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|Charity|Name and Number|Whetstone<br>Baptist|Whetstone<br>Baptist|Church|Church||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||WBC (working<br>name)|||||||||||
|||Registered<br>charity||number<br>1130585|||||||||
|Trustees||Rev P M Robinson||(Senior||Minister)|||Mrs E Lander - resigned||25/04/23||
|||Revd<br>N Swenson|(Associate Minister)||||||Mr 5Mould||||
|||Mr 5Clay (Mimster-in-training)|||||||Mr P Smith|( Treasurer)|||
|||Mr P Ndabananiye||( Chair||of trustees/Church||Secretary )|Mr J Adams|- resigned|18/09/23||
|||Mr J W Denney -|resigned|||25/04/23|||Mrs TCosgrove||||
|||Mr M Smith - resigned|||25/04/23||||Mr 5 Howard||||
|||Mr J Kyte|||||||Mrs D Kiiipe||||
|||Mrs<br>H Ward|||||||Mr 5Wheeler||||
|||Miss 5 H/R|||||||Mrs A Howard - appointed|||25/04/23|
|Principal|Address|Whetstone<br>Baptist||Church|||||||||
|||SpringweR,<br>Dog and Gun||||Lane|||||||
|||Whetstone|||||||||||
|||Leicestershire|||||||||||
|||LEB6LJ|||||||||||
|Auditors||The Row(eye Partnership||||Limited|||||||
|||Statutory<br>Audltom|||||||||||
|||Chartered<br>Accountants|||||||||||
|||Charnwood<br>House|||||||||||
|||Harcourt<br>Way|||||||||||
|||Mend/an<br>Business||Park|||||||||
|||Leicester|||||||||||
|||Lei«estershire|||||||||||
|||LEI9 IWP|||||||||||
|Bankmu||Santander<br>UK Pic|||||||||||
|||Bootle|||||||||||
|||Merseyside|||||||||||
|||L30 4G8|||||||||||
|Property|Trustees|The East Midlands||Baptist||Trust Company|Limited||||||
|||Baptist House|||||||||||
|||129 Broadway|||||||||||
|||Didcot|||||||||||
|||Oxfordshire|||||||||||
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|Income<br>from:|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||950,265|162,329|1,112,594|445,395|
|Charitable<br>activities|||169,909||169,909|132,296|
|Other: Profit on disposal of property|||445,952||445,952||
|Investment<br>income|- bank interest|||1,885|1,885|10|
|Total income|||1,566,126|164,214|1,730,340|577,701|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||
|Grants payable||||17,500|17,500|18,692|
|Cost ofactivities|||440,272|161,246|601,518|595,595|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable<br>activities|||18,988||18,988|17,878|
|Total expenditure|||459,260|178,746|638,006|632,165|
|Net income/(expenditure)|||1,106,866|(14,532)|1,092,334|(54,464)|
|Transfers between|funds|12|(27,975)|27,975|||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||1,078,891|13,443|1,092,334|(54,464)|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||
|Total funds brought|forward||543,385|3,568,699|4,112,084|4,166,548|
|Total funds carried|forward at 31 December 2023||1,622,276|3,582,142|5,204,418|4,112,084|





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|||||BALANCE SHEET|||||
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|||||AS AT|||||
|||||31 DECEMBER 2023|||||
|||||2023|||2022||
||||Note||||||
|Fixed Assets|||||||||
|Tangible assets|||||5,269,832|||5,597,073|
||||||5,269,832|||5,597,073|
|Current<br>Assets|||||||||
|Debtors|||8|721,809||42,651|||
|Cash at bank and in|hand|||48,364||83,088|||
|||||770,173||125,739|||
|Current<br>Liabilities|||||||||
|Creditors: amounts|falling||||||||
|due within one year|||9|(340,178)||(910,088)|||
||||||429,995|||(784,349)|
|Total assets less current||liabilities|||5,699,827|||4,812,724|
|Creditors: amounts|falling||||||||
|due after more than|one|year|10||(495,409)|||(700,640)|
|Net Assets|||||5,204,418|||4,112,084|
|Charity<br>Funds|||||||||
|Restricted<br>funds|||12||3,582,142|||3,568,699|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||12||1,622,276|||543,385|
|Total charity funds|||||5,204,418|||4,112,084|



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|||Note|E|E|
|Cash flow from operating|activities|As below|109,194|220,801|
|Cash flow from investing|activities||||
|Payments to acquire tangible fixed assets|||(51,849)|(283,837)|
|Proceeds on sale of tangible<br>fixed assets|||680,452||
|Interest received|||1,885|10|
|Net cash flow from investing<br>activities|||630,488|(283,827)|
|Cash flow from financing|activities||||
|Receipts from issue of new long term loans||||106,000|
|Repayments<br>of long term|loans||(734,061)|(180,763)|
|Interest<br>paid|||(40,345)|(54,179)|
|Net cash flow from financing<br>activities|||(774,406)|(128,942)|
|Net decrease in cash and|cash equivalents||(34,724)|(191,968)|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at 1 January 2023||83,088|275,056|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at 31 December 2023||48,364|83,088|
|Cash and cash equivalents|consists of:||||
|Cash at bank and in hand|||48,364|83,088|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at 31 December 2023||48,364|83,088|
|Reconciliation<br>of net income to net cash flow from operating||activities|||
||||2023|2022|
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|Net income for year|||1,092,334|(54,464)|
|Interest receivable|||(1,885)|(10)|
|Interest payable|||40,345|54,179|
|Depreciation<br>of tangible|fixed assets||144,590|150,549|
|Profit on disposal of tangible fixed assets|||(445,952)||
|(Increase)/decrease<br>in debtors|||(679,158)|39,086|
|(Decrease)/increase<br>in creditors|||(41,080)|31,461|
|Net cash flow from operating<br>activities|||109,194|220,801|





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|2.|Incoming|Incoming|Resources|Resources|Resources|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
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|||||||||fund|fund|2023|fund|fund|2022|
|||||||||E|E|E|E|E|E|
||General|and specific offerings||||||183,425|5,208|188,633|188,459|4,522|192,981|
||Building|Fund|||||||139,010|139,010||179,678|179,678|
||Legacies|||||||696,887||696,887||||
||Reception||desk|||||||||3,020|3,020|
||Memorial||garden||||||760|760||8,950|8,950|
||Manse Building|||Fund||||||||5,070|5,070|
||Gift Aid|||||||34,186|17,351|51,537|23,146|13,039|36,185|
||Room hire|||||||13,136||13,136|4,718||4,718|
||Rent - 4|Knightsbridge||||Road||11,400||11,400|14,793||14,793|
||Other income|||||||11,231||11,231||||
|||||||||950,265|162,329|1,112,594|231,116|214,279|445,395|
||Incoming||resources||from charitable|||activities:||||||
||Pre-school|||||||169,909||169,909|132,296||132,296|
|||||||||169,909||169,909|132,296||132,296|
|3.|Charitable||expenditure|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||||||||fund|fund|2023|fund|fund|2022|
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||Gifts payable|||in furtherance|||ofthe|charity's objects:||||||
||Specific|gifts|||||||17,500|17,500||18,692|18,692|
||||||||||17,500|17,500||18,692|18,692|



|Expenditure|on charitable activities:|on charitable activities:|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Accounts preparation||fee|5,950|5,950|||
|Audit fee|||11,193|11,193|11,350|11,350|
|Legal and professionalfees|||(121)|(121)|4,419|4,419|
|Payroll admin|fee||1,152|1,152|1,512|1,512|
|Bank Charges|||814|814|597|597|
||||18,988|18,988|17,878|17,878|





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|3.|Charitable<br>expenditure|Charitable<br>expenditure|Charitable<br>expenditure|(Cont'd)||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||fund|fund|2023|fund|fund|2022|
|||||||E|E|E|E|E|E|
||Cost ofactivities|in|furtherance||ofthe charity's objects:|||||||
||Ministry stipends|and|Expenses|||113,522||113,522|121,449||121,449|
||Office staff salaries and|||National|Insurance|31,533||31,533|31,849||31,849|
||Pre-school Salaries and|||National|Insurance|140,769||140,769|120,680||120,680|
||Pre-school Expenses|||||7,230||7,230|10,133||10,133|
||Office and Pre-school||Pension|||2,814||2,814|1,727||1,727|
||Building Repairs and||Maintenance|||9,756||9,756|3,867||3,867|
||Building alarms|||||2,184||2,184||||
||Health 8Safety|||||2,695||2,695||||
||Cleaning|||||9,673||9,673|9,896||9,896|
||Light and Heat|||||34,258||34,258|40,730||40,730|
||Office Administration|||||1,023||1,023|1,609||1,609|
||Catering|||||3,431||3,431|2,127||2,127|
||Telephone|||||5,462||5,462|1,442||1,442|
||Pastoral care|||||2,542|2,522|5,064||||
||Peak Pilgrimage||||||||480||480|
||Church<br>Council Tax and|||Water Rates||4,504||4,504|5,343||5,343|
||Insurance|||||8,677||8,677|12,325||12,325|
||Affiliation<br>Fees|||||1,442||1,442|1,230||1,230|
||Printing|||||6,805||6,805|7,361||7,361|
||Youth Work|||||1,224||1,224|1,247||1,247|
||Music and Worship|||||2,103||2,103|2,430||2,430|
||Ministry<br>and Publications|||Expenses||746||746|811||811|
||IT|||||2,884||2,884|3,058||3,058|
||Misc Expenses|||||612||612|1,460||1,460|
||Depreciation|||||29,597|114,993|144,590|36,705|113,844|150,549|
||Alpha|||||1,433||1,433||||
||Building<br>Fund Loan interest||||||40,345|40,345||51,955|51,955|
||Manse Loan Interest|||||3,169||3,169||2,224|2,224|
||Training Costs|||||5,209||5,209|7,775||7,775|
||Community<br>Outreach|||||1,875||1,875|1,821||1,821|
||Appeals||||||3,386|3,386|17||17|
||Mission support|||||3,100||3,100||||
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|Salaries and wages||253,374|235,607|
|Social security||7,313|8,301|
|Pension costs||12,973|15,753|
|||273,660|259,661|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||E|E|
|Revd|M Clay - Pension<br>(former Senior Pastor)||||||12|5,727|
|Mr 5|M Clay - Stipend<br>(current|Minister-in-Training)|||||10,327|16,403|
|Mr 5|M Clay - Pension (current Minister-in-Training)||||||135||
|Mr 5|M Clay - Expenses||||||1,292|2,206|
|Revd|N Swanson<br>- Stipend<br>and Employers||National||Insurance||35,407|34,120|
|Revd|N Swanson<br>- Pension||||||4,621|3,815|
|Ministers'<br>Manse Leaseback|||||||2,378|2,093|
|Revd|N Swanson<br>- Ministers'<br>Expenses||||||4,173|4,720|
|Revd|P M Robinson<br>- Stipend|and Employers||National||Insurance|42,651|41,206|
|Revd|P M Robinson<br>- Pension||||||5,392|4,485|
|Revd|P M Robinson<br>- Ministers'|Expenses||||||395|
|Revd|P M Robinson<br>- Manse Allowance||||||7,134|6,279|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Freehold|Property|Furniture|PA and||
||Land &|under|Fixtures &|Musical|Total|
||Property|constructiors|Fittings|Equipment||
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|Cost||||||
|Brought Forward|4,712,937|1,118,680|70,481|64,302|5,966,400|
|Additions<br>at Cost|33,768|10,150|2,382|5,549|51,849|
|Disposals|(350,000)||||(350,000)|
|At 31 December 2023|4,396,705|1,128,830|72,863|69,851|5,668,249|
|Depreciation||||||
|Brought<br>Forward|298,251||41,213|29,863|369,327|
|Charge for the year|119,193||7,258|18,139|144,590|
|Disposals|(115,500)||||(115,500)|
|At 31 December 2023|301,944||48,471|48,002|398,417|
|Net book value||||||
|At 31 December 2023|4,094,761|1,128,830|24,392|21,849|5,269,832|
|At 31 December 2022|4,414,686|1,118,680|29,268|34,439|5,597,073|



|8.|Debtors: amounts|falling due within one year|falling due within one year|falling due within one year||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||E|E|
||Trade debtors|||||144||
||Gift aid receivable|||||13,576|38,686|
||Prepayments|||||11,202|3,965|
||Legacies receivable|||||696,887||
|||||||721,809|42,651|
|9.|Creditors: amounts|falling due||within one year||2023|2022|
|||||||E|E|
||Trade creditors|||||2,397|7,147|
||Accruals<br>&deferred|income||||38,027|59,545|
||Social security<br>&other||taxes|||3,421|7,726|
||Other creditors<br>- WBC Des&gn Co|||Ltd||90,766|103,108|
||Pension|||||1,835||
||Building<br>fund &other loans:|||||||
||Baptist Union loans|for|building|of church|45,275|||
||Other loans for building||of church||120,000|165,275|726,502|
||Manse Loans:|||||||
||Baptist Union loans|for|purchase|of Manse|6,457|||
||Other loans for purchase of Manse||||32,000|38,457|6,060|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||Building<br>fund 8other loans:||||||||
||Baptist Union loans for building|of church||||460,981|||
||Other loans for building of church||||||460,981|627,469|
||Manse Loans:||||||||
||Baptist Union loans for purchase of Manse|||||34,428|||
||Other loans for purchase ofManse||||||34,428|73,171|
||||||||495,409|700,640|
||Security and borrowing<br>costs|on Building|Fund||||||
||The Baptist Union Corporation|(BU) has registered||a restriction||against the Land Registry Title for the Church||property|
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|Within one year|||||3,836|3,533|
|Between|one and two years||||3,836|3,533|
|Between|two and five years||||4,004|7,235|
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|||||Funds 8/fwd<br>01.01.2023|Voluntary<br>income|Charitable<br>expenditure|Transfers|Funds C/fwd<br>31.12.2023|
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||Unrestricted<br>Funds||||||||
||Generalfund|||498,385|1,566,126|459,260|(27,975)|1,577,276|
||Designated<br>Fund|- Simon Clay's|living expenses|45,000||||45,000|
||Restricted<br>Funds||||||||
||EMBA|||||17,500|17,500||
||Other charitable|donations|||||||
||Parish<br>Nursing|||744||||744|
||Pearl Of Africa Choir|||20||||20|
||Growing<br>leaders|- joint church||261||||261|
||Communion<br>fund|ft other gifts||5,743|5,208|5,908||5,043|
||Manse Building<br>Fund|||||10,875|10,475||
||Memorial<br>garden|||8,950|760|||9,710|
||Reception desk|||3,020||||3,020|
||Building<br>Fund|||3,549,561|158,246|144,463||3,563,344|
|||||4,112,084|1,730,340|638,006||5,204,418|
||Comparatives<br>for movements||in funds||||||
|||||Funds 8/fwd<br>01.01.2022|Voluntary<br>income|Charitable<br>expenditure|Transfers|Funds C/fwd<br>31.12.2022|
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||Unrestricted<br>Funds||||||||
||Generalfund|||603,745|363,412|445,450|(23,322)|498,385|
||Designated<br>Fund|- Simon Clay's|living expenses|45,000||||45,000|
||Restricted<br>Funds||||||||
||EMBA|||||17,778|17,778||
||Other charitable|donations||||421|421||
||Parish<br>Nursing|||744||||744|
||Pearl Of Africa Choir|||20||||20|
||Growing<br>leaders|- joint church||261||||261|
||Communion<br>fund|&.other gifts||1,704|4,532|493||5,743|
||Manse Building<br>Fund||||5,070|9,793|5,123|400|
||Memorial<br>garden||||8,950|||8,950|
||Reception desk||||3,020|||3,020|
||Building<br>Fund|||3,515,074|192,717|158,230||3,549,561|
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|13.Analysis of net assets between||funds||funds|funds|Total|
||||||E|E|
|Funds|balances at 31 December|2023 are represented|by:||||
|Fixed|assets|||135,843|5,133,989|5,269,832|
|Net current assets||||1,486,433|(1,551,847)|(65,414)|
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|The key financial|assumptions<br>underlying<br>the valuations<br>were|assumptions<br>underlying<br>the valuations<br>were|assumptions<br>underlying<br>the valuations<br>were|as follows:|as follows:|as follows:||||||
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|RPI price inflation|assumption||||||||||3.20|
|CPI price inflation|assumption||||||||||2.70|
|Minimum<br>Pensionable<br>Income Increase Adjustment|||(above CPI)||||||||0.50|
|Pre-retirement<br>assumed<br>investment<br>returns||(gilt yield plus 1.75Xp.a.)|||||||||2.95|
|Post-retirement<br>assumed<br>investment<br>returns||(including<br>benefits matched|||||by the insurance|||||
|policy) (gilt yield|plus 0.5%p.a.)||||||||||1.70|
|Minimum<br>Pensionable<br>Income Increases Adjustment|||(CPI plus|0.55)|||||||3.20|
|Deferred<br>pension|increases<br>(based on RPI)|||||||||||
|Pre April 2009|||||||||||3.20|
|Post Apnl2009|||||||||||2.50|
|Pension increases||||||||||||
|Based on CPI with|an annual floor of OX and|annual|cap of 5%||||||||2.70|
|Mortality<br>is assumed<br>in accordance with 80%of the|||53NA standard||mortality<br>table.|||Future improvements||projected|from|
|2013 in line with|the "CMI 2019"projection|with a|long-term|rate|of improvement|||of 1.75%p.a.|for males and I.SXp.a.|||
|for females<br>with|the core smoothing<br>parameter<br>and||with additional|||initial|mortality|improvement|factor|A=0.5%.||



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