The Wanvick Team Ministry St Paul's Church by th• R8c•course Friar5 Street Bwkyiftw up ofChiTSt In Ihepo Tom¢hW Warwick CV34 6HA Charity JW.'I 127224 www.stpaulswarwick.co.uk ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL And Financial Report for the year ended 31st December 2024 Parish Office and Address for Correspondence: St. Paul's Church, Friars Street, Warwick CV34 6HA Telephone (01926) 499533 Vicars: Bank: Independent Examiner: Gagandeep Ubhey Edwards.Pearson &￿ile. 8 Jury Street wa￿l¢k CV34 4EW Reverend Jonathan Heam St. Paul's Vicarage 33 Slratford Road Warwick CV34 6AS (Until 819120241 Lloyds 12 Swan Stre Wgfwick CV34 4BJ Reverend DavKI Brown Robins Grovè Chase Meadow, Warwick CV34 6RF Administrative Infomiation The Parochial Church Council of St Paul's WaThvick is a registered charity. registration number 1127224. Members of the PCC are also trUSt￿S of the charity. As a regis- tered charity we are required to file an annual report and accounts with the Charity Commission as well as with the Secretary of the Diocesan Board of Finance under the Church Representation Rules. In 2024 the following persons served as members of the PCC.. Vicars." Wardens." (appointed annually) Reverend Jonathan Hearn Mrs Hazel Phillips (& PCC Secretary) Reverend David Brown Mrs Sheila Pink (&Treasurer} 2 Represantatlves on Deanery Synod (2021>2024) Elected membe￿." Mr. Richard Akers Mrs Stephanie Burdett Mrs Pat Kibbler Mrs Suzanne Wilkinson Mrs Audrey Akers {2022 elected for 3 yrs) (2022 Elected for 3 yrs) {2023 re*lected for 3 yrs) (2023 elected for 3 yrs) (2024 elected for 3 yrs) structure Governance and Administration Members of the PCC are either ex-officio or elected by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in accordance with the Church Representstion Rules. or co-opted (without voting rights) by the PCC for specific pu￿OseS. 11 has been agreed that members of the PCC could serve for three years before seeking re*lection. Ob'ectlves and Activitles The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of St. Paul's has the responsibility of Go-operating with the incumbent, the Reverend Jonathan Hearn (until 8th September) and Reverend David Brown (from 91h September), in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It also has responsibility for the Maintenan￿ of the Church and grounds and legal and financial duties relating to the Church's funds. Electoral Roll The next complete revision of the Electoral Roll takes pla￿ in 2025. In 2024 the number on Roll at the Annual General Meeting was 30. Reviaw of the Year 2024 During 2024, six formal PCC Meetings have been held with Standing Committee making decisions as ne￿Ssary. Inevitably, the main focus of the year was working towards Jonathan's retirement after 22 years of ministry in Warwick and planning for the future continuation of St Paul's as a worshipping community. To this end, in January, Jonathan welcomed Rev David Brown of St Michael's Bud- brooke to the meeting, who shared a confidential paper entitled 'Shaping the Warwick Team & Budbrooke Parish 2024 onwards,. The long-temi vision for the church was thal after Jonathan's retirement, David would become vicar of St Paul's, wFth St Mi- chael's overseeing administration. Day-tIFday ministry would be in the hands of a church planter, a lay minister who would potentially be working towards ordination.- they would be in training as an Ordinand at St Paul's then continue as curate and even as Team Vicar in the fullness of time. Approval for this plan was sought from the dio- cese, with Archdeacon Barry Dugmore, who attended an informal meeting of PCC members in August, being very supportive and encouraging of the proposals. A prospective candidate having been identifie(I, Amy Vogel, was interviewed in July, began work as Church Revitalisation Plant Leader following Jonathan's retirement at the beginning of September and was officially commissioned by Archdeacon Barry at a service in November. at which David was also licensed as Associate Minister at st Paul's. Barry and his wife We￿ really heartened by the welcome. atmosphere and sense of God's presence at this service. As well as welcoming Amy and DavTrd to the St Paul's family in 2024, earlier, in Feb- ruary, we also welcomed Caroline Mara, who divides her time and energies be￿een St Paul's and St Michael's Budbrooke as the West Warwick Families, Schools and Youth Project Lead. Caroline worships at st Paul's and regularly reports on her work with children and young people at Leadership meetings, including news of the Grub Club which successfully ran on a Monday aftemoon during the autumn term. Caroline has oversight of the PAIS team, leading services wtth them at St Paul's and St Michael's and accompanying them to school assemblies. The team have also volunteered at Lego Club, getting to know the young people, leading the story and of course playing with the lego! The PCC was pleased to approve the giving of finan- cial support to of the team, Gabi and Manka. when they were applying for visa renewals during the year. After several years of operating difficulties, the Message Bus was taken over by Thrive Youth Ministries, becoming the Thrive Bus. It has been plagued with mechanical prob- lems and a shortage of volunteers but news of the numbers of young people ac￿SsIng the bus when out and about during the summer was encouraging. From September. Caroline replaced Jonathan as the C￿ordInatOr of TLG Early Inter- vention with David registered in the oversight role. Jonathan and Richard A. had both mentored a Newburgh pupil until the end of the academic year in July along with Kate B. from St Michael's. Unfortunately, owing to a lack of volunteers going forward, it has been reluctantly decided to pause Early Intervention for a time. To enable working together with St Michael's become more seamless, Amy, Caroline, Sheila P & Hazel P joined the strategy meeting of the St Michael's PCC Core Group on Saturday 14th September. The vision to make disciples and to multiply and grow in common values was explored, with David expressing a desire to get to a pla￿ of togetherness on essentials PCC had noted in May how supportive David had been while Jonathan was unwell. He had also attended the APCM in April and preached at seNices. DavKI now chairs PCC meetings and Amy chairs Leadership meetings. Before his retirement, Jonathan instigated two projects, both of which would improve the worshipper and visitor experience alike. This legacy consisted of fitting two new screens at the east end of the church with wireless connectivity, enabling laptops to be paired with them and installing new. improved LED lighting in both the church and hall. The screens arrived before Jonathan retifed bul unfortunately the lights weren't able to be installed until October. Amy has of course been looking at the building with fresh eyes. In November. she circulated a proposal for a welcome area in church. The vision is to make it a multipur- pose, flexible space which is warm and welcoming. Following discussion, the pro- posals were accepted unanimously in principle. Any major work to the fabric of a church building has to be overseen by a church architect. Philip Waghorn, who as an associate architect for Oliver Architecture Ltd had project managed all the repairs to the building following the Quinquennial in 2019. moved to Clews Architects in Nov 2023 as their Senior Consepdation Architect. He was subsequently approved by the DAC as our inspecting architect and Carried out the 2024 Quinquennial Inspection in June. Fortunately, no major issues were re- ported; quotes for ne￿SSary repairs are to be sought in the coming months which can hopefully be covered by just a handful of contractors, who Philip has recommended. As well as looking after the church bL5ilding and its maintenance which is regularly reported to PCC, when a vicarage is vacated. the churchwardens are also responsible for the house while it stands empty. Hazel and Sheila met with Nigel Campbell, the dI0￿san property manager. at the vicarage in December. together with a surveyor who assessed the work thal needs to be done before Amy and her family can move in. Nigel arranged for the waler to be drained down by a heating engineer and for an alami specialist to Servi￿ the alarm while the Wardens check the propety every week. We Continue to build relationships with children, young people and their families. The TLG Make Lunch team continue to be blessed with a healthy amount of funding. over- seen by Audrey Akers in her role as administrator, enabling them to provide activity sessions and a hot meal in church on Fridays during school holidays for local children and their families. In May, Audrey confirmed that the delivery of Boxes of Hope would be finishing at the end of June after starting as a response to the Covid pandemic in 2020. Families were signposted to where they would be able to aC￿sS support in the future. Towards the end of the year, Sheila reported she intended stepping down as Activities Co-ordinator for Make Lunch after the session on 3rd January 2025. A replacement c(kordinator has been Klentified from the Core Group. Our Parish Safeguarding Officer, Pat Kibbler, ensures that all church leaders, employ- ees and volunteers have received the correct training and have DBS checks in place. She also ensures that PCC complies with the duty. under section 5 of the Safeguard- ing and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016, to have due regard to the House of Bishops, guidan￿ on safeguardin9 children and vulnerable adurts. Pat has attended various training sessions during the year, induding the Safeguarding Officers forum on zoom and all leaders have had to complete the Raising Awareness of Domestic Abuse course either online or in person. Pat also led a Servi￿ in August on the theme of Safeguarding. At each PCC meeting, safeguarding remains high on the agenda with updates from diocesan and national level and reports are given of more mundane church mainte- nance issues under the heading of Buildings and Grounds. Mission and Social events are discussed and reflected upon, such as Jonathan's retirement party, the Glow Paty, Seniors events, and the Christmas Charity Coffee Morning. In November, un- der Worship. the change to the pattern of services in 2025 was presented. We hear of developments in our children's and youth work and leaffl of discussions at Deanery Synod, Churches Together in Warwick, Team Council and Project Pool, where the new Team Rector Angus Aagaard was welcomed.as well as Hazel being nominated by PCC as the church's other representative alongside Sheila Pink Prayer continues to underpin church life. While Jonathan was unwell, Audrey began to send out items for prayer to the Prayer Chain on a monthly basis instead of meeting in church every month. Luke Thomas, curate at St Michael's, has been leading staff prayers at St Paul's on a Monday moming at 9.30am since September. 2024 was a year of change; 2025 will doubtless be no different but we know and trust that God is walking with David, Amy, Caroline, their families and the congregation every step of the way. Let us pray that we behold him doing new things at St Paul's as we embark on an exciting new season in the life of our church. Hazel Phillips PCC Secretary Flnanclal Re We have a Finance Team which has met occasionally during 2024 to support the work of the Treasurer. The Treasurer of All Saints Church is willing to give his assistan as and when needed. Our income is rnade up from both Unrestricted and Restricted Funds. The total re- ceipts on ordinary unrestricted funds were £33,626. This consists of £2,645 received for Parochial fees for occasional offices, a significant proportion of which is the fee element payable to the dioGese. Restricted Funds comprise the grant received from the King Henry Vlll Endowed Trust direct to the church for of £53,934. The additional funds received from the Trust were for projects the'church administered on behalf of Transforming Communities. The other Restricted Funds are the income generated from the E D Shepherd Endowment Fund of £ 12.545. Our total income for the year from both unrestricted and Testricted funds was £167,431. st PauS's is one of the five churches in Wan4vid( and Budbrooke that is the recipient of annual payments from the King Henry Vlll Endowed Trust, which was set up in 1545. The amount to be paid to the Church is set out in the Trust's Scheme. which is appro- ved by the Charity Commission. All payments are restricted and can only be used for the prescribed purposes of furthering the "religious and charttable" work of the Church of England in the parish to which they are given. This is a significant source of income and has enabled us to support our local schools and local community groups and our own activities reaching out to our community. The income from the Trust also covers our contribution to the training element of the DI0￿$an parish share. From our unrestricted funds we contribute a small amount to the support fund. making a combined sum of £18,781. In addition to the money given to St. Paul's the Trust makes payments direct to the Diocese to cover the cost of the stipend, pension and housing of the Team Vicar. In 2024 these payments amounted to £34,326. The E D Shepherd End¢)wmenl Fund is in a unittrust forthe sole purpose of generating income which is restricted for use on the church fabric. Our total expenditure for Ihe year was £191.203. As a result, the year ended with a deficit on the year of £ 23,772. So the balances carried forward on 31 st December are £101,578 in unrestricted funds and £342,559 in restricted funds (of which £ 300.824 is the capital investment in the E D Shepherd Endowment Fund which cannot be spent). Reseryes Polic It is the policy of the PCC to maintain balances in restricted funds, which may be used within the parish and unrestricted funds which equate to approximately nine months payments, to cover emergency situations that may arise from time to time. It is also our policy to invest our funds with the CBF Church of England Deposit Fund and Investment Fund. Approved by the Parochial Church Council on Revd David Brown Mrs Sheila Pink (Associate Minister) (Treasurer) Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of St. Paul's Chur¢h I report to the charity trustee5 on my examination of the accounts of the charlty for the year ended 310ecember 2024 which are set out on pages 7 to 13. Responsibilitles and basls ef report As the charity's trustees you are responslble for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requlrements of the Charities Act 20111'the Art'l. I report in respect of my examination of the charilvs accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and In carrying out my examlnatlon I have followed all the applicable Dlrectlons given by the Charity Commi55ion under section 14515llbl of the Act. lfidependent examlnews ststement I have completed my examlnation. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connectlon with the examlnation giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept In respert of the charity as required by sertion 130 of the Act: or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records: or 3. the actounts do not comply with the appllcable requSrements concerning the form and content of accounts Set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) RegulatSons 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair vlew. whlch is not a matter Considered as part of an Independent examlnatlon. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to whlch attention should be drawn In thi5 report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. and p Ubhey FCCA Edwards, Pearson & White LLP Chartered Certlfied Accountants 8 Jury Street Warwick CV34 4EW 7 May 2025 72 PCCof%Wswa￿kl 5t¥tWnontolFIMKTa1AdMtkgf￿th+vIIIknd4 31 D•wntsw1024 Intornea￿ ExpBndhurei¢f•wt nds Fundj Incorneand ETh4owmentsfrorn'. Donatlon&anél*cl*s Investmentifdcome Charitablex￿vit1eS Otherincotninsfe5wr¢*s 24.9 121.26 146235 14.21 152,428 11.016 9.016 12545 6.988 T4)taintOmin8RèS(ttxte5 33,626 121,260 12,545 167,431 IF2A59 E¥penditiJreon' (harhableactmles 33ffl7 141.958 15.548 191.203 141,368 Total HèStsu￿seIpÈThdèd 33.697 141,958 15,548 1,203 Net 1ncomlnrJoutg￿Ogre5oUrcts 3,(K)31 di.090 unreal15pdynllkn551anin￿5trnent 825 6.511 7.336 27.783 Ti4n5fersbetyveen knd5 Nèt Movement kn Funds 754 20A98 3.508 16.436 ,873 Total Fundsbioueht FO￿a￿d Be?IIoK*ioD of unresthttedfu￿s Totplfvndsrarled farward JOO.824 61433 297.316 460.573 391,7 lo1￿18 4L735 30DW24 444.137 460,573 ThÈ stsfemÈmtof FirtarttialA(ti￿￿es I￿￿deS all￿n$ and losses re¢ognised theyear. PCC of St Pauf$ Wamck Statèment of Flnancial Position the Year Ended 31" December 2024 Notes 2024 2023 Fixed Assets Investments 327,862 320,526 Current Assets Cash at bank and in hand Other Debtors Prepa￿ents 114,218 2,696 761 141,454 2,803 615 117,675 144,871 Current Liabilities Creditors Atcru31s 1,4CKJ 4,824 Total Uabilites 1,400 4,824 Total Assets less current liabilitles 444,137 460,573 Net Assets 444,137 460,573 Funds Restricted Funds 41,735 101.578 300.824 62,433 l(KJ,824 297,316 Unresiricted Funds io Shephard Investmont li 444.137 460,573 Approved bythe Trustees: Trustee S Pink Date rothlilChL¥thC￿of￿p1￿*wdTh*￿ Fortl*YeaT EnW3I°Oe￿mber2OZ4 LG•MrallThtomaikn The Parochial Churth Counal of St Pau15Warwkk publ￿ benelitentityjndareE￿tered tharityin En8land andWa￿S￿rthchaiItyNUm￿W 11l7224.The clple of Fr5315 street. Warw*i CV34 6HA. 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