dronfielcL
, x baptist church
SHARING GOD'S LOVE
Dronfiejd Baptist Church
Annual Report for 01 November 2021- 31 October 2022
Registered Address
Stubley Lane, DronfEld. Derbyshi￿ S18 IPE
Charity Registration Number
1184178
Revd A C GO￿ (Minister)
MrDLax
(Secretary)
Mr D H (tsrfes
(Treasurer)
Mrs G Smith
Mr E M Tomlirson
MrCMTurk
Property Trustees
Baptist Unijn CorporntK)n Lrnited Baptst House, 129 BT02thYay. DKknL Oxfi)rtshire OXII 8RT
Bankers
CoQpetBtive Bank pl P O Box I￿, &keknersdale, WN8 6wr
QIF Bank Ltd, 25 IQNJS Hlll Avenue, lfjrgs HEU, West MaAThJ. Kent ME19 4JQ
Independent Exaffliners
Mr 5mon Tempie, Q)nsion Road, tknnfEkJ WoodtKJuse S18 8PG
Mr Hem)an. Bllthn O)5e, DrorrfEkl Wood￿￿ S18 8ZD

Dronfield Baptist Church Annual Report for 2022
Report of the Managing DeaconslTrustees for the year ended 31 October 2022
Introduction
The Marvaging Deacon5ffrLStes presenttheirannual ￿pOrta￿l accourtsforUE year eThJed 31 Octob
2022. The Deacons are also tefeTTed to as repo
Structure, Governan￿ and Management
The Chartty is govemed by an ApprDv8J GovemrKJ [x)C￿￿eT￿ Memb￿50f the aKwch are accepted
acCOrdar￿ with the ConstbJtK)n whwJi requires to be or to Ipve been publicly baptsed on tt
p￿lfeSSI]n of fath in ]￿u5 Chri< or fok)wwMJ ottErmodesof baptisrnto ￿their pubk profeS￿n of
faith ￿ Jesus thrist.
The Membe￿ Mtrtiry mrrnaltytskespi￿ tentimes peryeara￿j has respor6ibilty forthe overdu poty
of the church. In aCCordar￿e with the cons￿tl￿n, members appoint up to deven Tnjstees,
togetherwith Minister, Church &cretsry arKI TreaS￿er[wI￿> are also appointed by memIE￿),
resportsible for￿ day to day runni￿j of the thjrch's work and wftrEss, aThJ the fina￿￿4] and Wal asp&ts
ofthe chariy. All members areerrnuw to take an approp￿ part n trE sp￿[bJaI practKal1&s
Invo￿ed in ttE furttErarre of the chaiitable obiectsve.
Relevant matters may be SubM￿led to the thurth meetllYJ by ￿TnSteeSforguK￿artt, or may be rai
by membetsin Church meetiNJ forfurttw cOr6K1erd￿n by ￿TiL￿tee5. TTrM)ughthe Cortstitution pem
decisiors to be made at Church meetirrfJs by apprDpriate ma]oiities, the Churth seeks to WO￿ ty
conseASUS vtsevw possible.
Objectives and Activities
The principal pU￿ose of the charty is ttE adVa￿￿ementOf the Chri5ban faith accordiro to the princip
of the BaptistderK)minationto ithde the adva]K￿rtent0f edLKation, community Servi￿ and such ott
general th31itable PLwposes in such parts of United arKJ the world as the thurch shal
determire.
In orderto attmeve the principalobi￿tsVe whKth is SetoUtabo￿. the Chjrch pN)VKles a variety of actw
both to its membersh￿* arKI to CoMm￿￿ty g￿￿rd1Py. The aim 15 to the bve of Jesus (thrist in
both word and deed to brirKJ peop￿ into a thser reLatr)￿t1p wfth Him as our fvirg Lord.
Centrdl to the worf( arMJ Wit￿ of Chwch i5 ttE provisK)n of regular public Serv￿ of ￿list￿n
worship. These serv￿5 mmiab¥ takeptace eath ￿ndaY at both 10.30 am and 4.00pm or6.30 pm, aput
from the third SuThkny eveniNJ WI￿ a Untted serV￿e is ￿sted by varnu5 DronfEkl churches. The
are also occasw)nal serV￿e5 at other times whKh are advertsejj on Church Notice Board and
websfce at www.dronfieldba
tist.co.uk is a full chiklren's progrnmme durirvJ the moming seNi
The church S￿kS to be a frwKIty arnl wekomirKJ communtyaThl anybody 15 free to atte￿1 any of ￿e
services.
Church run5 a serEs of fdbwship for the growth of fath arKI dscipleshtp Èn the of
some Mem￿[5 orontt* thurch premises, a￿lfurther detaas of t1￿ can be obtsirEd f￿rn the Trust
on requ¥ or at the &JrKlay of worshwi.
Fn)m time to time, in cOnJ"u￿n with otrEr bcal churthes thurch nns co￿SeS for people nterestsl
in discovering more about Chrsbarffty, enth 'Apha'. on Church Membership and Believerfs
Bapti5ffl 15 abo avaikb]e year.

The Chuth nonnalty rurG varKJu5 reguLir attivitEs for Faml£s. Ckn &YouNJ PeopÈar¥J for p
in the Third Age.
The church Iws read the Charty CoMmssK￿gU1thn￿ on public beEEfiL aNI is Satisff￿ ttwt the activi
OU￿1ned above thaEty demonstrdte Ih3t ts tharty is PFDVMJ￿ a be￿ to the publK.
Risk Assetsment
The Churth regulaty revtews risks to which r( is exposed. ItOFeratesSysknsto ensure that all p8)P
working with thkjren aThJ vulrErable a(hJlts are approwkltety vetted wth regard to the Disclosure a￿1
Barrirvj ￿[V￿e.
Achievements and Perforn*nce
As a church this year has seen the retum to prev￿￿ of activty that existed before Covill9.
This invotved a necessary refkction aThd evaknatK)n of our frfe as a churd) to refknt the ways in whKh
as indivbjual people IN3d been Cha￿ by ￿ expe[Er￿e of k)(thth)wn aFKt the ar£OMr￿nYIng socBI
isolation. Part of this Vfds to weknme thanges in liFe balarKetFwt peo* had become used to and to
explore this couhj be faalitated affimied by u5 as a church. The thurch continues to have
emphasis upon Famities, YOutha￿l ￿]kI￿n at¥J ttms was Tefi&ted in expbrirgthe viabilty of a parttitr
ChikI￿n.5 wother. This I1)-1￿ur post proved to be hvJhty benefThl arNJ on ￿f￿ction V￿ ￿gnISed ttE
need to devek)p this rote. Therefore, we have expa￿ this TO￿ tr) 20 a we&k arNJ retitied it as
Chik}￿n,5 MHithy LeaderarKJ we have appoFnted Zano Wdn kn1￿k to this Tole from 31"OctotEr202Z
This yearwe explor8J the ￿ of a mKJ-week to strewn and devek)p ourchaiitable obj.¢￿1Ve ofgrowrg
in our uThlerstrBrKtirwJ and Itviro oth Ctrtsn fath. VRS a very s￿ceSsful evert in alkiwing tre
personal developnatt of one of the membas of ttE staff team as well as being d￿PIY appreciated by t
chU￿h. This wdl become a yearty evertof differirvj lergts as well as trwnes invohiirvj both in house as
well as extemal speakers.
This year also sawthe c￿sU￿Of our knKh dub due to the shrinkage of the team vtho staffed IL Thi5 ha5
a hKJhly Sl￿￿sfUl way of achievirKJ ourthaiitable Objectiv￿ Tknh y￿ will still be able to achiwe
by focussirwJ upon ourweekty coffee momrffJ vthKh aÈo serves aff0ndab￿ lunches on a Thursday. We *{)
have begun to expknre￿ devdopment of a Warm &>a￿, as part of a Tha￿nal v¥tBtive dLE to the cost-
of-fwing crisis, armd this will akn take pL3ce on the ThuEsday.
Lastyearwe rECOgni5ed￿ thallermje of stze of ourTFU5tee gn)up. We have seen the group grow by
one and this will need to be regularly ass￿ dk3ffty may Contin￿ to function well and fulfil OLr
Chaiitab￿ objective& Weare experimentirwJ with dIFfe￿nt styles of M￿tir￿j to er￿OuTrge more onto
team Whi￿ sbH er6uir¥J that tt￿rity VLI￿S as dfalNdy as possible
Statement of Public Benefit
The church aims to play a positpie in ￿ fffe of the community of Dronfiekj, Sin￿ in additK)n to
activths f0m1al￿ linked to the church. members also served as Voluntee￿ in other k)cal charities arLI
OtganisatK)ns, i[￿UdIr#j the mintster tskiNJ an acbve ro￿ in a kncal school a￿1 other members servirg as
school goverrb)rs. Member5akn volunteerwith a kncal communty proi8lto protecta￿] enharKe 5pectfc
areas of DronfEkl.
The [kacor￿1Tnjste￿ have readttE coMmF￿in gu¥ja￿e on pubk benef¢ and is satisfied th&
the athites outlined above f*arty demoiEtratr that tJE thatity is pfovKling a berEfft to ttE public.
Financial Review
UnrestiKted cash balarKts increased by £5,422 durir¥J the year, laTgety as a resu￿ of £16,389 growth In
receipts from weekty offetirwJs. Cash balarKe5 at the Year£￿1 amouted to £87,927.
detailed in the a￿OUnts the Church contributed £13.5+1 for otherca16es KKl￿lIng the der￿minatiOr￿
chaiities Home Mi￿K)n Fu￿1 a￿1 the Baptist Ms5ionary

The Church cortinuesto rdsefiJ￿IS byhKh it to carry on Rs acbvitEs from its ovm meMIE￿i?
and corrfJtEgatKJfL No WKler appeal VRS made for fiyKJ5 (kKw¥J tre year.
The mostsigniftant expenses relate to org)ir¥J appoinbivtsof Revd A Gore as Minister of tte
Churth and Mr Andrew Ever5 as Famts, Youth & Cmlren's Minsty Leader. Revd GO￿ s role is to lead
a￿1 co-orfinate the church actwities I￿1￿11￿j the 9Jrthy Sep4ice5, to provide pastoral care for ttE
congregation 0therp￿p￿, aTrJ to ewip and er￿u[age the membetship in theirlife, C￿ls￿an witnss
and serV￿e. Mr &er5 Co-ordinates arml artT¥faes for your¥J famifEs, (thlldren and youro people
ernabl&s contscts to be rnade that erKourage a serse of commLmLy.
The Church is heavli y ￿pery￿ent on ks membershipatKJ rn)nrfnemba5 as Voluntee￿ rn all aspectsof ttE
church's activÈkne5, many of whth rm with orno impattonttE church s but nevertt
contribute substantially to the achievement of the church s obiecbves.
finarKkil results forthe year, togettrErwlh a swnmary of a¢xouw polw a(knpted are set o
in the accompanying financkil statemerts.
The Church pays per6K)n contr[bu￿rsf0rts Ministerto the Baptst Mini5tet5 PersionTrust Limited, w￿h
is a final sakry defined berEfft scheme, wlith is mt contract& out of Stste second persion. Tre
scheme is a mulii-empbyersckeme and ￿15 mt possibieto the assets and liabititses of thesdBE
whtth a￿ attnbutable to the churth. T￿fore, n acCorda[￿e with FRS102 *tion 28, the sdwne s
accounted for as a defined contribUt￿fi scheme.
Reserves ￿lcY
The Trustees h3ve estabfLShed a Reserve Poky to enab￿ the church to functv)n effectivdy aThJ meet its
obligatior6 ￿ the event of a SKJnitsrt decth￿ in our income or a major cosL
The Churth expressed ts part in the ￿e of the wKler dwrch by makirmj ￿natiOnS to na￿nal an
intematiorol Chris￿n organisatK)r6aNJ soTrtieswith aims arKI objethes Compatib￿ with tr
church's own charttable purpo*.
HavirwJ consKleredthe rthant rsksof charvJes Nl irrnme arKI expendture, the Tri1St￿ have detem1l￿￿
that the appropriate level of resetves 6 in ttE rarmje £30,000 to £35,OCrf). As at 31° October 2022,
church hekl tolal cash of £87,927 of wlith £2,784 were restrthd arKI £8,196 designated. It folb
that cash resources avalable to spend on any of the iJ¥Jths arno￿)ts to £76,948.
The Church strNes to ￿Mafft a fo￿ for wod in commurty in k)rvJer temi in ts ovln W It
follows that as all of ts reseNes We￿ grrfen tovfirds thi5, ts primary purpose arKI are retained in
accordan￿ wtth its objects.
Independent Examiner
A resolution to appoint STempleand M Herman as ITrdepeThl&*ExamrErs was putto the General
Meeting. this has been agreed.
by the Trustees
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David Lax- Managing Trustee

Independent Examinerfs Report to the Managing Trustees of the d￿rity
We reportto rnanag￿￿ trustees on our eyAminatw)nof the accowts of Dronfiehj Baptstchurch (ttE
(Jvjrch) for the year ended 31 October 2022, wtKh are set out on pages 6 to 11.
R￿pons￿)I￿￿￿ andbass of repo
Asthe charity trustees of the Churth you a￿ resporNble forttE prepaEationof the accouts in accordJLE
wfth the requi￿rnents of the Charitses Att 2011 (the ACV).
We report in respect of our ￿rnina￿n of the Tntstee's accounts canied out under section 145 of tr
2011 Act and in carying out our eJhminatDn we have folbwed au the applrabk Directh)r6 given by t
Charity comm5s￿n under S￿tK)n 145(5)(b) of the 2011 A
We havecompkted Ourexamlna￿n. We corfvm that rK) material matters have cometo our atten￿n in
connection with eXamiro￿n givirwJ LS Ca￿ to bekve that vi any mateJK?l FEspect:
(l) accoLmbro records We￿ mt kept Ni respect of ttre Tnst as requwal by seciion 130 of the
Att; or
(2) the accounts th) rnt accord with tIM)se record5.
We have rK) COrKery￿ aThJ Fkive come across rm) other matter5 in conneclion wfth the exEmination to
which attentr)n sFnukl be drawn in this reportin order to ￿able a properunderstaThlirnJ of the accourts
to be ffjcw.
S Temple
M. Herman
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Dronfield Baptist Churth
Accounts for the year ended 310(tober 2022
Receipts and Payments Account
2022
2021
Total
Nots
Recei￿$
Weekty offerirMJS
Appeals and special gifts
GBnts
Income tax recovered on gifts to 5 Apr
Legacies
Other CtryJrch groups
Youth Camp
InteE5t receivaj
Sbndry
88.195
4.024
88,195
9.185
71,356
3.639
1,966
13,607
5.161
17.3F2
17,352
io
3,n6
3,726
1,023
iY3
I,oio
153
I,oio
60
951
Totsl receipts muNkd to rEa￿st £
114.460
11,161
125,621
95,002
Payments
Minister arKI Mar6e
Upk&p of Chwth premi*s
Baptist Missv)rklry &)(iety
Home Mtssi)n
Worship and outreach
Discipleshtp arKI tra￿1[Wj
Youth Camp
GTrnts aTrJ dortatb)rs
Families, Youth arKI aNTrI
Other Church groups
AdmsnistratK)n
Other costs
New ftttures, ftttrwJs aTKI equipment
35.177
12.462
35,177
12,712
4,820
4,600
1,238
892
6,641
5,373
34.701
4.599
2,077
4,597
1.650
35,761
12,731
3,650
3,560
678
3,715
250
220
1,238
853
39
6,041
3.289
200
2,895
26,H3
1,055
1,709
2,954
8,190
34,501
4.599
2,077
4,597
1.650
io
Total payments to TEare5t E
l(YJ,038
10,039
119,077
103,341
Excess of recei￿5 over (eXpenth￿re)
5,422
1,122
(8,339)
Balance brOu￿tfOrWardfrorn previous year
79,721
1,662
81,383
93,472
Balance carried f(n¥ard to next year
85,143
87.927
81,383
All amounts derive from crfmrtinuing activities.
The n¢kns on pages 8 to 11 forni an Intewai part rfthese accwnts.

Dronfield Baptist Churth
Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31 O¢lober 2022
2022
2021
sh in hand on
Coop savings accounts
Coop / C4F curTent accoLM
Cash balance5 . Other Chmrh groups
Cash in hand
82,774
78.724
500
1,014
1,145
81,383
1,785
87,927
Rewesented by fund5:
2022
2021
General furKI
76,948
65.592
Spe(ial fund
Other Church groLPS
10,668
3,461
79,721
io
2,958
85,144
estri
Amounts received for 0￿r caLL*S
ALtdio Visual Upgrdde
Garden Project furKI
418
67
1,300
295
81,383
65
87,927
Other Monetsry Assets and Liabilities
Debtor5
Gift aid recoveTable
Youth Camp tickets boLb3ht from orgarw
ess Creditors
Taxes and S)cial ￿Urity
Youth Camp prepaKI by parents
2022
2021
7,0￿ Est
3,433
5,000
(7tK)
(2,890)
(649)
4,351
Baptist Pension Schen* {BPS) Defined knefft (DB) Plan Liability Statement
On 30 Jure 2022 Bts SI3￿ an agreem￿ty￿ trsurd￿e company JLSt Group ('lusV) to secure
DB members'persK)n benefts. Just rN)w provmk fina￿la1 bac*irwJ for all pensM)r6 provided
through the kheme's DB Plan, whth foUowirYJ ths trar6action, Th) k)roer ha5 a shortfall.
2022
2021
Fixed assets for aiarity use
Chuth insured value
Manse irsured value
Fumiture and equipment
Totsl Fixed Assets for (Jb3ffty Use
2,401,081
236,261
24,303
2,661,645
2,167,052
214,197
24,303
2,405,552
bj& ,-
Z3
David Charles, Trustee
Approved by the Trnst*s
The notes on pages 8 to 11 fqTh an integrd partrf these a(xwnt&

Dronfield Baptist Churth
Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 OLtober 2022
l Accounting policies
accounts have been prepared on a receipts arKI payments basis. The ManagiEYJ Deaconsrrn*£
confim Ihat as far as they are awarE, i5 fK) re￿vant acco￿ltr￿j informatsn of whth the ey2min
15 unawa￿.
2 ￿ndIng up or Ossolution of the tharity
If upon wirKlirvJ up or dissoluti)n of dprty ttEre remain any fnarThl assets, aftersatsfactK)n of all
debts aThJ tsbiliiies, the assets represented by acc￿Ul3ted S￿1[ betsansfewed to someotr
charitabk body or bodies havro sinilar objects to the charity.
2022
2021
Totsl
3 Appeals and special gifts
Aswte Hospice
Audm) Vsual Refurbishment
B￿￿belI Wood
Baptist MsS￿￿ry (BMS)
BMS - BirtPvJay kheme
Coffee machine etc.
Comic Relief
Chrstb3n AKI
Derbyshi￿ Air thbu￿￿e
Bm FoundatKJn (tA)mesbc AbLse)
FamI￿s, Youth & Chihjren knvities
Feasi Of Fbwers
Garden project
HolKlay aub
HSBC Matched Fundw
Lent books readirKJ Th)tes
Lfe Dronfield
Macmillan Carw ￿port
Minister birthday present
Spurgeons . (hrstsnas thnatKins
St Lukes HOsp￿e
Wllfreds
ndry&￿n
Tree Tops - Sheff Chmn's Hosptsl
Weddirvjs and fu￿raL*
Home￿ & Rootless at thii5trnas
134
134
45
1,000
141
220
141
220
838
858
15
161
159
125
565
194
20
610
51]0
90
244
15
161
159
125
200
20
132
114
410
194
20
610
537
146
120
258
267
91
117
146
120
258
267
91
117
1,275
115
45
275
115
434
3,639
4,024
5,161
9,185
CP 'Coffee POV Coff￿ morrir¥Js Rsed £1,163, folbvry removal of CoVbJ-19 restricbons.

Notes to the Acamrts for the year ended 31 October 2022
2022
2021
Total
4 Minister and Manse
Stipend, PAYE and per6￿n
Ministers, exper6es
Marse upktrp
Man* repair5 a￿1 tmprovements
CunEnt minister sub-total
Baptist PenS￿n ￿therne
28,196
425
2,912
507
32,040
3,137
28,196
425
2,912
507
32,040
3,137
27,628
242
2,830
1,281
31,982
3,779
35,177
35,177
35,761
5 Upkeep of Church premises
Cleaning
InSurdr￿e and water
Light arKI heat
Mainterk2rKe arKJ ￿paIrS
4.214
3,216
2,392
4,214
3,216
2,392
3,336
2.803
4,370
12,T31
12,462
12,712
6 Grants and dmations
Angel Tree
Ashgate HoSp￿e
Bluebell Wi)od
BMS - Birthday thme
Christsan Aid
COMK Relief
Derbyshire Air Ambular£e
Elm FourKkti)n (tknmestK Ab￿￿)
Life Dron
Macmillan Cancer Support
Spurgeons . Christinas (k)nation5
St Luke's Hospice
St WitfrKt's Centre
Tree Tops - Sheff a)ikth's Hospitsl
Ukraintan Refvg*s
YBA RetirEmert donatior
Chli dren In Need
Homeless & Roottess at Christmas
YBA Bbjlrfe India Appeal
Extemal organisatM)ns
Pastoral Gift5
Minister birtlKky present
624
134
141
430
181
312
45
141
430
181
15
159
125
146
120
267
91
117
115
io
159
125
132
114
1.200
1,2(Kl
120
267
91
117
115
45
Ic
150
25
434
200
2,895
2,041
4.125
3,289
5,3r3
2,895

Dronfield Baptist Churth
Notes to the ACU)u￿ for the year ernled 31 October 2022
2022
2021
Totsl
7 Families. Y￿th and Children
Salary, PAYE and persKin
Materials aFMI exper6es
HolKlay aub
Messy Church
31.435
376
529
161
34.501
31,435
2,576
529
161
34,701
23,721
2,111
537
74
26,443
2(K)
Cateriro
gjbscriptior
Delegates
Sundry
2,1&8
2,176
2,168
2,176
452
2,312
29
162
2,954
4,597
4,597
9 Newfixtures and equipment
Fumiture
PIK)tocopier
Aud￿1 Equipment
Laptop Computer
v￿e0 Equipment
216
1.434
216
1,434
1,833
1,180
5,177
8,190
1,650
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