**Charity Registrafion Number 1134391** # **QUEENSBERRY BAPTIST CHURCH UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDING 28 FEBRUARY 2023** ## **CONTENTS** Reference and Administrafive Informafion Trustees Annual Report Independent Examiner’s Report Statement of Financial Acfivifies Balance Sheet Fund Movements Analysis of Income and Expenditure ## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION** |Governing Document|Consftufon| |---|---| |Charity Registrafon Number|1134391| |Registered Ofce|Queensberry Bapfst Church| ||Queensberry Street| ||Nofngham| ||NG6 0DG| |Operafng Name|QBC| |Trustees|| ||Rev Claire Roberts| ||Jonathan Kearney| ||Nsipa Siwale (Appointed 05 June 2023)| ||Sally Lees| ||Jane Graham| ||Russell Lees| ||Kirsty Gledhill| ||Christopher Dancer (Resigned 20 December 2022)| |Bankers|Virgin Money| |Solicitors|Ellis-Fermor & Negus| ||2 Devonshire Avenue| ||Beeston| ||Nofngham| ||NG9 1BS| |Independent Examiner|Mr Brian Jones – Chartered Accountant| ## **Trustees Annual Report 2023** The Trustees have pleasure in presenfing their report and the financial statements of the Charity for the year ending 28 February 2023. ## **Structure, Governance and Management** The Charity is governed by a Board of Trustees. New Trustees are appointed at the Annual General Meefing and approved by the members of the Church. The Board of Trustees meet regularly to discuss and plan the acfivifies of the Church. The Board of Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees Annual Report and the Financial Statements in accordance with applicable law in England & Wales. Queensberry Bapfist Church is a member of the Bapfist Union of Great Britain and holds to their Declarafion of Principle. ## **Objecfives and Acfivifies** Queensberry Bapfist Church has a Vision & Values Statement which highlights 3 main objecfives:Following God Loving each other QBC achieves its objecfives by providing a range of service at Queensberry Bapfist Church, Old Basford, Noftingham NG6 0DG. In the year ending 28 February 2023, this was achieved by:- ## **Following God** - The Prayer Course – we had over 50 people take part in the Prayer Course in Autumn 2022. - Homegroups - we now have 6 homegroups that meet regularly plus Thursday fellowship. - Prayer and worship nights are taking place once a month. ## **Loving each other** - Gefting to know each other – having refreshments after the Church service. We deliberately include interacfive acfivifies in our all-age services to help people get to know each other. - Throughout March we tried a ‘learning names’ challenge too! - New people on teams – It’s been great to welcome new people to serve with Ignite, Stewards, Refreshments (more people are always welcome!) ## - Community Meal – See below for the full report. - Events – Summer BBQ and Quiz night. Both of these events were well aftended and lots of fun! - Christmas – Our nafivity service and carol service were well aftended with lots of guests joining us. We also confinued our tradifion of the Southwark Primary Chrisfingle service. Beyond QBC, we confinue to engage with Noftingham City Prayer, local church leaders’ groups and the East Midlands Bapfist Associafion acfivifies. There is a sense of excitement across Noftingham about the new thing God is beginning to do and we confinue to pray for him to move powerfully. ## **Membership Review** Last year at the AGM we had 82 members, this year we have 78 members. We have gained 2 new members but have also lost some as people have passed away. The average age of members is 65, however, our membership list doesn’t give a full picture of what is happening in church. On a Sunday, we have around 80 people with us regularly. We have lots of people in our church who aren’t official ‘members’ and yet are very commifted and involved with church life – this includes members of our worship team, community meal team, homegroup leaders, children’s work. There are also lots of new people joining church, including new families, who aren’t yet members. ## **Children and Youth** ## **Ignite Report** It was decided and agreed at the planning meefing in the Autumn of 2022, that the format of Ignite would change slightly and we would offer weekly sessions instead of monthly sessions. We have held an Ignite session 3 fimes each month from January and have had an average of 10 children aftend each session. The actual number each week varies from 7 to 19 children aged 3- 10. ## **Rock Group** Rock Group is currently a Sunday group for Youth in school years 7 – 11, (11–16-year-olds), which meets at Church in the Rock Room. ## Our aims are: To show God’s love to and for everyone wherever they are on their journey of faith; explore faith, and ask quesfions; To introduce young people to Jesus, to teach them how they can have a relafionship with him, encourage them to follow him and to help them grow in their faith to become mature disciples; To offer hope, encouragement, and support to young people at a potenfially challenging fime in their lives. Rock Group meets each Sunday apart from the 1st Sunday in the month which is an All-age service. Aftendance fluctuates widely between 1 – 7 youngsters on a Sunday. Numbers have been consistently lower since January 2023 ## **Safeguarding** Our Safeguarding procedures have confinued this year and have been strengthened. DBS checks confinue to be completed as required and the Single Central Record has been maintained. People are encouraged to register their DBS cerfificates on the auto update system so when they are due for ‘renewal’ the status can be checked online, rather than a new check completed. Safeguarding training has been completed this year. Our Designated Persons for Safeguarding (one of whom is also the Safeguarding Trustee) aftended Level 2 and Level 3 training in person last June (2022) and then got to repeat it along with many others in March, when we held face to face Level 2 and Level 3 training here at Queensberry. We were also able to open this up to other churches. Last October / November our Safeguarding Policy was reviewed and updated, a copy of which is in every main room in church along with concern forms. ## **Pastoral Team** The Pastoral Team’s objecfives are:- - To demonstrate God’s love to one another and offer hope to those in need by co-ordinafing and giving pastoral support. - To be a point of contact and to seek to idenfify and be aware of those who are vulnerable or in need of some addifional support due to illness, age or change in circumstances etc. This is accomplished in the following ways:- - Visifing people at home, Care Homes, Hospitals, doorstep visits. - family/neighbours etc. - Pracfical support - giving lifts, taking to medical appointments, providing meals, doing shopping etc. - Support via lefters/cards, phone calls, emails. - groups. There are approximately 30 people on the Pastoral list that are currently supported by the team. These are mainly people with increasing health and mobility issues. However, others have had extra support for short periods e.g. following injury/ illness, change in circumstances etc. ## **Community Meal** During a process of prayer, discussion and discernment as a Church, we sensed God was leading Queensberry to engage with our local community and we felt we should start offering a free Community Meal and a warm space for people to meet. This was partly in response to increased energy costs and food prices impacfing people’s lives, income etc. We opened on January 24th 2023 and have been open every Tuesday since. We meet on Tuesdays 4pm – 6pm in the Community Hall and provide a safe place, a warm welcome to everyone and a free hot meal. We have several roles within the team; a Session Co-Ordinator who oversees the session (4 people share this role), a Kitchen team (usually 3 people), Recepfion desk (2 people) and a Welcome and refreshments team who chat to guests, help them find acfivifies they might enjoy etc. On arrival drinks and biscuits are available, various acfivifies e.g. jigsaws, colouring, board games etc. are available on the tables in the Community Hall. At 5pm we serve a hot meal. We have a membership with FareShare (a Charity who process excess food from supermarkets and producers to reduce the amount of food waste). We pay £29 for 80kg of fresh and frozen food every 2 weeks and plan the menus based on what we are given. In addifion, we keep a supply of store cupboard items at Church. cream and custard are especially popular. serve each week. opportunity to serve our local community. The numbers aftending are growing steadily and we now have several families coming regularly. ## **Technical Report** The Technical Team provides audio and visual support for our Sunday Services, Children’s work and other church events. Each services requires 3 people to operate the following:- - Video Projecfion – Easy Worship to project song lyrics, videos and sermon powerpoint presentafions. - Sound Desk – Live mixing of instruments and voices and recording the audio. - Camera operafion, mixing between 2 cameras and hosfing of zoom meefing. ## **Zoom** We are sfill running a live zoom meefing during our Sunday Morning Services. The invitafion is sent out to our Church Suite contacts on a monthly/bi-monthly basis and there has been an average of 5 people/families joining us each week on Zoom. There are a number of groups that make use of Zoom during the week. The Sunday services are recorded each week, with just the main message edited and put on our YouTube channel. ## **Website** We moved our website to a new provider and given it a bit of a makeover. It has been up and running for almost a year now and we have set it up to provide links to our social media - Facebook and Instagram as well as a new banner for each of our teaching series which links you straight to our YouTube channel. ## **Email** Within the last 12 months we have changed our email plafform to Google mail which you may not have noficed as the email addresses have stayed the same, however the change has meant we have been able to access more storage as well as more control over the admin secfion. ## **Facilifies** ## **Electronic Facilifies** Providing/maintaining audio-visual and computer hardware: - Detail for each category:- - Video Projecfion - Cameras (main church) - Public Address (sound) - Worship Group Electronic Music Display (Power Music) - Worship Group electronic instruments - Computer Systems and Ancillaries ## **Health and Safety Checks** updated, along with procedures and checks. Risk assessments and checks carried out and updated over the year:- - Emergency Light Systems – Flick and 6 monthly durafion test 2022-2023 - 15 new (Bell Lighfing) emergency bulkhead lights fifted to replace failing or failed units - 2 new high-level spotlights in main church to replace failing units. - Fire Exfinguishers - 2 replaced during annual service by FixFire - PAT Tesfing – Completed by RHL April 29th 2023 (179 items). Full details in H&S Dropbox folder - Gas central heafing Boilers (safety cerfificate) - see below - First Aid training – invesfigated and implemented 4th February 2023 by SafeHaven Training Ltd (www.staffordshirefirstaidtraining.co.uk) - 5-year EICR (Electrical Installafion Condifion Report) checks carried out and updated report provided by Ken Burrows Electrical in October 2022. ## **Annual Servicing and checks** - After previous 5-year agreement with BU Insurance, insurance provider changed from January 2023 to Congregafional.co.uk via broker at Kingdom Bank. Inspecfion carried out by Insurer’s surveyor on 7th February 2023. Items idenfified for aftenfion/provision of documentafion: - Electrical hard wiring inspecfion (See 5-year EICR above) - PAT Tesfing (See above) - Asbestos register and survey - Service of gas appliances (annual safety) (see below) - Lefting of premises – Hire agreements required - Church Walls – Coping stones at Queensberry St end of roof to re-point – approximately between £5,000-10,000 - Church Gas Boilers – (commercial) service and safety cerfificate 20th Feb 2023 - Church Fire Exfinguishers 10th May 2023 - Church Emergency lighfing internal checks and replacements Dec 2022 - Feb 2023 - Church and Manse Alarm System service 31st January 2023 - Manse Gas boiler (domesfic) service and landlords cerfificate 8th July 2022 ## **General Facilifies Work - Church** - Community Hall - Main Kitchen dishwasher power supply upgraded to 30 Amps from 13 Amps (Ken Burrows Electrical) to provide much quicker cycle fime. Exisfing dishwasher just needed electrical links internally. (April 27th 2023) - Immersion heater fifted with smart wireless control switch (HBN) - Car park light fifted with smart wireless control switch (HBN) - Grounds - Trees/bushes trimmed heavily - Grass cufting rota - Church - Push bufton combinafion lock added to old crèche room for securing valuables - Cabling and bracket for a front right side mounted camera installed - Main Kitchen - Stainless steel wall shelves added - Kitchen equipment for Community meal (see separate report) - New large upright Freezer located in Lower Hall kitchen (for Community Meal) - Lower Hall - Gents (Faulty) toilet replaced with new close coupled unit ## **General Facilifies Work – Manse** - New oven fifted to replace failing oven in kitchen (July 2022) - Bedroom door planed to allow it to close properly - Fence repair (15th Feb 2023) after a car crashed into it in late 2022 - Hedge trimmed and Ivy stripped back from rear bedroom window and guftering (May2023) ## **Legal** Trust Deeds for the Manse and Church are kept at Ellis-Fermor & Negus Solicitors, 2 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston Noftingham, NG9 1BS. ## **Financial Review** ## **Reserves Policy** The minimum reserve for operafional mafters should be £21,000 in line with the reserves policy. Fund levels are reviewed monthly and a report is submifted to the Trustees. At 28[th] February 2023 the total unrestricted reserves were £100,647. ## **The Trustees Declare they have approved the Trustees report above.** ## **Signed on behalf of the Charity’s Trustees** ## **Signature(s)** **Full Name(s) Mr Jonathan Kearney** **Miss Kirsty Gledhill** **Posifion** **Finance Leader & Trustee** **Technical Leader & Trustee** **Date 21 December 2023** CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independènt •xamlnerf• roport on the ac¢ount• ft•￿ ts th• truBl•••l ¢+ Ai 8 Xo>J und•f ••(Xth 145 rlth• 2011 my •x*thkn. I ur4J•r 14S(5Xbl oltr• Ind•p•nd•nl J.+ x) oa£s r¢•l•v•nt WO1••￿0￿1 4￿￿￿￿tIon(lI w body 111 •ny): 59 Ti•Jq 11 IÉR Odob•r 2018 ## **Statement of Financial Activities** |**Income**
Donations & Legacies
Investments
Other Income
**Total Income**
**Expenditure**
Charitable Activites
Other Expenditure
**Total Expenditure**
**Net income / (expenditure) resources**
**Net movement in funds**
**Total funds brought forward**
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Designated**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Endowment**
**Funds**
**Total Funds**
**2023**
**Total**
**funds**
**2022**
84,562
340
84,902
81,861
20
6,156
6,156
3,418
**90,718**
**340**
**91,058**
**85,303**
93,208
353
93,561
76,595
694
694
-362
**93,902**
**353**
**94,255**
**76,233**
**-3,184**
**-13**
**-3,197**
**9,070**
**-3,184**
**-13**
**-3,197**
**9,070**
**118,289**
**118,289 109,319**
**115,105**
**-13**
**115,118 118,389**| |---|---| ## **Balance Sheet** |||**Total**|**Total**| |---|---|---|---| |||**Funds**|**funds**| |**Assets**||**2023**|**2022**| |**Cash funds**|Current Account|95,021|98,218| ||Deposit Account|20,090|20,070| ||**Total Cash Funds**|**115,111**|**118,288**| |**Assets retained for Charity's own use**|||| ||Land and Buildings|**6,970,096**|**0** not previously stated| Land and buildings comprise of a church building and a manse. These have been stated at their recent insurance value as the Trustees are unable to reliable estimate their current value. This insurance value may differ materially from current value ## **Liabilites** ## **Reserves** |Accounts payable|0|0| |---|---|---| |**Total Liabilities**|**0**|**0**| |**Net Asset surplus (deficit)**|**7,085,207**|**118,288**| |Excess / (deficit) to date|-3,197|9,069| |Starting balances|118,289|109,319| |**Total Reserves**|**115,092**|**118,388**| |**Represented by funds**||| |Unrestricted|103,831|103,932| |Designated|16|16| |Restricted|14,442|14442| |Endowment|0|0| |**Total**|**118,289**|**118,390**| ## **Fund Movement by Type** |**Unrestricted**
General Fund
**Total**
**Designated**
Books
Allan Float
Catering
Manse Electricity
**Total**
**Endowment**
**Total**
**Restricted**
Community Meal
TKSG 2020
Thanks Giving 2017
Thanks Giving 2018
Thanks Giving 2019
**Total**
**Total Funds**|**Opening**
**In**
**Out**
**Closing**
103,831
90,718
-93,902
100,647
**103,831**
**90,718**
**-93,902**
**100,647**
2
-2
0
100
-100
0
100
100
-186
-194
-380
**16**
**-296**
**-280**
**0**
**0**
0
340
-159
181
1,781
1,781
86
-86
0
5,734
5,734
6,841
6,841
**14,442**
**340**
**-245**
**14,537**
**118,289**
**91,058**
**-93,902**
**115,118**| |---|---| ## **Analysis of Income and Expenditure** ## **Income** |**Donations & Legacies**
Offering
Legacies
Catering
Healing Rooms
Literature
Community Meal Donations
Baptist insurance
Appeals
Gift Aid
GASDS
Bank Deposit
Total
**Investments**
Bank Interest
Total
**Other Income**
Gift Aid Return
Rental Income
Cashback
Refunds
Total
**Total**
**Expenditure**
**Charitable Activites**
**Minister**
Student Loan
Wages
Tax
NI
Pension
**Caretaker**
Wages
Tax
Stewardship & HR
Sundry Expenses
Pulpit Fees|**Unrestricted Designated**
**Restricted Endowment**
**2023**
**2022**
70,872
70,872 70,315
500
100
3
340
340
56
56
1,236
1,236
12,398
12,398
8,943
2,000
84,562
340
84,902 81,861
20
20
2,980
2,060
2,060
115
9
4,096
4,096
314
6,156
6,156
3,418
**90,718**
**340**
**91,058 85,299**
**Unrestricted Designated**
**Restricted Endowment**
**2023**
**2022**
522
522
208
17,756
17,756
9,114
2,492
2,492
1,200
1,861
1,861
1,263
5,376
5,376
2,629
4,504
4,504
4,185
1,124
1,124
1,048
767
767
507
1,379
1,379
1,309
250
250
750| |---|---| |Catering
Christmas
Outreach
Travel Expenses
Literature
Community Meal
Donations
Missions
Jericho Road
International China Concern
BMS
BUGB Home Mission
Friends International
Evangelical Alliance
Postage
Cleaning costs
Office Supplies
Advertising
CCL Licence
Gift Aid Envelopes
**Church**
Gas
Gas Service
Electricity
Water
Insurance
Phone
Internet
Maintenance
**Manse**
Water
Broadband
Council Tax
Insurance
Maintenance
Electricity
Technical Dept
Health and Safety
Training and Conferences
Church Suite
Licences/Subscriptions/website
Minister Relocation
Main Kitchen Refurbishment
Misc
Total
**Other Expenditure**|812
812
147
129
129
602
40
418
418
597
490
490
539
159
159
1,291
1,291
100
780
780
780
1,932
1,932
2,093
3,120
3,120
3,720
4,171
4,171
4,541
2,388
2,388
2,388
120
120
120
6
6
98
397
397
204
204
54
144
144
861
861
1,043
76
8,478
8,478
4,428
583
583
1,352
3,887
3,887
2,624
571
4,437
4,437
5,715
55
55
371
676
676
602
14,135
14,135
1,674
231
231
426
316
316
26
2,088
2,088
360
360
1,286
728
728
6,278
194
194
186
1,422
1,422
1,904
18
18
34
1,176
1,176
530
455
455
771
854
854
1,848
6,798
15
20
93,208
353
93,561 76,595| |---|---| |Catering equipment
NI Allowance
Total
**Total Expenditure**|694
694
-362
694
694
-362
**93,902**
**353**
**94,255 76,233**| |---|---|