## **Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon** ## **Financial Statements** ## **for the year ended 31st December 2022** ## **Registered Charity Number 1088516** The Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2022 Legal and Administrative Details ## **Address for correspondance** 74 High Street Standon Hertfordshire SG11 1LB ## **Legal Status** The charity, whose full name is The Society of The Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon, is a charity registered with the Charity Commission, registration number 1088516. It was formed as an unincorporated association under a constitution adopted on 20 November 2000 and amended on 22 July 2001. ## **Trustees and Committee Members** Mrs D M Dale Chairman Mrs A C Franks Treasurer Ms C F Tarry Secretary Mrs S Beeston Mr M F Baker Mrs L A Brand Mrs A Brears Rev J Chitham Ms Alison Cooley from 25.05.22 Mrs S Crook Mr C League until 20.01.22 Mrs M Stone ## **Bankers** National Westminster Bank plc The CBF Church of England Deposit Fund ## **Independent Examiner** Ralph Axford FCG 2 The Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st December 2022 The trustees are pleased to present their report and accounts for the year to 31st December 2022. ## **Objects of the charity** The objects of the charity are to assist, including by raising funds, in the conservation and development of the church buildings, fixtures, fittings, contents and churchyard of St Mary's church, Standon; to assist in the maintenance of the churchyard and to encourage and support all that is done to add to the beauty and usefulness of the church. The charity fulfils these objects by raising funds to support works commissioned by the PCC. Details of projects funded during the year can be found in the notes to the accounts. ## **Government** The policy and operating decisions of the charity rest with the Trustees, who meet regularly to monitor the activities of the Friends. Six of the trustees are appointed by Standon Parochial Church Council, and six are elected at the annual meeting. The chairman must be a publically elected trustee. ## **Review of Activities** In 2022 the national Covid-19 pandemic and resulting restrictions eased at last. In January we held our annual quiz night in church, to maximise space and air flow but the rest of our events returned to a more normal pattern. Afternoon tea and talk on life in Jordan, held at the Lordship, was very successful, raising £935. We offered teas and salads at Mayday, as usual, and our Open Gardens event in June raised over £9,000. A new event, a flower festival, encouraged many to visit the church, and those who arranged the displays represented a wide cross-section of the community. We hope to repeat the event at a later date. Our lunchtime concert series in October was well received, and the Advent coffee morning and sale was, once again, very successful. The hundred club continues to contribute significantly to our fundraising efforts. A fund-raising effort was launched in late 2020 to raise the sums necessary to refurbish the two Sadleir tombs in the church, and a further £5,155 was raised for this purpose. £6,321 has been transferred to the PCC and the balance of the restricted fundraising was completed in early 2023. In addition, we raised a net unrestricted sum of £17,863 from fundraising activities in 2022. We are grateful to Gill, who looks after the hundred club, and to Marion, who masterminded the flower festival, as well as all who help with our events or support them. In planning our activities, the trustees have applied the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission in December 2008. ## **Trustees' Responsibilities** Charity law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each accounting year which record the receipts and payments of the charity for the year. We are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity, and enable us to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. We also have a responsibility to safeguard the assets of the charity and to take reasonable steps to prevent fraud or any other irregularities. This report was approved by the trustees on 18th March 2023 and signed on their behalf by: Diana Dale (Chairman) 3 Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 31st December 2022 |**Note**
**2022**
**Unrestricted**
**£**
**Receipts**
Donations including gift aid tax
5
10,255
Income from fundraising activities
4
20,343
Bank interest
912
31,510
**Payments**
Costs of generating funds
4
2,480
Management and administration
348
Grants made
2
721
3,549
Net receipts
27,961
Funds at 1st January
85,342
Funds at 31st December
113,303|**Note**
**2022**
**Unrestricted**
**£**
**Receipts**
Donations including gift aid tax
5
10,255
Income from fundraising activities
4
20,343
Bank interest
912
31,510
**Payments**
Costs of generating funds
4
2,480
Management and administration
348
Grants made
2
721
3,549
Net receipts
27,961
Funds at 1st January
85,342
Funds at 31st December
113,303|**2022**
**Restricted**
**£**
5,155
5,155
6,321
6,321
(1,166)
1,166
0|**2021**
**£**
21,042
17,892
33
38,967
1,756
335
20,890
22,981
15,986
70,522
86,508| |---|---|---|---| |**Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon**
**Statement of Assets and Liabilities**
**as at 31st December 2022**
**Bank and cash balances**
Held at bank
**Other assets and liabilities**
**Assets**
Gift aid tax recovery not yet received|**2022**
113,303
3,136||**2021**
**£**
86,507
2,915| ||||| 4 Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2022 ## **1 Accounting Policies** The accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis with a statement of assets and liabilities. ## **2 Grants paid** During the year, grants were made to Standon PCC totalling £6,321 for the restoration of the Sadleir tombs and £721 for a buttress repair. ## **3 Employees** The charity has no employees. No amounts were paid or are payable to any trustee or to any person connected to them. Expenses incurred by trustees are reimbursed. ## 4 **Fundraising Activities** These results reflect cash movements only. |Fundraising activities
Hundred club
Lunchtime concerts
Advent coffee morning & sale
Mayday teas & vegetarian food
Quiz night
AGM talk
Open Gardens
Flower festival
Safari supper
Lordship talk & tea
Sale of cards
Sale of CD
**5 Donations**
Donations received
Gift Aid tax received 2022|_Received_
_Costs_
1,940
870
1,721
170
1,424
1,326
111
1,188
370
28
28
9,518
459
1,858
249
935
405
223
20,343
2,480
**Unrestricted**
10,155
100
10,255|_Net_
1,070
1,551
1,424
1,215
818
0
9,059
1,609
0
935
182
0
17,863
**Restricted**
2,575
2,580
5,155|_2020_
1,170
1,166
1,190
0
0
38
11,397
0
1,065
0
100
10| |---|---|---|---| ||||16,136| ||||| Gift aid tax for 2021, to be received in 2022, amounts to £3,136. 5 ## **Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon** ## **Financial Statements** ## **for the year ended 31st December 2022** ## **Registered Charity Number 1088516** The Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2022 Legal and Administrative Details ## **Address for correspondance** 74 High Street Standon Hertfordshire SG11 1LB ## **Legal Status** The charity, whose full name is The Society of The Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon, is a charity registered with the Charity Commission, registration number 1088516. It was formed as an unincorporated association under a constitution adopted on 20 November 2000 and amended on 22 July 2001. ## **Trustees and Committee Members** Mrs D M Dale Chairman Mrs A C Franks Treasurer Ms C F Tarry Secretary Mrs S Beeston Mr M F Baker Mrs L A Brand Mrs A Brears Rev J Chitham Ms Alison Cooley from 25.05.22 Mrs S Crook Mr C League until 20.01.22 Mrs M Stone ## **Bankers** National Westminster Bank plc The CBF Church of England Deposit Fund ## **Independent Examiner** Ralph Axford FCG 2 The Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st December 2022 The trustees are pleased to present their report and accounts for the year to 31st December 2022. ## **Objects of the charity** The objects of the charity are to assist, including by raising funds, in the conservation and development of the church buildings, fixtures, fittings, contents and churchyard of St Mary's church, Standon; to assist in the maintenance of the churchyard and to encourage and support all that is done to add to the beauty and usefulness of the church. The charity fulfils these objects by raising funds to support works commissioned by the PCC. Details of projects funded during the year can be found in the notes to the accounts. ## **Government** The policy and operating decisions of the charity rest with the Trustees, who meet regularly to monitor the activities of the Friends. Six of the trustees are appointed by Standon Parochial Church Council, and six are elected at the annual meeting. The chairman must be a publically elected trustee. ## **Review of Activities** In 2022 the national Covid-19 pandemic and resulting restrictions eased at last. In January we held our annual quiz night in church, to maximise space and air flow but the rest of our events returned to a more normal pattern. Afternoon tea and talk on life in Jordan, held at the Lordship, was very successful, raising £935. We offered teas and salads at Mayday, as usual, and our Open Gardens event in June raised over £9,000. A new event, a flower festival, encouraged many to visit the church, and those who arranged the displays represented a wide cross-section of the community. We hope to repeat the event at a later date. Our lunchtime concert series in October was well received, and the Advent coffee morning and sale was, once again, very successful. The hundred club continues to contribute significantly to our fundraising efforts. A fund-raising effort was launched in late 2020 to raise the sums necessary to refurbish the two Sadleir tombs in the church, and a further £5,155 was raised for this purpose. £6,321 has been transferred to the PCC and the balance of the restricted fundraising was completed in early 2023. In addition, we raised a net unrestricted sum of £17,863 from fundraising activities in 2022. We are grateful to Gill, who looks after the hundred club, and to Marion, who masterminded the flower festival, as well as all who help with our events or support them. In planning our activities, the trustees have applied the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission in December 2008. ## **Trustees' Responsibilities** Charity law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each accounting year which record the receipts and payments of the charity for the year. We are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity, and enable us to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. We also have a responsibility to safeguard the assets of the charity and to take reasonable steps to prevent fraud or any other irregularities. This report was approved by the trustees on 18th March 2023 and signed on their behalf by: Diana Dale (Chairman) 3 Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 31st December 2022 |**Note**
**2022**
**Unrestricted**
**£**
**Receipts**
Donations including gift aid tax
5
10,255
Income from fundraising activities
4
20,343
Bank interest
912
31,510
**Payments**
Costs of generating funds
4
2,480
Management and administration
348
Grants made
2
721
3,549
Net receipts
27,961
Funds at 1st January
85,342
Funds at 31st December
113,303|**Note**
**2022**
**Unrestricted**
**£**
**Receipts**
Donations including gift aid tax
5
10,255
Income from fundraising activities
4
20,343
Bank interest
912
31,510
**Payments**
Costs of generating funds
4
2,480
Management and administration
348
Grants made
2
721
3,549
Net receipts
27,961
Funds at 1st January
85,342
Funds at 31st December
113,303|**2022**
**Restricted**
**£**
5,155
5,155
6,321
6,321
(1,166)
1,166
0|**2021**
**£**
21,042
17,892
33
38,967
1,756
335
20,890
22,981
15,986
70,522
86,508| |---|---|---|---| |**Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon**
**Statement of Assets and Liabilities**
**as at 31st December 2022**
**Bank and cash balances**
Held at bank
**Other assets and liabilities**
**Assets**
Gift aid tax recovery not yet received|**2022**
113,303
3,136||**2021**
**£**
86,507
2,915| ||||| 4 Friends of St Mary's Church, Standon Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2022 ## **1 Accounting Policies** The accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis with a statement of assets and liabilities. ## **2 Grants paid** During the year, grants were made to Standon PCC totalling £6,321 for the restoration of the Sadleir tombs and £721 for a buttress repair. ## **3 Employees** The charity has no employees. No amounts were paid or are payable to any trustee or to any person connected to them. Expenses incurred by trustees are reimbursed. ## 4 **Fundraising Activities** These results reflect cash movements only. |Fundraising activities
Hundred club
Lunchtime concerts
Advent coffee morning & sale
Mayday teas & vegetarian food
Quiz night
AGM talk
Open Gardens
Flower festival
Safari supper
Lordship talk & tea
Sale of cards
Sale of CD
**5 Donations**
Donations received
Gift Aid tax received 2022|_Received_
_Costs_
1,940
870
1,721
170
1,424
1,326
111
1,188
370
28
28
9,518
459
1,858
249
935
405
223
20,343
2,480
**Unrestricted**
10,155
100
10,255|_Net_
1,070
1,551
1,424
1,215
818
0
9,059
1,609
0
935
182
0
17,863
**Restricted**
2,575
2,580
5,155|_2020_
1,170
1,166
1,190
0
0
38
11,397
0
1,065
0
100
10| |---|---|---|---| ||||16,136| ||||| Gift aid tax for 2021, to be received in 2022, amounts to £3,136. 5 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES AND MEMBERS OF THE FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S CHURCH, STANDON. I have examined the aGcounts for the year ended 31 De¢￿b￿ 2022 as Set out on pages 3 to 5, which have been prepared under the accounting policies set OLrt on page 5. Re8pective responsibllltles of th8 chartty twstees and the Independent examlner The charity's trust￿, who are the cornmtttea Triemoers, are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustoes c(Msider that an audit is not required for this period under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 l%ha Acl'} and that an independent examination is needed. It is my tEsponsibility to.. examine th& accounts under Section 145 of the Act to follow the proceduw laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 1￿15)(bI of the Act. and to slate whether particular matter5 have come to my attention. Basls of Independent examinets statement My examination was carried out in accordance with Generd DirectKJns given by the Charfty Commission. An examlnatKM Includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented wth thos8 records. It atso incliides consideration of any unusual items or dE￿IDSureS in the accounts, and seeking explanations from .the tnjstees conceming any such matters. The procedLtres undertaken do not w)vldè all the evidence that would be required in an audft. and consequ8ntyy no opinio 18 given as to whether the accounts present a 'tTue and fairf view, and the rewrt is limited to those matters set OLrt in the stateFEEnt below. Independent ex8mlneVs statement In connection wtth my examination. no matter has come to my attention: {11 which gives me reasonable cause to besieve that. in any materiat resp￿t, the requirwnents: . to keep accountirKJ records in aG¢ord8nce with section 130 of the Art and to prepare aGcounts which accord wth the accounting records and comply wlth the a¢counting requirements of the Act have not been met" or (2) to whi(*, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enabEe a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 3 April 2023 Ralph Axford FCG Holly House. 38 Folw Road, Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds Suffolk, IP28 7BY