2025-12-31-accounts

Wiltshire Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel Fund (Registered Charity Number 1115925)

Trustees' Report for the Year Ended 31st December 2025

Basis of Preparation The accounts have been prepared on the "Receipts and Payments" basis and are in accordance with Section 133 of the Charities Act 2011.

Governing Document The governing document of the charity is a Charity Commission Scheme dated 31[st ] March 1981. The Charity is registered with the Charity Commission under the name "The Wiltshire Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel Fund” (registration number 1115925).

Trustees

The Grace Baptist Trust Corporation is a body corporate, which is registered in England as a Company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital (Registration Number 592488), as a Charity (Registration Number 251675), and which is recognised as a Trust Corporation under section 3(i) of the Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1926. Unless otherwise stated, the Trustees of the Grace Baptist Trust Corporation during the year ended 31st December 2025 were as listed below:

• Jonathan Neil Broome

• Alan Richard Copeman

• Matthew Tarus Gray

• Darren Michael Noller

• Robert Edward Powell

• Paul David Relf

• Jonathan Howard Sayers

• Kevin Charles William Wiltshire

Object, Aims, and Activities of the Charity The object of the charity is in or towards the upkeep and repair of Strict Baptist Chapels and the maintenance of any burial grounds connected therewith in the County of Wiltshire and the maintenance of the ministry therein.

Reserves The charity holds no reserves as the trustees endeavor to distribute income in the year it is received or in the following year.

Investments Funds are invested in the Grace Baptist Trust Corporation Common Investment Fund. This was established by a Scheme of the Charity Commission dated 27th August 1987. The total fund is divided into units and units are created on the receipt of new funds. Day-to-day management and administration of the fund is delegated to Fund Managers, Quilter Cheviot Limited. Further information is provided in the accounts of the Grace Baptist Trust Corporation

Review of the Year During the year, total income amounted to £ 273,027 , which included the proceeds from a chapel sale in Wiltshire. Grants totaling £ 23,514 were paid out. An administration fee of

£3,575 was paid the the Grace Baptist Trust Corporation for costs incurred in selling a property and in

£182,238 was invested into the Endowment Fund. The balance in hand available for distribution as at 31st December 2025 amounted to £160,734.

Public Benefit The Trustees have considered the guidance published by the Charity Commission on the provision of public benefit. They confirm that public benefit is provided by means of the payment of grants to Strict and Particular Baptist Churches in the county of Surrey and surrounding counties to assist them in the maintenance of their chapels.

Principal Addresses

Corporate Trustee Grace Baptist Trust Corporation 62 Bride Street London N7 8AZ

Charity Same address as above

Bankers and Independent Examiner

Bankers National Westminster Bank plc 39 Station Road Redhill Surrey RH1 1QN

CCLA Investment Management Ltd COIF Charities Deposit Fund 1 Angel Lane London EC4R 3AB

Independent Examiner Andrew Skilton ACA Brewers Chartered Accountants 3 Birtley Courtyard Birtley Road Bramley Guildford GU5 0LA

Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December 2025

Receipts Dividends Interest Other Total Receipts Payments Charitable Expenditure Administration Investment additions Governance Costs (Independent Examination Fee) Total Payments Surplus / (Deficit) for the Year Cash balance as at 1st January Cash balance as at 31st December Statement of Assets as at 31st December 2025 Assets & Liabilities Investments Cash Accruals Net Assets Capital Funds Endowment Fund Income Funds Unrestricted Fund Accumulated Funds Accumulated Funds	2025 £15,327 £434 £257,266 £273,027 £23,514 £3,575 £182,238 £120 £209,447 £63,580 £97,274 £160,854 2025 £572,529 £160,854 (£120) £733,263 £572,529 £160,734 £733,263	2024 £14,416 £453 -
		£14,869
		£12,131 - -
		£12,131
		£2,738 £94,536
		£97,274
		2024 £398,108 £97,274 -
		£495,382
		£398,108 £97,274 £495,382

The Trustees’ report was approved by the Board of Trustees. Signed by one Trustee on behalf of Kevin Wiltshire all the Trustee s ~~.......................................~~ Kevin Wiltshire (May 6, 2026 09:09:54 GMT+1) .............................

06/05/2026 Date:......................................

Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Wiltshire Strict & Particular Baptist Chapel Fund

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Wiltshire Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel Fund (‘the charity’) for the year ended 31 December 2025 which comprise the summary of receipts and payments and the statement of assets and liabilities.

This report is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with section 145 of the Charities Act 2011. My work has been undertaken so that I might state to the charity’s trustees those matters I am required to state to them in this report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, I do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity’s trustees as a body, for my work, for this report, or for the opinions I have formed.

Responsibilities and Basis of Report As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

An independent examination does not involve gathering all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently does not cover all the matters that an auditor considers in giving their opinion on the accounts. The planning and conduct of an audit goes beyond the limited assurance that an independent examination can provide. Consequently, I express no audit opinion on the accounts and my report is limited to those specific matters set out in the independent examiner’s statement.

Independent Examiner’s Statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

• Accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or

• The accounts do not accord with those records.

I 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.

Andrew Skilton

Brewers Chartered Accountants 3 Birtley Courtyard Birtley Road Bramley Guildford GU5 0LA

Date: Andy Skilton Andy Skilton (May 6, 2026 12:46:45 GMT+1)

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