## **Report of the Trustees of South Ossett Baptist Church for the period from 1 st January 2023 to 31 st December 2023**
## **Charity Registration Number: 259205**
## **Trustees**
The Trustees of the charity are the appointed elders of the church.
The Trustees serving during the year end were were as follows:
Mr David Coulthard
Mrs Tracy Shields
Mr Richard Porteus
The Custodian Trusstee of the charity in The Yorkshire Baptist Association
## **Registered Office**
12 Haggs Hill Road, Ossett, West Yorkshire WF5 0NS
## **Independent Accounts Examiner**
Mr P Hart 24a, Junction Lane, Ossett, West Yorkshire WF50EZ
## **Bankers**
Barclays, Ossett
## **Governing Document**
The governing document is the church's constitution
## **Risk Management**
The Trustees are responsible for the risks faced by the charity and have reviewed the major risks and measures for their mitigation as part of an ongoing process. They are satisfied that the process adopted is adequate to identify and mitigate any impact which such risks might have on the charity or its activities in the future.
## **South Ossett Baptist Church (Charity No. 259205) Annual Report 2023**
## **Objectives and Activities**
The principal object of the charity is to provide a focus for Christian worship in South Ossett and to support the Community.
Regular Sunday Services and mid-weekly meetings were held throughout 2023
'Cafe Christos' a community support event on Fridays continued to attract 30/40 people each week.
Monthly Messy Church events were held on the afternoons of the fourth Saturday of each month (except August).
Debt and Benefit Advice and Post Natal Counselling was offered in partnership with the charity Lifeboat Community Project.
## **Financial Review**
Unexpected extra expenditure resulted in an in-year deficit but the church accounts remain on a sound basis.
A return to a balanced budget over the next eighteen months is intended.
Year end reserves of £13,000 (33% of annual turnover) were held on general account.
The monies in the Buildings Account were expended on various property improvements. A further £5,000 donation were used to cover costs relating to a necessary re-wire of the church manse.
R.Porteus
Richard Porteus
Treasurer 25[th] April 2024
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## **South Ossett Baptist Church**
## **Financial Statement for the year ended 31[st] December 2023**
## **General Receipts and Payments Account**
|||Note|||**2023**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**£**||
|**Receipts**||||||
||Weekly Offerings||||13,099.31|
||Income Tax recovered on Gifts||||2,874.12|
||Manse Rent||||6,360.00|
||Church Room Hire||||6,552.00|
||BMS Giving||||92.00|
||Grants and Donations||||8,979.00|
||||||**37,956.43**|
|**Ministry**||||||
||Staff Costs||||22,865.26|
||Training||||2,233.89|
||Subscriptions||||405.00|
||Conferences||||650.00|
|**Giving**||||||
||Home Mission||2||850.00|
||Baptist Missionary Society||3||450.00|
||Sundries||||954.00|
|**Buildings**||||||
||Church Repairs & Renewals||||2,408.46|
||Insurance||||1,545.23|
||Electricity & Gas||||2,010.93|
||Water Rates||||329.29|
||Cleaning||||1,320.00|
|**Other**||||||
||Outreach Activities||||3,747.96|
||||||**39,770.02**|
||Note||||2,023.00|
|||||**£**||
||Surplus (deficit) for the year||||-1,813.59|
||Balance brought forward||||14,813.72|
||Balance carried forward||||**13,000.13**|
|**Buildings**|**Account**|||||
|**Receipts**||||||
||Receipts||||4,973.57|
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## Sheet1
|Payments||9,427.80|9,427.80||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**Page**|**2**|
|Surplus (deficit) for the year||**-4,454.23**|||
|Balance brought forward||4,454.23|||
|Balance carried forward|||**0.00**||
|Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at|||||
|31stDecember 2023|||||
|Assets|||||
|Cash|||60.00||
|Bank Account Balance||12,940.13|||
|||**13,000.13**|||
|Representing Balances on the following Accounts|||||
|General Account||13,000.13|||
|Buildings Account|||0.00||
|||**13,000.13**|||
|Non Monetary Assets|||||
|Held for Church's own use|4|**729,000.00**|||
|Liabilities|||**0**||
|Notes to the Accounts|||||
|1 Basis of Accounts :|||||
|These accounts have been prepared on a 'receipts and|payments||||
|basis and accord with the Charities Act 2011|||||
||||**2023**||
|2 Home Mission:||**£**|||
|Church Contribution||850.00|||
|||**850.00**|||
|3 Baptist Missionary Society|||||
|Specific Donation|||0.00||
|Church Contribution||450.00|||
|||**450.00**|||
|4 Non- Monetary Assets held for the church's own use:|||||
|The church is the beneficial owner of the following assets||the|||
|legal title to which is held by the church's custodian trustee –|||||
|The Yorkshire Baptist Association|||||
||||2023||
|||**£**|||
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Church Premises – Junction Lane Ossett
Church Manse – 215 Manor Road Ossett|595,000.00
134,000.00|
|---|---|
||**729,000.00**|
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## **2022**
## **£**
10,155.03 2,652.51 6,320.00 6,646.00 90.00 4,835.00 **30,698.54** 17,033.37 6,137.68 234.45 0.00 900.00 450.00 947.00 199.00 1,368.35 1,699.26 182.88 1,274.00 2,946.85 **33,372.84** 2,022.00
## **£**
-2,674.30 17,488.02 **14,813.72**
5,500.00
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1,045.77 **4,454.23** 0.00 **4,454.23**
735.56 18,532.39 **19,267.95** 14,813.72 4,454.23 **19,267.95 729,000.00 0**
**2022 £** 900.00 **900.00** 0.00 450.00 **450.00**
**£**
2022
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595,000.00
134 000.00
729,000.00
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## **Certification**
The accounts and statement of assets and liabilities set out on page 1-2 relating to the year ending 31[st] December 2023 are as approved by the Elders
Signed: R.Porteus
Richard. Porteus (Treasurer)
Date: 20[th] February 2024
## **Report of the Independent Examiner to the Elders and Members of South Ossett Baptist Church on accounts for the year ended 31st December 2023**
## **Charity No: 259205**
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 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 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:
P. Hart
Name: Paul Hart
Address: 24a, Junction Lane, Ossett. West Yorkshire WF5 0EZ
Date: