## **Trustees Annual Report for 2023**
Chudleigh Baptist Church became a CIO on 21st June 2021. This report covers from 1st January 2023 to 31st December 2023
## **Aim and purpose**
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.
## **Objectives and activities**
The trustees are committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church and to become part of our community at Chudleigh Baptist Church. The trustees maintains an overview of worship throughout the church and makes suggestions on how our services can involve the many groups that live within our community. Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament.
When planning our activities for the year, the minister and the trustees have considered the Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. In particular, we try to enable ordinary people to live out their faith as part of our community through:
Worship and prayer; learning about the Gospel; and developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus.
Provision of pastoral care for people living in the community. Missionary and outreach work.
## **Achievements and performance**
Chudleigh Baptist Church doesn’t have a physical church building but hires the community hall at the primary school to offer worship services every Sunday morning and other one off events. We also rent a business space in the centre of Chudleigh call “The Square”which we use for community outreach and host meetings.
## Community Hall
The church’s activities were:
- A service 10:30am each Sunday morning in the hall.
- Young peoples activities during the Sunday morning service (in hired school rooms)
- Worship evenings held throughout the year
- Christmas celebration evening December 16th
## The Square
The church’s activities were:
- The Living room on a Monday morning. A time to meet together play board games, puzzles or just chat
- The Quiet room on a Tuesday lunch time. A time for quiet refection and prayer.
- The craft room on a Wednesday morning. A time for craft activities.
- Slow cook Saturday. Once a month a chance to have a meal cooked in a slow cooker.
- Board games night on a Saturday evening once a month. A chance to play board game together.
- “The Gardening Club” Open to the community to help maintain the gardens at The Square and receive pastoral support.
- Escape Rooms fundraising event in October raising money for CAP and the work at The Square.
All events/meetings (other than governance meetings) are open to the public and to ensure no one is prevented from attending the church does not charge for any non fund raising event.
## **Church Membership**
Chudleigh Baptist Church membership throughout the year was 44.
## **Church Attendance**
Up to 100 adults and children attended the church’s services and activities regularly.
## **Pastoral Support**
The minister Eleanor Moffatt and the trustees together with other members of the church endeavoured to provide pastoral support thought out the year.
## **Volunteers**
The majority of the activities of the church are undertaken by volunteers. No record is kept of the time given on a voluntary basis but without this contribution to the church it would not function.
## **Administrative information**
|**Charity registration number:**|**1194879**|
|---|---|
|**Website:**|**www.chudlighbaptistchurch.co.uk**|
|**Registered ofce:**|**21 Chestnut Cresent**|
||**Chudleigh**|
||**Devon**|
||**TQ13 0PT**|
|**Minister:**|**Eleanor Mofatt (chair)**|
|**Trustees:**|**Emma Funnell**|
||**Jonathan Pimperton**|
||**Gareth Sowden**|
|**Secretary:**|**Gareth Sowden**|
|**Treasurer:**|**Jonathan Pimperton**|
|**Independent Examiner:**|**Emily Farrell**|
||**59 Palace Meadow**|
||**Chudleigh**|
||**Devon**|
||**TQ13 0PH**|
|**Bankers:**|**Co-operative Bank - Business**|
||**Business Customer Service**|
||**PO Box 250**|
||**Skelmersdale**|
||**WN8 6WT**|
## **Financial review**
The church received income through giving, donations, and gift aid during 2023 of £62,220 (2022: £58,957). The CIO earns rental income through an owned property of £13,058 in the year (2022: £11,700). Other income comprises of restricted donations (2023: £5,391, 2022: £3,730) and the secondment of our minister to Bristol Baptist College (2023: £9,249, 2022: £7,702). Total income for 2023 was therefore £89,918 (2022: £82,089).
Within this financial period, £43,849 was spent on ministry costs and salaries (2022: £38,686). £8,513 was spent on outward giving and missionary work (2022: £6,181). Total expenditure during the year was £89,549 (2022: £76,972).
The net result for the year was an excess of receipts over payments of £3,356 on unrestricted funds (2022: £10,927), and £2,000 was moved from unrestricted funds into a designated fund for property refurbishments, leaving the church with £42,812 of unrestricted funds at the end of the year (2022: £41,456). Restricted funds at the year-end were £36,811 which are detailed in the accounts (2022: £37,798). Total cash available was therefore £79,623 at the end of the year (2021: £79,254).
## **Reserves policy**
It is policy to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds (if possible), which equates to at least three months of unrestricted payments, equivalent to £20,000, to cover emergency situations that may arise from time to time. The balance of £42,812 held on unrestricted funds, after designations, at the year-end exceeded this target.
||**Chudleigh Baptist**|**Church CIO**|**Church CIO**|**Church CIO**|**Church CIO**||||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||44927||**To**||45291|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Income via Giving|**51,038**||**-**||**-**||**51,038**||**48,089**|
|Gift aid rebate|**11,182**||**-**||**-**||**11,182**||**10,868**|
|Rental Propertyincome|**13,058**||**-**||**-**||**13,058**||**11,700**|
|E Moffat Secondment Income|**9,249**||**-**||**-**||**9,249**||**7,702**|
|The Square|**- 0**||**2,507**||**-**||**2,507**||**2,038**|
|Mini Ones|**- 0**||**2,614**||**-**||**2,614**||**1,572**|
|Youth Camps|**- 0**||**270**||**-**||**270**||**120**|
|TRANSFER OF ASSETS FROM
UNREGISTERED CHARITY 31.10.21|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**84,527**||**5,391**||**-**||**89,918**||**82,089**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|
**84,527**||**5,391**||**- 0**||**89,918**||**82,089**|
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Ministry costs (salary plus expenses)|**43,849**||**-**||**-**||**43,849**||**38,686**|
|Manse expenses (rent, water & Council Tax)|**3,392**||**-**||**-**||**3,392**||**3,212**|
|Visiting preachers expenses|**50**||**-**||**-**||**50**||**50**|
|Chestnut Cres expenses|**5,248**||**-**||**-**||**5,248**||**103**|
|Insurance|**999**||**-**||**-**||**999**||**958**|
|School hire|**3,359**||**-**||**-**||**3,359**||**2,206**|
|Children and Youth Work|**712**||**-**||**-**||**712**||**4,853**|
|Other/misc (inc Square not restricted)|**15,049**||**-**||**-**||**15,049**||**11,183**|
|Giving to Church Missionaries/causes|**8,513**||**-**||**-**||**8,513**||**6,181**|
|Rental Property|**- 0**||**2,000**||**-**||**2,000**||**-**|
|Youth Camps|**- 0**||**270**||**-**||**270**||**180**|
|The Square|**- 0**||**5,642**||**-**||**5,642**||**8,550**|
|Miniones|**- 0**||**466**||**-**||**466**||**810**|
|**_Sub total_ **|
**81,171**||**8,378**||**-**||**89,549**||**76,972**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|
**81,171**||**8,378**||**- 0**||**89,549**||**76,972**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**3,356**||**-**
**2,987**||**-**||**369**||**5,117**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**
**2,000**||**2,000**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**41,456**||**37,798**||**-**||**79,254**||**74,137**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**42,812**||**36,811**||**-**||**79,623**||**79,254**|
CCXX R accounts (SS)
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CHURCH
E1•*1•.?} to the fNstees of thudleigh Baptist Churth CIO
On the a¢xounts for the year ended 31 December 2023
The ChuTch'5 Tnjsteeg a reswJn5ible for preparnvon of the accounts. The churths trustees
({der that an audfc i% not tsired for thls year under sthn IH of the Charities Att 2011 {ihe
charit5 Act) and that an irKlet*ndent exaMinatiC Is needed.
It is my responsibilty to:
ernine the actounts under sectDn 145 of the Charftks ACL
to follow the pr(KEdures laid down In the general DIrect)nS gNen ty the tharty Commiss
(under secbon 14515)Ibl of the tharibes A¢ and
to state whether partKular rnatters have come to my attentk?n.
Basls of Ir*endert examinerfs statement
My examinaty.on was carried out In accordarKe with genernl DI0n5 given by the arty
Commission. An examinatK)n indudes a review of the unng records kept by the church and a
mparison of the attounts presented wth tFwJse rd5. It also indudes consideration of any
unusual items OF dlsdosures in the COUnts and seeknng expknations from the twstees nrnIng
any such matte. The proureS undatsken do not provide all the evKkrKe that woukl be Uired
in an audlt, aThJ o)nsequenty rK* opinion Is given as to whether the Kcounts pret a lrnje arKI frdi
and the report is limited to those matters set out In the statemert telow.
Independert examinerf5 siatement
In connection wth my MInatiOn, no material matteJs have ccffie to my aknbon whith give5
cause to belE¥e that in, any rnaterK41 rwtt:
accounting record5 were not kept in accordan wtih wtion 130 of the ClkiritEs Act or
the accounts do rM)t with accountÉThJ records
the accounts do Th)t ccKnply with the appI(Cab Uirements 0)nrnIng the fomi and
content of Kcounts set oui in tharitses {Accounts Rep)rtsl Reguktions 2(M)8 other
than any requirernent that the accounts gNe a Irue and fair vtert whlch Is not a matter
considw&l as part of an indeFEndent examination.
I have ccrfne across no other matters in COnrOn with examination to whKh aiteniijn should te
drawn in order to enabk a prw uThJerstaThJing of the accounts to te feachej.
gned by or on behaw of the Examiner................. ..
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