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2025-12-31-accounts

Cricklade Road Gorse Hill Swindon SN2 1AA

Annual Report & Financial Statement

2025

01793 534193 www.ghbc.org.uk Registered Charity Number: 1127294

Table of Contents

Annual Report 2025

Organisational Structure

Trustee Approval

17

Financial Statement

Church Life

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Annual Report 2025

The Charity Trustees(1) present their Annual Report and Financial Statement for 2025. The Charity, called Gorse Hill Baptist Church(2), has been registered in the Central Register of Charities since 29th December 2008. The Charity registration number is 1127294

Charitable Objective

The Charity is governed by a Constitution, which states that the purpose of the Church is the advancement of Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist denomination. The Charity may also advance education and carry out other charitable purposes in the United Kingdom and/or other parts of the world.

Public Benefit

The Trustees have paid due regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit in deciding what activities the charity should undertake. The Trustees consider that they have acted for the public benefit.

The Church occupies premises which are held by The West of England Baptist Trust Company (West) Ltd, on Trusts which are entirely compatible with the above objective.

Message from our Church Secretary, Mark Harris

As a Church we have been through some real highs and lows during 2025 including welcoming a new minister only to see him need to leave us within a matter of weeks. Through all of these, however we have continued to hold onto, and live out, our vision of “Knowing God, to make Him known”.

We have seen the growth within the fellowship of a team who now regularly lead and encourage us in our times of Sunday worship. We have continued to provide focused opportunities to pray together in support of the wide range of activities the Church provides and promotes. We have been encouraged by the growing impact of the many social outreach, training and food provision activities the Church has delivered throughout the year.

I have been greatly supported throughout this year by Members of the Church as well as a very capable Diaconate (Trustees). The Diaconate seeks to support the diverse range of areas of Church life and this report will share how some of this has been possible during 2025.

Later in the report you will find more information about the many ways we do this both inside and outside the building, across a wide range of ages, from food bags to fun days, so please take the time to read on.

1 ‘Trustee’ mainly refers to the Minister/Treasurer/Secretary and Deacons, i.e. those who are involved in the day-to day operation of the Church. Where this is the case, the term used in this report will be ‘Deacons’ or ‘Diaconate’. 2 Referred to in this Report as ‘the Church’

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Annual Report 2025

Message from our Moderator, Martyn Cook

The year 2025 for Gorse Hill Baptist Church was at times interesting, exciting, expectant and disappointing.

As I look back on the year, I want to repeat what I said in my report last year and at the Induction Service in September. During the period of Pastoral Vacancy, the Church has continued to progress in its mission to share the Gospel of Christ, to demonstrate and share God’s love and to make new disciples.

The year began with the expectation of calling a new Minister. Following his induction at the beginning of September, it was a great shock, disappointment and concern that he resigned after only two weeks. However, the Church has moved on and continues its ministry and mission.

As the Pastoral Vacancy continues, the Church again enters the BU Settlement Process. It does so with the Church Profile, Minister Profile and the Ethos Statement previously developed and still valid. The Search Team will continue its work, and I am hopeful for progress. However, remember this is a process that our Lord God leads and will be in His time. Patience is needed.

The Deacons and Officers have correctly agreed that the Church does not need to appoint a new Moderator. This will encourage Deacons and Officers to develop their leadership gifts and skills and the whole Church will develop and grow in their faith and obedience to the calling to follow their Master. Both Revd Lindsay Caplen of WEBA and I are available for advice and help if required.

During the Pastoral Vacancy, the Church elected a new Church Secretary, Church Treasurer and Deacons, so it has a full complement of Deacons. As they continue to serve the Church with additional responsibilities, we continue to pray for and support them.

Looking forward in 2026 - being a disciple of Jesus means more than worshipping together on a Sunday and listening to sermons that challenge us. Therefore during 2026 the Church needs to:

I thank God for His continued faithfulness to His Church at Gorse Hill and for the faithfulness of Gorse Hill Baptist Church to Him, so that His Kingdom may be built in Gorse Hill.

Martyn Cook

Moderator, January - September 2025

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Organisational Structure

In accordance with the Constitution, the Members appoint Charity Trustees, which include the Minister, Church Secretary and Treasurer, collectively known as the Diaconate. They are responsible for the day-to-day management and oversight of the Church’s operations, together with the financial and legal aspects of the Charity. All Charity Trustees are aware of the specific guidance issued by the Baptist Union and the Charity Commission and have confirmed that they will act in accordance with such information and directives.

Except for the Minister, all Deacons are elected for an initial period of up to three years, after which they are eligible for re-election for two further terms of three years. They are then required to step down for at least one year, before being eligible for reappointment.

Members of the Church are accepted in accordance with the Constitution, through a personal profession of faith. The list is constantly being reviewed to reflect Members who have left but not resigned. At Christmas 2025, the number of Members stood at 118.

The Church continues to review its organisational structures, processes and activities to deliver its objectives. We meet together on a regular basis, as elected leaders and as a gathering of committed Members, to seek guidance and direction from God through prayer.

Matters for consideration by the Members’ Meeting may be tabled by the Deacons or by Members. Though the Constitution permits decisions to be made at Members’ Meetings by appropriate majorities, the Church seeks to work by consensus wherever possible. All Members are encouraged to take an appropriate part in spiritual and practical tasks involved in the furthering of the Charitable Objectives. This is explained to all prospective Members in a personal interview.

Charity Trustees Minister

Pastoral vacancy 10[th] July 2022 – 31[st] August 2025 Rev Mick Uffindell 1[st] September 2025 to 17[th] September 2025 Pastoral vacancy 18[th] September 2025 onwards

Secretary

Mark Harris (appointed March 2024)

Treasurer

Rebecca Tromans (appointed May 2024)

Trustees

Elizabeth Mildenhall (re-appointed March 2025) Gary Prictor (re-appointed March 2025) Julie Harris (re-appointed March 2023) Victoria Payn (re-appointed March 2023) Matthew Wright (re-appointed March 2024) Jonathan Murphy (appointed March 2024) Peter Morris (re-appointed March 2025) Abigail Corry (appointed March 2024) Clive Ashby (appointed March 2025)

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Organisational Structure

Our Leadership Team

In March 2025 the election of Deacons at the Annual General Meeting gave us a Diaconate team consisting of 9 Deacons, a Secretary and a Treasurer.

The Deacons met monthly, except August, to receive reports, act within agreed and delegated guidelines and make recommendations to the membership. The team had away days in May and November, which enabled them to refine the areas of responsibility across Church life as outlined in the graphic.

These areas have continued to be a focal point at Members’ Meetings in 2025, where we have been able to update Members on different areas at different times. This has supported the sharing of key information, provided opportunities to be more involved and given areas for prayer focus.

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Church Life

1. Administration

General

Various Members are involved in ensuring that we stay up-to-date with our administration. A range of outcomes include Trustees’ and Members’ Meeting Minutes, parking system updates, along with those who manage rotas across the range of activities provided by the Church.

Health, Safety & Environmental Health

In 2025, the Church continued to welcome an increasing range of people, with a broadening range of needs and backgrounds, into different levels of Church life. We welcome this and rejoice in seeing Christ’s commission to take the Gospel to all being lived out in our fellowship. With the help of our Health & Safety Team, we worked to ensure that the safety of those with neurodiverse needs, physical impairments, the old, the young, and those who struggle with English was given appropriate importance.

2025 saw the “Martyn’s Law” Bill receive Royal Assent after an 8-year journey through Parliament, commencing a 2-year countdown for churches like ours to become compliant and protect the safety of those in Church life from attack and other major incidents. As such, we have re-written all of our emergency procedures and consulted widely with the Church volunteer base to ensure that we get this right, delivering around 70 hours of coaching to different Church volunteers to equip them to safely lead our community in the event of an emergency.

As we enter 2026, we continue to work with our volunteers, with the aim of becoming Martyn’s-Law-Compliant ahead of the 2027 deadline. We continue to work with all groups within the fellowship to make sure that God’s Church at Gorse Hill Baptist is a warm, welcoming, healthy and safe place for them and those who are called to serve them.

We view all who come into our building as people created in God’s image and will continue to look after the week-in, week-out routine of safety checks and preventative work that helps us ensure that the building is safe and ready to use to them. This includes the hungry, the lonely, teenagers, toddlers, new mothers, the elderly, the unemployed, the broken, the homeless, the migrant worker and the refugee.

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Church Life

2. Care & Safeguarding

Pastoral Care: The Care Team mission statement comes from Jesus’ words in John 15:12 “My command is this, love one another as I have loved you"

Pastoral care at GHBC exists to encourage, promote and develop within the Church Christ’s principles regarding love for one another. The team meet regularly to discuss care needs in the fellowship and among those coming into the building during the week. We have been able to add two more males to the team. Our aim is to:

Accessibility: We try to make GHBC accessible to all, whatever age, ability or challenge. For example, we have developed strategies and provided support for a family with additional needs. This has enabled them to access suitable activities and benefit more from being part of the fellowship.

3. Children & Young People

This year we have continued to provide a wide range of activities and events for children and young people from birth to 18 years, both on Sundays and through mid-week clubs. Our aim is to introduce the youngest people in our fellowship to the Christian faith, with the hope and prayer that they will grow to form their own, lasting and meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ. Our children’s and youth work is currently provided entirely by volunteers. We are extremely grateful for the time, energy and skill this dedicated team provide throughout the year. On Sundays we run groups alongside the main morning service. Creche provides care and play for babies and toddlers from birth to 3yrs, and starts our developing structure of faith input. Kidzone is split into 2 groups, for 4-6year-olds and 7-11year-olds. This year the groups have continued to work through the Gospel Bible Project programme, entering the New Testament and learning about the life, death and resurrection of Christ. Inferno for young people aged 11-18 has been studying the book of John as well as tackling some “big questions”. In all groups we have

been blessed with new leaders. We currently average around 25-30 children and young people per week.

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Church Life

3. Children & Young People - continued

On Fridays we provide 3 groups, catering for all ages. Pram Club is a stayand-play baby and toddler group for children accompanied by parents, grandparents or child-minders. The group provides toys, craft, singing, snack and drinks and continues to be well-attended.

In the early evening Children’s Friday Club (CFC) meets for children aged 6-11. This year they have been looking at “secret agents” in the Bible and all children have been given a book to take home, which includes the stories covered. The team encourages the development of young leaders as volunteers. Numbers have been quite variable and the children are regularly encouraged to invite new friends to attend.

Following this, Ignite runs for young people aged 11-18, providing a safe space to hang out, play games and chat. The group also periodically attends “Synergy”, a Swindon-wide youth worship event.

During 2025 we have ran 2 ReCreate events, providing free crafts, story time and lunch. It is primarily attended by members of our local communities and is promoted within the local school. We are encouraged to see families returning each time, with whom we can develop relationships and sign-post to other groups within the Church.

Youth and Families Work: We have taken time to review our Youth and Families provision, helping us better understand both the needs around us and our realistic capacity as a Church. We have a growing sense that currently a part-time role may be more appropriate than a full-time post. While we have not yet moved to recruitment, this has been valuable in shaping our future direction in supporting children, young people and families.

School Assembly Team: During 2025 GHBC has continued to work within local schools. Assemblies have been presented at 8 schools, looking at the life of Joseph, telling stories and teaching Bible songs. There has been opportunity to be involved in other Church-based activities within those schools.

Investigating Easter and Christmas Unwrapped: Six schools have been welcomed into the Church for Christmas Unwrapped and Investigating Easter, with up to 360 children and staff for each presentation. This enabled the children to

familiarise themselves with and feel comfortable in the Church building. The team encouraged the children to listen to, and investigate for themselves, the Christmas and Easter stories as told in the Bible, and explained how and why we remember and celebrate these events.

A couple of the schools took part in an exercise to see what the Church is like and compare GHBC to a CofE church.

It’s Your Move books were distributed in 2 schools, to help children prepare for the transition to secondary school.

SACRE: The Church continues to be represented at SACRE (Schools Advisory Council for Religious Education) who consider the provision of religious education in Swindon and advise Swindon Borough Council on the syllabus going into schools.

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Church Life

4. Communication

The Church continues to utilise multiple communication channels such as our website, public Facebook groups, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp groups to provide communications to the public. These are in addition to more traditional methods such as email distribution lists, with the GHBC Weekly Newsletter and GHBC prayer emails being crucial to keeping everyone up to date.

As with previous years, demand has ensured that we have continued with our hybrid services. Around 400 people a month watch our services online, either exclusively, or when they are unable to attend the Church building. Around half of these are from the UK, with the remainder from a variety of other countries around the world. We have switched to streaming services on YouTube rather than Facebook to make them more accessible to those who might not use Facebook. Video and audio recordings are available on the Church website and on YouTube, with sermons uploaded as podcasts on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Spotify and YouTube Music.

As well as hybrid Church services, we have continued to conduct hybrid Members’ meetings, allowing people to attend virtually if they have trouble physically attending. This has been a great success, allowing audience participation and interaction from within the Church building or at home.

5. External Mission & Evangelism

In 2025 we continued and increased our support to a range of charities. This included consistent financial support to 9 individual charities and several one-off emergency support appeals. The primary charities were Baptist Mission Support (BMS), Leprosy Mission, Tear Fund, Educación Plus, Centre Mokili, Angel’s Orphanage, Home Mission, SYFC and the Swindon Night Shelter. The Financial Statement at the end of this report contains further details.

We thought more strategically about options to share our faith outside the Church. Early views on this were shared with Members in the autumn and discussions will continue in 2026.

Key areas of focus included a desire to bring people to know Christ as their personal saviour and for us to show the love of Christ both through how we live in our daily lives and as part of the Church, in addition to through the weekly outreach of the Church.

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Church Life

6. Finance

Team

Rebecca Tromans - Treasurer and Accounts Paul Collins - Payroll

Julie Harris - Gift Aid, Income and Banking Peter Morris - Assets and Inventory Beverley Bolt - Internal Audit (appointed March 2022) Brian Mildenhall - Utilities Manager

Property Trustees
The West of England Baptist
Trust Company (West) Ltd
Little Stoke Baptist Church
Kingsway
Bristol BS34 6JW		 Banker
Lloyds TSB Bank PLC
Independent Examiner
James Gare
Monahans Chartered
Accountants
Hermes House,
Fire Fly Avenue
Swindon SN2 2GA		 Solicitor
Wood Awdry and Ford
3 St Mary Street
Chippenham SN15 3JL

In accordance with the Charity Constitution, an annual budget was completed for both Income and Expenditure. This was approved by Members in the November 2024 meeting, along with a plan for the following four years, to enable effective financial planning.

The Church raises the funds that it needs to continue with its activities from donations provided by the Membership and congregation. Three factors contributed to the fact that overall income appears to have fallen. Firstly, our healthy balance resulted in fewer grants being received by the Stepping Stones project; secondly, we have received no major bequests and lastly, the manse was only rented out for 5 months during 2025, following the appointment of a minister. Whilst income does appear to have fallen overall, it still far exceeds the expenditure of the Church.

The Church appointed a minister who started on 1[st] September 2025, however, resigned on 17[th] September 2025.

The Church has decided to increase the donations to national and international organisations which have Christian aims and objectives compatible with the Church’s own charitable interest. This amounts to 15% of regular giving, with additional gifts; this totalled £33,709.74. The Committee continues to work closely with a number of organisations which are listed in the accounts and regularly communicates their activity to the fellowship through a variety of methods.

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Church Life

6. Finance – continued

The Church is heavily dependent on its membership working as volunteers in all aspects of its activities, many of which run with little to no impact on the Church’s expenditure, but contribute significantly to the achievement of its objectives. There were no significant “gifts in kind”, although some Members covered minor costs personally.

Specific Projects: The Boxes of Hope project has received funding of £13,120.00, including grant funding of £12,000 from Swindon Borough Council to provide food parcels. As noted above, this is in addition to numerous gifts of food and other supplies from the congregation and local supermarkets. Approximately 300 hours of volunteer time were given every week buying, packing and delivering the bags to the local community. In addition, the delivery and collection drivers donate around 350 miles per week. The project spent £21,982.62 in year on provision of food and suppliers to the residents of Swindon.

The Stepping Stones Project has received funding of £66,507.60, of which grant funding accounted for £59,994.50 in year. We have received multiple grants and our 2 largest grants are HUBUB and the National Lottery Community Fund. The project employed 4 part time staff (1.4 FTE) during the year to deliver various aspects of this work. Grants received in support of these projects cannot be used to support the running costs of the Church, which are still met from the general funds of the Church, although some grants do allow an element of recharge in relation to electricity and photocopying costs.

Budgets: The Deacons have undertaken a review of Church activities and, with the assistance of former treasurers, have set a 5-year budget that will keep the Church in a healthy financial position. Expenditure still requires the approval of the Treasurer before being incurred and of the Church membership at regular Church meetings.

Reserves : The Church maintains levels of reserves to meet its immediate needs, in particular stipends/salaries for the employees and the running costs of the premises. Sums are accumulated to facilitate specific projects and future strategic development, as agreed by Members. The Church Reserves Policy is that it will maintain funds equivalent to 6 months of regular expenditure, and action needs to be taken should the reserves drop below this level. This policy is also applied to the Stepping Stones/Boxes of Hope projects. The policy is reviewed annually by the Diaconate.

The Deacons have noted the General Fund balance of £337,604.66 and have assessed this against the level of potential commitments from 2026 to 2030. It will continue to be reviewed at Deacons’ meetings.

Capital Expenditure: The healthier position of the Church’s reserves has assisted with increasing dedicated capital requirements. These include works to update the manse, Church buildings and updating the AV and IT equipment. Over the course of 2025, a total of £25,994.93 was spent on this work with most projects coming in below budget. In 2026, a further £14,650 has been put aside for similar projects, with the remaining designated capital funds of £19,909.40 being returned to the General Fund.

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Church Life

6. Finance - continued

Risks: The Deacons have assessed the major risks facing the Church and are satisfied that there are policies and insurance in place to mitigate these risks. The policies include internal financial controls with advance approval thresholds set at Treasurer and Diaconate levels; items costing in excess of £750 will require Members’ approval, outside of usual utilities or regular expenditures.

Conclusion: The financial results for the year, together with a summary of the accounting policies adopted are set out in the accompanying Financial Statements.

Going Concern: On 1 January 2026 the charity changed its charity structure from an unincorporated charity to a CIO and therefore, although these cessation accounts are not prepared on a going concern basis, no accounting adjustments are required. The assets and liabilities of the Charity transferred to the new CIO. The new CIO is charity number 1214048. The change in legal structure will be treated as a merger under the Charities SORP.

7. Premises (Admin)

Our Church premises supports all of our current Ministries, therefore it is essential to keep our facilities a safe place for people to visit and use effectively.

There are weekly and monthly Health & Safety checks of our Church premises which are recorded in the Health & Safety diary. To further support this, operational systems such as boilers, fire alarm system, emergency lighting, kitchen appliances and many other key system have annual reviews.

During the year we also carried out a range of minor carpentry, electrical, plumbing and flooring repairs. These covered many areas of the building from leaking roof and window areas to minor cracks and repairs. We fitted a defibrillator to the outside wall of Cricklade Hall, on Cricklade Road. We completed decorating improvements to the External front doors, the main Cricklade Hall, Bright Room and sanctuary to give a fresh, good-looking appearance.

Our Church manse received a three-month refit to the kitchen and bathroom along with extensive redecoration.

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Church Life

8. Projects, Transition & Strategy

This has been a year of significant change, reflection and preparation for the future at Gorse Hill Baptist Church.

Ministerial Leadership: During the year we reached the important milestone of calling a Minister. Together we committed much time, prayer and discernment to the process and are thankful for the unity shown by Members throughout. Although the appointment was made, it became clear that the situation was not right for either the Minister or the Church, and the role did not continue. While disappointing, this experience has helped us reflect, learn and seek God’s guidance afresh. We have begun the process again, and we continue to pray for God’s leading in this next chapter.

Transition to CIO: A major focus this year has been completing our transition from an unincorporated charity to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). This has involved substantial governance, legal and financial work, much of it behind the scenes. The new structure strengthens our legal and governance framework, clarifies Trustee responsibilities and better supports the scale and scope of our ministry today. We are grateful to all who have contributed time and expertise to make this possible.

9. Social Outreach

This has seen a real shift in direction in 2025. Still the first point of contact for many outside the Church, we have seen interactions go deeper, with a focus on relationship-building, prayer, big questions and people coming to faith.

We welcomed over 1,000 people to the August Fun Day , which included the usual inflatables, Fire Brigade visit, burgers and more, all completely free.

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Church Life

9. Social Outreach - continued

Friends and Fun and Table Tennis Club (formerly Badminton Club) continue to provide a warm welcome, companionship and friendship to the over 50s. Numbers have increased.

Tuesday Lunch (formerly Lunch Club) welcomes around 20 people every week for fellowship and a low-price hot meal. We introduced a few minutes of prayer and Scripture reading with our guests before the meal.

Stepping Stones

Based on verses from Matthew 25, verses 35-40*, this project provides a local mission that meets people where they are in a fresh expression of Church. It aims to meet people’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs, treating them holistically and using relational evangelism. It is a model that provides small ‘stepping-stones’ to a faith in Jesus. We do it in a number of ways:

Boxes of Hope We take referrals from agencies across Swindon and on average deliver 50 food parcels a week. During 2025 we delivered 2,265 food parcels, feeding 3,304 adults and 3,346 children. Since we started, we have delivered a total of 14,684 food parcels, feeding 21,182 adults and 24,975 children. We distribute Healthy Start vitamins for Swindon Borough Council to those who are eligible.

Swindon’s Community Fridge We pick up and redistribute surplus food from supermarkets across Swindon. Open three times a week from 11am-2pm, we welcome an average 150+ customers daily.

In 2025 we were open for 140 days, averaging 468 customers weekly, an annual total of 23,655, resulting in 68 tonnes of food being saved from landfill. Since opening, our total number of customers has been 84,603, with a total of 239 tonnes of groceries saved from landfill. The Fridge provides a great opportunity to get alongside people and build relationships.

– Drop in Café We partner with Swindon Borough Council to offer a warm and welcome space for our customers, offering tea/coffee and a cake, or soup and a roll, for 50p. Agencies such as Swindon Citizen’s Advice, Swindon and Gloucester Mind, Healthwatch and Thames Water attend regularly to help our customers and meet some of their basic needs. Our volunteers get alongside them, provide a listening ear and offer the opportunity to pray. We have a prayer table with Christian literature, books and a Bible for them to read or take away.

Adult learning – To enable our customers to improve their current circumstances, we offer a variety of courses such as CAP Money Management, English lessons for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Cookery classes, Food Hygiene Level 1 and the Kids Matter Parenting Programme.

‘Jesus’ words: ‘For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me…The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

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Church Life

10. Technical/Technology

A number of technology projects have been conducted this year, including supplementing the fixed video cameras with a portable camera, which is used where a roving camera is useful, such as baptisms and other special occasions .

Additional TVs have been added into each of the teaching/meeting rooms, giving children’s workers more options for classes and making rooms more useful for people who hire the Church facilities. Mini-computers have also been added to each of the notice screens, allowing rolling notices to be displayed across the Church. Other tech infrastructure projects have been completed, including additional wireless microphones, an upgraded internet connection, laptops and printers, replacing end of life equipment and making our technology estate more reliable.

11. Worship & Discipleship

Band of Brothers and Flourish

Both our men’s and women’s ministries within the Church remained consistent throughout 2025, with a variety of events taking place regularly. The most popular women’s event by far was our very first Christmas Wreath making event. This drew in many women who regularly attend the Church but also those from the local community.

24/7 Prayer Event

In September, the Church joined in with the Global Week of 24/7 Prayer. A designated prayer room with a number of interactive prayer activities was set up in our Church for a week; individuals and groups were encouraged to engage in non-stop prayer, both day and night. Off the back of this, we now have a permanent prayer space which can be accessed by anyone at any time.

Internal Preaching Team

As we continue in our time of interregnum, we have established a preaching team of internal speakers to support us with our Sunday services. We are very appreciative of the time and commitment that this requires and for the wealth of experience and fresh expression that this will bring.

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Trustee Approval

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Name: Gary Prictor Signature: ________ Date: 9th March 2026

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Financial Statement

Balance Sheet

Independent Examiners Report

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Statement of Financial Activities

Financial Statement

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Financial Statement

Notes to the Accounts

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Notes to the Accounts

Financial Statement

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Notes to the Accounts

Financial Statement

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Notes to the Accounts

Financial Statement

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Financial Statement

Notes to the Accounts

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Notes to the Accounts

Financial Statement

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Notes to the Accounts

Financial Statement

18 Restricted Funds

Fellowship Fund
Other charities
Boxes of Hope
Stepping Stones
Childrens collection
Pram Club
Luncheon Club
Church Holiday
Totals		 1/1/2025
Incoming
Resources
Resources
expended
Gains and losses
Transfers
31/12/2025
£
£
£
£
£
£
£8,534.55
£3,436.07
(1,505.46)
10,465.16
£0.00
£3,260.24
(3,246.01)
14.23
£12,872.94
£13,120.00
(21,982.62)
4,010.32
£134,039.45
£66,507.60
(45,835.96)
5,245.84
159,956.94
£0.00
£345.82
(343.78)
2.04
£1,002.28
£315.00
0.00
(1,317.28)
-
£0.00
£3,744.90
(2,083.37)
(1,661.53)
0.00
£0.00
£1,644.08
(1,619.00)
(25.08)
0.00
156,449.22
92,373.71
(76,616.20)
0.00
2,241.95
174,448.69
0.00
0.00
0.00
Fellowship Fund
Other charities
Boxes of Hope
Stepping Stones
Childrens collection
Pram Club
Totals		 1/1/2024
Incoming
Resources
Resources
expended
Gains and losses
Transfers
30/12/2024
£
£
£
£
£
£
6,832.44
2,401.47
(699.36)
8,534.55
(37.50)
10,026.86
(9,989.36)
0.00
18,426.31
18,635.92
(24,189.29)
12,872.94
63,820.33
120,398.81
(50,179.69)
134,039.45
372.71
(372.71)
0.00
1,173.04
551.79
(722.55)
0.00
1,002.28
90,214.62
152,387.56
(86,152.96)
0.00
0.00
156,449.22
155,809.22 as per annual report
156449.22
0.00

There was a small error in last year's Balance Sheet which we have corrected in the Unrestricted General Fund and Restricted Reserves balances at 31 December 2024. The amount is less than £1,000 which we consider immaterial.

Fellowship Fund

Other charities Boxes of Hope Stepping Stones

this fund is available at the discretion of the Minister and Pastoral Deacon to provide financial assistance to those in specific need within the Church membership and regular attendees

this represents gifts which the donor has restricted to other parties in furtherance of the charity's objectives this represents funds raised as a result of the pandemic to provide food parcels to the residents of Swindon We have received multiple grants and our 2 largest grants are HUBUB and the National Lottery Community Fund (Reaching Communities). We spend these funds received to support Swindon and its people along with the running costs of this project.

Childrens Club Pram Club

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Financial Statement

Notes to the Accounts

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Financial Statement

Notes to the Accounts

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Financial Statement

Notes to the Accounts

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Financial Statement

Notes to the Accounts

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Financial Statement

Notes to the Accounts

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