## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] January 2023 Period start date To 31[st] December 2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Princes Risborough Baptist Church** ## **Charity registration number:1200447** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**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.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Regular worship services and other**
**meetings open to the public. Regular**
**giving to other charitable causes in the**
**UK and other countries where Christian**
**faith is demonstrated in the care and**
**welfare of other people**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Princes Risborough Baptist Church held**
**worship services every Sunday morning**
**during 2023, this is the main time the**
**church comes together as a body.**
**Services are open to all, and we are**
**regarded as being very welcoming.**
**Services are also available on Zoom for**
**those unable to attend in person, this**
**facility has been greatly improved by the**
**new AV system. Services provide**
**spiritual care for the membership and all**
**who attend. Amongst those who**
**regularly attend are some who live in**
**sheltered accommodation and we are**
**pleased to be seen as a safe place to**
**worship.**
**During the week there are a number of**
**groups organised by the church which**
**attract people from outside the church.**
**Baby group provides a safe space for**
**new mums, especially first-time mums**
**from our community, to bring their**
**babies and to gain and give mutual**
**support. A lunchtime group ‘Meet Eat**
**and Chat’ gives opportunities for people**
**from our community to meet for**
**friendship and is a designated warm**
**space. Bible study groups during the**
**week provide further encouragement in**
**the Christian faith.**
**During the year we introduced a new**
**professionally designed and maintained**
**website to better advertise the church,**
**the worship services and meetings that**
**we hold, together with facilities which**
**we provide. This will also help to**
**streamline our administration as we**
**gradually expand its facilities.**
**We hire our halls to a wide range of**
**organisations and are essentially fully**
**booked. This benefits us by way of**
**income, but it also benefits the groups**
**and organisations that hire from us by**
**providing the good facilities they**
**require, and it is very helpful that we are**
**also able to offer a large car park. We**
**also offer our facilities to Risborough**
**Food Cupboard (One Can Trust) to**| **collect and to distribute food and also support it financially. We work with Churches Together in Risborough (CTR), our pastor chaired this group during the year, and we are pleased to be able to support it and the events they organise. CTR also promote a children’s holiday club, Lighthouse, which attracts hundreds of children annually. Though this is separately organised we contribute toward this financially and members of the church are pleased to take part. We support a number of other organisations financially by monthly standing order including the following, The Leprosy Mission who seek to provide healing and healthcare for Leprosy suffers and their families worldwide and to seek to eradicate the disease. Mission Aviation Fellowship who, amongst other things, aid other charities in providing air transport in difficult geographical / political areas. Macedonian Vision Africa who seek to provide education and welfare for young people in the deprived slum area in Jinja, Uganda BMS world mission who seek to provide support to peoples in many parts of the world to improve their lives and wellbeing and by so doing illustrate the Christian faith.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Our income comes from two main**
**sources: regular giving by church**
**members (£47,312) which normally**
**forms the larger part of our income, and**
**rental income (£25,821) from the hire of**
**our church halls. This year income was**
**significantly increased due to receipt of**
**a legacy of £38,826 from a former**
**church member. Total income for the**
**year was £128,412.**
**Our main expenditure is the cost of**
**ministry (£45,825), which is the pay and**
**costs of employing a pastor to lead the**
**fellowship. Other major expenses are**
**the costs of running and maintaining the**
**church buildings (£14,604),**
**administration (£5,892) and the amount**
**we give to other causes (£15,390). This**
**year the legacy we received enabled us**
**to improve the quality of our worship**
**services by installing a new Audio**
**Visual system which together with other**
**improvements cost £23,226. We were**
**also able to give more to the charitable**
**causes which we regularly support. Our**
**total expenditure was £119,820.**
**We ended the year with cash and**
**reserves of £57,510. As well as an**
**agreed reserve of £30,000 this figure**
**includes restricted funds of £15,493**
**given to a separate building fund which**
**is used for major projects agreed by the**
**church. Overall we believe this**
**represents a healthy financial position.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We hold reserves in line with Baptist**
**Union recommendations which require**
**that we hold enough funds to meet all**
**commitments over a period of six**
**months in case of unexpected financial**
**difficulty. Agreed by the church annually**
**as part of our budget.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£30,000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **Our primary source of income is from the church membership who voluntarily** The charity’s principal **give to the church by monthly standing** Para 1.47 |sources of funds (including
any fundraising)||**order. In addition, we receive rental**
**income from a range of organisations**
**who use our church halls.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Our reserves are banked with the**
**Baptist Union Corporation Ltd. This**
**benefits the wider Baptist family**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The main financial risk is if the**
**membership were unable to contribute**
**enough to continue employing a**
**minister and paying for the upkeep of**
**the church premises.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Our governing document is based on a**
**Baptist Union Template agreed by the**
**church membership and accepted by**
**the Charity Commission**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**During 2023 we operated as an**
**unincorporated organisation. Assets**
**were transferred to the registered CIO**
**on 1st April 2024.**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Nominations from the church**
**membership are voted on in a secret**
**ballot at a church member’s meeting.**
**Successful candidates must receive at**
**least 66% approval of those voting.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
**We employ safeguarding policies and all**
**new trustees will be DBS checked.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Princes Risborough Baptist Church is**
**part of the Baptist Union of Great Britain**
**and Northern Ireland who also hold our**
**Trust Deed**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Princes Risborough Baptist Church| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1200447| |Charity’s principal address|42 Bell Street
Princes Risborough
Bucks
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Vanessa Rye|Pastor||| ||Nicola Hirst|Administrator||| ||Paul Gabbott|Treasurer||| ||Cheryl Brownlie|||| ||Lucinda Lishman|||| ||Sheila Gabbott|||| ||Juliet Drage||1stJanuary – 4th
September 2023|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Nicola Hirst **Full name(s)** Paul Gabbott **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer Administrator **Chair, etc) Date** 15[th] September 2024 ## **Princes Risborough Baptist Church** **Receipts and payments accounts For the period To from 1/1/2023 12/31/2023** **CC16a** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||| |---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Donations and Grants
**40,314**
Income Tax Recovered
**9,704**
Interest
**1,020**
Raised For Other Causes
**-**
Rent
**25,917**
SundayOffering
**42,018**
**-**
**-**
**118,973**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 118,973**
**A3 Payments**
Bank Charges
**262**
Church Events
**-**
Church Office Broadband
**-**
Church Office Phone
**725**
Computer Security
**-**
Conferences
**120**
Office Supplies
**204**
Photocopier
**1,213**
Professional Fees
**1,956**
Stationery
**-**
Subscriptions and Licences
**828**
Sundries
**62**
Website
**243**
WorshipMaterial
**199**
Conference Costs
**1,019**
Manse Expenses
**10,032**
Mileage
**516**
Pastors Salary
**34,247**
Pulpit Supplies
**135**
Mission Payments
**11,497**
Church Premises Costs
**52,439**
**_Sub total_ 115,697**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 115,697**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 3,276**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**38,741**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 42,017**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**230**
**1,841**
**-**
**467**
**-**
**6,901**
**-**
**9,439**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,439**
**-**
**-**
**3,893**
**230**
**4,123**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,123**
**5,316**
**-**
**10,177**
**15,493**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**40,544**
**11,545**
**1,020**
**467**
**25,917**
**48,919**
**-**
**-**
**128,412**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**128,412**
**262**
**-**
**-**
**725**
**-**
**120**
**204**
**1,213**
**1,956**
**-**
**828**
**62**
**243**
**199**
**1,019**
**10,032**
**516**
**34,247**
**135**
**15,390**
**52,669**
**119,820**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**119,820**
**8,592**
**-**
**48,918**
**57,510**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||||**9,154**| ||||**10,090**| ||||**256**| ||||**1,272**| ||||**24,470**| ||||**43,887**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**89,129**| ||||| ||||| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||**89,129**| ||||| ||||**269**| ||||**170**| ||||**343**| ||||**801**| ||||**20**| ||||**570**| ||||**840**| ||||**1,052**| ||||**1,627**| ||||**91**| ||||**626**| ||||**-**| ||||**243**| ||||**212**| ||||**620**| ||||**5,143**| ||||**416**| ||||**34,409**| ||||**110**| ||||**11,166**| ||||**23,414**| ||||**82,142**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||**82,142**| ||||| ||**5,316**|**8,592**|**6,987**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**10,177**|**48,918**|**41,931**| ||**15,493**|**57,510**|**48,918**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
Treasurer
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**Bank and Cash**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
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approval| |---|---|---|---| ||#VALUE!|**Paul Gabbott**|3rd April 2024| ||||| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Ch21ily Name Princes Risborough Baptist Church On accounts forthe year ended 31 De￿mber 2023 Char6ty no (If any) Set oul on pages Irernember to include the page numbers of additional she8ts1 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts oflhe above charity I'the Trust") for the year ended 31112 12023. Responsibilities and As the Gharity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements ofthe Charities Act 2011 Iyhe Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 AGt and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Direclions given by the Charity Commission under section 145151{bl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ') in conneclion wilh the examination which givès me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not k8Pt in a¢wrdance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not aGcord with the a¢counting records Indepondent examiner's ststsment I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the exarnination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding ofthe accounts to be reached. Please deletè the words in the brackets rf they do not 8ppIy. Signed: Date: Name: Paul K West FCA Relevant professional qualificationls} or body lif any): ICAEW Address: 2nd Floor, 1 Church Square, Leighlon Buzzard, Bedfordshire. LU7 1AE IER October 2018 Se¢"tion Disclosure Only complete if the examiner neecls to highlight matters of concern {see CC32, Independent examination of chanly 8Gcounts.' directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018