St Giles’ Parochial Church Council, Bramhope Annual Report for year ending 31 December 2023
Background and Administrative Information
Vision Statement
The 2023 vision of St Giles’ is to be a church that is
Following Jesus Building Community Making a difference
Our values are:
Authentic
We seek to worship and follow Jesus with authenticity. We’re committed to varied forms of worship. We do not believe that one size fits all. We believe that substance is more important than style.
Welcoming
St Giles is for everyone; it is not a club for church goers but a spiritual centre for the whole community. Everyone is welcome at St Giles. No one is excluded.
Generous
We seek to be a generous people who share the love of God with our community. We are generous with the gifts and resources God has given us, our time, skills, and money.
Hopeful
We believe that God has a bright future for our church and our community, we are full of Hope for what God is doing among us. We are prepared to take risks and learn from our mistakes trusting in God’s faithfulness.
Background
St Giles’ Parochial Church Council (PCC) is responsible for promoting the work in the Parish of the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelical, social and ecumenical. The PCC is also responsible for the maintenance of the church, church grounds and the adjoining church hall. The PCC is a corporate body established by the Church of England and operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure. The PCC has complied with its duty under s5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 and has regard to guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, a duty which it takes seriously.
Administrative Information
St Giles Church is situated on the junction of Church Hill, Bramhope and the main A660 road from Leeds to Otley. It is part of the Diocese of Leeds within the Church of England and the correspondence address is St Giles Parish Church, Church Hill, Bramhope, LS16 9BA. The church is registered as a charity, charity number 1129657. PCC members are trustees of this charity and therefore have responsibilities to the Charity Commission.
Parochial Church Council
The Vicar, the churchwarden(s), and the Reader are ex-officio members of the PCC, as are three Deanery Synod representatives. They are joined by 12 lay members of the congregation who are elected at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in accordance with the Church Representation Rules. Lay members serve for 3 years, with a maximum of two terms, and 4 retire on a rolling basis each year.
Incumbent
Revd Matt Broughton
Churchwardens Mrs Rachael Fox (from 23 April 2023) Vacancy Secretary Mrs Jenni Hall Treasurer Mrs Angela Smith Reader Mr Jonathan Slater (ex-officio)
Deanery Synod Representatives Mrs Jacquie Howard Ex Officio Mr Bernard Williams Ms Val Lee-Priestley
The church holds its APCM in April or May of each year when a new PCC is elected. The 2023-2024 PCC was elected at the APCM on 23 April 2023 and its members are:
| Mrs Angela Smith | retires 2026 (2ndterm) |
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| Mrs Joy Smith | retires 2026 (1stterm) |
| Mrs Hazel Lee | retires 2026 (2ndterm) |
| Mr Jim Richardson | retires 2026 (1stterm) |
| Mrs Mary Marshall | retires 2025 (1st term) |
| Mrs Joanne Dawdry | retires 2025 (1stterm) |
| Mrs Jenni Hall (PCC Secretary) | retires 2025 (2ndterm) |
| Dr Sue Ball | retires 2025 (2ndterm) |
| Mrs Liz Johnson | retires 2024 (2ndterm) |
| Mrs Krystyna Novak | retires 2024 (1stterm) |
| Mrs Sara Leefe | retires 2024 (1stterm) |
| Ms Suzy Bidgood |
Very sadly, Suzy Bidgood died in October 2023. The PCC gives thanks for her commitment and personal and professional expertise as a member of the PCC. St Giles thanks all members of the PCC who have worked hard over the past year. We thank Nick Pinches who stood down as Churchwarden, after many years’ service, in April 2023. We welcome Jim Richardson and Mary Marshall, newly elected lay members of the PCC in April 2023, and also Val Lee-Priestley who attends PCC meetings as a Deanery Synod representative.
The Deputy Wardens were Hazel Lee, Jean Bradshaw, Jean Weatherill, Marion Skirrow, and Sue Ball.
PCC Meetings
The PCC held meetings in January, February, March, May, July, September and November (2 meetings) 2023. All meetings were chaired by Revd Matt Broughton. During the first meeting of the newly elected PCC in May 2023 Nick Pinches was co opted to the PCC as Chair of the Fabric Committee. The average attendance at these PCC meetings was 83%. Six of these meetings were regular business meetings. An extra meeting was held in February 2023 to discuss our new Vision Statement. An additional meeting was held in November to discuss Strategic Development Funding (more of this later in this report). The PCC welcomed Peter Vickers (Net Zero/Sustainability Lead) to our March meeting.
PCC Standing Committee Meetings
The PCC Standing Committee consists of the Vicar, the Churchwarden, the Treasurer, the Secretary and Jacquie Howard (in the absence of a second Churchwarden). It acts for the PCC between full PCC meetings.
It reports on its meetings and decisions to each PCC meeting. During 2023, most Standing Committee meeting were conducted via email. Most discussions were on aspects of fabric maintenance and expenditure, but other strategic issues were discussed.
Other PCC Committees
The other sub committees of the PCC are Finance, Fabric and Communications.
PCC Ministries and Activities during 2023
Worship
Our pattern of two Sunday services, 9.30am for contemporary worship and 11am for Common Worship communion, is now well established. Over the year, the average number of adults attending the 9.30am service was 34 with an average of 14 children. At 11am the average adult attendance was 43. At some particular 9.30am services, eg baptisms, the number was considerably higher. There is some ‘double counting’ in these statistics because a few people attend both services.
The below graph shows our average Sunday attendance through 2023. The light green records adult attendance and the dark green, children.
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The structure of the 9.30am service has settled over the year with children’s sessions on the first and third Sundays, an all-age Eucharist in the church on the second Sundays, and Café Church held in the hall on the fourth Sunday.
Healing Prayer is offered during communion once a month at the 11am service.
A number of joint Sunday services have been held at 10am during the year when the whole church has joined together. During 2023 these occasions were on Easter Day (attendance 30 children and 111 adults), Coronation Day (May), Harvest (8 October), Toy Service (10 December) and Christmas Day (attendance 14 children and 59 adults). In addition, two Christingle services (raising funds for the Children’s Society) were held on Christmas Eve, when a total of over 150 adults and 200 children attended. We estimate that over the Christmas period of 2023 about 500 parishioners visited the church for services, about 12% of the population of the parish.
During the year there were 8 baptisms 11 funerals and 1 memorial service in the church. There were no weddings in church, but 5 are booked for 2024. In addition, during 2023, the vicar presided over 3 interment of ashes/funeral services/burials at other venues.
During the year a Lent Course was held following Part 2 of the Prayer Course – ‘Unanswered Prayer’. An Alpha course was also held in October-November 2023. A 4 week Study course looking at Paul’s letter to the Galatians was held in June 2023 and an Advent Day looking at Art during Advent was held on 3 December 2023. A new initiative in 2023 was a Saturday Women’s Ministry Brunch held on Saturdays in February, May and November. The Vicar has also instituted a series of ‘Welcome Lunches’ on Sundays inviting new church members to join for lunch at the local pub.
Pastoral Care
Pastoral Care remains at the heart of our ministry at St Giles Church. In 2023 June Pickles stood down from her vital role of coordinating our pastoral visiting. Revd Matt has temporarily taken on this role with a view of recruiting a new pastoral visiting team.
Home Communion is received on request and visiting takes place as required.
In 2023 the PCC began a review of pastoral care with the aim of drawing together its various aspects (Home visiting, home communion, healing prayer, Meet and Eat). This work continues into 2024.
Meet and Eat Luncheon Club
The Meet and Eat team have continued their amazing work of hosting a monthly lunch club for the elderly where a delicious homecooked meal is prepared and served in the St Giles Church Hall during the months March—October.
In July 2023 Meet and Eat also had a Strawberry Tea during which a collection for St. George's Crypt raised £125.
Unfortunately, numbers attending the lunch are down from 2022 due to some deaths and increasing disability amongst our regular members. Our regular members number 30-32 now.
The PCC are grateful to all the helpers who work so hard, and also the diners who come every month and make it such a success.
Children and Families
CATS
In 2023 our carers, baby and toddler group (CATS) continued in its mission to serve families in Bramhope by providing a friendly and engaging space for children and their carers to play and make new friends.
In July Gill and Nick Pinches stepped down from leading CATS after 8 years. Nick and Gill have done a fantastic job, and we are so grateful for all they have given.
CATS is now supported by a new team of Matt & Rachel Broughton, David & Susan Robinson and Marrion Corrie.
Our prayer is that CATS would be a place of refreshment and connection for parents, carers and grandparents and the babies and toddlers in their care. It is an invaluable aspect of our ministry and enables us to build community in the village as we sing, play and share stories together.
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Bramhope Primary School
During 2023 we continued our efforts to reach the children of Bramhope Primary School. During Lent we facilitated a prayer and reflection space where all children were able to come and experience prayer. The children were particularly energised by praying for the people of Ukraine.
Key Stage 2 joined in with our Christmas Toy Appeal donating toys to be distributed across the city. These children attended church where they heard the Christmas story. KS1 also get to explore the Christmas story through an interactive assembly.
Rev Matt continues to serve as a school governor and has a particular role in inclusion, equality and diversity.
Social Action
The church has continued its programme of social action throughout the year as we attempt to fulfil our role in reaching out to those in need and ‘Making a Difference’ as part of our Vision Statement.
A weekly collection of foodstuffs and toiletries for destitute asylum seekers in Leeds has continued in partnership with PAFRAS (Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers) an organisation based in Harehills.
St Giles provided a community hub during the 2023 Leeds Marathon in May, providing refreshments for spectators, and was able to raise £700 to support the Leeds Hospitals Motor Neurone Disease charity.
Throughout the year activities have also taken place to raise funds in support of the Children's Society. The sale of Christmas cards, quizzes, the collections from the Christingle services, collection boxes and other fund-raising activities have all contributed to another very successful year in support of this extremely worthwhile and much needed charity. In 2023 St Giles Children's Society Committee raised a magnificent £4,481.80.
Our Harvest collection of foodstuffs was donated to Caring for Life, St George's Crypt and PAFRAS where it was all most gratefully received. Our annual Christmas collection of clothing and toiletries in aid of the homeless at St George's Crypt was once again very generously supported. £150 was also raised by the Meet and Eat luncheon club for this very worthwhile charity.
We do of course recognise that needs often seem infinite while our resources are limited. Nevertheless, we do hope that through the generosity of church members we can continue to play our part and contribute to meeting those needs in 2024.
Sustainability Task Force
In 2023 the Church Architects were commissioned by the PCC to conduct a sustainability audit on the Church and Church Hall. This discussed a wide range of options for both heating the buildings without fossil fuels and for improving their thermal efficiency by better insulation. Significant improvements are possible, especially to the church hall which was built in the 1970s to standards of insulation which applied then but which are now well behind current norms.
The Fabric Committee and Sustainability Task Force are combining on this project to prepare a proposed “design brief” for the future development of the buildings, which would ideally address three issues: to replace the use of fossil fuels by renewable energy (probably air source heat pumps and solar panels); to provide better insulation, thus reducing the demand for energy; and to refurbish the existing spaces in the church hall to make it an even more effective, multi-purpose facility.
Preparing this proposal will continue in the late winter / spring of 2024, for submission to the PCC.
Meanwhile much better understanding of our present heating systems, its controls and capabilities, have enabled better management of the boilers and reduced gas usage.
PCC Governance and Asset Management during 2023
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is an important and integral part of the Church’s worship and activities here at St Giles. Children and vulnerable adults are kept safe and supported. As part of this commitment, PCC members have undertaken training, which, when it is relevantly updated, will become part of a training cycle, either online or in groups. Members have completed both the Safeguarding Foundation and Awareness of Domestic Abuse courses.
With the increase in children’s work, new helpers have had DBS checks and also done the required training. During the year the PCC have considered and approved a number of policies giving guidance on Safeguarding procedures and practice. Each PCC meeting has a Safeguarding Report on its agenda as an emphasis of its importance in the life of the work of St. Giles.
During 2023, Mary Marshall took over the role of Parish Safeguarding Officer from Elizabeth Johnson. The PCC thanks Liz for her support and encouragement.
Visitors are informed of Safeguarding by the notices in the Hall and Lobby.
Finance Sub Committee
Angela Smith (Chair and Treasurer), Matt Broughton (Vicar), Gillian Taylor (Planned Giving and Gift Aid Officer - Retiring), Diane Eaton (Planned Giving and Gift Aid Officer – New) and Sue Ball (Envelopes Secretary) are members of this committee. The Committee and the PCC thank Gillian Taylor for her work over the years in administering Planned Giving and Gift Aid.
This Committee covers all aspects of church finance and insurance including Stewardship and Collection envelopes. The PCC is grateful to them all and especially to Angela Smith for her leadership.
Finances
Our overall financial position in 2023 was favourable. Total receipts were £104k and total payments were £97k, generating an excess of £7k. This compares to an excess of £5k in 2022. Our reserves currently stand at £95k. Of this total, £60k is held in restricted or designated funds. £35k is for general purposes. Our reserves policy is to keep a minimum of £10,000 in the general fund.
Receipts
At just over £104k, our receipts for 2023 were actually slightly down on 2022 when receipts were £108k. This can be accounted for by some exceptional receipts in 2022 including a legacy, a one-off grant for increased energy costs and some one-off donations for building repairs. As below, the underlying trend for our more regular sources of income is positive and very encouraging. Planned giving is a key element of our financial strategy and it has been pleasing to see a 25% increase in this from £45k in 2022 to £56k in 2023. We offer heartfelt thanks to all those who have recently joined our regular giving scheme and to those who have given faithfully for many years. Collections have also increased significantly by 30% from £6k in 2022 to £8k in 2023. We have acquired a second digital card reader and contactless donations are an increasingly popular method of giving.
We continue to be able to claim gift aid on a high proportion of donations and we received a total of £15.5k in 2023, up from £12.5k in 2022.
Other fund raising comprised hiring out the church hall which generated £7k, the parish magazine which generated £2.5K profit through sales and advertising and our 50:50 club which generated
£780. The 50:50 club closed in August. It has been enormously successful over the years generating a total profit of over £12k but we have decided the time is now right to focus on other ways of generating income. Thanks are due to all those who have given their time and energy during the year to organise and support our fundraising activities.
Fees received for weddings and funerals fell slightly from £2.8k in 2022 to £2.2k in 2023. The overall indication is that our receipts are on an upward trend and that this trend is directly attributable to church growth.
Payments
Our payments fell to £97k in 2023 from £103k in 2022. This is mainly because we spent less on major building repairs and tree maintenance.
Our biggest item of expenditure is parish share. Our requested share for 2023 was £65,064 and we were pleased to pay this in full.
We spent a total of £14k maintaining our buildings and grounds. Major works included repairing the porch roof (£5k) and installing new safety railings around the entrance to the boiler house (£3k). We also commissioned an architect’s report to advise on how we might adapt our buildings to make them more sustainable (£2.7k).
Our energy bills totalled £4k. The fixed rates we have recently enjoyed have now come to an end and we expect to spend significantly more on energy next year.
Organist fees are down to £0.3k in 2023 from £1.2k in 2022 as our current regular organist generously volunteers his time free of charge.
Investment in our core activities of worship, mission, discipleship, communications and children’s work has increased from £2.5k in 2022 to £4.5k in 2023. We see this as encouraging evidence of church growth.
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Income
Planned Giving £56084 Collections £8034
Other Voluntarty Receipt £6640 Gift Aid £13315
Other Receipts £999 Activities for Generating Funds £12708
Investment Income £429 Receipts from Church Activities £4275
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Expenditure
Cost of Generating Funds £789 Parish Share £65064
Organist £421 Church Running Expenses £16115
Hall Running Expenses £4344 Church Repairs and Maintenance £10706
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Strategic Development Funding
In October 2023 the PCC was given the opportunity to apply for some Strategic Development Funding (SDF) from the Diocese. This can only be used to achieve specific aims as follows:
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New church attendees
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New disciples
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New lay leaders
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New ordination candidates
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New church plants
An application was made and funding was awarded in January 2024. The PCC will therefore be looking to recruit an administrative assistant to relieve the vicar of some administrative duties enabling him to spend more time developing ministry, to support ministry leaders and to help with bigger pieces of organisational administration (eg. Utility Providers, Hall Bookings, Communications).
Deanery Synod
We now have 3 representatives on the Deanery Synod and they report regularly on its activities to the PCC.
Fabric Sub Committee
The Fabric Committee is responsible for planning and carrying out the maintenance and repair of the church, hall and their associated buildings. Its members are Nick Pinches (Convenor, Secretary,) Matt Broughton, Bernard Williams, Douglas Hamilton and Simon Rolley.
Significant works carried out during 2023 included:
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The replacement of the lead valley to the North West side of the church porch roof, including the replacement of rotted battens and some broken slates and new under-felt.
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The design, construction and installation of safety railings at the entrance to the boiler house.
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Repairs to the bay window in the Meeting Room in an attempt to prevent moisture ingress at floor level. Further attention to this will be given during 2024.
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Following an H&S Risk Assessment and the approval of PCC, purchased two new ladders to replace two previous ones which did not meet modern safety requirements.
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Re-decorated several outside window frames as per the Quinquennial report requirements.
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Fitted a replacement door closer to the main lobby external door. This has a ‘backcheck’ feature which resists the door opening too far and too fast, thereby reducing the likelihood of the door being forced open against the stop by high winds.
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Carried routine maintenance on various items and safety checks on fire and other H&S safety systems
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Presented to PCC, proposals for consulting our architect for advice on how to replace our gates to the entrance of the path to the North Porch and to carry out the remaining work outstanding from the last Quinquennial report which mainly consists of repointing stonework and replacing roof flashing previously carried out using incorrect materials.
Risk Management
Firstly, a huge thank you to Nick Pinches for establishing some great foundations in this area before retiring at our last APCM from this role. While this area is now being covered under the role of Churchwarden, 'Health & Safety Officer' it is still considered a vacancy we wish to fill.
Building on the work done previously, the PCC approved some minor amendments to our health and safety policy following regular reviews. We also aimed to establish a regular pattern of fire evacuation drills; following autumn 2022 at the 11am service, we conducted a fire drill at the 9.30 service in October 2023. A fire drill will take place once a year in July, alternating services each year, to ensure we are following current guidance from our insurers. We identified that further work was required to practice safe evacuation in the variety of contexts we are in as a growing church.
Updates have been made to our incident reporting procedures to ensure we are inline with current guidance from insurers, compliant with GDPR and enabling secure digital storage of our records long term.
Grounds team
The grounds team is led by Alan Tomkins who puts together a team of volunteers to maintain the area around the church and the PCC is very grateful for all their help and enthusiasm.
2023 heralded the start of some new measures to help improve the carbon footprint of St Giles. These measures included reducing the use of petrol, increasing biodiversity and generally making the church grounds a more pleasant area to walk through and to look upon. To that end, the ground was prepared and suitable seeds for partly shaded areas were sown to create a ‘Perennial Wildflower Meadow’ adjacent to the public footpath. This initiative was funded by Leeds City Council, Bramhope in Bloom and St Giles PCC. Continuing along this theme, it is also our intention to rewild the steep banks to the north of the church.
2023 also saw the removal of two holly trees from the carpark entrance that were causing damage to the stone wall, and these were subsequently replaced by one small deciduous tree. Furthermore, several small holly saplings that had the potential to create future problems elsewhere in the grounds were removed.
The large beech tree in the church grounds suffered branch drop in 2023 and the affected branch was removed. The health and viability of this beech tree and other trees will continue to be monitored periodically and hopefully 2024 will see our meadow and the trees flourish.
Hall Management
The Church Hall continues to provide valuable income for the church as well as providing a resource for the community. For example, the church heavily discounts the use of the hall by the non-profit organisations as they are a vital part of the community.
Bramhope WI is also based at the church hall, meeting monthly. There are also occasional children’s parties and Rotary Group events.
Throughout the winter months there are smaller groups meeting such as Knit and Natter and Meet and Eat which help bring members of the community together. Meet and Eat is very much aimed at the older members of the village. These groups and children and toddler groups use the hall without charge.
The bulk of the hall income comes from the regular hirers. There were only two regular weekly hall hirers up to December 2023; a dance group and a martial arts group. Sadly the martial arts club lost a lot of its membership during COVID, never really recovered and has now closed its Wednesday evening session. Almost at the same time we were lucky enough to pick up a baby art group on Tuesday mornings which has got the hall finance back where we were and we’re currently in negotiations with a third regular hirer.
Total income was approx. £6800.00 The non-profit organisations contributed £850.00 The regular hirers contributed £4700 The adhoc hall users contributed £1230.00
The PCC are grateful to Jonathan Bentley for all the work he has done in organising hall bookings since the sad demise of Suzy Bidgood.
General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) gives people the right to be informed about how their data is being used. The PCC has a legal obligation to ensure that St Giles is GDPR compliant.
Last year we asked all those who call St Giles 'home' to resubmit their contact information and communication preferences in our new Church Family database which is securely collected and stored in accordance with GDPR.
In 2023 we completed the GDPR audit and discussed a range of actions with the PCC. Many actions are ongoing to review our data at regular intervals and others are being addressed individually in due time. The PCC want to thank Laura Hill for her expertise and support through this process.
Conclusion
St Giles continues to provide a Christian presence in Bramhope. We feel that our work in Bramhope and beyond has been given a new focus and emphasis following on from our re-examination of our vision and values during 2023. Our worshipping community is expanding, especially at the younger end of the age range, and we feel this is a real sign of God’s work among us. A review of the pastoral care we offer (mainly but not exclusively amongst the older population) will continue during 2024. Our finances have grown in 2023 in line with our expanding community, enabling us to pay our parish share in full, which not only pays for Matt but also supports ministry and mission across our diocese particularly in areas of
deprivation. Our commitment to a greener planet is shown both by our Sustainability Team and by our work in our own ‘God’s Acre’. With support from the Strategic Development Fund, we look forward to another year of growth.
31 December 2023
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End of Year Financial Statements
Year ending 31 December 2023
Receipts and Payments Account
| Prior | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted | Designated |
Restricted | Endowment | Total | year | |
| funds | funds |
funds | funds | funds | total | |
| funds | ||||||
| Receipts | ||||||
| Planned giving | 56,084 | - |
- | - | 56,084 | 44,819 |
| Collections and other giving | 8,034 | - |
- | - | 8,034 | 6,046 |
| Other voluntary receipts | 3,689 | - |
2,951 | - | 6,640 | 23,825 |
| Gift Aid recovered | 15,315 | - |
- | - | 15,315 | 12,543 |
| Other receipts | 999 | - |
- | - | 999 | 1,463 |
| Activities for generating funds | 12,708 | - |
- | - | 12,708 | 14,318 |
| Investment Income | 429 | - |
- | - | 429 | 182 |
| Receipts from church activities | 3,297 | - |
978 | - | 4,275 | 4,738 |
| Total Receipts | 100,555 | - |
3,929 | **- ** | 104,484 | 107,934 |
| Payments | ||||||
| Cost of generating funds | 789 | - |
- | - | 789 | 1,532 |
| Missionary and Charitable Giving | - | - |
- | - | - | - |
| Parish Share | 65,064 | - |
- | - | 65,064 | 66,064 |
| Clergy and Staffing costs | 421 | - |
- | - | 421 | 1,335 |
| Church Running Expenses | 13,897 | 807 |
1,411 | - | 16,115 | 20,857 |
| Hall Running Costs | 4,344 | - |
- | - | 4,344 | 5,780 |
| Church Repairs & Maintenance | - | - |
10,706 | - | 10,706 | 7,190 |
| Hall Repairs & Maintenance | - | - |
- | - | - | - |
| Governance Costs | - | - |
- | - | - | - |
| New Building work | - | - |
- | - | - | - |
| Total Payments | 84,514 | 807 |
12,117 | - | 97,438 | 102,757 |
| Excess of receipts over payments before transfer |
16,041 | (807) |
(8,188) | - | 7,046 | 5,176 |
| Transfers: | ||||||
| Gross transfers between funds - in | 6,040 | 12,492 |
6,175 | - | 24,707 | 4,609 |
| Gross transfers between funds - out | (18,667) | (40) |
(6,000) | - | (24,707) | (4,609) |
| Excess of receipts over payments before other gains |
3,414 | 11,645 |
(8,013) | - | 7,046 | 5,176 |
| Net movement in funds | 3,414 | 11,645 |
(8,013) | - | 7,046 | 5,176 |
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Reconciliation of funds
| Excess of receipts over payments at beginning of the year |
31,284 | 42,849 | 14,221 | - | 88,354 | 83,177 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excess of receipts over payments for the year |
34,698 | 54,494 | 6,208 | - | 95,400 | 88,354 |
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Statement of Assets and Liabilities (by code)
Class and nominal code[General] Designated Restricted Endowment Total Last year
| Current Asset - Cash At Bank And In Hand | Current Asset - Cash At Bank And In Hand | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6501: Bank current account | 11,092 | 12,516 | 3,208 | - | 26,816 | 20,101 |
| 6505: Bank deposit account | 23,535 | 41,978 | 3,000 | - | 68,513 | 68,129 |
| 6590: Cash in hand | 71 | - | - | - | 71 | 124 |
| Total | 34,698 | 54,494 | 6,208 | **- ** | 95,400 | 88,354 |
| Net total assets | 34,698 | 54,494 | 6,208 | **- ** | 95,400 | 88,354 |
| Represented by | ||||||
| General (Unrestricted) | 34,698 | - | - | - | 34,698 | 31,284 |
| Designated - Flower | - | 64 | - | - | 64 | 201 |
| Designated - Net Zero | - | 12,452 | - | - | 12,452 | - |
| Designated – Property (Witham) | - | 41,978 | - | - | 41,978 | 41,978 |
| Designated - Worship Development | - | - | - | - | - | 670 |
| Restricted - Children | - | - | 2,148 | - | 2,148 | 1,549 |
| Restricted - Elderly | - | - | 1,534 | - | 1,534 | 1,534 |
| Restricted - Fabric | - | - | 2,526 | - | 2,526 | 11,138 |
| Total | 34,698 | 54,494 | 6,208 | **- ** | 95,400 | 88,354 |
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Fund movement summary
Fund Opening Incoming Outgoing Transfers Gains/Losses Journals Closing
| Fund | Openng | Incomng | Outgong | Transers Gan |
s/Losses Jo |
rnas | Cosng |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children | |||||||
| Restricted | 1,549 | 978 | 379 | - | - | - | 2,148 |
| Sub-totals | 1,549 | 978 | 379 | - | - | - | 2,148 |
| Elderly | |||||||
| Restricted | 1,534 | - | - | - | - | - | 1,534 |
| Sub-totals | 1,534 | - | - | - | - | - | 1,534 |
| General | |||||||
| Unrestricted | 31,284 | 100,555 | 84,514 | (12,627) | - | - | 34,698 |
| Sub-totals | 31,284 | 100,555 | 84,514 | (12,627) | - | - | 34,698 |
| Property (Witham) | |||||||
| Designated | 41,978 | - | - | - | - | - | 41,978 |
| Sub-totals | 41,978 | - | - | - | - | - | 41,978 |
| Fabric | |||||||
| Restricted | 11,138 | 2,951 | 11,738 | 175 | - | - | 2,526 |
| Sub-totals | 11,138 | 2,951 | 11,738 | 175 | - | - | 2,526 |
| Net Zero | |||||||
| Designated | - | - | - | 12,452 | - | - | 12,452 |
| Sub-totals | - | - | - | 12,452 | - | - | 12,452 |
| Worship Development | |||||||
| Designated | 670 | - | 670 | - | - | - | - |
| Sub-totals | 670 | - | 670 | - | - | - | - |
| Flower | |||||||
| Designated | 201 | - | 137 | - | - | - | 64 |
| Sub-totals | 201 | - | 137 | - | - | - | 64 |
| Totals | 88,354 | 104,484 | 97,438 | - | - | - | 95,400 |
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IndeperHlent examlnerfs rewt to St Giles Brdmhope PCC I rEport to the PCC on my examinètknfi of the accounts of St Glle5 8rnmlwe lor the year ended 31 Derntser 2023 As tr charlty tntstees of St Glle5 Bramhope you are respOnts for the preparnllon of the accounts In accordance wlth the requlrements of the crItIeS Att 20111" the Acfl. l report In respect ol ry eJ•mln•fjon ofthe accounts carfled out undersectl)n 145 ofthe 2011 Act and In carryln8 Out my examlnatlon I have followed all the appllcable dlrectlons tsen the Charity Commlsslon under sectlon 145(5llbl of the Act. Indp•rnknt •xamln•rfs slat•m•nt I completed my eXaMvtIon . I coftfirrn tt no material matters have come to my attention In conrtection with the exarnination gNiryd me cause to bel*ve that in any maierbal respert: l. Accounting records tre J1 kepi In rewect of St Glles Brarnhope as requlred by sectlon 130 of the Act; or 2. The accounts do not accord wlth those records. I have no concerns and have come ècr055 no other matters In conneCtfi with the examlnatlon to whkh attentlon should be drawn in thi5 report in order to enable a proper understandin8 of the accounts to be reached . Joyce R Liddle FCA. CTA 2 The Rowans Bramhope LS16 9DZ 01 Febnry 2024