**The PCC of St Michael’s, Framlingham Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year to 31 December 2021**
## **Aim and purposes:**
St. Michael’s Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of co-operating with the incumbent, the Reverend Christopher Davey, in promoting the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. The PCC is also specifically responsible for the maintenance of the Church of St Michael, St Michael’s Rooms and for the management of the project to replace St Michael’s Rooms with a new building, Castle Community Rooms.
## **Administrative information:**
St. Michael’s is part of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich within the Church of England. The correspondence address is The Church Office, St Michael’s Rooms, St Michael’s Close Framlingham IP13 9BJ. The PCC is a body corporate (PCC Powers Measure 1956, Church Representation Rules 2006) and became a registered charity on 23[rd] February 2009, Charity Number 1128206, with the Charity Commission.
PCC members who have served from the Annual Parish Meeting in September 2020 are:
## **Elected Members:**
Peter Lamb Adrian Morgan Margaret Wilkins Wendy Phelan Edith Peck Jeffery Burt Chris Wasmuth Catherine Johnson Caroline Foster (Vice Chair) Peter Smith
## **Ex Officio members:**
## **Incumbent:**
Christopher Davey
**Associate Priest:** Mary Lamb
## **Reader:**
Edith Peck Terry Gilder
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**The PCC of St Michael’s, Framlingham Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year to 31 December 2021**
## **Warden:**
Sandy Rowles
## **Deanery Synod:**
Sandra Whalley-Maude Alan Rabjohn Edith Peck
## **Objectives and Activities:**
The PCC is committed to encouraging people to worship at our church and to become part of our parish community. The PCC maintains an overview of worship throughout the parish and makes suggestions on how our services can involve the many groups that live within our parish. Our services and worship put faith into practice through sacrament, scripture, prayer and music.
When planning our activities, the incumbent and the PCC work together to enable Christian people to live out their faith as part of our parish community through:
- Worship and prayer;
- Learning about the Gospel;
- Developing their knowledge and trust in God.
- Provision of pastoral care for people living in the parish.
- Work with children and young people
- Missionary and outreach work.
In addition to this the PCC exercise their responsibility to maintain the fabric of our Church of St. Michael, St Michael’s Rooms and for the management of the project to replace St Michael’s Rooms with a new building, Castle Community Rooms.
## Achievements and Performance
## **Worship and Prayer:**
A range of services is offered on Sundays and during the week and over the course of the year that endeavour to meet the spiritual needs of our community.
For example, Sunday morning 8.00am Book of Common Prayer Communion provides a quiet, and reflective environment for traditional worship.
The main service on Sundays is the 9.30 Parish Eucharist which is enhanced by a sermon and music provided by our choir and organ. On the first Sunday of the month a different style of service is held, a Family Service sometimes a Family Communion, which is more inclusive and specifically welcomes children and young people to be totally engaged in the worship. On the third Sunday there is ‘Alive@4’ a service for families with activities and tea and occasionally there are services for remembrance, for Healing and Wholeness, or other services. A mid-week Holy Communion service is held at 10.30 a.m. each Wednesday. The Major Feast Days of the Church’s year are observed throughout the year.
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**The PCC of St Michael’s, Framlingham Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year to 31 December 2021**
During 2021 Covid 19 restrictions were lifted which allowed the church to return fully to its normal pattern of worship. Numbers of worshipers have grown as people have become more confident in this.
As well as our regular services, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of the journey through life. Through baptism we thank God for the gift of life, in marriage public vows are exchanged with God’s blessing and through funeral services friends and family express their grief and give thanks for the life which is now complete in this world and to commend the person into God's keeping.
During the year we have celebrated 2 baptism, 7 wedding and held 10 funerals in our church (or at the crematorium) this year.
Many people are involved in the spiritual and practical work of the parish and this is how it should be as we use our gifts together and respond to the challenges and opportunities of a considerable growth in the population of the town.
## **Growing in God – Our Mission in Framlingham:**
The PCC continue to focus on growth and particularly service both to the town but also the wider community. During 2021 we supported local and international charities with financial donations. We have been active in our support of the needs of the Ukrainian people following the Russian invasion. We hosted a collection point for clothes and urgent supplies, held a prayer peace vigil, a community coffee morning and we have flown the Ukrainian flag on our tower to show our support at such a challenging time.
As part of our work in the community along with representatives of the other churches in the town we organize a branch of the Waveney Food bank that serves the needs of those in Framlingham and the surrounding parishes.
## **Deanery Synod:**
Three members of the PCC sit on the Deanery Synod. This provides the PCC with important links between the parish and the wider structures of the church.
## **The Church:**
Our church is open to our community for private prayer during daylight hours throughout the year. During 2021 routine maintenance of the building and churchyard monuments was done
The Church Yard wall which remains the responsibility of the PCC even though the church yard closed over twenty years ago collapsed in the autumn of 2021. This will present a large challenge for the PCC who will need to plan for its rebuilding and, as no insurance claim is associated with the collapse, will need to secure funding for the rebuilding and repair. The Town Council are undergoing major tree works by removing the Lime Trees along this boundary and work cannot commence until this work is complete.
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Huge thanks are owed to Sandy Rowles and those who assist her and who have helped doing repairs large and small spending their time to save us considerable amounts of money.
## **St Michael’s Rooms:**
During 2022 the demolition of St Michael’s Rooms after 130 years of service to the community took place to allow for the rebuilding of a new Community/church building named Castle Community Rooms. Much of the funding for the new building is in place thanks to grants and donations and our thanks go to the build team and the fundraising team for their continued work as we begin the build. A financial deficit remains but fundraising is ongoing and we are confident that funds will be in place to allow for the completion of Castle Community Rooms by the end of 2022.
A Restricted fund and associated bank account remain in place for this project.
## **Ecumenical Relationships:**
The church is a member of Churches Together in Framlingham. It meets regularly to discuss matters relating to all the churches in Framlingham, and to plan and implement joint activities.
## **Financial Review:**
There has been an Independent Examination of the accounts. The total receipts on ordinary (unrestricted) funds were £83,861 (2020: £76,438) and are detailed in the Financial Statements. £73,099 (2020: £81,310) was spent to provide the Christian Ministry from St Michaels Church, which includes the contribution of £45,069 (2020: £57,000) to the Diocesan Parish Share. The net result for the year, taking into account restricted and designated funds, was an excess of income over expenditure of £77,910 (2020: £24,569).
## **Reserves policy:**
The PCC’s reserves policy is to seek to hold £20k in unrestricted reserves to cover running costs in the event of a major problem, and a building repair reserve of £15k to cover the outcome of any urgent work identified.
Our thanks to our treasurer Margaret Wilkins who has so ably managed the church’s accounts and its finances, and all the other members of the PCC for their valuable contribution to our ministry and for keeping the church running.
## **Volunteers:**
We would like to thank all the volunteers who work so hard to make our church the lively and vibrant community it is, helping the worship, the caring, our learning and our building.
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**The PCC of St Michael’s, Framlingham Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year to 31 December 2021**
## **Structure, governance and management:**
The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. At St. Michael’s the membership of the PCC consists of the incumbent, associate priest, reader, churchwardens, Deanery Synod representatives, and members elected by those members of the congregation who are on the electoral roll of the church. The PCC from time to time appoints co-opted members. All those who attend our services / members of the congregation are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC.
The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the parish including deciding on how the funds of the PCC are to be spent.
The full PCC met 9 times during the year.
Thanks to those who have served and contributed to our shared life and development.
## **Approved by the PCC on 15 May 2022 and signed on their behalf by:**
## **Revd. Chris Davey (Priest in charge)**
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## **Independent examiner’s report to the members of the Parochial Church Council of St Michael’s, Framlingham (‘the PCC’)**
This report has been prepared following an independent examination of the accounts of the PCC for the year ended 31 December 2021, in accordance with section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act') and the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 ('the Regulations').
## **Responsibilities of members of the PCC**
As members of the PCC, you are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records and for preparing accounts which have been prepared in accordance with the Regulations.
You are also responsible for determining whether, in respect of the year (and the preceding two years), the PCC meets the conditions for exemption from an audit of the accounts set out in section 144(1) of the Act and the Regulations, and for providing me with information and explanations required for my examination.
## **Responsibilities of the independent examiner**
As an independent examiner I have a statutory duty to state in my report whether any matter has come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect:
- accounting records have not been properly kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records or do not comply with the Regulations.
I also have a statutory duty to disclose in my report matters coming to my attention in connection with the examination to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Scope of the independent examiner's work**
My work was carried out in accordance with general directions setting out the duties of an independent examiner issued by the Charity Commission and as contained in the Church guidance.
My examination included a review of the accounting records kept by the PCC and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also included a review of the accounts and consideration of any unusual items or disclosures identified and seeking explanations from the PCC concerning any such matters.
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## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or
- the accounts do not accord with those records; or
- the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Regulations other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view, which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Dominic Carter FCA**
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## **The PCC of St Michael's, Framlingham Charity No. 1128206**
## **Financial Statements**
## **for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
|**Note**
**INCOMING RESOURCES**
Incoming resources from donors
**1a**
Other voluntary incoming resources
**1b**
Incoming resources from operating activities
To further the PCC's objectives
**1c**
To generate funds
**1d**
Income from investment
**1e**
Other incoming resources
**1f**
Total incoming resources
**RESOURCES EXPENDED**
Cost of generating funds
**2a**
Activities directly relating to the work of the Church
**2b**
Governance costs
**2c**
Total resources expended
**Net incoming resources**
Gain on investments
Balance brought forward at 1 January 2021
Balance carried forward at 31 December 2021|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted Designated**
**Total**
**Total**
**funds**
**funds**
**funds**
**2021**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
68,182
13,950
-
82,132
65,883
1,200
136,131
310
137,641
54,887
9,073
205
4,113
13,390
8,638
3,178
4,410
-
7,588
3,827
18
76
-
94
197
2,210
1,107
-
3,317
5,166|
|---|---|
||83,861
155,879
4,423
244,163
138,598|
||-
521
1,646
2,167
7,546
62,921
90,249
738
153,908
98,829
10,178
-
-
10,178
7,654|
||73,099
90,770
2,384
166,252
114,029|
||10,762
65,110
2,039
77,910
24,569
-
392
-
392
176|
||10,762
65,502
2,039
78,303
24,745|
||45,769
94,016
4,528
144,313
119,568|
||56,532
159,518
6,567
222,617
144,313|
## **The PCC of St Michael's, Framlingham Charity No. 1128206 Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2021**
|**Note**
**FIXED ASSETS**
Investments
**4**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Stock
Debtors
**5**
Cash at bank and in hand
**CURRENT LIABILITIES**
Amounts falling due within one year
**6**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS**
Unrestricted
**3**
Restricted
**3**
Designated
**3**|**2021**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
3,115
2,723|
|---|---|
||3,500
3,800
39,974
14,499
176,301
123,291|
||219,775
141,590
(273)
-|
||222,617
144,313|
||56,532
45,769
159,518
94,016
6,567
4,528|
||222,617
144,313|
## **The PCC of St Michael's, Framlingham Charity No. 1128206 Financial Statements**
## **for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **1. INCOMING RESOURCES**
|**1a. Incoming resources from donors**
Committed giving under Gift Aid
Committed giving not gift aided
Planned giving via pew envelopes
Planned giving - income tax recovered
Income tax recoverable
Collection plate
Legacies and bequests
**1b. Other voluntary incoming resources**
Grants
Flowers
Donations/appeals
Castle Community Rooms
Sing Praise
**1c. Incoming resouces from operating activities to further PCC objectives**
Church lettings
Church Hall lettings
Other fees
Wall safe
**1d. Incoming resources from operating activitites to generate funds**
Other fund raising
**1e. Income from investment**
Investment income
**1f. Other incoming resources**
Clergy expenses
VAT refunds
Utilities
Printing and stationery
Bell ringers
**Total incoming resources**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted Designated**
**Total**
**Total**
**funds**
**funds**
**funds**
**2021**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
46,104
-
-
46,104
35,010
4,123
2,480
-
6,603
4,235
1,883
-
-
1,883
1,613
2,285
-
-
2,285
8,090
10,987
11,470
-
22,457
15,998
1,800
-
-
1,800
938
1,000
-
-
1,000
-|
|---|---|
||68,182
13,950
-
82,132
65,883|
||-
250
-
250
859
-
-
310
310
405
1,200
-
-
1,200
7,460
-
120,881
-
120,881
36,163
-
15,000
-
15,000
10,000|
||1,200
136,131
310
137,641
54,887|
||-
205
-
205
-
-
-
4,113
4,113
4,605
3,781
-
-
3,781
1,829
5,292
-
-
5,292
2,204|
||9,073
205
4,113
13,390
8,638|
||3,178
4,410
-
7,588
3,827|
||3,178
4,410
-
7,588
3,827|
||18
76
-
94
197|
||18
76
-
94
197|
||25
-
-
25
187
1,132
-
-
1,132
3,954
1,041
-
-
1,041
986
12
-
-
12
39
-
1,107
-
1,107
-|
||2,210
1,107
-
3,317
5,166|
|||
||**83,861**
**155,879**
**4,423**
**244,163**
**138,598**|
## **The PCC of St Michael's, Framlingham Charity No. 1128206 Financial Statements**
## **for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **2. RESOURCES EXPENDED**
|**2a. Costs of generating funds**
Fund raising
Church hall expenses
**2b. Activities directly relating to work of Church**
Diocesan Parish Share
Clergy expenses
Church running expenses
Insurance
Church maintenance
Upkeep of services
Salary of organist
Donations
Flowers
Wedding fees
Other FOSM expenditure
Castle Community Rooms
Sing Praise
**2c. Governance costs**
Printing and stationery
Administrator
Miscellaneous costs
**Total resources expended**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted Designated**
**Total**
**Total**
**funds**
**funds**
**funds**
**2021**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
521
-
521
288
-
-
1,646
1,646
7,259|
|---|---|
||-
521
1,646
2,167
7,546|
||45,069
-
-
45,069
57,000
31
-
-
31
630
3,847
-
-
3,847
3,623
4,160
-
180
4,340
5,070
6,385
3,308
-
9,692
6,085
-
-
-
-
2,812
2,982
-
-
2,982
1,366
448
800
-
1,248
2,632
-
-
558
558
338
-
815
-
815
-
-
68
-
68
65
-
74,885
-
74,885
10,976
-
10,373
-
10,373
8,233|
||62,921
90,249
738
153,908
98,829|
||440
-
-
440
304
5,616
-
-
5,616
5,616
4,121
-
-
4,121
1,735|
||10,178
-
-
10,178
7,654|
|||
||**73,099**
**90,770**
**2,384**
**166,252**
**114,029**|
## **The PCC of St Michael's, Framlingham Charity No. 1128206 Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **3. FUND SUMMARY**
|**Unrestricted Funds**
PCC General Fund
**Restricted Funds**
Tombs Fund
Friends of St Michael's Fund
Bells Fund
Friends of Delhi Brotherhood
Sing Praise
Castle Community Rooms
Gain/(loss) on investments
**Designated Funds**
Church Hall Fund
Church Flower
Food Bank|**£**
**£**
**£**
45,769
10,762
56,532
**As at**
**1.1.21**
**Surplus/**
**(deficit)**
**As at**
**31.12.21**|
|---|---|
||9,366
250
9,616
36,045
2,633
38,678
3,045
363
3,408
783
(230)
553
9,784
4,627
14,411
33,780
57,466
91,246
1,213
392
1,605|
||94,016
65,502
159,518|
||3,650
2,287
5,937
717
(248)
469
161
-
161|
||4,528
2,039
6,567|
|||
||144,313
78,303
222,617|
## **The PCC of St Michael's, Framlingham Charity No. 1128206 Financial Statements**
## **for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **4. INVESTMENTS**
The following investments are held with the Diocesan Board of Finance and the interest is paid into the church account. The income from the Buckmaster charity is for the repair and maintenance, upkeep and improvement of the church.
The investments are included on the balance sheet at market value at 31 December and any gain or loss is taken to the Statement of Financial Activity.
|Value at 31 December 2020
Movement in valuation
Value at 31 December 2021
**5. DEBTORS**
Tax recoverable from Gift Aid
Church Hall lettings
Prepayments
**6. CREDITORS**
Accruals
Christmas collection charity donation|**Fabric &**
**Organ**
**Bell**
**Ropes**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
152
138
2,433
2,723
22
20
350
392
**Buckmaster**|**Fabric &**
**Organ**
**Bell**
**Ropes**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
152
138
2,433
2,723
22
20
350
392
**Buckmaster**|
|---|---|---|
||174
158
2,783
3,115||
|||**2021**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
36,956
14,499
2,233
-
785
-|
|||39,974
14,499|
|||**2021**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
49
-
224
-|
|||273
-|
## **The PCC of St Michael's, Framlingham Charity No. 1128206 Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **7. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS**
||**Unrestricted **|**Restricted **|**Designated**|**Total**|**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Funds**|**Funds**|**Funds**|**2021**|**2020**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Investments|-|3,115|-|3,115|2,723|
|Current assets|56,756|156,403|6,616|219,775|141,590|
|Current liabilities|(224)|-|(49)|(273)|-|
||56,532|159,518|6,566|222,617|144,313|
## **The PCC of St Michael's, Framlingham Charity No. 1128206 Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **8. EMPLOYEES**
|During the year the number of employees paid for by the charity was:
Employment costs
Organist
Payment to highest paid employee|**2021**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
2
2|
|---|---|
||**2021**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
5,616
5,616
2,982
1,366|
||8,598
6,982|
||5,616
5,616|