local shops distributing literature and our church magazine.
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Every Wednesday morning there is a Baby and Toddler meeting.
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- There is monthly informal fellowship held on the first Thursday of each month. This is open to anyone who would like to come.
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There are also meetings open to those who are seeking a better understanding of Christianity.
The main achievements in 2025 were:
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A successful Holiday Bible Club was held in August
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Support of a pastor to another church in Tyneside
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Section E Financial review
NREC will use any reserves for the purposes of fulfilling the aims and Brief statement of the objectives of the Church. Reserves may also be used to help Christian charity’s policy on reserves Organisations at home and overseas (described in the expenditure as tithe)
Details of any funds materially in deficit
None
Further financial review details (Optional information)
The principal source of funds is the membership and friends of the church.
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Expenditure has supported the key objectives in paying a salary to a full-
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• the charity’s principal time minister as well as covering all costs relating to the activities of the sources of funds (including church and in 2025 providing additional support to a minister assisting any fundraising); another church in Tyneside.
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
Section G Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Robert Smith Full name(s) Alan Thomas Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair of Trustees Trustee etc) Date 10th February 2026
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| 2025 Newcastle Reformed Evangelical Church |
2025 Newcastle Reformed Evangelical Church |
2025 Newcastle Reformed Evangelical Church |
2025 Newcastle Reformed Evangelical Church |
2025 Newcastle Reformed Evangelical Church |
1063002 | 1063002 | Est 2025 | Actual 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| For the period from |
1st January | To | 31-Dec | ||||||
| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||||
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 111,660 3,443 6,567 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ 111,660 3,443 6,567 |
to the nearest £ | ||||
| Regular Giving (inc tax recoverd) | 111,660 | - | - - |
111,660 | 108000 **3450 ** |
83,070 | |||
| General Collections | 3,443 | - | 3,443 | 3,836 | |||||
| Gifts for General Church Use | 6,567 | 6,567 | 3,255 | ||||||
| Special Gifts | - | - | - | 50,000 | |||||
| From Restricted Funds(Deposit) | 12,000 | - - - - - |
12,000 | **12000 ** | 10,000 | ||||
| From Winlaton EC | - | - | 10,000 | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
133,670 |
- | 133,670 | 123,450 | 160,161 | ||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| - | - - - |
- | |||||||
| - | - | - | |||||||
| Sub total | - | - | - | ||||||
| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| - | 133,670 | 123,450 | 160,161 | ||||||
| Cost of Ministry | 84,421 | - | - - - - |
84,421 | 87500 10000 700 500 1200 3200 1400 5300 650 2100 1100 **4000 ** |
80,382 | |||
| Giving (tithe on income) | 8,600 | - | 8,600 | 14,000 | |||||
| Evangelism & Outreach | 692 | - | 692 | 886 | |||||
| General Gifts | 60 | - | 60 | 400 | |||||
| Specialpurposes | 400 | 400 | 391 | ||||||
| Insurance | 1,139 | - | - - - - |
1,139 | 1,069 | ||||
| Heating& Lighting | 3,239 | - | 3,239 | 2,757 | |||||
| Repairs & Maintenance | 779 | - | 779 | 1,672 | |||||
| Equipment | 5,113 | 5,113 | |||||||
| Water | 620 | - | 620 | 435 | |||||
| Cleaning& Consumables | 1,976 | 1,976 | 2,078 | ||||||
| Computing/Internet | 863 | 863 | 1,119 | ||||||
| Administration | 5,755 | 5,755 | 3,079 | ||||||
| Transfer to Deposit | 20,000 | - | - | 20,000 | 75,000 | ||||
| **Sub total ** | 133,657 | - | - | 133,657 | 117,650 | 183,268 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| Deposit - Restricted | - | - - - |
- | ||||||
| - | - | - | |||||||
| **Sub total ** | - | 0 | - | ||||||
| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| -# | 133,657 | 117,650 | 183,268 | ||||||
| 13 | - | 13 |
5,800 | - 23,107 | |||||
| - | - - |
- | - | ||||||
| 9,750 | 9,750 | 32,857 | |||||||
| 9,763 | - | 9,763 | 5,800 | 9,750 |
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