## Annual Report & Financial Statements 2023
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## **Contents**
Administrative Information..................................................3 Correspondence address...................................................3 PCC members who have served 2022-2023......................3 Electoral Roll Officer..........................................................4 Structure Governance and Management...........................4 Objectives and Activities...................................................5 Safeguarding.....................................................................5 Review of the Year.............................................................5 Financial Review..................................................................7 Income and Expenditure....................................................7 Reserves............................................................................7 Financials.............................................................................9 Income and Expenditure Account....................................10 Movement of Unrestricted Funds.....................................12 Balance Sheet..................................................................13 Notes to the Accounts.....................................................14 Independent Examiners Report.........................................15 Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner.....15 Basis of Independent Examiner’s Report.........................15 Independent Examiner’s Statement................................15
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## **Administrative Information**
St Bartholomew and All Saints Parish Church is situated in the High Street of the market town of Royal Wootton Bassett, in the county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Diocese of Salisbury within the Church of England.
## Correspondence address
The Parish Office
1 Church Street
Royal Wootton Bassett
Wiltshire
SN4 7BQ
Email: **churchadmin@stbartholomews-wb.com**
The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is a registered charity. Vicar: The Revd Canon Jane Curtis
Assistant Curate: The Revd Katey Minshall (since July 2022) Licensed Lay Minister: Mr Michael Page
## PCC members who have served 2022-2023 Vicar
The Revd Canon Jane Curtis
## Assistant Curate
The Revd Katey Minshall (from July 2022)
## Wardens
Mrs Ruth Sexton (Lay Vice Chair)
Mr Den Foxwell
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## Licensed Lay Minister
Mr Michael Page
## Deanery Synod
Mrs Sarah Beach (also PCC Secretary – until spring 2022)
Mrs Mary Simpkins
Mr David Taylor (until March 2022)
## Elected Members
Mr David Aughey (until April 2022)
Mrs Joanna Bennett
Mr Marc Colpus (Treasurer)
Mr Andrew Meek
Dr Karen Murrell
Mr John Oldfield
## Co-opted Members
Mrs Frances Watkins (from May 2022)
Mr Zach Watkins (from May 2022)
## Electoral Roll Officer
Mr Paul Ferry
The number on the Church Electoral Roll for 2023 is 205. Since last year’s revision 11 people have been removed.
## Structure Governance and Management
The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. All Church attendees are
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encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC.
## Objectives and Activities
St Bartholomew’s PCC has the of co- responsibility operating with the Vicar by promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It also has maintenance responsibility for the Church and its associated property.
## Safeguarding
Throughout the year the PCC has complied with the duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (duty to have regard to House of Bishop’s guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults).
## Review of the Year
This Annual Report acknowledges the work of both individuals and the various church groups and committees who have given so much to our church and the wider community during the year. It was a year which saw our gradual emergence from the worst of the pandemic and the associated restrictions. Hence the level of activity stepped up somewhat. And as the following reports indicate, life just got busier and busier.
Turning to the Parochial Church Council (PCC), the executive body of the Church, and it met on nine occasions during the year and attendance was invariably high, whether in person or on Zoom. Its business was as full and varied as usual. Of particular note were discussions and decisions around how we resumed our worshipping life and
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activity; the progression of our four mission strands – caring for God’s earth, growing in our faith, helping those in need and working with children and young people; continuing improvements to our church buildings and property; reviewing our safeguarding policies and practices; addressing the challenge of stewardship and giving; and looking at our response to the cost-of-living crisis and warm spaces initiative.
The PCC Standing Committee was also busy, meeting 7 times during the year, again by Zoom and in person, inbetween the full PCC meetings. This enabled decisions that needed a speedy turn-around, most especially in response to the changes in COVID restrictions, to be taken quickly and efficiently.
Heartfelt thanks therefore go to the members of the full PCC and its Standing Committee (and Melvyn Blackman who once again joined the latter to assist with his Health and Safety expertise) for 12 months of hard work, and all of it carried out with wisdom, grace and good humour.
In July we welcomed our new Assistant Curate, Katey Minshall, Lee and family following her ordination to the diaconate in Salisbury Cathedral. And what a blessing she has been!
For now however I would like to express sincere and grateful thanks for all the hard work, faithfulness and dedication given and demonstrated by individuals, committees and groups that have contributed during the past year in sustaining our church at the heart of Royal Wootton Bassett. And for the continuing support of our retired clergy and Licensed Lay Ministers, as well as the
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support and superb leadership demonstrated by our Churchwardens Ruth and Den – a huge thank you too.
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## **Financial Review**
## Income and Expenditure
Our total income from all sources amounted to £118,521, compared with £97,640 in 2021, an increase of £20,881 (21%), in the main due to the re-opening of the Croft.
- Church Hall. The Church Hall provided a net loss of £9,874 in 2022.
- Croft. The Croft provided a net profit of £2,175 in 2022.
- Flats. The 2 flats provided a net profit of £7,434 in 2022.
Our expenditure also increased to £203,751 from £151,110 in 2021 namely an increase of £52,641 (35%). Consequently, the finances of the church (before the Gillian Thompson Bequest) had a deficit of £85,231 from a deficit of £53,470 in 2021. We continued to invest in our properties meaning the maintenance figures in 2021 were very high but are important for the future. Additionally, we have not been immune to the significant increases in the prices of gas and electricity. The contributions made to our total funds by Church Croft and Church Hall reman important and special thanks are due to the volunteers who make this possible.
## Reserves
Following from last year’s report, the details about our Reserves - why we hold them and restrictions on how we spend them:
- Property Account. The balance, on 31 Dec 22, in the Property Account was £25,265.
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- Gillian Thompson Memorial Fund. The balance, on 31 Dec 22, in the Gillian Thompson Memorial fund was £210,211.
- Designated Funds (Parsons/Wickes) Charities. On 31 Dec 22, £1,622 was held in our Charities account and consists of 2 small historical charities. The spending of from these charities has a of
- money variety restrictions, namely "for maintenance of Churchyard", and "for provision of groceries or other provisions to the deserving poor".
- Bibblecombe. On 31 Dec 22, £12,354 was held in an endowment account (Bibblecombe Account) from which the income has no restrictions. This account had been impacted by the stock market falls in 2022.
General giving has not increased in line with inflation but other sources of income are returning to levels seen before the COVID restrictions. The expenditure has returned to pre-COVID levels, in real terms, with exceptional high increases in utility costs. We continued to invest in the properties. We were protected to a great extent by our reserves and the Gillian Thompson bequest. This situation is likely to continue for 2023. Finally, I would like to say a big Thank You for your support and all the work that is completed "behind the scenes" as part of the Finance Function. We rely on the help of volunteers for so much of the work - bookkeeping for the Church Hall and the Croft, counting the money on Sundays, banking every week, organising the Energy Basket scheme, collating the report of Standing Orders and the Property Account, administering the Gift Aid scheme and the Parochial Fees, and many jobs beside these.
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Marc Colpus (PCC Treasurer)
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## **Financials**
**REGISTERED CHARITY 1130533**
**BANKERS HSBC SWINDON, WILTS**
**TRUSTEES CHURCHWARDENS AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE PCC YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
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## Income and Expenditure Account
||**ENDOWMENT FUNDS**||1||2|3|3|3||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**Wickes**
**Groceri**
**es**|**Parsons**
**Churchyard**||**Biddlecomb**
**e General**|||**Total**|
||||||||**e**|||
||||**£**|**£**||||**£**|**£**|
||CBF Dividends||121|160|||||281|
||Transfer to General Funds||||||||0|
||Transfer to Restricted
Funds||-121|-160|||||-281|
||(Decrease)/Increase in Funds
(unrealised)||-535|-702||||-390|-1,627|
||Market value at 31 December 2021||4,600|6,036||||3,345|13,981|
||Market value at 31 December 2022||4,065|5,334||||2,955|12,354|
||1 & 2
COIF Charities Investment Fund - Income Shares|||||||||
||3
CBF Church of England Investment Fund
Shares|||- Income||||||
||**RESTRICTED**
**FUNDS**|||||||||
||||**Wickes**
**Groceri**
**es**|**Parsons**
**Churchyard**||||**Ride &**
**Stride**|**Total**|
||||**£**|**£**||||**£**|**£**|
||Transfer from Endowment
Funds||121|160|||||281|
||Expenditure from Restricted Funds||-282|-60|||||-342|
||Transfer from/(to) General
Funds|||||||610|610|
||Increase/(Decrease) in
Fund||-161|100||||610|549|
||Balance at 31 December
2021||700|373||||0|1,073|
||Balance at 31 December
2022||539|473||||610|1,622|
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||**GENERAL FUND**
Notes|**2022**|**2022**|**2021**|**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
||**Income**|||||
||Oferings:
General
1|65,153||64,806||
||Special|0||3,367||
||Weddings, funerals,
baptisms etc|2,398||1,232||
||Floodlighting|425||565||
||Fees|9,238||8,035||
||Fundraising|610||0||
||Donations & Bequests|8,665||2,407||
||Flat Rents (net)|7,434||3,302||
||Church Hall
2|12,679||10,488||
||Church Croft & shop
3|12,207||2,907||
||Sundry|727||432||
||Interest Received|329||14||
||Charity Commissioners - endowment
funds|88||85||
||||119,952||97,640|
||**Expenditure**|||||
||Quota|88,881||85,074||
||Heat, light, insurance, rates etc|12,515||9,382||
||Administration|7,388||7,623||
||Clergy Expenses|7,011||1,193||
||Hospitality|315||0||
||Music|3,580||5,176||
||Services and sanctuary|2,752||808||
||Churchyard|0||830||
||Repairs and renewals|45,618||12,946||
||Church Hall
2|22,552||11,553||
||Church Croft & shop
3|10,032||11,738||
||Bank Charges|637||362||
||Depreciation|3,901||4,425||
||||205,182||151,110|
||Surplus/(Defcit) for the year before Exceptional
Items||-85,231||-53,470|
||Giving||-7,404||-2,685|
||Surplus/(Defcit) for the year after
giving||-92,634||-56,155|
||Movement in Restricted Funds||-610||1,044|
||||-93,244||-55,111|
||Balance brought forward||637,376||692,487|
||Funds carried forward||544,132||637,376|
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## Movement of Unrestricted Funds
|||**31.12.21**||**Surplus/**
**(Defcit) for**
**the Year**|**Surplus/**
**(Defcit) for**
**the Year**||**Transfer**
**between**
**funds**|**Transfer**
**between**
**funds**||**31.12.22**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||||
|||**£**|||**£**|||**£**||**£**|
|General||283,951|||-101,672|||78,468||260,747|
|Thompson||262,679|||0|||-52,468||210,211|
||||||||||.||
|Property||43,831|||16,126|||-26,000||33,957|
|Croft||12,776|||2,175|||||14,951|
|Hall||34,139|||-9,874|||||24,265|
|||637,376|||-93,244|||0||544,132|
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## Balance Sheet
|||Notes||**2022**|**2022**||**2021**|**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**£**||**£**|**£**||**£**|
||**FIXED ASSETS**|4|||240,197|||244,098|
||**CURRENT ASSETS**||||||||
||Bank accounts||277,138|||362,595|||
||Charities Deposits||25,328|||25,000|||
||Charities Investment
Fund||12,354|||13,981|||
||Cash in Hand||40|||40|||
||||314,861|||401,616|||
||Stock||3,500|||3,500|||
||Debtors &
prepayments||0|||6,111|||
||||318,361|||411,227|||
||**CURRENT**
**LIABILITIES**||||||||
||Creditors and accruals||450|||2,895|||
||**NET CURRENT**
**ASSETS**||||317,911|||408,332|
||**TOTAL NET ASSETS**||||558,108|||652,430|
||**FUNDS**||||||||
||**Unrestricted**||||||||
||General||260,747|||283,951|||
||Thompson Bequest||210,211|||262,679|||
||Property||33,957|||43,831|||
||Croft||14,951|||12,776|||
||Hall||24,265|||34,139|||
||||||544,132|||637,376|
||**Restricted**||||1,622|||1,073|
||**Endowment**||||12,354|||13,981|
||||||558,108|||652,430|
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## Notes to the Accounts
||||||||**2022**|||**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||**£**|||**£**|
|**1**|**Oferings General**||||||||||
||
General weekly and lump
sum oferings||||||56,617|||53,038|
||
Gift Aid Tax refund||||||8,536|||11,768|
||||||||65,153|||64,806|
|**2**|**Hall- Net Income**||||||||||
||Lettings etc||||||12,679|||10,488|
||Caretaking||||||2,403|||2,325|
||Heat, light, insurance and
rates||||||1,452|||931|
||Repairs and Maintenance||||||18,698|||8,297|
||||||||22,552|||11,553|
||Net income/(expenditure)||||||-9,874|||-1,065|
|**3**|**Church Croft- Net**
**Income**||||||||||
||Shop sales||||||2,738|||1,478|
||Cofee sales||||||5,017|||923|
||Croft hire and miscellaneous donations||||||4,452|||506|
||||||||12,207|||2,907|
||Shop purchases||||||1,536|||696|
||Cofee purchases||||||979|||25|
||
Cleaning including wages||||||2,185|||2,160|
||Heat, light, insurance and
rates||||||1,719|||2,193|
||Repairs and Maintenance||||||3,613|||6,664|
||||||||10,032|||11,738|
||Net income/(expenditure)||||||2,175|||-8,831|
|**4**|**Fixed Assets**||||||||||
||||Leasehold
Property|||Property
Improvements||Plant and
Machinery||Total|
||||||||||||
||Cost||||||||||
||At 31 December 2021|||148,754||101,137||20,674|270,565||
||Additions at cost|||0||0||0|0||
||At 31 December 2022|||148,754||101,137||20,674|270,565||
||Depreciation||||||||||
||At 31 December 2021|||0||10,892||15,575|26,467||
||Charge for the year|||||2,626||1,275|3,901||
||At 31 December 2022|||0||13,518||16,850|30,368||
||Net Book Value||||||||||
||At 31 December 2021|||148,754||90,245||5,099|244,098||
||At 31 December 2022|||148,754||87,619||3,824|240,197||
## **Inde endent Examiners Re ort p p**
This report on the accounts of the PCC for the year ended 31 December 2022, which are set out on pages 1 to 5, is in
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respect of an examination carried out under Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011.
## Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner
As the members of the PCC, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirements of Section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) do not apply.
## It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under Section 145 of the Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under Section 145(5)(b)of the Act, and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## Basis of Independent Examiner’s Report
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. That examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the PCC and a comparison of the accounts with those records. It also includes considering any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
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## Independent Examiner’s Statement
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attentions:
- (1) Which gives me reasonable cause that in any material respect, the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 130 of the Charities Act, and
- to accounts which accord with the prepare
- accounting records and comply with regulations, as also contained in the Church Accounting Regulations
have not been met; or
- (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Derek R Kemp 3 Aspen Close 16th April 2023 Royal Wootton Bassett SWINDON, SN4 7HN
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