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|**Trustees**|L Lurcock|
|---|---|
||S Lynch|
||A Pop|
||D Treneer|
||S Walker|
||E Fletcher|
||R Francis|
|**Elders**|D Treneer|
||T Vellacott|
||S Whitfield|
||H Wheeler|
||S Bray|
||M Bray|
|**Charity number**|1136471|
|**Company number**|07227205|
|**Registered office**|65-71 Holland Road|
||Hove|
||East Sussex|
||BN3 UN|
|**Independent examiner**|John Caladine FCCA CTAFCIE|
||Caladine Limited|
||Chantry House|
||22 Upperton Road|
||Eastbourne|
||East Sussex|
||BN21 1BF|
|**Bankers**|National Westminster Plc|
||Barclays Bank Plc|
||The Co-operative Bank|
||Baptist Union Corporation Ltd|





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|Trustees'report|1-6|
|Statement of Trustees' responsibilities|7|
|Independent examiner's report|8|
|Statement of financial activities|9|
|Statement of financial position|10|
|Statement of cash flows|11|
|Notes to the financial statements|12-26|





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||**Nlotes**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Income from:**||||||||
|Donations and legacies|**2**|507,189|-|507,189|518,827|-|518,827|
|Charitable activities|**3**|2,126|-|2,126|18,062|-|18,062|
|Investments|**4**|28,553|-|28,553|28,213|-|28,213|
|**Total income**||537,868|-|537,868|565,102|-|565,102|
|**Expenditure on:**||||||||
|Charitable activities|**5**|610,779|-|610,779|553,121|-|553,121|
|**Total expenditure**||610,779|-|610,779|553,121|•|553,121|
|Net gains/(losses) on||||||||
|investments|**11**|-|-|-|(25,000)|-|(25,000)|
|**Net expenditure and**||||||||
|**movement in funds**||(72,911)|-|(72,911)|(13,019)|-|(13,019)|
|**Reconciliation of funds:**||||||||
|Fund balances at 1 January||||||||
|2025||1,021,649|1,167,535|2,189,184|1,034,668|1,167,535|2,202,203|
|**Fund balances at 31**||||||||
|**December 2025**||948,738|1,167,535|2,116,273|1,021,649|1,167,535|2,189,184|





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||**Notes**|**£**|**£**|**_£_**|**_£_**|
|**Fixed assets**||||||
|Property, plant and equipment|**13**||1,202,019||1,203,028|
|Investment property|**14**||425,000||425,000|
||||1,627,019||1,628,028|
|**Current assets**||||||
|Trade and other receivables|**15**|24,143||18,582||
|Cash at bank and in hand||493,654||574,368||
|||517,797||592,950||
|**Current liabilities**|**16**|(15,551)||(14,765)||
|**Net current assets**|||502,246||578,185|
|**Total assets less current liabilities**|||2,129,265||2,206,213|
|**Non-current liabilities**|**17**||(12,992)||(17,029)|
|**Net assets**|||2,116,273||2,189,184|
|**The funds of the Church**||||||
|Restricted income funds|**20**||1,167,535||1,167,535|
|Unrestricted funds|**21**||948,738||1,021,649|
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|**Cash flows from operating activities**||||||
|Cash absorbed by operations|**26**||(105,230)||(26,516)|
|**Investing activities**||||||
|Investment income received||28,553||28,213||
|**Net cash generated from investing activities**|||28,553||28,213|
|**Financing activities**||||||
|Repayment of borrowings||(4,037)||(3,789)||
|**Net cash used in financing activities**|||(4,037)||(3,789)|
|**Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents**|||(80,714)||(2,092)|
|Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year|||574,368||576,460|
|**Cash and cash equivalents at end of year**|||493,654||574,368|





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||**£**|**£**|
|Donations and gifts|507,189|518,827|
|**Donations and gifts**|||
|Donations and gifts|423,312|422,743|
|Tax refunds|83,877|96,084|
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||**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Charitable activities**|||
|Rental Income - Cottage|340|8,757|
|Rental Income - Use of premises|1,786|3,917|
|World Mission Income|**-**|5,388|
||2,126|18,062|



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|---|---|---|
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||**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Rental income|22,485|**21,342**|
|Interest receivable|**6,068**|6,871|
||28,553|28,213|





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|---|---|---|
||**expenditure**|**expenditure**|
||**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Direct costs**|||
|Staff costs|209,930|246,187|
|Depreciation and impairment|1,009|1,518|
|Pastoral expenses|5,884|9,250|
|Visiting speakers|**150**|452|
|Church Weekend and conferences|3,074|2,505|
|Premises for parking|-|1,219|
|Outreach|530|1,016|
|Music and drama|2,208|2,139|
|Books and purchases|1,097|743|
|Catering|3,120|1,867|
|Youth work and other|11,885|7,712|
|Mission Trips - Ethiopia|52|931|
|Training|4,990|1,254|
|Group Ministries|9,947|4,537|
|Sundries|3,920|3,263|
|Church equipment repairs & maintenance|4,721|4,859|
|Electricity, gas and water|18,380|17,476|
|Insurance|11,827|11,387|
|Property Repairs and Maintenance|22,907|58,887|
|Small Equipment|2,140|1,006|
|Licences and Subscriptions|2,325|2,584|
|Cottage redevelopment|**76,761**|-|
|Legacy expenditure (sundry)|-|446|
|Restore - sundry expenses|9,267|4,968|
||406,124|386,206|
|Grant funding of activities (see note 6)|104,776|89,407|
|**Share of support and governance costs (see note 7)**|||
|Support|94,066|69,416|
|Governance|5,813|8,092|
||610,779|553,121|
|**Analysis by fund**|||
|Unrestricted funds|610,779|553,121|





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|---|---|---|
||**expenditure**|expenditure|
||**2025**|2024|
||**£**|£|
|Grants to institutions:|||
|Christians Against Poverty|22,775|21,775|
|General Gifts to organisations|500|500|
|Global Partners|4,050|9,420|
|Missionary expenses|18,142|21,009|
|Missionary Partners|13,275|1,428|
||58,742|54,132|
|Grants to individuals|46,034|35,275|
||104,776|89,407|



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|---|---|---|
||**expenditure**||
||**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Staff costs|**75,446**|52,286|
|Telephone|3,583|4,028|
|Office and administration|15,037|14,873|
|Governance|5,813|6,321|
||**99,879**|77,508|
||**2025**|**2024**|
|**Governance costs comprise:**|**£**|**£**|
|Independent examination fees|1,140|1,200|
|Accountancy|3,180|3,180|
|Legal and professional|1,080|1,038|
|Bank Charges|**538**|**778**|
|Loan Interest|(125)|125|
||5,813|6,321|





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||The net movement in funds is stated after charging/(crediting):|||
||Fees payable for the independent examination of the charity's financial|||
||statements|1,140|1,200|
||Depreciation of owned property, plant and equipment|1,009|1,518|



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|---|---|---|---|
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||£|£|£|
|D Treneer|48,420|6,241|4,842|
|S Walker|37,536|4,641|3,754|
|**2024**|**Salaries**|**Employer NIC**|**Employer Pension**|
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||£|£|£|
|D Treneer|48,149|5,389|5,838|
|S Walker|36,480|3,779|4,422|



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|---|---|---|
||**2025**|**2024**|
||**Number**|**Number**|
|Direct church activities|8|9|
|Support|4|3|
|Total|12|12|





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|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|
|Wages and salaries|245,919|254,837|
|Social security costs|16,007|19,310|
|Other pension costs|23,450|24,326|
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|---|---|---|
||**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Aggregate compensation|164,892|159,680|



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|---|---|---|---|
||**Land and**|**Fixtures,**|**Total**|
||**buildings**|**fittings &**||
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|**Cost**||||
|At 1 January 2025|1,200,000|57,590|1,257,590|
|At 31 December 2025|1,200,000|57,590|1,257,590|
|**Depreciation and impairment**||||
|At 1 January 2025||54,562|54,562|
|Depreciation charged in the year|-|1,009|1,009|
|At 31 December 2025|-|55,571|55,571|
|**Carrying amount**||||
|At 31 December 2025|1,200,000|2,019|1,202,019|
|At 31 December 2024|1,200,000|3,028|1,203,028|
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|---|---|---|
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|**Amounts falling due within one year:**|£|£|
|Other receivables|20,110|14,659|
|Prepayments and accrued income|4,033|3,923|
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|**16 **|**Current liabilities**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**2025**|**2024**|
||||**£**|**£**|
||Other taxation and social security||5,600|5,906|
||Baptist Union Corporation Ltd (Loan)||3,913|3,913|
||Other payables||1,658|566|
||Accruals||4,380|4,380|
||||15,551|14,765|
|**17 **|**Non-current liabilities**||||
||||**2025**|**2024**|
||||**£**|£|
||Baptist Union Corporation Ltd||12,992|17,029|
|**18 **|**Borrowings (see note 22)**||||
||||**2025**|**2024**|
||||**£**|£|
||**Payable **within one **year**|**(see note 16)**|3,913|3,913|
||**Payable after one year**|**(see note 17)**|12,992|17,029|
||||16,905|20,942|
|**19 **|**Retirement benefit schemes**||||
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||**Defined contribution schemes**||**£**|£|
||Charge to profit or loss in respect of defined contribution schemes||23,450|24,326|





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|---|---|---|
||**2025**|**December**|
|||**2025**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Property fund|1,167,535|1,167,535|
|**Previous year:**|**At 1 January **|**At 31**|
||**2024**|**December**|
|||**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Property Fund|1,167,535|1,167,535|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**2025**|**resources**|**expended**||**losses**|**December**|
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||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Legacies|||||||
|General|27,592|||||27,592|
|Reservefund|85,000|-|-|-|-|85,000|
|Legacies World|||||||
|Mission|16,293||(2,318)|(1,700)|-|12,275|
|Emergency|||||||
|repairs fund|||(1,234)|75,000|-|73,766|
|The Projects -|||||||
|Specified Fund|-|-|(83,957)|248,212|-|164,255|
|The Projects -|||||||
|Unspecified|||||||
|Fund|||(1,291)|18,000||16,709|
|General funds|892,764|537,868|(521,979)|(339,512)|-|569,141|
||1,021,649|537,868|(610,779)|-|-|948,738|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Legacies|||||||
|General|28,038||(446)|||27,592|
|Reservefund|85,000|-|-|-|-|85,000|
|Legacies World|||||||
|Mission|15,693|1,300|(700)|||16,293|
|General funds|905,937|563,802|(551,975)|•|(25,000)|892,764|
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|---|---|---|---|
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|**At 31 December 2025:**||||
|Property, plant and equipment|**34,484**|1,167,535|1,202,019|
|Investment properties|425,000|**-**|425,000|
|Current assets/(liabilities)|502,246|**-**|502,246|
|Long term liabilities|(12,992)|*****|(12,992)|
||948,738|1,167,535|2,116,273|
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|**At 31 December 2024:**||||
|Property, plant and equipment|35,493|1,167,535|1,203,028|
|Investment properties|425,000|**-**|425,000|
|Current assets/(liabilities)|578,185|**-**|578,185|
|Long term liabilities|(17,029)|**-**|(17,029)|
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|Within oneyear|4,162|3,922|
|Between two and five years|6,243|9,805|
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|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**|**£**|
||Deficit for the year|(72,911)|(13,019)|
||**Adjustments for:**|||
||Investment income recognised in statement of financial activities|(28,553)|(28,213)|
||Fair value gains and losses on investment properties|-|25,000|
||Depreciation and impairment of property, plant and equipment|1,009|1,518|
||**Movements in working capital:**|||
||(Increase) in trade and other receivables|(5,561)|(12,329)|
||Increase in trade and other payables|786|527|
||**Cash absorbed by operations**|(105,230)|(26,516)|





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|||**2025**||**2025**|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|
||Cash at bank and in hand|574,368|(80,714)|493,654|
||Loans falling due after more than oneyear|(17,029)|4,037|(12,992)|
|||557,339|(76,677)|480,662|