## **SUTTON IN THE ELMS BAPTIST CHURCH** # **Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Statement for 2022** The Trustees present their Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2022 ## **Statutory Information** |**Registered Address**|2 Sutton Lane||| |---|---|---|---| ||Sutton in the Elms||| ||Broughton Astley||| ||Leicester||| ||Leicestershire||| ||LE9 6QF||| |**Charity Registration**|**Number:**1136715||| |**Trustees**|Jonathan Morley|Minister|| ||Heather Harris|Church Secretary|| ||Robert Foster||Treasurer| ||Peter David Clissold|from|March 2022| ||Andrew Davies||| ||Mark Wagstaf|until March|2022| ||David Wheway||| |**Property Trustees**|The Baptist Union|Corporation Limited|| ||Baptist House||| ||129 Broadway||| ||Didcot||| ||Oxfordshire||| ||OX11 8RT||| |**Bankers**|Santander, Bootle, Merseyside||| |**Independent Examiner**
John Denney, Chartered Accountant|||| ## **Charitable Object** The Charity, Sutton in the Elms Baptist Church, is governed by an Approved Governing Document (the Constitution) which states that the principal purpose of the charity is the advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist denomination to include the advancement of education, community service and such other general charitable purposes in such parts of the United Kingdom and the world as the Church shall determine. The Church occupies premises which are held by the Baptist Union Corporation Ltd, on Trusts which are entirely compatible with the above objective. ## **Organisational Structure and Decision-making processes** Members of the Church are accepted in accordance with the Constitution which requires them to be or to have been publicly baptised on the profession of faith in the Trinity, or based on their own public profession of faith. The Members’ Meeting normally takes place at least four times per year and has responsibility for the overall policy of the church. In accordance with the Constitution, the members appoint up to ten Trustees, including a Church Secretary and Treasurer who, together with the Minister, are collectively known as the Diaconate. They are responsible for the day to day running of the church’s work and witness, and the financial and legal aspects of the charity. All members are encouraged to take an active part in the spiritual and practical tasks involved in the furtherance of the charitable objective. Relevant matters may be submitted to the Church meeting by the Trustees for guidance, or may be raised by members for further consideration by the Trustees. The Constitution permits decisions to be made at Church meetings by appropriate majorities and the Church seeks to work by consensus wherever possible. ## **Objectives and Activities** In order to achieve the principal objective which is set out above, the Church provides a variety of activities both for its membership and for the local community. The aim is to show the love of Jesus Christ in both word and deed and to bring people into a closer relationship with Him as living Lord. Central to the work and witness of the Church is the act of regular public services of Christian worship. We seek to be a friendly and welcoming community and all are welcome to attend our services that take place each Sunday at 10.30 a.m. and on some Sundays at 6.00 p.m. There are also services at other times, in particular to celebrate Christmas and Easter; these are advertised on the Church’s printed notice-sheet, by leaflet, social media and on our website, www.suttonelms.co.uk. There is a programme for children and young people during services, as well as a crèche space available for use by pre-school children and their parents. The Church runs a series of house groups (known as Small Groups) in the church building and in the homes of some members for the growth of faith, fellowship and discipleship. Further details of these can be obtained from the Trustees on request, or are available at the Sunday services of worship. The Church is responsible for a “Mum and baby” group which runs on the premises on Tuesday mornings, as well as a longstanding Toddler Group, which meets on Thursday mornings. The purpose of both groups is to provide a safe place to develop friendships for local pre-school children and their parents/carers, demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ. The wellbeing café (Renew café) continues to be well attended each Wednesday lunchtime by a group of regulars, who meet to chat, undertake hobbies together and have an optional time of quiet reflection at the end of each weekly session. The group also take part in the village’s annual Christmas Tree festival, organised by the local Anglican church. The monthly Men’s Prayer breakfast continues to attract both young and old for a time of food, fellowship and prayer, with both local and invited speakers. During 2022, we were able to return to holding all events and groups on the premises without the previous restrictions that had been put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the winter, we opened up the premises as a “Warm Space” on Friday afternoons for a few months. The Church usually runs various events for youngsters and families during the year which, in 2022, included an Easter trail, a Light Party (Halloween alternative), Bonfire party and various Christmas events. The purpose of these events is to provide enjoyable, entertaining and affordable activities for the children and their families, to build friendships and community and to introduce them to the Christian faith. In 2022, we also held a special family-friendly event to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The Church operates systems to ensure that all people working with children and vulnerable adults are appropriately vetted with regard to the Disclosure and Barring Service with an up-to-date Safeguarding Policy in place and regular training provided by the East Midlands Baptist Association. The church premises are normally well used by a variety of groups from the community during daytime and evenings, providing a variety of activities for both children and adults and the premises are also available to hire for private party bookings and other one-off events. We are a Fairtrade Church, meaning that all tea/coffee provided on church premises is Fairtrade, we also request that all user groups also provide Fairtrade products. ## **Achievements and Performance** In February 2022 we opened “The Elms Café” in the hub area of the premises – this is a not-for-profit community café, run by volunteers, which is open 10 hours each week and serves cake, drinks and light lunches. The aims of the café are to provide a warm, welcoming meeting space for the local community, with good food, a friendly welcome and the opportunity to build relationships. This has proven to be very popular and has built up a good number of “regulars” over time. At the request of a local member of the community, we have set-up a “Community Veg box” in the entrance to our premises, where people can donate or take any fruit or vegetables that have been donated. We also provide opportunities to give to a local Foodbank, through a regular donations box and we hold a special collection at our annual Harvest service. The main church building underwent a refurbishment and redecoration during 2022 and we were thrilled to re-dedicate it to use for God’s glory in September 2022, with many visitors in attendance, including representatives from other local churches, user groups, community groups as well as previous ministers. Whilst the success of the Church’s programmes can be indicated numerically, including financially, other less tangible measures of success such as strength of fellowship, quality of pastoral support and spiritual growth are equally important. The church continues to encourage all its members to support one another practically, pastorally and in prayer. As well as our regular services, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of the journey through life. Through infant dedication we thank God for the gift of life, through baptism we celebrate faith in Jesus, 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. In 2022, sadly two of our most longstanding church members went to be with the Lord. We welcomed three new people into church membership during the year and, at 31st December 2022, the membership stood at 84. We celebrated the baptism of one of our church family in October 2022. We had a change of staffing at the end of 2022, with the church administrator and cleaner stepping down after several years each in their respective roles. A new cleaner has been appointed and we will seek to appoint a new administrator in 2023. ## **Financial Review** The Church continues to raise the funds it needs to carry on its activities from within its own membership and congregation. In 2022, weekly offerings were very slightly above budget, expenditure was also up due to various one-off purchases as part of the redevelopment (e.g. AV equipment, chairs, CCTV and repairs to the roof). Funds continued to be raised from within the church, fundraising events and from external grant-making bodies in order to finance the redevelopment project. The church financially supports a Sponsor Child in Colombia through Compassion UK, Tearfund’s Children at Risk Programme, and has made donations to the work of Spurgeons’ Child Care and other local healthrelated charities. The church also financially and prayerfully supports a previous minister and his family in their ministry in Cape Town, South Africa. The Church expressed its part in the life of the wider church by making donations to national and international Christian organisations and societies with Christian aims and objectives compatible with the church’s own charitable purpose, and also to some non-Christian charities, chosen by church members as of particular significance. The Church is heavily dependent on its membership working as volunteers in all aspects of the Church’s activities, many of which run with little or no impact on the Church’s expenditure, but nevertheless contribute substantially to the achievement of the Church’s objectives. The financial results for the year, together with a summary of the accounting policies adopted, are set out in the accompanying financial statements. The Reserves Policy is set at four months of budgeted expenditure; such an amount would provide working capital to cover fluctuations in income and expenditure and to meet emergency calls on cash, for example for emergency repairs. 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Artdr•ss.' 35 Ladrel Road ￿Y L&ice*Er LE8 4DL IER Aprtl 2￿19 |**Sutton in the Elms Baptist Church, Broughton Astley**
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**Version No. 2**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts**
B.M.S./Home Mission
Bank Interest
Church Activities
Contra
Donations
Donations
Fees: Weddings etc
Fellowship Fund
Hall Lettings
Income Tax Refund
Offerings
Organisations
Sundry
TEAR Fund/Compassion UK
**Receipts Total:**
**PAYMENTS**
**Chariable Activities**
B.M.S.
Catering
Charities
Evangelism
Fellowship Fund
Home Mission
Junior Church
Ministers Expenses
National Insurance
Organisations
Pension Contributions
Pulpit Supply
Salaries: Minister
Small Groups
TEAR Fund/Compassion UK
Travel & Training
Youth Work
**Chariable Activities Total:**
**Governance Costs**
Heating/light/water
Insurances
Maintenance
Manse: Council Tax & Water
Manse: Expenses
Office Expenses & Telephone
Salaries: Admin & Cleaning
**Governance Costs Total:**
**Other Resources Used**
A.V. & Worship Group
Contra
Sundries
**Other Resources Used Total:**
**Payments Total:**|||**2022**
£100
£42
£14,843
£0
£1,636
£394
£546
£0
£6,153
£11,478
£55,286
£3,296
£3,770
£722
**£98,265**
£4,002
£686
£2,576
£13,054
£0
£3,902
£136
£713
£0
£2,316
£5,353
£415
£25,483
£8
£782
£590
£73
**£60,090**
£3,579
£2,744
£18,621
£2,734
£810
£1,151
£8,750
**£38,388**
£8,103
£0
£3,899
**£12,002**
**£110,480**|||**Budget**
**% of Bud**
£0
0.0%
£360
11.6%
£8,150
182.1%
£0
0.0%
£100
1636.4%
£200
197.0%
£320
170.6%
£0
0.0%
£10,000
61.5%
£12,460
92.1%
£54,893
100.7%
£0
0.0%
£200
1884.8%
£516
139.9%
**£87,199**
**112.7%**
£3,902
102.6%
£500
137.3%
£1,800
143.1%
£12,400
105.3%
£200
0.0%
£3,902
100.0%
£230
59.2%
£1,120
63.7%
£0
0.0%
£0
0.0%
£6,952
77.0%
£500
83.0%
£25,122
101.4%
£0
0.0%
£520
150.4%
£1,700
34.7%
£100
72.5%
**£58,948**
**101.9%**
£7,660
46.7%
£3,000
91.5%
£5,855
318.0%
£2,775
98.5%
£1,545
52.4%
£1,170
98.4%
£8,785
99.6%
**£30,790**
**124.7%**
£840
964.6%
£0
0.0%
£910
428.5%
**£1,750**
**685.8%**
**£91,488**
**120.8%**|||**2021**
£90
£445
£3
£0
£0
£54
£0
£0
£533
£11,459
£52,823
£287
£2,394
£498
**£68,585**
£3,600
£569
£1,500
£1,717
£50
£3,579
£96
£578
£0
£243
£6,773
£0
£24,858
£43
£552
£260
£143
**£44,561**
£2,728
£2,458
£3,375
£2,610
£1,313
£893
£8,361
**£21,740**
£868
£0
£3,341
**£4,209**
**£70,510**|**Note**
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12| ||||**£98,265**|||**£87,199**|||**£68,585**|| |||||||||||| |||||||**£58,948**||||| |||||||||||| |||||||**£30,790**||||| |||||||||||| |||||||**£1,750**||||| |||||||||||| |||||||**£91,488**||||| |||||||||||| |**Totals**|**Surplus (Deficit) for the year:**
**Redev. Surplus / Deficit:**
**Loans Outstanding:**
**Loan Pledges:**
**Balance brought forward:**
**Balance carried forward:**
**TOTAL Surplus (Deficit):**||**(£12,215)**
**(£115,958)**
**£237,500**
**£21,126**
**£210,411**
**£90,098**
**(£120,313)**||**(£4,289)**
**(£155,826)**
**£225,000**
**£22,640**
**£210,411**
**£50,296**
**(£160,115)**||**284.8%**
**74.4%**
**105.6%**
**93.3%**
**100.0%**
**179.1%**
**75.1%**||**(£1,925)**
**(£13,568)**
**£330,000**
**£22,341**
**£290,564**
**£210,411**
**(£80,152)**|13| **31-Jan-23** ## **Funds Summary** |**Fund**|**BFWD**|**Receipts**|**Trans In**|**Trans Out**|**Payments**|**CFWD**|**Change**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Elms Café**|£0.00|£14,773.58|£9,736.86|£9,736.86|£11,249.57|£3,524.01|£3,524.01| |**Fellowship**|£835.20|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£835.20|£0.00| |**General**|£57,336.58|£79,705.79|£24,664.08|£24,198.69|£96,914.85|£40,592.91|-£16,743.67| |**Maintenance**|£13,276.04|£0.00|£0.00|£13,276.04|£0.00|£0.00|-£13,276.04| |**Memorial**|£381.13|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£381.13|£0.00| |**Ministry Monies**|£944.06|£3,295.69|£465.39|£930.78|£2,315.61|£1,458.75|£514.69| |**Mission**|£300.58|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£300.58|£0.00| |**Redev Loans**|£22,340.75|£33,626.14|£39,761.28|£39,761.28|£12,500.00|£43,466.89|£21,126.14| |**Redevelopment**|£114,996.95|£57,130.11|£154,889.33|£141,613.29|£186,364.28|(£961.18)|-£115,958.13| |**Sabbatical**|£0.00|£500.00|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£500.00|£500.00| |**Totals**|**£210,411.29**|**£189,031.31**|**£229,516.94**|**£229,516.94**|**£309,344.31**|**£90,098.29**|**-£120,313.00**| ## **Bank Accounts Summary** |**Bank Accounts Summary**|**Bank Accounts Summary**| |---|---| |**Account**
**BFWD**
**Receipts**
**Trans In**
**Payments**
**Change**
**Trans Out**
**CFWD**|| |**Cash in Hand**
£60.17
£19,065.06
£1,331.63
£20,032.10
£138.25
£226.34
£198.42
**Closed Accounts**
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
**Dummy Account**
£0.00
£1,500.00
£1,500.00
£1,500.00
£0.00
£1,500.00
£0.00
**Ministry Monies**
£607.57
£3,295.69
£0.00
£465.39
£514.69
£2,315.61
£1,122.26
**Santander Com Res**
£182,850.20
£75.42
£57,447.32
£164,447.32
-£106,924.58
£0.00
£75,925.62
**Santander Current**
£26,893.35
£165,095.14
£169,237.99
£43,072.13
-£14,041.36
£305,302.36
£12,851.99|| |**£210,411.29**
**£189,031.31**
**£229,516.94**
**£229,516.94**
**Totals**
**-£120,313.00**
**£309,344.31**
**£90,098.29**|| |**Summary of Assets and Liabilities**
**Item**
**Open Bal**
**Closing Bal**
**Difference**
**Change**|| |£12,500.00
£12,500.00
£0.00
0.0%
**Assets - Car Park Land**
£267,976.00
£325,000.00
£57,024.00
21.3%
**Assets - Church Manse**
£1,949,971.00
£2,226,850.00
£276,879.00
14.2%
**Assets - Church Property**
£60.17
£198.42
£138.25
229.8%
**Assets - Cash in Hand**
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
0.0%
**Assets - Closed Accounts**
£607.57
£1,122.26
£514.69
84.7%
**Assets - Organisation Monies**
£182,850.20
£75,925.62
-£106,924.58
-58.5%
**Assets - Santander Com Res**
£26,893.35
£12,851.99
-£14,041.36
-52.2%
**Assets - Santander Current**
-£250,000.00
-£237,500.00
£12,500.00
-5.0%
**Liabilities - Loan**
-£80,000.00
£0.00
£80,000.00
-100.0%
**Liabilities - Loan Interest Free**|| |**Grand Total :**
**£2,110,858.29**
**£2,416,948.29**
**£306,090.00**
**14.5%**|| |**Month**
**Weeks**
**Budget**|**Total**
**Average**
**Gift Aid**
**Average**
**Open Offerings 2022**
**Average**| |5
January2022
£4,574.40|£4,656.00
£931.20
£3,910.00
£782.00
£914.88| |4
February2022
£4,574.40|£4,324.00
£1,081.00
£3,591.00
£897.75
£1,143.60| |4
March 2022
£4,574.40|£4,301.10
£1,075.28
£3,558.10
£889.53
£1,143.60| |4
April 2022
£4,574.40|£5,205.04
£1,301.26
£4,302.00
£1,075.50
£1,143.60| |5
May2022
£4,574.40|£5,422.93
£1,084.59
£4,205.00
£841.00
£914.88| |4
June 2022
£4,574.40|£4,546.00
£1,136.50
£3,838.00
£959.50
£1,143.60| |5
July2022
£4,574.40|£4,292.10
£858.42
£3,263.60
£652.72
£914.88| |4
August 2022
£4,574.40|£5,297.43
£1,324.36
£4,306.43
£1,076.61
£1,143.60| |4
September 2022
£4,574.40|£3,722.80
£930.70
£3,078.30
£769.58
£1,143.60| |5
October 2022
£4,574.40|£4,605.00
£921.00
£3,356.00
£671.20
£914.88| |4
November 2022
£4,574.40|£4,444.00
£1,111.00
£3,563.50
£890.88
£1,143.60| |4
December 2022
£4,574.40|£4,470.00
£1,117.50
£3,707.00
£926.75
£1,143.60| |**52**
**Totals**
**£54,892.80**|**£55,286.40**
**£1,063.20**
**£44,678.93**
**£859.21**
**£1,055.63**| **31-Jan-23** **Account Comments** ## **1. Bank Interest** Variance due to lower bank balances and low interest rates. ## **2. Church Activities** Higher due to Elms Café income being considerably higher, £14.5k cf £6.5k budget. ## **3. Donations** Higher due to funeral and sabbatical donations. ## **4. Income Tax Refund** Lower due to lower Gift Aided donations. ## **5. Sundry** Higher due to hub furniture grant and AV equipment refund. ## **6. Charities** Higher as includes Prostate Cancer (Men's Breakfast) and Ukraine Appeal donations. ## **7. Evangelism** Elms Café higher (£11.2k aganst £6.5k budget), remainder lower due to slow recovery from COVID restrictions and building works. ## **8. Pension Contributions** Contributions lower due to reduction in pension fund deficit contributions. ## **9. Heating/light/water** Lower due to not using Church building for part of the year due to the redevelopment. ## **10. Maintenance** Higher as includes chairs (£10,610), CCTV (£1,820) and roof repair (£1,876). ## **11. A.V. & Worship Group** Higher due to purchase of new AV equipment (£7,316). ## **12. Sundries** Higher as includes purchase of hub furniture covered by a grant. ## **13. Surplus (Deficit) for the year:** Deficit higher than budget but due to one-off items costing £21,662). **31-Jan-23** **Redevelopoment Statement for the Year 2022 Funds as at 31 Dec 2022 (100%)** _**31-Jan-23**_ |||**Receipts**||**Budget**
**Payments**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Redev Loans**
Donations - Loans
Interest
Tax Refund
Loan Repayments
**Redev Loans Totals**
**Net Movement**
**Opening Balance**
**Closing Balance**||£27,103.00
£5.14
£6,518.00
£0.00
**£33,626.14**||£0.00
£20,094.00 134.9%
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£4,236.00 153.9%
£12,500.00
£25,000.00
**£12,500.00**
**£21,126.14**
**£22,340.75**
**£43,466.89**| |**Redevelopment**
Donations
Fund Raising
Grants
Interest
Tax Refund
Transfers
Development Expenses
Loan Repayments
**Redevelopment Totals**
**Net Movement**
**Opening Balance**
**Closing Balance**|£123,285.03
£0.00
£20,000.00 616.4%
£2,873.94
£0.00
£0.00
£5,000.00
£0.00
£0.00
£28.47
£0.00
£0.00
£5,942.67
£0.00
£0.00
£13,276.04
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£186,364.28
£17,500.00 064.9%
£0.00
£80,000.00
£0.00
**£150,406.15**
**£266,364.28**
**(£115,958.13)**
**£114,996.95**
**(£961.18)**|||| **31-Jan-23** ## **SUTTON IN THE ELMS BAPTIST CHURCH** # **Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Statement for 2022** The Trustees present their Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2022 ## **Statutory Information** |**Registered Address**|2 Sutton Lane||| |---|---|---|---| ||Sutton in the Elms||| ||Broughton Astley||| ||Leicester||| ||Leicestershire||| ||LE9 6QF||| |**Charity Registration**|**Number:**1136715||| |**Trustees**|Jonathan Morley|Minister|| ||Heather Harris|Church Secretary|| ||Robert Foster||Treasurer| ||Peter David Clissold|from|March 2022| ||Andrew Davies||| ||Mark Wagstaf|until March|2022| ||David Wheway||| |**Property Trustees**|The Baptist Union|Corporation Limited|| ||Baptist House||| ||129 Broadway||| ||Didcot||| ||Oxfordshire||| ||OX11 8RT||| |**Bankers**|Santander, Bootle, Merseyside||| |**Independent Examiner**
John Denney, Chartered Accountant|||| ## **Charitable Object** The Charity, Sutton in the Elms Baptist Church, is governed by an Approved Governing Document (the Constitution) which states that the principal purpose of the charity is the advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist denomination to include the advancement of education, community service and such other general charitable purposes in such parts of the United Kingdom and the world as the Church shall determine. The Church occupies premises which are held by the Baptist Union Corporation Ltd, on Trusts which are entirely compatible with the above objective. ## **Organisational Structure and Decision-making processes** Members of the Church are accepted in accordance with the Constitution which requires them to be or to have been publicly baptised on the profession of faith in the Trinity, or based on their own public profession of faith. The Members’ Meeting normally takes place at least four times per year and has responsibility for the overall policy of the church. In accordance with the Constitution, the members appoint up to ten Trustees, including a Church Secretary and Treasurer who, together with the Minister, are collectively known as the Diaconate. They are responsible for the day to day running of the church’s work and witness, and the financial and legal aspects of the charity. All members are encouraged to take an active part in the spiritual and practical tasks involved in the furtherance of the charitable objective. Relevant matters may be submitted to the Church meeting by the Trustees for guidance, or may be raised by members for further consideration by the Trustees. The Constitution permits decisions to be made at Church meetings by appropriate majorities and the Church seeks to work by consensus wherever possible. ## **Objectives and Activities** In order to achieve the principal objective which is set out above, the Church provides a variety of activities both for its membership and for the local community. The aim is to show the love of Jesus Christ in both word and deed and to bring people into a closer relationship with Him as living Lord. Central to the work and witness of the Church is the act of regular public services of Christian worship. We seek to be a friendly and welcoming community and all are welcome to attend our services that take place each Sunday at 10.30 a.m. and on some Sundays at 6.00 p.m. There are also services at other times, in particular to celebrate Christmas and Easter; these are advertised on the Church’s printed notice-sheet, by leaflet, social media and on our website, www.suttonelms.co.uk. There is a programme for children and young people during services, as well as a crèche space available for use by pre-school children and their parents. The Church runs a series of house groups (known as Small Groups) in the church building and in the homes of some members for the growth of faith, fellowship and discipleship. Further details of these can be obtained from the Trustees on request, or are available at the Sunday services of worship. The Church is responsible for a “Mum and baby” group which runs on the premises on Tuesday mornings, as well as a longstanding Toddler Group, which meets on Thursday mornings. The purpose of both groups is to provide a safe place to develop friendships for local pre-school children and their parents/carers, demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ. The wellbeing café (Renew café) continues to be well attended each Wednesday lunchtime by a group of regulars, who meet to chat, undertake hobbies together and have an optional time of quiet reflection at the end of each weekly session. The group also take part in the village’s annual Christmas Tree festival, organised by the local Anglican church. The monthly Men’s Prayer breakfast continues to attract both young and old for a time of food, fellowship and prayer, with both local and invited speakers. During 2022, we were able to return to holding all events and groups on the premises without the previous restrictions that had been put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the winter, we opened up the premises as a “Warm Space” on Friday afternoons for a few months. The Church usually runs various events for youngsters and families during the year which, in 2022, included an Easter trail, a Light Party (Halloween alternative), Bonfire party and various Christmas events. The purpose of these events is to provide enjoyable, entertaining and affordable activities for the children and their families, to build friendships and community and to introduce them to the Christian faith. In 2022, we also held a special family-friendly event to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The Church operates systems to ensure that all people working with children and vulnerable adults are appropriately vetted with regard to the Disclosure and Barring Service with an up-to-date Safeguarding Policy in place and regular training provided by the East Midlands Baptist Association. The church premises are normally well used by a variety of groups from the community during daytime and evenings, providing a variety of activities for both children and adults and the premises are also available to hire for private party bookings and other one-off events. We are a Fairtrade Church, meaning that all tea/coffee provided on church premises is Fairtrade, we also request that all user groups also provide Fairtrade products. ## **Achievements and Performance** In February 2022 we opened “The Elms Café” in the hub area of the premises – this is a not-for-profit community café, run by volunteers, which is open 10 hours each week and serves cake, drinks and light lunches. The aims of the café are to provide a warm, welcoming meeting space for the local community, with good food, a friendly welcome and the opportunity to build relationships. This has proven to be very popular and has built up a good number of “regulars” over time. At the request of a local member of the community, we have set-up a “Community Veg box” in the entrance to our premises, where people can donate or take any fruit or vegetables that have been donated. We also provide opportunities to give to a local Foodbank, through a regular donations box and we hold a special collection at our annual Harvest service. The main church building underwent a refurbishment and redecoration during 2022 and we were thrilled to re-dedicate it to use for God’s glory in September 2022, with many visitors in attendance, including representatives from other local churches, user groups, community groups as well as previous ministers. Whilst the success of the Church’s programmes can be indicated numerically, including financially, other less tangible measures of success such as strength of fellowship, quality of pastoral support and spiritual growth are equally important. The church continues to encourage all its members to support one another practically, pastorally and in prayer. As well as our regular services, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of the journey through life. Through infant dedication we thank God for the gift of life, through baptism we celebrate faith in Jesus, 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. In 2022, sadly two of our most longstanding church members went to be with the Lord. We welcomed three new people into church membership during the year and, at 31st December 2022, the membership stood at 84. We celebrated the baptism of one of our church family in October 2022. We had a change of staffing at the end of 2022, with the church administrator and cleaner stepping down after several years each in their respective roles. A new cleaner has been appointed and we will seek to appoint a new administrator in 2023. ## **Financial Review** The Church continues to raise the funds it needs to carry on its activities from within its own membership and congregation. In 2022, weekly offerings were very slightly above budget, expenditure was also up due to various one-off purchases as part of the redevelopment (e.g. AV equipment, chairs, CCTV and repairs to the roof). Funds continued to be raised from within the church, fundraising events and from external grant-making bodies in order to finance the redevelopment project. The church financially supports a Sponsor Child in Colombia through Compassion UK, Tearfund’s Children at Risk Programme, and has made donations to the work of Spurgeons’ Child Care and other local healthrelated charities. The church also financially and prayerfully supports a previous minister and his family in their ministry in Cape Town, South Africa. The Church expressed its part in the life of the wider church by making donations to national and international Christian organisations and societies with Christian aims and objectives compatible with the church’s own charitable purpose, and also to some non-Christian charities, chosen by church members as of particular significance. The Church is heavily dependent on its membership working as volunteers in all aspects of the Church’s activities, many of which run with little or no impact on the Church’s expenditure, but nevertheless contribute substantially to the achievement of the Church’s objectives. The financial results for the year, together with a summary of the accounting policies adopted, are set out in the accompanying financial statements. The Reserves Policy is set at four months of budgeted expenditure; such an amount would provide working capital to cover fluctuations in income and expenditure and to meet emergency calls on cash, for example for emergency repairs. 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