## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 1st January 2022 31[st] December 2022 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Sidley Baptist Church **Other names charity is known by** Freedom Church Bexhill **Registered charity number (if any)** 1158651 |**Charity's principal address**|Claremont Road|| |---|---|---| ||Bexhill On Sea|| ||East Sussex|| ||**Postcode**|**TN39 5BX**| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Rev GuyPartridge|Trustee||| ||Darren Cooke|Trustee/MiT||| ||JennyHall|Chair of Trustees||| ||PhilipAsselin|Trustee/Treasurer||| ||Heidi Belton|Trustee/Secretary||| ||BarryChaseley|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| ||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |||||| |||||| March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser**|**Name**
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**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 Charitable Incorporated Organisation (eg. trust deed, constitution) As a CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods The Church Members' Meeting shall appoint Elders, Deacons, a (eg. appointed by, elected by) Church Secretary and a Church Treasurer to be responsible for the governance of the Church and where there is a Minister that person is also a Charity Trustee because of their role and responsibilities. ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: Pastor Guy Partridge reduced his hours further to one day a week as his duties at CAP (Christians against Poverty) increased. CAP have offices in our building and as we are the Lead Church for CAP this continues to work well for both organisations. - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Our MiT (Minister in Training) brings a great contribution to the church training of trustees; both spiritually and in the running of it. - the charity’s organisational The coronavirus epidemic, though lessened, is still with us and several of - structure and any wider our involvements have necessarily been curtailed, though things are - network with which the charity improving, and they are beginning to open up. - works; - relationship with any related We continue with our Sunday evening prayer meetings on Zoom. parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** March **2012** **TAR** 2 The advancement of the Christian faith in conformance with the Baptist declaration of principles. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** We have been fortunate enough to have a new believer; a qualified cook who is organising a lunch club to be held once a week in the church hall. This should be up and running in the new year. One of our members began contacting the local food outlets - some big supernarkets and some smaller shops to see if they might support a local “food market” for those in desperate financial need. Not only has she been able to get this support but has applied for and received financial grants from organisations that have charity money available for good causes. Several thousands of pounds have being donated. Currently grants up to £13,000 toward an outside space for relaxation and children’s area **Summary of the main activities** attached to our food outlet “The Marketplace”. The amount of people **undertaken for the public** coming increases all the time. There is a great need here and is being **benefit in relation to these** met, though it can be hard work getting in the supplies. **objects (include within this section the statutory** We have been blessed with the MiT’s wife who has been employed as the **declaration that trustees have** Children’s and Families Worker. We now have a thriving toddler group **had regard to the guidance** once a week, Messy Church should be up and running in the New Year **issued by the Charity** and a Sunday School is beginning to grow. **Commission on public benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance Please see summary of main activities as these overlap. **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** The church is growing and almost doubled in membership over the last **during the year** 18 months. Therefore, we have received further certificates for those involved in the various activities in the church including: DBS checks Certificates for kitchen Designated Safeguarding Certificates are still up to date. We have 4 qualified prayer ministry team people who have set up training for prayer ministry within the church. This goes well and there is the option to have prayer after the service on Sundays together with longer term ministry if so desired. A new Administrator was employed. A Christianity Explore group course was set up and was very well attended. We have 8 explore groups with attendees ranging from 4-12 people. Our Minister in Training advised us that he had been called to another church once finalising his training in the summer of 2023. His wife, our C&FW also resigned as a result of their calling to another church, ## **Section E Financial review** March **2012** **TAR** 5 Three months total expenditure plus a further 3 months of wages. **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** ## **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); Donations and gifts from members and visitors to the church. Some of the funds are also obtained via Gift Aid Refunds from HMRC as well as GASDS (Gift Aid Small Donations). Interest is earned on funds held by the Baptist Union Manse Trust Fund on our behalf. They manage the investment of the money. - 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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** March **2012** **TAR** 6 ||**Charity Name**
**Sidley Baptist Church CIO**|**Charity Name**
**Sidley Baptist Church CIO**|**Charity Name**
**Sidley Baptist Church CIO**|**Charity Name**
**Sidley Baptist Church CIO**|**Charity Name**
**Sidley Baptist Church CIO**|**No (if any)**
**1158651**|**No (if any)**
**1158651**|**No (if any)**
**1158651**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
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**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**|||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
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**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations and Gifts from individuals|**-**
**46,203-**||**-**
**250-**||**-**
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**46,453-**||**-**
**57,510-**| |Gift Aid Reclaimed|**-**
**5,597-**||**-**
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**5,361-**| |Letting of property for charitable purposes|**-**
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**8,162-**| |Other Income(Bank/Manse fund Interest reciev|e**-**
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**57,345-**| |Training and volunteers|**-**
**2722-**||**-**
**758-**||**-**
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**3480-**||**-**
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**8,286-**||**-**
**6,171-**| |Premises Expenses|**-**
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**20,954-**||**-**
**36,053-**| |Administrative Overheads|**-**
**3,345-**||**-**
**68-**||**-**
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**3,413-**||**-**
**3,318-**| |Professional Fees|**-**
**6,154-**||**-**
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**6,154-**||**-**
**1,987-**| |Financial Costs|**-**
**365-**||||**-**
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**32,207-**||**-**
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**28,176-**
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**--**| CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 26/07/2023 3 |||||||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**| |||||||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**| |||||||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**| |||||||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**| |||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||||**When due**| ||**Details**|||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||||**(optional)**| |||||||||||| |||||||**-**|**--**|||| |||||||**-**|**--**|||| |||||||**-**|**--**|||| |||||||**-**|**--**|||| |||Signature||Print|Name||||Date of approval|| |||||Mr Philip Aselin||||||| |||||||||||| ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 26/07/2023 4 1 2 3 4 5a 5b 5c 5d 6 7 8 CCXX R5 accounts (SS) 26/07/2023 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 CCXX R6 accounts (SS) 26/07/2023 6 CCXX R7 accounts ISSI 2610712023 CCXX R8 accounts ISSI 2610712023 Freedom Church Bexhill Year Ended 31 December 2022 Independent examiner's report to tbe trustees I report on the accounts of the Trust for the period ended 31 December 2022. which are sei out on pages 7 to 10. Re$pedive responsibilities of trustees and examiner The charity's irusiees are responsible for the preparaiion of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under se¢tion 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 {the 201 l Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: examin¢ the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act- to follow the pro¢¢dur¢s laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5Mb) of the 2011 Act; and to sthte whether particular matters have come to my artention. Basis of independellt examiner's report My examination was carried out in a¢cordanc¢ with the g¢nernl Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the Charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking ¢xplanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence thal would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a'trn¢ and fair view and the rewrt is limited to ihose matters set out in the statement below. Independent exAminer'$ s¢atement In connection with my examination, no matter has ¢ome to my attention.. (l) which gives me reasonable Cause to b¢li¢ve that in any material respect the requirements: to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act. and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requir¢m¢nls of the 201 l Act have not been met- or (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drnwn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be r¢ached. Name: Ix51ie JohD T&8ker FCCA Relevant professional qualification or i*)dy'. A5￿)ela110n of Chartered Certified Accountants Address: Ryefields Ltd. Unit 139 Airport House, Purley Way. Croydon. Surrey CRO OXZ. Date.. 27 October 2023