## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 17.04.24 Period start date To 31.12.24 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Chesterfield Baptist Church** ## **Charity registration number: 1207894** ## **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.**| |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|**The teaching and encouragement of**
**people of all ages, including children and**
**young people through regular public**
**worship, prayer, bible study, preaching**
**and teaching and activities that connect**
**with and support our local community,**
**the wider town, the United Kingdom and**
**across the world as determined by the**
**church.**| |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 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|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Most of the ongoing work of the church is**
**carried out by volunteers overseen by the**
**trustees. During the reporting period the**
**Church has been in a pastoral vacancy.**| Other ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference |||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|**In line with the principal purposes of**
**Chesterfield Baptist Church, the church**
**has worked for the advancement of the**
**Christian faith through:**
**· maintaining regular public worship,**
**open to all, in person and on Zoom to**
**enable the sick and elderly to participate**
**including holding monthly Communion**
**services. The church has benefitted from**
**a variety of different speakers from within**
**and from outside the church during this**
**period of pastoral vacancy.**
**· offering baptism with one baptism**
**service in 2024.**
**· holding weekly and monthly prayer**
**meetings, again in person and on Zoom.**
**· encouraging attendees to join a Bible**
**study group (meeting at different times**
**and places to best meet the needs of the**
**diverse congregation).**
**· providing Sunday morning teaching**
**groups for children aged up to eleven**
**years old most weeks of the year. Local**
**families were supported more widely**
**through 2024 with monthly Saturday**
**morning family activities and until**
**autumn 2024 through a weekly toddler**
**group.**
**· the work of the pastoral care group and**
**Bible study groups in providing pastoral**
**care to the congregation, both those able**
**to attend and those who are sick or**
**elderly and unable to regularly attend.**
**This care for those who may be**
**struggling is not restricted to the**
**attendees of the church but extends to**
**the wider community through the weekly**
**‘Renew Wellbeing Café’ which offers a**
**safe space with activities, hot drinks and**
**cake plus soup through the winter**
**months.**
**· supporting and encouraging charitable**
**social action in the United Kingdom and**
**abroad through specific fundraising**
**events or in response to local, national or**
**international events. Donations from**
**members to Chesterfield Foodbank and**
**Tools With A Mission (TWAM) are**
**collected throughout the year.**
**In addition, the building is used by a**| **number of community groups, monthly Waste Not Café, monthly Repair Café, and weekly Chesterfield Child Contact Centre to support community needs more widely.** |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|**As of 31.12.24 the Charity holds funds of**
**£116,326. This is made up of £44,964 in**
**current accounts and £71,362 in deposit**
**accounts. This is largely accounted for**
**because we had only one part time**
**employee for that time as we were in a**
**pastoral vacancy and had no paid**
**administrator.**
**The Church’s assets were fully**
**transferred to the CIO on 1st January**
**2025.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held to ensure that we can**
**employ a full-time minister to further**
**achieve our aims as a charity. In addition,**
**there were plans for significant building**
**costs, including the refurbishment of the**
**lift to enable full access to the building,**
**replacement ceilings and other costs**
**related to the upkeep of an old building.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£71,362**| |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|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Regular giving by members and other**
**church attendees and Gift Aid**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**The Charity is governed by an Approved**
**Governing Document which states that**
**the principal purpose of the charity 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 charitable**
**purposes locally, in parts of the United**
**Kingdom and the world as the church**
**shall determine.**
**The Baptist Union Corporation Limited is**
**the custodian trustee for the land and**
**buildings owned by the Church. The**
**Church occupies premises which are**
**held by the Baptist Union Corporation**
**Ltd, on Trusts which are entirely**
**compatible with the above object.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Chesterfield Baptist Church is a**
**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO).**| |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|**Trustees are elected by the church**
**membership through an elections**
**process outlined in section 14 of the**
**Approved Constitution.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
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You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Chesterfield Baptist Church| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1207894| |Charity’s principal address|Chesterfield Baptist Church,
Cross Street,
Chesterfield
S40 4ST| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Lynne Braithwaite||17.04.2024|Church membership| ||Laura Brown||17.04.2024|Church membership| ||Marcia Carter|Church Secretary|17.04.2024|Church membership| ||Robert Hall||17.04.2024|Church membership| ||Christine Hardy||17.04.2024|Church membership| ||Gillian Knight|Treasurer|17.04.2024|Church membership| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** (ssl syxxyx xx) £61'Lg p￿J¥?￿l￿ spunj 4SPJ 9V 95* qns ••Sl's•sw￿n IEW3 qns 69L'9 WH •)9'¢1 ott SLV gL okg'$ t£9'0Z Pdtv LSI'66 qns 20 (èiv J W¥>UI qns OLZ iuiuwv 9EO' Dt gLO'L $8B'L kv JpeA Spunj Iwi siuawApd PUE sid1a?a￿ v uo!i?as uno??E WUowApd pue 4d18￿ Issl qLUKOJB ￿ XXJJ •Jnyi&s B6L'lgt 'LS¢ UAIO B,AwEy? o&VL8¢' JOJ g!-L'i&r •W88VWgU4S•AUI g8 ¥pury spunj spury i•wi *punJ I1#*9 18 8PU JU8WMOPU3 poljad aui Jo pua ayi JE Salill!qP!I pup slassp Jo iuawaieis 8 uoli?as i CHARITY COMMISSIO FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Indepondont oxaminor's roport on tho aceounts SKtlon A Indop•nd•nt Examlner's R•port R•port to th• trusteesl m•mb•rs 01 Che8terfigld Baptist Church On *¢¢ounls lor the year 3111212024 Charity no Ilf any) 1207894 Sot out on pag•s I report lo the trusleè3 on my examination of th8 acc£Junts of tho above charity I'the Tru31'1 for the year endgj 31 AS the charlty tnJ8lee3 of thfy Tw81. you 8re r88ponsibl* for the prepaTation of the accountg In acu)fdance vthh tha r8qulr8ments of the Charlties Aet 20111.the Acri. 112/kn2tk Responslbillti•s and basls ol r•port I rewrt In respect of my ￿aMinatIon of the Tru8V$ 8co)unts ￿rried out under section 145 orthe 2011 Act and In carrying out my examination, I havè followed the applicabl8 Directions given by tha Charity CommI88ion undel section 14515)Ibl of the Ad. I have completed my examination. I confirrn that no material mattws have come to my attention (other than that disdosed below-) in c£)nnect￿n ￿th the examination whlch gives me cause to bèli8vo that in. any materi81 rèspect • ar￿Unting reeords were not kept in ac££Jrdanc8 with 8ection 130 ofthè Ao* or • the a¢￿Unts do not a￿Ord vllh the aox>unting reo)rrls Ind•p•nd•nt •xamln•rfs stat•mont I have no con￿M$ and have come across no other mattern in conneclion with the examinatson to which attention SI￿Uld be drawn in order to 8ft8ble a proper undeistanding of the ar£ounts to be reachèd. ' Pl?￿@ delete words in the br8ckgls rftheydo notspply. Slgn•d: Dat•: Nam•: Fric Rd•v*nt prof•sslonal qUalIfi￿tIOn(s) or body (If #nyl: IA S•¢tlon B 01scl￿ur• Only cornplele rf th• examlner nèèds lo highlight matters of concem {8eo CC32, Independent ex8mlnatlon of charfty a￿ount$.. dirgcthor and guldanee for 8xaminer81. Gl¥• h•r• brl•t d•t*ll6 of any It•ms t1￿¢ the •x4mln•r ￿$h•S to dlsGIos•.