## 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**
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## 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.
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## 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.
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## 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)
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## 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
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## 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|
|---|---|---|
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## 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)
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## 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.
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## 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).
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