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Annual Parochial Church Meeting

23rd April 2023

Agenda and Reports

St. Luke’s Church PCC is a registered charity No 1127334 VERSION 3

ST. LUKE’S CHURCH, BATH

ANNUAL MEETING OF PARISHIONERS AND ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING

Sunday 23rd April 2023

AGENDA

Opening Prayers
Apologies for Absence
Minutes of Annual Meeting of Parishioners 15th May 2022
Election of Churchwardens - List of nominations published at the Church door.
Minutes of the Annual Parochial Church Meeting 15th May 2022
Matters Arising form previous year’s minutes (including administration of Holy Communion)
Presentation of Electoral Roll
Annual Report
PCC Secretary Report ‘Review of the Year’
Presentation of accounts and appointment of Independent Examiner
Wardens’ Report on Fabric, Goods and Ornaments of the Church

Election of Members to PCC & Deanery Synod
3 positions on PCC for 3 years (plus any resulting from change
of roles of existing members)
3 positions on Deanery Synod for 3 years
List of nominations published at Church door
Overview and thanks to ‘Service Hosts’
Additional Reports describing ministries in which St. Luke’s is involved.
Chairman’s Report
Any Other Business
Closing Prayer
Opening Prayers
Apologies for Absence

3. Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Parishioners 2022

St Luke’s Church, Bath

ANNUAL MEETING OF PARISHIONERS and ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING

Held on Sunday 15th May 2022 in Church at 11.10am, following the 10.00am service. Jan Rich chaired the meeting

ANNUAL MEETING OF PARISHIONERS Present: 45 members of the congregation

1. Opening Prayers: Sue Olley opened in prayer

2. Apologies: Paul & Judith Booth; Richard Fry; Ann Hatton; Ben & Helen Laite; & Alison Stubbs

3. Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Parishioners 23[rd] May 2021 were approved. Proposed by Carol Buxton and seconded by Brian Woodford and agreed unanimously.

4. Election of Churchwardens:

As the only nominees Sue Olley and Jan Rich were duly elected as Churchwardens.

There was no other business and the meeting closed at 11.20 a.m.

4. Election of Churchwardens

Nominations for the two positions of Church Warden are published at the Church Door.

5. Minutes of the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) 2022

ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING followed immediately after the Annual Meeting of Parishioners with no change in attendees or further apologies for absence.

5. Minutes of APCM 23rd May 2021 were approved. Proposed by Shirley Dewes and seconded by Mandy Gayner and agreed unanimously.

6. Matters Arising: none

7. Presentation of Electoral Roll: ( page 8) there were 124 on the roll of whom 54 are resident in the parish and 70 non-resident. 7 persons, not on the previous roll, have been added to the roll - 5 have died2 have moved away and 3 no longer worship at St. Luke’s.

Those added to the electoral roll were welcomed to St. Luke’s

8. Annual report: (page 9) This report was accepted and thanks were given to all those who have served in any capacity within the church or community.

9. PCC Secretary Report ‘Review of the Year’ (p.10) was accepted with thanks given.

10. Presentation of accounts and appointment of Independent

  - **Examiner: (** p.13—14) The accounts for 2021 had been sent out prior to the meeting and separate to the agenda and booklet.

Ruth made the following observations in addition to the written report:

•2021 has been the second of two strange and difficult years, with the accounts bearing little resemblance to the accounts of previous years.
•The ‘end-of-year’ balance at the end of 2021 was similar to that at the end of 2020 - just £38 more in 2021 than the previous year.
The Centre income started to pick up towards the end of 2021 but there has been no coffee shop income (as the coffee shop remains closed).
•The Parish Share remains our biggest expenditure but we were helped in 2021 by a reduction of approximately £11,000 as the diocese gave support to parishes.
•Thanks were expressed to the Church Family for maintaining standing orders.
John Rich proposed, and Ian McKay seconded, the motion that the accounts should be accepted and that Andrew Morrison be re-appointed as Independent Examiner for the current year - there was unanimous approval and thanks were expressed to Ruth for all her work throughout the year

11. Wardens’ Report on Fabric, Goods and Ornaments of the Church:

(p.15)This report was accepted with thanks to Sue Olley.

12. Elections:

PCC

As shown in Item 8 of the APCM booklet, page 9 (Annual Report for 2022) there are 3 vacancies on PCC for 3 years.

Nominations were received from Alison Stubbs, Carol Buxton and Deborah Tomlin. As there were no other candidates, they were each appointed to serve for 3 years.

Deanery Synod

One position for 1 years is available to be filled – a nomination has been received for Charles Kerr and he was duly appointed to serve for 1 year.

13. Overview and thanks for Service Hosts: Jan Rich explained that during the period of constantly changing ‘Covid’ rules that she and Sue Olley had been fulfilling the service host roles, but from November, some of those previously involved in service-hosting, have returned to serve in this way. Currently there are 2 service hosts and 1 warden on duty each Sunday with each service host being on duty approximately every 6 weeks. It would be good to have more people on the rota – anybody interested was invited to speak to Jan.

Thanks were expressed to all those who help with this important aspect of church life.

14. Additional reports: (p.14-23) Jan commented on how encouraging it is to see reports indicating that some activities have restarted.

Particular reference, with thanks to Brenda Mandeville, was made to the 3-weekly coffee mornings which have been well-attended and have raised significant sums of money for a variety of charities. In response to a question on whether the coffee shop would re-open, Brenda commented that before it closed there were some difficulties in running it – occasionally supply of cakes, getting sufficient volunteers to cover 5 days per week and often a small number of customers – and that the limited space for preparing drinks and washing-up produces particular problems in the Covid era.
It was noted that production of the ‘Herald’ and ‘Open the Book’ have restarted. And that ‘Prime Time’ is restarting this week.
We should pray for wisdom on whether or not some activities should restart or whether new ones should begin.

15. Chairman’s report: (p. 25-26) Jan had submitted a written report and made a few additional comments:

[Jan had written the Chairman’s report, as at the time that it was written, it was ] uncertain whether Matthew would be back.
[It has been an interesting and varied year because of Covid, and it has been ] wonderful to see more than 100 people in church both at Easter and for a baptism service. However, there is still Covid in the community, and some people have not yet felt able to return to church. Please pray for these people and respect their caution, but ensure that they feel included and hopefully, eventually they will be able to return ‘physically’.
[We are grateful to God that our finances have remained ‘healthy’ with regular ] giving, and that charitable giving has continued. It is encouraging to see increasing use of the Centre.
[Please pray for wisdom for recruitment for the following posts. ]
Church Administrator (to replace Lucy)
Youth and Children & Family Ministries
Cleaner/caretaker (following Robert having recently given notice)
[Thanks are due to many people and , in particular, to: ]
our Readers, for their increased leading and preaching whilst Matthew has been on sick leave;
the standing Committee;
Jo, in the Office, now working an additional morning per week to help out whilst
we recruit a replacement for Lucy;
and Liz Richardson and Lucy for helping with youth and children’s work (initially for one term but then extended to 2 and then 3)
[In conclusion, Jan read out the final two paragraph’s of her report: ]
We look forward, very much, to having Matthew back with us. Please pray for
him as he readjusts to work and finds a sustainable way forward. And let’s all look forward rather than back at what we did before, and how we did it. It has been long enough since we did many of the things we did before the pandemic, for us to reimagine how things might be; we have all grown older (and hopefully wiser) and can do different things now; what are the right things for this period of time?

Let's continue to trust that God who has brought us to this point, has a purpose and a plan which he wants us to discover together. He has not changed, and the past year has not been wasted, but has been a stepping stone - or maybe the space between stones - towards the future He has for us, and our witness for Him here at St. Luke’s

16. Any other Business:

I. Marjorie Stephinson, on behalf of the church family, wished to express thanks to those ‘who have been the public face’ of the church throughout recent difficult times
II. Bobby Thorn asked whether the church has been consulted about proposed changes to parking, and the implications that this might have for those attending regular services and weddings and funerals – the answer was ‘no’ and it was noted that we need to enquire into this and how it might affect us.

III. Sue Olley expressed the church family’s thanks to Matthew & Stephanie along with a card and gift, and our delight to have Matthew back with us. She observed that leadership is not easy at the ‘best of times’ and the last two years have certainly not been that, commenting that the strain on everybody has been huge and that church leaders in particular have been drained by the demands on them. But God takes care of us and we just need to be patient and trust and rest in Him – and so, quoting Dag Hammarskjold “For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!”

17. Some words from Matthew and closing of the meeting Matthew, addressing Jan (who has stood in for Mathew in chairing this meeting), was delighted to tell her that ‘she had passed her audition and had got the job’!!

[On a more serious note, he went on to talk about ‘flexibility’. Over the last 2 ] years the church has had to be flexible, allowing some things to stop, and others to start. As we come out of the pandemic, lessons on flexibility need to be learnt. We need to move with the ‘flow of the Holy Spirit’ – how is the Holy Spirit calling us to move forward?
[He expressed delight that Prime time is restarting ]
[Particular thanks were given to Brenda who had taken up the idea of coffee ] mornings and ‘run with it’ - an example of going with the flow of the Spirit.
[We need to ask ‘What are the new things that we need to pick up & what are the ] old things that we should not pick up?’ If we pick up all, we risk becoming exhausted and it might be going against the direction of the Holy Spirit.
[He thanked the Readers, Standing Committee and PCC for taking on so much ] whilst he has been away allowing him time to ‘not do.’ He quoted a recent conversation with the Archdeacon, Adrian, in which Adrian said “You do have a lovely church don’t you – they obviously love you”. Matthew gave a huge thank you to the church family for all that they do for each other and for God in this place

Matthew closed the meeting in prayer at 12.05pm

6. Matters Arising from Previous Year’s Minutes

7. Presentation of Electoral Roll9

The numbers on the new Electoral Roll dated 23rd April 2023 are 121

There are 58 Resident and 63 Non-Resident

There have been 5 additions to the roll and 8 deletions (3 deceased, and 5 no longer worshipping at St. Luke’s).

8. Annual Report for 2023

BACKGROUND

St Luke’s PCC has the responsibility of promoting, in the parish, the whole mission of the church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It also has responsibility for maintaining and managing the Church Centre, adjacent to the church itself.

St Luke’s seeks effectively to share the Christian faith, to deepen Christian discipleship and to support the mission of the Church, working in the power of the Holy Spirit for the glory of God.

MEMBERSHIP OF PCC (before the APCM 2023)

Members of the PCC are either ex officio or elected by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in accordance with the Church Representation Rules. At the PCC meeting immediately prior to the APCM, the following served as members of the PCC:

Incumbent : Rev Matthew Frankum

Wardens : Sue Olley & Jan Rich

Treasurer : Ruth Sara

Secretary : Tim Harris

Representatives on the Deanery Synod: Liz Richardson, Colin Norman & Charles Kerr

Elected Members:

Alison Stubbs (2025) Carol Buxton (2025) Deborah Tomlin (2025)

Mandy Gayner (2024) Brenda Mandeville (2024) Jane Gibb (2024)

Tim Harris (2023) Jackie Albrow (2023 & eligible for re-election)) Helen Walker (2023)

Ex-Officio Members:

Readers - Yvonne Fry, Gary Best & Lindsay Glazebrook

Elections

3 positions on PCC for 3 years (plus any that might arise from change of roles of any existing members); 3 position on Deanery Synod for 3 years.

The PCC is a charity registered with the Charity Commission.

9. PCC Secretary Report ‘Review of the Year 2022-23’

The PCC (Parochial Church Council) is the executive committee of St. Luke’s and consists of the clergy (Matthew), the churchwardens (Sue Olley and Jan Rich), and elected members of the laity. We have (potentially) nine lay members on the PCC and each of these is usually elected to serve for three years. The current members are:

Until 2025: Deborah Tomlin; Alison Stubbs; Carol Buxton

Until 2024: Mandy Gayner, Brenda Mandeville & Jane Gibb

Until 2023: Jackie Albrow; Tim Harris & Helen Walker

Due to stand down in 2023 but eligible for re-election: Jackie Albrow

Also, eligible to be on the PCC during this year were:

Colin Norman and Liz Richardson having been elected to serve as members of the Deanery Synod. (Liz is also an elected member of the Diocesan Synod). They were elected in 2020 for 3 years. And Charles Kerr elected in 2022 to serve for one year. St. Luke’s can send 3 elected representatives to Deanery Synod. There are three vacancies for Deanery Synod, to be elected this year.
Our readers, Yvonne Fry, Gary Best & Lindsay Glazebrook are also eligible to attend PCC meetings.
Ruth Sara, the church treasurer is also a member of the PCC. We are very grateful to Ruth for faithfully keeping the accounts and for her very competent management of our finances. She regularly reports to the PCC and Standing Committee.

There are, therefore 3 vacancies for PCC for 3 years (plus any that might result from change of roles of existing members) and 3 vacancies for Deanery Synod for 3 years.

The PCC has legal responsibility for the financial affairs of the parish and the maintenance of its assets, such as the Church and Church Centre buildings, and for promoting the mission of the Church.

This has been the first reasonably normal year since the start of the pandemic 3 years ago, although some more vulnerable church family members have not been able to return for regular worship. Hand sanitiser remains available and is used in the administration of Holy Communion which continues to be offered using ‘intinction’ – but this remains under review. Most home groups are now meeting in person. The PCC has adopted a flexible approach to either meeting on Zoom or in person, depending on the circumstances at the time, and Standing Committee usually now has ‘in person’ meetings.

The 10.00am service is usually a service of Holy Communion but we now have an ‘all age’ Café Church on the (usually) second Sunday of the month, when coffee and pastries are served from before the service and during it. This is a less formal service and as it is designed for all ages, there are no children’s or youth groups on that Sunday. An 8.30am service of Holy Communion precedes Café Church and there are plans to introduce a second monthly 8.30am service.

The PCC continues to be well supported by the administrative staff in the office and we are delighted that Liz Berrisford has taken on the role of Church Administrator, working alongside Jo Linegar, together overseeing the weekly running of the Church and the Church Centre.

Liz Richardson has continued to have fortnightly meetings with the youth on Sunday mornings, supported by Jamie Jameson, and Lucy has been running Rockets with a faithful group of supporters. We are delighted that, by the time of the APCM, Serena Stanton will have joined us as Children and Families Minister. The appointment of a youth minister remains to be moved forward but has certainly not been forgotten.

Since the 2022 APCM there have been the customary six scheduled meetings of the PCC. Much of the discussions at those meetings has involved the financial situation and the draft budget for 2023; the future of Children’s and Youth Ministry; other staffing issues; works required following the last Quinquennial inspection (and in particular work to boundary walls and work to the bells); Health & Safety issues; and discussion of the Deanery Plan

At the bi-monthly PCC meetings there have been regular reports on Youth Ministry from Liz Richardson, on the Church Centre from Colin Norman (as Chair of the Centre Management Group), from Jan Rich on EcoChurch, from Ruth Sara on Finance and on Safeguarding, from Jackie Allbrow on H&S, and from Colin Norman and Liz Richardson on discussions at Deanery and Diocesan Synods.

Jackie Allbrow, in the role of H&S Officer has ensured that risk assessments have been carried out for all church activities and that they have been updated as necessary.

We are grateful to all who serve St. Luke’s so faithfully in all the ways described above.

Tim Harris

Presentation of Accounts & Appointment of Independent Examiner

SUMMARY OF THE ACCOUNTS

The accounts for the year 2022 have been produced in the prescribed format and are incorporated into the Annual Report.

2022 ended with £77,238 in the General Fund, £10,000 in the Fabric and Equipment Fund. £50,452 is attributed to various other designated and restricted funds. There were no outstanding liabilities at the end of 2022.

Income for the year into our General (unrestricted) Fund has included Planned giving of £99,565 (this figure includes tax recovered against giving) and an income of £44,032 from ancillary trading, the majority of which comes from our Centre letting income.

Expenditure from our General Fund has included £77,143 on the Parish Share, and £1063 on outward giving to Missionary and charitable concerns; together these constitute about 49% of our total unrestricted income.

Income into our restricted funds has included £38,118 the total from our Gift Day and other one-off donations. Designated giving from our various restricted funds in 2022 totalled £310, which includes support for local Missional activities.

In 2022, income to and expenditure from our Unrestricted funds did not balance (income exceeded expenditure) by £5,827.

Repairs (the need to refurbish the Centre) and adjustments in salary expenditure have produced year-end unrestricted funds of £77,238.

Reserves Policy

It is the PCC policy to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds (if possible), which equates to approximately three month’s unrestricted payments, to cover emergency situations that may arise from time to time. (Currently this would be about £39,000).

In addition funds should be retained in the Fabric (designated) Fund towards meeting the cost of repairs and maintenance to the church.

The total balance of unrestricted funds (including Fabric Fund) of £87,238 at year-end is in line with the reserves policy target.

ADVISERS TO THE PCC

BANKERS:

Nat West City of Bath(A) Branch 24-25 Stall Street Bath BA1 1QF

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER:

Mr A Morrison Turner and Partners LLP Chartered Certified Accountants 24 James Street West BA1 2BT Bath BA1 2BT

13 11. Wardens’ Report on Fabric, Goods and Ornaments of the Church

It has been good to see more activities get up and running in the past year than in the previous two. Meanwhile various, mostly external, works have been carried out over the course of the year.

Dawsons Steeplejacks Ltd carried out the air terminal inspection in June 2022 and the subsequent additional work required was carried out in August.

This comprised:

-wire brushing the iron cross and then applying red oxide primer and two coats of black Hammerite paint (£1840 + VAT)

-removing the lime mortar flaunching that stops water running down the iron cross and into the spire and replacing it with new lime mortar (£795 +VAT)

installing additional fixings on the down conductor (£886 +VAT)

The bulging section of the boundary wall at the bottom of the footpath out onto Bloomfield Road was rebuilt by Tim Packer in September 2022. (Quinquennial Inspection item 5.1.1.) Our neighbours at the Old Vicarage were friendly and obliging in the matter and were happy to pay half the cost of the repair (total cost £926) which they did. They also agreed to deal with branches from their trees that overhang our path.

The church toilets by the main entrance were redecorated by Neil Bird in January 2023 (£440).

At the time of writing, a Faculty for the repair of the bells is awaiting a decision by the DAC. The PCC spent some time considering the various options as regards the bells. This included looking into digital bells and visiting St Michael’s Church, Stoke Gifford, in September for a full demonstration. The PCC finally decided against digital bells at the January 2023 meeting and voted to proceed with the work specified by Nicholsons in their second quotation: to replace all bell supporting ironwork in stainless steel and equip the bells with new electromagnetically operated chiming hammers at a cost of £11029 +VAT. The work has been diarised to start in mid August, subject to a Faculty being granted. The bells would be ready for use by St. Luke’s in September.

The main notice board facing Bloomfield Road is being replaced. The current board is very awkward to use and the new one will open with 2 central doors, making it much easier to change the posters. A smaller board on the wall outside the office to replace the one that was removed some years ago (when the window was extended following removal of the organ) will hopefully also soon get the go-ahead.

The grounds have been kept in good order by Tim Packer and huge thanks go to him. The Eco Church Group continue to make improvements and to develop the grounds for example putting up nesting boxes and making a keyhole garden. Thanks go, too, to Colin Norman who, in consultation with the Eco Church group, has been dealing with the management of the trees.

We want to thank Jo and Liz in the office for their support and for the way they contribute so much to the smooth running of the church and Centre. Thanks go, too, to Colin Norman who manages the Centre and Jackie Albrow, our Health and Safety Officer. Their tireless work, often behind the scenes, is greatly appreciated.

We are blessed at St. Luke’s with a church family that is able and willing to help in so many ways. Thank you all! Thank you Service Hosts, thank you coffee and flowers

teams, thank you Mary Roberts for washing and ironing the linen, thank you John Rich and Pete Smith for your practical advice and help. Thank you everyone involved in services and the life of St Luke’s.

Finally, thank you Matthew. Churchwardens work very closely with their incumbent and it has been a pleasure to work alongside Matthew over the past few years. He has never criticised or complained about anything we have done - or forgotten to do! - and his prayerful support has been invaluable. We wish him God’s blessing for the future and his new role.

Sue Olley and Jan Rich Churchwardens

12. Election of Members to PCC & Deanery Synod

Overview & Thanks for ‘Service Hosts’

14. Additional Reports

Banners

We still have some really lovely banners some of which were made 30 years ago and still look good. Sadly we haven’t made any new ones recently as there are only 3 of us left in the banner making group. If there is anyone who enjoys sewing and feels they would like to join us, please have a word with either Margaret Birks, Liz Woods or myself. The banners are kept in the baptistry, and we change them according to the Church calendar. I now find it difficult to manoeuvre and to hang them. We really need a strong man to help. Peter Milroy used to help me but finds he is unable to do it anymore. I am hugely grateful to him for helping me for many years. Thank you for your comments on the banners as they are there to Praise the Lord and to give thanks for our beautiful Church.

Mary Roberts

Chatterbox

Chatterbox is the Toddler Group, (although all are welcome from birth until starting school), that meets every other Thursday during term time and we welcome many different families. Thanks to a Nanny who used to come as a child, she has spread the word amongst her other Nanny friends and they come along. As well as that many grandparents who previously brought their children and some parents too. We charge £1 for the morning which includes unlimited refreshments, crafts, toys, singing and a Bible story. We meet in the downstairs hall of the Church Centre and have been in existence for over 30 years. Thanks are due to Deanna who faithfully makes our drinks

each time we meet, and Polly for piano playing and sorting out the craft. New recruit, Carin, comes to help get the toys out & we are looking forward to Serena coming to join us too. We are also grateful to our customers who frequently help us tidy up and make the group a lovely place to be.

My son and I enjoy coming to Chatterbox because it’s a time my son can play with his friends and he enjoys the songs and using instruments plus I get a couple of mugs of tea and a chat with friends x

Chatterbox is a great place to be! My son loves all the different toys and loves doing a x craft to bring home. It’s a great place for me to socialise as well with a lovely hot drink!

It’s a great way to spend Thursday mornings, chatting to people, drinking tea & being a practical support for those in baby/toddler-dom.

Sam Packer

Church Flower Team

During the year the flower team continued to explore how we can be more sustainable in the way we do the flowers in church. We are learning to make good use of seasonal and local material, picked from our own gardens, foraged in the woods or gifted by church family. Of course, there is still a role for commercially grown flowers, but we no longer buy so many.

We have eliminated the use of floral foam, using instead traditional pin-holders, a framework of twigs or scrunched up chicken wire to hold stems in place. We’ve also started using vases and other containers alongside traditional pedestals. One consequence of this new approach is that our designs are more natural, as we work with whatever plant material is available. Many church members have commented favourably on this new look.

As a result, we are reducing the amount of waste we send to landfill (foam and cellophane wrapping) and improving the church’s carbon footprint. And better honouring all that God has given us in his Creation.

Carol Buxton

St Luke’s Classic Film Club

The Classic Film Club was set up a number of years ago to show Classic Films of the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s, once a month on a Friday evening from September to March.

It became a firm favourite with a number of regulars and was enjoyed by many but as with so many other events it was a casualty of Covid.

I am pleased to announce however that it is back!! We had our first showing in October and it was a great success. We have since introduced more modern classics from the 60’s too and have enjoyed films such as The Bishop’s Wife, The Philadelphia Story, Charade and Monkey Business.

Light refreshments are also available from 7pm before the film starts at 7.30pm.

If it is something that you might like to try why not come along when our next season starts in September 2023.Watch out for the flyers advertising it in due course.

This is a FREE event but any donations to cover costs are gratefully received.

Mandy Gayner

Coffee Mornings

We started the regular Friday coffee mornings in church in October 2021.

By accident, the first three happened three weeks apart, but we came to think that monthly was too infrequent and fortnightly too often, so three-weekly was just right!

The vision was to provide an event where people could meet together and enjoy coffee, cake and a chat in a welcoming and Covid-safe environment. The event was intended to be for anyone - from St Luke’s or the local community, one where people could come on their own, or with family or friends and where they could see St. Luke’s as being open to the local community.

Over the last year coffee mornings have evolved a little, as Covid restrictions have eased. We have moved to the back of church, so there is no longer any need to move tables and chairs around or transport hot drinks from the church kitchen.

We hope the other elements of the vision have remained. We have tried to retain some of the coffee shop vibe. We use the same tablecloths and mugs (but need a few extras now) and have many of the favourite coffee shop cakes. But there are new favourites too, like Carol’s homemade Chelsea buns and we aim to have a gluten- and dairy-free option each time. Numbers have grown and we usually have around 30 people but recently around 40. People come from the local community, St Luke’s and - interestingly - visitors who are brought along by our regulars.

We continue to make no charge for coffee, tea or cakes. Instead we request donations for a specific charity each time. We decided to do this so that the coffee mornings were truly open to everyone. We also thought that people might like the opportunity to give to a good cause (to do something for others) at the same time as enjoying a cuppa out.

Last autumn, most coffee mornings raised money for Bath Foodbank in response to the cost-of-living crisis and in January we sent £300 to the DEC’s Turkey/Syria Earthquake appeal.

People have been very generous in donating money, lovely cakes and in giving of their time to prepare and serve drinks and cakes. St Luke’s has provided the consumables and equipment we need. It is interesting to note that donations for a typical coffee morning far exceed what the coffee shop used to take in a week.

Coffee mornings took place regularly through 2022 and up to Easter 2023 and we have a programme of future dates that takes us up to August. These have all been advertised in the Herald and appear in the monthly newsletters.

If you have not yet been, don’t miss out! Everyone is very welcome.

Brenda

Community Fair 15 October 2022 – A great day out

Wow, what a day! God delivered all he promised, showing His love and care for our community through St Luke’s. The sun shone, all our church groups were present with fun activities and displays in the Church, in the Centre and outside in the grounds.

By 2pm we were all set up. The doors opened and people came. And they kept on coming. The church was buzzing all afternoon with joy and chatter as visitors toured the stalls, took refreshments, listened to the choir and organ music, shopped at the

secondhand bookstall, chatted with the vicar, and got to see for themselves their parish church decorated with flowers and seating set out ready for a service.

In the centre, families enjoyed exercise demonstrations, a Chatterbox session, Christmas craft making, bingo and meeting guide dogs for the blind. The bric-a-brac stall proved very popular. Outside, youngsters threw themselves into games.

How many people came? Well, we gave out more than 250 raffle tickets to adults and about 400 tombola tickets to children. Sales of bric-a-brac and books raised more than £400 for Bath Foodbank.

The aim of the Community Fair was to freely share God’s love, and the church funded all activities, refreshments and prizes. For very many visitors, it was the first time they had been in to St Luke’s. The event gave them the opportunity to experience church in a new way, to learn about groups they could join and feel God’s light shining in these dark times.

The Community Fair was an important step in bringing our community back from the dark days of the pandemic, and proof that God’s spirit is moving in our neighbourhood. A big thank you to everyone at St Luke’s who all helped in make the Fair a success. Above all, thanks and praise be to God.

Jackie Albrow

Contemplative Prayer

After a two year gap, caused by the Covid pandemic, the Contemplative Prayer group restarted meetings in September. Our regular members met in the Quiet Room in the Centre for an hour on Tuesday afternoons during September and October.

Matthew had previously spoken of how the pandemic had made us reevaluate what we had been doing, with the result that we might now, post pandemic, decide to stop some things and begin others. This was taken as our theme: ‘Laying down and taking up.’

The passages chosen for reflection included Elisha succeeding Elijah (2 Kings 2), Fishers of Men (Luke 5), Nicodemus (John 3), and The Rich Young Man (Matthew 19). At the meetings a short section of verses are taken as the reading. Sometimes just a word or phrase might jump out, calling for attention. Sometimes imaginative Ignatian prayer might open up the passage. Everyone is free to engage with the reading as they feel led. No commentaries or Bible study aids are used, as this is not a Bible study, simply a space in which to dwell in the Word and let it speak.

After 35 minutes of complete silence and stillness (no writing or looking up other Bible passages!) participants are encouraged to journal. This allows thoughts to be distilled, recorded for the future and perhaps further developed as they are written down. Finally, there is a short time at the end for people to share anything. No one has to speak! Often, though, the insights of others can be most helpful and it is always interesting to see how God has spoken in different ways through the same passage.

Everyone is welcome at Contemplative Prayer meetings. Nothing is required except an open heart!

Sue Olley

Deanery Synod Report

A main focus of business over the past year has been the Deanery 5 Year Plan. The Deanery Mission and Pastoral Group (DPMG) proposed guiding principles for the 5 Year Plan which were put as a Draft Plan to the Deanery Synod by Area Dean, Stephen Girling, in May and commented on by the St Luke’s PCC by the end of July. The Plan was subsequently passed at the November meeting. The Plan entails taking a strategic overview of mission and ministry and enabling change and development within the Deanery.

In January, Matthew Pinnock, Diocesan Head of Finance and Operations gave a presentation on the Diocese’s Financial Position pointing out that there has been a downward trend in the number of regular worshippers and more is being asked of worshippers than before. The Diocese’s intention is to return to a total parish share contribution equal to pre pandemic. In 2019 parish share covered stipendiary related costs. Currently it does not, and the aim is to get back to that position by 2026.

The Deanery Synod meetings are well-attended and provide an interesting forum for the discussion of issues facing the churches in the Deanery and Diocese.

Colin Norman Liz Richardson Charles Kerr Deanery Synod Representatives

Diocesan Synod Report 2023

I have been able to attend 2 of the 3 meetings this year as well as attending a Diocesan wide meeting about Warm Spaces. The latter meeting obviously speaks for itself. Concerns about finance have been to the fore this year, although a highlight was the meeting in November, which was the first one attended by Bishop Michael. What a refreshing down to earth man he seems to be. He spoke in his Presidential Address about his time in Retreat before his Installation where he was asked to study the ‘Stilling of the Storm’. He went on to say that we are in the eye of the storm financially & although the current budget has bought us some time we need to step out of the boat, grasp the hands of Jesus & be led by Him.

We also need to ENGAGE in Mission & not be merely content with maintenance. Everyone has a part to play in this. This is a very varied Diocese, ranging from small rural parishes to large urban churches, one size cannot fit all. We need to find & identify a common language to fit local contexts & situations. Two areas of concern raised show this diversity: they were the availability of Communion for rural parishes & support for parishes subject to flooding on the Somerset Levels.

There is a Meeting, as I write this which I’m unable to attend, but from the papers put out I can tell you that the deficit in running costs is £2.2m for the current year. There has been a serious decline in churches meeting their Parish Share since Covid. I think we should congratulate ourselves in meeting our commitments. In the Bath Deanery, the plan is to move to 6 posts instead of the 13 that we are used too. Some of this has already begun in parts of the Deanery. If I might suggest, we have some very serious praying to do about the future of St Luke’s.

Liz Richardson

Eco Church

St Luke’s Eco Church team (Jan Rich, Sue Dimond, Polly and Ian McKay) has now been supplemented by Ann Hatton.

Our main activities in 2022/2023 have been:

[ We made our first formal application for Eco Church status, and were awarded a ] Bronze award by A Rocha UK, who run the scheme.
[ We led a Creation Sunday service in September with the help of the youth and ] the ‘Open the Book’ team. The focus was “listening to creation”.
[ We have enhanced the church grounds for wildlife in a number of ways, including ] planting hundreds of bulbs and installing nesting boxes for birds. We hope that the crab apple and blackthorn whips that we planted will survive and thrive to become our contribution to the Queen’s Green Canopy.
[ Very much a team effort, we built a keyhole garden next to the Centre, which is ] similar in design to those which Send a Cow (now Ripple effect) use in their projects in Africa, and demonstrates low-input farming with its central composting chamber. Many thanks to Tim Packer for supplying the materials, and to everyone who has donated plants.
[ We have continued to communicate through the Monthly Newsletter, the Eco ] Church Blog, and the Herald. We are part of CAFÉ (Christian Action for the Environment) BaNES to learn and give encouragement across the local area.

We are very grateful to all who have helped with these, and to those who are working on other projects which are part of our Eco Church journey, such as the flower team and the changes they have made to make our church decorations eco-friendly.

By the next APCM we hope to be in a position to apply for a Silver Eco Church award. We hope that this will include:

[ An audit of what plants we have in the grounds, kindly helped by Dave Green. ]
[ Another Creation Sunday service – hopefully this will be developed as a ] collaborative effort with other local churches through CAFÉ BaNES.
[ Further ecological development in the grounds, e.g. a bug hotel. ]
[ Working with the PCC, and BaNES Council, to develop a plan for the eventual ] removal of the pollarded limes and replacement with more appropriate, and wildlife-friendly, native hedging (hawthorn, blackthorn and dog rose).

We remain available to support the PCC in any future decisions that they need to make which have climate or environmental implications (e.g. grounds maintenance, energy / heating, water butts).

Ian McKay

St. Luke’s Health and Safety Annual Report 2022-23

Health and Safety is everyone’s responsibility. There is a strong commitment within the Church to support H&S.

In the spring, 2022 the Covid restrictions were changed and the Church and Church Centre gradually restarted group activities and Church life.

Infection prevention precautions still continue with core practices such as hand washing/sanitising, environmental cleaning, not attending if unwell, allowing masks to be worn if the person prefers. Communion remains the same with the cup not being shared. The Covid risk assessments were reviewed frequently as changes in national policy changed.
The H&S policy was reviewed, with minor alterations due to the caretaking leaving. The reviewed policy was signed off by the PCC
There are 6th monthly H&S spot checks completed on the church and the Center. The reports are sent to the Centre manager, Church wardens and the PCC. Most concerns spotted have already been addressed and have an action plan in place.
The risk assessments for the group activities have all been completed and signed off by the PCC. New activities now routinely have a risk assessment completed.
H&S incidents have been handled quickly by appropriate people /church wardens and reported to PCC. Any reported H&S incidents are documented on an informal H&S log. There have been 9 minor incidents with all appropriate action taken.
Other minor changes: H&S posters put in the centre regarding Manual handling and Food hygiene. Litter picking equipment has been acquired.

Jackie Albrow - H&S Representative

Home Communion

Home Communion has been a valuable part of the outreach at St. Luke’s for over twenty-five years, and has been a valuable service to the housebound. In some years we have served up to ten folk on a regular monthly basis and we are always happy to be contacted by anyone interested.

We usually like to visit in pairs and all those offering the service need to be nominated by the Vicar and approved or certified by the Bishop. It is a real privilege to serve our community in this way and I am grateful to all those who take part.

Sally Eustace

Homegroups Report

At present we have a total of 7 homegroups with 64 members in all, meeting fortnightly, 3 during the day and the others on either Tuesday or Thursday evenings.

After the disruption of the pandemic, the groups are now able to meet in person again, with the backup of Zoom (for most groups) as a means of meeting if necessary.

We are always looking for ways to encourage growth in homegroup membership, although we do face the challenge of most groups being full. If there is the demand, we will look at setting up a new group. If you are interested in joining a group or know someone who may like to know more then just have a word with me.

Sue Harris

Hospitality at St Luke’s

The serving of tea, coffee and squash and biscuits after Sunday Services is very important as it enables us to get to know each other better and is very much appreciated by those who choose to stay and socialise after the Sunday Service.

It is manned by a stalwart crew of volunteers, but I am always on the lookout for more helpers so if you feel that this is something that might appeal to you please let me know. The team also provides support when refreshments are required for church events hosted by St Luke’s.

The kitchen area at the back of church is often used by others when holding various events in the church, including concerts where refreshments are served. If alcohol is sold, however, a licence must be obtained from BaNES.

Please contact me via email mandy.gayner@gmail.com for any further information regarding any of the above

Mandy Gayner

Jubilee Coffee Morning

The Platinum Jubilee seems a long time ago now &, of course, since then we’ve lost that wonderful steadfast presence of Elizabeth II on the throne. But…….didn’t we have a lovely time? Peter Reeves’ gazebo was put up, cakes were baked, outdoor games were spread across the lawn, Polly was there with Traidcraft goodies, craft crowns were prepared (thank you Margaret for that in spite of only recently had knee surgery). The Queen appeared, as did a throne. Thanks to Jane & her choir we had live music. And people came……. families, Prime Time members, people trying to get to Tesco to shop, and you, of course, the lovely members of St Luke’s family. I’m no good with numbers so haven’t got a clue how many there were, but we made about £450 for the Queen’s Green Canopy. It was a truly joyful occasion. Well done everyone.

Liz Richardson

Missions Group News 2022-2023

Members of the St Luke’s community will need no reminding that as a congregation, we give regularly to nine mission focuses that cover

1) Our local missions work, in and around the parish.
2) Local Christian charities, working in communities in the Bath area.
3) Christian ‘social action’ charities working in other countries, whose work is well known and of particular interest to members of the congregation.
4) Individuals or families working for God in other places, who are ex-members of St Luke’s, or who have a strong link to the parish, and who see us as their sponsors.

In 2023, we are now well into the first year of a three year cycle of giving; and each month during the year, one of our focuses will have an article to bring us up to date in the Newsletter, and at Sunday services during that month, prayers specific to that organisation’s needs are offered, to keep us all abreast of what is going on!.

And at our Harvest Gift Day this year, given the present financial conditions nationally, in a change from what we have done in the past, PCC decided that we should give a

portion of our Gift Day total to FoodBank (Trussell Trust) and to Christians Against Poverty; St Luke’s people are involved in working with both organisations. After that, once in the three year cycle, THREE of our focuses enjoy a large gift , with the other SIX focuses sharing the remainder. Such that, over our three-year giving cycle, each focus has continuous support, with one major gift. You will be delighted to hear the following from that day in October: The overall total of our giving was £36,955, which is am-a-zing! Thank God! FoodBank and CAP received £3,700 each. Our three special focuses for 2022 were Ripple Effect, Genesis and A Rocha…and each received £7384.75.

And for our six other giving focuses, Open the Book, the Leakes (Land for Life), Bath Youth For Christ, Five Talents, OM(John Bailey) and the Friends of St. Michael’s School Uganda, each received £1230.79.

And as an extra layer of blessing, the two gifts, to Ripple Effect and Five Talents, were given through the thebiggive.com, an organisation that doubles every pound given, which meant that an extra £8615.54 was released…incredible.

We have had lovely letters from Ripple Effect and Five Talents to thank St Luke’s congregation for their gifts, and a letter from Operation Mobilisation explaining how their gift has been used to enable lives to be changed by the Gospel; as you know, I work for Five Talents, I want you to know how enormously grateful each of the NGOs is to St Luke’s for their very generous gifts.

THANK YOU!

May God bless each of the gifts, as they are put to work extending his kingdom in so many different ways!

Wonderful generosity by those at Brenda’s Coffee Mornings have resulted in some substantial gifts to Genesis, FoodBank and Water Aid amongst others, over the last year; sometimes £150 in a morning! Amazing!

A number of us are signed up to receive regular newsletters from particular St Luke’s focuses for giving. If you would like to know more, The Friends of St. Michael’s School Uganda (Vicki Beach), the Leakes (Jan Rich), Ripple Effect (Ann Hatton) and Five Talents, (Jamie Jameson), with OM/John Bailey (Tim Packer), and Bath Youth for Christ (Sam Packer)… would all be happy to explain how and give you a link to their particular organisation.

Hilary Deneufchatel has continued to keep us closely in contact with her amazing family and her work with SIM as a trainee Bible translation consultant…and her further work on the ‘finished’ Monkole Bible.

Whilst the family are no longer one of our main giving focuses, many of us are still involved in their support; and if anyone would like to receive their regular, very interesting newsletters, mail to hilary.deneufchatel@sim.org. or talk to Alison Stubbs. As ever, if you have any questions about Missions in St Luke’s, please mail or speak to me; (07767263165 jamiejameson48@yahoo.com)

Jamie

Music group report

It has been a good year for the Music Group, and members have led the musical aspects of Worship virtually every Sunday morning, on a rota basis. We consider this a real privilege.

The Group is run on a team basis with different members taking responsibility for different tasks. There have been two new volunteers who are talented singers and this has supplemented the already talented group of nine musicians. David Kniveton continues to encourage and support us on the organ and piano, and Jane Lilley has been a willing deputy, playing piano. We have been able to introduce a number of new songs during the year to expand the repertoire for the congregation - this has generally been well received by them. We can accommodate up to five musicians at the front of Church in addition to the keyboard player and have usually managed to do so.

We are indebted to Steve Glazebrook for his stalwart work at the sound desk most Sundays. and to three other members of the congregation who have been able to stand in on an ad hoc basis when needed.

My thanks to everyone involved in this Group.

Frances Best (i/c of rotas)

Open The Book

Open The Book continues to meet weekly to enact stories from the Bible at assemblies held at Moorlands School. We alternate between the infants and the juniors, and the children obviously enjoy us coming. Sadly the Christmas service at St Luke's was cancelled because of the icy conditions on the day.

We currently are a team of seven and from March we will be joined by Serena Stanton, the new church family worker. As not everyone can attend every week we create a rota and we are very happy to have more join us if anyone is interested. It is a very worthwhile activity and an important outreach into the local community.

One of our recent assemblies coincided with an OFSTED inspection and the school, afterwards, thanked us for doing such a good job. My thanks to all the group for being such great people to work with, and particularly to Carol Buxton who has deputised for me whenever I am away and who has proved a masterful organiser of costumes and props. I should also record the whole group's thanks to Jan Rich, who stepped down this term after many, many years of dedicated service to OTB.

Gary Best

Prayer Ministry at St. Luke’s 2022-2023

We continue to offer prayer ministry at the end of all morning services at St Luke’s. It is a chance to share what is on our hearts with 2 others and with God.

Sometimes we run out of prayers ourselves. Sometimes we seem to have been praying for the same people/situations for a long time without seeing the change we long for. This is when sharing with others can be so helpful, as they pray on our behalf.

Pete Greig’s book ‘God on Mute’ tackles the issue of unanswered prayer and helps us claim ‘strength for today, bright hope for tomorrow’. He includes this prayer which, like me, you may find helpful.

Silent God by Edwina Gateley This is my prayer— That, though I may not see, I be aware Of the Silent God Who stands by me. That, though I may not feel, I be aware Of the Mighty Love Which doggedly follows me. That, though I may not respond, I be aware That God—my Silent, Mighty God, Waits each day. Quietly, hopefully, persistently. Waits each day and through each night For me. For me—alone.

Angela Jameson

Prime Time

Prime Time was very happy to restart in May 2022, meeting as usual monthly on a Thursday. This followed a long break caused by the pandemic during which, sadly, 7 of our members died and several became too old or infirm to attend.

At present, meetings are attended by around 23 members. and we are pleased that several new members have come along.

Meals are still provided by Ralph Allen School’s kitchen, with members often expressing their enjoyment of them.

Handed down from founding members, our motto is “Lunch, Leisure and Learning”. The last two items have been provided by excellent performances by Prior Park Musicians and The Smithy Singers; and very interesting talks on the M Shed, The History of Chocolate and it’s being made at Frys, The RNLI, and most recently one on “Who does your DNA say you are?”

Members were pleased to be joined by Matthew for their Christmas lunch, and to listen to his Christmas talk afterwards. They then enjoyed singing carols, kindly accompanied by David Kniveton, on the piano.

Prime Time couldn’t function without our wonderful helpers and we are very grateful for all their support. They help by being treasurer, ferrying members unable to travel themselves, fetching the food, serving meals, working in the kitchen, washing up, setting up and clearing away.

Recently, when I wasn’t able to be at Prime Time, a member rang to say she hadn’t been picked up by Dial a Ride. Thinking that she was concerned that she would miss the meal which she would have to pay for once ordered, I said I would see if someone could bring it on their way home. “I have plenty of food” was the reply ”But I’m ninety, I don’t get out much and I enjoy the company”. As it was just 12.06 pm I said that I would try to contact one of the helpers at the centre to see if they could pick her up. I am pleased to report that Jamie responded, and he later texted me to say it was great

to see that lady enjoying her lunch, and chatting happily to other members. I think this situation epitomises Prime Time’s raison d’etre - fellowship, and working together to provide happiness for others.

So we would value prayer that we may be able to continue, together, to provide this much needed service and that our members may be given health and strength to continue to come and enjoy Prime Time.

Lyn Bly

Rockets –For primary school age children

Rockets has continued this past year - a couple of things have changed: Deborah has joined the team – a very welcome addition! – and we have changed from running sessions fortnightly to weekly during term time. This is a positive step forward, and hopefully we can build on this going forward.

We join in the main service until after the songs of worship and then go over to the centre where we have a Bible story, share prayers, have snacks, play games and tackle a craft together.

For the last few months, we have had the fantastic benefit of having Lottie and Edith helping us as part of their Duke of Edinburgh volunteering. The girls have added energy and enthusiasm to the sessions they have planned, and it has been lovely to have their involvement with the variety they have contributed.

We still have no Sparklers (Pre-school aged children). This group could easily be formed and run alongside Rockets when needed.

We are very excited about Serena joining us soon and look forward to working with her!

Lucy, Katie, Helen, Stephanie and Deborah

Sunday Lunch Out

For a few years now a party of single church members have been going out to a pub for Sunday lunch once a month. We tend to be an elderly group but if you would like to join us, please do get in touch with me.

Sally Eustace

The St. Luke’s Herald

Again, this year we have produced 2 editions of the St. Luke’s Herald – at Christmas and Easter, but with the return of Holiday Club this year, the aim is to get another edition prepared for delivery in July/August. We have slightly restricted the delivery area but we still cover the majority of the parish, and copies are available in the Church and Centre for visitors to take a copy.

We have continued with the A5 ‘booklet format’, providing 8 pages for each edition. Doveton Press, in Bedminster, carry out the printing for us, and they are always incredibly helpful, both in production and with delivery.

Please pray for those involved in the publication and distribution of the Herald, and for those who receive it.

As always, thanks are due to those who contribute articles and other features – we have had a great range of interesting and informative items: these have included articles on Café Church, Coffee Mornings, Ripple Effect, EcoChurch, Open House, activities for children & young people and an introduction to Serena, the flowers in church, film club, Prime Time, poems….. and much more.

Thanks are also due once again to those who ‘bundle’ the Heralds for delivery – especial thanks to Pam Bourne-Jones.

Do think and pray about possible items to be included: I am always grateful for suggestions and articles for future editions.

We are very grateful to those who faithfully deliver two or three times per year, but we are always looking for more volunteers who would be prepared to give an hour of their time to help - please have a word with me. The more people doing a little, the less people doing a lot! Do prayerfully consider whether you could help with this, as very often some leaflets remain undelivered.

Tim Harris

“See that justice is done, let mercy be your first concern, and humbly obey your God.” Micah 6.8

Our support of Traidcraft and promotion of Fairtrade is encouraged by the Eco Church programme. St Luke’s is a Fairtrade Church. This means that we have agreed to the following 3 goals:

[ Use Fairtrade tea and coffee after services and in all meetings for which you ] responsibility
[ Move forward on using other Fairtrade products such as sugar, biscuits and fruit ]
•[ Promote Fairtrade during Fairtrade Fortnight and during the year through events, ] worship and other activities whenever possible

Total sales in the past year were just over £2500, down from £3100 last year. Sales from the cupboard have been slow again this year, more purchases being made at coffee mornings, especially at the three in June, November and March when we were particularly promoting Traidcraft and Fairtrade. These generated £650 in sales. Lower sales in advance of Christmas were the main reason for lower overall sales, probably due to no Autumn catalogue being produced. Sadly, Traidcraft has been struggling over the past few years, and its future is uncertain as it is currently in administration. In recent times it has not been buying directly from

producers, and was purchasing many of its products through other fairtrade companies. We hope that whatever happens, there will be other outlets for the fairtrade products previously sold through Traidcraft. Traidcraft has been a huge influence for fairtrade over more than 40 years, and I have been a fairtrader for over 32 years. Whatever happens to Traidcraft, I will continue to promote fairtrade and we will find other ways to make sure that we can all continue to buy a good range of fairtrade products.

The good news is that the charity arm, previously known as Traidcraft Exchange, and now called Transform Trade, is a completely separate organisation, continues to work with producers, and will support any people who are struggling after the collapse of Traidcraft, with the mission to do just that, to transform trade, so that fairtrade is the norm. They need our donations all the more, and it is wonderful that as a church we gave more than ever to Transform Trade in the past year, a total of £870, mainly from donations at the 3 fairtrade coffee mornings. We will continue to support them. You can - find out more about Transform Trade here https://www.transform trade.org/

A big thank you to all who have helped to support Fairtrade and Traidcraft this year, whether through purchases or help with coffee mornings. And thank you for your support over the last 32 years! We hope and pray that something good can come out of the current sad situation, and that we can do more to make trade fair for all producers in the future. You can continue to make purchases from the Traidcraft cupboard, as long as there is stock in there.

Polly McKay

Welcoming

We are very happy to have welcomed a good number of visitors and several newcomers over the past year. Some of those joining us have already joined a home group or the music group, or even in Liz Berrisford's case taken on the job of Church Administrator! Others we see less often, but we are glad they feel comfortable to come back and worship or join in activities with us.

Service hosts welcome all who come in, and the service leader and preacher usually greet people on their way out of church. We have not had a dedicated welcoming team since before Covid, but we have relied on all of us looking around and taking that little step (perhaps outside of our comfort zone) to welcome both those we recognise and those we don't. Do they need to know that it's all right to sit in that seat, what happens at Communion, where the children go, or just that we are glad they are here?

Are you a visitor or newcomer who would like to know more - about God or St Luke's? We have recently reintroduced a weekly notice sheet, which now has a welcome page in it. Please do complete and detach this page and hand it to a service host or person on the door if you would like to know more, and one of us will get back to you as soon as possible. We also hope in the coming year to hold a welcoming event for those who are new to St Luke's. Please let me know if you are interested.

Jan Rich

Youth at St. Luke’s

We started the new term after Christmas with Breakfast, which is always well attended! We’ve since spent our time looking at the life & exciting times of Joseph, he of the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. What is central to his life is that although bad things happened to him, e.g. his brothers disliked him enough to sell him into slavery! God was with him throughout it all, supporting & helping him. By a wonderful Godincidence Zenith Youth Theatre were doing a production of Joseph in February so we were able to have an outing to the matinee performance. It was excellently done & with plenty of popcorn & sweets a good time was had by all !

We’re still meeting downstairs at church (enter off the path in the grounds). People drift in between 10:00 & 10:15 for hot chocolate & biscuits & we usually finish with a few games of table football about 11:15. Do feel free to join us - we’re a very friendly group!!

Liz Richardson

15. Chairman’s Report

As I read through this APCM Report for 2023, it is so good to see that there is new life ‘bubbling up’ in St. Luke’s in so many different ways. The past 3 years have been a difficult time for St. Luke’s, for the Diocese of Bath & Wells as a whole and for the church nationally. Many churches are seeing a significant decrease in worshipping numbers and are struggling to make ends meet financially. In comparison to many other churches in our Bath Deanery, St. Luke’s has survived the ‘covid years’ very well, in terms of the worshipping community, outreach activities and also financially. This is something we can be hugely grateful to God for, and it is certainly an answer to ongoing prayer.

With the total givings of ‘common share’ to the Diocese being significantly down over the past 3 years, there has been a lot of prayer, thinking and planning about how the Diocese can resource parishes going forwards, both in terms of numbers of clergy and Diocesan support. With the planned reduction in clergy in our Deanery from 22 to 17 and with my departure from St. Luke’s in 3 weeks’ time, there could be some who are wondering what will happen! Would we get another vicar? Who would it be?

It has taken much prayer and thought to come to the conclusion that God is calling me into a new vocation as Diocesan Director of Ordinands for our Diocese and I will certainly miss the people of St. Luke’s (for it is the people that are the church, not the building). Through it all, the overwhelming thing I have sensed is that God has a plan , not just for me but for each of us individually and also for St. Luke’s as a whole.

I remember back to 2008 when I returned to St. Luke’s as vicar, having been curate from 1999 - 2003. One of the Bible passages that came through to us all at that time was the passage from Jeremiah 29:11, ‘“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares

the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”.’

You may know that a series of banners were made and are still hung in the church with these words on, as a reminder to us of God’s promise.

My point is that, we are able to look back over the ‘covid years’ and see how God has sustained us and moved us into a good future. Even in the personal difficulties of the ‘covid years’ we can see how God was with us through the difficult times, even carrying us at times. We can certainly be grateful to God for this but we can also know that God will not abandon us but carry us through the next stage of the life for St. Luke’s. We are able to remain full of hope for the future because we have faithful and trustworthy God who as plans to prosper and not to harm us.

My prayer for St. Luke’s, moving forward into the vacancy is that you will unite in prayer, asking God to guide you into the future because He has plans to prosper St. Luke’s and not to harm you.

And never forget, ‘Prayer can bring about a future that, otherwise, might not exist’….. so keep praying!

With all my love and prayers, Matthew

16. Any Other Business

Closing Prayer

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE'S, BATH

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

For the year ended 31st December 2022

		Unrestricted	Restricted	Endowment
		Funds	Funds	Funds	2022	2021
	Note	£	£	£	£	£
INCOMING RESOURCES
Incoming resources from donors	2(a)	103,257	10,549	-	113,805	111,364
Other voluntary incoming resources	2(b)	-	38,118	-	38,118	44,152
Incomefrom charitable and ancillary trading Incomefrom investments	2(c) 2(d)	45,159 263	- 652	- -	45,159 915	24,396 57
TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES		148,679	49,319	-	197,998	179,969
RESOURCES USED
Grants	3(a)	1,063	46,143	-	47,206	41,765
Activities directly relating to the work ofthe church	3(b)	128,183	661	-	128,845	122,499
Fund-raising and publicity	3(c)	-	798	-	798	385
Churchmanagementandadministration TOTAL RESOURCES USED	3(d)	13,530 142,777	- 47,602	- -	13,530 190,379	15,281 179,929
NETINCOMING /(OUTGOING) RESOURCES		5,902	1,717	-	7,619	40
GAINSAND LOSSESON FIXEDASSETS
- realised gainon disposal ofParish House	5(a)	-	-	-	-	-
NETMOVEMENT IN FUNDS		5,902	1,717	-	7,619	40
BALANCES B/FWD AT 1 JANUARY2022 (2021)		82,735	48,735	1,620	133,090	133,051
Release of prioryear provision				2	-	2
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BALANCESC/FWDAT31DECEMBER2022(2021)		88,637	50,452	1,620	140,709	133,090

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BALANCE SHEET

At 31st December 2022

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Signed on behalf of St Luke's

Miss R J Sara PCC Treasurer 01 March 2023

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| Unrestricted funds are general funds which can be | used for PCC for PCC PCC ordinary purposes.

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST.LUKE’S, BATH STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES For the year ended 31 December 2022 1 Accounting Policies The financial statements have been prepared in The diocesan parish share is accounted for when due. accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations Amounts received specifically for missions are dealt with 2006 together with applicable accounting standards the 8 restricted funds. All other expenditure is generally Charities Act 2011 and the Charities SORP 2005. recognised when it is incurred and is accounted for Freehold Property is included at cost gross.

The financial statements have been prepared under the . historical cost convention except for the valuation of | Fixed Assets investment assets, which are shown at market value. The financial statements include all transactions, assets Tangible fixed assets and liabilities for which the PCC is responsible in law. | Consecrated and They do not include the accounts of church groups that the accounts by the the owe their main affiliation to another body, nor those that are informal gatherings of church church members. In view of the above,

| Consecrated and beneficed property is excluded from the accounts by the the Charities Act 2011.

are informal gatherings of church church members. In view of the above, the full cost of the renovation project is charged to the relevant restricted fund within Funds income and expenditure account in the period incurred. Likewise all donations and other fund raising income in Endowment funds are funds, the capital of which must respect of the project is included in the relevant be maintained; only income arising from investment of restricted fund within the income and expenditure the endowment may be used as a restricted fund in this | account in the year when received. case. Moveable church furnishings held by the vicar and Restricted Funds represent (a) income from trusts or churchwardens on special trust for the PCC and which endowments which may be expended only on those _—‘ require a faculty for disposal are inalienable property, restricted objects provided in the terms of the trust or __ listed in the church’s inventory, which can be inspected bequest and (b)donations or grants received for a (at any reasonable time) . For anything acquired prior to specific object or invited by the PCC for a specific object. 2000 there is insufficient cost information available and The funds may only be expended on the specific object therefore such assets are not valued in the financial for which they were given. Any balance remaining statements. Subsequently any individual item costing unspent at the end of the year must be carried forward more than £1000 has been itemised and depreciated in as a balance on that fund. Interest is apportioned to —_the accounts. individual funds on an average balance basis.

Unrestricted funds are general funds which can be Other fixtures, fittings and office equipment used for PCC for PCC PCC ordinary purposes. Equipment used within the church premises is depreciated on a straight line basis over 6 years. Incoming Resources individual items of equipment with a purchase price of £1,000 or less are written off when the asset is acquired. Planned giving, collections and donations are recognised when received. Tax refunds are recognised = /nvestments when the incoming resource to which they relate is Investments are valued at market value at 31 December. received. Grants and legacies are accounted for when the PCC is legally entitled to the amounts due. Current assets Dividends are accounted for when receivable, interest is Amounts owing to the PCC at 31 December in respect of accrued. All other income is recognised when it is _ fees, rents or other income are shown as debtors less receivable. All incoming resources are accounted for Provision for amounts that may prove un-collectable. gross. Short-term deposits include cash held on deposit either with the CBF Church of England Funds or at the bank.

Resources Expended

Grants Grants and donations are accounted for when paid over, or when awarded, if that award creates a binding or constructive obligation on the PCC.

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE'S, BATH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

For the year ended 31st December 2022

2 INCOMING RESOURCES

		Unrestricted	Restricted	Endowment
		Funds	Funds	Funds		2022	2021
	Note	£	£	£		£	£
Planned Giving :
Covenanted & GiftAid (General)		77,381		-	-	77,381	82,453
Income Tax (General)		19,831		-	-	19,831	20,921
Non GiftAid (General)		2,353		-	-	2,353	1,500
Collections (General)		1,360		-	-	1,360	422
Sundry Donations (General)		2,332	10,549		-	12,880	6,068
Incoming resources from donors	2a)	103,257)	10549			193,805	111,364
Flower Fund		-	163		-	163	75
Youth and Young people income		-			-	#	=
Discretionary fund		-			-	-	766
Youth worker fund		-			-	-	-
Pioneer Ministry /Local Missional Activities		-	1,000		-	1,000	2,000
Other Designated Giving			36,955		-	36,955	41,311
Other voluntary incoming resources	2(b)	-	38,118		-	38,118	44,152
CoffeeShop Income		-		-	=	:	:
Centre Letting Income		34,067		-	-	34,067	20,451
Church Letting Income		9,965		-	-	9,965	3,143
Fees to Church		1,127		-	-	1,127	802
Incomefrom charitableandancillarytrading	2(c)	45,159		-	-	45,159	24,396
						.	.
Bank Interest (General)		263			-	263	28
Bank Interest (Disc Fund)			10			10
Bank Interest (Hawken Fund)			22			22	1
Bank Interest (Music Fund)				-	-	-	-
Bank Interest ( Harding Legacy)			14			14	1
Bank Interest (Re-ordering Fund)					-	-	-
Bank Interest (Children&FamiliesWorker Fund)					-	©	-
Bank Interest (Flower Fund)		-		-	-	-	-
Bank Interest (Missional Outreach			607			607	27
&Youth/Community Minsiter)
Incomefrom investments	2(d)	263	652		-	915	57
TOTALINCOMINGRESOURCES		148,679	49,319		-	197,998	179,969

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) For the year ended 31st December 2022

3 RESOURCES USED

			Unrestricted Funds	Restricted Funds	Endowment Funds	2022	2021
		Note	£	£	£	£	£
Missionary and Charitable Giving	:
Overseas Missionary Societies				9,846	-	9,846	10,548
Reliefand Development Agencies				11,657	-	11,657	10,691
Home Missions, OtherChurch Societies			1,063	24,640	-	25,703	20,525
			a
Grants		3(a)	1,063	46,143	-	47,206	41,765
Diocesan Parish Share			77,143		“	77,143	66,029
Vicar's Expenses			1,032	-	-	1,032	1,780
Curate's Expenses			-			-
Readers' Expenses			12	-	-	12
Visitors' Expenses			-	-	-	-	-
Church Running Expenses			14,957	-	-	14,957	16,577
Church Repairs and Maintenance			5,209	-	-	5,209	1,416
Upkeep ofServices					=	x	.
Upkeep ofGrounds			1,033	-	-	1,033	71
Young People's Work			239		-	239	485
Chilren and Family Minister						-
Training and Mission			551		-	551	166
Centre Running Costs			23,703		-	23,703	25,318
Coffee Shop Costs			-		-	-
Hawken Fund					-	-	-
Discretionary fund					.	_
Flowers				351	-	351	166
Organist Fees			3,025		-	3,025	2,919
Music Fund					-	-	-
Youth and Community Minister					-	-
New Missional activities/Pioneer ministry				310		310	6,246
Equipment Depreciation			698		-	698	824
Sundries			583		-	583	669
Activities directly relating to thework ofthe church		3(b)	128,184	661	-	128,845	122,499
St Lukes Herald				798	-	798	-
Fund-raising and publicity		3(c)	-	798	-	798	385
General Administration			2,724	-	-	2,724	2,754
Administrator Salary			10,807	-	-	10,807	12,526
Church management and administration		3(d)	13,530	-	:	13,530	15,281
TOTALRESOURCESUSED			142,777	47,602	-	190,380	179,929

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) For the year ended 31st December 2022

4 STAFF COSTS

4 STAFF COSTS
	2022	2021
	£	£
Wages and Salaries	13,530	15,281
Social Security Costs	-	-
Pension Costs	-	-
STAFF COSTS	13,530	15,281
During the year the PCC employed a Church Administrator and a	Church Centre Adminstrator, an Organist,
none ofwhom earned £40,000p.a. or more.
No PCC member received any remuneration apartfrom sundry reimbursement ofexpenses supported by invoices
The PCC receives substantial amounts ofvoluntary help from church members. This is not quantified in the		accounts.
5 FIXED ASSETS FOR USE BYTHE PCC.
5(a) Tangible assets
	Equipment	Total
	£	£
Cost
Additions during 2012 - Sound System	8,292	8,292
Cost at 1 January2014	8,292	8,292
Addtions during 2014	=	=
Cost at 31 December2014	8,292	8,292
Accumulated depreciation
Depreciation at 1 January 2016	3,316	3,316
Charge in year	829	829
Depreciation at 31 December 2016	4,145	4,145
Book Value at 31 December 2016	4,147	4,147
Book Value at 31 December 2017	3,318	3,318
Additions during 2018	1,530	1,530
Depreciation at 31 December 2018	1,158	1,158
Book Value at 31 December 2018	3,690	3,690
Depreciation at 31 December2019	1,158	1158
Book value at 31 December 2019	2,532	2532
Additions during 2020	1,499	1499
Depreciation at 31 December2020	1,158	1158
Book value at 31 December 2020	2,873	2873
Depreciation at 31 December 2021	824	824
Book value 31 December 2021	2,049	2049
Additions during 2022	260	260
Depreciation at 31 December 2022	698	698
Bookvalueat31December2022	1,611	1611

The only tangible fixed assets to be depreciated (see note 1) are all attributed to the unrestricted Fabric and Equipment Fund and are all listed above.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) For the year ended 31st December 2022

6 ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BY FUND

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|||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |Funds|Funds|Funds|2022|2021| |£|£|£|£|£| |Fixed|Assets|(Fabric &|Equipment)|1,611|-|1,611|2,049| |Fixed|Assets|(investments)|-|-| |Current Assets|(General)|77,025|-|77,025|70,686| |Current Assets|(Fabric &|Equipment)|10,000|10,000|10,000| |Current|Liabilities|(General)|-|-|-| |Current Assets|(Harding|Legacy)|1,069|-|1,069|1,055| |Current|Assets|(Hawken)|55|-|55|33| |Current|Assets|(Discretionary)|794|-|794|784| |Current|Assets|(Music)|-|-|-|-| |Current|Assets|(Flower fund)|-|-|-|-|-| |Current|assets(|Missional|outreach|&|Pioneer|minister)|48,535|-|48,535|46,863| |Current|Assets(Youth|Worker)|-|-|-|-| |Current Assets|(Hawken|Bequest)|;|-|-|1,620|1,620|1,620| |FUND|BALANCE|88,636|50,452|1,620|140,708|133,090|

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For detail of restrictions on the Funds see Note 9.

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE’S, BATH

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

For the year ended 31 December 2022

9 FUND DETAILS

Endowment funds comprise:

e The Hawken Bequest. This is a permanent endowment of £1,620, income is the interest from which is credited to the Hawken Fund, which is required to be used to “purchase materials for Sunday School bible classes or for bibles to be used by (the) church’.

The restricted funds comprise:

e Designated Giving (e.g. Gift Day, the proceeds of which are typically distributed in the same year as received, so leaving no balance at the year end.)
e the Hawken Fund (see above) e the Discretionary Fund (for discretionary, and confidential, responses to cases of need) e the Flower Fund (for flowers and similar decorations for church services) e the Harding Fund (for use at the discretion of the Vicar and Church Wardens) e the Local Missional and Pioneer Ministry Fund (for the salary of the Pioneer Minister and costs of new local Missional outreach)

All other funds are unrestricted, and simply a means for the PCC to earmark money for future expenditure.

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE’S, BATH

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES For the year ended 31 December 2022 EXAMINER’S REPORT

Independent Examiner’s Report to the PCC of St Luke, Bath

This report on the financial statements of the PCC for the year ended 31 December 2022, which are set out on pages 1 to 8, is in respect of an examination carried out in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 (‘the Regulations’) and s.145 of the Charities Act 2011.

Respective responsibilities of the PCC and examiner

As the members of the PCC you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements, you consider that the audit requirement of Regulations and s.145 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Act) do not apply. It is my responsibility to issue this report on those financial statements in accordance with the terms of the Regulations.

Basis of this report

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under s.145(5)(b) of the Act. That examination includes a review ofthe accounting records kept by the PCC and a comparison of the accounts with those records. It also includes considering any unusual items or disclosures in the financial statements and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently | do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.

Independent examiner’s statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect, the requirements
e to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Act; and e to prepare financial statements, which accord with the accounting records and comply with the requirements of the 2011 Act and the Regulations have not been met;

(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

For the year ended 31st December 2022

		Unrestricted	Restricted	Endowment
		Funds	Funds	Funds	2022	2021
	Note	£	£	£	£	£
INCOMING RESOURCES
Incoming resources from donors	2(a)	103,257	10,549	-	113,805	111,364
Other voluntary incoming resources	2(b)	-	38,118	-	38,118	44,152
Incomefrom charitable and ancillary trading Incomefrom investments	2(c) 2(d)	45,159 263	- 652	- -	45,159 915	24,396 57
TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES		148,679	49,319	-	197,998	179,969
RESOURCES USED
Grants	3(a)	1,063	46,143	-	47,206	41,765
Activities directly relating to the work ofthe church	3(b)	128,183	661	-	128,845	122,499
Fund-raising and publicity	3(c)	-	798	-	798	385
Churchmanagementandadministration TOTAL RESOURCES USED	3(d)	13,530 142,777	- 47,602	- -	13,530 190,379	15,281 179,929
NETINCOMING /(OUTGOING) RESOURCES		5,902	1,717	-	7,619	40
GAINSAND LOSSESON FIXEDASSETS
- realised gainon disposal ofParish House	5(a)	-	-	-	-	-
NETMOVEMENT IN FUNDS		5,902	1,717	-	7,619	40
BALANCES B/FWD AT 1 JANUARY2022 (2021)		82,735	48,735	1,620	133,090	133,051
Release of prioryear provision				2	-	2
		rr ree etee
BALANCESC/FWDAT31DECEMBER2022(2021)		88,637	50,452	1,620	140,709	133,090

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE'S, BATH

BALANCE SHEET

At 31st December 2022

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Signed on behalf of St Luke's

Miss R J Sara PCC Treasurer 01 March 2023

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| Consecrated and beneficed property is excluded from the accounts by the the Charities Act 2011.

Resources Expended

Grants Grants and donations are accounted for when paid over, or when awarded, if that award creates a binding or constructive obligation on the PCC.

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE'S, BATH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

For the year ended 31st December 2022

2 INCOMING RESOURCES

		Unrestricted	Restricted	Endowment
		Funds	Funds	Funds		2022	2021
	Note	£	£	£		£	£
Planned Giving :
Covenanted & GiftAid (General)		77,381		-	-	77,381	82,453
Income Tax (General)		19,831		-	-	19,831	20,921
Non GiftAid (General)		2,353		-	-	2,353	1,500
Collections (General)		1,360		-	-	1,360	422
Sundry Donations (General)		2,332	10,549		-	12,880	6,068
Incoming resources from donors	2a)	103,257)	10549			193,805	111,364
Flower Fund		-	163		-	163	75
Youth and Young people income		-			-	#	=
Discretionary fund		-			-	-	766
Youth worker fund		-			-	-	-
Pioneer Ministry /Local Missional Activities		-	1,000		-	1,000	2,000
Other Designated Giving			36,955		-	36,955	41,311
Other voluntary incoming resources	2(b)	-	38,118		-	38,118	44,152
CoffeeShop Income		-		-	=	:	:
Centre Letting Income		34,067		-	-	34,067	20,451
Church Letting Income		9,965		-	-	9,965	3,143
Fees to Church		1,127		-	-	1,127	802
Incomefrom charitableandancillarytrading	2(c)	45,159		-	-	45,159	24,396
						.	.
Bank Interest (General)		263			-	263	28
Bank Interest (Disc Fund)			10			10
Bank Interest (Hawken Fund)			22			22	1
Bank Interest (Music Fund)				-	-	-	-
Bank Interest ( Harding Legacy)			14			14	1
Bank Interest (Re-ordering Fund)					-	-	-
Bank Interest (Children&FamiliesWorker Fund)					-	©	-
Bank Interest (Flower Fund)		-		-	-	-	-
Bank Interest (Missional Outreach			607			607	27
&Youth/Community Minsiter)
Incomefrom investments	2(d)	263	652		-	915	57
TOTALINCOMINGRESOURCES		148,679	49,319		-	197,998	179,969

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) For the year ended 31st December 2022

3 RESOURCES USED

			Unrestricted Funds	Restricted Funds	Endowment Funds	2022	2021
		Note	£	£	£	£	£
Missionary and Charitable Giving	:
Overseas Missionary Societies				9,846	-	9,846	10,548
Reliefand Development Agencies				11,657	-	11,657	10,691
Home Missions, OtherChurch Societies			1,063	24,640	-	25,703	20,525
			a
Grants		3(a)	1,063	46,143	-	47,206	41,765
Diocesan Parish Share			77,143		“	77,143	66,029
Vicar's Expenses			1,032	-	-	1,032	1,780
Curate's Expenses			-			-
Readers' Expenses			12	-	-	12
Visitors' Expenses			-	-	-	-	-
Church Running Expenses			14,957	-	-	14,957	16,577
Church Repairs and Maintenance			5,209	-	-	5,209	1,416
Upkeep ofServices					=	x	.
Upkeep ofGrounds			1,033	-	-	1,033	71
Young People's Work			239		-	239	485
Chilren and Family Minister						-
Training and Mission			551		-	551	166
Centre Running Costs			23,703		-	23,703	25,318
Coffee Shop Costs			-		-	-
Hawken Fund					-	-	-
Discretionary fund					.	_
Flowers				351	-	351	166
Organist Fees			3,025		-	3,025	2,919
Music Fund					-	-	-
Youth and Community Minister					-	-
New Missional activities/Pioneer ministry				310		310	6,246
Equipment Depreciation			698		-	698	824
Sundries			583		-	583	669
Activities directly relating to thework ofthe church		3(b)	128,184	661	-	128,845	122,499
St Lukes Herald				798	-	798	-
Fund-raising and publicity		3(c)	-	798	-	798	385
General Administration			2,724	-	-	2,724	2,754
Administrator Salary			10,807	-	-	10,807	12,526
Church management and administration		3(d)	13,530	-	:	13,530	15,281
TOTALRESOURCESUSED			142,777	47,602	-	190,380	179,929

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) For the year ended 31st December 2022

4 STAFF COSTS

4 STAFF COSTS
	2022	2021
	£	£
Wages and Salaries	13,530	15,281
Social Security Costs	-	-
Pension Costs	-	-
STAFF COSTS	13,530	15,281
During the year the PCC employed a Church Administrator and a	Church Centre Adminstrator, an Organist,
none ofwhom earned £40,000p.a. or more.
No PCC member received any remuneration apartfrom sundry reimbursement ofexpenses supported by invoices
The PCC receives substantial amounts ofvoluntary help from church members. This is not quantified in the		accounts.
5 FIXED ASSETS FOR USE BYTHE PCC.
5(a) Tangible assets
	Equipment	Total
	£	£
Cost
Additions during 2012 - Sound System	8,292	8,292
Cost at 1 January2014	8,292	8,292
Addtions during 2014	=	=
Cost at 31 December2014	8,292	8,292
Accumulated depreciation
Depreciation at 1 January 2016	3,316	3,316
Charge in year	829	829
Depreciation at 31 December 2016	4,145	4,145
Book Value at 31 December 2016	4,147	4,147
Book Value at 31 December 2017	3,318	3,318
Additions during 2018	1,530	1,530
Depreciation at 31 December 2018	1,158	1,158
Book Value at 31 December 2018	3,690	3,690
Depreciation at 31 December2019	1,158	1158
Book value at 31 December 2019	2,532	2532
Additions during 2020	1,499	1499
Depreciation at 31 December2020	1,158	1158
Book value at 31 December 2020	2,873	2873
Depreciation at 31 December 2021	824	824
Book value 31 December 2021	2,049	2049
Additions during 2022	260	260
Depreciation at 31 December 2022	698	698
Bookvalueat31December2022	1,611	1611

The only tangible fixed assets to be depreciated (see note 1) are all attributed to the unrestricted Fabric and Equipment Fund and are all listed above.

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE'S, BATH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) For the year ended 31st December 2022

6 ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BY FUND

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE’S, BATH

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

For the year ended 31 December 2022

9 FUND DETAILS

Endowment funds comprise:

e The Hawken Bequest. This is a permanent endowment of £1,620, income is the interest from which is credited to the Hawken Fund, which is required to be used to “purchase materials for Sunday School bible classes or for bibles to be used by (the) church’.

The restricted funds comprise:

e Designated Giving (e.g. Gift Day, the proceeds of which are typically distributed in the same year as received, so leaving no balance at the year end.)
e the Hawken Fund (see above) e the Discretionary Fund (for discretionary, and confidential, responses to cases of need) e the Flower Fund (for flowers and similar decorations for church services) e the Harding Fund (for use at the discretion of the Vicar and Church Wardens) e the Local Missional and Pioneer Ministry Fund (for the salary of the Pioneer Minister and costs of new local Missional outreach)

All other funds are unrestricted, and simply a means for the PCC to earmark money for future expenditure.

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE’S, BATH

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES For the year ended 31 December 2022 EXAMINER’S REPORT

Independent Examiner’s Report to the PCC of St Luke, Bath

Respective responsibilities of the PCC and examiner

Basis of this report

Independent examiner’s statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect, the requirements
e to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Act; and e to prepare financial statements, which accord with the accounting records and comply with the requirements of the 2011 Act and the Regulations have not been met;

(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Lswo.) Was mf(on

42 June 2023

Andrew Morrison Turner & Partners LLP Chartered Certified Accountants 24 James Street West Bath BA1 2BT

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2022-12-31-accounts

Agenda and Reports

ST. LUKE’S CHURCH, BATH

ANNUAL MEETING OF PARISHIONERS AND ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING

Sunday 23rd April 2023

AGENDA

3. Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Parishioners 2022

St Luke’s Church, Bath

ANNUAL MEETING OF PARISHIONERS and ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING

4. Election of Churchwardens:

4. Election of Churchwardens

5. Minutes of the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) 2022

11. Wardens’ Report on Fabric, Goods and Ornaments of the Church:

12. Elections:

PCC

Deanery Synod

16. Any other Business:

6. Matters Arising from Previous Year’s Minutes

7. Presentation of Electoral Roll9

8. Annual Report for 2023

BACKGROUND

MEMBERSHIP OF PCC (before the APCM 2023)

Incumbent : Rev Matthew Frankum

Wardens : Sue Olley & Jan Rich

Elected Members:

Ex-Officio Members:

Elections

9. PCC Secretary Report ‘Review of the Year 2022-23’

SUMMARY OF THE ACCOUNTS

Reserves Policy

ADVISERS TO THE PCC

BANKERS:

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER:

12. Election of Members to PCC & Deanery Synod

14. Additional Reports

Banners

Chatterbox

Church Flower Team

St Luke’s Classic Film Club

Coffee Mornings

Brenda

Community Fair 15 October 2022 – A great day out

Contemplative Prayer

Deanery Synod Report

Diocesan Synod Report 2023

Eco Church

St. Luke’s Health and Safety Annual Report 2022-23

Health and Safety is everyone’s responsibility. There is a strong commitment within the Church to support H&S.

Home Communion

Homegroups Report

Hospitality at St Luke’s

Jubilee Coffee Morning

Missions Group News 2022-2023

THANK YOU!

Music group report

Open The Book

Prayer Ministry at St. Luke’s 2022-2023

Prime Time

Rockets –For primary school age children

Sunday Lunch Out

The St. Luke’s Herald

Welcoming

Youth at St. Luke’s

15. Chairman’s Report

16. Any Other Business

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

For the year ended 31st December 2022

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE'S, BATH

BALANCE SHEET

At 31st December 2022

Resources Expended

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE'S, BATH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

For the year ended 31st December 2022

2 INCOMING RESOURCES

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE'S, BATH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) For the year ended 31st December 2022

3 RESOURCES USED

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST LUKE'S, BATH

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) For the year ended 31st December 2022