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|Names and addresses
ofadvisers (Optional
information)|Names and addresses
ofadvisers (Optional
information)|Names and addresses
ofadvisers (Optional
information)|Names and addresses
ofadvisers (Optional
information)||||||||
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|T|eofadviser
Name||Address||||||||
|Name ofchief executive or names ofsenior staff members||||(Optional||information)|||||
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|Description ofthe charity's trusts|||||||||||
||Type ofgoverning
document|t Constitution
—6~ December||2015|||||||
||(ag, trust deed, constitudort)||||||||||
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How the charity is constituted||Unincorporated
association||||||||
||(eg. trust, association,
company)||||||||||
||Trustee selection methods||Elected from the membership|in accordance
with|||our Constitution||||
||teg. appointed
by, elected by)||||||||||
|Additional
governance
issues||(Optional
information)|||||||||
|You may choose to include
additional
information,
where
relevant,
about:|||Members
ofthe Church are accepted
in accordance
with the Constitution
which requires
them to be, or to have been, publicly
baptised
by full
immersion
on the profession
offaith
in Jesus Christ; or, following
other
modes of baptism,
to renew their public profession
of faith
in Jesus Christ.||||||||
|~|policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and
training
oftrustees;||A members
meeting
('Church
Meeting')
is held at least three times a year
and has responsibility
for the overall
policy ofthe Church.
In accordance
with our Constitution
the members
appoint a minimum
ofthree Trustees||||||||
|~|the charity's
organisational||who are responsible
for the|day to day||running
of|the Church's||work|and|
||structure
and any wider||witness, as well as the financial
and||legal aspects||ofthe charity.
All||||
||network
with which the charity||members
are encouraged
to take an||appropriate||part in the spiritual|||and|
||works;||practical tasks involved
in the furtherance
ofthe charitable|||||objective.|||
|~|relationship
with any related
parties;||The Church is a member of
Eastern Baptist Association|the Baptist Union of Great Britain,
and the Evangelical
Alliance.|||||the South||
|~|trustees'
consideration
of||||||||||
||major risks and the system||Our Property Trustees are:||||||||
||and procedures
to manage||The Baptist Union Corporation
Limited||||||||
||them.||Baptist House||||||||
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||||Oxfordshire.
OX11 8RT||||||||
|||||||The principle
purpose
ofthe Church
is the advancement
ofthe Christian|The principle
purpose
ofthe Church
is the advancement
ofthe Christian|
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|||||||faith according to the principles
ofthe Baptist denomination.
The Church||
|Summary
ofthe objects
charity set out in its|||||ofthe|may also advance
education
and carry out other charitable
purposes
the United
Kingdom
and/or
other parts ofthe world.|in|
|governing|document|||||||
|||||||In order to achieve the principal
objective, the Church
provides a variety||
|||||||of activities
both to its membership
and to the community
generally.
The||
|||||||aim is to show the love ofJesus Christ
in word and deed and to bring||
|||||||people into a closer relationship
with him as living Lord.||
|||||||One aspect ofthe work ofthe Church
is the provision
of regular
public||
|||||||services of Christian
worship,
which take place on a Sunday
morning|at|
|||||||10.30am, along with occasional services at other times which are||
|||||||advertised
on the church and community
centre notice boards and on|our|
|||||||Facebook pages.
All services are open to anyone.
During the regular||
|||||||morning
service, we aim to provide activities for children
and young||
|||||||people.||
|||||||The Church
runs two mid-week
groups
which are open to all for the||
|||||||development
offaith and discipleship.
Some smaller groups meet||
|||||||fortnightly
or monthly
for mutual
encouragement,
accountability
and||
|||||||prayer. There is also a monthly
men's breakfast
and discussion.
We hold||
|Summary
ofthe main
activities undertaken
for
public benefit in relation|||||the
to|a monthly
prayer meeting
which
is advertised
on our church news sheet
and
in Sunday services. We also have a WhatsApp
prayer group, where
members
can post personal
and wider prayer requests.||
|these objects (include within
this section the statutory
declaration
that trustees
have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity||||||There are regular social events for the church
youth and their friends,
and men's and women's
socials are arranged
from time to time. We also
run monthly
interest groups,
such as a walking
group, book club, craft
night and cake club.||
|Commission
benefit)||on public||||The Church owns and runs the Community
Centre where
it is based.
Rooms are hired out for activities such as exercise classes, children' s||
|||||||music and activity groups,
counselling,
teaching,
choirs, training
and||
|||||||parties.||
|||||||The Church
runs a Toddler group, called Little Lambs, which meets on||
|||||||Wednesdays
with the purpose
of assisting the community
and||
|||||||demonstrating
the love ofJesus Christ.
It is preceded
by a short session||
|||||||called Diddy Disciples, for toddlers
and their carers, which consists of|a|
|||||||short Bible story and a song.||
|||||||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.||
|||||||The Trustees
have read the Charity Commission
guidance
on public||
|||||||benefit, and are satisfied that the activities
outlined
above clearly||
|||||||demonstrate
that the charity
is providing
a benefit to the public.||
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|Summary
ofthe main
achievements
ofthe charity
during the year|||A number of new people started to attend
our weekly Sunday services.
Fortnightly
mid-week
meetings
and monthly
prayer meetings
continued,
with a small group of regulars
attending.
We held a Good Friday and
Easter Sunday service, which were advertised
in our Sunday
morning|
||||notice sheet, around the Centre and on our Facebook page. On Easter|
||||Saturday,
Open Hands, a group for adults
with learning
disability
or|
||||mental
health issues,
held a service and tea in our ground
floor space. A|
||||few ofour church members
joined them for this.|
||||In April 2022, the church leadership
team had an away day to review
all|
||||of our church activities,
looking at what was working
well, where and how|
||||improvements
might be made and what we hoped to do in the coming|
||||year. One ofthe team also met with the local residents'
committee
to|
||||begin planning
an event for the Queen's Jubilee. Our minister wrote a|
||||piece for the local magazine. She also sent out pastoral
letters to our|
||||congregation
from time to time through
the year, to keep everyone
up to|
||||date with church plans and vision.|
||||We continued
to run monthly
craft nights, book club and our Refresh|
||||space, all with a small, regular number
attending.
Our monthly
men' s|
||||Saturday
morning
breakfast
discussion
time continued
to be popular,
with
12-15regularly
coming along. The Muddy Boots walking
group also|
||||continued
with their weekly walks and monthly
outings. This has|
||||continued
to be very popular as an opportunity
for people to get out in the|
||||fresh air and have a social connection. The monthly
quiz nights continued|
||||for a time but in-person
numbers
stayed
low so these were discontinued|
||||after September.|
||||In May, our minister attended
the annual
Baptist Assembly
conference|
||||which enabled
her to connect with other Baptist ministers
and hear from
leaders ofthe Baptist Union on current issues facing the church. On 27"|
||||May, one ofour members
held a film evening —watching
a film, followed|
||||by some discussion
about the issues that
it raised. This was well|
||||attended
and enjoyed
by church members
and their friends.|
||||In June, we held our annual
general
meeting,
when the budget was|
||||presented
and agreed upon. The leadership
team put forward a proposal|
||||to offer one ofour church members a 2-day per week appointment
as a|
||||placement
for a theology,
mission
and evangelism
course, which she|
||||hoped to begin
in September 2022. They explained
that this appointment|
||||would also benefit the church,
in terms of mission
activities and pastoral|
||||care. Itwas agreed that the church could financially
support
this|
||||appointment
for one year from September,
with a second year to be|
||||considered
iffinances allowed.
In December 2022, itwas decided that|
||||the church was able to fund this appointment
for a further year. Neat2Eat|
||||had made the decision to close The Haven cafh on our premises,
due to|
||||consistent losses and staff difficulties. The church were informed
at the|
||||AGM and encouraged
to pray about how we could best use the cafe|
||||space going forward. One person was accepted into church membership|
||||this month.|
||||On 3"June, a fair was held on the Green to celebrate the Queen' s|
||||Jubilee. A couple of members
ofthe church had been on the planning|
||||committee,
along with members
ofthe local residents'
committee.
The|
||||church
had a stall selling cream teas and giving out a booklet about the|
||||Queen's
life and Christian
faith, and leaflets giving
information
about the|
||||various
activities hosted
by the church. Hundreds
of people came along|
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|QEPARK BAPTIST CHURCH
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR TO|QEPARK BAPTIST CHURCH
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR TO|31stMarch 2023||
|---|---|---|---|
|INCOME STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31||MARCH 2023||
||Note|2023|2022|
|Receipts||||
|Sundry
Gifts||1,370|303|
|SO Giving||46,788|45,627|
|Income Tax on Gift Aid||7,678|9,050|
|Coronavirus
Job Retention Scheme|||6,047|
|Cafe income||4,949||
|Room Bookings||78,222|60,262|
|Total Receipts|1.2|139,007|121,289|
|Payments||||
|Staff &Staff Housing||49,457|57,991|
|Mission||6,906|6,430|
|Activities/Sunday
Services/Worship||1,726|289|
|Childrens
Work|||44|
|Church
Buildings||36,102|32,975|
|Cafe expenditure||4,781||
|Admin Costs||2,834|2,609|
|Total Payments||101,836|100,338|
|Surplus/-Deficit
for the Year||37,171|20,951|
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||||||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|ASSETS|||||||
||Fixed Assets||||||
|||Freehold Property|||511,853|511,853|
||Total Fixed Aassla||||511,853|511,853|
||Cumsnt Assets||||||
|||Other Cunsnt Assets|||||
||||Ogter Debtom|9|4,875|7,694|
|||Total Other Cunsnt Assets|||4,875|7,894|
|||Cash at bank and In hand|||||
||||Barclaya Bank||90,713|60,308|
||||Petty Cash Box||511|416|
|||Total Cash at bank and|In hend||91,224|60,724|
||Total Current Assets||||98,099|88,418|
||Cunent Llsbggles||||||
|||Other Current Llabgltles|||||
||||Other Creditors||25,934|12,193|
||||Deferred Income|||5,000|
||||Psyrog Liabgmes||1,223|1,103|
|||Total Other Current Llabgiges|||27,157|18,298|
||Total Current Liabg Mes||||27,157|18,298|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS|||||68,942|50,123|
|TOTAL ASSETSLESS CURRENT LIABILITIES|||||580,795|561,975|
||Long Term LlabSltles||||||
|||Saba Loan for Comm Centre||10|10,000|14,000|
|||Pension Scheme Liabglty||14||14,351|
||Total Long Tenn Llabigbes||||10,000|28,351|
|NETASSETS|||||570,795||
|GenerslFund|snd OtherReserves||||||
||Freehold Property Reserve|||13|471,853|471,853|
||General Fund||||98,942|61,771|
||||||570,796||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|A|Staff:2100|Pastor Salary||24,750|24,500|
|A|Staff:2101|Administrator
Salaries||12,307|13,468|
|A|Staff:2102|Bookkeeper Salary||274|315|
|A|Staff:2103|Minister in training|Salary|5,824||
|A.|Staff:2115|Caretaker Salary||3,182|4,470|
|A|Staff:2108|Pension-Staff||(9,847)|3,647|
|A.|Staff:2109|Payroll Admin||769|718|
|A|Staff:2110|Travel Expenses||336|158|
|A|Staff:2111|Training
(Courses/Seminars)||1,003|883|
|A|Staff:2112|Other Expenses||60|233|
|8|Staff Housing:2124
Lease Back||on Manse|10,800|9,600|
|||||49,457|57,991|
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|2201|Friends International|Friends International||1,000|1,000|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|2203|Matrix Trust|||1,000|1,000|
|2204|8 MS|||2,225|2,000|
|2205|SEBA(Home|Mission)||2,225|2,000|
|2208|. Community|Outreach-Fun|Days;Tod|456|430|
|||||6,906|6,430|
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|4.|Activities||Sunda||Services|||||2023|2022|
|||||||D|Activities/Sunday
Services:2400
Gifts/Cards/Special||Occasions|218|32|
|||||||D|Activities/SundayServices:2402
Visiting Speakers|||230||
|||||||D|Activities/SundayServices:2403
Catering|||567|168|
|||||||E
E|Worship:2500
Worship
Worship:2502
Worship|Equipment
-Miscellaneous||551
160|89|
||Total|Activities/Sunday||||Services||||1,726|289|
|5.|Childrens||Youth||Work|||||||
|||||||F|Childrens/Youth
Work:2600
Children's
Work|||29|44|
||Total|Childrens/Youth||||Work||||29|44|
|d.|~dd|dd|ddt|||||||||
|||||||G|Church Buildings:2801|Insurance-contents/employers|liability|2,943|2,761|
|||||||G
G|Church Buildings:2802
Church Buildings:2803|Electricity (incl heating)
Refuse collection||6,405
861|5,789
621|
|||||||G|Church Buildings:2807|Repairs & Maintenance||17,879|14,305|
|||||||G|.Church Buildings:2808|Lift Maintenance
Contract||506|565|
|||||||G|Church Buildings:2809|Cleaning
materials||602|339|
|||||||G|~ Church Buildings:2810|Equipment
QE Park||402|1,774|
|||||||G|Church Buildings:2811|Cleaning||6,503|6,820|
||Total|Church||Buildings||||||36,102|32,975|
|7.|~Cf'|E|dst|||||||||
|||||||H|Cafe:3000
Staff Salaries|||2,067||
|||||||H. Cafe:3003
Purchases for resale/Cafe
Supplies||||989||
|||||||H|Cafe:3007. Bank charges|||80||
|||||||H|Cafe:3009
Repairs and|renewals||1,645||
|||||||||||d 781||
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|8.|Admin Costs||||||||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||I
Admin Costs:2900|Stationery||&Office||Supplies||619|741|
|||I
Admin Costs:2901|BU &Home Mission sobs||||||293|433|
|||I - Admin Costs:2902|Computer||Consumables||||256|343|
|||Admin Costs:2903|Bank Charges||||||124|115|
|||I
Admin Costs:2905|Postage|||||||8|
|||Admin Costs:2907|Telephone||&Internet||||287|166|
|||Admin Costs:2909|Printing,|Publicity,|||Marketing||782|321|
|||Admin Costs:2910|Copyright||||||352|481|
|||I
Admin Costs:2910|Training|(H&5 First|||Aid MS Pkgs)||120||
||Total Admin Costs||||||||2,834|2,609|
|9.|Debtors||||||||||
|||Prepayments
Income Tax on Gift Aid|||||||3,195
1,680|2,943
4,751|
||||||||||4875|7 694|
|10.|Loans:||||||||E||
|||Outstanding
on loan from SEBU|||ie 1.4.22||||14,000||
|||Repayments|||||||-4,000||
|||Balance owing at31.3.23|||||||1D DDD||
|||The loan is interest free and unsecured||||and repayable||in equal bi-annual|instalments||
|||until September 2025|||||||||
|11.|Creditors||||||||||
|||Other creditors|||||||25,934|12,193|
|||Rent received
in advance||||||||5,000|
|||Payroll liabilities|||||||1,223|1,103|
||||||||||27 157|18 296|
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||||F|
|Cost||||
||At 1.4.22|511,853|511,853|
||Additions|||
||Disposals|||
||At 31.3.23|511,853|511,853|
|Depreciation||||
||At 1.4.22|||
||Charge for the year|||
||Disposals|||
||At 31.3.23|||
|Net Book Value||||
||At 31.3.23|511,853|511,853|
||At 31.3.22|511,853|511,853|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|||General|Freehold|Total|
|||F|||
|Opening|balance at 1.4.22|61,771|471,853|533,624|
|Profit for|the year|37,171||37,171|
|At 31.3.23||98,942|471,853|570,795|
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