2025-12-31-accounts - Revive Baptist Church Leeds

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Revive Baptist Church Leeds CIO

Charity number 1192592

Annual Report and Financial Statements

for the year ended 31 December 2025

Revive Baptist Church Leeds CIO

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025

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 9

Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

Revive Baptist Church Leeds CIO

Trustees' report for the year ended 31 December 2025

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 Simon Thompson Simon Brentford Treasurer Charlotte Naylor Davis Luisa Bennett Charity number 1192592 Registered in England and Wales Registered and principal address Bankers 24 The Turnways Triodos Bank Leeds Deanery Road LS6 3DU Bristol BS1 5AS

Independent examiner

Simon Bostrom FCIE West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

Structure, governance and management

The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) association formed on 30 November 2020 and is governed by a constitution.

Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees

The trustees are appointed by the members of the charity at an AGM or any other members' meeting during the year.

Revive Baptist Church Leeds CIO

Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

Objectives and activities

The principal purposes of the Church are:-

l The advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist denomination.
l The Church may also advance education and carry out other charitable purposes in the United Kingdom and/or other parts of the world.

Public benefit statement

In setting our objectives and planning our activities our trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular advancement of the Christian faith.

Achievements and performance

Staffing and governance

l Charlotte Naylor Davis officially started as our Lay Minister, on an office holder basis. This means that we, as a church, have commissioned her to set the direction of the church, in conjunction with the members. She will continue to lead on teaching, and is a Trustee, as an office holder.
l Emma King continued to work as the co-ordinator
l Neil Mitchell joined the support team in April, and we are grateful for his desire to serve us in this way.
l Grateful thanks are given to the rest of the support team and Trustees for their commitment and prayerful work throughout the year.
l Our membership has remained steady at 33 voting members and a couple of dozen other adults and young people who would consider themselves active members of the Revive community.
l We are also very grateful to our community for financially supporting us throughout the year.

Sundays

l In our teaching sessions across the year we looked at hell, biblical archaeology and history, biblical canon, and translation and grammar.
l We also enjoyed hearing from and praying for people in our sentness sessions, wonderfully led by Liz Powell.
l We ate together as a church on many occasions, including at our monthly all age meetings, where we enjoyed the company of our younger members, and taught and learned from them about God and how to live our lives as Christians.
l We are grateful for the meeting hosts - we have met in eleven houses of members across the year, plus Stainbeck URC and, of course, zoom.

Other events

l From April onwards, Revive helped facilitate the new Pride Church, in Leeds. Charlotte is involved with the setting up and planning of the monthly meetings, run on an ecumenical basis. Pride Church is a safe space for Christians in Leeds to celebrate our LGBTQIA+ community.
l Some of our members went to be a positive presence at the Leeds Pride March in the summer.
l In September we held a commissioning event - to officially commission and pray for Charlotte in her role, and to commission each other to be who God wants us to be wherever we are. This was a lovely day of cake, catching up, communion, worship and praying for each other.
l We have continued to support each other with practical help, meals and prayer support, as needed.

Revive Baptist Church Leeds CIO

Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025

Financial review

The net receipts for the year were £652, all relating to unrestricted funds.

Reserves policy

The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £17,639.

The Trustees of Revive Baptist Church recognise that reserves are needed to ensure the church is able to fulfil its financial obligations despite uncertain and variable income. The target amount of money to be held as reserves is equal to the total committed funds. This should include any notice periods for any employees, and any other committed future expenditure (e.g.- building lease, etc), plus an amount for contingencies.

The notice period for a minister is three or six months. As a simplified calculation for the target reserves level we will aim for six months of our total costs as that would comfortably cover any redundancy payments and other commitments. Staff notice periods are one month.

Approved by the board of trustees on 30/04/2026

Simon Brentford (Trustee)

Revive Baptist Church Leeds CIO

Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Revive Baptist Church

Leeds CIO

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2025, which are set out on pages 6 to 9.

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.

Simon Bostrom FCIE

13/04/2026

West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

Revive Baptist Church Leeds CIO

Receipts and payments account

for the year ended 31 December 2025

Notes Receipts Grants and donations (2) Weekend away income Other income Bank interest Total receipts Payments Salaries Payroll charges Materials and resources Website, IT and mobile Weekend away costs Events Insurance Out of pocket expenses Conferences and training Donations to others Bank charges Accountancy Licences Baptist Subscriptions Total payments Net receipts / (payments) Transfers between funds Net movement in funds Fund balances brought forward Fund balances carried forward (3)	2025 Total funds £ 24,676 664 371 87 25,798 20,870 360 112 389 734 459 197 8 155 385 58 444 245 730 25,146 652 - 652 16,987 17,639	2024 Total funds £ 20,427 2,670 - 82 23,179 15,917 390 74 240 3,242 160 197 44 80 1,112 61 420 237 - 22,174 1,005 - 1,005 15,982 16,987

Revive Baptist Church Leeds CIO

Statement of assets and liabilities

as at 31 December 2025 Cash funds Cash at bank Cash in hand Total cash funds Debtors and prepayments Prepayments Liabilities Accruals	2025 Total £ 17,555 84 17,639 2025 £ 253 253 2025 £ 444 444	2024 Total £ 16,903 84 16,987 Delete any

The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 30/03/2026

Simon Brentford (Trustee)

Revive Baptist Church Leeds CIO

Notes to the accounts

for the year ended 31 December 2025

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.

Revive Baptist Church Leeds CIO

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2025

2 Grants and donations Gift Aid General donations	2025 Unrestricted funds £ 4,696 19,980 24,676	2025 Restricted funds £ - - -	2025 Total funds £ 4,696 19,980 24,676	2024 Total funds £ 5,127 15,300 20,427

3 Related party transactions

Donations from trustees and related parties

The total aggregate value of unconditional donations to the charity from the trustees or related parties was £3,840 (2024: £3,540).

Trustee expenses

No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.

Trustee remuneration and benefits

Charlotte Naylor Davis is our Lay Minister, and as such is allowed to be a Trustee, according to our constitution (and now is a Trustee listed with the Charity Commission). She is paid for her work as Lay Minister. Total remuneration during the year was £19,353 (previous year: £13,079).