CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Charity Name
WHADDON ROAD EVANGELICAL PRESBYfERIAN CHURCH
On accounts for the year
ended
31 MARCH 2025
Charity no
(if any)
1159580
Set out on pages
1and2
(remeniber lo include the page numbers of addib'on31 sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 3110312025.
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act
2011 ('the Act.).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145{5Xb) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
ome to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
cause to believe that in. any material respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
th8 Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
Independent
examinerfs statement
I have no COnrnS and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Date:
(Jt
Name:
Dale Mitchell
Relevant professional
qualification{s) or body
(if any):
FCCA
Azets Holdings Limited
9 Thorney Leys Park
Witney
Oxfordshire
OX28 4GE
Address:
|**Whaddon Road Evangelical Presbyterian Church**|**Whaddon Road Evangelical Presbyterian Church**|**1159580**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**
01.04.2024|**To**|31.03.2025|||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**Last year**||
|---|---|
|**to the nearest**
**£**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||
|General donations
**80,367**
**-**
**-**
**80,367**
**85,249**
Misc Income
**720**
**-**
**-**
**720**
**1,515**
Donations(GEPC)
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Stewardship
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,187**
Grant
**-**
**55,116**
**-**
**55,116**
**77,616**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_**81,087**
**55,116**
**-**
**136,203**
**170,567**
~~===>==~~||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**81,087**
**55,116**
**-**
**136,203**
**170,567**
~~= ————~~||
|**A3 Payments**
Salaries
**43,371**
**51,514**
**-**
**94,885**
**88,096**
Propertycosts
**25,397**
**7,417**
**-**
**32,814**
**40,625**
Ministrycosts
**3,097**
**-**
**-**
**3,097**
**3,938**
Other costs
**2,250**
**-**
**-**
**2,250**
**4,047**
Payment from Missionaryfund
**5,650**
**-**
**-**
**5,650**
**2,400**
Payments from Compassion fund
**1,200**
**-**
**-**
**1,200**
**6,015**
Donations to Gloucester EPC
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,045**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 80,965**
**58,931**
**-**
**139,896**
**169,166**
~~=—s===—=~~||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**80,965**
**58,931**
**-**
**139,896**
**169,166**
~~——————~~||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**122**
**- 3,815**
**-**
**- 3,693**
**1,401**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**55,813**
**7,417**
**-**
**63,230**
**61,829**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**55,935**
**3,602**
**- 59,537**
**63,230**
~~SSSSSS~~||
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
||||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**55,325**
**3,602**
**-**
**10**
**-**
**-**
**600**
**-**
**-**
**55,935**
**3,602**
**-**
Bank account
Cash
Rent deposit
**_Total cash funds_**
~~SSe=~~|||||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments|(agree balances with receipts and payments||||
||account(s))||OK
OK||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
||||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**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**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~a~~|||||
||||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**||**When due**|
||**Details**||**liability relates**
**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**|2
Unrestricted
**713**
Restricted
**1,274**
Unrestricted
**465**
Unrestricted
**735**
**-**
Date of approval
Print Name
Signature
Wages - D Pfeiffer
Legal & Professional
HMRC - PAYE & NI
HMRC - PAYE & NI
David Rhys Pfeiffer
27/01/2026
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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 04 2024 31 03 2025
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Whaddon Road Evangelical Presbyterian Church
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1159580
**Charity's principal address** Rear of Claremont Whaddon Road Cheltenham, Gloucestershire **GL52 5LZ**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
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||Andrew Young||Resigned 28/01/2025||
||Manual Jebakumar
Richard Jeyapaul||||
||Dr Toni Camilo Saad||Appointed 28/01/2025||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **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**
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 11 DEC 2014 AMENDED ON Type of governing document 08/01/2016
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
New trustees are appointed by existing trustees Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
The church belongs to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales (EPCEW) and therefore has links with the other churches (about 20) in that denomination.
- 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 objects of the CIO are:
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
1. To advance the Christian faith in accordance with the standards of Westminster confession of faith and catechism applicable to the church fellowship, and in other parts of the United Kingdom or the world, including foreign missions, as the trustees may from time to time think fit. To fulfil such other purposes which are exclusively charitable, according to the law of England and Wales, and are connected with the charitable work of the trust.
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2. To relieve persons who are in the conditions of need or hardship or who are aged or sick, and to relieve the distress caused thereby on the said location and in such other parts of the United Kingdom or the world, as the trustees may from time to time think fit.
## **Activities:**
## **Objectives and Activities**
The Whaddon Road Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Cheltenham is a group of Christians who are committed to following Jesus Christ.
- We are a Bible based church, viewing the Bible as our rule for what we believe and how we live our lives.
- We are an Evangelical church which means we are centred on the 'Gospel' or 'Good News' about Jesus Christ coming into the world to save people.
**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)**
- We are a Presbyterian church which means we follow an elderled form of church government and belong to a wider network of churches.
- We are a friendly church, welcoming anyone who wants to follow, or find out about following, Jesus Christ.
We also seek to relieve persons who are in conditions of needs or hardship, or aged or sick, and to relieve the distress caused thereby in line with Biblical principles.
These activities fulfil the objectives of the charity, as stated in the Trust Deed, which are to further the Christian faith.
## **Statutory Declaration:**
We the Trustees confirm that we are fully aware of the Public Benefit obligations for Trustees detailed within the Charity Commission Guides on Public Benefit ref PB1, PB2 & PB3. Furthermore, all decisions, taken by Trustees, relevant to Public Benefit, within the period of this report comply with these obligations.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
## **Achievement and Performance**
The church meets for the public worship of God morning and evening on Sundays, and for Bible Study and prayer at the midweek meeting on Wednesday. These meetings are mostly led by our minister Rev David Pfeiffer and Rev Larry Wilkes, and take place at our church premises.
Our normal activities include a weekly (in term-time) sessions for the “Whaddon Lights” children’s choir, made up of children from the local area. These are followed by termly choir concerts.
We also run the following groups and activities:
- Ladies’ group which involve bible study and refreshments.
- Men’s groups which involve bible study and refreshments.
All of these are in conjunction with the pastoral care (including hospitality) of the people by the elders (David Pfeiffer and Larry Wilkes) but also in an organic way among the community.
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## **Section E Financial review**
## **Reserves policy**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The accounts show an overall deficit of £3,693. There was a deficit of £3,815 on restricted funds. This was due to the £7,417 that was already left in the restricted fund from 2023/24 being spent on property costs. There was a £3,602 surplus (restricted funds) in relation to the grant received from Mission to the World for Amanda Wilkes salary, due to the grant received in the year being higher than the costs to employ Amanda Wilkes. That leaves an unrestricted surplus of £122.
**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);
General donations received in the year has decreased from £85,249 in 2024 to £80,367 in 2025, due to a decrease in the general offerings received from the congregation. However, a significant amount of the gift aid was not yet reclaimed in the 2024-25 tax year, to be reclaimed in the following tax year (2025-26).
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## ~~a~~ **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)** David Rhys Pfeiffer Manual Jebakumar Richard Jeyapaul ~~ee~~ **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee and Chair Trustee **etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** 27/01/2026 ~~|~~
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