
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

Period start date Period end date **01 JULY 2023 30 JUNE 2024 From To** 

## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

## **Charity name** Celebrate Church 

**Other names charity is known by** 

> **Registered charity number (if any)** 1178376 

**Charity's principal address** 8 Southlea Close Bradford W Yorks **Postcode BD12 7BZ** 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**<br>**for whole year**|**Name of person (or**<br>**body) entitled to appoint**<br>**trustee (ifany)**|
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||Rev Stuart Gregg|Minister and Chair||Celebrate Church|
||Robert Michael Farnes|Treasurer||Celebrate Church|
||Paul Callaghan|||Celebrate Church|
||Liz Gregg|||Celebrate Church|
||Viv|Szpakowski||Celebrate Church|
||Les|Szpakowski||Celebrate Church|
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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** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

|**Type of adviser**|**Name**<br>**Address**|**Name**<br>**Address**|
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|**Name of chief executive**|**or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||
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## **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

Church Constitution 

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Trustees appointed by Church members 

- (eg. appointed by, elected by) 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: 

- 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. 

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**Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

|**Summary of the objects of the**<br>**charity set out in its governing**<br>**document**<br>**Summary of the main activities**<br>**undertaken for the public**<br>**benefit in relation to these**<br>**objects (include within this**<br>**section the statutory**<br>**declaration that trustees have**<br>**had regard to the guidance**<br>**issued by the Charity**<br>**Commission on public benefit)**|The principal purposes of the Church are the advancement of<br>the Christan faith. The Church may also advance educaton and<br>carry out other charitable purposes in the United Kingdom<br>and/or other parts of the world.|
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||Weekly Christan;<br><br>Worship.<br><br>Prayer.<br><br>Teaching.<br><br>Pastoral support.<br><br>Small group meetngs.<br>Made available to all regardless of creed, faith, gender or<br>orientaton<br>Support of local Scout organisaton with fnance and personnel.<br>Grants and donatons to alleviate poverty on basis of need.<br>Hostng of community events and gatherings.<br>Decision have been informed by statutory declaraton that<br>trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public beneft including importance of being<br>open to all and fnancial donatons been made on the basis of<br>need and not status or connecton|



## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

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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**<br>**achievements of the charity**<br>**during the year**|Held weekly Christan worship.<br>Held regular outreach events.<br>Seen growth in regular atendance and commited givers.<br>Controlled spending.<br>Contnued missionary link to Romania with team atending a week<br>of mission in Medjidia, Southern Romania.<br>Held mens’ meetngs and ladies’ gathering.<br>Hosted a number of guest speakers.<br>Contnued search for own permenant premises.<br>Saw growth in all age ranges of Church.<br>Survived massive impact of major surgery on main leader.|
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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

Policy is to keep only three months of running costs in reserve **Brief statement of the** and for all other monies to be available for ongoing activities **charity’s policy on reserves** and grants/donations 

**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); 

- 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)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>Stuart Gregg<br>Robert Farnes<br>**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**<br>**etc)**<br>Chair<br>Treasurer<br>**Date**<br>27/01/2026<br>27/01/2026|**Signature(s)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>Stuart Gregg<br>Robert Farnes<br>**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**<br>**etc)**<br>Chair<br>Treasurer<br>**Date**<br>27/01/2026<br>27/01/2026|**Signature(s)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>Stuart Gregg<br>Robert Farnes<br>**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**<br>**etc)**<br>Chair<br>Treasurer<br>**Date**<br>27/01/2026<br>27/01/2026|
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27101126

CELEBRATE CHURCH
Independent Examlnerfs Report to the Trustees ol Celebrate Churth
For the Year Ended 30 June Z025
I report on the accounts of the Charity for the year ended 30June 2025.
Re4￿rt1¥e Re5ponslbilitles irf Tru5t•es and Examlner
As the charitVs trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts: you consider that the audlt
reqU1￿ment of Section 145 of the Chaf Ities Act 2011 (the Act) does not appty- It is my responsibility to state. on
the ba515 of procedures specified in the General Dirertions given by the Charity Commission under Section
14515llbl of the Act. whether partKular matters have come to my attention.
Basls of Independent Examlnerfs Report
My examination was carried out in accordance wlth the general direction5 given by the Charity Commlssloners.
An examlnatlon Includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a compari50n of the accounts
presented wlth those records. It also includes consxleration of any tsnusual Items or dlsclosures In the account5,
and the seekln8 of explanatlon5 frorn you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken
do not provlde all the evldence thot would be ￿quIred in an audit and. consequently. I do not express an audlt
opinlon on the view given by the accounts.
Independent Examln•e5 Statement
In connectlon wfth my examination. no matter has come to my attentlon:
11 Whlch Blves me reasonable cause to be beI￿ve that, in any material respects. the requirements
(a) To keep accountln8 records In accordance with S130 of the 2011 Act- and
(bl To prepare account5 whlch accord wlth the accounting records and to comply wlth the
accounting requirements of the 2011 Act
have not been met,. or
2} to which, in my opinion, attentlon should be drawn in order to enable a proper understandlng of
the accounts to be Teached,
S. f. Sutcllffe F.CC.
Torevell Dent Llmlted
Chartered Certified Accountant
1-3 St Ann's Place
Pellon Lane
Hallfax
HXI 5RB
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