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2022-12-31-accounts

THE PARISH OF DRYPOOL

In the DIOCESE OF YORK and the DEANERY OF HULL

THE CHURCHES of St COLUMBA, St JOHN & VICTORIA DOCK

ANNUAL REPORT & FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for 2022

Our vision is “To Proclaim the Christian Message of Hope to the People of Drypool Parish”

FOREWORD

This report is published by the PCC in accordance with the requirements of the Church Representation Rules that ‘require an annual report on the proceedings of the Parochial Church Council and the activities of the parish generally’ to be received by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting.

As such, it is a legal document and much of its structure is prescribed. The PCC hopes it will be an interesting read and helpful as the Parish carries on its mission to the communities of East Hull.

Reports on the activities of the three DCC’s, and other groups for which the PCC or DCC’s take direct responsibility, are detailed and cover a huge range of activities.

Further information about the various church activities can be obtained via the web site http://www.drypoolparish.org.uk

or the Parish Office at 139 Laburnum Avenue, Hull, HU8 8PA (01482 786553).

All three Churches have Facebook pages and our Privacy Notice is displayed on the web site.

https://www.facebook.com/StColumbaChurchDrypool

https://www.facebook.com/St-Johns-Rosmead-Street-108212454394785

https://www.facebook.com/victoriadock.church

The PCC would like to thank everyone who has worked tirelessly during this year to make our Churches a lively and vibrant community. Special thanks to all our Ministers (Ordained & Lay); to those who lead worship, to our Churchwardens, to all Council and committee members and to all our many other volunteers in so many areas. Thank you all so much!

THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF DRYPOOL

ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

_________________ The Parish of Drypool , situated in the older eastern area of the City of Kingston upon Hull, is the largest parish by population in the Hull Deanery. A Team Ministry was established in 1980.

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of the Parish is a charity directly registered with the Charity Commissioners (no. 1130341). There are three District Church Councils.

The Charity’s Trustees

PCC members who have served from 1[st] January 2022 until the date this report was approved were:

Team Rector (St Columba): Revd Dave Griffith-Jones (Chairman) Team Vicar (St John’s & Victoria Dock): Revd Martyn Westby Curate Revd Jonny Guy from 25/6/22 Churchwardens St Columba’s Lynne Scott Carole Harvey Diocesan Synod Members Canon Richard Liversedge (Vice Chairman & Treasurer) Cathy Westby Deanery Synod Members Jean Clark Elaine Galloway Cathy Westby Elected Members Ron Gooding John Saunderson Angeline Bowes to 11/7/22 Melanie Whetton Judith Axford from 24/4/22 Rose Wragg *Marlene Harrison (Secretary)

It is agreed policy that Readers are not ex-officio on the PCC but they are eligible for election. The current licensed Reader is Margaret Liversedge. Joseph Ingram is a Recognised Parish Assistant.

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The Church Councils

Parochial Church Council (PCC)

The PCC has the responsibility of co-operating with the Team Rector in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. The PCC is the legal employer of any lay workers in the Parish (currently Lois Thomas & Jodie Whetton).

Full in-person meetings resumed and as usual the PCC met each quarter (plus a short meeting to elect the officers).

During the year the PCC dealt with some significant items:

Standing items at each meeting:

District Church Councils (DCC)

Officially established DCC’s exist at all three churches and these dealt with many other issues at a ‘local’ level.

The method of appointment of PCC & DCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. The PCC & DCC’s comprise the Incumbent, the Team Vicar, the Churchwardens, those elected to the Deanery/Diocesan/General Synod (who serve on one DCC), other members who are elected at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting by those on the Electoral Roll or who are co-opted. Members of the congregation are always urged to join the Electoral Roll, and to stand for election to the PCC and/or DCC’s.

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Overall Perspective of the Parish

“You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” (1 Peter 2:9)

2022 was a year of 3 Prime Ministers and 2 monarchs! It was also a year full of opportunity for our 3 churches to live out our identity as God’s chosen people and to declare his praises to the people of Drypool.

There has been lots to give thanks to God for in 2022, as you can read in the reports from each church. A few special ones that affect the whole parish were:

Finally, a mention of two precious members of our churches who died in the Lord at the beginning of 2023. We’re thankful to the Lord for Graham Wragg, who was a Lay Reader in our parish, chaired the DCC at Victoria Dock and has been one of the key people the Lord has used in building and caring for that congregation. We’re thankful too for Norman Pacey, who was a member at St Columba’s throughout his life and who edited the Drypool Echo. Our prayers are with Rose and Liz.

2023 is a new year, but our identity and calling remain the same, as the verse above reminds us. We are still chosen by God. We represent him here as priests who tell Drypool about Jesus and pray to Jesus for Drypool. We are set apart to belong to God and to live lives that please him. We are his personal treasure, and he continues to delight in us. We seek together to declare his praises to the 24,000 people in our parish who don’t yet recognize him or worship him.

Dave Griffith Jones

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St Columba’s Report

2022 felt like the year when we put Covid behind us and were able to get on with being (as our identity statement puts it) “by God’s grace a family who follow Jesus and reach out to our community”.

In 2022 we particularly concentrated on the “Growing in Unity” part of our vision to grow in faith, unity and number. We gave a large section of Sundays to hearing from Philippians, and its call to be partners in the gospel “in humility valuing others above ourselves, not looking to our own interests but each of us to the interests of others” (Philippians 2:3-4).

So we were able to start sharing the peace at Communion again, and to receive the bread and wine together at the table. Our DCC promised to lead by example in talking to people we don’t normally talk to on Sundays and to build relationships across the divides. Our commitment to our church family was shown in a significant increase in the levels of planned giving compared to the year before.

We have not been inward-looking though. Clare Nelson from Compassion UK came in May to tell us about child sponsorship, and a bunch of us signed up to sponsor children in Mexico. Now that Lynn Treneary has returned home from South Sudan, we have started a new link with Tim and Miranda, who help Christian missionaries in north Africa from a base in Spain – they hope to visit us in person in 2023. We welcomed people from the community to events like the quizzes run so well by Dave Williams and John Saunderson, and to groups like Starting Blocks for young families, led by our wonderful Families Worker Lois Thomas. In the autumn, we used our Season of Invitation to invite people we know to church.

We’ve loved having Jonny and Suzi Guy join us since July as Jonny starts his curacy in Drypool. Jonny has taken on leading our Wednesday Central group, and helps out at Starting Blocks and our Thursday Night Thing for families as well as preaching and leading on Sundays.

One memory from 2022 that will stay with us was the death of Queen Elizabeth II, in many ways a wonderful example of what it means to follow Jesus in serving others before ourselves. We held a service of commemoration on the evening before her funeral.

As 2023 beckons, we’re focusing more on the “Growing in number” part of our vision, aiming to be partners in the gospel who “hold out the word of life” to those around us (Philippians 2:14-16), so that more and more people can know the life-giving power and life-changing love of the Lord Jesus. We’re praying that God uses us to draw more and more people in Drypool to himself.

Dave Griffith-Jones

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The Churchwardens report on the fabric and contents of St Columba’s Church for 2022

Church

The down pipe which was dangerous has been attended to. We have had some roof work done. A diseased Ash tree has been taken down.

We have had a projector and screen installed which we were granted faculty for this was completed in October.

We had an issue with failing plaster in the church this has been inspected.

The lightning conductor has been inspected and we have had our electrical equipment PAT tested.

A second handrail has been installed in the entrance porch, faculty was granted for this.

Hall

Nothing to report

Grounds

A diseased Ash tree has been taken down.

General

The church wardens would like to thank everyone who has helped to keep the church buildings and the Garden and grounds clean and in good order.

Carole Harvey and Lynne Scott

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St John’s Report

It has been a very exciting year for St John’s. We have

established Wednesday Wow which now regularly has about 40 regular attenders. We have also established a weekly Sunday Service again which also has 35 to 40 regular attenders which means that we have now about 70 regular worshippers. It was great to have a large number from St John’s join the Parish away day.

We also still have a Wednesday Morning Communion which has 5/10 regular attenders. Our Pantries have grown significantly as people struggle, and many now stay longer as we advertise as a warm space for people. Our Thursday craft/friendship group still meet and offer great support to each other.

We also have seen the fruit of sending Jodie and Angie on the Diocese Mustard Seed Programme, which aims to train and enable congregation members in mission in the Parish. It has led to being able to employ, with Diocese funding, Jodie part time to be our family worker. This has been a real blessing.

A big thank you to Cathy for all she does for WoW and the pantry, Mel for doing so much support work, to Jodie for her work with the families and to our small but amazing group of volunteers.

Fabric report for St John’s

We have had our Quinquennial inspection and largely came out well. We are working through the relatively small number of jobs that need doing, which have including spraying floor to kill woodworm, easing the doors and freeing the side chapel doors. Outside drain covers will be sorted in the near future. We were grateful to the Archdeacon for funding half of this inspection. We have spent money on a new projector.

The allotment/garden has been kept up well thanks largely to Calvin and Angie who will look to develop a team to move forward the allotment and the rewilding for biodiversity.

Martyn Westby

Report from Children and Family Worker

I was appointed a community minister in September and I started my role within the church as the children and family worker in Oct. This has enabled me to meet more family's and give them support...I was already running a playgroup but this has grown from strength to strength, I have started Co - leading WOW with Cathy and Jonny. I ran a support group on a Tues since Oct for struggling parents, this has now been changed and I do 1 to 1 with the mums...I am looking at hopefully starting a new group soon to support more parents. I am around on Tues and Fridays at our Pantry to talk to and guide our community and meet new family's. I am grateful and honoured of the support St. John's have and are giving me.

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________________ Jodie Whetton_

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Victoria Dock Church Report

This report comes at a time of great sadness for us as a church after the loss of Graham Wragg. Graham was a founder member of the Church and an instrumental and committed leader from the start. He put himself forward to be a lay reader and fulfilled his licence not only fully at Victoria Dock but throughout the Parish and also at St Michael’s Sutton when needed support there. He was in many ways Reader in charge and shared leadership with myself and other previous vicars. He was always an amazing caring man, at his best when helping people and a great support to the community work at St John’s. He will be very much missed and we will be forever grateful for his contribution.

Of course Graham’s illness and death has definitely effected the tone of our church in the last months but we have continued to be a faithful, praying and ever welcoming presence for God on the Village. We had a highlight in welcoming a large congregation to our Christmas Eve Carol Service and have faithfully witnessed to God’s presence with outside services on the waterfront at Easter and Remembrance.

A big thank you to all who have faithfully set up and put away and provided refreshments, to Dave and Kathryn and Sara for music, to Marlene for all her admin, and particularly to Mel Mills for just making everything happen.

Martyn Westby

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The Curate’s Report

Suzi and I would like to thank everyone for the warm welcome we’ve received. The cards and presents that were in the house as soon as we got in the door, swiftly followed by the wonderful welcome BBQ, made us feel appreciated and excited to get going. There’s been a lot of change for us; if moving house and settling in a new community wasn’t enough, we welcomed Libby into the world three months in! We’re especially grateful to those who put in a lot of effort to interact and play with Joey, and the fact that he loves being at church shows that he feels safe and loved there.

I’ve been hugely encouraged to see all that God is doing here in Drypool in the variety of ministries, and it’s been a joy to get stuck into lots of them. One of our prayers when we were waiting to be offered a curacy was that our curacy church(es) would have active family ministry, and Starting Blocks and Thursday Night Thing have become highlights of our week. The aim of a curacy is to gain ministry experience, and so having the opportunity to work with Dave and Martyn across the three churches with their different flavours and mission fields is a real blessing to me.

On my first Sunday I said I was here to learn, and so I’m grateful for the warm words and constructive feedback I’ve had from many people in all the churches. It’s always nice to be encouraged and also important to know when I could have done something better, so please consider this an invitation to give me as much advice as you can. I’m only at the beginning of my ministry life and know that a lot of collective wisdom is sitting in the pews/chairs every week, and it will be a blessing to me (and no doubt my future congregations!) if you share it with me.

Jonny Guy

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Children's and Youth Work

“Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.” (Psalm 8:2)

In 2022 our churches have continued to help children and young people to know and praise the Lord. Highlights included:

Dave Griffith-Jones

Lois Thomas (St C)

Jodie Whetton (St J)

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How are we doing overall?

Worship and Prayer

The Churches are keen to offer a range of services each month which vary according to the needs of our various communities.

Normally each church has regular services that varies between traditional liturgy and more non-liturgical forms such as Cafe Church.

Church Attendance & Other Statistics

Given the situation during COVID some statistics were not reported!

The above statistics are taken from the annual returns made to the Church of England. The information requested varies from year to year so some historical data is not available.

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How are our finances?

The accounts are prepared in accordance with the Church

Accounting Regulations and independently examined by an accountant.

The total parish receipts, including restricted funds, were approximately £155K (up by £54K) and the total spend was £123K (up by £7K) giving a surplus of £32K with overall unrestricted funds decreasing by nearly £4K in the year and restricted funds increasing by £36K.

Receipts

2022 was an abnormal year for receipts with significant changes, several of which were oneoffs.

These included:

St Columba

St John

{* Restricted Income}

Payments

Expenses were largely unchanged but the 2022 accounts already include huge increases in the cost of energy

(St Columba +51% and St John +48%).

Thus far Victoria Dock have not seen increases in the Hall letting fees.

On a positive note the Freewill Offer to the Diocese increased by £5,500 to £53,500 and was paid in full.

As part of the Diocesan programme “Living Christ’s Story” and the attempt to have sustainable finances, the PCC has an aspiration to pay the whole attributed cost of Dave and Martyn by 2026 which at current prices is c£58K.

[This is calculated as whole costs of stipends, NI, pension and housing at c£102K but the Parish ‘benefits’ from a special grant of £44K from national church funds as Drypool is classed as a ‘low income community’]

Our Reserves Policy

The PCC maintains a small amount of reserves, as DCCs are responsible for most of the receipts and payments made in the parish on a day-to-day basis. Given that Victoria Dock DCC rent accommodation most of the current risk relating to possible unexpected maintenance falls to St. Columba’s and St John’s DCCs. Whilst their unrestricted funds vary considerably during the year, restricted or designated reserves are maintained relating to possible fabric maintenance by both Churches. It is policy to invest generally in the Central

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_________________Board of Finance’s funds, although in some cases smaller funds have been invested elsewhere. Overall within the whole parish and each Church the total unrestricted fund balances should cover up to 4-6 months of intended unrestricted expenditure which currently is the case.

Safeguarding

The Church of England affirms the ‘Whole Church’ approach to safeguarding. This approach encompasses a commitment to consistent policy and practice across all Church bodies, Church Officers and that everyone associated with the Church, who comes into contact with children, young people and adults, has a role to play.

The PCC has complied with the duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 to have due regard to the House of Bishops’ guidance on safeguarding children and adults at risk. No Serious Incident occurred during the year that should have been reported to the Charity Commissioners. Consideration is given and arranged as necessary for appropriate training with the required DBS checks and confidential declarations completed.

Each Church has an appointed Safeguarding Representative (contact details on Parish Website):

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The Church in the City Report on the Deanery Synod

The Hull Deanery comprises all the parishes in the City of Hull together with the parishes of Cottingham, Willerby, Kirkella, Anlaby, Hessle, Ferriby, Swanland, Wawne and Bilton. Newland parish also includes the village of Dunswell.

Approximately one quarter of the Diocesan population lives within its boundaries.

The Synod consists of members of all the licensed clergy/lay workers and elected lay representatives of the churches. During the year it had 5 in-person meetings at Swanland, St Aidan’s, St Martin’s, Newland and Kirkella.

(For details of our representatives please see page 3)

The first half of the year was really dominated by consideration of Living Christ’s Story and the preparation of a Deanery plan which was approved at the July meeting.

September saw us return to more normal topics and we had a further presentation on “Mustard Seed’ together with receiving reports of how our various Churches had re-acted to the Queen’s death.

Finally, in November we had a focus on schools’ ministry and particularly at the Sentamu Academy following a very difficult lead up to the summer holidays there. Consideration was also given to the cost of living crisis and how churches were dealing with it and the provision of warm spaces.

The Deanery Leadership Team, who had not only a full range of usual meetings but many extra ones around the Deanery Plan, currently has 8 members. Drypool is privileged to provide 2 of them.

Richard Liversedge

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Our Linked Bodies (Connected Charities and Not for Profit Companies)

The St Andrew’s Educational Foundation is a non-registered excepted charity (ref. 4035148) whose trustees are appointed by the PCC and it exists to

The Rector is an ex-officio trustee.

The St John’s (Drypool) Community Project Ltd is a company limited by guarantee (ref. 5922835) which was created to further physical wellbeing activities in the local community. The St John’s District Church Council appoints the directors. Currently they are:

Report approved by the PCC on 3[rd] April 2023

Signed on their behalf by Revd Dave Griffith-Jones (Chairman)

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The following pages drawn together by the PCC Treasurer and DCC Treasurers show the individual PCC and DCC accounts in detail.

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PCC ACCOUNTS (CENTRAL FUNDS) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

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St COLUMBA DCC ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

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St JOHN DCC ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

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St JOHN DCC ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

Note:

As mentioned elsewhere (page 16) the Project is managed and operated through a separate company.

As such their finances do not form part of the Churches Accounts.

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O Published by Drypool PCC 2023