CARTERS LANE BAPTIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1192790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a Baptist Church. We provide opportunities for shared worship. We provide opportunities for Youth activities including Youth Club, Girls and Boys Brigade, Toddler Group and Sunday School. A range of community events take place on our premises many of them organised by volunteers from our fellowship

Objects

THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION.THE CHURCH MAY ALSO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND CARRY OUT OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND/OR OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit of £7,601.32 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reducing its unrestricted reserves from £441,796.86 to £434,195.54. The trustees report that the church is heavily dependent on volunteer labour and membership funding, with no wider public appeals made. The filing confirms the church is a participating employer in a pension scheme that no longer has a shortfall following a transaction with the Just Group.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Rachael Warnockchair
• Elaine Ann Marie Campbell
• Elaine Mary Willetts
• Jenifer Adams
• Julia Lea
• Lynne Riley
• Philip Turley B.Ed
• Simon David Southall
• Simon Hollis
• Terence Charles Theodore Hughes
• Virginia Lee Randle

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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