## **Haworth West Lane Baptist Church: Trustee Annual Return for 01/07/2022 - 30/06/2023** 

In this period the church began to operate a “new normal” following the ending of Covid restrictions. Church and faith focussed activities picked up during the summer and autumn of 2022. In January 2023 our resident Minister left the church and we entered a period of interregnum whilst the church started on the process of searching for a suitable new minister. The delivery of the regular Sunday worship and the management and oversight of the church, its building and the activities of the charity have been taken on by the deacons of the Church. 

The reduction in paying salary and living costs to a resident minister has reduced our expenditure for the year and along with a donation received towards to cost of replacing our windows this has put our end of year accounts in a healthy surplus at this point in time. We know that some of these funds are committed towards the necessary maintenance costs of the building and our regular expenditure will go back up when we appoint a new minister which we hope to be in the near future. 

We continued to be ‘a strong, committed, loving church family fellowship’ but with regular face to face activities and worship. We welcomed visiting preachers to our church who added to the fellowship of the church. We were pleased that our attendance did not drop significantly following the departure of the minister which shows the strength of the church community. One of our regular opportunities for spiritual growth – Coffee and Theology – has had to end with the departure of our minister, but all other activities continue. 

As a church we were able to hold our usual fund raising activities over the Haworth 1940’s weekend along with supporting the Christian Aid pop up charity shop along with other churches in the locality. 

We hold regular church members’ meetings and deacons’ meetings as a way of ensuring that the church family are kept informed and they are well attended. 

There were also many annual church events such as Harvest festival, Street Nativity 

and Carol Services and Churches Together Church Camps. 



## **Haworth West Lane Baptist Church** 

## **Accounts for the year ending 30 June 2023** 

## Personnel 

Minister Reverend C Upton 54 West Lane, Haworth, BD22 8EN Left Post 8/1/23 Secretary Hazel Bottomley Old Laithe, Main Street, Stanbury, BD22 0HB Treasurer Helen Starford Buttergate Barn, Sykes Lane, Oxenhope, BD22 9SH Independent Examiner Christine Husbands 15 Church View, Lisburn, Clitheroe, BB7 4HG Bank Virgin Money 30, St Vincent Place, Glasgow, G1 2HL 



## **Haworth West Lane Baptist Church** 

## **Receipts and Payments Accounts for the year ending June 2023** 

|**2022-23**|**Receipts**||**2021-22**|
|---|---|---|---|
||Collections and Gift Aid|||
|7,363|Weekly Collections||5,022.21|
|14,048|Gift Aided Collection||18,890.90|
|————|||————|
|21,411|||23,913|
||Donations and Room Hire|||
|23,507|Use of Premises||21,648|
|10,932|Miscellaneous||2,274|
|27,326|Donations and special efforts||11,642|
|1200|Food Bank||2,249|
|————|||————|
|63,465|||37,812|
||**Investment income**|||
|500|Thomas Parker Trust (YBA)||0|
|————|||————|
|500|||0|
||**Property Income**|||
|5,700|Rent -3 Bronte Street||5,700|
|————|||————|
|5,700|||5,700|
||Collections for Other Charities|||
|**686**|Various|3,219||
|————|||————|
|**686**|||3,219|
|**£**91,262|**Total Receipts for year carried forward**||**£  70,644**|





## **Haworth West Lane Baptist Church** 

|**Receipts and Payments Accounts for the year ending**|**Receipts and Payments Accounts for the year ending**|**30 June 2023**|
|---|---|---|
|2022-23|**Payments**|**2021-22**|
||Maintenance of Ministry||
|14,613|Ministers stipend and allowances etc|40,019|
||(includes baptist pension scheme defcit payment)||
|————||————|
|14,613||40,019|
||Church Premises||
|5,356|Maintenance & equipment|2,235|
|4,806|Utilities|5,369|
|2,397|Insurance|2,574|
|————||————|
|12,559||10,178|
||Administration||
|223|stationary|75|
|1,804|Cleaning|1,081|
|2,755|Catering|3,287|
|592|Sundries|866|
|600|Food Bank|5,868|
|**5,086**|Other|3,015|
|————||————|
|11,060||14,192|
||Donations to Other Charities||
|1,388|Various|5,610|
|————||————|
|1,388||5,610|
|**£ 39,620**|**Total Payments for year carried forward**|**£  69,999**|





## **Haworth West Lane Baptist Church** 

## **Receipts and Payment Accounts for the year ending 30 June 2023** 

**————————————————————————————————————————** 

|**Summary**|2022-23|2021-22|
|---|---|---|
|Total Receipts|91,262|70,644|
|Total Payments|39,620|69,999|
|**Surplus/ defcit for year**|**£51,641**|**£ 645**|





## **Haworth West Lane Baptist Church** 

## **Statement of Current Assets as at 30 June 2023** 

|Cash & Bank Balances|2022-23|2021-22|
|---|---|---|
|Cash in hand|0|0|
|Cash at Bank|76,425|24,785|
||————|————|
||76,425|24,785|



## Other Accounts and Investments 

Edwin Parker for Graveyard COIF Charities Investment Fund 3,765 3,720 Interest Account 2,342 2,228 ———— ———— 6,107 5,948 **Total Assets £ 82,532 £ 30,733** 

## **Notes** 

- 1 In addition to the above, there are the Fixed Assets of the church building and manse at Bronte Street. These are provisional valued at £1,948,395 and £192,427 respectively, being the sums insured for their reinstatement. 

2. The above receipts include money to be passed on as follows. 

   - £400 owed to Rev C Upton for supervision payments made into our account after his employment ended. 

   - £550 owed to the food bank from accrued donations made to us for them. 

   - £30 raised for Ukraine Emergency Disaster fund 

   - £78.51 raised for  BMS world mission. 

   - £128.95 raised for  Christian Aid. 

these monies have all been transferred in  July 2023. 



15 Church View Gisburn Clitheroe BB7 4HG 

6[th] October 2023 

## **TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN** 

## **West Lane Bap6st Church** 

I have audited the records of the above organisaCon for the period ended 30[th] June 2023. 

I can confirm that I find the accounCng statements to be a true and fair record. 


ChrisCne Husbands 



## INVOICE 

Invoice: WL23 6[th] October 2023 

To audit of accounCng records of West Lane BapCst Church 2023 

£100 

Remit to: C A Husbands, 05-02-40, 15073023