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2025-12-31-accounts

The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist, Baildon Charity number 1133872

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025

The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist, Baildon

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025

Contents Page
Trustees' report 2 to 19
Examiner's report 20
Statement of financial activities 21
Balance sheet 22
Notes to the accounts 23 to 32

Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish

of St John the Evangelist, Baildon Trustees' report for the year ended 31 December 2025

Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors

The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: Name Position Dates

The Revd Canon Sandra Benham MA

Incumbent Associate Priest Churchwardens

The Revd Ruth Yeoman

Mrs Denise Hopker Mr John Riley

Appointed 28 April 2025 Resigned 23 June 2025

Secretary Mrs Julie Coles Treasurer Representative on the Aire and Worth Deanery Synod:

Mrs Julie Coles Mrs Lynne Johnson

Mrs Carol Jennings

Elected Members: Planned Giving Officer Deputy Warden - St James's Health and Safety Officer Deputy Warden – St John’s Deputy Warden – St John’s Lay Chairperson

Licensed Lay Minister

Mrs Sara Daniel Mrs Janet Hadley Mrs Judith Ibbotson Mrs Letitia Lawson

Mr Michael Petts Mrs Anthea Petts Mr David Farrell Mrs Carol-Ann Regan Mrs Loraine Radcliffe Mrs Alison Mathews

Mrs Carolyn Gomersal

Resigned 28 April 2025

Resigned as Health and Safety Officer December 2025

Appointed 28 April 2025 Appointed 28 April 2025

Charity number

1133872

Registered in England and Wales

Registered and principal address

The Vicarage Church Hill Baildon West Yorkshire BD17 6NE

Bankers

Barclays Bank plc Bradford Market Street Branch Leicester Leicestershire LE87 2BB

Bankers

CCLA Investment Management Limited Senator House 85 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4ET

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish

of St John the Evangelist, Baildon

Trustees' report for the year ended 31 December 2025

Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors continued

Solicitors

Lupton Fawcett LLP Yorkshire House East Parade Leeds LS1 5BD

Independent examiner

Rhys North ACA West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St

John the Evangelist, Baildon Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

Aim and purposes

The Parish of Baildon Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of co-operating with the Incumbent, The Reverend Canon Sandra Benham, in the ecclesiastical Parish in the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It also has responsibilities for the Church of England Primary School, Coverdale Way, Baildon.

The charity's objects

Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church.

Objectives and activities

The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship in our three churches and to become part of our Parish family in Baildon. When planning our activities for the year, we have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and in particular the supplementary guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. We try to enable people to live out their faith as part of our Parish community through:

To facilitate this work, it is important that we maintain the fabric of our three churches, St John’s, St James’s and St Hugh’s, and their church halls.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

THIS YEAR

During 2025 there have been several key developments. These include the restart of the Parish Strategy Group which has taken forward ideas from the Parish Day particularly around how we present ourselves to those around us. We have also focussed on ‘give aways’ for example on Mothering Sunday we flooded Baildon with over 300 bunches of daffodils which were left in and around the town, also at Harvest we gave away hearts created by parishioners reminding them of God’s love. We increased our possibilities for study and more people attended the courses. Worked has flourished at St Hugh’s Hub and St James’s is becoming a focus for community activity.

CHURCH ATTENDANCE

At the Annual Parochial Church Meeting held on 28th April 2025 there were 147 members on the Electoral Roll, including 15 who lived outside the Parish.

During October 2025 there was an average weekly attendance of 48 (40 adults, 8 children) at St John's Church, 17 at St James' and 12 at St Hugh's.

SAFEGUARDING

We take safeguarding seriously and see safeguarding as everyone’s responsibility. The PCC has complied with its duty to have "due regard" for House of Bishops' guidance. We abide by the 6 overarching principles

Our PSO is Alison Boggie.

Our DBS recruiter is Alison Boggie.

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John the Evangelist, Baildon Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

Safeguarding continued

We have adopted the House of Bishops’ safeguarding policy, our Safeguarding Policy is visible in all three churches, and posters and information are current and on display. Safeguarding is on the agenda of every PCC and Standing Committee meeting and the PCC re-adopts the Church of England Policy annually.

Our churches and halls are safe and secure – all users and hirers have been made aware of the need to keep themselves and those in their care safe, locking the door and using the doorbells. All doors allow easy exit

We are transparent and open in all we do in the parish.

Risk assessments for activities and church premises are in place and reviewed.

There is leadership commitment, at all levels, to the importance of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk.

There are clear reporting procedures in place to deal with safeguarding concerns and allegations.

Any safeguarding concerns or incidents reported during the year are safely documented and kept in the parish office.

Advice is given regularly to those who work in our buildings and our Lone worker policy has been reviewed.

PSO has renewed foundation training.

PSO keeps the data dashboard up to date.

WORSHIP, PRAYER AND STUDY

The pattern of worship remains the same across the Parish ie St John’s Church, on the first and third Sundays of the month 8.30am Holy Communion (traditional language), 10.00am Family Service on the first Sunday of month, and on the 2[nd] , 3[rd] and 4[th] Sundays Holy Communion. We continue to live stream most 10.00am services from St John’s. At St Hugh’s Church a Service of the Word was held on the 1[st] Sunday at 9.30am and

Holy Communion on the 3[rd] Sunday. At St James’s Church the pattern is a Service of the Word on the 2[nd ] Sunday and Holy Communion on 4th Sunday. We continue to hold a Holy Communion Service at St James’ on the 1[st] Wednesday of the month at 12noon. On 5[th] Sundays of the month a Joint Parish Service is held in one of the churches.

Home Communions enable those who are house-bound to feel part of the Parish community through receiving the Sacrament at home. During 2025 the number of home communions increased, due to taking on another care home service.

In 2025 Grange Court Residential Home received monthly communion services for residents. The number of participants had risen to an average of 18 by the end of the year. Two church lay people assist residents to share in the service. Hillbro Nursing Home and The Glen Nursing home also receive a similar bi - monthly service. Together these two Care Homes have 34 people on average in attendance each month and 24 people receive communion.

During 2025 Rosie Prentice and Denise Hopker planned and led four Services of the Word at St Hugh’s and St James’s, with support from Ruth Yeoman and Carolyn Gomersal.

During Lent 2025 we held five ‘Conversations in Lent’, run lunchtime and evening. We followed the book ‘Meeting Jesus at the Table’ with the afternoon sessions starting with a simple meal.

During Holy Week 2025 a Service of Holy Communion with a shared meal was held on Maundy Thursday. On Good Friday the church was open for people to make a Pilgrimage around the building with a Service at 2pm to mark the Last Hour of the Cross. On Easter Day at St John’s we held 6.30am Dawn Service, 8.30am and 10.00am Easter Communion services, with Easter Communion at St Hugh’s at 9.30am and 10.30am at St James’s.

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist, Baildon Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

Worship, prayer and study continued

In October we held our annual All Souls Service in which people are invited to light a candle in memory of their loved one which is very popular service and those who attend find comfort from the words, the reading out of names and the lighting of a candle. This year as a ‘give-away’ we gave a tea-light and a prayer card to everyone which was received with enthusiasm. We decided not to offer the Memorial Trees in 2025 as these were not well used last year and the tree at St James’s could no longer be used.

Remembrance Sunday was marked with a Civic Act of Remembrance at St John’s Parish Church with invitations to the Deputy Lord Lieutenant and Town and District Councillors, this marked the national two-minute silence at 11.00am. In the afternoon there was an Act of Remembrance at Tong Park War Memorial, a march down to the War Memorial in Browgate finishing with the Act of Remembrance which Canon Sandra led. This was well attended by members of the public and we are grateful to Thomas Mitchell who played the National Anthem, Last Post and Reveille. This year it was enhanced by a much better PA system funded by Baildon Town Council which was much appreciated.

During Advent we offered people two spaces to meet together, one on a Tuesday lunch-time and another in the evening at the Half-Way House. On Tuesdays we started with lunch and then a discussion was led using the York Course written by Bishop Nick entitled ‘Who am I’, These produced some interesting discussion, with on average 15 people attending and was appreciated by those who attended as a space apart from the busyness of the Christmas season.

The Alternative Book Club (ABC) continues to meet regularly and in October we began a new book 'The Greatest Story Ever Told’ by Bear Grylls. This book was the Big Church Read for the same month. This was the first time we had engaged with one of their books.

In 2025 Baildon Town Council decided to move the Christmas Light switch on to the end of November so when we held our Christingle Service on the first Sunday in December we were slightly anxious whether people would attend, but the service retained it’s popularity and the numbers were about the same as 2024. We held our Candlelit Carol Service on the Sunday before Christmas, it was fantastic to see the Church once again lit by many candles. The numbers attending were significantly up on 2024. Christmas Eve began with a Crib Service with the children acting out the nativity story and a Midnight Communion Service. Of note was the large increase in numbers at Midnight which was really good to see. On Christmas Day we were able to hold Services in all three churches.

In December people were encouraged to reflect during the season of Christmas by sharing in the Church of England initiative ‘ The Twelve Joys of Christmas’ through printed resources (bookmarks with the QR code and booklets) which were made available as a result of a kind donation and were well received.

During 2025 we continued to offer Morning Prayer on Zoom – Monday – Thursday inclusive which is appreciated by a small and committed group of people. In the year Night Prayer continued to be offered on Monday evenings at 9pm.

During the year we continued to create new orders of service for each Sunday for worship. While this does mean extra work it allows for alternative liturgy and worshippers have all they need for the service in the order, including notices.

As well as our regular services, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of the journey through life. Through baptism we thank God for the gift of life, in marriage, public vows are exchanged with God's blessing and through funeral services, friends and family express their grief and give thanks for the life which is now complete in this world and to commend the person into God's keeping. We celebrated 22 baptisms (8 in 2024), 3 weddings (5 in 2024), 8 funerals held in 2025, 5 were church services and 3 at the crematorium.

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist, Baildon Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

Worship, prayer and study continued

We continue to offer to all four Primary Schools in Baildon an opportunity to either visit one of our Churches in conjunction with their curriculum studies or for a member of clergy to lead Collective Worship. During 2025 Canon Sandra led many acts of worship in Church School and Rev Ruth led assemblies in Sandals School. In addition, we invited KS1 and KS2 of Hoyle Court Primary School to St James’s for their Christingle and Crib Service. St John’s Church has hosted the Rewind events led by Zephaniah Trust at Easter and end of academic year.

Craft through Worship

Creative explorations for Craft through Worship during 2025 were inspired by the year of Bradford City of Culture. We reflected on the geography, history, industry, creativity and husbandry of the region and its people. Aspects of culture provided scope for crafting using a range of media during 10 sessions through the year. Our collaborative team of Ruth Yeoman, Roy Lorrain-Smith, Jean Lorrain-Smith and Rachel Abbey provide the initial Biblical reflection and crafting ideas, with the whole group contributing hands-on reflective thinking to bring fresh perspectives and experiences to our individual and collective journeys of faith.

Among the activities used across the year were free-flow watercolour, acrylic painting, wet felted flowers, salt and glue work, painting with natural dyes and plants to explore the month’s theme. August saw a trip to the Salts Mill to take in some of the exhibitions, including textiles and David Hockney’s flowers, followed by a picnic together.

Our ethos continues to be that no minimum level of ability is required, all are welcome and will hopefully find encouragement from this gentle group so they can create a piece of work that is meaningful to them. New techniques or materials are introduced from time to time, and we are all humble enough to learn from our ‘mistakes’ along the way - some of which actually turn out much better than we had envisaged! Whether people attend occasionally or regularly they are very warmly welcome to engage at whatever level is appropriate for them.

STRATEGY

The Parish Strategy Group (PSG) was restarted during 2025 taking forward the work from the Parish Day in 2024, particularly using the ideas from the Communications Group. Some quick wins were lanyards at St John’s to identify those on duty and to make sure through the notice sheet that congregations were informed of current events and activities. In addition PSG have discerned what congregation members were asking for in terms of living their Christian faith in daily life, and as a result of this we started a Nurture Course using Christianity Explored. This session started with a meal and was well received.

During 2025 the Children’s Strategic Planning Group met several times and have moved our work forward. Our discussions this year have focussed mainly on our Sunday School ‘Sparklers’ where numbers have not returned post-Covid and a couple of helpers have left. We have now changed our offering on a Sunday morning which means that leaders have much less preparation to do, with thanks to Alison Boggie who prepares the sheets etc. We now offer this on the second, fourth and fifth Sundays of the month.

MUSIC IN THE PARISH

The special service for prospective wedding couples held on 9 February this year secured just 2 bookings for the choir; one of these was so late starting that the policy on lateness has had to be discussed so that we are clear on what to do should the same circumstance ever arise again.

The afternoon service on Palm Sunday used the same music as last year from the book published by the RSCM, “Last Words of Love” which has some familiar pieces alongside some newly composed works suitable for Passiontide and Palm Sunday. Already some of the new pieces are becoming favourites.

On 8 May special celebrations to mark VE Day were held and we sang a new anthem written by Simon Haw and commissioned by the Royal British Legion.

Also in May Helen attended the Royal School of Church Music conference, the theme of which this year was encouraging young voices. It is hoped we can begin to create better links with the schools in the area.

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St

John the Evangelist, Baildon

Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

Music in the parish continued

On Sunday 18 May we had the pleasure of making Carys a full chorister and have since welcomed Charlotte as a probationer. Zac and Max have chosen not to continue singing in the choir and we thanked them for their contribution over the past few years. Thomas has gone on to university but will continue to sing with us when he can. We are lucky in that Ffion is at a nearby university and is able to sing with us regularly. The new head chorister from September is Niamh and we thanked Lucy for her leadership in the previous year.

On 22 June we held a “Hymns and Pimms” afternoon at St James’s church. In the weeks before, congregation members had been asked to nominate their favourite hymns for inclusion in the service. There was a brief introduction about each of the hymns chosen and then we sang before enjoying scones, cakes and either a Pimm’s or a non alcoholic option.

Once again we were approached by James Craig to sing his specially composed song about the Potted Meat Stick as part of the Yorkshire Day Celebrations on 1 August. This looks like it will probably be an annual performance!

On 9 November we welcomed Thomas back to play the Last Post again at the Remembrance Service. He had several bookings that same day and his playing was truly excellent. In the afternoon a few adult choir members joined the “Come and Sing” performance at Halifax Minster of Faure’s Requiem.

As part of the Christmas Tree Festival we were asked to sing at the VIP preview evening and Keith kindly accompanied the choir for this. During the following weekends Audrey, Keith and I all played organ or piano music while people admired the various trees. The choir had a tree this year with the names of all the singers written on the baubles – if you’d like your own name on there next year, please do consider joining the choir! We welcomed children from Baildon Glen, Sandal, Hoyle Court and Church School for a sing along of carols and popular Christmas songs and hope they will be inspired to come again. Audrey also played for a visit from acre homes, Grange Court, Hillbro Nursing Home and the Borrins.

On Advent Sunday we held a carol service for the first time since the pandemic and hope that will once again become a fixture.

The Candlelit Carol Service on the last Sunday before Christmas is something that many people look forward to all year and the choir excelled themselves once again with some really beautiful singing.

Thanks must go to not only our hard working regular singers but also those who join for services or special occasions. Thanks also to Keith and Audrey for all they do at St Hugh’s and St James’s - we couldn’t manage without them.

OUR WORK WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG FAMILIES

Sunday School Group

A small number of children continue to meet as Sparklers, now on the second, fourth and fifth Sundays of the month with Alison Boggie kindly continuing to produce resources each week so as to limit the amount of preparation necessary.

We are proud of the work we do to help children grow in their faith and alongside the other children’s services running in the parish - Fireworks, Messy Church and Family Service - we have a large number of families involved which is great for the future of our parish.

The Fireworks Group continues to meet in the Cranmer Room at the start of Sunday morning worship. There is a core group of 6 young people who regularly attend and who are aged between 11-16 years. Alison Woodhead and Carol Brown co-lead the group and the Roots resources continue to provide the framework for each session.

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist, Baildon Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

Our work with children and young families continued

Messy Church

We have enjoyed another fun year in our Messy Church sessions and have again been delighted to welcome both old friends and new families to our sessions. Our numbers continue to vary, depending on the time of year, but we continue to enjoy a significant increase in attendance, due in some part to our invitation to local School families via their various weekly newsletters. All who attend are very welcome.

Our Messy Church family has contributed in various ways to the life of the Parish throughout the year. We made a tableau for the Scarecrow Festival depicting Titus Salt living out his Christian faith and 'Loving his Neighbour' by providing good quality housing and decent wages for his workers and promoting our own provision of foodbank facilities at St Hugh’s, driven by the same reason. The tableau was set up on the raised dais inside St John’s and attracted a good deal of interest in both the scarecrows and the attractive refreshments on sale. We also provided a tree for the Christmas Tree Festival. This was decorated with self portraits or photos of our children, each set in the Messy Church ‘splat’ logo. Our children also took major roles in the Crib Service Nativity on Christmas Eve.

The themes for our 12 sessions have varied. Some sessions relate to a relevant time in the Church’s calendar and others highlight specific tenets of our faith, such as love, prayer, gratitude, trust etc.

We began the year with a party!! Always a good way to start. We had the story of the Lost Sheep and made sheep party hats. We enjoyed party games including pinning the tail on the sheep and decorated sheep biscuits for tea. In February we had the story of the Man through the Roof and made a ‘man through the roof’ in an envelope and a cross on which the words ’God’ and ‘Love’ were joined by the letter ‘o’ . In March, since our session fell close to Mothering Sunday, we took this as our theme. The Bible story was the one about Jesus being taken to the Temple and gettng left behind. Children made a small gift for their Mums and we provided scones cream and jam for all mums and grans who were present.

In April we had to change the date of our session because Easter Day fell on the 3[rd] Sunday. We enjoyed a variety of Easter crafts, one of which is displayed on the Messy Church noticeboard. A cross with the title ‘Greater Love' and filled in with paint fingerprints of all our children. We also learned the song ‘The Angel rolled the Stone Away' which we sang in our worship session and at May’s Family Worship. In May we celebrated The Ascension with a variety of clever crafts depicting Jesus and clouds. Our June session looked at the story of Pentecost. Our crafts included making a wind sock, a paper plate dove, a Pentecost candle and paint blowing. In July we thought about the ‘Greatest Commandment’. This was planned to take up two sessions. The July element was looking at the ‘Love God’ part of the text. We looked at a child friendly version of the 10 Commandments and squashed them up to make Jesus’s new commandment. We also made a start on our scarecrows.

Our September session was a continuation of the commandment theme and we thought about the commandment to love our neighbour. We linked this to our Titus Salt and support the foodbank Scarecrow tableau.

In October we read a fun story ‘Dinner in the Lion’s Den’ and thought about being brave and trusting in God. In November we had an Advent focus, collecting 24 different nativity characters to put in our Advent stable calendar and preparing our Christmas tree for the CTF. In December we made an egg-box nativity scene and some craft stick angels which decorated the screen in St. John’s all over the Christmas season. Our focus was ‘Happy Birthday Jesus’.

We would welcome your prayers for all who are involved in Messy Church, which could not function without the team of dedicated people who help in planning, preparing, delivering, feeding and clearing up after each session. We are greatly blessed to have them and we are very grateful.

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John the Evangelist, Baildon

Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

BAILDON CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL AND NURSERY

Our commitment to Support , Opportunities , Achievement and Respect ensures that The Church School will be a place where every child and every staff member can ‘take flight and SOAR’ . Together, inspired by Isaiah 40:31, we will rise on wings like eagles, growing stronger and moving forward with confidence, pride and a shared sense of purpose.

‘Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength and soar on wings like eagles’. Isaiah 40:31

The new academic year in September 2025 saw the launch of a new five-year strategic plan for excellence built around our four core values of support, opportunities, achievement and respect. Our vision continues to evolve, embedded in everything the school does, empowering every child to ‘take flight and SOAR’.

Summer 2025 results were exceptional, and the highest the school has achieved post COVID. Year 6 results in some areas were more than double the national figure, with 61% of the cohort achieving greater depth in maths, reading and GPS. We also saw our highest year 4 tables check scores to date, and once again incredibly strong phonics results in Key Stage 1. Our congratulations go to all the staff and children who worked so hard to achieve these results.

The district continues to be impacted by the nationwide decline in birth rates and our school numbers have been impacted with a small drop in reception numbers. Senior Leaders have worked tirelessly and successfully to counteract the impact that this has on the school budget. A varied marketing campaign in both the immediate catchment area and a little further afield has capitalised on our incredible Ofsted grading. This has helped drive new starters in-year along with high numbers attending school open mornings. We are awaiting confirmation from the local authority of our applications for September 2026 but are confident we have minimised the effect of the drop in the birth rate.

Preparations are underway in readiness for our next SIAMS inspection which is due anytime from September 2026. Governors and the new RE lead in school are working closely with Paul Bowlas, our School Advisor from the Diocese. He delivered initial training at our Autumn LGB meeting and we will meet for further training in the Spring term at our Governor Open Morning.

THE LICENSED TEAM

The team, led by Rev Canon Sandra Benham, is Rev Ruth Yeoman and Carolyn Gomersal (Licensed Lay Minister) who share between them the mission and ministry of the Parish. They are supported by retired colleagues and many very able lay people whose energy and enthusiasm sustain the work and momentum of the Parish.

COMMUNICATION

We continue to endeavour to livestream the weekly Sunday service from St John’s on our Facebook page, to reach those who are unable to worship in person. This is viewed live and also visited later by people locally and nationally.

The Parish website continued to be well used by church members and the wider community during 2025. We uploaded our service sheet to the website every week so that people were able to follow at home. In 2025 the site had 4,452 visitors (down by 8% on previous year) viewing 13,427 pages (down 5% on previous year).

We continue to post regularly on our Facebook page so that the wider Baildon community can hear about upcoming events and services. We also provide updates on the winners of the Parish Prize Draw, coffee mornings, links to our website for special events and fund-raising activities.

MISSION PARTNERS, CHARITIES, OVERSEAS LINKS

Backed by the PCC, the Church in the World committee continues to encourage us as a Parish to look outwards towards our neighbours in need; locally, nationally and internationally. We seek to offer support in terms of the time and talents of members of the Parish, as well as fundraising for charitable work we have decided upon. Fundraising takes place in a variety of ways; open to the creativity of fundraisers.

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Mission partners, charities, overseas links continued

Every year we support several core charities, as well as a few nominated by members of the congregation for that year. Our core charities are Christian Aid, The Children’s Society, BIASAN, the Diocese of Sudan through our diocesan link, together with one of the following charities; Shelter, Crisis and Centrepoint, who all work with homeless people.

In 2025 in addition to this, the committee supported the work of UNICEF during Lent, with money going to DEC Middle East for Harvest and during November. We had two nominated charities for 2025. Bradford Friendship Choir, is a joyful singing sanctuary for refugees and people seeking asylum and their allies. It is a branch of Bradford Festival Choral Society. Water Aid is an international non-profit organisation with the goal of changing the world through water. Donations were encouraged at a social event turning wine into water!

In 2025 a total of £7,480 was raised for our core and nominated charities.

The committee receive regular updates about the work of the Bradford Immigration Support and Advice Network (BIASAN) and the help given to this network by Denise Hopker and Michael Skelton. They help with English teaching for refugees and asylum seekers and offer ongoing support, which this year included the Parish responding to a request for items of clothing for male asylum seekers.

Members of the Parish continue to be involved in Baildon Fair Trade Committee. This year there has been a call to recruit more people onto the Committee. Still a range of activities took place joining in Fairtrade fortnight in September. We continue to follow Transform Trade online which supports producers around the world, fighting for a fairer trade system.

The Tools for Self Reliance (TFSR) group have continued to refurbish tools. This year the group completed one group carpentry kit which was allocated to a project in Africa. Another kit is nearing completion and the group continue to accept donations of tools for future kits. The Committee agreed to receive news from them twice a year.

AIRE AND WORTH DEANERY SYNOD

The Deanery Synod met twice in 2025. Each meeting looked at a different topic of interest to parishes in the deanery.

In February (on zoom) Synod welcomed Helen Collings, Diocesan Lay Training Team Leader who spoke to us about the Diocesan Digital Learning Platform. Helen encouraged Synod members to explore the platform and to make members of their congregation aware of it and the various learning pathways available.

In June Synod we welcomed Duncan Milwain (Curate at Bradford Cathedral) who gave Synod an update on the life and work of Bradford Cathedral whose current vision statement is ‘To weave Jesus into the rich fabric of the city and beyond’.

PASTORAL WORK

The work of the pastoral team led by Alison Boggie with support from Anthea Petts continues with telephone calls, visits and cards. If the team felt that contact from clergy was needed then they were contacted. Support for the housebound, those in hospital, those who are ill and bereaved families continues to form a crucial part of ministry in the community. There is much that goes on behind the scenes when members of our team hear of a need for contact. When we know someone has been admitted to hospital a chaplain’s visit is usually organised by Ruth. If someone leaves Baildon, particularly into residential care clergy contact the local vicar.

During the year we sent cards to mark important events such as significant birthdays and wedding anniversaries, we also sent cards if we heard people were unwell or had suffered a bereavement, had a baby or were in hospital.

Wednesday Coffee at St James’ church is a way of encouraging people to meet socially and continues to be very popular.

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Pastoral work continued

During 2025 we supplied three care homes with an occasional Service of the Word. These services help to provide relationship, spiritual support and care for residents. Recent services seem to have been well received and lay people are involved in this work alongside Ruth.

Lifts are given to and from services and coffee to allow those who otherwise couldn’t get there to attend.

We are very grateful to so many people who willingly support all we do and give their time to allow this important work to continue.

PARISH BUILDINGS 2025

The buildings and fabric have been kept in good order. Appropriate permission has been obtained for work at St Johns and St James

St Johns

There have been ongoing problems with the drains. Some defective pipework has been repaired and further investigations are ongoing

3 faulty lights under the high altar were replaced with LED lights

7 halogen lights in the church were replaced

The emergency lights have been replaced

Several broken roof tiles have been replaced

A full Faculty was granted to permanently remove the chancel gates

A retrospective faculty was granted for the mobile phone contract

The lightning conductor passed its annual check and the appropriate certificate issued

PAT testing will take place early in 2026

St James

Faulty door locks were replaced

The lightning conductor passed its annual check and the appropriate certificate issued

PAT testing will take place early in 2026

St Hughs

Woodwork in the meeting room and foyer was repainted

The outside area was cleared of overgrowth

The curtain tracks in the main hall were replaced

The entrance hall was redecorated

PAT testing will take place early in 2026

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist, Baildon

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Parish buildings 2025 continued

Biblical Garden at St James’

The garden continues to provide gentle interest through the seasons for those who wish to take a stroll along the paths. The cyclamen coum continue to spread themselves with gay abandon in the upper flower beds and the grassland meadow of 2024 has been brought back under control with more regular attention over the growing season.

It became apparent last Spring that the largest half of the Judas tree had suffered extensive die-back over the winter. Sadly this was followed by complete collapse in August due to disease, leaving no option but to remove it. The smaller half left behind was trimmed to try and bring it back into balance. Whilst the loss of such a significant and symbolic shrub at the entrance to the garden is a great shame, it has opened up new views down towards the pond when approaching the main church doors. We will have to wait and see whether the remaining part of the shrub survives and can be encouraged to grow into the new space it now enjoys.

A long, hot dry Summer resulted in some bunches of grapes that were actually edible, and the figs produced a respectable crop. The apples, sadly, fared less well – but these things balance themselves out over the years.

Thank you to Janet and Peter Hadley for planting and looking after the containers at the front of the church – no mean feat in last year’s Summer heat. They really do create a lovely welcome for those coming to St James’.

ST HUGH’S COMMUNITY CENTRE

St Hugh’s Community Centre stands as a vital pillar in our Parish, committed to addressing the needs of the wider community. Our core values guide our initiatives and ensure that we continue to make a meaningful impact:

Combating social isolation Creating opportunities for local engagement Addressing inequality Encouraging volunteerism Offering a welcoming venue for hire Promoting inclusivity

Financial Overview

As of the end of 2025, St Hugh’s Community Centre maintained a financial balance of over £51,000. Designated and restricted funds have been allocated to cover six months of operating costs and employee commitments, ensuring financial stability.

This year, we gratefully received grants and donations from a variety of sources, including:

Bradford Council - Warm and Welcoming Spaces, Community Buildings Grant, Bradford 2025 Culture is Cohesion Grant and Community Chest.

The UK Prosperity Fund (Community Buildings Grant Variation) WISHH Community Partnership Fund – 3 awards for food poverty work and building improvements Baildon Town Council

The Butterfield Trust Morley Glass Generous anonymous donors supporting the food bank

The Centre has a dedicated current account and an interest holding account which paid £585 in interest during the year.

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St Hugh's community centre continued

Building and Infrastructure

The Centre remains in good condition thanks to regular in-house and professional inspections. Maintenance and refurbishment projects were undertaken during the year, including:

Redecoration of the foyer and Meeting Room

Replacement curtain tracks in the Main Hall

Work was started to repair the Centre’s main ramp access and steps

Our Management Committee remains committed to ongoing improvements, a strategy that has been in place for the past four years. Utilising unrestricted funds and successfully securing grant funding, we have been able to complete a comprehensive programme of improvements whilst keeping a surplus in 2024 and 2025. Future planned improvements include:

Replacement of the fencing

Complete the repair of the Centre’s main ramp, steps and threshold Refinishing of the hall floor

Creating a Food Bank privacy area for claimant interviews

Tackling Food Poverty

St Hugh’s food bank continues to provide vital support to those facing food insecurity. In 2025, we distributed 230 food parcels, an increase on the previous year of 27%, thanks to generous donations from local residents and community collection points.

Key initiatives included:

Summer Lunchbox Scheme : Providing food for children eligible for free school meals during the summer holidays. This year, 22 families with 56 children benefitted, receiving a total of 3.360 meals over six weeks. The scheme was funded by the WISHH Partnership, BMDC Community Chest, Morley Glass and private donations.

Christmas Hamper Scheme : Supporting 25 families during the Christmas season with festive treats, shopping vouchers and toys. Working alongside St Hugh’s local primary school, we ensured that families experiencing hardship had a brighter Christmas.

Warm and Welcoming Spaces

In alignment with the national initiative, St Hugh’s continued offering a Warm/Welcoming Space throughout the year to support those experiencing isolation, food insecurity, or financial strain:

January–March: Warm Space

April–September: Welcoming Space

October–December: Warm Space

Each Wednesday from 9am to 2pm, we provided free warm drinks and food, welcoming an average of 19 visitors per week.

Community Groups and Activities

St Hugh’s Craft Group : A supportive space for individuals to engage in creative activities, offering companionship and skill-sharing through volunteer-led workshops. In October members of the group organised a Quilt Fair and raised £1,030 for the Centre.

Oasis Café : A key part of our Warm Spaces initiative, offering affordable meals with free options for those in need. The group also organizes an annual summer seaside trip, funded by proceeds from a year-long raffle. In 2025, 35 people enjoyed a sunny day in Southport.

Baildon Youth Group : We offer a venue and support to Bradford Youth Services to provide a weekly social group for local 10 to 13 year olds. This group started in the autumn and numbers have grown. An average of 18 youth people regularly attend.

Police Contact Point : Hosted monthly by local PCSOs, providing a space for residents to seek advice and report concerns.

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St Hugh's community centre continued

Community Groups and Activities continued

Carers Support Group : In collaboration with Shipley Carers' Resource, we offer monthly support for those caring for dependent relatives, friends, or neighbours.

Venue for Hire

St Hugh’s continues to be a vital community resource, offering space for a range of activities in an area where such facilities are scarce. Our regular hirers include:

5Rhythms Dance Yoga and Zumba Exercise Classes Art Classes Local and national elections

Our dedicated Bookings Secretary, Carol Brown, ensures the smooth coordination of room reservations on a three-hour-per-week contract.

Our Team: Staff and Volunteers

The success of St Hugh’s Community Centre is made possible by the hard work and dedication of our staff and volunteers.

Sarah Baxter (Community Development Worker) : Employed for 14 hours per week, Sarah manages project sustainability, funding applications, expenditure and funder reports. She also oversees volunteers, Centre activities, and digital communications.

Key Volunteers :

Anthea Petts (Food Bank) Hazel Storke & Karen Hepworth (Oasis Café & Warm/Welcoming Spaces) Liz Priestley & Pam Ruppe (Craft Group) Denise Hopker (Treasurer) Carol Jennings (Secretary)

Our Management Committee meets quarterly to oversee operations and ensure the Centre continues to thrive.

Looking Ahead

With a strong foundation and dedicated team, St Hugh’s Community Centre is well-positioned to continue making a positive impact in the community. We remain committed to our mission of inclusivity, support, and opportunity, ensuring that St Hugh’s remains a place of connection, comfort and growth for all.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to our funders, volunteers and the local community for their unwavering support. Together, we make a difference.

ST JAMES’ COMMUNITY HUB

On the 1[st] June 2025 we appointed Loraine Radcliffe to the post of Community Development Worker at St James’s Community Hub as the Parish was successful in obtaining ongoing funding from Baildon Town Council. In the first 6 months of Loraine being appointed The Hub has had several successful events as outlined below.

Parish visit to the Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland, Friday 18th July 2025. 37 people from St James’s, St Hugh’s and St John’s joined the trip and a couple of people brought their friends along, the group really gelled and lots of fun was had by all.

On arrival at The Auckland Project we were very well looked after at the Bishop’s Palace with private guided tours arranged for us. We then had free time in the grounds and in the town centre before heading back to Baildon late afternoon.

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St James' community hub continued

Scams & Alerts awareness session, given by the local PCSO’s Tracey and Fay on the 23rd July (28 attended). Very useful information was given out and Tracey gave a talk and then both Tracey and Fay were available for the one-to-one discussions which took place.

Crime Prevention session , 14th October. This was not quite so well attended as the Scams session which was quite disappointing as the Crime Prevention Officer had a great presentation prepared and he brought lots of interesting items to show us.

Hearts & Hands, Bradford 2025 Our Patch art workshop, 7 sessions October-November. Since the start of the workshop, we have had between 26-40 people attend every single week. The numbers have just kept going up as the 2025 project has gone on. Looking at the demographics of the people attending, 80% are from the community in addition to our church community. Bradford 2025 has funded this 100%. They pay for the artist, the materials and also the lunch prior to the start of the workshop. It is felt that the “community getting together” before the workshop starts is vital to the success of the sessions.

Maddy Allen the Our Patch Producer for the area is overjoyed at how well this project has been so well supported and a further 7 sessions are planned for 2026.

Social Saturdays started 11th October 2025. This idea was born after the Saturday morning Ladies Please choir concert held at St John’s church hall last August. After the concert several people told me that it was lovely to have something to go to at the weekend and in particular through the daytime. So, the idea of a Social Saturday germinated. The session takes different topics and activities to keep it fresh and interesting. There has been between 15-23 attending.

Tester Day for a Toddler Playgroup, 1pm-3pm Friday 11th July 2025

Although this day was not the success we had hoped for, it did continue to germinate an idea to run a toddler group at St James’s Hub starting, hopefully in 2026.

Parish Initiative held at St James’s, Wednesday Coffee This initiative staffed solely by a loyal band of volunteers, led by Alison Boggie, continues to thrive and grow. The idea for this has been termed ‘intentional socialising’. People meet at the Hub on Wednesday mornings from 10.00am – 12 noon with most staying the whole time – sometimes people want to stay much longer!

This is a great tool to outreach to the local community and attracts some non-church members as well as members of our congregations who mingle together and have now become firm friends.

During our time together we have visits from professionals who come and get to know people, these have included the PCSO’s and the local Council Wardens. It is also a good event to sometimes use for any “add on” visitors as we already have a friendly and openminded group of people here.

Community Groups and Activities Venue for Hire

The number of hirers at St James’s continues to increase and offers a warm and welcoming space for a range of activities. Our regular hirers include:

Pilates Yoga Imagination Library (for Storytime) Art classes Local History Group Baby Massage course Baildon Town Council meetings Bradford Model Engineering Group CBMDC Councillors Surgeries

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

PARISH NURSING REPORT

Outreach

The nursing service operated a drop-in clinic from St James hub, Wednesday mornings 10.00am-12noon. The main focus continued to be disease prevention and health promotion, supporting clients with medication advice, blood pressure monitoring, dietary advice and weight management. Support with mental health difficulties, including dementia, and relationship issues has been increasingly required. Building confidence in selfmanagement of conditions is enabled by explanation of primary care plans for asthma, diabetes and cardiac conditions. Listening, signposting and referral for further support were also routine interventions. The service is in a unique position to offer spiritual support and healing prayer. The clinic ran alongside a community coffee morning enabling informal advice giving and liaising with visiting PCSOs and social worker. Carolyn and Nic have also worked with clergy and the pastoral team, providing training and advice.

Home visits, email and text support, accompaniment to medical appointments, and presence in the home for medical visits and advocacy have been undertaken.

There was always a current or seasonal health promotion display at St James, with takeaway leaflets. Takeaway literature has been well utilised by hub hirers and groups in addition to church congregations.

Carolyn and Nic attended a health fair at St Hugh’s in March, manning a health promotion stand with advice and blood pressure and atrial fibrillation screening. Carolyn gave a talk to the St Hugh’s over 60 group on keeping well in later life in August, also speaking at a summer lay minister away day on holistic wellbeing. Nic continues to act as guardian for the public access defibrillator sited at St James, ensuring it is rescue ready and registered to the national circuit.

The PN service has really come into its own where clients have had nowhere else to turn for help, especially with successful applications for attendance allowance and appeal after a blue badge was declined, these initiatives have made such a difference to quality of life for individuals and their families.

Governance

In order to operate, and do so safely and securely, Carolyn renewed membership with the Royal College of Nursing. Union membership is the most cost effective way of providing personal indemnity insurance and training provision. Clinical supervision was regularly undertaken via Parish Nursing Ministries UK.

The direction of the PN service is steered by the Parish Support Group. Full funding of the PN service 2025 was enabled via residual grants from Bradford Anglican Council for Social Aid and Bingley Bubble.

Carolyn’s registration with the Nursing and Midwifery council expired in September 2025, hence she is no longer in a position to serve as Parish Nurse. Advertisement for a volunteer parish nurse or for full funding to provide for such, have so far been unsuccessful, unfortunately resulting in disbandment of the service from September 2025.

ECUMENICAL MATTERS

During 2025 Churches Together in Baildon (CTiB) continue to offer Night Prayer on Mondays and the Lent Lunches in different churches throughout Lent and the money raised went to various charities. We held our Walk of Witness on Good Friday, starting at St Aidan’s Church and walking up the hill stopping at various points for prayer and reflection during Stations of the Cross. Although the numbers at this event were lower than 2024, those attending valued it.

During 2025 the small committee which governs the work of CTiB discussed the future of this work. It was decided to approach Shipley Christians Together to see if we could join with them. In December they replied saying their trustees felt this was not the right path for them to take. CTiB decided that in May 2026 we should hold an AGM to include an Open Meeting to discuss with everyone interest whether CTiB should continue.

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John the Evangelist, Baildon Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

Financial review

The net expenditure for the year was £14,586, including net expenditure of £15,302 on unrestricted funds and net income of £716 on restricted funds.

Total incoming resources were £214,219, of which £48,701 were restricted funds.

Investment Income was £7,359.

Regular giving for the year was £59,499 a decrease of £553 from the previous year.

Total resources expended in the year totalled £220,092 of which £47,985 was from restricted funds and £3,863 was spent on major projects.

The Parish Share for 2025 was £96,069, of which the parish paid £43,000.

Reserves policy

The charity's free reserves, excluding fixed assets, at the year end were £297,423.

The Parish aims to have a balance of free reserves equal to that which equates to at least 6 months, but preferably equates to 12 months, of budgeted expenditure - which in 2026 is planned to be £227,200. Whilst the Parish reserves exceed this amount this is due to them including fixed asset share investments of £209,237.

Concerning the additional unrestricted reserves held above the upper target of £227,200 the PCC has designated funds totalling £117,004 at 31 December 2025 as detailed in Note 15 of the accounts.

Risks policy

The trustees have identified the major risks to which the charity could be exposed and have established systems and procedures to manage those risks.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

The Parochial Church Council is a corporate body established by the Church of England and operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure (1956) as amended and church representation rules. The PCC is a Registered Charity and members of the PCC are trustees of the charity. No trustees received any remuneration or reimbursed expenses during the year, as part of their role on the PCC.

The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. All those who attend our services/members of our congregations are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC.

Members of the PCC are drawn from all three of our churches and are either ex-officio or elected by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in accordance with the Church Representation Rules. PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the Parish, including deciding on how the funds of the PCC are to be spent.

Given its wide responsibilities, the PCC has a number of committees, each dealing with a particular aspect of Parish life. These committees, which include Finance and Buildings, Ministry and Mission, Church in the World, Parish Events Group and the St Hugh’s Centre Management Committee, are all responsible to the PCC and report to it regularly, minutes of their decisions being received by the full PCC and discussed as necessary.

The full PCC met six times during 2025 at St John’s Church Hall. The average attendance was 81%. Of the six meetings one of these was an extra-ordinary meeting.

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John the Evangelist, Baildon Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

St John the Evangelist’s Church is situated in the Parish of Baildon. It has responsibility for three churches, St John’s, St James’s and St Hugh’s and for their church halls. It is in the Aire and Worth Deanery which is part of the Diocese of Leeds. Both St John’s and St James’s are Grade 2* listed buildings.

The correspondence address is The Vicarage, Church Hill, Baildon, West Yorkshire. BD17 6NE.

Approved by the board of trustees on 29/3/2026

The Revd Canon Sandra Benham MA (Trustee)

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John the Evangelist, Baildon

Independent examiner's report to the trustees of The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist, Baildon

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2025, which are set out on pages 21 to 32.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees 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 as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. 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.

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:

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.

Rhys North ACA

7/4/2026

West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of

St John the Evangelist, Baildon

Statement of Financial Activities

(including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 December 2025

Notes
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
Income from:
Donations and legacies
(2)
85,710
Charitable activities
(3)
23,742
Other trading activities
(4)
48,359
Investments
(5)
7,359
Other
(6)
348
Total income
165,518
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
(7)
2,480
Charitable activities
(8)
169,627
Total expenditure
172,107
Net gains/(losses) on investments
(8,713)
Net income / (expenditure)
(15,302)
Fund balances brought forward
496,853
Fund balances carried forward
(9)
481,551		 2025
Restricted
funds
£
43,211
5,490
-
-
-
48,701
2,451
45,534
47,985
-
716
27,443
28,159		 2025
Total
funds
£
128,921
29,232
48,359
7,359
348
214,219
4,931
215,161
220,092
(8,713)
(14,586)
524,296
509,710		 2024
Total
funds
£
124,250
32,407
57,549
10,234
5,466
229,906
3,768
236,890
240,658
4,980
(5,772)
530,068
524,296

All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist, Baildon

Balance sheet

as at 31 December 2025
2025
Unrestricted
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
(10)
184,128
Investments
(11)
209,237
Total fixed assets
393,365
Current assets
Debtors and prepayments
(12)
5,823
Cash at bank and in hand
(13)
92,490
Total current assets
98,313
Current liabilities:
amounts falling due within one year
Creditors and accruals
(14)
10,127
Total current liabilities
10,127
Net current assets / (liabilities)
88,186
Total assets less current liabilities
481,551
Net assets
481,551
Funds
Unrestricted funds
General unrestricted funds
364,547
Designated funds
(15)
117,004
Unrestricted funds
481,551
Restricted funds
-
Total funds
481,551		 2025
Restricted
£
-
-
-
-
28,159
28,159
-
-
28,159
28,159
28,159
-
-
-
28,159
28,159		 2025
Total
£
184,128
209,237
393,365
5,823
120,649
126,472
10,127
10,127
116,345
509,710
509,710
364,547
117,004
481,551
28,159
509,710		 2024
Total
£
202,500
217,950
420,450
14,889
102,871
117,760
13,914
13,914
103,846
524,296
524,296
368,257
128,596
496,853
27,443
524,296

The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 29/3/2026

The Revd Canon Sandra Benham MA (Trustee)

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish

of St John the Evangelist, Baildon

Notes to the accounts

for the year ended 31 December 2025

1 Accounting policies

Basis of accounting

These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) and with the Charities Act 2011.

The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102. There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year. No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.

Going concern

The trustees are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the charity becomes entitled to the resources, if it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Grants and donations

Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.

Where grants are related to performance and specific deliverables, they are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.

Investments

Investments are stated at market value at the balance sheet date. The SOFA includes the net gains and losses arising on revaluations and disposals throughout the year.

Expenditure and liabilities

Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out the resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.

Taxation

As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.

Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets costing more than £1,000 are capitalised and included at cost including any incidental expenses of acquisition. Gifted assets are shown at the value to the charity on receipt. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost on a straight line basis over their expected useful economic lives as follows: Land and building (excluding the costs of St John's Hall): over 25 years Fixtures, fittings & equipment; over 4 years Musical equipment: over 20 years

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.

Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes.

Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist, Baildon

Notes to the accounts

for the year ended 31 December 2025

1 Accounting policies continued

Leases

Rents under operating leases are charged on a straight line basis over the lease term or to an earlier date if the lease can be determined without financial penalty.

Pensions

The PCC participates in the Pension Builder Scheme section of CWPF for lay staff. CWPF is administered by the Church of England Pensions Board, which holds the CWPF assets separately from those of the Employer and other participating employers.

CWPF has two sections:

  1. the Defined Benefits Scheme

  2. the Pension Builder Scheme, which has two subsections;

  3. a. a deferred annuity section known as Pension Builder Classic, and,

  4. b. a cash balance section known as Pension Builder 2014.

Both sections of the Pension Builder Scheme are classed as defined benefit schemes.

Pension Builder Classic provides a pension, accumulated from contributions paid and converted into a deferred annuity during employment based on terms set and reviewed by the Church of England Pensions Board from time to time. Discretionary increases may also be added, depending on investment returns and other factors.

Pension Builder 2014 is a cash balance scheme that provides a lump sum which members use to provide benefits at retirement. Pension contributions are recorded in an account for each member. Discretionary bonuses may be added before retirement, depending on investment returns and other factors. The account, plus any bonuses declared is payable, unreduced, from age 65.

There is no sub-division of assets between employers in each section of the Pension Builder Scheme.

The scheme is considered to be a multi-employer scheme as described in Section 28 of FRS 102. This is because it is not possible to attribute the Pension Builder Scheme’s assets and liabilities to specific employers and means that contributions are accounted for as if the Scheme were a defined contribution scheme. The pensions costs charged to the SoFA in the year are the contributions payable (2024: £1,765, 2024: £1,554).

A valuation of the Pension Builder Scheme is carried out once every three years. The most recent valuation was carried out as at 31 December 2022

For the Pension Builder Classic section, the valuation revealed a surplus of £34.8m on the ongoing assumptions used. At the most recent annual review effective 1 January 2026, the Board chose to grant a discretionary bonus of 10% to both pensions not yet in payment and pensions in payment in respect of service prior to April 1997; and a bonus on pensions in payment in respect of post April 1997 service so that the pension increase was also 10% (where usually it would be calculated based on inflation up to an annual cap of 5% for pensions in payment in respect of service prior to April 2006 and 2.5% for pensions in payment in respect of service post April 2006). This followed improvements in the funding position over 2025. There is no requirement for deficit payments at the current time.

For the Pension Builder 2014 section, the valuation revealed a surplus of £8.5m on the ongoing assumptions used. There is no requirement for deficit payments at the current time.

The legal structure of the scheme is such that if another employer fails, the PCC could become responsible for paying a share of the failed employer’s pension liabilities.

The next valuation is being carried out as at 31 December 2025.

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John the Evangelist, Baildon

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2025

2 Grants and donations
Planned giving
Income tax recoverable
Other donations
Collections etc
Grants and legacies
3 Charitable activities income
Fundraising events
Fees
Donations from sections
Parish Prize Draw
Sundries
4 Other trading activities
Hall lettings
Mobile phone mast
5 Investments
Bank interest
Dividends receivable from other unlisted
investments
Baildon Curate Fund Share Account		 2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
59,499
13,500
5,308
7,403
-
85,710
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
9,970
5,528
7,222
-
1,022
23,742
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
43,859
4,500
48,359
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
5,967
-
1,392
7,359		 2025
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
11,031
-
32,180
43,211
2025
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
5,490
-
5,490
2025
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
2025
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-		 2025
Total
funds
£
59,499
13,500
16,339
7,403
32,180
128,921
2025
Total
funds
£
9,970
5,528
7,222
5,490
1,022
29,232
2025
Total
funds
£
43,859
4,500
48,359
2025
Total
funds
£
5,967
-
1,392
7,359		 2024
Total
funds
£
60,052
16,339
6,289
13,327
28,243
124,250
2024
Total
funds
£
9,771
9,616
6,534
5,380
1,106
32,407
2024
Total
funds
£
43,061
14,488
57,549
2024
Total
funds
£
5,970
3,191
1,073
10,234

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John the Evangelist, Baildon

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2025

6 Other
Insurance claim
HMRC - VAT refund
7 Raising funds
Cost of bazaars, fetes and activities
Parish prize draw
8 Charitable activities expenditure
Ministry:
Diocesan share
Clergy expenses
Community development worker
Church running expenses
Church construction/improvements
Church halls
Organists/choir/organ
Christian education
Services
Depreciation
Support costs (Note 8a)
Other charitable activities expenditure:
Church overseas
Home missions and church societies
Relief and development agencies
Secular charities		 2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
348
348
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
29
2,451
2,480
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
43,500
4,167
990
40,296
2,030
21,607
7,717
278
4,859
18,054
26,129
169,627
-
-
-
-
169,627		 2025
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
2025
Restricted
funds
£
2,451
-
2,451
2025
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
20,153
990
1,833
11,123
-
166
-
318
404
34,987
860
1,539
4,591
3,557
45,534		 2025
Total
funds
£
-
348
348
2025
Total
funds
£
2,480
2,451
4,931
2025
Total
cost
£
43,500
4,167
21,143
41,286
3,863
32,730
7,717
444
4,859
18,372
26,533
204,614
860
1,539
4,591
3,557
215,161		 2024
Total
funds
£
321
5,145
5,466
2024
Total
funds
£
1,868
1,900
3,768
2024
Total
cost
£
32,500
4,549
18,093
46,506
23,038
46,694
7,195
548
6,437
19,793
31,267
236,620
-
270
-
-
236,890

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St

John the Evangelist, Baildon Notes to the accounts continued for the year ended 31 December 2025

8a Support costs
Support cost type
Parish administration
Bank charges
General expenses
Independent examination fee
IT and website support
8b Staff costs and numbers
Gross salaries
Social security costs
Employment allowance
Pensions		 Unrestricted
funds
£
22,919
133
-
2,604
473
26,129		 Restricted
funds
£
-
159
245
-
-
404		 2025
Total
cost
£
22,919
292
245
2,604
473
26,533
2025
£
40,878
3,164
(3,164)
1,765
42,643		 2024
Total
cost
£
26,928
354
-
2,604
1,381
31,267
2024
£
41,831
2,005
(2,005)
1,554
43,385
The average number of employees during the year was 3.8, being an average of 1.4 full time equivalent
(2024: 3.9, 1.6 FTE). There were no employees with emoluments above £60,000.
Defined contribution pension scheme 2025 2024
£ £
Costs of the scheme to the charity for the year 1,765 1,554

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St

John the Evangelist, Baildon

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2025

9 Restricted funds
St Hugh's Carpet
Buildings Fund
Defibrillator Fund
Denise Warren Legacy (Assets)
Hallas Legacy
Parish Nursing Service
St James' Community Worker
St James Shell Fund
VE Day
Charities Fund
BDMC Community Buildings
Christmas Hampers
St Hugh's Community Worker
Craft
Food bank
Top Ups Fund
Lunch Box
Ramp
St Hugh's Over 60's
St Hugh's Warm Space		 Balance b/f
£
-
981
1,288
1,898
166
2,155
6,114
1,606
-
4,845
1,198
404
2,500
-
2,274
922
-
-
592
500
27,443		 Incoming
£
760
5,490
-
-
-
-
11,065
-
257
7,394
3,338
959
11,000
393
2,812
-
1,500
1,833
-
1,900
48,701		 Outgoing
£
-
2,610
-
318
166
679
8,552
990
257
10,547
3,701
1,363
10,750
393
2,145
150
1,500
1,833
106
1,925
47,985		 Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Balance c/f
£
760
3,861
1,288
1,580
-
1,476
8,627
616
-
1,692
835
-
2,750
-
2,941
772
-
-
486
475
28,159

Fund name

St Hugh's Carpet Buildings Fund

Defibrillator Fund Denise Warren Legacy (Assets) Hallas Legacy Parish Nursing Service St James' Community Worker St James Shell Fund VE Day Charities Fund BDMC Community Buildings Christmas Hampers St Hugh's Community Worker

Craft Food bank

Top Ups Fund Lunch Box St Hugh's Over 60's St Hugh's Warm Space

Purpose of restriction

To contribute towards the cost of installing a new carpet at St Hugh's. Being net proceeds from Parish prize draw for building repairs and improvements.

To enable the purchase and maintenance of a defibrillator.

For depreciation charges associated with two gifted pianos. To support parish project costs only.

To support the running costs of a parish nursing service.

To contribute towards the costs of the community development worker. For the restoration and running costs of St James's church and church hall. To support the running costs of a VE Day celebration. For collections made on behalf of charities.

To support the running costs of the St Hughes community centre. To enable the provision of Christmas hampers.

To contribute towards the salary costs of the community development worker.

To enable the production of a quilt as part of Bradford City of Culture 2025. Donations and grants received to support the provision of food bank services.

Donations received to provide support concerning fuel costs.

To enable the provision of a lunch box scheme in school holidays. To support the running costs of a social group for people aged over 60. To contribute to the provision of a warm space at St Hugh's.

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St

John the Evangelist, Baildon

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2025

10
11
12
13
**14 **		 Tangible assets
Cost
At 1 January 2025
Additions
At 31 December 2025
Depreciation
At 1 January 2025
Charge for year
At 31 December 2025
Net book value
At 31 December 2025
At 31 December 2024
Fixed assets investments
Balance b/f
Additions/(Disposals)
Gain / (loss) on revaluation
Total
Debtors and prepayments
Debtors
Accrued income
Other debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
Cash at bank
Cash in hand
Creditors and accruals
Creditors
Accruals
Other creditors		 £
6,350
-
6,350
4,452
318
4,770
1,580
1,898
Musical
equipment		 £
39,525
-
39,525
38,251
638
38,889
636
1,274
Fixtures,
fittings &
equipment		 £
495,411
-
495,411
296,083
17,416
313,499
181,912
199,328
2025
Total
£
217,950
-
(8,713)
209,237
2025
£
4,673
-
1,150
5,823
2025
£
120,626
23
120,649
2025
£
5,758
4,369
-
10,127
Land and
buildings		 Total
£
541,286
-
541,286
338,786
18,372
357,158
184,128
202,500
2024
Total
£
216,779
(3,809)
4,980
217,950
2024
£
4,654
116
10,119
14,889
2024
£
102,740
131
102,871
2024
£
6,310
2,604
5,000
13,914

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St

John the Evangelist, Baildon

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2025

15 Designated funds
St James's'
J L Whitehead Legacy
B Bentley Legacy		 Balance b/f
£
95,726
31,984
886
128,596		 Incoming
£
-
-
-
-		 Outgoing
£
3,827
7,765
-
11,592		 Transfers
£
-
-
-
-		 Balance c/f
£
91,899
24,219
886
117,004

Fund name Reason for designation St James's' Being balance held in fixed asset shares and designated for planned improvements and renovations to St James's church and church hall. J L Whitehead Legacy Legacy designated for the benefit of the Parish. B Bentley Legacy Legacy designated for the benefit of the Parish.

16 Related party transactions

Donations from trustees and related parties

The total aggregate value of unconditional donations to the charity from the trustees or related parties was £11,170 (2024: £12,684).

Trustee expenses

No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.

Trustee remuneration and benefits

Details of remuneration and benefits
L Radcliffe
Gross pay
Social security		 2025
£
5,945
454
6,399		 2024
£
-
-
-

Reason for remuneration

The trustee was employed in the role of a community development worker.

Legal authority for the payment

The legal authority for the payment is via a provision within the charity's governing document.

No other trustees received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.

Other related party transactions

Other transactions with trustees or related parties
K H Matthews
L Johnson
Spouse of trustee
Organist fees
Name of trustee
or related party
Relationship to
charity
Description of transaction
Trustee
Treasurer fees		 2025
£
-
3,145
3,145		 2024
£
270
2,500
2,770

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St

John the Evangelist, Baildon

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2025

17 Operating leases

Within one year
In the second to fifth years inclusive
18 Funds held as agent
Balance b/f
Incoming
£
£
Higher Coach Road Residents
806
-
806
-
Expected future minimum lease payments over the remaining life of the
lease, analysed into the period in which the commitment falls due:		 2025
£
1,152
1,248
2,400
Outgoing
£
-
-		 2024
£
1,152
2,400
3,552
Balance c/f
£
806
806

Fund name Additional information

Higher Coach Road Residents Monies held on behalf of the resident group by St Hugh's community centre.

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The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St

John the Evangelist, Baildon

Statement of Financial Activities including comparatives for all funds (including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 December 2025

2025
2024
Unrestricted Unrestricted
funds
funds
£
£
Income
Donations and legacies
85,710
86,883
Charitable activities
23,742
26,888
Other trading activities
48,359
57,549
Investments
7,359
10,234
Other
348
5,466
Total income
165,518
187,020
Expenditure
Raising funds
2,480
1,818
Charitable activities
169,627
193,287
Total expenditure
172,107
195,105
Net gains/(losses) on investments
(8,713)
4,980
Net income / (expenditure)
(15,302)
(3,105)
Transfers between funds
-
204
Net movement in funds
(15,302)
(2,901)
Fund balances brought forward
496,853
499,754
Fund balances carried forward
481,551
496,853		 2025
Restricted
funds
£
43,211
5,490
-
-
-
48,701
2,451
45,534
47,985
-
716
-
716
27,443
28,159		 2024
Restricted
funds
£
37,367
5,519
-
-
-
42,886
1,950
43,603
45,553
(2,667)
(204)
(2,871)
30,314
27,443		 2025
Total
funds
£
128,921
29,232
48,359
7,359
348
214,219
4,931
215,161
220,092
(8,713)
(14,586)
-
(14,586)
524,296
509,710		 2024
Total
funds
£
124,250
32,407
57,549
10,234
5,466
229,906
3,768
236,890
240,658
4,980
(5,772)
-
(5,772)
530,068
524,296

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