## **The Wolverhampton Revival Centre** ## **Annual Report for the year ended 31 July 2025** The Wolverhampton Revival Centre is constituted by Deed of Trust and is a registered charity number 2589422. The Trust now operates under the name of Wednesfield Christian Centre. Its address is 3 Broad Lane South, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton WV11 3RY. The Trustees during the year to 31 July 2025 were: Mr Paul Lambert Mr Gary Lambert Mrs Brenda Horsley Mr Wayne Nicholls Mr Andrew Lambert Mrs Tanita Carter Mrs Chemaine Green ## **Objects and Requirements of the Trust Deed** The object of the charity is the “propagation of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and in particular by instruction in the doctrines and practices”. This is also to include gifts “for the support of or sponsoring any Christian Missionaries engaged in such propagation or instruction” or for the “relief of poverty”. The Deed also requires the trustees to “maintain and keep in repair” any buildings owned by the trust, as well as “making improvements on the property”. ## **Achieving the Objects and Public Benefit** The Trustees have considered the Commission’s guidance on public benefit for charities for the advancement of religion and are clear that the objects set out in our trust deed, and our practice in carrying them out, are in accordance with these principles. ## Propagation of the Gospel The Trustees plan to offer services to meet the needs of the community. Therefore in 2024/2025 we held: - A regular Sunday morning service, catering mainly to the needs of regular attenders, but ensuring it is easy to follow so that a first-time visitor will feel comfortable and included. People are regularly invited to attend these services. - We held services called ‘All in’. which encouraged children aswell as adults to be part of the service, the children would lead the prayers, worship would be adapted and the message would include an object session for the children to engage with. - Sunday morning services on special occasions (eg Mothers’ Day, Remembrance Sunday) which are very well attended by many visitors and may include a puppet show, play by the Kidz Klub or other activities as appropriate to the occasion. 1 - A regular midweek Bible Study attended by regular church members. ## Gospel “Practices” We put our faith into practice through several projects, all of which are attended by a mix of cultures, faiths and ethnic backgrounds. - Kidz Klub offers mentoring to schools working with students individually and in groups to help support young people’s emotional and behavioural development. These students are selected as some of the most vulnerable pupils who require extra support to help with their mental health. This has been focused mainly within one primary school five days a week offering individual and group mentoring to those who have been specifically chosen by the school. - Kidz Klub are responsible for the planning and editing of the weekly worship at one primary school where they work with the school’s worship council. The worship council consists of 8 children from year 6 who deliver the worship to the rest of the school. Kidz Klub go through the worship with the children and help them ready for when they deliver it to the rest of the school. The worship consists of a biblical message, scriptures, and drama. - Our schools’ workers worked with year 6 pupils who were transitioning to secondary school. - A weekly Kidz Klub is ran on a Monday evening from Ashmore Park Baptist Church. The group is for children aged 3 - 11 years old and it is a modern children’s ‘Sunday school’ ran during term time. Kidz Klub take the children on different themed ‘adventures’ as they explore Bible characters and the stories from the bible. They then learn how they apply these lessons to their everyday lives. - With the facilities available at Ashmore Park Baptist Church parents of children who attend Kidz Klub are given the opportunity to stay and have refreshments in another room. This gives the opportunity to build and strengthen relationships with the families. - Wednesfield Christian Centre ran ‘Messy Church’ services at Christmas and Easter where the children from Kidz Klub and Live-Wire were invited to Wednesfield Christian Centre alongside their families. - Wednesfield Christian Centre put on a Christmas Carol service. Where children from Kidz Klub sang as a choir and youth who attend Livewire performed a skit called ‘Christmas news’. Parents of the youth and children who were involved attended the service along with others from the community. - Wednesfield Christian Centre’s youth Ministry ‘Live Wire’ is held on Friday evenings for 11 - 16 year old’s. The sessions are a mixture of recreational and focused group time. Where the youth play games together and began looking 2 at confidence and what the bible says about our confidence. The youth went through the youth alpha course. They really engage and were open to discuss their views on topics. All those working with children and young people have DBS checks, go through safeguard training and those who require it hold first aid and food hygiene certificates. All projects have internally trained fire marshals. ## **Gifts to Support Missions and for the Relief of Poverty** During the year, the church continued our financial support to Release International, an organisation that aids Christians around the world who are being persecuted for their faith. We also continued to supply 20 New Life Newspapers per month to HMYOI Prison Brinsford. ## **Financial Review** The church is dependent for its income on weekly collections taken during the Sunday Service or online giving. Most wage earners have completed tax forms enabling a tax rebate to be claimed. The projects are mostly self-supporting, although the church gives £250 a month towards the school’s work. We completed the year with a surplus of £5,993 in the General Fund. Total receipts for the year were £45,371. This consisted of unrestricted church funds of £21,059 restricted church funds of £24,312. Expenditure totaled £46,098 which enabled us to provide all the services, gifts and building upkeep detailed above. The bank, deposit and cash in hand balances carried forward at the end of the year amounted to £40,911 No additional members of staff became eligible for auto-enrolment. ## **Reserves Policy** Since the projects are all self-sustaining and would fold should this cease to be the case, the reserves policy is set at 12 months ’operating costs for the General Fund alone. This is set at £15,000. We have £19,418 on deposit and £16,164 in current accounts in unrestricted funds. This creates an excess of £20,582. The Trustees plan initially to increase our giving to charity and necessary maintenance work is planned for the building. 3 ## **Volunteers** We would like to thank all the volunteers who work both in the church and its projects. We achieve an enormous amount for a small church, and this is entirely due to the large number of people who give so much of their time, effort and commitment to serve the community. ## **Structure, Governance and Management** The work is overseen by a Pastor who is in full time secular employment and who draws no stipend from the trust. There are seven current trustees. The trustees met four times to review the quarterly accounts/budget and discuss health & safety, purchases and other church matters. ## **Approved by the Trustees on 5[th] May 2026 and signed on their behalf by** ## **Paul Lambert, Chair of Trustees** 4 Staternent ot FInanC￿ p￿tI￿lIeS brthe parended 31st July2025 d F￿*￿S Thhesa￿clfer Irfere#[￿*¥ahl￿ Pa￿r￿￿ESIDllnwor DoTraNonstoCh3rfty TsUetTwknnh Earned IrKornfr horlDw]nR (Cat gA53 2J44 9214 Z144 921 li 614 ToiailrrfoTr Wages Mthl$ierf*aTrJsr**sfee5 Ch￿ChcElE￿alI)￿S￿th￿￿ls 570 S70 140 CharttabieW[ts¥￿dC￿th l*$ui*Kt. 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I report on the accounts of the diarityfor the year ended July 31. 2025 whith have been prepared on the receipts at)d payments basis. Res ective Res onsibilities of the Trustees and Eyaminer The trustees of the charity are responsible for the preparntion of accounts,. theyconsider that the audit requirement under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 does not apply. It is my responsibility to: Examine the accounts under SectFon 145 of the Charities Art 2011 Follow procedures laid down in the Genernl Difeciions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515llbl of the 2011 Act stste whether particular matters have corne to my attention. Basis of the Inde endent Examiner's Re My examinatr'on was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Char Commissioners. An examinatlon includes a rèview of the accountr'ng records kept by the charity and comparison of thè accounts presented with those rKords. It 31sg includes considerdkn.on of any unusual Itoms or disclosures In the accounts and seeklnB explanatlons from you as trustets ¢on¢efning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audlt, and cons•quently I do not express an audit opinion on the View given by the accounts. in Based on my examination, no matter has come to my attention with gives mè reasonable Cause to believe that in any material respect, accounting records have rK>t been kept ID accordance with sKtion 130 of the 2011 Act. or that the accounts presènted do not a¢cord with those records, or comply with the cCoUn￿ng requlr•mtnts of the 2011 Act. No rnatter has come to my attention in connection with my examinats'on to which, in myopinion. attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts reached. Barbara Jane Berrid8e Bsc Hons. 77 Lodge Close Stoke D, AbÈrnon Cobham 112SQ 29 April 2026.