2020-12-31-accounts

Bebington Parish Annual Report 2020

Incorporating a strategic review of the year, the aims and activities of the PCC, financial review and a statement of financial activities

Our Vision

A Christ-Centred Family Sharing God’s Love

Christ-Centred: Followers of Jesus Christ, grounded in scripture, prayer and worship Family: An inclusive fellowship where all ages are nurtured and enabled to use their God-given gifts Sharing God’s love: Making Christ known in our daily lives with everyone we meet Serving and loving each other, our community and beyond

Rector’s Report on St Andrew’s

I began my last report by saying that we had experienced a year of stability and steady positive progress. What a difference a year makes!

The year began on a positive note and continuing our normal programme, but as reports of a distant epidemic developed into a pandemic and full scale lockdown, we were thrown at very short notice into the closure of all in-person services and activities. It was a steep learning curve as we adapted to working online.

However with the support of staff team members and many others we managed to put things together fast and managed an online service of sorts on the first Sunday of lockdown (22 March), developing quickly into a format loosely resembling an in-church service, which continued throughout the year, alongside in-church services at the times when they were permitted. I have been grateful that we have been able to use homeproduced worship music from some of our own musicians and for the way that many have stretched their knowledge and experience in order to take part in online ministry. Our teaching programme was changed to reflect the current situation. During the year, we ran series including “standing firm through the storm”, Exodus (trusting in God in a strange land) and Hebrews 11 (heroes of faith).

In addition we developed an online programme which included initially 3 events daily Monday to Friday: a morning Thought for the Day, midday prayer and evening prayer. We continued evening prayer (run by Danny Sedano) until the time of Danny’s departure in May, and midday prayer (run by Al Metcalfe) until August, when viewing numbers and staff resources meant they were no longer sustainable, but retained Thought for the Day throughout the year. We began production of cd’s and dvd’s of the services and Thought for the Day for those without internet access who wanted them. A little later, we started a weekly prayer meeting on Zoom. Our Youth Hub and Children & Families Hub reports will tell of the online programmes we put in place for our children and young people; I am very grateful to all involved for all the hard work they have put in, in difficult circumstances, to enable this to happen.

We put pastoral systems in place to do our best to keep in touch with members of the congregation, and to ensure that people could access support for shopping if they needed it, again supported by volunteers. We significantly increased use of the prayer chain which we switched to email for efficiency. We opened the church for private prayer for one session each week when it was permitted. We adapted communication to mainly email and social media.

We were glad to find new people joining us for online services, from locally or further afield, and also new members joining in person when we were able to be open on Sundays. At the same time, some have understandably struggled to engage with online ministry, and even when we have been able to open for services it has been a shadow of our normal corporate worship, with numbers greatly reduced and singing and fellowship curtailed. We have all missed aspects of our normal church life, and fellowship and interaction with one another.

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When we leave the pandemic behind we can expect that life will be different in some ways. We have learned some positive things during this time, which we can take forward. We are likely to continue some online ministry in the long term, maintaining connection with some of those who are ill, housebound or unable to join us for other reasons. Some activities are likely to continue online: for example our weekly prayer meeting on zoom has proved easier to attend for many and therefore more popular than our monthly in-person prayer meeting was. Some meetings are easier online, saving on travelling time and avoiding the need for childcare for example.

In other respects we are longing to return to a more normal way of life. We look forward to restarting many of our usual activities when we are able to do so. It may well be however that we will find that some are no longer sustainable and are not able to restart.

The enforced break from usual activities has brought other benefits for some. Whilst we have missed the company of others, and many have endured additional pressures, others have found they have not missed the extraordinary busyness of 21[st] century life. For some, it has been an opportunity to review their involvement in ministry and to conclude this is the right time to step down from roles they have held for some time; for others, it will be (as things restart) an opportunity to begin something new. I therefore expect a fair number of changes of role amongst our extensive volunteer team.

We have enjoyed a period with a full staff team, and were especially grateful for this as the pandemic took hold and we needed to make major changes to our way of working. Sadly, though, we had to say farewell to Danny Sedano in June on completion of his training for Ordination, and to Al Metcalfe in October on completion of his curacy. We have been very thankful for their ministries here and wish them every blessing in their new posts. We also as usual said farewell to a few church members during the year who moved on for a variety of reasons, and as mentioned above welcomed new ones.

I reported last year that we were looking towards some significant developments during the year, and highlighted:

• Consideration whether to work towards employing a paid Children and Families worker. Early in the year, the PCC agreed that we wanted to work towards this. Subsequent events put that on hold, but it remains an aim for the future.

• Evangelistic opportunities through our involvement with the More to Life mission and through joint events with Life Church. We held a joint youth event with Life Church early in the year which was very positive, but all subsequent events and the mission had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The mission is currently scheduled for 28 Mar-1 April 2022.

• Completion of the church lighting project. This was delayed because of the pandemic, which caused long delays in the permissions procedure and the manufacture of the lighting. We now anticipate that the internal work at least will be carried out during May/June 2021, and are in the process of obtaining planning consent for the external work.

• A giving appeal to bring us onto a more financially secure footing: because of the widespread impact of the pandemic, and our ministry being mainly online, it did

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not seem to be the right time for the kind of stewardship campaign we had envisaged at the start of the year. We included in our programme some teaching and information about giving, and encouraged people wherever possible to switch from envelope or open plate giving to direct giving through their bank account. The response to this has been very positive as the Treasurer’s report will show. We are very grateful to those who have been able to make additional donations during the year.

As always, I am enormously grateful for God’s provision and to the members of our congregation for their sacrificial giving which enables us to undertake our ministry. Unsurprisingly in the circumstances, our income fell during the year, but due to pausing many activities we made some significant cost savings. As a result, despite some additional costs to enable our online ministry, we finished the year with only a small shortfall. We will however need to seek to increase our income in the future as normal activities resume.

I am also very grateful to our dedicated staff team, and to our Wardens Team and all the PCC, and to all who have served in different ways in contributing to our very different ministry during the year, for their partnership, commitment and support.

It has been an extraordinarily challenging year for many. We have sadly lost some members of our congregation, to Covid or other causes; many of our members have lost loved ones. Some have been adversely affected financially. Many have battled with isolation. All have felt the effects in a variety of ways. As the challenges continue, but hopefully in many respects lessen over the coming months, let us hold fast to the hope we have in Jesus Christ. As others have said, we do not know what the future holds, but we do know the One who holds the future.

David Vestergaard

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Townfield APCM report – Looking back at 2020

Well, 2020 wasn’t quite what we were expecting was it?

We began 2020 by looking forward to lots of new things. We had plans for a series of Lent Events, for community-building social events throughout the year, and initiatives to build stronger links with households at the Townfield ‘end’ of the parish by distributing small Easter gifts and invitations for prayer requests.

Our community prayer cards, on hold for now!

And then, in March 2020, we had to put almost all of those plans (and our regular activities) on hold as we rapidly re-imagined how to be church without being in the same building together.

As I think back to those very busy weeks at the start of the first lockdown, I must pay tribute to the whole of the Townfield Church community. From the first announcements about restrictions coming into place, Townfield showed remarkable resilience, creativity, determination, love and willingness to help. The whole church family very quickly proved that we are so much more than buildings, services, or meetings. We’re about a community that prays, supports, rings up, shops, shows practical love, and goes the extra mile. We’re a community which finds imaginative ways of staying in touch, and keeping: house groups connected; children and young people engaged; prayer groups praying; and socials ‘meeting’, even when we can’t be together. All of that has been a huge team effort, run by so many unsung heroes – thank you to all of you. And we recognise that this continues to be a difficult time in many ways, as everyone has had to face the challenges of lockdowns, and as many have faced uncertainties, illness, and loss. We continue to pray for each other.

Even if lockdown has proved that church is so much more than services, right from the start, we were very aware that Sunday services are the times when we all come together to worship, pray, listen out for God, and encourage each other. So, we have been

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determined to do whatever we can to keep that important part of church life going. It’s been a steep learning curve, but we are grateful to God (and the technology that God gives us) that we have been able to keep ‘meeting’, live, from the very first Sunday of lockdown. It has taken some experimentation along the way, and we have learned a lot, but we have especially valued the way that so many people have been involved, whether that’s by live interaction online, or by people venturing outside of their comfort-zones to read, pray, lead or speak online. Thank you all for taking risks, and for stepping out in faith!

Several people have described our weekly opportunities to ‘meet’ on Sundays as a lifeline, for which we are all very grateful to God. And it has been a privilege to have been joined by brand new members through our online services (both by Christians whose own churches don’t have online provision, and by enquirers who are exploring faith for the first time). We have also been blessed to be joined regularly by Townfield members, and extended family and friends in China, Italy, Greece, and lots of parts of the UK.

Church as we never expected to see it!

Despite the amazing ways that technology has allowed us to stay connected during 2020, one very obvious ongoing challenge for us is our lack of meeting space. We have been unable to meet in St Andrew’s school since the first lockdown (for obvious reasons), and we are not sure when that may change. We are grateful that St Andrew’s Church Hall has been made available to us since July, meaning that we have been able to broadcast our live Sunday services with a small congregation present. But we are also very aware of the limitations - the Church Hall is only able to hold about 1/3 of our prelockdown congregation, and it doesn’t have space for us to run our normal children’s activities. In addition, we realise that St Andrew’s will be wanting to re-start their children’s activities before too long, which will also need space in the Church Hall. So, there is much to be praying for as we wait to see how the current roadmap out of restrictions unfolds in 2021.

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But we can do that praying with confidence – I have been struck, as I have read the Bible and prayed through these strange times, that God has led his people through wilderness, exile, and uncertainty many, many times before. In fact, we hear much more about times of wilderness in the Bible, than we do about times of plenty. So, just as God has led his people safely out of the wilderness so many times before, I am certain God will lead us through, and beyond , the wilderness again. Our journey may not follow quite the route we expect, and I’m sure there will be many more things for us to learn along the way, but God is not flummoxed by 2020, even if we have been sometimes!

Al Rodgers

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Wardens’ Report

Covid19, the resultant national lockdowns, and clinically vulnerable shielding restrictions, made this a very different term of office for the warden’s team.

Mike Shevlin has had to take the full weight of warden’s responsibilities for all physical interaction with contractors and the weekly commitments for the church and church hall. My thanks to him for his dedication to do all that has been required of him. The most significant of which was the Church boiler room flooding when, due to heavy rains for prolonged periods, the boiler room under the church building was submerged in ~1.5M of water, necessitating days of work to pump it out and organise the resultant repairs to both boilers and the associated sump water removal system.

Other regulatory and breakdown works have also been covered by Mike throughout the period.

Our appointed Structural engineer and architect carried out a detailed inspection of the Church tower and spire. This has now been developed into a scope of work. The tower and Spire project faculty application work has begun, and is now awaiting the detail scope of work, associated drawings and calculations from the Structural engineer and architect.

The Byre house (a listed building), located on the South side of the church was found to be compromised. When one of its walls and part of the roof collapsed this left the building vulnerable and requiring emergency structural support. Temporary repairs were carried out by contractors. The council is now taking responsibility for the building, and a decision about its future (to demolish or rebuild) is awaited.

Relocation of the sound desk (part of the lighting project) was carried out inhouse. Our thanks to Nathan Storm, Sarah and Richard Clark for procuring materials and equipment, as well as for their hard work extending underfloor cabling and physically relocating and rebuilding the desk centrally at the back of church. Modifications to make it wider to accommodate the new lighting controller as well as the live streaming equipment have been carried out. The encasing design of the desk has yet to be determined and completed. In addition to this, the live streaming hardware and the new lighting controller will be integrated later this year.

The TV screens have yet to be installed in the central area of the church to enhance visibility, by reducing blind spots caused by the historic pillars. This work is planned for later this year.

Physical Church has restarted, albeit in a different format and environment. General duties have returned with a very different dynamic. Our thanks to all those who have volunteered to be involved and committed to help, without your support services couldn’t and wouldn’t happen.

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Work was carried out at 8 Rolleston drive to enable it’s letting. This is bringing in welcomed revenue for the church, while a decision regarding a potential curate is awaited.

Work on the Lighting Project has continued throughout the year, with designers, suppliers and installers. The project has now been divided into two phases (internal and external), due to the diocese stipulating local council and heritage England involvement for the pathway lighting and cable excavations. To date, the control equipment has been purchased and the internal light fittings have been dispatched from the manufacturer. A provisional installation date of May/June this year is envisaged for phase one – internal lighting.

Monday gang haven’t been able to meet, for Covid reasons, during this uncertain time, mainly due to the age and vulnerability of the team. It is with great sadness that I report the deaths of two of “the gang” - Bob Baxter and Bill Pace, both dedicated and hardworking members of the team, who will be sadly missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families.

We would both like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation for all the love, support and prayer which have surrounded us over the years of our service, as we both step down, as of the APCM 2021.

Mike Shevlin and Mike Smith

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Safeguarding Report

St Andrew's and Townfield take our obligation and duty to protect everyone seriously. The PCC has adopted the Church of England safeguarding Policies and Practice Guidance. During 2020 safeguarding training has been available on line.

All staff and volunteers working with children, young people and vulnerable adults have been provided with a copy of the C of E's Parish Safeguarding Handbook with our own supplements, and have been required to confirm that they have received and read it. All are supported with Safeguarding Training and Basic Awareness safeguarding training is provided to PCC members and others with a relevant interest. We follow the C of E's safer recruitment process for appointments, including the use of DBS checks and references.

In June Penny Tomlinson, who has been Safeguarding officer for St. Andrew's, will pass this role onto Richard Lawrence.

If you have any queries or concerns, please speak to one of the Parish Safeguarding Officers.

Penny Tomlinson / Richard Lawrence for St. Andrew's Gwen Derrig for Townfield.

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Treasurer’s Report

As with all aspects of church life in 2020, the management of the church finances necessitated making some changes to meet the challenges presented. With fewer church services and the need to observe social distancing and hygiene considerations, we have in general moved away from the collection of cash, reducing the need for counting teams and multiple trips to the bank with cash.

Throughout the year we have encouraged contributors to the churches finances to consider moving to bank standing order, with the result that over 50 new standing orders have been set up during the year from new givers and parishioners moving from cash or the weekly giving envelope scheme. At the start of the year, we had approx. 40 using the envelope scheme, which is now down to 5 regular users.

With the reduction in weekly services there has been an impact on the income which was received in cash on the weekly plate, although a large number of contributors have now moved to bank standing order. The giving on a regular non cash basis helps enormously with our budgeting, and some have additionally discovered that their regular giving can be Gift Aided.

We wish to thank the many parishioners who, realising that the year would have an impact on the church finances have given additional donations to support the production of online services and distribution of CD’s and printed material. This has helped in upgrading laptop and PC capabilities along with additional broadband capacity for the Church Hall, plus covering increased copyright licensing costs to enable us to stream music.

Our regular planned income including Gift Aid in 2020 was £251,665 , a reduction on the previous year which was £257,580. A number of donations have been received which in some way compensate for the reduction of cash collected weekly. The annual accounting records for 2020 indicate an overall income for the church and its activities of £288,561 against expenditure of £315,437, a deficit of £26,876. However, the expenditure includes deposits paid for the Lighting project of £20,016 from reserves held for that purpose, plus £6783 of repairs and maintenance costs funded by unrestricted legacy funds.

The church has greatly benefited from a number of legacies over the last few years, with some £6784 of these funds allocated during 2020 for electrical and other one off maintenance costs.

The lighting project is in advanced stage with deposits having been made for equipment and materials , which are on order and due to be received in May. Although funds held for the Lighting Project are a little short of the cost of the internal works, it was felt expedient to progress the project, utilising existing unrestricted non General reserves.

During 2020 we have been working on a separate budget for Townfield for use in 2021. The Treasurer in conjunction with Al Rodgers and Mike Ludbrook have identified

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appropriate apportionment of costs and income so that Townfield have a budget for regular activities.

We wish to thank particularly Brenda Duffy, our Gift Aid secretary, for the additional work in manging the cash mostly on her own and fielding multiple emails from the Treasurer. The office staff have also had to manage additional correspondence and handle gifts & donations routed via the Office during the closure of the church, much of the time whilst working remotely.

Bryan Higgins

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Report on the activities of the Parochial Church Council

I recently met a neighbour having not spoken to him since midnight, New Year’s Eve: “What have you been up to?” “Nothing. You?” “Nothing.” I suspect that is a fairly standard conversation between individuals over the last twelve months as everyone has come to terms with a very strange and difficult situation. You’ll be happy to know though, that this doesn’t apply to the business of the PCC. We’ve been as busy as ever – but mainly from the comfort of our own homes. Having had a look through previous minutes of PCC meetings and APCM’s, I’m pretty sure 2020 was the first time the phrase, ‘I’ll send a link for the online meeting,’ has ever been used in this respect! And I’d like to go on record expressing my gratitude to David, the staff, readers, helpers and everyone who has been involved in ensuring services, meetings, Thoughts for the Day and the like, have been available throughout the pandemic. It has been a constant encouragement knowing that some level of interaction was possible even when forced apart.

The PCC started the year by setting a budget and, for obvious reasons, had to reassess everything. There was an extra meeting where we agreed to the employment – subject to funding – of a Children’s and Family Hub worker. And then had to put the venture on hold. We organised, but then had to postpone, the More to Life mission, and joint services and events with Life Church; we even had to move the APCM to October. We also asked ourselves, did we still wish to employ a full-time youth worker? We did; and were we happy for it still to be Chris Jarvis? I’m pleased to confirm it was an easy decision to renew Chris’ contract for a further 3 years; Chris is a valuable member of the staff team.

A big change happened to the structure of PCC meetings. It was recognised that TCC members who also sit on the PCC were essentially attending double the number of meetings of others. So, to address this the PCC and TCC meetings now take place on the same night with church-specific agendas in separate meetings before coming together to discuss parish-wide matters. Early signs of how this is working are encouraging.

Amongst other items agreed by the PCC over the year, emergency lighting and fire safety items were upgraded or installed around the church building. It was arranged to have the names of the last few incumbents engraved on the board in church. Whilst maybe seen as not a particularly important item, it is a link to our church heritage and generates interest during tours of the building. Obviously, this is still to be undertaken due to coronavirus.

We said goodbye to Al Metcalfe and Danny Sedano during the year - their leadership and presence will be missed. As a result of the Metcalfe’s move, the PCC agreed to lease the Rolleston Drive property until such time that we get a new Curate. This ensures the house remains occupied and provides a stream of income.

Large financial items included the final signing off on the lighting project and the commencement of a project to undertake repairs to the spire. Our thanks to Stuart Waldron for taking on another large building project.

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As ever, as a personal note, I would like to express my thanks to Karen and Jenny in the church office for all their assistance throughout the year in ensuring agendas, minutes etc. are where they should be, and to the Rector for his continued support and faithful leadership. Please keep the PCC in your prayers.

Ian Swindlehurst

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Youth Report

Weekly Church Groups

Unplugged

During the first lockdown all Unplugged groups switched onto Zoom with reasonable success. There have been some young people who have not taken to Zoom and have found it hard to engage, but across all Unplugged groups we have continued to meet with the majority of our young people.

After Easter we started a new Unplugged group with the current Yr 7-8 cohort which is small but has a stable core of young people. Then in July we said goodbye to the eldest group as all but two went off to university after the summer.

The current groups managed to have one or two face to face groups at the start of the academic year, but almost all sessions have been on Zoom. However, since the Easter holiday 2021 we hope to have seen the last of online sessions.

Amplify

Amplify also switched over to Zoom at the start of the pandemic, and saw a huge drop in numbers as it did so. We ran this way until July but running the kind of material we would normally do at Amplify, online, is very difficult and limited, so we did not continue to run Amplify between September and December.

After Christmas we decided to run Amplify on a fortnightly basis to avoid the limited activities we could do from becoming stale, however we continued to see an engagement in the single digits.

The first Friday after Easter we ran our first face to face group in over a year and took 18 young people to Meyer Park for some social distanced games.

Youth Band

Between September and December we launched the Youth Band in place of Amplify on a Friday as a space for the young people to practice playing worship songs together in a group with little pressure of having to perform for anyone. We have seen a number of young people not previously associated with the worship of the church grow in confidence and experience even in such a short time; for the time being this will continue to run on alternate Fridays to Amplify.

Sunday Mornings

In the early days of lockdown we attempted to run Sunday morning provision via Facebook live but saw little engagement. This was therefore stopped and there was no Sunday morning provision for young people for

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most of 2020. From January we relaunched Sunday mornings with an informal chat between the young people, Charlie, and myself over lunch time which has seen small but regular attendance. Since Easter we have begun to introduce more structure to the sessions in preparation for the current Yr 6s to join the youth work after the May/June half term holiday.

Schools Work

During the pandemic all schools work has been put on hiatus apart from primary school assemblies which we have been able to continue online as a team.

I am currently working on a post COVID listening service alongside Wirral Youth For Christ to offer secondary school students the opportunity to process the lockdowns and how they have been affected by them in a safe space.

Mentoring

As safeguarding in a one to one context relies heavily on being in a public space, the closure of pubs, cafes, and restaurants has made mentoring impossible to continue during the pandemic. As these venues start to open back up again we are hoping to start meeting with young people one to one once again soon.

Amplivacation

The 2020 trip was due to go ahead a matter of weeks after the first lockdown was implemented and so had to be cancelled. The booking was postponed to October 2020, then again to March 2021, and is now fully cancelled until we can safely take the young people away, likely to be Spring 2022.

Other Items

During the past year we have been working on a prayer partner system which will link every willing young person with an older member of the congregation to receive regular prayer. We have sent out the first batch of invites to pray-ers and are in the process of collecting responses from them before we officially invite the young people to join too.

Chris Jarvis

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Children & Families Hub

Children & Families Hub

The Children and Families Hub was started in June 2017, and normally meets termly. It is made up of leaders of Messy Church and Sunday Club for both churches, Little Fishes, Church Lads & Church Girls Brigade, Holiday Club, Family Services and Baptism Preparation, and the clergy and communications co-ordinator. To this we had planned to add a representative of our Dads & toddlers group, “Who let the Dads out?” which started in December 2019.

The role of the Hub is to monitor groups from both our churches working with children and families, ensuring they are adequately resourced, providing mutual support, sharing ideas and co-ordinating activities; developing vision for the work; and to improve communication and publicity between the groups and with the wider community.

At the start of 2020, we finalised a discussion document for the PCC on whether an employed Children & Families Worker might be the best way forward for the parish. We had spent considerable time in 2019 researching and discussing this and the Hub recommended this as the way forward.

Then, the coronavirus pandemic struck Britain, and in March all of our regular activities were paused. The Hub met on 29[th] June to review what we had learned so far during the pandemic, what things we had started that we might wish to continue, what aspects of “normal” ministry and church life we had not missed, and so on. The outcome of this and similar meetings of other hubs and leaders fed into a PCC discussion. At that stage most of us expected the restrictions would soon be over!

Because of continuing restrictions on our activities, the hub did not meet in the second half of 2020.

Reports from the individual groups are below. Sincere thanks are due to leaders and team members for their committed service, before the pandemic and where possible during it:

Little Fishes

2020 started in the usual way for Little Fishes, but we took the decision to close in March slightly before being enforced to do so by the lockdown, because of the risks involved. Viv Halliday indicated that she would need to stand down as leader because of other commitments. In the autumn, we began to make plans to restart Little Fishes in a different, smaller, covid-safe format, under the leadership of Penny Tomlinson and Sarah Joy Davies. We were unable to do this before the end of the year, but put plans in place to restart in 2021. We are very grateful to former and new leaders and team members for their commitment and service.

David Vestergaard

St Andrew’s Messy Church

Due to the pandemic, we had to close Messy Church in March 2020 and it has not yet been able to reopen. We provided some virtual activities during the first lockdown, and have kept in periodic contact with families through social media. After running Messy Church since it first started at St Andrew’s, Marie & Will Beale have felt for a while that they needed to step back from this ministry, so are now standing down. We are very

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grateful to them for their continual hard work and commitment over the years and the many families they have generated and maintained contact with.

David Vestergaard

St Andrew’s Sunday Club

Sunday Club began the year meeting in the Church Hall following our regular activities, singing, learning Bible verses before age-related Bible teaching. Online Sunday Club began at the beginning of May, with pre-recorded lessons covering Paul’s conversion and missionary journeys as well as Jesus’ miracles. During the summer short videos led the children through Psalm 23, verse by verse. Since September our primary-aged children have been gathering virtually on Sunday mornings (family services excepted), enabling leaders to continue to build relationships with the children as well as build their knowledge and understanding of the love God has for them. Supercrèche (preschool) are also able to access Bible story videos. Leaders have worked very hard to ensure lessons are entertaining and informative and their effort is much appreciated. We have marked Christmas and Easter with treats for the children and themed sessions including games and craft. The children have enjoyed these events, although we are aware that numbers are lower than in March 2020. We are exploring ways to encourage children and parents to re-engage with Sunday Club.

Louise Hilder, Ali Gurr & Alison Collins

Townfield Sunday Club & Messy Church

Like churches everywhere, work with children and families has been especially challenging during the pandemic, as we have been unable to continue the face to face work which has been such a big part of Townfield’s life. But, we have done everything we can to make the most of the opportunities available to us, and have been committed to providing something for children and young people from the very first week of online Church in March 2020.

At first this took the form of varied weekly ‘do it at home’ challenges, with a ‘younger’ and an ‘older’ option, put together with the help of some of our fantastic Sunday Club volunteer leaders. Then, in the summer term, as we realised we were in for a longer spell of online church, we put together a more organised plan:

• For children up to about year 3, we used the brilliant weekly Virtual Sunday School sessions put together by 4Front Theatre Company (based in Worcester).

• For years 4-6, our fantastic Sunday Club leaders (and some new volunteers – thank you!) have run weekly sessions at 12.00, which have been very much enjoyed, and even continued right through the summer holidays.

• For Secondary School age groups, we continued with a mixture of Zoom sessions and ‘do it home’ activity resources, until a parish-wide monthly (and then weekly) Sunday youth Zoom, was started towards the end of 2020.

We are grateful for the ongoing commitment of so many people which has made all of this possible. And we continue to pray for our children, young people and families,

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recognising that while online and Zoom sessions are working well for some, for others, they are no substitute for the real thing of meeting in person.

Al Rodgers

Summer Mayhem

Because of the pandemic we were not able to make any plans for a holiday club style event this year.

David Vestergaard

Baptism Preparation

The pandemic has meant that for most of the year baptisms were either not permitted at all, or were so severely restricted that they were not very practical for us to hold and families preferred to wait. It has also not been possible to conduct baptism preparation in the usual way. Towards the end of the year we began making plans to run some preparation online in early 2021 as a short term measure.

We continue to be grateful to Martin & Mel Heale, Kevin & Jane Slack, Ian & Helen Westcott and Alison Wolfe for their involvement in this ministry. Ian & Helen asked to stand down during the year, so we will be looking for more team members to share in running the preparation in the future.

David Vestergaard & Mel Heale

Church Lads & Church Girls Brigade

As we all know the last twelve months have been a big challenge. We met briefly until the first lock-down. When lock-down came in we quickly switched to a weekly zoom meeting. At first we knew little about the technology or response from the youngsters, but both were positive.

There were a few youngsters who chose not to join us, but for those who joined us online we had opening messages from the clergy and youth leader, animated Bible stories, quizzes, games and prayers. CDs were delivered to band members for training purposes.

Unfortunately we were unable to run our annual camp, although a few of the leaders did have an informal camp, in Prestatyn.

We were able to organise a socially distanced crazy golf for families in July.

At the start of September we met outside for a few weeks and were able to ‘pre-record’ a service at the War Memorial, before the second lockdown and we reverted back to weekly zoom meetings.

We invited our families for the Christmas nativity walk.

All in all a tough year, as it was for everyone. We have managed to keep in touch with most of our families and youngsters and hope to welcome them back face-to-face, as soon as restrictions are sufficiently lifted.

Richie Clarke

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Who Let The Dads Out?: (WLTDO)

Our Who Let the Dads Out? Dads & toddlers group started running monthly on Saturday mornings in December 2019 and over the first few months worked well, with around 10-12 children at the sessions; normally, this was a 50/50 split between members of St. Andrews & Townfield and those with no church connection. We are thankful to Danny Sedano and the team for their work in setting up the group. We stopped meeting in March due to the pandemic and the group has not yet reopened.

David Vestergaard

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Seniors’ Hub

The Senior’s Hub was started in early 2018, and normally meets termly. It is made up of the clergy and communications officer, and leaders of each of our activities which aim at/cater for people of retirement age upwards. The role of the Hub is to support groups from both our churches working with older people; to ensure groups are adequately resourced, provide mutual support, sharing ideas and co-ordinating activities; to improve communication and publicity between the groups and with the wider community; and to develop strategy for the work with seniors.

The Hub met in February, and discussed plans for the “More to Life” mission (which was subsequently cancelled), flyers for publicity, and possibilities for engaging with the community. We also began a discussion on whether there were a potential future role for an employed seniors worker, if this were possible at some point. We met again in June, to consider what we had learned from the pandemic, what we had missed, and what we could take forward. This fed into a wider PCC discussion. Because of the pandemic closing our activities, the hub did not meet in the second half of the year.

All our activities involving seniors were forced to close in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, and at the end of the year, had not yet been able to reopen. These included Women’s Fellowship, Men’s Fellowship, Knit & Natter, Monday Gang, prayer ministry on Sundays, pastoral visiting and home communions, and services in Charlotte House, Leverhulme Court and Safe Harbour. Bereavement care has been limited to telephone support.

We have supported members as far as possible through telephone contact (including involving volunteers to keep in contact with those who particularly wanted a regular telephone call), providing cd’s or dvd’s of services and printed newsletters to those unable to access the internet, and have provided printed services to Charlotte House to be led by a member of staff. The prayer ministry team has been unable to meet but members have continued to pray for those in need, and we have increased use of the prayer chain which is now operated by email.

For Charlotte House, we have been sending services by email every 2 weeks to the activities co-ordinator who agreed to take them. The services have included talks, prayers and hymns either from CDs, which we sent in, or from YouTube links. We had hoped that we might be able to start taking them via zoom but there was a problem with the system in the home. We understand that the residents have very much valued the services during this time, which have sometimes been attended by more than 20.

David Vestergaard

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Heritage Project

On‐line Activity Report

The Heritage Project created as part of the Roof Repair project with grant funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, included a dedicated St Andrew’s Heritage Website that was launched in July 2018. A Facebook heritage page had been running since May 2017. Website: www.standrewsheritage.uk Facebook: @standrewsbebheritage

The Heritage Website went live in time for the Heritage Project launch festival in July 2018. It included key information on the project, snippets of information about the church’s heritage and fully searchable burial records. Visitors can also contact the church via the website, and find out more about how to visit. In considering haw to maintain interest, it soon became apparent that Image-driven Post on Facebook were the most popular for attracting attention, particularly for events.

July 2018 to October 2018 - Key Outputs:

1,452 Website views – 126 Individual Visitors

7,997 People were reached on the Facebook event page for the Launch Festival of which 210 responded either with ‘interested’ or ‘going’.

2020 Actions

In the Autumn of 2020, additional information was added to the burial records in the form of graveyard inscriptions, these being very popular with people searching family history. As events could not be undertaken over the year, the Facebook page had a series of quizzes around the church and village’s history.

Latest - Key Outputs 8,060 Website views since launch – average 20/day 19,169 People who have seen Facebook content in 2020 alone. Quizzes and factsheets proved very popular.

We’ve had visitors from the UK, Australia, France, India, the Netherlands and Spain.

Acknowledgements

Alan Roberts and fellow members of the local Family History Group for all their efforts to record and digitise the graveyard inscriptions.

Callum Peters and Mark Woodger for managing and developing/producing content for the Website and Facebook page.

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World Mission Support

Our established practice is to allocate a tenth of the income we receive through regular giving and open plate collections to supporting mission. St Andrew’s operates a Mission Committee who are responsible for recommending to the PCC the allocation of St Andrew’s share of this tithe. Townfield Church Committee (TCC) fulfil the same role for Townfield.

St Andrew’s Mission Committee follows the principle that work to which we are contributing should have a directly evangelistic element, although it may also include other aspects such as social action. We also aim to spread the allocation widely in terms of geographical area and type of work. Some of the organisations we support we have been giving to for very many years, others are more recent.

The committee members also each act as representatives for one of our mission partners, being responsible for communication with them and with individual supporters in the congregation, and obtaining updates for prayer and disseminating these. We also aim to welcome visits from mission partners where this is practical, or otherwise representatives share information with the congregation, in the form of a focus spot or presentation, covering several mission partners each year in this way. In 2020, St Andrew’s Mission Committee gave support to the following mission partners. All of them have faced challenges through the pandemic and have needed to adapt and change their way of working:

• Bible Society (Rep – Martin Heale) – promoting access to the Bible worldwide – translating and distributing the Bible in different countries, and providing resources and events to promote the Bible in the UK.

• CPAS (Church Pastoral Aid Society) (Rep – Helen Thomas) – providing children’s & youth camps, teaching & leadership resources and training for churches, and acting as Patrons for many C of E churches

• Anglican Province (formerly Diocese) of Chile (Rep – Amy Haigh) – towards training Alex Cordova for ordination, a much-needed new member of clergy for the Southern Diocese.

• CMJ (the Church’s Ministry amongst Jewish People) (Rep – David Halliday) – working amongst Jews, Muslims and others in the Middle East and the UK to share and promote understanding of the Christian faith.

• Crosslinks (Rep – Vacant) – to support the work of Jomo Nderitu, the Diocesan Youth Co-ordinator for Marsabit Diocese in Kenya.

• Wirral Youth for Christ (Rep – Chris Jarvis) – taking the gospel to young people across the Wirral through work in schools, in partnership with churches including ourselves.

• Barnabas Fund (Rep – Rachel Lindsay) – working to support persecuted Christians around the world and lobbying on their behalf, raising awareness of persecution and seeking action.

• Ferries Family Groups (Rep – Vacant) – contributing towards the costs of their new office base and their staffing, facilitating their work with and witness to families in need of support in various ways.

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• St Catherine’s Church, Tranmere (Rep – David Vestergaard) – towards their employment of a young people and families worker.

The Pandemic prevented mission partner visits for most of 2020. However we were able to arrange interviews on Zoom with Jomo Nderitu (Crosslinks/Kenya) and James Hennessey (Wirral YFC), and had a short video slot for CPAS. This is a format which would be useful to continue in the future. We also had an online event with CMJ.

We pray for our mission partners at some of the weekly zoom prayer meetings. It has not been so easy to distribute copies of the various prayer letters from our different partners.

If you would like to receive news updates on one or more partners, please contact the church office. If you are interested in serving as a mission rep for one of the partners, please speak to me.

Our thanks are due to the Mission Committee for their service.

David Vestergaard

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St. Andrew’s C.E (Aided) Primary School

As every report will have said in one way or another, it’s been an unusual year, and that has certainly been true for our interactions with St Andrew’s School. At Townfield we have particularly noticed this, missing our Sunday services in the school, and the opportunity they give us to see all the evidence of the vibrant school life, in the displays around the buildings. We have also missed the opportunities to serve the school community through Toast Club, childcare at parents’ evenings, Messy Church and other events, but we do look forward to exploring new opportunities as soon as we are able. And, as Mrs Lamkin’s report shows, although it has been a year of limitations, there have still been many things to celebrate!

Al Rodgers

It certainly has been a different year for all of us at St Andrew’s Primary School! Throughout two partial school closures and only one full term with all the children in school during the past year, we have still been embedding our school vision in many ways.

Although we were unable to enjoy our usual Christmas performances and church service, the children instead took part in a ‘Christmas Journey’ which involved each class taking a part of the Christmas story and completing art work around this which was then displayed in the school grounds. The children were then able to take the ‘journey’ round the story. It was a very special day for the children which we were able to share with our school community through videos on our school website.

Since all our children returned to school in September 2020, we have focused on Collective Worship in school as we have been unable to meet as a whole school for this.

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This means that we have been holding virtual whole school collective worship which has been a new experience for us all. We have also developed our ‘Worship at Home’ part of the school website to raise the profile of worship, which has engaged families during the most recent school closure. We have been very grateful to the clergy from St Andrew’s and Townfield, as well as Life Church, for supporting us in recording a Collective Worship shared with all the children both in school as well as those who were home learning. We finished the Spring Term, as all the children returned for the last few weeks, with a lovely Easter Service online which all the classes took part in and were able to show and talk about their Easter led activities they had taken part in leading up to Holy Week. We also held a Lent Cross Challenge (both at home and in school) which was part of the Easter trail with St Andrew's Church. We are all looking forward to having our first whole school collective worship hopefully soon, which I know will be a very special occasion for us all in school. I have so missed hearing our children sing in our weekly Come and Praise Collective Worship.

Other highlights of the year have included celebrating Interfaith Week and having the school community support the ‘Heart 4 Refugees’ charity with a reverse Advent Calendar and Christmas Care Bags for local refugees to develop courageous advocacy and Christian compassion.

As a school community, we are really missing our normal interaction with St Andrew’s Church and Townfield.

Mrs Lamkin

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Deanery Synod

We have held two meetings this year. A further meeting planned as a Lay Forum at Chester Cathedral was cancelled due to measures in connection with the Covid 19 pandemic.

4[th] March 2020 at St Andrew West Kirby

After a welcome from Rev’d Peter Froggatt (Area Dean), we had a presentation from Rev’d Canon Jane Brooke (Vice Dean & Canon Missioner at Chester Cathedral) entitled “Chester Cathedral will follow Christ through discovery, encounter and faith”. This was a five year plan implemented shortly after the arrival (in 2018) of the current Dean Very Rev’d Tim Stafford. The plan outlines seven different aspects to the Cathedral’s vision, namely Share the story, Increase resources responsibly, Nurture a healthy organisational culture, Revitalise heritage, Encourage holy encounter, Support the Diocese, Bishop and Christian community and Improve participation and partnership. During 2020, churches were encouraged to have prayer stations in the cathedral. Other activities include a children’s corner, links to street pastors and homeless along with education and exhibitions. In the future the cathedral hopes to be a resource for churches and the diocese.

16[th] September 2020 via Zoom

Peter Froggatt welcomed Archdeacon Mike Gilbertson who outlined more about Setting God’s People Free – hoped to roll out this project across the diocese when possible after the pandemic. Thanks were expressed by Mike Gilbertson for all those helping to navigate through this pandemic period especially parishes utilising technology available to produce services. On the diocesan website there is a “Back to Better” section to support lay and clergy as well as podcasts of conversations with people about everyday faith. We were also encouraged to pray for local schools and encourage youth workers to try and take school assemblies again.

Among the staff changes, Bishop Mark took up the pastoral aspect of his role in late September 2020. Danny Sedano was ordained Deacon in October and Rev’d Al Metcalfe moved to St Augustine’s Ipswich as an incumbent.

Our Area Dean Rev’d Peter Froggatt became Diocesan Director of Outreach (wef January 2021) leaving a vacancy at Barnston and a new Area Dean to oversee the 14 parishes of Wirral North Deanery. In early January 2021, Rev’d David Vestergaard was commissioned as our new Area Dean.

Chris Jackson

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Conroy Trust

The Conroy Trust was established in 1873 to benefit the poor of the Parish of Bebington, as defined by the then parish boundaries. These boundaries are maintained today.

The management of the Trust is overrseen by between three and five trustees. A report on their management is presented to the annual general meeting of the parishioners and this report is for 2020.

The management has the power to appoint new trustees when the occasion arises and the appointment process is conducted by a majority vote.

The current Trustees are Rev. David Vestergaard, Mrs B Cartwright, Mrs Beryl Lloyd, Mrs Maureen Preston and Mr Alan McGraa.

In 2019 the Secretary, Mrs Jean Pilkington retired, and was replaced by Mr Bryan Higgins.

2020 Financial Statement

The summary income and expenditure for 2020 was as follows:

	2020	2020 2019
Income from Investments 6303	Income from Investments 6303	6209
Expenditure on grants	Expenditure on grants 3300	3300 11114
Surplus/Deficit 3003	Surplus/Deficit 3003	Surplus/Deficit 3003 -4905

As at 31[st] December 2020 the value of funds under management stood at £239904 compared to £223779 in 2019. Apart from a current account held at HSBC all investments are held with CCLA Investment Management Ltd.

A modest grant can be awarded to anyone in the parish who is experiencing financial hardship. Grants can also be awarded to charitable organisations within the parish who are working to help the poor of the parish. Anyone interested in discussing grants should in the first instance refer to the chair of the management, Rev David Vestergaard.

Secretary to the Trustees Bryan Higgins

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In Memoriam

During the year we said a sad farewell to the following members of our congregation:

(From Townfield) Bridget Gee Pat Hughes Olive Murray

(From St Andrew’s) Mary Foster Colette Kemp Pearl McMillan Vera Peake Mary Pickford Sylvia Walkley Shirley Williams

Welcome

We were delighted to celebrate the birth of:

(From Townfield) Calliandra Taylor

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Minutes of the Meeting of Parishioners held on the 20 October 2020 at St Andrew’s, Bebington church hall and online via Zoom at 7.30pm

Present: The Rector, the Reverend David Vestergaard in the Chair, and 47 Parishioners and members of the electoral roll.

The meeting opened with an act of worship and a reading from Isaiah 31.

Apologies for their inability to attend were received from Mel Heale, Kate Muskett, Deric Millington, Beryl Parker, Mavis Nicholson, Linda Smallthwaite, Jenny Jackson, Geoff & Rachel Stone and Mike Shevlin.

Minutes of the meeting of 30 April 2019 having been previously circulated, following a proposal by Mike Smith and being seconded by David Jack were signed as being a true record.

Election of Wardens

There being two nominations for the positions of warden, Mike Smith and Mike Shevlin were duly elected for the coming year.

The Rector, on behalf of the Parish, wished to go on record in expressing his thanks to both Mikes for all their work over the past twelve months and their willingness to serve another term.

Receipt of the Conroy Trust Report

Having been printed in the Annual Report, the report was duly received based on a proposal from Viv Halliday, seconded by Christine Smith; with all in favour.

There being no further business, the meeting closed at 7.45pm.

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Minutes of the APCM held on the 20 October 2020 at St Andrew’s, Bebington church hall and online via Zoom at 7.45pm

Present: The Rector, the Reverend David Vestergaard in the Chair, and 47 Parishioners and members of the electoral roll.

Apologies for absence

Apologies for their inability to attend were received from Mel Heale, Kate Muskett, Deric Millington, Beryl Parker, Mavis Nicholson, Linda Smallthwaite, Jenny Jackson, Geoff & Rachel Stone and Mike Shevlin.

Minutes of the meeting of 30 April 2019

The minutes, having been previously circulated were, following a proposal by Alan Roberts and being seconded by David Jack, signed as being a true record.

Electoral Roll Report

The report was given by the Electoral Roll Secretary, Alison Collins. The number on the roll as of 20 October 2020 was 358. This was a fall of 1 from last year’s roll – 8 additions and 9 deletions. The Rector expressed his thanks to Alison for her work. The report was accepted.

Receipt of the Annual Report

The receipt of the Wardens Report was proposed by Martin Heale and seconded by Karen Davies.

The receipt of the PCC Report was proposed by Amy Haigh and seconded by Ann Renison.

The receipt of the Deanery Synod report was proposed by Barbara Bazeley and seconded by Sylvia Tomlinson.

All were in favour of receiving these reports.

The Annual Report was received. It had been printed in advance of the meeting and gave reports on Townfield Church, Youth activities, Growth Action Planning, Wardens’ & Treasurer’s reports, Sunday clubs, World mission support, St Andrew’s Church of England Primary School and the activities of the Parochial Church Council.

The Treasurer’s report was given by Bryan Higgins. The figures were explained in some greater detail. Looking to the overall figures, income for the year was £295,000 and total expenditure was £277,000 leaving a surplus of £18,000. Most of this has come from received legacies throughout the year – something we don’t budget for as we can’t ever predict what we may receive. Income through ordinary giving was £264,000 which would have left a deficit of just over £10,000. This included nearly £45,000 from the Government though Gift Aid, and Bryan highlighted the importance of Gift Aid to our income.

Explaining where some of our expenditure had gone, Bryan highlighted our Parish Share of £125,000 – by far our largest outgoing; the £26,754 for giving outside of the

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Parish: 10% of our income; and noted that the church building expenses include for the likes of repairs as well as insurances and council tax.

For 2020, Bryan explained the budgets had included for a sizeable uplift in giving of 7.5% which was to be part of an appeal during the year. The year-to-date figure is showing a deficit on the planned budget of about £15,000 based on where we hoped to be. Reduced costs due to the pandemic meant the deficit was actually more like £4000, and if it hadn’t been for necessary expenditure on the church spire, the accounts to date may have shown to us to be breaking even.

The Rector extended his thanks to Bryan, and to Libby Higgins, for her their work on the accounts throughout the year.

The receipt of the Treasurer’s Report was proposed by Anne Worswick and seconded by Judith Battersby; with all in favour.

Appointment of Independent Examiner

Mike Forshaw was appointed as Independent Examiner on a proposal by Chris Jackson, seconded by Viv Halliday; with all in favour.

Election to the Deanery Synod

This year we have 5 spaces available rather than the usual 4. This is because the Diocese have afforded us an extra place. Carol Parry and Chris Jackson both indicated their willingness to stand again. David Halliday has been ‘promoted’ to the Diocesan Synod which means he automatically receives a place on the Deanery Synod, and as our 4[th] representative from last year – Danny Sedano – has now left, we have 3 available spaces for anyone willing to stand. It was agreed to leave the filling of these positions to the PCC.

Election to the PCC

There were 4 St Andrew’s spaces available for the PCC and two nominations. Therefore, Val Waldron and Ian Swindlehurst were elected. There were 3 Townfield places available on the PCC and 3 nominations. Therefore, Judith Battersby, Simon Jones and Sharon Mason were elected. The Rector expressed his thanks to the PCC for their work through the year and to those who were willing to stand. He said the PCC would look to fill the vacancies during the year.

Youth work

Chris Jarvis presented a Youth Report giving an update on what had happened since the end of 2019, as an update to the written report. 2020 has very much been a mixed bag. The year started well, but everything had to go online following the initial lockdown in March. This was okay for a month or so, but Chris explained that it proved difficult to spiritually connect under such circumstances, so the meetings became more social in their nature. There was the availability of a Bible study which Chris regularly uploaded to YouTube. There were occasional online meetings over the summer and a resumption of online meetings since the start of term. Unplugged meetings have subsequently moved to in-person meetings in the church hall - youth groups of up to 15 people can meet up whilst adhering to government guidelines. There is also a new youth band practice that has started on Friday evenings to give experience to younger members who are interested in worship. A leaders’ meeting will take place after half-term to decide what Friday night youth work will look like in the short term. Chris also

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mentioned that no work in schools was currently being undertaken for obvious reasons but there is some hope this may change after Christmas. Finally, it was noted that 5 youths had started university this term and had settled well: thanks were given for our prayers in that situation.

The Rector expressed his thanks to Chris for all his hard work.

Townfield Report

The Revd. Al Rodgers expanded on the work of Townfield church. New initiatives were about to start just before the pandemic struck. These included Lent events, social events, initiatives to connect with non-church households at the Townfield end of the parish. A postcard, entitled, ‘Say one for me, ’ was to be posted through doors inviting people to write any prayers that they wished to have said for them and return them to the church. Easter gifts were planned for to be given to residents of Townfield Lane and other close roads inclusive of Easter decorations and thought provoking wording. Unfortunately, none of these went ahead because of lockdown. Services in the church hall are now being streamed live which allows for interaction. This consists of around 30 attending in the hall and around 40 to 50 watching online. It's been noted that some regular newcomers were watching online. The challenge ahead lies in keeping in touch with people, especially for families with younger children, because of the difficulty in engaging with children online. Our prayers are welcomed for Townfield church.

Rector’s report

The Rector provided his St Andrew’s report, and set out plans for 2020. One of them was looking to employ a children’s and family hub worker. The PCC agreed to this at the beginning of the year and whilst in the changing circumstances it is a way off, it remains an aspiration. More To Life was planned for Easter but, having been initially postponed to 2021 has now been postponed again until 2022 in light of how things are going to be looking for the next few months. We had joint youth events planned with Life Church. We were able to hold one such event - which was very successful - and hope to continue this when allowed. We should have the church lighting project completed over the next year. Unfortunately, lockdown brought the Diocese’s approval process to a halt. However, we have now received permission and can go ahead with the purchase and installation of the internal lights. External lights still require planning permission from the local council. The PCC agreed to continue with the project despite the current circumstances, as by doing the lights it will allow us to benefit from live streaming services rather than prerecording, as well as providing for future use of the building. Financially, we have raised all the monies required to undertake the internal works. To complete the external lights, we are still searching for around £11,000. We had planned to undertake a giving appeal during the year, but this was put on the back-burner and, instead, proceeded with a gentler approach - trying to encourage people to move their giving to direct through their bank rather than cash. The giving appeal will be looked at as things improve. Looking to the future, we are in a good position: we have good resources and are not financially dependent on giving although, the Rector expressed his slight concern that giving had dipped below the previous year’s figure. Significant expenditure will be required at some point for works to the Spire. There was also concern with regards to engaging with families and people who don't readily have access to the internet. Obviously, we have no idea as how long it will be until we can commence meetings in person again. This poses real concerns for the likes of Little

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Fishes parents/carers & tots group and Messy Church as we don’t know if we’ll have volunteers willing or able to run the groups when things can restart.

The Rector expressed his thanks to volunteers, staff and readers who have all pulled together in these strange circumstances, for their continued support and their flexibility!

Questions were invited:

• Is it likely that wifi will be installed in St Andrew’s? Yes. It won’t be straightforward, but it will make it a lot easier for the likes of livestreaming services and virtual giving.

• Will the installation of wifi mean contactless giving is possible? Yes.

• Will the Diocese provide any assistance towards the wifi? Nothing financial, but they have provided parishes with a £2000 grant towards covid expenditure.

Any other Business

The Diocese have recently relaxed and simplified the rules on the likes of the PCC and APCM. One such area is allowing postal voting at next year’s annual meeting. The Rector indicated this was a way forward. A query was raised as to how this would work in reality as nominations for PCC members are allowed up to and including the Annual meeting. Would proxy voting be better? The Rector indicated that he would seek guidance from the Diocese on the subject and rather than take a vote on it now, he will bring it back to the PCC in the future.

There being no further business, the meeting closed with an act of worship and the Grace at 8.45pm.

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The Charty Registral*3n Number is :_ 01130323 Bebington Parish Church Report and Accounts 31 December 2020

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Bebington Parlsh Church Trustees, Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2020 The Trust995 present their Rèport Accounts lor the year ended 31 D8c•mb8r 2020. Reference and admlnlstratfve details The chaiity nam•. The al nam¢ ofthe chanty ts."- Btbingion Parish Church. The charity is also kntsvm by its operating nam¥. St Andrew5. and T￿￿fi9k1 Churdm. Th• eh•ftys rw wr•tlon •nd UK eh•rtt•bl• f•glstrntlo Th8 ch•rity is registerad in EThJland & Wales wrth ts Charity COrnmiss￿1n in England & Wales ICCEWI wrth ¢harity numter 01130323. The charity does Tho¢ cperat• in any ovèma$junsdKbons. L•9il¥tru¢tur• of th• ¢hrty The charity Is constituted as an unincofporatgd chanty, •statAtsh8d by Trust Do8d. Tho gov•rning documont of the ¢hanty Is the Trust Oeed estsbltshing th• chanty. The 9oveming document is dated 24 June 2009 Th•ro are no restncbons in the go¥oming d¢eurnents on the op•ratth Of Ihe Chanty or on rt8 inve8trDent POfjfS othèr than those imposad by Chwity Law. The trustetss ar8 811 IndivKluals. Th• prlnclpal op•ratlno •ddr•••. t•l•phon• nurnb•r. •m•ll Ind w•b ddm•M of charlty v•:. The Rectory. Church Roa 8•knngton. Wi￿al Mèrseyside. CH63 3EX Telephon8 01516456478 Email Address [e-mail] Web wJdress www.stsrKlrv•VStebin9ton.orp.uk

Beblngton Parlsh Church Trustees, Annual Report for the year ended 31 Decembor 2020 Th• Trust••• In t>ffie• on th• d•t• th• r•port w•• approTrtd y￿re.. Chri¥ JaC￿C Al Rodgers Dawd HallNJay David Vestergaord G•off Stone Gill Brady Ian Halliday lan Swindlehursl Judith Batsrsby Katè Butlèr Kate Mijskgtt Mikt Ludbrook Mike Smith Carg1 P•ry Val Wakaron Mel Hgale 8ry8n Higgins Mike Shelwn chns Jarvis Simon Jone• Sh¥ron Mason Callurn Peter$ Nathan Stomi Caroline Adamson Th• followln9 p•r•on• vr¥•d M TN•tw• durfng th• y••r •nd•d 31 D•c•mb•r 2020:. In addit￿n to th8 abov8 th8 truslee who sewl dunn9 th¢ pèr￿ bui r•s￿n￿r0Dred dunrvJ the penod wern." N•m• Al Mèt¢aN• Lv£ Tudor Ann she￿In Oanny Sedano Sh8ion Mason Callurn Peters Nathan Storm Chris Jarvis R￿Ign•&R•tIr•d 0411012020 2011012020 1510112020 3110512020 2011012020 1011112020 1011112020 10111r2020 At Ihe Annual General ￿l￿1n￿ mambers v4*￿ semd for 3 years rebre as trustsès. but arn eligib￿ for r•8ppointm•nl.

Beblngton Parlsh Church Trustees. Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2020 Objects and acllvltles of the ¢harlty The pury>oses of the charlty as set out in its governing document. Promotsng in thè Écdè519sts.￿J parish the thole rnts$￿ ol th8 ch4￿. rhe maln a¢tivlties undertaken in relation to those purposes during the year. We havo mn ehtsrth Sunday lor St Andrv•/s and Ttrmfi•kl ¢hurth¥. Du? to the pandemic and consequent restnclions, in March all s•Mcs $VAt¢hed to online. We hav• open8d thè church for seNc6s too wh•n Abl8. and the church hall for T0￿field lrts usual bnue being unavai18blel. but ha ont'nued online semees thioughout thg r8$l ol the year. Oiher regular acbvrtie5 In the 98rfy p8rt 01 the year Induded LItUe Fishe5, Messy Church, Hous8 Groups. Youth Groups and Activthes. Childr•n's Groups., Women's F•ll¢%vship, M•n's Fell(Y•V5hp, Alpha., Prayer Events. hostsng an(1 supportin9 the Church Lads & Church Girts Brigade. in addthon to the actiwbas No￿Ver due to Pandèm￿ th•$? actiwbes worè all paustd or mo¥ed online kn March onwards. The maln actlvities und•rtaken during the year to lurthor the charity s purpose for the publlc benefit. Actiwties ordinarily carried ¢yJl and 8eMng lh• l¢c•l c4rnmunity include Weddiros. eaptssms and Fun¢ral$.' Mamège Preparation. Boptigrn Preparation, 8ern8vem?nl Min15try, Youth actrwbes. Messy Churth. Little Fishes Tocl(Jlor Group, St Andrèwls S¢hg01 Toast Club. xhool assembl￿$. Chn$tm49 and Easter school 8•fyie¢¥. Services in nursing homes and shert•r8d ￿mM0d011On. SFecial Communtty Ev•nts $u¢h 0$ Chri6trna8 Joum•y aTrJ E•sl•r JouThy.' aThJ hosts￿ supports.ng Gu￿1ffj groups and other community groups For much ol thè ￿8￿. to the pandernic. many ol th8￿ •etr¥rtk% had tts be paused. or run onlim. During the pandemic ￿ opened churth for prNate prayer vthen p•m)rttèd." d8v•lcpod Bn online pr¢yJramme Including ¥eM¢￿. refiections and pray8r tim9$. and youth and child￿n.& ministry,. producèd ¢d'$ and dvd's ol s8Mc•s for Ihos¢ without int¢rrt access." and Pfovthd pastorol support by telephDTh8 and vthere possibkn by practical support vthh shopping and ¢)ther need$. We ha¥• also und•rtak•n finanoal 9ivin9 8nrJ prayer support lor Mission and Christs'an or9anisations and activities localty and around th• wortd. pr￿￿01￿ ￿ the ecdewasbral pansh tho mission ol the Chureh. Th¥ trustees have had regard to t￿ Chaity Commow'¢ffi'$ guthnce on publK bfrmfft In mana9ll¥J th? acts'vith•s olth• chanty. The maln achlevements and perforniance of the charlty duw6ng the year. Average Sun¢Jay attendancè could ng1 Èe Measu￿ In the nomial way. baeause frorn March seNces moved onlire due lo the pandemK aTrJ figurès are diffir)Jtt to analyse. We &s￿rnate typical Sunday 'attendance'. incr￿￿tr￿j onli￿. in church when pemiitted. and by cdldvd. a5 approx. 315 Including childr•n. Our test estimates a￿ that th•r• 22 the ￿ngregatr"0n$ 110 by deathl, and approxirnately 16 who joinèd 18duhs and children). Dvrirg Ihe year the PAri$h conducted 26 funera15. 2 tddings and 4 baptisms (all these hawng b￿n aifected by the pandemK restiicbonsl. We unablo tts hold our usual IArgè èvents. bui ¢onnected wth many peoplè throLbJh our wlire ministy.

Bebington Parish Church Trustees. Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2020 The dlfferen¢e the charity s perfonnance during the yoar has made to Ihe beneflclarfes of the charity. Benefits from the a¢￿￿t￿$ Iistgd above have indude<l farth development. spiritual 8nd pastoral support, personal encouragemtnt, ¢J￿el0Kment of gifts and expenence. thendship and cornpanionship. and m8•ting iaNJO of needs for all w. The degree to which the achlovoments andperforniance during the year have benefited wider society. The adivrties listed above have provthd a WKle raryJ8 01 PU￿1¢ b•n•fft induding farth e4)loratson. spiritual support. P8Stor81 care. prowsion ol safMce$ and care lor needs at key lile rnornents, and Se￿￿$ to local Structure, governanc• and management of the charlty The methods used to rncrult and appolnt new Charity trustees. D¢cisions ar• made by the PCC in ¢ollal)oratyon ￿th thè Ckngy Staff toam. and Wofking throu9h subccfflmittees and loggther w*ith vdunt••f k•ad•rs lor groups and Thg PCC me¢t$ at 1oaSI fj tirnes a ￿ar In fornal m•etirvJs of the Council. wlh addibon¥l rne•ting$ ès n￿esSary. In order to organise rts affairs effectively dunrg 2020. Ihe PCC wrat•d the follovAng subcommitt8¢5' Slanding., Finance & Fabric., T￿nfield Churth". Youih Hub. Childfen and Famil￿ Hub. Grtyyth Athon Planning, Evang•lisrn', Missionary,. Powrty AGtson Grwi.. Repair Prwrt Bank•rs HSBC Bank plc- $8 Br¢xnborough Vilaw Road, Bromb)rwJh. Wirral, CH62 7ET Bryan Martin BA. Dip Arch. RIBA. AABC. Arthitect. 36 Bonbury Lane. Byfigld, Northamplonshire. NN116UX Gordon Cain, Quanbty Sumyor. Ros• Cott¥qe, 13 Spring Lano. K•nlknrth, CV8 2HB Architects Sumyort Accountants IP8yrolll KBH Ac¢oUntsn￿ Lld. 255 Poutton Road, Wallasey. Wiffal, CH44 48T Ilndèpendenl examiner) Hairws Wolts Chartèr•d Aceountanls. 3rd Floor. Parific Chambers. Vi¢toriD St, Lib•￿001. L2 $00

Bebington Parish Church Trustees, Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2020 Financlal revlew Tho charitys financial position at the end ol the year ended 31 December 2020 The finanei81 posrtion of the charity at 31 December 2020 and comparatives for the prior penod. as more fulty d¢tailed in the accounts. summansed as lo1￿5- 2020 2019 N•t In¢om• 126.876) 17.775 Unrestriclad Rèvènltè Funds availablo for the qeneral purposos ofth• d)8nty 865,672 892,548 Restricted Raven￿ Funds Endow￿￿t A•￿n￿ Fund$ Total End0wm￿t lunds Tol•l Fund• 865.672 892,548 Flnaneial review of tho posluon at the reporting date, 31 December 2020. Our total irt¢orntr for the ye¥r was £288.S61 8Th1 our total •yndrtur £315.437. an accounting daficit of £26.876. During 2020 our fin•nual p0s￿On has indicated Ihat nom)•l running are genwany on tXKlg8t. d•splt• a lall In plann•d yiving due tg thg pandern￿. but alL8waled by a corrnsponding rsducty'on in ¢xpendrture on church activrti•s du• to ￿￿¢￿$ of dosure. Any financial Impli￿119n$ of the Roof Project have b8•n finalis•d durHW 2020 on receipt ol a final grant payrnent frorn HLF. an(J s&tU•mènt ¢1 any bills rdabn9 to the project. As at 31$t DKernber 2020, ￿ held lunds towards the Lighting project ￿0untsng to £40,298, having paid out £20,017 in daposrts for mattrriols aThJ equwerrt towards the 8TrJ ol tho ytsr The trust••s eonshlèr thè financial ￿rfo￿￿Or￿* ol the thanty to b8 s8tisf8Ctthy.

Bebington Parish Church Trustees, Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2020 Policles on reseThes. It Is PCC policy to maintain a balance on unresth'cted fvnds %thich equate5 to appr9￿M8t8￿ ￿ m¥nths' unrestncted payrnents In addity￿ to £20.CW to ¢g¥er emergency srtuatsons %thich may arisè from tsma to "rne. At 31 OÉc•mbèr 2020 unr•sth"ct8d resorv•s amcthted £865.67212019- £892.$481. Availability and adequacy of assets of ea¢h ol the funds Th• board of trust••s is Satssf￿d that Ihe charitys assets in each fvnd are available adequate to fvlfil its ctjligatsons in respect of oa¢h hJThY. Detalls of Tho Indewnd•nt Examlner Mr MKh•o1 Fotshaw FCA Hain•i Watts Chart•r8d Accountants 3rd Floor. Pacific chaffl￿r¥ Victofi• Str••t Livorpcol Mersey$idè L2 SQQ

B•blngton Parfsh Church Tru8tso8' Annual R•port for the year ended 31 December 2020 Statement of Tru8t••s' Re•pon8lbllftlo• Thè charitys Inm¢¢￿ rwonthf• for w•p￿tiOn oflhe •ct¥Junts in •cc4ydanc• th• le￿8 of th• Ch•fitios Act 2011 and Ihe Chont•s (Accounts and Rep¢￿) Regulations 2008. Nohth$t8nding the explicit r•4Ltirem•nt in Ihe exl•nt Ilatutory r8gLsiqbonJ.Ih• Charibos IAcc¥)unts and RopDrt81 Regul•t￿n 2008, to prepare Ihe finanuo18tstements ift #t£ordarK wilh the SORP 2005. In VI￿ of thè ta¢t that the SORP 2005 has been ￿thdraWn. th• Tmst¢e$ d•tormir%•J to int8ipr¢¢ r•8pon8thilty 09 r¢quiring to follow current belt practice Bnd prepar¢ tr xl# teginning on or after 1Jt J•nuJry 20191. (Th? SORPI. In ￿rtICUlar. ch•rlty law Tns•le•s. If th•y wepar• •ccounts on in acouals b•818. to pr￿r¢ financaal 8tatements for each finan￿81 year gNe a and loir ¥w ofthe 8t4te of affairs gf the chaity gj at th• •nd of the fin•ncKg1 y••r •nd ol the JuWu• or d•fi￿ ol th• th•rity. In sry?•rw)g tho• fIn•n￿•1 statwnent• th• TnAt••8 arn lo:. . to pr•￿￿ th• Je&Junl• ITh •¢¢¢ythnc• ilh Unit¢d IGnoJom GonW￿l AcrApl•d A￿O￿ntIr￿j Pf•ctic IUnrt•(l knr¥Jdtym Ac¢tyJnbng Stsn(18r(l$ •nd •thlc•bki bvwl. - Ml•c¢ •ult•bl• •ceiuntiThJ pdi¢iM •Thl th•m con•i•lenty, - make iuQg•m•nts aThd •¥bm4ts9 that •r• rna8onJl)l• and prud•nL - pr•par• th• financial stst•m•nls on tho goiThJ conc4m b•w unlw rt r• In•pprowfj•l• to pmume that th• Cont￿￿¥ in bun•M". - 8t#ts %th•th•f •Wlc•bl• •t•nd•rd• and •ttsm•rrts of r•comm¢nded prnetth ha¥• b¢en k)lod. subject to •ny m•lerial d￿•rt￿m$ dijdoaed and expl•wd in th• fmanwl •t•l•m•nts." Tho law r•quire• th•t t￿ tru8t•e8 rnltyt I￿t •pprov• the attount• th•y are Ih•t they gi Iru? and f•ir ¥i•w ol Ihe •¢•t• ot •ff•irn of the chanty •nd of th• or ¢•fio"t ol tho thaiity for the y••r. Th• Tn1•t￿• ar• allo ￿p)n•￿e lor m•intalnNN •dequ•t• ai¥)untlng recoryl• dlJdo•e %trlth reasonable accura¢y at any limo th¢ fin•n¢J•l posit￿n ol Ihe chorrty •nd are $uffid¢Tht to show and explain the thanty's trans0d￿n8 8￿bI? th•m to •n8urn ihat th• fin•no•l •tat•ments wnply wAth gulation8 mad• under the Charits A¢1 2011. They ar• al•0 re•pon8ibl8 for Sa￿9￿91￿4ng lh• as88ts of th• Char￿ Ir￿ honr• fry l•kty r••aonablp • for th• pr•¥•nOw and d•t•con of fr•ud •nd 0￿r irregul•ril•. Tru8t•es thre akno re•pon•ibl• lor th• wrt•nt• of th• TiuJteM' wart. •nd thè •t•tutory r••ponbility of the Independ•nt Examiner in r¥l•tioA to the Tn*le¢•' report i• limited io ex8mini+1g tho rnport and eTr8vrin9 that . on thg f•c• ol th• r•pori I￿re ar• no mat•rid ¢n￿n¥1$1•tKi•8 thg figurm thx4ox•d in th• flnanri•l •tat•rnont8. This 2021. MR BRYAN HIGGINS TnJste•

B•blngton P•rl•h ChU￿h Report of th• Ind•p•ndenl Examlnw to th• Tnwts•s of th• ¢h•rfty on th• accounts for th• y••r •nded 31 D•¢•mb•r 2020 I report to IM Tn•tses ikn my exarrin•lbx ol the lkn•n¢yd terrwts of th•rity on k)tyes 10 tts 32 for lh• ye•r anded 31 Dece1￿ 2020 which hava b8•n prepof•J in acc¢YdarKe wth tha Chth• kt 2011 Ilhg Act) and with the FiTrawal Reporting Standard 102. left¢the 1$1 J¥nuary 20161 adapted to moet th• of unin¢L+rporntsd organiiallons. 01 by FRS 102 SORP Istaternnt ol R•cUr￿￿ Pracbu for Accounbng •nd Repoiting by Ch•rits8I 2015. 1a• wr1￿ded by thB Bulebn Ortd>er 2018 and ¥￿"¢¥blo to awunts'rvj periods b•ginTriThJ on iy 4118r 1st Janu•ry 20191. (The SCIIPI. p￿l￿e0 by the Chanty Eng￿nd & W8kn8 ICCEW). arxl undw lh• hi8tml cost convention Jc¢ounting aal out on page 18. A8 Owibad on p•9• 7, you, lh• tharilli Tno1e•¥, th• Fwarntyw clth• fv•n¢i•l Jtstrnl• •cWrdaD￿ the Cb•nbeJ 2011 •nd ylKabb• l¥ Hnd ￿ Unrtad Kiiiqd￿ G•n•r•lty Accwtqd oursts.ng Pract￿, •ppkncabkn to wrthr effjbts, and l¢f sa11$fi￿1 that the financi81 it•t•m¢nts gN• • tru• •nd IAII vlthv. Th• Tw$l•es con•thr th•t th• •udit of S•cbon 144111 of lh• Chrlbe• 2011 (tr kai do•1 not •Fpty. •nd thAt th•r• l¥ no rnqulrWr￿nI th tl GoNrnry Dor￿1 tr th• of •n 0￿d￿ ￿ • conwu•nc4. th Trust••4 h•vo ei•thd th•t th• firwd•l ilat7wnts be lo irthpwthnt wmln•kn. Hwry mywif th•t Ih flnwKthI •t•knnts arn nol Iwhd to b• audlt•J und•r My 1•9•1 prov61kn, or oth8Th¥lM. •nd •lvJW• forlrMl•wtht ex•th•lkn, It kn my ty... •) •X￿￿￿O th• fin•nLY￿ 81•tw￿l¥ rflh• th•rlty 145 01 bl fow th• •PF4kth w(rt•durn• kn th• gk¥•) ty tr• Chw6ty ••dkn 14ySllbl of 8••ls ol Ind•p•ndrt Exwnlll•rf• St•t•m•rt and Kop• gf 4vot urthrt Slnc4J th• ch•rW8 gr￿ •xe•ded £250.(KlJ. th• dwrftys •XWT4n•r mult b• • of • body ht•d In ¢lon 145 of tr Act. l emfirm that I urn1wtsk• th• •x•nknath)n b•c•uM I wn •n •uthotl••d mt•r ol Ch•rteTed h£O￿￿t•1￿. whl¢h i• one oftr• Iwlad bods. I ryrt in r•sr4ct of my ex•mination ol lh• charilf4 fln•nraal ill￿￿￿1$ cath•d out 1145 ¢rf th• In rryln9 oul My eMmin•lion. I tolu￿ •1 fv ykcablfr by the Ch•rty COrnn￿oI10n undor 14515Mbl ol Ihe ALI out tt d￿1￿ ffidyrJ•nt •xwnw io IM Mnducbng of An Indyndent 8x8mln•tion. kn iTrJ•p•nd•nt inchkl61 • r•vkn of •wxmting I￿0￿00 k•pt by thg •nty and ol lh¢ •cwJnJThg $y•teThM •ff¢4oy•d by IM th•iity and • rJJTVriW of the Ilmnd￿ $t•tsm•nts presented lth th0￿ recoth. It s￿0 ctswderntion of •ny unusu81 diKSxurni in thè fin•ndo1 its1•m￿ls, M•king el￿n•t￿l from YVJ, A• T￿￿1¢￿, c•ncmiry m•ii•r•. Tha wrpoi• of I ex8msfi¥tson l• to alt8tlkth M far Ih41 Ihw• no of th•rty legMl•b"on •nd that, on It relovani •muun ¥•d dm¢￿1¥￿1 mul•. lh• fin•ncid •t•t•Trwnts rAxIWy with th• SORP. Th• woc•dur•i do not IM •¥wj￿ lh￿ y￿￿￿ ￿ rnqufvj in •NI infom)•tlon 1uppl￿d by th• Tw•¢w in thts of Ihe ex¥rHnabffi li r￿1 &ubie¢thd to •udié t•its or •nquiriB5 •nd does nol v•r •ll the mitt•r¥ th•t #n wAltor wouhj 8th"r¥J at an The pl•nnkng •nd rthduct of •n oudit Cwuenlty. I do not •n •udri th• 9N¢n by th• fin•ncaal 8tatemeTrts, and in I •yw8ss no cWnon u to th￿1h8T Ih fThnc4al Slateffents givo a InA •ThJ la￿ vivw ol tho affarn ol Ihg tharity. and my r¢port li limled to the mtter• W r￿rt in th• $tstom8nl beby. l F4•Thr￿d and wrformed my wmination ￿ as lo that th• <J•clNts ol knYgFeThl•nt •x•mlnodon ar• achknved aThJ t•fort fin￿￿￿r￿j tr rwt l obi8irJ a6wr•nc41 from tho Tnwt881 of al matsrial matt•r8.

B•blngton Parlsh Chur¢h lThJ•p•nd•nt Exttmkn•rf• Stat•m4nl R•p•rt Ind OpknloTr SubJ6ct th lh8 IMIM￿￿¢￿S w tho sw of rny th 88 d¥lalod cWrt•d ry oyAmln8lM.' con fkn Ih•t- Th• gross Inc4rr of Ihe Cha￿ty kn th• y•ttr en(led 31 D￿￿ber 2020 •ppe8r8 lo exc4￿1 tho wm $pfj¢ifiod In Se¢lion 145(31 ol Ilw A¢1. £25C(W, th•1 1 om qu•M&J lo xl &$ Inde￿•nI Exr4Mor in 8¢¢ordnrr TN$ ￿ o i•pryl In ol ￿ qunlnwtbJA iyjl urtht 146 ot th8 A¢1 Jr¥J kn a¢(ryd￿• llh DlrnGlk bythe Chlty ConW••knn und•r 1445HlJl rl I￿ Act M￿ba •prlc•blo'. and thal no niwi h•v• lo ry •N•Jthi lh• •xamWn glvkng ¢•uM bal•v• thal Irh ￿Y m8l•W ro¥ped.". •o￿L41ry r•c•th nol k•pi kn I•9P￿￿ rwhd ty ilh 8Dt4on 13Od Th• cha￿[￿ fv4 2011.. 8(toimii lol wl In lh• Chath￿ (Accounts 4nd R•pNlsl 2(￿ oth8r Ihpn wy rmurr￿0nl th81 t hav¢ nol W VOFW8d lft knlth th• m•li￿dI •MI #et lh8 FRS 102 SORP {Stsl8mwl ol RKtynrrffid•d Prnc• fty ar￿ R•porfty by Ch•rfUwl 2015. {•• am8n(1gd by th• 8ulleUn la¥U￿ kn O¢iob8r 2018 •n¢J 41 accwiW¥ of 1st J14M￿ry 20191. IT￿ SORPI. I hw• no ¢¢fj¢•rn$ and have M•thwmitt•r• th• all•rf 11gMd:. Mknw•l F¢nh•w FCA . Ir••Wo11• Chrtor•d Vl¢torie L￿41p0 L2 SQQ Thi8 repy1was on

Bebington Parish Church . Statement of Flnancial Actlvltles for the year ended 31 December 2020 Statement of Financial Activities for the yoar endod 31 December 2020 CuTh•nt y••r ¢uvr•rty•nr Unrnstvlet•d RMtyi¢t•d EndoMn•rt Fun¥¥ Funds Fund• ¢urr•nt y••r Total FundA 2020 2020 2020 2020 In¢gmg & Endowrn•nts Irtyn: Donations & Le9aries Ch8rit8bb Investments A1 282.926 282.926 4.056 1.679 1.s79 Totsl In¢om• 28•M1 288.561 Exp•ndltur• on.. Chantable actiwti•s B2 31S.437 315,437 Tol•1 •¥p•ndStur• 315,437 316.437 N•t Ineom• forth• y•r 126,8761 126,876 TrAn•f•rn b•ts¥••n fund• N•t In¢om• aft•r trnnf•n 126,8761 126,8761 N•t mov•m•nl In fund• 126.8761 126.8761 R•con¢lllatlon of lund•:. Tot•1 fund• brought for4v•rd 892.548 892.546 Total fund• ¢arrl•d fopw*rd 866.672 865.672 The'SORP Ref indiuted abo￿ Is the dassificalion of income s•t out In th• fomal SORP documents. As Tr P8r8graph 4.60 ofth• SORP. the brcwht forward aThJ camed loMard funds have been agr•8d to the Sheet. A Statement of Total Rec￿n￿ed Gains and L059•s is ifK4ud¢d as a primary statement in these accounts. All acliwiies derive frcm ¢c￿rtinuing operation$ The notes attached on pages 16 to 32 fomi an int•grnl part of these accounts. 10

Bebington Parish Church - Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 December 2020 prtor Y••r Prforyw Prlor Ymr Pdor Y•ar Tot•1 Fund¥ SORP Urw•8trfct•d ft•¥trld•d Ehdowm•nt Fynd Fund• Furlds 2M• 2011 201• 2019 Incom• & Endowm•nts from: Donaty'ons & Le9acieJ Charitable Inv•strn•nts A1 280,858 14.544 212 260.868 14.$44 212 Total In¢om• 295.614 296,614 Exp•ndltyr• tsn: Chant8bl• bth"wti•s B2 277.839 277,839 Total •xp•ndlturn 277.839 277,839 N•t In¢om• for th• y•ar 17.775 17,775 Trnn•f•r• b•lw••n fvrtd• 11.084 19.7741 11.2901 N•t Incom• ft•r hn•hrn 28,839 19.7741 11.2901 17,775 N•t mov•m•nt fund• 28,839 19.7741 {1,2901 17,TTS R•conclll•tlon of fvnd•'.- T+)tsl fund# brought lorwrd 863.709 9.774 874.773 Totsl fund• ¢•frl•d foThv•ryl 892.548 892.548 All a¢tlvftles derlv• from contlnulng operatlons The notes attach￿ on pages 16 to 32 fom) an Intsgral part of these accounts.

Bebington Parish Church - Statement of Finan¢lal A¢tlvlties for the year ended 31 December 2020 Statement ol Total Recogn1¥￿ Galns and Losses for Ihe y¢ar ended 31 t)fjcember 2020 2020 Surpluj for th• y••r:. Ne¢ e￿$8 ol Ir￿￿¢ over QXF¢wkliture from oporatjons téforn tax Realised gains on disp05al$ of social inbwlments artr progfamme r•lat•d 126,8781 Incomg from vp•rntlon$ b•lorn in th• Stst•mnt of Fln•n¢l•lA¢U¥ll•¥ 126.8761 Add(d•duct) non In¢om• •nd •xp•ndltur• Il•m.". Grant$ for the acqu151tion ol fixed assèts N•t M•v•m•nt In fhtnd b•lorn t•xatlon 126.8761 Fund• g•n•r•tsd In th• y••r •• •h¢)wn on 8lat•m•nt ol Flnnetsl Aellvlt 26,878 The notes attach￿ on pages 16 to 32 forni an Int•gral part of th￿? •¢counts. Beblnglon Parl$h Church - Resources applied In the yéar ended 31 December 2021 towards fixed assets foi Charlty use:. 2020 Funds genera¢ed in th? y•ar a$ d•la1￿￿ in SOFA 126,8781 N•t r•¥our¢•J av*llabl• to fund charttabl• xllvltles 26,878 The resources applied on fixed assets for charity use represents the cost of additions less proc•f disposals. Tho not•s •tt•ch•d on pages 16 to 32 fomi an Integrnl of these x¢ounts. 12

Bebington Parlsh Church - Slatemont of Flnan¢lal Activities for the year ended 31 December 2020 Movements In revenue and capital funds for the year ended 31 December 2020 Rgv•nue accumulat￿ funds Tot•1 Fur Ful￿$ 202 Fund¥ 2020 Fund% 2020 2020 Ac¢umulat¢d fvnds ￿ught forymrd 892.548 892.548 R$cognised gaing and losses before transf•rs 126.8761 126.8781 865,672 868.672 (Fromyfo unr•sthct•d r•v•nu• lo•lng r•v•nu• fund• 65,672 86S.672 Summ•ry of funds Vhmtrlthd R••I￿d•d Endowrn•nt Furbd• Fund• Fun 2020 2820 2020 2020 Revenue a￿[￿ulated fvnd8 865.672 816,672 The notes att•ch•d on pag•s 16 to 32 fonn •n Inl•gr•l p•rt of th•s• accounts. 13

Bebington Parish Church - Statement of Flnanclal Actlvltles for the year ended 31 December 2020 Beblngton Parlsh Church Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 31 December 2020 as requlre Companles Act 2006 2020 In¢om• Income from operats'on$ R•funds from HMRC on gift awjed dI￿atrOn 243.931 43.051 Inveslrnent income In¢ome from Inwtrnonts, oth•r than thrnst rnC8iv8blo Inler•st r•c•ivabl• 1.450 129 Gro•• In¢orn• In th• y••r l¥•for• •xc•ptlonl li•m• 288,561 Gro•• Ineom• In th• y•r IMludlng •X¢•Ptlon•l It•m• 288.661 Exp•ndllur• Chantabk• •yndrtur•. •xdudirvJ deprnuabon arnorbsat￿n Gov•rn8nc• ￿sts Realiged1039es on di8pos of social investyngnlj •r• pr¢4romm• r•lat•d 314,777 Tot*1 1x￿ndIturn In thè y••1 315.437 N•t Incom• b•lor• tax In th• fln•n¢lal y••r {26,8781 Tax on surplus on ordinary O¢ti%Mi¢s N•t In¢om• #ft•rt•x In th• IlnanGl•l ymr 126.8761 Retaln•d surplus for th• fln•nclal year 26,876 All 8CtNitse8 derive from continuing operalion$ In accordance wth the prowsions of the compan￿ Act 20C6. ts headirg$ and subheading3 us•d in thè Ir Expendrture a¢￿Unt have b88Th ad8ptÉd to refi•ct thè sp8ual natur• oftho chaws actrvths. The not•s attached on pag•s 16 to 32 form an Integral part of thets• accounts. 14

B•blngton Pavl•h Church. B•knn¢e 3h••t M at 31 1>oc•mb•r 2020 2019 Flx•d a•••l• TangilJl• •swts 10 h2 855.132 655,1J2 11 B2 26.157 225.830 C••h •t b•nk INJ in h•rKI 203.981 2S1.993 y••r 12 C1 118.3591 114.5 210.540 237.416 TM t¢Aml MI •w•t• ¢lth• cl 672 8•2.548 Unr•Btrtt•J R•￿n￿ Fur 16 03 18 D4 .672 TAS.872 ••2,540 Th8'SQRP Rrf iTrJKatad •t¢ r4 thv clB•sffutw ol B•1￿c SW rt•m• • Mt rArt in lts lornMI SORP docu￿nts. Al rwuir•d by pwagrw 4.eo of SORP. loTh¥ard •nd forward fI￿dI •bth hm twn •ar•¢d to S￿￿. Examlner Is on p•gv 9. Rev DAVID VESTER¢YARD Trusta¢ ro¥*d by th• bo•rd olllU¥IDw on 11 15

Boblngton Parlsh Church Not0$ to the Accounts for the year ended 31 D•cemb•r 2020 1 A¢¢ountlng pollcl•• Ba•1• of p￿￿￿tIOn and •¢couTrtlng conwntlon The a¢¢ounts have b￿n prepared on the accxua18 basis, ￿￿or th• hmtoricgl ￿n¥n￿on. and in ac￿r￿an¢8 wth the Fin•neAI R•portir4 St•ndarnl 102. l•ffethvo 1sl JaThu•ry 20181 Jnd 'FRS 102 SORP ISt#lement ol Pra¢lic• for A¢¢oursb"ng and R•pornr#J by ChartOosl 2015, lai aThTrJed by thg Jlletsn ilsued in OCto￿r 2016 applicabl¢ lo al account￿9 pentyJs beginning on or after 181 Januèry 20191, 1Tho SCMIPI. publithtid by tho Chanty comrni8￿c￿ in England & Wakn ICCEWI . •ff•ctiw Jnu•ry 2016, , and in accordJnc• •th all appliub W in th• t•nV• jun￿1¢0￿ ol r•giJirntion. •xe•pt that th• tharty h•s prepared th• finan￿81 slat8Th￿nI8 ￿ acwdonc¢ tr• FRS 102 SORP ISt•i•m•nt of R0￿MMended Pr￿11¢0 for Actounting Report￿9 by Charit￿) 2015. la• SIr￿n￿¢d by the Bulbtin 118ued in October 2018 •n¢J applI￿b￿l to •ll •ccounting ￿riodS btginning on or aft•r 1st January 20191. (The SORPI. In pr•ferenc• to Ihe pr•wou$ SORP. ts SORP 2CQS, h•$ b••n lthdrthwn. nO￿lth11nd1￿ th• thot the extsnt statutory regulations, the Ch8rth8 IAccount8 and Roport•l Rtyul•llon• 2W8 rth •xpWy to th• SORP 2005. Tho ha• be•n ¢Jone to •ccofd currnnt but prteb￿. 001Thg Con¢•rn Thg chgrttable •¢UvW r• •ntli•ty ¢J•p•rthnl on ￿ntInuIng grnnt KI and ¥olunl•ry don•lon• •• wll •• trading rev•nu•s. A• a conwuer￿0. the COn￿M b•81• }• dtspendent On I1￿ fijlufe ftow of IheB• uncert•ln funding $tr••m•. Aety)rdingly. the TNst•O8 ha¥• obtair￿¢ fore￿$￿ •nd, Jftef f•Vitr•wng Ihe fin•neial for•c••t• for tytur• p•rté• to 31 D•c•mb•r 2020. thè Tw¥t•es sati•fif•J th•t, •t lh• tsrn• ol •pproving th• finant4•18t•t•mants, it is •ppropn•te to adopl the ￿ne•rn b•i• irt prepBriry thg fin•nuo1 •tat•m•nts. Other than th••ts m•ll•rn, lh• Truit•tt rn ￿ aw•re ol •ny m•twi•l Un￿rt•InrtO• about th• th•rlty• •bllfty to continu• g• 4 going c4n¢•m. Rl•k• tsd luluv• uurnpJon• Th• ch•rity i• • public •ntity. Ilalor rf•k8 lof IM PCC •r• eur•nity trither finano•l ¢Y prop•rty Key ri•k•.' . Income fad¥ to kwp P•L tAth KKre•w• in P￿h Sh•r• Publ￿ ￿l￿ty ond mintstry i• compfomwd - Fun4$ are Trot w•ll•bkn to wy stsff Ml•ii - Fund8 are not 8vailabkry ¢0 wt co•t• of••••nts•l •Thl MI￿1￿M•￿t Ath'ons to mitwJ•t• ri￿$. - Provl8 Peri￿1C eyplan•lion to con9rw•lton tthl ¢)ur fvndl •T• ua•J and tho to Wh7••B• rwul•r gfvlng. - Rogular promotion ol regular gMr¥J and 18x effi￿nI qi¥mg xhemes . SFerial app••h to be to m••1 thtt• ¢x••ts." Poll¢l•8 rnktlng to e•fvgorf•s of incom• w￿1ft¢0m• r•¢ognltlon. N•iuY• ol Incom• GroB8 incorne repre￿nI$ th• th. ol •¢haed tax •nd di•(¥)unts, of gooJ# wovJed to wthmer• •nd tjrk eam•d out ift r•sp8rt of Servi￿ provbjed lo c*stmr 16

Bebington Parlsh Church Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 Cat¢gorf•s ol Ineom• Ineorna Is categorised as income from •xchaThJè transxbw (contract income) and inc￿• from hon- exchanga transath"ong19ift51. inveslrnent inc(¥ne aThJ olhw incomè. Income from txthange Iransactions i8 receNed by Ihe charty foi or 5eTrices supphed under contract or where entitlernenl is subjact to lulfilliThJ perfonnan￿ ￿lated COnd￿.0ns. Tha incomè thè chanty recetbw is approxima18ty equal in value to the goods or Se￿I￿S suOd by Ihe tharity to the purchaser. Incomè frorn a non-excharge transxbon is thè chaty rwivgs value the donor wthoul provid)ng equal value in oxthangè. and indude¥ dorbthns ol money. go&Ys and s•r¥w Imly gi¥•n wthout giwng •qual value in exthange. In¢om• r•eognlllon Income. whether from •xd)angs or rw ?xchary transactsons. is r8cognis•J in Iha stst•rnènt ol financial actiwtiès ISOFAI ￿ a receivabkn basis. vknon a transaction or other event results In an increase in charity's assets or a rsduthon sn 115 liat4.11t￿ an¢J only Trthen ￿ chanty has l•gal èntrtlemenl. ts Income is probabb and an bo rneasufed reliabty. Oivkdends ar• accrued v4h8n tho shateholdw's ri9hl to rec4fft pwn•nt is establishad. Incom• subj•et to tènn$ and condrt1￿9 thKh muit t• m•t b•for• dwrty ty entrfknd to the re8ource5 18 not recognised ¢Jntil th• coThlitions h•v• b￿n m•t All incom• is acc4)unt•d fv gross, deducb'ng any relatsd fe88 or costs. Accountlng fty d•f•rr•d In¢¢yn• •fid In¢¢)m• r•c•lv•d In adnn¢• Where tenn6 WKI conditions MlotrrrfJ to inctvntr ho¥p not been met of un¢￿1•1nty •￿St$ as to whothor th• charity can meet any ¢erms or conditions otherwse within its ￿ntrol, Incorne VJ not recognised bul is ¢J8l•rr•d as a liabilty unbl It Is probablè Ihat the term$ or ￿dbOr￿S Imposed can bo m•L Any grani thai 1$ ¥ubiecl to perform8ncfrrd•ted conditsons r•￿1¥ad m adv8nce of delwrin9 the gOCas and eNces required by thot condibon, or is $ubJ¢cl to urrnet condibons olly outshl8 Ihè control of the f¢ryp￿nI eharty. 1$ •c¢ounted lor os a 118bilty and shown on thè bal•nc $h¢gt as defer￿ income. Detsrred incom8 Is r•legsed to Ineom• in the tgporb'ThJ Feriod in thich th• pWfom)anCw￿a10d or ¢ondibons that limit reccgnition are meL When income from a grant or donthn ha$ not boon reccgnffjed due to the coThlii￿s applwrKJ to th• gift not ing wholly wilhin the ¢onlrol of the reapient chanty. rt ts di8elos8d 0$ ¥ ¢cffib'ThJ8nt asset il receipt ol th8 grant or donation Is probablè onee Ihose conditions are met. whe￿ tirne ￿lated condrtions ar• impos•d or Irn￿￿d by a lunder, then the income Is apportiomd tts the timè panods eoncèm•d.and. ￿ere applicable, Is a¢￿Unted lor as a liability and sho￿ on the bal8￿￿ Sheet as deferred incorne. When grants are r8C8IV8d in advance ol the expenditu￿ on th• ath.wty lundad by them, but t￿re arg no spe¢ifrc time re¢ated condthons. then the Incom• is not dèfèffed. Any conditson that allovra for the reco¥ery by th8 ¢Jonor of any u￿x￿ndd port 01 o grant dceg not prevent recognition of Ihe income conc8ff￿, a Ikqbilrty to any repayment is recognised rwaym•nt b8eomès pwbabl•. 17

Bebington Parish Church Notes to the Accounts for th• year ended 31 December 2020 In¢om• frorn 1ogacS0• Incomè from kgacies is recognised when the charity ha$ sulfia.ent evthnce that a gift ha5 been left te thèm, that Whe￿ required. prcJate has teen granied. the exc￿Or is satisfiéd ihat the property In question wll not be uired to sab5fy claims in lh• èstatè. thai It is probable thai the amount will be received by the charity. and thg amount to be received can be esbmated sufficient accJJracy. ond that any eondthns attad)ad to the legacy are e4ther wthin thg control of th8 charfy or havè been met. Wh¢re a paymant Is rec•ibd from an estattr or is nob"fd as receivable by the execuM after the rgporbng dal• and belore the accounts are aulhorised for issue but It Ys deor that thp poyment had agro•d by th executors prior to the end ol Ihe rgporting pericd. then the amount concemed is treated as an adjusts'ng event and Atcruad as Incom• in th• aectyJntiThJ period rf receipl ts probable. Where the charty has established entrtlement to a bgacy but Ih8r¢ 1$ untèrtainty as to thè amount ol the payment. detsils of the le9ow orgd15dosed as a contsngent asset until the cnteria for income recognition are mèt. Wh•rn a legacy is subj•ct to th8 inter•sl of a h18 ten•nL ts legacy is not reC￿nI￿￿ a$ incom¢ unts"I thè death ol the life tenant. If it is doubtfvl that full setuement of a1og•cy dobtor r•C￿l￿d, th•n an adiu$kn•nl Is mad• to reduce the arnount ol th• lagacy débtor and Wcy irKcm• rnther than ¢argirvJ the adjustrn?nt ¥$ ¢xpenditur• in th• Statement of Financial Actswties Donat•d go¢)d•, felllll• #nd ••r¥le Donated fixed a¥￿t$ arg rewnised at ¢urr•nt laff valu•. All such donats'ons ar• r•cognised as donats'on incom•, and d8bit•d to ffix•d a$s8t8. Oonatgd gO￿J5 that ar? not fixed ass•ts •r• c￿nIed lof ai a fair ￿lUe. unlos8 rt is impracbcal to reliabfy m•asur• the value ol th• donatsd Items. In the absence of any dired evhyoneè ol fair valuè ol donal8d goeés. thèn a value is ¢Jeri¥d from the co61 of the item to th• ¢Jonor or, in thè eas• of goods that are eygec¢ed lo te >old. the ￿￿'Mated wal? v•1￿ aftr deductin9 any anlirjpated cKJsts of sab$. If rt 1$ Impracticablt to rneasur• thè lair valuts ol goods donated for or ihe costs ol valuation ouMigh th benefits, the donated goods are recojnwd as In¢orno then se4d. ￿ an •quivaf•nl amount b•1ng recognised as an expgn$¢. Th8 costs ol goods donat•d lor th$lthl￿n to te￿￿¢1￿1¢8 Ys dwned to be f&'r Val￿ of thoa• goods w)on receipt. Whgn Ih? goods d18thb￿èd Ira•ty or for a nominal consK1•rabon. then the carrying arnount Is adiusttd at the ol sab8. to the value at the wnl of distnbuts'on and thg au$tm8ni ts lhown os 8 cost ol donations rnade. Th8 carryir¥J wnount of any stock for dist￿U￿￿ fty imp8imi•nt at thè roporbrrfJ date. ￿1 donated goods are rgwnI5ed as donation Incom•. and debited to trading Stod(.When trading sto¢k ij subsaquently sold. or appropnatsd to rneet an expersse. then the urrwng value of the stock Is rècognis8d as an expense. In a¢¢ordancg wlh the SORP. gocJs donattd lor disthbLrtion to benefiuanes. or for consumption by tho charty are Inclu¢J•d in Y•98c￿S and dOna1K￿.. GG>Js don8ted for res •ro indudgd in 'ln¢c¥ng from other trading acfv'vilies, The tXSt of any $io¢k of goods donatèd lor disirl)ulitin to b•Mfiu"afi88 is doomed to be the fair value of those 9ifts at ihè time tsf Iheir I￿lPt. lithè goods held are to be distributed f￿lY or for a norninal consideration. then the carryng amount is subsequenuy adjusted to ￿￿ect Ihe lowEr of deern•d tosi adiustod for any loss ol serv￿Ce potsntsal and replacrn•nt cost. Rwacement ¢osl Is the economic c05t incurred if the charity was to roplace the seNce potential of ts donated goods at ts trm èyns• in thè most acon￿1¢ Man￿1. Donated Serv￿ and lacilths lindudin9 Second￿ ¥tsff and use of property) ar• indud8d in th& accounts on the bas15 of ihe value ol the gift to the chanty. I donated serwces and faulibes a￿ recogntsed as donation inwne feceived,Iprowded th8 value of tho gift can be measured reliabtyl and rtcognis•d as an •xp•nse wih an equwaknt value. 18

Bebington Parish Church Notes to the Accounts for Ihe year ended 31 December 2020 Policles relatlng to expenditure on goods •nd serwces provided to the charfty. R•¢ognltlon ol lhblllt1￿ and •xpondliur• A liabilty. and the relaled eyndibjre. i8 recognised wtsn a18gal or cor6lrucM ￿#Ja￿Dn exists as a result of a past 8¥nl, and when r( is more likely Ihan nol thal a transfer ol Ocon￿¢ beneffts wll bg requtred in sewement. and when the amount ol the oNigation be measufed or rd￿bty estsmated.. Liabilili&s ansing trom ftrturn lunding cornmrtments and Constr(Kb￿ oblvJation5. Induding pèrtornianc¢ Tr18ted grants. ¥the￿ the tirning or the amount ol the fiAure ewendrture requtred lo sellle the obligation ar8 uncertain, give n5e to a pro¥M¥￿n In the a￿Ounts. 15 revwed at the a￿lUntIng year gnd. The prowsion ts increaset1 to rellect any increas•s in liat41￿&S. and is d•cr•asod by the utilisknon ol any prow$￿n ￿1n t ptrriod. and reversed rf any provL4ion is l¢)ThJer required. These movements are charged or credited to the r•sp•ctiva jnd xtMtse$ to proM$ion relotos. Volunts•rn In accordance the SORP. and in recOgn￿on of th8 drfficulbes in placing a rnonetsry valu8 on th• eonlnbution from volunlegrs. the con1n1￿￿on ol vduntogrs Is not Induded wlhin the of the ¢hanty. H¢h￿ver, the Iwstees value Ihe sNJnificant c(rfthutw made to ￿ acb'wties ofthe charity by unpaid ¥olunto•rs and this is d&sMty•d mor• fvlty In Not¢S. Pollcl•s r•l•tlng to •￿•ts. Il•bllhl•s 4ndprnvlslon3 and oth•rmaffws. T•nglbl• Ilx•d•M•t Tangibkn fixed assets are measuf•d at their onginal cost val¢A. or subs•qu8nt r•valuation. or il donat•d, as dèscnb•d •bove. Ctssi Vol￿ indu(Ses 011 wen¢Jed in bnrv4in9 the asso¢ into its int•nded workin9 condition. D•btor• D•btor3 mea3ur•d at their recoverable amounts at th? b4anco Sh￿ date. Cr•dlt•rn •nd provl•k)n• Creditots &r• m•8surnd at th•ii r•cov•robl• amounts ot th• balanc sh••t dats. P•nlon•- d•nn•d ¢ontrlbutlon ￿fv•fft Th• Chority 9￿rat¢S o defi￿1 contnbution Fen$)n sdvTre. ContsutwJns are charged to the profit and loss account as th•y become Payab￿ in accordanc wlh th8 ru￿$ ofth• sch•m•. Fund Accountlng Unrestricted fvnd$ orè #vailable for u3e al disryets'on of the tru$tees in fvrtt*rance of the ggngral obj'ectives ol the charity. Designated fun(J$ a￿ Un￿$triC￿ed funds eamiarted by the Trustees lor parts"cular purposes. Reslncted funds are subj'eded to restridi￿9 on their expendrtwe inF￿se￿ by the donor or Ihrough th? tefm$ ol an appeal or as Implied by law. Endowment funds are ftjnds donatsd to the chanty. where the funds shall be Invested and the charity shall enjoy the benefit of the In¢orne from the capital fvnd. but where restri¢bon5 are pla¢xd on Ihe use of the capital. 19

Bebington Parish Church Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 2 Llabllity to taxatlon The Trustees consthr thal the satisfs thè tèsts set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 01 the Finance Act 2010 for UK corporats.on tax pU￿Se$. Ac(x)rdirHJty, the Charity Is potentslly exempt from taxation in rtspèet of incorne or Capital gains re￿1ve￿ vnlhin categone5 COV8red by chapter 3 part 11 of the Corporatyon Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxatson of Chargeable Gains Act 1992. to the extent that such Income or gains are applièd exclusively on the 5￿CifiC Charrtab￿ objects of the and for no othèr Pu￿$•. Value Added Tax is not wovernue by Ihe chanty, and is the￿101 induded in the relevant costs In the Statement of Financial AthMts. 3 Wlndlng up or dlssolution of the chaffty If upon wnding up or dissolution of the charty there rema¢n any #ssèts. afttr thè satisfaction ol all debts and liabilits'es, the assets representgd by thè accumulatèd fvnd shall te transferred to some other chafitsble body or bodigs h•¥ino Jimila¥ otpcts to th• chanty. 4 N•t surplus beforn tax In the flnanclal y•ar 2020 2019 The Su￿1￿$ t•frr• tox in th& finanual ￿al is 8tat•d after ch•rgiTrJ'.- POns￿n costs 802 733 6 The contrbbullon of voluntwr• We depend heovity on lh¢ sUPPOrt ol volufitsè￿. Alm¢)st every ovent and acbwty ￿ have undortak•n h88 be•n tam•d out oither entirely by them or fvir help. O¥er 200 volunt•èis committed counttes$ hours to our a¢IMt￿$ dunng the yèar. Th•if SUPPOrt Is valued enomiously. The arr4ng•rnènts wth ¥olunto•rs are difficutt to ¥8lue In monetary terns and ha¥è not téèn recognised in the Stslernent of Financial ActiM•S. Thè volunt••ts and the charity accept and ogree that no contract ol •nployTh•nt ￿ ueat•d by these arrawrients. 6 Staff ¢o•ts and •molum•nl• S&l•ry eosts 2020 2019 Gross Solorie$ •xelL¥JiNJ bust¢•s aThJ k•y managemont personnel Employ•fs operating C051s ofdefined contribufw pewion sth•m•s 45,307 45.005 733 Total ••l•rl•B. w¥g•8 and r•lat•d eo8ts 46.109 46.738 The average number of part th'me stsff •nploy•d in thè ￿arWa$ The averagé number of lull tsmts staff employed in the year was The estirnated fvll D'me equivalent numtér tslall siaff •mploy•d in th• y•ar was 20

Bebington Parish Church Notes lo the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 The •¥tlm4t•d equlv•l•ntnumberolfvll tsme st•ff d•ploy•dln dllT•rnntactfvib•s in th• y••r w4s.'. Engaged on thantable ath"vth"•s rh• •stlm•t•d fvll thn• equlv•l•nt nUrn￿r of •ll ¥tsff •mploy•d •s •bo Nerthfrr th• tru$to99 nor any pernorts conr*ct8d wlh ha￿ receised any remvneration from Ihg tharity OT ony rdated entity, •11￿{ in thg Cwent or prior year. No employt•s received emolwnents lexeluding Fen$ion ￿$ts) in excess 01 £60,¢￿ par onnum. 7 Defin•d contrlbutlon pension sch•mos Any liabilrtes and ass•ts associated Wilh ts ¥dwie are shM uTrJ8r debtors ar￿ credrtors. 8 R￿)Un8ratIOn •nd payments to Trust••s and p•rnons ¢onn•ctod wlth them No trustees or p•rsons conn•¢ted them receI￿d any r•mUn•rat￿ from ts chaiity. or any relat•d •ntity. 21

Bebington Parish Church Notes lo the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 9 Deferr￿ income- Unrestricted and Designated funds Current Y•ar Irwn l•#s r•l•ts•d •¢ y•ar •nd In y•ar Donatsons for Iglesia ArvJlicana M Blake ITownfieldl B Ftetcher (Curtains) Messy Curch IT￿nfield) Townfield wk¢nd VV 8ak•r donation Mission hJnd$ Jèan Gnffiths- BI￿•$ ar#J Pfq8dor Femes Families Toi191 T￿nn1￿4 430 2,006 soo 38S 385 200 3.850 2,588 Tol•l 6.971 3.018 9.989 2020 2019 Th••• d•f•rral• ar• Inelud•d In ¢r•dttorn 9.989 8,971 PnTor Y￿r D•l•N•d O•l•rnl¢ Irom prfor IM• r•l••Md It ymr •nd In y••r Sundry itwn$ under £lOC Indonesia appeal M Bl8ke- Townfiak Fernes Famil￿9 Tovmfield %￿ken¢j W B8k8r donation Mission fvnd Indonesia Appe Ferries Familyag T￿l•t TwnnirrfJ 510 3,623 14801 {1,8171 2.OC6 385 310 385 13101 200 8.050 462 1.200 3,1C 231 11.1001 12311 16001 12321 1.850 Total 4.570 1,8SO 8.971 2019 2018 Th•se d•fgrrnl• •r• included In credilorn 6.971 9.691 22

8eblngton Parish Church Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 10 Tanglble fix•d a$sots Cun¥nt Y••r Land and Buoldings Pl•nt & Machln•ry Motor V•hltl•s Total Colt At 1 January 2020 655.132 655,132 At 31 O•c•mb•r 2020 666.132 655,132 D•prn¢fj•￿on At 31 D•¢•mb•r 2020 N•t book ￿lu At 31 DK•mb•r 2020 656.132 655,132 At 31 D•e•mb•r 2019 655,132 656,132 Prlor Lnd and 8ulldlng• Plant & M•¢hln•ry Motor V•hl¢l Tot•1 CNt 01 January 2019 855,132 655,132 01 J•nu•ry X*20 665.132 66S.132 D•precI￿On N•t book v•lu• 01 J•nuary 2020 656.132 655,132 01 JIn￿ry 2019 655,132 655,132 23

Beblngton Parish Church Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 11 Oebtors 2020 2019 Prepayments and accrued incom Other debtor5 1.484 23.454 4.082 22.075 24,938 26,157 12 cr￿￿0￿. amounts falllng duo wlthln on• year 2020 2019 Aceruals Deferred Income. Unresln'cted & de5vJnated lur¥J8 Other creditors 7,279 9.989 1.091 5.986 6.971 1.818 18,369 14.$77 13 Penslon commltm•nts 2020 2019 Pension commitments under defi￿d benefiVdefir*d wrtrknLrtion wthin om year 157 159 167 169 14 In¢om• Jnd Expendltur• Kcount summ•ry 2020 2019 At 1 J•nuary 2020 IDefiritllsurplu$ after lox lorthe yoof 889.548 126.8761 874,773 14,775 At 31 D•c•mbgr 2020 862,672 889,548 24

Bebington Parish Church Notos to the Ac¢ounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 15 Partlculars of how particular lunds ave Trpresent￿ by assets and liabillties At 31 DK•mb•r 2020 UnlKtrfi¢￿ Dmlgnthd Endownn•nt Rwtrfjct•d ds fun fvnd$ Total Fund¥ T4ngible Fixed Assèts Current Assets CuFrent Liabilities 655,132 228.899 118.3591 655,132 228,899 118.3591 165.672 865.672 At l J•nu•ry 2020 Unr••trfct•d O••1gnai•d Endowrn•nl ft••trlct•d funth fund• funds Total Fund• Tongibkg Flxed Ass•ts Current Assets Current Liabilrt 655.132 251.993 114.577) 656,132 251,993 114.6771 892,548 892,S48 18 Ch•ng• In total fund o¥•r th• ymr as •hown In Note 15, •n8lys•d by Indlvldul funds Fynd• bvo¥g1rt Mov•m•ni l•pré Irorn fvnd¥ In 2020 b•twn fipnth In 2020 Funds c•rYl•d forw•rd ¢0 2021 S•• Ilot• 17 8•• Not• 18 Unr•strlct•dnd d￿19n•t•d fvnd.'. Vnrestn'cled R•￿n￿ Fund$ 892.548 126,8761 865,672 Total unrntrl¢t•d •nd doslgn•tsd lund• 892.548 26.876 865,672 Totsl Gharlty lund• 892.648 26.876 865,872 25

Bebington Parish Church Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 17 Anatysis of movements in funds over the year as shown in Note 16 In¢(xn• E¥p•ndtturn G•lns 4 Lo•u• 2020 Ilov•mgTht In fvnds 2020 202 2020 Unr•strkt•d •ndd•slgn•l•d funds... Unrestricted Revenue Funds 288.561 {315,4371 126.876} 268.S61 131SA371 126,8761 18 DotallJ of transfèrn b•tw￿n Th• tr•n¥lw¥ •hown In n•¢• 16 •bov• •rn.'. 2020 Tollfrornl Unrestricted Revenue Funds in accord•n¢• ¥&ith Iho a¢¢ountiNJ polw'A¢¢otsntiNJ lor ¢apiio1 gr?nt$ Ènd fixèd ass•t funds.. T￿(frOM} R•$tri¢t•d R•v•nu• Funds Tollfroml Endownent Revenue FurKI N•t tran•hr• 19 Th• purpos•s for whlch the Unrestrki•d I￿dd￿l9n•t•d lunds... Th89• fvnds held for the meets'rw the objects'ves of the charity, and to provide res0￿$ for fvture #th"V￿"$. and . srtJtct lo charity1•gislation. we fre8 from all resthcbons on their use. These funds are 9eneral fvnds whKh us•d for PCC ordinary purpw$. Unr•strict•d R8venue Fvnds This fvnd reP￿entS the unrestncted fijnds donaled, but whère the funda ha￿ been allocate<J for a purpose. This year funds have been nnglenced for rvw rotsf. and 4190 lor irnprovèd Ivjhting and other smo11 proj¥¢ts. Doswnat•d Rev•nue F¢Jnds 20 Ultlmat• ¢ontrolllng party The chafity under the control of its18gal rngrnbgrn. Every rnemter of tha charity ha$ unJimit•d ioint and s•vèral lknqbilty for the d8bts ol tho chanty.

Bebington Parish chU￿h Detall•d analysis of incom• and •xp•nditur• for th• y•ar •ndod 31 D•¢omb•r 2020 a5 requir•d by tho SORP 2015 Thls an•ly$is is classsifi•d by ¢onventionalnomin•l d•scripkns andnot bya¢livity. 21 Donatlons. Gr•nts and L•gaci•• CuTh•nty••r Cwr•rrt>wr r4r Cyfftnty••r Unmtvkt•d R••tvkt•d Endo￿1￿1 Totsl Fund¥ Fund Funth Fund• Prfor Y•ar T•t•l Fund¥ 2020 2020 2020 2020 Don•tions and 9ift• Irom IndhTldu•l¥ Small donations indiwkJualty ks$ than E1000 217.575 217.575 222,319 RofunY6 from HMRC on orfl aithd donations 43.051 43.061 44.951 Large donati¢)ns indNbJu•Wy ov•r £1CI)O 1,500 2,161 Totsl donatlon• •nd g1ft• from Indb¥ldu•l8 207.126 267,128 269A31 Don•tknn• and #lft# from Sndl¥kluah Iln¢lud• HMRC rnfvnd• on glft •kl•d donallon•l- Prlor Y••r •n•ty•l• Pthyw PvlwY••i Prfor Ymr Pdor Y••r Unmtthtsd R••trkt•d endvMnl Tot1 Fut Funds Funds Fund• 201 y•ar 2fj9N31 269.431 Cvvrnrty•r Curr•fil y••r ¢urr•nt y••1 Unrnstvkl•d kntrt¢t•d Endowm•nt T•tsl Furth Totsl Fund8 F￿dI Fund¥ Fur•d• 2•20 20X+ 2020 2011 L•gacS08 r•c•l¥ab Anonyrnous 8.427 Totsl kg•¢1￿ rne•fvbl• 8,427 L•gaclo• r•c•lvbl•- Prk+r Y•ar aMIy Prfof Y••r Prfor Y•r PrlorY•ar Unwutrtlwl R•strl¢t•d EndoMn•nt Funds Fun#• PFlwY••r Toial Fub 2019 2019 2019 Prior ye•r 8.427 8A27 27

Bebington Parlsh Church Detsiled analysis of incom• and 0x￿ndi￿re for th• year •nd•d 31 ￿¢ember 2020 as r•qulr•d by th• SORP 201S Cuff•n¢ s•1 Cyvr•n¢ b•r ¢uTh•nl yur prtor Yvr Unw•Jltht•d R•Jtii¢i•d Endowm•rbt Total Funds Total Fynd• Fun F4M x+ 2020 2019 Rovfrn￿ gr•nts from gov•mrn•nt and publ1¢ bodl•• National Heritag• 15.800 16.800 Total publ1¢ ••¢lor rnv•nu• grnnl• 15.800 1S.81)0 R•v•nu• gr•nts lrnrn gov•rnm•nt •nd publlc bodSM- Prlor Y••r an•￿ Prfor Y￿1 prttsrYMr prtor Y••i UnF•Blrt¢t•d R•ll￿1•d Ehdowm•nt Funth Fuh Pdor YMI T•t•l Funth Prfor Y••r Cymnt h•r Cun•rtt y•i C4wrnthy••i Cuvt•thiy••i R••lrtct•d Efftdowmmt Total Tot•l Fund• Fun Fun Furi 2•X 2•20 2020 2019 Capllal grnnty Ir¢ffl non publk bodb•s Garfiels Weslon F￿nda￿.On Arthknshopi Counul 3.000 Total prfvat• M¢tor¢•pll•l grnnts C•pll•l grnnts Irom non publ1¢ bodiM- Prlor Y￿r Mty•lA Prlor YMV PvbDrYMr prtor Y•r Prfor Ymr Uhfv¥trkt•d RMI￿l•d ETrdown•M Fun Fun Fund• 70ts1 Fund 2(+1• 2011 Prlor Y•*r 28

B¢bington Parish Church O•tailèd analysis of incom• and •XFWKllknt for thè yoar •nd•d 31 D•c•mb•r 2020 as r•quir•d by the SORP 2015 Total Donations. Grants and Legacies Total Donations, Grants and L•gacles A1 282.926 ZJ2.928 280,858 Prk4rY••r Tot1 Fur 2019 Prlorye•r Fund• 2019 Fund• 2019 Fund¥ 2Q19 Tot1 Donations, Grants and L•oacl A1 2JO.851 0.8s1 22 In¢)m• from ¢h•rltabl• •ctlvlll•s- Tradlw Actfjvltl•• Curnnty••r ¢umni y•4r Cuvr•nt y••r Curr•nt y•ar Vnrwtstsd R•irkt•d Ehd¢hvm•nt Totsi Fund¥ Fund• Fun Fund• 2020 2020 Prfor Y•ar Tot•1 lund• 2020 20 Prlmary purpM• Ind •ncllhry tradlng Activities for gen¢rabn9 lund$ Incom• from churth acbvth8 2,365 12,179 4.066 Totsl Prkn•ry purpo8• nd nclllary tr•dlng 4.066 4.066 23 Tol•l In¢om• from ¢hthatsl• •¢llvllks Cyvr•nt y••v y••t R•itht•d Ehdowmnt Fund• 2020 Curr•nt y••r Tothi Fund Prlor Y••r Curninty••r Fund• 2020 Total Fufid 3•2Q 2020 Total from ¢hant*>lo IradifV4 4066 14,544 Tot•1 from ch•rllabh a¢tSvlU¢• 4,056 4.056 29

Bebington Parish Church D•tail•d anal￿1$ of Ineom• and •xp•ndiiur• for thfr year end•d 31 December 2020 as required by the SORP 2015 24 Invo$lment Incom• CuTh•nty•r Cuwr•rrt y•r Cumni y••i Currnnt y••f UAmttkt•d RMtrti•d Endwm•nt Tot1 Funds Fw Funds Prlor Y••r Total Fund• 2020 20X+ 2020 Property Rental Incor Bank Inlwest Receivat4e 1.450 129 1,679 1.450 129 212 Totsl Inv••trn•nt In¢¢yn• 1.579 212 Inv••bm•nt In¢om•- Prfor Ywr n•ty•l• Fuh Fund• F¥n Tatt1 Fund* Prlor Y￿1 212 212 30

Bebington Parish Church D•tsiled analysis of In¢om• and expenditurn for th• ￿ar •ndpd 31 ￿Cember 2020 as r•qulr•d by thè SORP 2015 2S Expndltur• on charitabl• activit••s- DOr•¢t sw￿1￿9 ¢urt•ht ￿r Currnrrt y••r ¢ufr•nt >•i Cuty•nt y•ar PdorYMr Unw•Btvktsd ft•strfj¢tsd EndoiMnt f•L•I Fuftd# Tol•l Fund• Fund• Fun Currnnt Y￿1 2020 2020 2021 2020 2019 Gross wages and salaries- Charitable a¢bvils Defined contribution pensiM costs chantable a¢livilies Giving outside the parish Church mission (incl youth. V•ekend & school) Church office & general running Oxpenses Parish $h•re Chuich buildings expenses Grfts and pre$enlalion8 Roof Pfojecl expenditure 45.307 46.307 45.00$ 1102 7JJ 24.850 24.160 26,754 10.127 10.127 18.0 17.456 17.458 23.7•9 128.486 75.145 3.524 128.486 76,146 3.524 9.080 126,362 62.251 270 112,0791 Totsl dlrnct sp•ndlng 82• 314.777 314.777 277,179 PrIorY￿r prtor Y••v ilomtrf¢tsd R•sitht•d Enoowrmnt Toil Fun Fuffidl Fund¥ 20t• Prlor Year 2019 2•1• Gross wage5 and salartes- charrtable activities Defined contribution pension costs charitable activities Giving 9￿$1￿e the parish Church mi$sion (incl youth, ￿fekerbd & School Church office & general Nnning Parish share Church buildings expenses Grfts and Pfesentation$ Roof project expenditure 45.tJ)S 46,006 733 733 26,754 20.764 15.094 15.094 23.799 12S.352 S2.251 270 112.0791 2J.799 125.J52 $2.251 270 112.0791 Total direct sp•ndlng 27T.179 277.179 31

Bebington Parish Church D?tsil•d an•lysl$ ol In¢¢)m• and •xp•ndilure for th• y•ar •ndod 311)ec•mber 2020 a$ rnqulred by thè SORP 2015 26 Othèr Exp•ndltur•- G0￿Man¢• costs Cuvr•nt Cuty•nt y•r Unwwtrl¢t•d R•¥tvkt•d Endo￿nI T•t•l Fund¥ Fuh Fund Prloryur Totsl Fund• C￿￿ent Y•ar 2020 2• 2020 2020 2019 Independent Examinerf$ fee$ 060 Total G0￿MIn¢• ¢oAts Al th• eXpe￿I￿Ule prior year was unrnstrKt•d. 27 Totsl Charltabh •xp•ndllur• ¢urw•nty•4r Cuwr•nt y•4f Pvlor Y••i UnMirl¢l•d R•Btrkt•d Endo¥ffi•rt Tathi Fund¥ Totsl Fund• Fund• Fun Fund• 3020 Curr•nl Yur 202• 2019 Total direct spending Total Govemance costs 824 82• 314.777 314.777 880 277,179 660 Tolal charftsbl• •xp•ndI￿I• 82 316A37 31$A37 277,839 Al th• expendrture th the prior year w1 unrestrthd. Y••r Vhr•itrkt•d Funth Prforyur Ywr R￿11￿1•￿ Eniloin•nt Ttytsl Fund¥ Fun<l• Prlor Y••r 2019 201• Total direct spending Total Governance co$t$ B2• 82• 277.179 277.178 660 Total chrFtsbl• •xp•ndltt•rn 82 277,839 277,839 32