**Charity Registration Number 114391**
# **QUEENSBERRY BAPTIST CHURCH UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDING 28 FEBRUARY 2025**
**CONTENTS**
Reference and Administrative Information
Trustees Annual Report
Independent Examiner’s Report
Statement of Financial Activities
Balance Sheet
Fund Movements
Analysis of Income and Expenditure
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION**
|Government Document Charity|Constitution|
|---|---|
|Registration Number|1134391|
|Registered O�ice|Queensberry Baptist Church|
||Queensberry Street|
||Old Basford|
||Nottingham|
||NG6 0DG|
|Operating Name|QBC|
|Trustees|Rev. Claire Roberts|
||Jonathan Kearney|
||Nsipa Siwale|
||Sally Lees|
||Jane Graham|
||Russell Lees|
||Kirsty Gledhill|
|Bankers|Yorkshire Bank|
|Solicitors|Ellis-Fermor & Negus|
||2 Devonshire Avenue|
||Beeston|
||Nottingham|
||NG9 1BS|
|Independent Examiner|Mr Brian Jones – Chartered Accountant|
## **Trustees Annual Report 2025**
for the year ending 28 February 2025.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The Charity is governed by a Board of Trustees. New Trustees are appointment at the Annual General Meeting and approved by the members of the Church.
The Board of Trustees meet regularly to discuss and plan the activities 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 Baptist Church is a member of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and holds to their Declaration of Principle.
## **Objectives and Activities**
Queensberry Baptist Church has a Vision & Values Statement which highlights 3 main objectives:-
- Following God
- Loving each other
- O�ering hope to all
Queensberry Baptist Church achieves its objectives by providing a range of services at Queensberry Baptist Church, Old Basford, Nottingham NG6 ODG.
## **Membership Review**
Last year at the AGM we had 77 members, this year we have 71 members.
## **Sundays**
We continue to meet together each Sunday and have looked at a range of topics including:-
- Listening to God
- The book of Amos
- That’s a good story
- The gospel is …
- 1 Corinthians
- The Lord’s Prayer
We love to welcome new people to QBC and hope that those who have joined us in the last year feel really welcome here. We want to make sure this isn’t just a service to attend but a community to belong to.
We’ve tried di�erent things to help us to get to know each other better and build community. We ran ‘Knowvember’ again in November 2024 which included opportunities to learn names and centrally organise social events including shared meals, QBC community BBQ, walks, a quiz night, etc.
## **Discipleship**
We have a few home groups that meet throughout the week. These groups spend time reading the Bible, praying, encouraging each other and just being friends.
Thursday Fellowship continues to meet each week in the lower hall. This is a great place to deepen friendships, find encouragement and support.
In January 2025, we started our three thirds Sundays where we split into smaller groups and spend time looking back, looking up and looking forward. This allows space to discuss bible passages together, listen to each other and equip us all to read the Bible and put its teachings into practice. And we celebrated a baptism in February 2025.
## **Ignite Review**
The 3-12 yr old group has been running for 3 years now and numbers vary each week between 10-21 children attending with 8 new/retuning children since September.
6 visitors have join us for a session or two.
Since September we decided to create 3 groups within Ignite:
Sparks – Nursery-yr 2
Fuse – yrs 3-5
Blaze – yrs 6-7
This has been working really well for all groups. Having separate age groups enables the team to plan and deliver more appropriate activities based on age/stage of development.
We have also introduced the Three Thirds approach and it’s working well with the children. We have also added 4 new team members as well as joining together with the youth team.
## **Children at Community Meal**
We have a group of children who have been attending the community meal since the beginning – approx. 11 children aged between 2 – 15 yrs. Some of the children come to our church, some do not attend church, or they may attend another church.
Some weeks we can have as many as 14 children. It’s lively, busy and a little bit crazy – but so much fun and extremely rewarding. The children meet in the Community Room after school, they engage in activities – sometimes very messy activities, sometimes their parents join in too! After food we explore a story from the bible – with craft, a film, a worship song or a game. One of the favourite games is ‘Bingo’ and we recently introduced a ‘fruit of the spirit Bingo.’ It has now become known as ‘The God Bingo.’ a�ectionately named by one of the children.
There’s a lovely sense of community spirit within the room, friendships are growing, and we just love it and want it to continue to grow and go wherever God leads.
## **Community Meal**
The community Meal was started almost 2.5 years ago after discussing and praying together as a Church. God has been so good to us. In summary, it is a place where strangers can become friends and friends can become family.
We continue to welcome between 50 – 70 people each Tuesday now. Friendships and trust have grown over this time between team and the community. There are a lot of regulars, but we see new people every week as well.
We also provide emergency food parcels which those who need them can have every 3 weeks. The team are amazing and work hard to ensure all those who come feel welcome, valued and loved. Some help most weeks, some for one or 2 Tuesdays a month. Anyone is welcome to come or to help as a one o� (like at Christmas or Easter) or more regularly. Please chat with us if you are interested.
Ages range from toddlers to 90+, wide variety of ethnic backgrounds, di�erent faiths, families, people who live alone, friends, people from the local community in Basford and other areas of the city as well as some folks from Queensberry. People chat, do jigsaws, play cards, games or dominoes.
We have had visits from local Councillors, Alex Norris our local MP visited, and the Jericho Road team come every couple of weeks to connect with women they know who live locally. Thanks to the community meal team and invited any members of the congregation to come along and see what we do or get involved.
## **Prayer**
We recognise the importance of prayer and the Leadership have been reading a book together called ‘On This Rock’ which highlights churches up and down the country that have seen significant growth and new people coming to know Jesus. The one thing all the churches have in common is a commitment to prayer. Based on this principle, the Leadership team are trying to weave this into the fabric of QBC in various ways. Wednesday prayer focus – started in July 2024 meeting on zoom. Sunday morning – 9.45 in the vestry
Leaders meeting to pray once a month The Lord’s prayer – Teaching series
Prayer room – In the process of being refreshed
## **Mission Giving**
are:- Baptist Union Home Mission, BMS World Mission (Pastor J in Cambodia), Tek Ura in Albania, Friends International (Susan Caddy) and Jericho Road.
## **Safeguarding**
We are committed at QBC to ensure that everyone feels safe and our Safeguarding Trustee read out our Safeguarding Policy Statement at the AGM.
## **Trust Deeds**
Trust Deeds for the Manse and Church are kept at Ellis-Fermor & Negus Solicitors, 2 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston Nottingham, NG9 1BS. Ben Bourne is the named Solicitor. The 2 deed filing references are; B2064 - Deeds for 154 Vernon Avenue, Basford (the Manse)
B2065 - Deeds for Queensberry Baptist Church
## **Finances**
Income: Total - £106,174
This represented an increase in giving of 11.7% since last year, which is fantastic!
Expenditure: Total - £109,073
Resems Poilcy
The minimum reserve for operation matter should be £30.000 in Ilnewiththe reserves policy.
Fund18véI8 are reviewed monthly and a report is submitted o the Trustees.
At 28 February 2025 the total unrestricted reserv6s were £100.797
The Trustea8 declarè they havé appnw8d the Trustees report above.
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## **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**
**2025**
**Total Funds**
**2024**
91,670
1,693
93,363
84,615
2,610
2,610
980
10,201
10,201
23,663
**104,481**
**0**
**1,693**
**0**
**106,174**
**109,258**
107,597
1,476
109,073
105,617
**107,597**
**0**
**1,476**
**0**
**109,073**
**105,617**
**-3,116**
**0**
**217**
**0**
**-2,899**
**3,641**
**-3,116**
**0**
**217**
**0**
**-2,899**
**3,641**
**118,835**
**115,191**
**115,936**
**118,835**|
|---|---|
## **Balance Sheet**
## **Total Funds 2025 Total Funds 2024**
|**Assets**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Cash funds**|Current Account|52,373|57,882|
||Deposit Account|63,563|60,953|
||**Total Cash Funds**|**115,936**|**118,835**|
|**Assets retained for Charity's own use**||||
||Land and Buildings|||
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**
|**Liabilites**||||
|---|---|---|---|
||Accounts payable|0|0|
||**Total Liabilities**|**0**|**0**|
||**Net Asset surplus (deficit)**|**115,936**|**118,835**|
|**Reserves**||||
||Excess / (deficit) to date|-2,899|3,643|
||Starting balances|118,835|115,191|
||**Total Reserves**|**115,936**|**118,834**|
||**Represented by funds**|||
||Unrestricted|100,904|104,441|
||Designated|||
||Restricted|15,032|14393|
||Endowment|0|0|
||**Total**|**115,936**|**118,834**|
## **Fund Movement by Type**
|**Unrestricted**
General Fund
**Total**
**Designated**
Catering
Manse Electricity
**Total**
**Endowment**
**Total**
**Restricted**
Community Meal
TKSG 2020
Thanks Giving 2018
Thanks Giving 2019
Youth Works Rock Group
**Total**
**Total Funds**|**Opening**
**In**
**Out**
**Transfers**
**Closing**
104,339
104,481
-107,597
-423
100,800
**104,339**
**104,481**
**-107,597**
**-423**
**100,800**
100
100
-380
380
0
**-280**
**0**
**0**
**380**
**100**
**0**
**0**
460
1,693
-1,476
677
1,781
1,781
5,734
5,734
6,841
6,841
-42
42
0
**14,774**
**1,693**
**-1,476**
**42**
**15,033**
**118,833**
**106,174**
**-109,073**
**0**
**115,936**|
|---|---|
## **Analysis of Income and Expenditure**
|**Income**
**Donations & Legacies**
Offering
Legacies
Community Meal Donations
Donations to other projects
Thanks Offering 2024
GASDS
Gift Aid
Total
**Investments**
Bank Interest
Total
**Other Income**
Gift Aid Return
Rental Income
Grants
Cashback
Misc
Refunds
Total
**Total**
**Expenditure**
**Charitable Activites**
**Minister**
Student Loan
Wages
Tax
NI
Pension
**Caretaker**
Wages
Tax
**Childrens and Families Worker**
Wages
Tax
Pension
**Operations Coordinator**
Wages
Tax|Curr Year
Prev Year
**Unrestricted Designated**
**Restricted Endowment**
**2025**
**2024**
77,814
77,814
69,479
4,300
1,693
1,693
3,584
449
449
31
31
5,252
2,000
13,376
13,376
91,670
0
1,693
0
93,363
84,615
2,610
2,610
980
2,610
0
0
0
2,610
980
**3,429**
3,429
14,427
5,517
5,517
6,172
1,000
1,000
2,500
4
4
5
3
3
248
248
559
10,201
0
0
0
10,201
23,663
**104,481**
**0**
**1,693**
**0**
**106,174**
**109,258**
**Unrestricted Designated**
**Restricted Endowment**
**2025**
**2024**
326
326
442
20,939
20,939
19,137
3,236
3,236
2,854
1,321
1,321
1,659
6,808
6,808
5,830
5,171
5,171
4,826
1,291
1,291
1,206
9,259
9,259
4,409
2,346
2,346
1,110
120
120
21
3,541
3,541
124
124|
|---|---|
|NI|50||50||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Pension|17||17||
|Employer NI & Pension|68||68||
|Stewardship & HR|666||666|629|
|Sundry Expenses|248||248|805|
|Catering|790||790|554|
|Christmas|344||344|347|
|Outreach|429||429||
|Travel Expenses||||36|
|Childrens Work|659||659|422|
|Youth Work|153||153|188|
|Community Meal||1,476|1,476|3,302|
|Missions|256||256||
|Homegroups/Discipleship|176||176|22|
|Jericho Road|1,464||1,464|1,212|
|International China Concern||||1,627|
|Tek Ura|1,549||1,549||
|Gifts||||110|
|BMS|4,004||4,004|4,056|
|BUGB Home Mission|4,475||4,475|4,500|
|Friends International|1,464||1,464|2,022|
|Cleaning costs|713||713|692|
|Office Supplies|87||87|75|
|Stationery|84||84|192|
|**Church**|||||
|Gas|11,443||11,443|15,304|
|Gas Service|||0|465|
|Electricity|4,944||4,944|6,109|
|Water|37||37||
|Insurance|5,384||5,384|5,175|
|Phone|132||132|85|
|Internet|634||634|580|
|Maintenance|2,208||2,208|1,752|
|Maintenance Projects|1,825||1,825|4,471|
|**Manse**|||||
|Water|299||299|244|
|Broadband|346||346|316|
|Council Tax|1,493||1,493|1,265|
|Insurance|400||400|428|
|Maintenance|406||406|816|
|Gas & Electricity|304||304|485|
|Sunday Services|442||442|717|
|Minister Expenses|588||588|444|
|Social Events|390||390|421|
|Minister Training/Conferences|760||760|469|
|Technical Dept|690||690|628|
|Training and Conferences|165||165|142|
|Church Suite|91||91|273|
|Licences/Subscriptions/website
Safeguarding
Misc
**Total Expenditure**|2,384
2,384
2,386
54
54
335
0
22
**107,597**
**0**
**1,476**
**0**
**109,073**
**105,617**|
|---|---|