## **Report of the Trustees** # **and** # **Unaudited Financial Statements for the Period ended 31[st] March 2026** ## **For** # **MOR BASELIOS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN - ORTHODOX CHURCH BRISTOL** **Charity number: 1151586** 1 ## **MOR BASELIOS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN - ORTHODOX CHURCH BRISTOL** ## **CONTENTS** |Trustees Annual Report|-|3 - 6| |---|---|---| |Receipts and Payment Account|-|7| |Statement of Assets and Liabilities|-|8| 2 # **MOR BASELIOS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN - ORTHODOX CHURCH BRISTOL** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report** ## For the Year Ended 31 March 2026 The trustees have pleasure in presenting their report together with the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2026 ## **Reference & Administrative Information** Charity Name : MOR BASELIOS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH BRISTOL Charity No : 1151586 Address : 34 ROWLANDSON GARDENS BRISTOL BS7 9UH ## Trustees (Church Council) 1. Mr Biju Papparil Varkey 2. Mr Mathew Pothanickal Kunjachen 3. Mr George Varghese Enniriyil 4. Mr Rajeev Cherian 5. Mr Eltho Varghese 6. Mr Shinoy Thomas 7. Mr Sam Kuruvilla 8. Mr Shijin Ulahannane 9. Mr Saibu C George 10. Mr Jinesh Baby 11. Mr Regimon Abraham 12. Mr Raju Mathai 3 Structure, Governance & Management ## **Constitution** This Charity is a Christian church. The Church was granted charitable status by The Charity Commission, United Kingdom. ## **Appointment of Trustees** Trustees are elected to post. ## **Management** The trustees are responsible for the strategic direction and governance of the Church whilst day-to-day running. We also have several volunteer leaders to assist on a rota basis ## **Objectives & Activities** Charitable purposes 1. We provide, primarily, spiritual service to the community. 2. The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other hardships. 3. We help non-members as well in the community, up on receiving appeal for help through the members. 4. Maintaining the faith, traditions and doctrines of the Jacobite Syrian Church; Conducting holy Eucharist, Sacraments Providing holy Sacrament to all its members; Establishing charitable institutions for the welfare of the members of the Church and for the poor and needy; 5. The object of the charity is for the benefit of the public: 6. The Trustees shall hold the trust funds and its income upon trust to apply them for the following objects (“THE OBJECTS”): 7. The advancement of the Christian Faith especially the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox faith in accordance with the articles of faith contained in the schedule of this constitution. 8. The Advancement of Education and the Relief of poverty ## **Activities** **1.** Festival **2.** Sunday School **3.** Youth meetings **4.** Women’s gathering 4 ## **Activities in detail:** During 2025/26, Mor Baselious Yeldho Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church continued its religious, educational, charitable and community activities. Holy Mass was conducted every Sunday at 12:00 PM, except on fifth Sundays, with English Holy Mass conducted on every third Sunday. The church observed major religious occasions including Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter and Christmas. The Annual Perunal was held on 4 and 5 October 2025. ## **Martha Mariam Vanitha Samajam (Women’s Gathering)** The Martha Mariam Vanitha Samajam supported the church through prayer, charitable and community activities and fellowship among women. ## **Youth Association** The Mor Baselious Youth Association engaged young members aged 21 and above through charitable work, community service, spiritual activities and fellowship programmes. ## **Sunday School** The Sunday School provided religious education to children aged 4–18, focusing on Christian faith, Bible teaching and the traditions and history of the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church. Through these activities, the church continued to promote worship, spiritual development, fellowship, charity and community service throughout the yea 5 ## **MOR BASELIOS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN ORTHODOX - CHURCH BRISTOL** ## **Financial Review** Gross income for the period is £38,564.44. The expenses are £309,304.00; this includes a major charitable donation of £ 291,650.00 to MOR BASELIOS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH- CIO. I hereby submit this report for your kind perusal. On behalf of all trustees Biju Papparil Varkey Name/Signature 6 ||**MOR BASELIOUS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN CHURCH BRISTOL**|**MOR BASELIOUS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN CHURCH BRISTOL**|**MOR BASELIOUS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN CHURCH BRISTOL**|**MOR BASELIOUS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN CHURCH BRISTOL**|**MOR BASELIOUS YELDHO JACOBITE SYRIAN CHURCH BRISTOL**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||| |||**For the**
**period from**|Period start
date|**To**|Period End
Date|| |**Charity Number: 1151586**|||01/04/2025||31/03/2026|| |||||||| |**Section A Receipts andpayments**||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|
**Endowme**
**nt funds**|**Total**
**funds**|**Last year**| |||**to the nearest**
**£**|**to the**
**nearest £**|**to the**
**nearest £**|**to the**
**nearest £**|**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Offering||**3,568**|**-**|**-**|**3,568**|**3,423**| |Subscription||**11,210**|**-**|**-**|**11,210**|**31,360**| |Special collection||**214**|**-**|**-**|**214**|**735**| |Donation||**2,642**|**-**|**-**|**2,642**|**37,757**| |HMRC Gift aid||**18,319**|**-**|**-**|**18,319**|**15,659**| |Bank Interest||**2,612**|**-**|**-**|**2,612**|**3,782**| |**_Sub total_** _(Gross income for AR)_||**38,564.44**|**-**|**-**|**38,564**|**92,716**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| |**_Sub total_**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
**-**| |||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **||**38,564.44**|**-**|**-**|**38,564**|**92,716.20**| |||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||| |Rent||**1,905**|**-**|**-**|**1,905**|**6,500**| |Charity donations||**291,650**|**-**|**-**|**291,650**|**3,500**| |Honorarium to priests and bishop||**2,400**|**-**|**-**|**2,400**|**10,950**| |Travel||**377**|**-**|**-**|**377**|**71**| |Legal and Professional fees||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,550**| |Equipments expensed||**-**|||**-**|**730**| |Refreshments||**2,390**|**-**|**-**|**2,390**|**11,321**| |Anniversary expenses||**1,335**|**-**|**-**|**1,335**|**7,229**| |Youth Meets, VBS & outreach||**9,109**|||**9,109**|**10,057**| |Bank charges||**74**|**-**|**-**|**74**|**255**| |Website & Software||**35**|||**35**|| |Printing & stationary||28|||**28**|| |**_Sub total_**||**309,303.65**|**-**|**-**|**309,304**|**52,162.30**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |||||||| |**_Sub total_**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
**-**| |||||||| |**_Totalpayments_**||**309,304**|**-**|**-**|
**309,304**|**52,162.30**| |||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||**-**
**270,739.21**|**-**|**-**|**-**
**270,739**|**40,553.90**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|**-**|**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**271,272.47**|
**-**|**-**|**271,272**|**230,718.57**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_**||**533.26**|**-**|**-**|
**533**|**271,272.47**| |||||||| |||||||| 7 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**|**Details**||**Unrestric**
**ted funds**|**Restricte**
**d funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**to nearest £ **|**to nearest**
**£**|**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Cash/ Cheques in hand|||**-**|**-**| ||Cash at bank||**533.26**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**.**|**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**
~~(aree balances with receits and~~||**533.26**

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payments account(s))||OK
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**£**|**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to**
**which asset**
**belongs**|**Cost**
**(optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to**
**which asset**
**belongs**|**Cost**
**(optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to**
**which**
**liability**
**relates**|**Amount**
**due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**||||**-**|| |||||**-**|| ||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print Name||Date of
approval| ||||Biju Papparil Varkey||03/09/2026| ||8
03/09/2026
Sam Kuruvilla|||||