## **2024-2025 Annual Report for Trinity Baptist Church**
References and administrative details
## **Registered Address**
Green Lane, Derby, DE1 1RZ
## **Church Trustees as at 31[st] March 2025**
Mrs A Cartwright Mrs J Leeming Miss J Howell
Trustee for Finance – Mrs J Leeming
‘Renew’ worker – Les Tam
## **Charity status**
The church is registered with the Charity Commission
## **Membership**
Trinity Baptist Church is a member of the Baptist Union of Great Britain.
## **Bankers**
Natwest Bank
## **Independent Finance Examiner**
Mr Paul Woolley
## **Annual Report for 2024-2025**
The trustees present their Annual Report for April 2024 - March 2025.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The Church is governed by its constitution, in accordance with which regular attenders are invited to become members of the Church by making a public declaration of faith which may be shown through baptism.
The Church meeting takes place four times per year and has responsibility for the overall policy of the church. Non-members can attend but not vote for constitutional issues.
In accordance with the constitution, the members appoint trustees, who are responsible for the day to day running of the church’s work and witness, including the financial and legal aspects. All members are encouraged to take an appropriate part in the spiritual and practical tasks involved in the furtherance of the charitable objective.
Relevant matters may be submitted to the Church meeting by the trustees for guidance, or may be raised by members attending Church meeting for further consideration by the trustees. Though the constitution permits decisions to be made at Church meetings by appropriate majorities, the Church seeks to work by consensus wherever possible.
## **Objectives and Activities**
The principal purpose of the church is the advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist denomination to include the advancement of education, community service and such other general charitable purposes in such parts of the United Kingdom and the world as the Church shall determine.
In order to achieve the principal objective which is set out above, the Church provides a variety of activities both to its membership and to the community generally. The aim is to show the love of Jesus Christ in both word and deed and to bring people into a closer relationship with Him as living Lord.
Central to the work and witness of the Church is the provision of regular public services of Christian worship. Weekly services at 10.45am are open and welcoming to all and have visiting speakers to take the services. We have no regular Sunday children’s programme, but we do have activities available for the children and young people who would like to be ‘doing’ as well as ‘listening’ during the church service. On the 4[th] Sunday of the month, we meet in a local community rooms where we also provide breakfast before the service and lunch afterwards.
In addition to the Sunday services, we have a weekly Bible study group held in homes, and a weekly ‘Renew’ café on a Tuesday afternoon held in a local community room. Our Renew Café welcomes the local community to spend time together in a place where it is ‘okay not to be okay’, although some people do travel from further afield to join us. We have continued to see lives changed this year through this work. A BBQ, a trip to the seaside and an away day to the local countryside, took place for the local people in the summer and all were well received.
The Church operates systems to ensure that all people working with children and vulnerable adults are appropriately vetted and trained with regard to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The church also rents the building to Upbeat Communities from Monday to Friday for the use of education, provision of meals and to use as offices. The church is in the midst of selling the building with a view to meeting at the community room where we hold the Renew Café.
The church has read the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit, and is satisfied that the activities outlined above clearly demonstrate that the charity is providing a benefit to the public.
## **Achievements and Performance**
The Church does not measure the success of its programmes only in numbers, including financial numbers, but also in less tangible areas like fellowship, welcome and encouragement. The trustees recognise that these are difficult to measure.
2024-25 was the first year since 2019 that we have not had a minister but have worked together as a church family to ensure that our community outreach work has continued.
The manse has been rented out to a private tenant now that it is not being used by a minister.
On 31 March 2025 the membership remained at 21.
Average attendance at worship services has remained steady during the year.
Signed on behalf of the trustees
Ann Cartwright 8[th] September 2025
**Trinity Baptist Church**
**XN31207**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
## **CC16a**
**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 06/04/2024 05/04/2025
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £**
## **A1 Receipts**
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Regulargiving|||**13,795**|||**-**||**-**|||**13,795**|||**15,003**|
|Gift Aid|||**3,777**|||**-**||**-**|||**3,777**|||**6,445**|
|Offerings|||**7,363**|||**-**||**-**|||**7,363**|||**15,181**|
|Renew Café|||**327**|||**-**||**-**|||**327**|||**1,381**|
|Renew HK||||||||**-**|||**-**|||**8,573**|
|Renew Grants||||||**4,400**||**-**|||**4,400**|||**12,300**|
|EMBA Grant|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|Church Rent|||**25,665**|||**-**||**-**|||**25,665**|||**25,394**|
|Den||||||**202**||**-**|||**202**|||**888**|
|Other|||**619**|||**-**||**-**|||**619**|||**-**|
|Manse rent|||**6,422**|||**-**||**-**|||**6,422**|||**-**|
|Church awayday|||**65**|||**-**||**-**|||**65**|||**120**|
|Church Gifts||||||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|Directed Giving|||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|||**1,760**|
|Events|||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|||**642**|
||||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|||||||||||||||
|||_AR)_|**58,032**|||**4,602**||**-**|||**62,634**|||**87,686**|
||||||||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||||
|**(see table).**|||||||||||||||
||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||**_Sub total_**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||||||||||||||||
||**_Total receipts_ **||**58,032**|||**4,602**|||**-**||**62,634**||**87,686**||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||
|Employees|||**1,579**|||**10,119**||**-**|||**11,698**|||**36,814**|
|Employee Training|||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|Employee Expenses|||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|||**528**|
|Preachers|||**683**|||||**-**|||**683**|||**-**|
|Renew Café|||**476**|||**972**||**-**|||**1,448**|||**2,174**|
|Renew outings|||**-**|||**1,225**||**-**|||**1,225**|||**270**|
|Church maintenance and repairs|||**1,904**|||||**-**|||**1,904**|||**150**|
|Garden||||||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|Youth Work|||**84**|||**202**||**-**|||**286**|||**1,806**|
|Subscriptions / licences|||**393**|||||**-**|||**393**|||**-**|
|Church Clean Ins Water|||**2,454**|||||**-**|||**2,454**|||**8,153**|
|Church Gas and electricity|||**7,271**|||||**-**|||**7,271**|||**5,727**|
|Church Admin|||**41**|||||**-**|||**41**|||**669**|
|Communications Web|||**1,217**|||||**-**|||**1,217**|||**1,239**|
|Mission Giving|||**1,423**|||||**-**|||**1,423**|||**4,278**|
|Professional Fees|||**2,250**|||||**-**|||**2,250**|||**-**|
|Events|||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|||**397**|
|Church AwayDay|||**248**|||||**-**|||**248**|||**314**|
|Other Expenses|||**231**|||||**-**|||**231**|||**534**|
|HK Renew||||||**4,491**||**-**|||**4,491**|||**6,823**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|||**-**||
1|**-**||**-**|||**-**|
19/11/2025||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**20,252**||**17,009**||**-**|||**37,261**||**69,875**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||
|Manse Loan|**11,391**||||**-**|||**11,391**||**11,851**||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**11,391**||**-**|||**-**||**11,391**||**11,851**||
|||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**|**31,644**||**17,009**|||**-**||**48,652**||**81,727**||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**26,388**||**- 12,407**|||**-**||**13,981**||**5,959**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**6,857**||**17,095**||**-**|||**23,952**||**-**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**33,245**||**4,688**|||**-**||**37,933**||**5,959**||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
19/11/2025
2
## **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
CCXX R3 accounts (SS)|Signature
J L Leeming
Mortgage on Manse
**Details**
**Details**
Church Building
Manse
Cash
Current account
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
~~3~~|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**33,245**
**4,688**
**-**
**-**
**33,245**
**4,688**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
General
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Jackie Leeming
|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||||28/10/2025
|
||||~~9/11/2025~~|
CCXX R3 accounts (SS)
CCXX R4 accounts ISSI
1911112025
|**Independent examiner's**
**report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
Charity Name
Trinity Baptist Church
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
5 April 2025
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1205672
**Set out on pages**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
**Responsibilities and basis**
**of report**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 05/04/2024.
As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 Trust’s accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have
followed 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 (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Signed:**
**Date:**
01/10/2025
**Name:**
Paul Woolley
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body (if**
**any):**
N/A
**Address:**
45 Lakeside Drive
Gillingham
Dorset SP8 4YN|**Independent examiner's**
**report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
Charity Name
Trinity Baptist Church
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
5 April 2025
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1205672
**Set out on pages**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
**Responsibilities and basis**
**of report**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 05/04/2024.
As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 Trust’s accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have
followed 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 (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Signed:**
**Date:**
01/10/2025
**Name:**
Paul Woolley
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body (if**
**any):**
N/A
**Address:**
45 Lakeside Drive
Gillingham
Dorset SP8 4YN|**Independent examiner's**
**report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner's**
**report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner's**
**report on the accounts**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||
||Charity Name
Trinity Baptist Church|||||
|||||||
||5 April 2025||**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1205672||
|||||||
||(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)|||||
||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 05/04/2024.
As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 Trust’s accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have
followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under
section 145(5)(b) 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 connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.|||||
||||**Date:**|01/10/2025||
|||||||
||Paul Woolley|||||
|||||||
||N/A|||||
|||||||
||45 Lakeside Drive|||||
||Gillingham|||||
||Dorset SP8 4YN|||||
1
**October 2018**
**IER**
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
2
**October 2018**
**IER**