## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 01 23 **To** 31 12 23 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Walderslade Baptist Church **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1130665 **Charity's principal address** Catkin Close Chatham Kent **Postcode ME5 9HP** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Stephen Roe|Minister||Church| ||Lisa Arnold|||Church| ||Tim Jackson|||Church| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** |**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |Baptist Union Corporation|| ||| ||| **TAR** **2023** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |Rev Stephen J. Roe, M.A. (Minister)||| Rev Stephen J. Roe, M.A. (Minister) ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable unicorporated association. AKA Church How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Elected by Members (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. - Informal induction and training by Minister and other Trustees. Also training available and sometimes taken up from Baptist Union. - • Church of voluntary members, overseen by Minister and elected Deacons (Trustees). Part of Baptist Union of Great Britain, South Eastern Baptist Association, and Evangelical Alliance. - Trustees meet together at least once a month and report to members at another meeting 6 times per year. Review of major risks is undertaken in the course of these meetings. - • **Smilers Pre-School Committee** : Stephen Roe - Chair / Church Minister Tracy Haben - Manager Diane Rudd - Deputy / Treasurer Karen Gillion Victoria Kerrigan Hannah Thompson Katie Rayner Elizabeth Simmons ## **Section C Objectives and activities** Advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist denomination. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** **TAR** **2023** 2 - Public meetings to disseminate the Christian faith and promote the wellbeing of the local community. - Activities for children, young people and families to promote social, physical, mental and spiritual health and development. - Running daily Pre-School. - Promote relationships and integrated inclusive social structures. - • Support for individuals working in other social institutions for the common good. - Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. **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)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** - Most activities led and staffed by volunteers. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - Church Pre-School (Smilers) staffed by 7 employees. - • Smilers Pre-School Committee: Stephen Roe - Chair / Church Minister Tracy Haben - Manager Diane Rudd - Deputy / Treasurer Karen Gillion Victoria Kerrigan Hannah Thompson Katie Rayner Elizabeth Simmons - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** **2023** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** |•
•|Continued and developed children’s and youth activities serving
large numbers in the local community.
Continued to develop, train and support volunteers in our
community activities.| |---|---| |•|Continued to offer services to the local community which are| ||valued by many.| |•|£1,717 Special Mission Offering given and split equally between| ||local projects: The Princess Project and Medway Foodbank.| |•|Linked with other local Churches| |•|Mentoring of young leaders.| |•|Duke of Edinburgh Award volunteering opportunities given to local| ||young people enabling them to serve in our Children’s clubs,| ||learning valuable leadership and youth work skills.| |•|Smilers Pre-School provides a small, friendly,| ||nurturing environment where children can develop a love of| ||learning through play. We use a wide range of resources, and| ||work to a high child/staff ratio to help us enhance the| ||development of our children in free play and adult led| ||activities and to work within a framework that ensures equality of| ||opportunity for all children. As parents are their children's main| ||educators, we also aim to develop and maintain an effective| ||partnership with them.| **TAR** **2023** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** Aim to keep 2 months expenditure as reserves for main Church and 3 months expenditure for Smilers Pre-School. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** None ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - Funds principally from gifts from members and other people attending. Also from subscriptions from people attending activities, local authority funding and parental fees for Pre-School, grants, Gift Aid and charges for use of the building by other local community organisations. - Expenditure all supports maintenance and development of the Church’s life and ministry of Christian care and proclamation. - Money invested with Charities Aid Foundation savings account. - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Lisa Arnold **Full name(s)** Stephen Roe **Position (eg Secretary,** Minister Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 23 October 2024 **TAR** **2023** 5 **WALDERSLADE BAPTIST CHURCH** **1130665** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/01/2023 31/12/2023 |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**29,822**
**1,857**
**7,910**
**93**
**18,653**
**5,114**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**63,450**
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**-**
**-**
**63,450**||**Designated**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**||**Restricted**
**Funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**90,204**
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**2,603**
**92,808**
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**92,808**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**29,822**
**1,857**
**7,910**
**18,653**
**5,114**
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**90,204**
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**2,603**
**156,258**
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**156,258**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |WeeklyOfferings|**29,822**||||||||**27,151**| |Donations, Grant and other income|**1,857**||||||||**4,616**| |Income tax recovered ongifts|**7,910**||||||||**7,946**| |Investment Income|**93**||||||||**19**| |Rents and contributions for use of
premises|**18,653**||||||||**16,118**| |Raised for other causes|**5,114**||||||||**3,156**| |Transfer between accounts|||||||||**-**| |Subscriptions and activities|**-**||||||||**-**| |Fees and other income|**-**||||||||**83,070**| |Investment income|**-**||||||||**1**| |Fund raisingevents|**-**||||||||**1,607**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**63,450**||||||||**143,684**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**143,684**| ||||||||||| |Ministry|**33,110**||**-**||**-**||**33,110**||**32,625**| |Mission|**3,771**||**-**||**-**||**3,771**||**9,347**| |Upkeep of Manse|**8,412**||**-**||**-**||**8,412**||**3,838**| |Upkeep of Church|**13,771**||**-**||**-**||**13,771**||**18,176**| |Administration|**495**||**-**||**-**||**495**||**408**| |Loan repayments|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Transfer to Youth account|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Tuck shop supplies|**-**||**-**||**-**||||| |Materials|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Equipment supplies|**1,320**||**-**||**-**||**1,320**||**1,225**| |Activities|**1,976**||**-**||**-**||**1,976**||**3,167**| |Church users - (use of Church
premises)|**-**||**-**||**6,500**||**6,500**||**5,985**| |Loan Repayment (Baptist Union)|**-**||**-**||**-**||||| |Transfer between accounts|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Staff wages and associated NI|**-**||**-**||**76,890**||**76,890**||**70,356**| |Administration and other running costs|**-**||**-**||**10,062**||**10,062**||**7,391**| |**_Sub total_ **|**62,856**||**-**||**93,452**||**156,308**||**152,517**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|||||||||| ||||||||||**152,517**| ||||||||||| ||**595**||||||||**- 8,833**
21/10/2024| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Ministry|**33,110**|||**-**|||**-**||**33,110**||**32,625**| |Mission|**3,771**|||**-**|||**-**||**3,771**||**9,347**| |Upkeep of Manse|**8,412**|||**-**|||**-**||**8,412**||**3,838**| |Upkeep of Church|**13,771**|||**-**|||**-**||**13,771**||**18,176**| |Administration|**495**|||**-**|||**-**||**495**||**408**| |Loan repayments|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Transfer to Youth account|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Tuck shop supplies|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||||| |Materials|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Equipment supplies|**1,320**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,320**||**1,225**| |Activities|**1,976**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,976**||**3,167**| |Church users - (use of Church|||||||||||| |premises)|**-**|||**-**|||**6,500**||**6,500**||**5,985**| |Loan Repayment (Baptist Union)|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||||| |Transfer between accounts|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Staff wages and associated NI|**-**|||**-**|||**76,890**||**76,890**||**70,356**| |Administration and other running costs|**-**|||**-**|||**10,062**||**10,062**||**7,391**| |**_Sub total_ **|**62,856**|||**-**|||**93,452**||**156,308**||**152,517**| ||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||| ||**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**62,856**||||**-**||**93,452**||**156,308**||**152,517**| ||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|**595**||
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21/10/2024| |**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**|

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|**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**14,569**||**-**||**51,976**||**66,544**||**75,377**| ||**15,163.18**||**-**||**51,331.03**||**66,494.21**||**66,544**| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 21/10/2024 2 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**
CCXX R3 accounts (SS)|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Church Premises
Fixtures, Furnitures and Equipments
Manse
**Details**
**Details**
Cash Balances
Bank Current Accounts
Deposit (Savings) Accounts
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
~~3~~|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Designated**
**Funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**15,163**
**-**
**15,163.18**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Designated**
**Funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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Unrestricted
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**0**
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**-**
Print Name|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**20**| ||||**51,311**| ||||**-**| ||||**51,331.03**| ||||OK| ||||**Restricted**
**Funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**1,505,328**| ||||**64,699**| ||||**200,000**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| ||||| ||~~3~~||~~21/10/2024~~| CCXX R3 accounts (SS) CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Waklerslade Baptist Churth On accounts for the year endod 31 December 2023 Charity no {if any) 1130665 Set out on pages I report to the twstees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (llhe Trusf) for the year ended 31 December 2022 Responsibilities and As the chanty trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of rnport of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 rthe Acr). I report in res￿¢1 of my examination of the Twst's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I have followed the applicatAe Directions given by the Charty Commission under sertion 145(5)(b) of the Ac*. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no matenal matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounts'ng records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statsm•nt I have no concern$ and have come across no other matters in connection wtth the examination lo which attention should be dravm in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: 2111012024 Name: Andrew Barton Rolevant profes8lonal quallflcatlon($) or body lif anyl: Addross: 1 Wamers Close Great Brithhill Mitton Keynes MK17 9BJ Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of ¢harity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). IER October 2018 Give here brlef detalls of any items that the examiner wlshas to disclose. None IER October 2018