Period start date
Period end date Day 31 Month 12 Year 2021
**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Day 01 Month 01 Year 2021
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** BRADFORD ON AVON BAPTIST CHURCH
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1140976
**Charity's principal address** OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL BRADFORD ON AVON WILTSHIRE **Postcode BA15 1DA**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Andrew Gadsby|DEACON|||
||Ian McDonald|DEACON|||
||MARK HOPE|DEACON|||
||Colin Campbell|DEACON|||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||
## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**TAR**
1
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document RULES AND REGULATIONS (e.g., trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted ASSOCIATION (e.g., trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods TRUSTEES APPOINTED AT CHURCH MEMBERS MEETING (e.g., appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
THE MAIN OBJECT OF THE CHURCH IS TO SEEK TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN LINE WITH BAPTIST PRINCIPLES IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR BASIS OF FAITH.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its** THE CHURCH ALSO CARRIES OUT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN THE **governing document** UK AND ABROAD.
**TAR**
2
THE CHURCHES MAIN ACTIVITIES ARE SUNDAY SERVICES, MORNING AND EVENING.
INCLUDING ALSO ON SUNDAYS, BIBLE STUDY GROUP, ONE SUNDAY SCHOOL GROUPS AND ONE PRAYER MEETING.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
THERE IS ALSO A MID WEEK PRAYER MEETING, ONE CHILDRENS CLUBS, PROMOTION OF MISSION AND CHRISTIAN CHARITY MEETINGS, MUMS AND TOTS GROUP, HOME AND HOSPITAL VISITS FOR ILL AND ELDERLY, LADIES BIBLE DISCUSION GROUPS, EMPLOYMENT OF NEW PASTOR – 01-10-2017
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grant making;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
**TAR**
3
Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
BECAUSE OF THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF THE CHURCHS’ WORK & OBJCTIVES, ACHIEVMENTS CANNOT ALWAYS BE QUANTIFIED AS WITH SAY A BUISNESS.
ALTHOUGH THE COVID PANDEMIC HAS CONTINUED TO HAVE A KNOCK-ON AFFECT THE CHURCH HAS MAINTAINED IT’S WORK WELL.
AT CHRISTMAS WE SUPPLIED A LARGE CHRISTMAS OUTREACH PROGRAM TO THE TOWN.
ALSO, AT EASTER WE DISTRIBUTED BOOKS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
THE SUNDAY SERVICES AND MID WEEK MEETINGS HAVE BEEN UPDATED TO A BETTER QUALITY OF LIVESTREAM FORMAT.
THE CHURCH FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED 11 MISSION ORGANISATIONS ABROAD.
**TAR**
4
**Section E Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity holds sufficient funds in reserve to meet its immediate ongoing expenditure. The trustees allocate any available surplus in support of selected Christian organisations or missionary work.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** MARK LEONARD HOPE
**Position (e.g., Secretary, Chair,** DEACON **etc)**
**Date** 31st October 2022
**TAR**
5