## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 6 to 10.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed: …………………………………… Name: Rhys North ACA
20/01/2025
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 6 to 10.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed: …………………………………… Name: Rhys North ACA
20/01/2025
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
Charity number 1174113
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2024
## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2024
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 4|
|Examiner's report|5|
|Receipts and payments account|6|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|7|
|Notes to the accounts|8 to 10|
## **Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2024
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position Dates**
Rev Graham Conway-Doel Mr Miguel Pinedo
Mrs Vivienne Hatton Mrs Fiona Heap Mrs Rachel Hirst Mrs Beth Turner Mr Rob Thomson Dr Fiona McGill Mr Robert Hambourg-Floyd
Minister Treasurer
Resigned 27 August 2023 Appointed 27 May 2023 Resigned 21 May 2024
Resigned 21 May 2024
Appointed 27 March 2023 Appointed 27 March 2023 Appointed 27 March 2023 Appointed 1 August 2024
## **Charity number**
1174113
Registered in England and Wales
## **Registered and principal address**
## **Bankers**
5 Gledhow Park Crescent The Co-operative Bank plc Chapel Allerton P.O. Box 101 Leeds 1 Balloon Street LS7 4JY Manchester M60 4EP
## **Independent examiner**
Rhys North ACA
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
## **Structure, governance and management**
The Charity is governed by an Approved Governing Document. Members of Chapel Allerton Baptist Church ('Chapel A') are accepted in accordance with its Constitution, adopted on 16th March 2017.
The Ordinary Members Meeting normally takes place at least four times per year and has responsibility for the overall policy of Chapel A. Extraordinary and Special Church Meetings will occur when required. In accordance with the Constitution, the members appoint trustees, who together with the Minister(s), are responsible for the day to day running of Chapel A’s work and witness, and the financial and legal aspects of the charity. All members are encouraged to take an appropriate part in the spiritual and practical tasks involved in the furtherance of the charitable objective.
Relevant matters may be submitted to the Church Meeting by the trustees for guidance, or may be raised by members in Church Meeting for further consideration by the trustees. Though the Constitution permits decisions to be made at the Church Meeting by appropriate majorities, Chapel A seeks to work by consensus wherever possible.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are appointed by the members at a church meeting.
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## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
The principal purpose of the church is the advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist Denomination. The church may also advance education and carry out other charitable purposes in the United Kingdom and/or other parts of the world.
## **The charity's aim**
Our aim at Chapel A is for people to come to know God and follow Jesus. We want to show God's love to our local community and the wider world through supporting various projects both locally and further afield.
## **The charity's main activities**
Chapel A holds regular public services which include worship, prayer, teaching and age-appropriate activities for children and young people. Chapel A seeks to be a friendly, welcoming and inclusive community and anybody is free to attend any of these services.
Chapel A runs various Small Groups to encourage its members and community to grow in faith. Some of these groups are set up around a particular concern or issue. Details of these small groups are publicised through our website/social media and at Sunday morning services.
The Church has a Pastoral Team, consisting of its Ministers and at least 2 members of the Leadership Team and other delegated members. The Pastoral Team offers support to members of the congregation within the remit of the Safeguarding Policy.
The Church is part of 'Chapel Allerton and Meanwood Churches Together' and also actively supports the Thrive Youth Project, alongside Chapel Allerton Methodist Church, St Matthews Church of England Church and Stainbeck United Reform Church.
Chapel A engages with the local community throughout the year, including running a community Christmas Choir, open to anyone, which performs in different venues in the locality.
Chapel A operates systems to ensure that all people working with children and vulnerable adults are appropriately vetted with regard to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
## **Public benefit statement**
Chapel A has read the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit and is satisfied that the activities outlined above clearly demonstrate that the charity is providing a benefit to the public.
## **Achievements and performance**
During the first quarter of the year we had 0.5 WTE of a paid minister with Rev Graham Conway-Doel in post.
Sadly, due to personal circumstances he resigned his post on the 27[th] August 2023. We have been actively seeking a full time minister since this time but, as yet to no avail. Chapel A is now led by the Leadership Team and ably assisted by our administrator and all the church members and attendees.
We continue to meet in different ways - the first Sunday is an all age communion service, the second and fourth Sundays are celebration services and the third Sunday is cafe church. Any month where there was a fifth Sunday we focus on pastoral issues at an extra cafe church meeting.
Our preaching themes over the year have included ‘The Way God speaks’, ‘The sacraments’ and ‘Hope’. We received teaching from a range of people, both from within our congregation and from visiting preachers. We have benefited from the expertise and preaching from Dr Charlotte Naylor-Davies who has led a great deal of our services and has helped us plan our sermon series.
In June we enjoyed another Church Day Away in Harrogate, which was a great time to worship and spend time together.
During the summer we meet in different ways - sometimes with a walk together, a picnic or a prayer walk. We also went to Leeds Pride along with our friends from Revive Church. These were valuable opportunities for people to meet up during the summer and share their lives together.
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## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024
## **Achievements and performance continued**
We continued in the vein of the last two years and hosted a Christmas Community Choir led by two members of the congregation. This choir was very successful, attracting many people from the local community as well as from our church, and sounding wonderful! The choir performed in various local venues, cafes, bars and care homes with a final performance in a Barn as part of a joint service with another local church. The choir members thoroughly enjoyed their experience with the choir, inviting families and friends to the performances and many new friendships were formed.
Both our weekly house groups have grown in number and meet regularly to pray and study the bible. We continue to have a monthly prayer meeting on the last Sunday evening of the month as well as a regular prayer meeting to pray for peace in the world.
## **Next Steps**
We continue to look for a new minister.
We are working through how to further the church’s ministry without a minister and working through what that looks like
We are looking at the process of becoming a CIO.
## **Financial review**
The net receipts for the year were £21,302, including net receipts of £21,217 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £85 on restricted funds.
## **Reserves policy**
The reserves policy of Chapel Allerton Baptist Church is to hold three months of all expenditure plus a further three months' staff costs to allow the church to adapt to any changes in the income or expenditure of the church. Based on budgeted 2024/2025 expenditure this equates to a minimum reserves target of £36,465.
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £73,831.
The trustees recognise that the reserves held exceed the target level. During the coming year the trustees plan to review the charity's reserves policy and develop plans, as appropriate, to manage the charity's reserves to within the target level of reserves.
Approved by the board of trustees on 28/11/2024
Dr Fiona McGill (Trustee)
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## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 6 to 10.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Rhys North ACA
20/01/2025
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2024
|Notes
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Regular giving
67,630
Gift aid
14,187
Other donations
-
Weekend away/Away day
2,313
Activity contributions
1,237
Earmarked income
-
Bank interest
444
Other income
-
**Total receipts**
85,811
**Payments**
Salaries NI and pensions
25,830
Payroll charges
844
Minister expenses
2,549
Sunday ministry
494
Speaker fees
4,102
Children's ministry
850
Mission
(2)
15,172
Youth ministry
248
Weekend at Home/Away
728
Away giving
(3)
5,468
Rent
5,650
Licences and subscriptions
720
Independent examination
720
Insurance
342
Admin costs including telephone
419
Other expenses
458
**Total payments**
64,594
**Net receipts / (payments)**
21,217
**Fund balances brought forward**
52,614
**Fund balances carried forward**
(4)
73,831|2024
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
638
-
-
638
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
553
-
-
-
-
-
-
553
85
-
85|2024
Total
funds
£
67,630
14,187
-
2,313
1,237
638
444
-
86,449
25,830
844
2,549
494
4,102
850
15,172
248
728
6,021
5,650
720
720
342
419
458
65,147
21,302
52,614
73,916|2023
Total
funds
£
71,590
-
1,500
810
1,202
920
50
5,425
81,497
48,325
-
5,223
683
3,783
511
15,818
641
1,825
11,181
5,105
621
540
335
1,824
990
97,405
(15,908)
68,522
52,614|
|---|---|---|---|
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## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church Statement of assets and liabilities
|as at 31 March 2024
2024
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
73,831
**Total cash funds**
73,831
**Debtors and prepayments**
Gift aid due
**Liabilities**
Creditors - Methodist Centre rent
Accruals - independent examination fee
Other creditors - leaving gift
Other creditors - Weekend Away funds in advance|2024
Restricted
£
85
85|2024
Total
£
73,916
73,916
2024
£
14,373
14,373
2024
£
552
900
85
1,957
3,494|2023
Total
£
52,614
52,614|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 28/11/2024
Dr Fiona McGill (Trustee)
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## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2024
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## Chapel Allerton Baptist Church
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2024
|**2 **|**Mission**||2024|2024|2024|2023|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||funds|funds|funds|funds|
||||£|£|£|£|
||Thrive - Chapel Allerton Youth Project||14,004|-|14,004|14,000|
||Volleyball sessions||598|-|598|828|
||Community choir||425|-|425|990|
||Carols in the Barn||145|-|145|-|
||||15,172|-|15,172|15,818|
|**3 **|**Away giving**||2024|2024|2024|2023|
||Home Mission||Unrestricted
funds
£
3,000|Restricted
funds
£
-|Total
funds
£
3,000|Total
funds
£
3,000|
||BMS World Mission||2,000|-|2,000|2,000|
||Baptist Union||402|-|402|376|
||Rev Graham Conway-Doel leaving gift||-|290|290|-|
||July Harberd leaving gift||-|263|263|-|
||Pastoral Fund||66|-|66|670|
||A Rocha International||-|-|-|1,000|
||Kidz Klub Middleton||-|-|-|1,000|
||Ukraine refugees support||-|-|-|2,215|
||Rev Simon Hall leaving gift||-|-|-|920|
||||5,468|553|6,021|11,181|
|**4 **|**Restricted funds**|Balance b/f|Incoming|Outgoing|Transfers|Balance c/f|
||Leaving gifts|£
-|£
638|£
553|£
-|£
85|
|||-|638|553|-|85|
||**Fund name**|**Purpose of restriction**|||||
||Leaving gifts|Being monies collected as a gift for the church's former minister and|||||
|||childrens worker. The remaining balance has been paid since the year end.|||||
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Chapel Allerton Baptist Church Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2024
## **5 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
|**Details of remuneration and benefits**
Rev. Graham Conway-Doel
Gross pay
Pensions
Other benefits
Rev Simon Hall
Gross pay
Pensions|2024
£
6,688
835
2,549
10,072
-
-
-|2023
£
13,601
1,523
5,223
20,347
10,974
1,641
12,615|
|---|---|---|
## **Reason for remuneration**
The trustees were employed in the role of ministers to the church.
## **Legal authority for the payment**
The legal authority for the payment is via a provision within the charity's governing document.
No other trustees received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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