## **SANDON ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH** 

## **Report of the Trustees from January to December 2025** 

The Trustees present their report and independently examined financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025 

**Reference and Administrative Information** Charity Name: Sandon Road Baptist Church Charity registration number: 1116868 Address: 317 Sandon Road, Stafford. ST16 3HW Correspondence address: 22 Gladstone Way, Stafford, ST16 3JT 

## **Trustees:** 

Revd. Chrissy Remsberg (Minister) Chris Knight (Chair of Trustees) Sally Cox (Church Secretary) Mark Datson (Treasurer) Ruth Concar Peter Barrow Kin Gill 

**Bankers:** 

HSBC, Market Square, Stafford Unity Trust Bank, Nine Brindleyplace, Birmingham 

## **Independent Examiner:** 

Tim Herriott, 15 Briarsleigh, Stafford, ST17 4QP 

## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

The organisation is an Unincorporated Association and was registered as a charity on 17[th] November 2006. 

The charity's Governing Document is its constitution adopted on 15[th] April 2024. Members of the church are accepted on profession of faith following attendance at a Church Members’ course.  The members’ meeting normally takes place at least 8 times a year and has responsibility for the overall policy of the church.   In accordance with the Constitution, the trustees are appointed by the members and are responsible for the dayto-day running of the church’s work and witness and the financial and legal aspect of the charity.  All members of the church are encouraged to take an appropriate part in the spiritual and practical tasks involved in the furtherance of the charitable objective. Relevant matters may be submitted to the church meeting by the Trustees for consideration or may be raised by members in Church meeting for further consideration by the Trustees.  Though the Constitution permits decisions to be made at Church meetings by appropriate majorities, the Church seeks to work by consensus wherever possible. Ministers are a vocational calling; all other Trustees are elected for three years and may serve a second term before standing down for 12 months. Their election is by the 



whole membership, usually at the AGM. The trustees meet approximately ten times during the year.  The Secretary and Treasurer are appointed by the church meeting. 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

The principal purpose of the charity is to proclaim, advance, practice and teach the Christian faith through engaging in a range of activities including: The provision of space for public worship and prayer; Evangelism and Mission, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally; Expressing God’s love to the community through the provision of youth activities, toddler and older friends’ groups, family focused activities and a community space, which are open to all sections of the community; Nurture and growth of Christian disciples; Training and equipping the congregation for Christian service; Giving pastoral care; Supporting charitable social action at home and abroad; Relating in support and fellowship to Baptists and other Christians; The provision of meeting space for community activities such as children’s parties and adult education activities. 

Raising finance to further the purpose by receiving grants, donations and loans. 

The church seeks to be a friendly and welcoming community, and anybody is free to attend any of its worship services. 

The Church operates systems to ensure that all people working with children and vulnerable adults are appropriately vetted with regard to the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

The Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. 

## **Achievements and Performance during the year** 

In 2025 Beacon Church continued to pursue growing our ministry to children, youth and families.  We have been encouraged by the support from the church toward appointing a new children & youth ministry leader to support the work of building a church on the Marston Grange housing estate.  The church has been successful in raising needed funds through giving to support the role and to receive a grant toward this appointment.  There is a real unity among the church around appointing someone in this post.  We were not able to appoint this year, but we are looking forward to beginning a second round of interviews in early 2026. 

While waiting to appoint we have continued significant work with children and young people, seeing growth in a youth club and First Friday family events meeting two Fridays a month.  The First Fridays are well received in our community and draw many families from the community to enjoy family activities together.  Our end of year Christmas party is always a highlight and it was a big part of our Beacon Community Christmas outreach this year.  We had many guests visiting our church for Brunch with Santa, Christmas Eve Carols and Christmas Day services.  We also continued a second year of holiday club in 



the summer and had about 30 children from the community attend during the week for games, Bible stories, crafts and more. 

Alongside the many activities we do throughout the year for children and families, we are also encouraged to see a continuing connection with retired and semi-retired folk in our community through the Beacon Friendship Group.  Many discuss the warmth and care they receive through the activities and discussions in the group, and the monthly Bitesize Church services are well received and have become a wonderful sharing of faith and friendship. 

Other activities that have continued to grow and thrive allowing us to connect with people who would not normally come to church have included: 

- Monthly women’s walks 

- Thursday Lunch Club on the Burleyfields Estate 

- Various Community events throughout the year : quizzes, Christmas parties, Easter and Christmas services 

- Children’s monthly Bible study on the Burleyfields estate 

- Weekly Bible studies both in person and online 

- 9.30 and 11.30 Sunday services where we see regular new visitors and a growing number of young adults who have started to attend 

- Monthly midweek service at Elmwood (accommodation for over 55s) as well as many social events hosted by church volunteers for residents 

Our Leadership Team gained one new member this year in Kin Gill.  Kin has brought experience working with children and young people in schools and church settings to her role which has been helpful in preparing for the ongoing interview process to appoint a new children and youth ministry leader.  Our Leadership Tea also did a excellent job at supporting and overseeing the day-to-day working of the church while our minister was away on sabbatical for three months.  There was great leadership from the team and the staff members and church volunteers stepped in to ensure that the church continued to meet and to welcome people to all our regular activities while the minister was away.  It was a great opportunity to see the resilience of our leadership team and church volunteers. 

As a church we can see how God is moving in our community drawing new families, allowing us opportunities to share Jesus with our friends and neighbours and giving us a vision for how the church can continue to thrive in the year ahead. 

## **Financial Review** 

The Church has continued to raise the funds which it needs to carry on its activities from within its own membership and congregations. No wider public appeal was made for funds during the year. 

The Church is dependent on its membership working as volunteers in all aspects of the church’s activities, many of which run with little or no impact on the church’s expenditure, but nevertheless contribute substantially to the achievement of the church’s objectives. 



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|GIVING:|||||||J|88255.10|88255.10|MINISTERIAL:|||||||53648.73|53648.73|
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|Unity Trust Cash|||Offering|||1985.10||||Salary/Tax/NI/Pension/Housing|||||Exp|51575.75|||
|HSBC Regular||Monthly||Tithing||78209.00||||Employers<br>Pension||||||2072.98|||
|One Off|Gifts|||||8061.00|||||||||||||
|||||||||||BCH<br>- MARSTON||GRANGE|||||/|8613.19|
||||||||/16099.53|||Utilities||||||5756.46|||
|Gift Aid [Received|||Jan|to|Dec 2025]|15533.05||||Maintenance||||||2335.93|||
|GASDS|Apr 2024||- Mar 2025|||566.48||||Insurance||||||520.80|||
|||||||||||Mission||||||0.00|||
|||||||||||BCH<br>- BURLEYFIELDS||||||||4291.18|
||||||||/|23235.31||Utilities||||||3161.90|||
|Room<br>Hire||||||19449.30||||Maintenance||||||122.00|||
|BCH Marston||Grange||||3400.00||||Insurance||||||815.23|||
|Misc. Income||||||186.01||||Mission||||||192.05|||
|Pastoral||||||200.00|||||||||||||
|||||||||||SANDON ROAD SITE:|||||||10529.83||
|||||||||||Electricity||||||1403.77|||
|||||||||||Gas||||||4336.08|||
|||||||||||Insurance||||||1530.72|||
|||||||||||Building<br>maintenance||||||2248.07|||
|||||||||||Sundries/Consumables||||||1011.19|||
|||||||||||GENERAL<br>CHURCH:|||||||34346.15||
|||||||||||Pastoral||||||539.17|||
|||||||||||Admin||||||2771.45|||
|||||||||||Support<br>Staff||||||$266.93|||
|||||||||||Equipment<br>Items||||||363.36|||
|||||||||||Bank Charges||||||191.15|||
|||||||||||Repayment<br>of|Loans|||||13000.00|||
|||||||||||Membership<br>&|Subscriptions|||||1214.09|||
|||||||||||TRAINING:||||||||1711.85|
|||||||||||Materials||||||0.00|||
|||||||||||Travel||||||248.85|||
|||||||||||Courses||||||1463.00|||
|MISSION|& MINISTRY:|||||||j|924.05|MISSION & MINISTRY:||||||||3265.10|
|Resources||||||647.20||||Resources||||||2805.10|||
|General|Mission|||||276.85||||General<br>Mission||||||460.00|||
|||||||||||CHILDREN&YOUTH|||WORK:||||/|333.62|
|||||||||||Childrens<br>church||||||320.62|||
|||||||||||Older youth||||||0.00|||
|||||||||||General<br>spend||||||13.00|||
|||||||||||CHARITABLE|GIVING:||||||u 12600.00||
|||||||||||Youth<br>Net||||||1200.00|||
|||||||||||BMS||||||5700.00|||
|||||||||||HMF||||||5700.00|||
|TOTAL|UNRESTRICTED||||INCOME:|||128513.99||TOTAL UNRESTRICTED||||EXPENDITURE:|||129339.65||
|||||||||||EXCESS<br>EXPEND|||OVER|INCOME||||-825.66|
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||||||•s/5636.45|||||||1996.61|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Redevelopment||Fund:||0.00||Redevelopment||Fund|||0.00||
|Firestarter||||500.00||Firestarter|||||827.21||
|stay & Play||||200.00||stay & Play|||||79.40||
|BFG||||948.00||BEG|||||530.00||
|Birthday<br>Donations||||310.00||Birthday<br>Donations|||||310.00||
|BUGB Grant||||250.00||BUGB Grant|||||250.00||
|Nepal<br>Fund|Gift|Aid||3428.45|||||||||
|||||||Transferred|to|Unity Nepal||Fund||3278.45|
|TOTAL RESTRICTED|||INCOME:||5636.45|TOTAL RESTRICTED|||EXPENDITURE:|||5275.06|
|INCOME UNITY||& HSBC CASH BOOK:|||134150.44|EXPENDITURE||UNITY|&|HSBC CASH BOOK:||134614.71|






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|||||||||||CASH FLOW & BALANCES ALL ACCOUNTS|||2025||||||||||||
|OPENING<br>BALANCE||HSBC|BANK 1st JANUARY||||2025:|||4,671.71|||||||RESTRICTED||ACCOUNTS||||||
|Regular<br>Monthly|Tithing:|||||||||78,209.00|CHURCH|FELLOWSHIP||FUND OPENING BALANCE||||||1st JANUARY|2025:|||37.24|
|One<br>Off Gifts:||||||||||7,015.00|||||||||||||||
|Other<br>Income:||||||||||142.50|Gifts|||||||||||||0.00|
|Restricted<br>Income:||||||||||764.00|Interest|||||||||||||0.8M|
|Bank<br>Charges:||||||||||35.80|||||||||||||||
|Transfer<br>to Unity Trust:||||||||||70,000.00|||||||||||||||
|CLOSING<br>BALANCE||AS PER CASH BOOK||||31st DECEMBER|||2025:|20 766.41|CLOSING|BALANCE|AS|AT 31st||DECEMBER||2025:||||||38.11|
|HSBC<br>CLOSING|BALANCE||AS|PER STATEMENT:||||||20,766.41|||||||||||||||
|Income<br>not cleared||||||||||0.00|SRBC<br>REDEVELOPMENT||||FUND|OPENING||BALANCE||1st JANUARY||2025:|23,419.19||
|HSBC STATEMENT||BALANCE||TO CASH|BOOK:|||||20 766.41|Interest|||||||||||||551.10|
||||||||||||CLOSING|BALANCE|AS|AT 31st||DECEMBER||2025:|||||23 970.29||
|OPENING<br>BALANCE||UNITY|TRUST BANK|||1st JANUARY||2025:||38,644.92|||||||||||||||
||||||||||||NEPAL FUND<br>OPENING|||BALANCE|||1ST JANUARY||2025:||||25,472.97||
|General<br>Income:||||||||||42,101.49|||||||||||||||
|One off Gifts:||||||||||1,046.00|Smile<br>Child Sponsors|||||||||||||6,697.00|
|Transfer<br>in from|HSBC Current:|||||||||70,000.00|Gimdi<br>Child Sponsors||||||||||||||
|Restricted<br>Funds|Income:|||||||||4,872.45|Transfer|from Unity-Gift|||Aid||||||||3,278.45||
|Expenditure:||||||||||132,582.30|Gimdi<br>Church<br>Pastor||||||||||||/|300.00|
|Restricted<br>Funds|Expenditure:|||||||||1,996.61|Transfer|to Nepal<br>-|Smile|||||||||||5,625.00|
||||||||||||Charges|||||||||||||95.61|
||||||||||||Transfer|to Nepal<br>-|Gimdi||Sponsors|||||||||0.00|
|CLOSING BALANCE||AS PER CASH BOOK||||31st DECEMBER|||2025:|22,085.95|||||||||||||||
||||||||||||CLOSING|BALANCE|AS|AT 31 DECEMBER||||2025:|||||36 699.81||
|UNITY CLOSING|BALANCE||AS|PER STATEMENT:||||||22,568.41|||||||||||||||
|Payments<br>made|not|cleared||||||||482.46|||||||||||||||
|UNITY STATEMENT||BALANCE||TO CASH|BOOK:|||||22 085.95|||||||||||||||






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|Insured value of a church building owned<br>on the|Sandon Road site to the value of :|E975,343.oo|
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|Insured value of a manse at Marston Grange site 50% owned by the church<br>to the value of :||258,585.00|
|The Church owns fixtures, fittings and furniture|at SRBC and Marston Grange to the value of:|276,722.00|



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|There are debtors outstanding|as at 31st December 2025<br>:|||EO.OO|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|2024 debt ofÉ1883.39 written off as agreed by the Leadership|||Team Nov 2025||
|andconfirmed Feb 2026|||||
|There are creditors outstanding|as at 31st December 2025|:||EO.OO|
|||||20.00|