## **NEEDINGWORTH BAPTIST CHURCH – REPORT TO CHARITY COMMISSION** **Period of Report** **Name of Charity** : Needingworth Bap�st Church CIO **Registra�on Number** : 1200761 **Address** : High Street, Needingworth, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 4SB **Trustees** : David Mann (Elder), Robert Keith Craigen (Deacon), Paul Michael Burton (Deacon). These trustees were in place for the whole period of the report. **Purpose of the charity as set out in our Cons�tu�on:** The advancement of the Chris�an faith as a Grace Bap�st Church in accordance with the Basis of Faith, primarily in Needingworth and the surrounding neighbourhood. **Structure and details of how it is managed, including how it recruits trustees** : Needingworth Bap�st Church has existed for more than 250 years. It has a membership. Chris�ans in regular a�endance at the church, who would like to become members, apply by comple�ng and signing the applica�on form and wri�ng out their tes�mony of conversion and Chris�an life. This will be seen by the church members who will approve the admission of the new member in their Church Mee�ng. Elders and deacons are the “Officers” of the church and the trustees of the charity. These are chosen by the church members and appointed in a church mee�ng which has considered their suitability, calling and gi�s. The pastor is an elder who is supported financially by the church. When someone is appointed as a Church Officer or pastor, they automa�cally become a trustee. The Trustees have taken into account the Charity Commission’s guidance on Public Benefit in preparing this report. Our mee�ngs are open to all, and, as the only church in Needingworth, provide a place for all who would like to worship God according to the Chris�an faith, and provide pastoral care for all who seek it, according to their par�cular needs. Our main mee�ng was the Sunday morning worship service. In the absence of a pastor, this was led by visi�ng preachers or by our elder. We seek to worship and praise our great God and Father by singing hymns of praise, praying, reading the Bible and listening to a sermon which expounds a passage of the Bible. We do this for the glory of God and for the strengthening of the faith of all who a�end. Services were recorded and placed on our website so that those who are unwell, or unable to a�end for any reason, can s�ll par�cipate and benefit from the services. Once a month in the summer months we also met for an evening service. Our midweek mee�ng was held each Tuesday evening in the Chapel or on Zoom, consis�ng of a Bible study followed by a prayer mee�ng. Once a month on a Thursday a�ernoon, an outreach mee�ng, called “Tea and Time to Think” was held in the home of one of our members. The purpose of this is to reach out to neighbours and to provide a forum for discussion and Bible study. Support is focussed on missionaries and mission organisa�ons involved in spreading the Gospel of salva�on through faith in Jesus Christ as given to us in the Bible. We are par�cularly focussed on suppor�ng the missionaries of Grace Bap�st Mission, but take an interest in many other mission agencies. **Commented [DM1]:** Any other **Financial review.** The assets of the church (charity) were transferred to the CIO on 31 October 2023. Prior to that date, the church operated as a Charitable Unincorporated Organisa�on. Income and expenditure was as per our Financial Statement of Accounts. Because our income was less than £25,000, the accounts were not examined by an Independent Examiner. Funds were used for the upkeep of the chapel and grounds including our cemetery, expenses of visi�ng speakers and dona�ons to mission organisa�ons. No grants were made. Funds were kept in our bank accounts and we did not hold any investments. Cash in hand is par�cularly being held with a view to the support of a future pastor. We did not hold any funds as a custodian trustee. the period of the report was healthy with a cash balance of £56,741 **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** ## **Signed:** **Full name: David Mann** **Posi�on: Elder/Chair of Trustees** **Date: 10 August 2024** ||**Charity Name**
**NEEDINGWORTH BAPTIST CHURCH**|**Charity Name**
**NEEDINGWORTH BAPTIST CHURCH**|**Charity Name**
**NEEDINGWORTH BAPTIST CHURCH**|**No (if any)**
**1200761**|**No (if any)**
**1200761**|**No (if any)**
**1200761**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|**Period start date**
**20/10/2022**|**To**||**Period end date**
**31/10/2023**||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**16,548**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,548**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,548**
**8,872**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,872**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,872**
**7,676**
**-**
**49,065**
**56,741**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**16,548**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,548**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,548**
**8,872**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,872**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,872**

**7,676**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||**16,548**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**16,548**||||||**-**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||| ||**8,872**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**8,872**||||||**-**| ||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**|**-**||||||| |**,**|**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||| ||**7,676**|**-**|**-**||
**7,676**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**49,065**|**-**|**-**||**49,065**||**-**| ||**56,741**|**-**|**-**||**56,741**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 14/08/2024 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Bank accounts**
**Details**
**Details**
**Church furniture**
**Electronic organ**
**Lawn mower/gardening equipment**
**Church kitchen equipment**
**Computer**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**56,741**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**56,741**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**General funds**
**-**
**General funds**
**-**
**General funds**
**-**
**General funds**
**-**
**General funds**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
Print Name
**DAVID MANN**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||**DAVID MANN**|**13/08/2024**| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 14/08/2024 2