Charity No. 1130319 THE PARISH OF SANDERSTEAD PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL'S REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024 PROCLAIMING JESUS. CHANGING UVES. SERVING OUR COMMUNITY THE PARISH OF SANDERSTEAD CONTEKrs Page Referen￿ and adminislralive delails of the charity. its trustees and advisers Parochial Church Council's report Independent Examinef s ReFM)rt Statement of Financial Activities Balance Sheet Notes lo the Financial Staternerrts 10-18 THE PARISH OF SANDERSTEAD REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS OF THE CHARITY, rrs TRUSTEES AND ADVISERS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024 Parochial Church Council- for a lisl of cleDJy and jay mernbeTS serving the Parochial Church Council in the year, please see page 2 Principal office AM Saints Parish Offi All Saints Church Hall Onslow Gardens Sander5tead Surrey CR2 9AB Independent Examinpr. Adetutu Taiwo FCCA 8 Waltham Close Dartford -Kent DA13LT Bankers: Nat￿nal Westrninster Bank P 39 Statton Road Redhill Surrey RH1 1QN The CBF Church of England Funds 1 Angel Lane London EC4R 3AB All correspondence to All Saints Parrsh Offi All Saints chU￿h Hall Onslow Gardens S8nderstead Surrey CR2 9AB THE PARISH OF SANDERSTEAD ADMINISTRATIVE DEfAILS OF THE CHARtrY, Tts TRUSTEES AND ADVISERS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024 (continued) PCC Memters Clergy Rev Carol Bates {resigned 3.4.2024) Rev Jeremy Groombridge (resigned 28.4.20241 DI0￿san SyncKJ Mrs Rosemary Kempsell {until Juty 2024) Deanery Synod Mrs Veronica de Grasse-Grant rs Linda Etheridge Mrs Rosemary Kempsell lelerted 28.4.2024) Mr Kevin Wright (r&8igned 28.4.2024) Elected Members Mrs Anne Barham {elected 28.4.2024) Mrs Katheryn Hewitt Mr Richard Hibbeid (Secretary) Mrs Maria Linford (Tesigned 28.4.2024} Mr Roderick Mcclaughry (elected 28.4.2024) Mrs Margaret QuFney Mrs Judtth Robinson Mr Marc Smith (resigned 28.4.20241 Mr Mark Sutton {elected 28.4.2024) Mr M￿h￿l Tumer Mrs Barbara Webster-Dudley Mr Richard Wragg C¢>opted Members Dr Luise Parsons Iwted 11.9.2024) Church Wardens Mr m￿hael Fixter {unlil 15.3.2025) Mrs Susan Thomas THE PARISH OF SANDERSTEAD PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL'S REPORT The Parochial Church CouncTI present their annual report together with the audited financial statements of The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Sanderslead (the charity) for the year ended 31 December 2024. Registered charity Status The Parochial Church Council of the Eeclesiaslical Parish of Sanderstead is a charity, number 1130319. registered wtth the CharTty Commission of England and Wales. Structure, governance and management Constitution The Parochial Church Council {PCC) is a COTForate body established by the Church of England. The PCC operates under the Par￿hla1 Church Council Powers Measure. Appointment of Trustees The method of appointment of PCC members ts set out in the Church Representation Rules. All church attendees are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for eleclion to the PCC. Oryanisat￿nal Structure and Deusion Maknng The Sanderstead Team Ministry came into operation on 24 Octottr 1974. In 2005. there vrds a pastoral sclleme to unrle the benefi￿ of Sanderstead and Sandet5tead st Mary to create a new beneffi￿ of Sanderstead thus expandin9 the Sanderstead Team. This new benefice had parish churches (All Saints and St Mary's) and came into operatton on 1 November 2005. Atso in 2005. St Edmund's Riddlesdown 2nd St Antory's Hamsey Green were designated as parish centres ofworship. At this time a PCC scheme was pul in place (under the CRR rule 18) which covered the crealion of DCCS and representation on the single PCC. In 2018, there v￿S a pastoral scheme creating the new benef￿ and parish of Sanderstead St Mary out of the parish of Sanderstead and so St Ma￿S left the team. In 2020. there was another pastoral scheme whth tem)inated the Sanderstead Team Ministry. Thts scheme ¢2me into OFeration on 1 OctotEr 2020. Since Ihen, the PCC has overseen actNittes al All Saints. and St Anthonls. Regular worship at St Anthony's Ceased on 2nd December 2021 but recommenced in 2023. Regular worship at St Edmund's also ceased at Christmas 2019 and St Edmund's has elected to join the Paiish of Riddlesdown St James. As part of the pr(ws the parish boundary has been changed with 2 small number of roads being transferred to the Parish of Riddlesdown St James. This prO￿sS to transfer title to the buikjing ttself is exFected to complete in 2025. Responsibilty for the day-tcHlay management and financial afTrdirs of St Edmund's were assumed by St James, Riddlesdown and St Marys Sanderstead with effecl from 261h November 2020. Risk management The PCC has a dLrty lo identtfy the risks to which the Charity is exposed and to ensure that appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assuran￿ against fraud and error. Objectives and activities The Parish of Sanderslead PCC has responsibilty for C(￿peratIng with the incumbent in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church. pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It also has maintenance responsibiliti.es for Al Saints. and St Anthony's. The PCC has u￿lMate responsibdty ￿ a WKle range of matters affecling the Parish. including such matter5 as compliance with heahh and safety. disabilty discrimination legislat￿n and the protection of children and potenlialty vulnerable adutts. Appropriate training procedures have been adopted, including training courses arranged by the diocese or deanery which are attended by PCC tepresentatNes vtho re￿rt back to the PCC as a tN)dy. and the dissemination of reading matter. When planning our actwibes for the year, the Rector and the PCC have considered the Commission's guidan￿ on charities for the advan￿ment of religion. In particular, they try to enable ordinary people to live out their farth as part of our parish communty through: Worship and prayer, leaming atout the Gospel and developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus. Provision of pastoral care for people living in the parth. Missionary and outreach work. To facilitate this work, the PCC maintains the fabTic of All Saints, and St Anthonys and of the separate church halls at All Saints,. Interregnum The incumbent, Rev Carol Bates resigned to take up a new role and stood down from the PCC in April 2024, leaving the Parish in June 2024. The post of Reclor has been advertised and inteNiews are scheduled foi Monday 28th April 2025. During the Inte￿egnUrn, the Churchwardens are responsible for Ihe running of the Parish. Achievements and Pgrf4>miance Church Services All Saints. offers a range of sefvices and St AntOn￿S offers a weekiy Communion SeNice on Sunday afternoons. The 9.30 services on Sunday momings are live str&qmed and posted online. Home grou rneet regularty, and Children's actjVrt￿S include Toddlers. Messy Church. Jigsaw. Christmas UnwrapFed. The Missing Body and the Children's Holmlay Club. As well as our regular seTh￿eS. we enable our communty to celebrate and thank God at the milestones ofthe joumey through lrfe. Through baptism we thank God for the gift of lrfe and in marriage public vows are exchanged with GCMJ'S blessing. Through funeral seivices, friends and family express their grief and gFve thanks for the lrfe which is now complete in this world and to commend tt to God's keeping. These services can generally be Irve streamed on request. We have continued to invest in keeping the technobgy up to date. Pastoral Care and Commun Action The churches engage in a wide varEty of communty action. with particular emphasis on children and okler wple including- Motherfs Unton and the Women's Swtal Group Sunday Lunch Coffee Pot and Tea 4U Vartous Toddler Groups & Messy Church Mission and Evan elism Helping those in need is a demonstration of our faith. During the year the parish made charitable donations of £8,000 to local and church charities. Deane In the year under review. Iwo dergy and four lay members of the PCC sat on Cwdon South Deanery Synod. Synod provides the PCC wilh an important link betsveen the parish and the wider structures ofthe church. Trustees, Report The PCC held six meetings in 2024- two befr￿e the 2024 APCM and four after. All meetings re held in person. There has been one meeting in 2025, before the one at which this report was adopted. The Standing Commlttee held two virtual meetings to carry out sensitive pay review tasks devolved from PCC. The measu￿$ introduced in 2011 to ensure that PCC, as the onty legalty constituted body in the parish, provided adequate oversight for key issues, particulady to avoid any personal liability for DCC members, worked satisfactority. We believe they provided the right balance between meeting legal requirements & allowng the maximum church autonomy. prior to the dissolution of the Team Ministry. The Safeguarding of children and polentialty vulnerabte adults is the responsibilty of the PCC and a report on any such issues or actlons is considered at every PCC meeting. As the formal employerofall tay workers wrthin the parish, the PCC ensured that all employees operated within a framework which ensured equilable treatment of them all. The PCC provided general oversight and fomial authorisations for a variety of building and property projects and carried out a number of administrative tasks on a regular or ad hoc basis. During the year the PCC decided to re-open St Antony's for hiring, otherthan on Sundays and rental income broadty wvered the running costs at St Antony's. A Church Meeting was held in September to allow the congregation the opportunity for input into potentially contentious topi