# **North Belfast Christian Fellowship Receipts & Payments Accounts Year ended 31 December 2024**
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**North Belfast Christian Fellowship Trustees’ Report For the Year ended 31 December 2024**
The trustees present their report and Receipts and Payment account for the year ended 31 December 2024.
## **Objectives and activities**
North Belfast Christian Fellowship acknowledges the headship of Jesus Christ over his Church and exists to glorify the triune God by maintaining and promoting his worship both individually and corporately.
The principal charitable object of the Church is the advancement of the Christian faith according to the teaching of scripture, understood in its historical and evangelical sense, the Doctrinal Statement and Baptist principles. Its members devote themselves to the teaching of scripture, to fellowship, breaking of bread, prayer and evangelism.
The activities carried out by the Church include:
- holding regular services for public worship, prayer, Bible study, preaching and teaching for all age groups;
- providing pastoral care to the members of the church through visitation and prayer;
- organising meetings and events that promote our charitable purpose;
- participating in the life of the local community;
- supporting other Christian organisations and charities through volunteering, Oinancial gifts and prayer.
The trustees have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission in deciding what activities the church should undertake
## **Achievements and performance**
The Church meets the public beneOit requirement by providing beneOit to its members and the general public by making known the Christian gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ through the advancement of the Christian faith.
SpeciOic activities that the church undertakes for the public beneOit include:
- Sunday Services
- Youth Groups
- Children's Clubs & Sunday School
- Parents & Toddlers
- Addiction Support
- Food Bank
- English Classes
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**North Belfast Christian Fellowship Trustees’ Report For the Year ended 31 December 2024**
## Financial Review
The church recorded a net deOicit for the year 2024 of £13,657.
Closing unrestricted reserves on 31 December 2024 were £26,611.
Closing restricted reserves on 31 December 2024 were £0.
There are no funds held by the Church that are materially in deOicit.
## **Structure, Governance and Management:**
North Belfast Christian Fellowship is an unincorporated entity operating under a constitution last updated in October 2023
Registered Charity Number: 108091-0
Principal Address: 246 Antrim Road, Belfast, BT15 2AR
The trustees who served during the year and up to the date of signature of the Oinancial statements were:
Trustee 1 – David Burke
Trustee 2 – Aidan McCormack Trustee 3 – Philip Orr
The Trustees’ Report was approved by the Board of Trustees
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Trustee – Philip Orr
Dated: …07/10/25………………….
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**North Belfast Christian Fellowship Independent Examiner’s Report to the Charity Trustees of North Belfast Christian Fellowship**
I report on the accounts of the Trust for the year ended 31 December 2024, which are set out on pages 4 to 6.
## **Respective responsibilities of charity trustees and examiner**
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 65 of the Charities Act
- follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Commission under section 65(9)(b) of the Charities Act
- state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s report**
I have examined your charity accounts as required under section 65 of the Charities Act and my examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland under section 65(9)(b) of the Charities Act.
My examination included a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also included consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as charity trustees concerning any such matters.
My role is to state whether any material matters have come to my attention giving me cause to believe:
1. That accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 63 of the Charities Act
2. That the accounts do not accord with those accounting records
3. That the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act
4. That there is further information needed for a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination and have no concerns in respect of the matters (1) to (4) listed above and, in connection with following the Directions of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, I have found no matters that require drawing to your attention.
Name: Jonathan MofOitt
Address: 251 Younghayes Road, Exeter, EX5 7DS Date: 06/10/2025
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**North Belfast Christian Fellowship Receipts and Payments Accounts For the Year Ended 31 December 2022**
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## **North Belfast Christian Fellowship Receipts and Payment accounts For the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
||Unrestrict
ed funds
£|Restricted
funds
£
3590
-
-
-
**3590**|Total
funds
£|Last year
£|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|**Receipts:**
Donations & legacies
Gift Aid Reclaim
Rents from land & buildings
Other charitable receipts
**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|||||
||65,299
5745
14,940
304
**86,288**||68,889
5745
14,940
304
**89,878**|70,492
5400
15,735
58|
|||||**91,685**|
||||||
|**Payments**
Restricted Donation
Direct charitable activity
Donations to other Charities
Building Works &
Maintenance
Other costs
**TOTAL PAYMENTS**|||||
||||||
||93,126
5800
1019|3590
-
-
-|96,716
5800
1019|82,966
4800
34,154
288|
||||||
||**99,945**|**3590**|**103,535**|**122,208**|
||||||
||||||
|**NET OF RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS**|**13,657**|**0**|**13,657**||
||||||
|**Transfers between funds**
**Cash funds last year end**||-|-
40,268|-|
||40,268||||
||||||
|**CASH FUNDS THIS YEAR**
**END**|**26,611**|**0**|**26,611**|**40,268**|
||||||
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*** Baptist Church Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2016
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## **North Belfast Christian Fellowship Statement of Assets/Liabilities and Notes for Accounts For the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
|Category
Details
**Cash Funds**
Current account
**Total Cash Funds**|Unrestrict
ed funds
£
26,611|Restricted
funds
£
0
**0**||Total
funds
£
26,611|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**26,611**|||**26,611**|
||||||
|**Other Monetary assets**
Tax reclaim due|||||
|||-|||
|||**-**|||
||||||
|||Fund to
which
asset
belongs||Current
Value
£|
|**Assets Retained**
**for the charity’s**
**own use**
Buildings|||||
|||Unrestrict
ed|||
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**North Belfast Christian Fellowship Statement of Assets/Liabilities and Notes for Accounts For the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
## **1. Nature and purpose of funds**
Unrestricted funds are available for general purposes in accordance with the church's purposes. The Development Fund is available to fund the development of the new church hall.
## **2. Trustee remuneration**
|**2.**
**Trustee remuneration**||
|---|---|
||£|
|Pastor salary|31,916|
|Pastor Salary|24,006|
||55,924|
## **3. Trustee expenses**
|**3.**
**Trustee expenses**||
|---|---|
|Number of
Trustees|£
732|
|Travel expenses
1||
|||
||732|
## **4. Transactions with trustees and connected parties**
||||Balance|
|---|---|---|---|
|Nature of relationship|Nature of Transaction|Transaction|outstanding at|
|||Amount|Period end|
|||£|£|
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**North Belfast Christian Fellowship Statement of Assets/Liabilities and Notes for Accounts For the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
## **5. Other Information**
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