2020-12-31-accounts

< Annual Report and Financial Statements of the Parochial Church Council of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton

For the year ended 31[st] December 2020 Registered Charity Number: 1130602

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The Parochial Church Council of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31[st] December 2020

Charity registration number: 1130602

Objectives and Activities

The Parochial Church Council of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton (the PCC) has the responsibility of co-operating with the incumbent, the Reverend Joshua Penduck, in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelical, social and ecumenical. The PCC is also spiritually responsible for the maintenance of the church

The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church and to become part of our parish community at Newcastle Under Lyme with Butterton. The PCC maintains an overview of worship throughout the parish and makes suggestions on how our services can involve the many groups that live within our parish. Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer, scripture, music and sacrament. Also, through non sacramental activities of hospitality and fellowship we aim to reach non churched members of the community.

Public Benefit

The trustees of the Charity are aware of the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit in The Advancement of Religion for the Public Benefit and have had regard to it in their administration of the Charity. The trustees believe that, by promoting the work of the Church of England in the Ecclesiastical Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton, it helps to promote the whole mission of the Church (pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical) more effectively, within the Ecclesiastical Parish, and that in doing so it provides a benefit to the public by:

• Providing facilities for public worship, pastoral care and spiritual, moral and intellectual development, both for its members and for anyone who wishes to benefit from what the Church offers; and

• Promoting Christian values and service by members of the Church in and to their communities, to the benefit of individuals and society as a whole.

Achievements and Performance

Rectors Report 2020

Objectives

The primary objective of the PCC is to promote the Mission of God (Missio Dei}, evangelistic, pastoral, social and ecological, in collaboration with every member of the two congregations. Our Mission Statement is that we seek to ‘learn about God, to demonstrate

his love ...... and to share our faith with others’. In the context of St Giles with St Thomas this is done through regular public worship, catechism, pastoral care both individually and through occasional offices, engagement and/or collaboration with community organisations, groups and visiting individuals, and through environmentally sound care of our churchyards.

The secondary objectives of the PCC during 2020 were to:

• recruit two new wardens and a treasurer with the intended retirement of the current wardens and treasurer in April 2020, as well as recruit a PCC Secretary so that the PCC Standing Committee could have each of its allotted spaces filled;

• employ a parish administrator;

• seek funding for the Children and Families’ Worker;

• continue and develop the civic/public role of St Giles’ church in Newcastle-under-Lyme;

• begin a planned giving campaign in both St Giles and St Thomas

• continue and develop our Churchyard Project in collaboration with other community groups

Activities

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been able to meet most of the aspects of our primary objective:

• Worship has continued through a pre-recorded online service when the church was closed. Both St Giles and St Thomas were opened for private prayer in July-August and November-December and were open for public worship SeptemberNovember and December.

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• After the Lent Group Bible study was closed, catechism has continued only with particular individuals.

• Occasional offices have continued, including a Service for the Ordination of Priests, and pastoral care has been maintained through a pastoral network of individuals keeping check on each other.

• After the church was closed to community groups in March, our main community connections have been through St Giles and St George’s Academy, with Revd Joshua Penduck as a Director and also leading regular public worship online. However, from September to November, the church was also used by uniformed organisations, community choirs and other churches. The Thursday morning Keep-Fit Group are looking forward to returning when it is safe to do so. Furthermore, in January connections were developed with Asha, an organisation which works with asylum seekers.

However, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that several of our secondary objectives have only been partially met.

• The March-June lockdown meant that we were unable to have our APCM, and thus were not able to vote in our new wardens until October, when we were permitted to meet. The Wardens will not be admitted until January 2021. In June 2020, the PCC voted for Carol Stimpson to be the new PCC Secretary and Hannah Mead to be the new treasurer. In July 2020, Hannah Mead resigned as treasurer and from the PCC. In October 2020, Jane McKeever was voted in by the PCC as treasurer. The PCC also agreed to employ Kim Benton as their Financial Advisor in August 2020.

• In January 2020, Penny Richards began work as parish administrator.

• The COVID-19 pandemic meant that Jean Buckley, our Children and Families’ Worker, was kept on furlough from 18[th] May 2020. We are still applying for outside funding.

• In January 2020, the Newcastle-under-Lyme Burgesses continued to hire St Giles for its historic events. St Giles was able to continue its civic/public role in collaboration with our local MP, and council and armed forces representatives through outside and/or online services for VE Day, the Battle of Britain Sunday and Remembrance Sunday. An intended public art exhibition in celebration of the 60[th] Anniversary of the Moon Landings, ‘One Small Step’, in collaboration with Lichfield Cathedral and Arts Council England, was cancelled in March 2020 due to the lockdown.

• The pandemic has meant we have not been able to have a strategically planned giving campaign, though less formal requests for giving have been made.

• Our Churchyard Project has been continued and developed via a specific PCC Sub-Committee. Progress has been slow because of the competing attention needed for maintaining the church throughout the pandemic.

Review of 2020

Like many churches, St Giles and St Thomas have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, the review must have two halves: January-March, and March-December 2020.

January-March 2020

The PCC noted in January that attention needed to be given to a) raising giving for both churches after a considerable loss in 2019; b) applying for funds for our Children and Families’ Worker, Jean Buckley; c) and clarify the nature of the Churchyard Project.

In the early months of the year, there were four large developments in St Giles with St Thomas:

• As noted in the Objectives and Activities, we began to employ a Parish Administrator, Penny Richards, from 6[th] January 2020.

• Relations were developed with Asha, an organisation which works with asylum seekers. This culminated in an All-Age service with individuals from Asha leading music (including African drumming). Plans were made for an Asha/St Giles litter-pick later in the year.

• A Lent Group looking at the theme of creation in the Bible had a large attendance (before being cancelled due to the March lockdown).

• A large art exhibition in conjunction with Lichfield Cathedral and Arts Council England was planned for March-April 2020. This was called ‘One More Step’ and would have involved collaboration with the artist Peter Walker, Potboiler Theatre, and multiple local schools and community organisations. Sadly, it was cancelled several days before it began due to the lockdown.

On 6[th] January, the 1[st] Newcastle Brownies were 100 years old – the oldest surviving Brownie Pack in the Potteries. To mark this momentous occasion, St Giles Church Hall was hired on 18[th] January, with the Mayor, MP and the Sentinel present.

In February 2020, St Giles had a guest speaker from TearFund.

March-December

The COVID-19 pandemic changed all our plans at St Giles with St Thomas. At the March 2020 PCC Meeting, the PCC agreed to keep all our members of staff in employment, although on 18[th] May 2020, Jean Buckley was placed on furlough leave for the remainder of the year.

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As part of the lockdown, all community groups were unable to use the church, all but one wedding was cancelled, and midweek events – including Little Fishes, Rainbow, our midweek communion service, the Mothers’ Union, and Friday Coffee mornings – were all closed. We also had to end our monthly visits to five care homes.

As we were not able to worship in church, we instead created an online format through YouTube. This included Sunday services, Holy Week and Easter Day, a service for VE Day, and Ascension Day. My utmost thanks go to Aidan Goldstraw for ably and professionally ensuring that we have had a video each week since March, with thanks also going to Jane Perry in helping edit these videos. Thanks also go to Jane Perry, Penny Richard, Carol Stimpson, Christine Salts, Caroline Walton, and Hannah Mead, for their regular musical contributions, and also to our readers, prayers leaders and guest speakers. It has taken much time and energy for people to learn this new format of worship, yet we are profoundly grateful for the sacrifices made in doing so. The consistent high-quality nature of these videos has been noticed further afield, with people even in other countries tuning in to watch.

Since the end of the first lockdown in July, the following happened:

• 19[th] July, St Giles opened for private prayer for three hours each Sunday (12pm-3pm).

• 9[th] August, St Thomas also opened for private prayer (10.30am-12pm)

• 6[th] September, St Giles opened for public worship (9am and 11am)

• 20[th] September, St Giles led a small Battle of Britain service online and at the Cenotaph with the RAF Association (with an online sermon by Bishop Michael Ipgrave)

• 28[th] September, St Giles hosted a service for the ordination of priests

• 4[th] October, St Thomas opened for public worship (10.30am)

• 14[th] October, St Giles began our Wednesday Oasis service again

• Members of the Ministry Team have conducted a number of funerals at both churches and at the Crematorium

• On frequent occasions, the church bells at St Giles were rung (socially distanced) by our ringing team

Ensuring that congregation members are safe at such events has meant a considerable amount of logistical planning. Thanks go to Dr Naomi Forrester-Soto of Keele University, Lawrence Bailey and Hannah Mead for their help in planning. Special thanks must go to Penny Richards for her tireless work in reading through and applying the complex rules that have emerged in the wake of the pandemic. A thanks also to Michael Pitstow for his help in providing a screen-based liturgy for our public worship.

Since 29[th] September, St Giles was been open to community groups wanting to use the church or church hall. This has included regulars such as the Girl Guides and the Community Choir, as well as new groups. We ensured that such groups have their own risk assessments which are rigorously applied.

With the second lockdown in November-December, St Giles opened for private prayer, though St Thomas remained shut. On Remembrance Sunday, as well as an online service, members of St Giles ministry team led an outdoor Act of Remembrance at the Cenotaph alongside the Mayor, members of the armed forces and the Council. This was repeated on Remembrance Day.

St Giles and St Thomas opened for public worship again on the 6[th] December. During December, the following services happened:

• 19[th] December, St Thomas held an outdoor carol service in Butterton, with musical contributions from Oliver PritchardJones.

• 20[th] December, St Giles put on an online Lessons and Carols service. This included contributions from our church choir, the University Hospital Choir, Jane Bailey, Kari Kirkland, and Eve Perry.

• 20[th] December, St Giles held an in-church carols by candlelight, led by members of the St Giles choir.

• 24[th] December, in-church services were held at St Giles, including a family service and a Midnight Mass (both well attended). An online ‘Christmas Compline’ was also held, with contributions from the University Hospital Orchestra and Newcastle Baptist Church.

• 25[th] December, services were held at St Giles and St Thomas.

On 28[th] October 2020, the APCM was held. Particular discussion was had regarding amalgamating the administrative structures of St Giles and St Thomas, and the potential for a separate weekly All-Age Worship. Gillian Elks and Dennis Brammer were elected as wardens. In the 2019 TAR I thanked David Wildman and Christine Bailey for their service of this parish, so little can be added accept to reiterate my thanks once again.

In June 2020, John Maddison retired as Church Treasurer. John agreed to be church treasurer for a few months in 2017. It turned out to be a long stint. My thanks go to John for the hard work that has put into ensuring St Giles remains financially viable. Hannah Mead became treasurer at the same PCC Meeting, though resigned in July 2020. To ensure that the church finances were kept in order, the PCC decided to employ Kim Benton, a Diocesan-certified accountant. In October 2020, Jane McKeever was voted in by the PCC to be the new treasurer. I am also very grateful for the work of David and Pat Cawthorn in stabilising the finances at St Thomas’ over 2020.

Financially, St Giles and St Thomas have both been hit hard by the pandemic. A combination of a generous donation and the accumulated three years’ gift aid stabilised St Giles finances. However, unless there is an increase in giving or expenditure is reduced, St Giles will likely be financially insolvent within a few years. St Thomas has also struggled deeply and is likely to be

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financially insolvent by 2022 unless giving is upped. This is a challenge for a diminishing congregation and raises questions about the long term viability of running two churches. As can be seen from the financial report, there is a large unsustainable mismatch between income and expenditure even in good months.

Many thanks also go to the ministry team – which includes Revd Peter Nisbeck, Revd Ann Taylor, Revd Jean Walker, John Maddison, and honorary assistant priests Revd Shell Penduck and Revd David Beedon – for their time and effort in maintaining consistently high standard of worship during this difficult time.

Although the pastoral network has maintained links between people in the lockdown, we should not be naïve to think that much of the communal bonds have remained completely intact. My thanks go to those many individuals who have so kindly and caringly kept in contact with some of our most isolated and vulnerable members of the congregation over the last few months. Much of our family network was held together through Jean Buckley, who volunteered of her own accord to keep in touch with them on a personal basis whilst on furlough.

Each year, Michael Pitstow has maintained an excellent standard of editorship for the Parish News. In May, it was decided that the magazine would for the first time go online, which has happened each month throughout the year. Our thanks go to Michael for continuing this valuable aspect of our church life.

During 2020, several members of the congregation died. Although each are precious, particular note should be made of John Ward, who served the church faithfully for many years, with particular distinction in his role as treasurer. Our thanks as a congregation go to John, and his family remain in our prayers.

Through 2020, the PCC employed three members of staff:

• Aidan Goldstraw, Director of Music

• Jean Buckley, Children and Families Worker (currently furloughed)

• Penny Richards, Parish Administrator

Future Plans

The PCC have emphasised five areas which they feel need to be addressed in 2021:

• Balancing and restoring the financial capabilities for both St Giles and St Thomas. This will be done through sustained giving campaigns in both churches. This must be done for the first part of the year to keep St Thomas financially solvent.

• Re-gathering the community after the pandemic, with particular emphasis on children and families’ work (including seeking funding for our Children and Families’ Worker). This may be done through the addition of a weekly All-Age Worship.

• Installing Broadband Connections.

• Buying appropriate Internal Technology for online services.

• Continuing the develop the Churchyard Project and Installing outside lighting through the available remaining funds from HLF. This will be done through the PCC Churchyard Sub-Committee.

Revd Joshua Penduck

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SECRETARY’S REPORT 2020 23[rd] June 2020 to 31[st] December 2020

Resignations:

John Maddison stepped down as temporary acting Treasurer and Hannah Mead was elected Treasurer in June 2020. However, Hannah resigned from the role of both Treasurer and PCC member in July 2020. Caroline Walton also resigned as a member of the PCC in December 2020.

Standing Committee meetings & PCC meetings:

All meetings from June 2020 were held online because of the necessary COVID-19 pandemic social restrictions. Between June and December 2020 there were three Standing Committee meetings and six PCC meetings (plus one extraordinary PCC meeting). All meetings were well attended and there was lively and well-informed debate about several important issues.

Issues:

There was exploration of funding opportunities to pay for Jean Buckley’s post as St Giles’ Children’s and Family Officer.

Careful attention was given to the reshaping and formatting of both live and online services. The former requiring planning to meet strict social distancing measures demanded by COVID infection control. Plans were discussed to facilitate live streaming of services over the Internet for viewers in the UK and elsewhere.

St Giles and St Thomas will now work to amalgamate administration procedures. In future the administration of both churches will be handled at St Giles.

Church funds have declined during the pandemic and the PCC agreed the appointment of Kim Benton, a professional, independent financial advisor. In November, Jane McKeever was elected as a co-opted member of the PCC and also became the new Treasurer. We are pleased to report that Jane has been able to work closely with Kim on plans to streamline the financial procedures at St Giles. We are also pleased to report that backdated pension provision for Jean Buckley will be handled by Kim once the relevant employees of Lichfield Diocese return to work after the COVID furlough measures.

Father Terry Bloor agreed to deliver PCC training and many members were keen to attend his interesting and informative online talk. We look forward to future events.

Retirements and new appointments:

Rev Peter Nisbeck has retired from his membership of the PCC - we offered our thanks for his valuable work and advice. We are grateful that he will remain a good friend to the PCC.

We extend a warm welcome to three new members of the PCC: Gillian Powell, Martin Rowlands and Patricia Cawthorn.

Our veteran Church Wardens, David Wildman and Chris Bailey will retire In January 2020. Their dedicated service and wisdom during difficult times have been noted on several occasions. Our new Wardens, Dennis Brammer and Gillian Elks, were elected in October 2020 - we very pleased to see them in their new roles.

Carol Stimpson, PCC Secretary

(commenced PCC Secretarial duties in June 2020)

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CURCH WARDEN’S REPORT 2020

2020 – A year like no other . We all learnt a whole new vocabulary : furlough , lockdown and for me personally , the mysteries od Zoom meetings , recording Bible readings on my phone and Whats Ap ( appropriately named ).

For David and myself, we continued in our role as Wardens but not as we had known it previously. I will always be grateful to David for his unstinting support and advice through our time together.

For the latter part of 2020 , he ensured that all necessary maintenance matters were dealt with and organised the rotas for our Sunday Services. I would also like to thank our Parish Administrator , Penny Richards, for her work in organising and overseeing so many tasks which are essential for the care and smooth running of St. Giles and St. Thomas . And to all those who quietly take on so much and to whom we owe a big debt of gratitude – Thank you.

As we begin 2021, we can be sure that the life of St. Giles and the work of bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ will continue. A message which has never more been needed. In these strangest of times , we can be assured of the unchanging love of Our Lord.

Yes, Blessed assurance Jesus is mine. Indeed .Amen Let us all go forward together in Faith

Chris Bailey and David Wildman

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St Giles Newcastle with St Thomas Butterton Parish Administrator Report 2020

A new venture for St Giles’ Newcastle with St Thomas Butterton, the role of Parish Administrator came into being on 6[th] Jan 2020, following the request of the new incumbent, Revd Joshua Penduck, at his interview prior to his appointment and approval by the PCC to establish the role in 2019.

Things started gently with admin required for funeral services and creating a database for recording all the occasional offices services taking place in the parish, safeguarding training and DBS check updates and learning how to update a website ….. “in a few months you will be able to do it alone” said Josh!

Then Mini Messy Church began! It helped to get the baptism database started as we used that to contact the families to invite them to join us for the first event held at the end of January. (This database is almost up to date, thanks to the first pandemic lockdown).

At the start of February, we were excited to be invited by Diocese to host One More Step, an art installation celebrating 50 years since man’s first steps onto the moon. A lot of hours of work with Josh, Jean Buckley and Caroline Walton coordinating an art group to help us with some activities around the installation for schools and the wider public, arranging days for school visits and volunteers to host our potential visitors in the week and at the weekends, and keep our regular church hall activities and services running smoothly was leading to a busy fortnight for us all…….

And we were planning the APCM for April……..

Then Corona virus covid-19 struck. All activities were stopped including One More Step. Our focus was on information dissemination, getting a pastoral care network organised and working out how to stay connected to the whole congregation as a team. Live services stopped and we moved to recorded ones which needed “advertising” to everyone, and Josh and I could no longer meet face to face inside: telephone (with all its signal issues) and doorstep meetings have been favoured to escape the zoom screen!! We had to close churches and publish that information physically as well as virtually.

Parish News and Memo became online items: I had to learn how to edit a website remotely (and it was a painful process for my family!! I only do simple things!) so that our congregation could remain connected. There has been much address and phone number searching so that non-technology users have been kept in the loop: we’re still picking up names. It’s amazing how busy a closed church can be!!

The hours of information sorting preparing to get both our churches open again in the late summer, along with the physical planning have been hard and confusing, but also enlightening. Writing risk assessments is a manageable task easily adapted for any occasion and doing the banking is a weekly trip.

During the “open months” there were bookings for services to manage, a live APCM (finally) and special services such as Battle of Britain, Remembrance (affected by the second lockdown), Carols in the village, Carols by candlelight and Midnight Mass, which took a different sort of planning.

Most of this year has involved UNUSUAL work but I have managed to do “get a grip” on some “normal” things: when the clock gets her annual maintenance check, when the heating systems are serviced, the organ tuned, and that we have a humidifier for the organ that is looked after by another firm!?!

The IT learning curve and the role learning curve have been steep and will continue to be as Revd Josh and I discover what he needs from me and what the parish will need as we move towards the amalgamation of administration for St Thomas with that of St Giles’.

I still don’t actually know what my job is!! Can anybody let me know please???

Penny Richards – Parish Administrator

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Director of Music’s report

This brief report is somewhat unusual, in that my role at St Giles over the last 11 months has shifted away quite significantly from the original job description!

Online services

Towards the end of 2019 I purchased some video equipment and began teaching myself how to film and edit, with a view to producing material for my journalism and musical projects.

Thus in March 2020, when the government announced the first national lockdown, I liaised with Josh so we could immediately begin to produce online services, premiered each Sunday morning on our YouTube channel.

The first service was filmed entirely in church with just four people present, and premiered on Sunday, March 22. Following a Church of England ruling, it then became impossible to film in church and production switched entirely to remote working on everyone’s part.

The musical elements of the services were soon augmented by a small, dedicated group drawn from the choir and worship band, and my thanks go to everyone involved for their very significant contributions.

I am particularly indebted to Jane Perry, whom I fortuitously discovered had previously lectured in film production and has provided invaluable technical as well as musical support.

We quickly began to incorporate contributions of readings and intercessions from other members of the St Giles and St Thomas congregations, and there’s no doubt that seeing a wide variety of familiar faces on Sunday mornings has helped sustain morale in these challenging times.

Producing the videos has also been something of a personal challenge for me – not only in acquiring new knowledge and skills, but also in the amount of time spent in recording and filming material, collating contributions, and editing services. All of this is consuming significantly more of my time than my role prior to the pandemic.

During the summer of 2020, we were able to return to church services in a limited way. However, because of the strict restrictions on numbers, it was felt that maintaining our weekly online services was vital for those who couldn’t attend in person.

Given the significant restrictions with what could be done on site musically, Josh and I concluded that the most efficient use of time would be gained by repurposing music created for the online services for live screening in church.

That said, at Christmas we did manage to provide live music for both a modest carol service and Midnight Mass. In both cases, singing was restricted to a socially-distanced chamber choir of just four choristers.

Our main, carol service moved online. Thanks to the flexibility of video production, we were able to create several items featuring the entire St Giles choir, as well as contributions from others with a long association to our church, including University Hospital Choir, Jane Bryan and (in California!) Kari Kirkland.

The announcement of a further national lockdown in January (and the subsequent decision to once again suspend services at St Giles and St Thomas) has once again highlighted the importance of our online output, which has been a great success, and has reached out to people far beyond our own congregation.

To date, since our YouTube channel began, our videos have been viewed more than 12,500 times, with a total ‘watch time’ exceeding 2,700 hours. We have produced 75 videos, including many special services such as Holy Week, Remembrance Sunday and (most recently) the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

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The organ

By the end of 2019 there remained a number of unresolved issues left over from the organ restoration project, mostly centred around ciphers and sticking keys.

Contractors MC Thompson attributed most of the key problems to a mismatch between the key pivot pins and bushings. They acknowledged that the pins should have been replaced at the time of the original work and offered to do this without further charge.

However, at the time we were approaching Christmas and as this work would have involved removal of the organ keys for several weeks, it was put on the back burner. A start date was unfortunately not able to be arranged before the first national lockdown was introduced, and of course plans for this work had then to be put on hold.

Because of the constraints on singing in church, the organ was only used very occasionally in the run-up to Christmas 2020 after we were able to hold services in church again.

Unfortunately, just before Christmas, Peter and Josh made the discovery that the dehumidifier unit in the organ space had malfunctioned and was overflowing with water. Watkins and Watson, who maintain the dehumidifier, were called in to examine the unit, which was found to be in a very bad state.

MC Thompson were due to make a previously scheduled visit a couple of days later, and they found that water from the dehumidifier had leaked over one of the bellows chests of the organ, causing significant damage which may cost many thousands of pounds to repair.

Obviously, the continuing national lockdown has so far prevented us from addressing this remedial work. In the meantime, the dehumidifier has been switched off and isolated to prevent further damage.

Moving forward

I believe that maintaining a strong online presence for St Giles is a vital key to its future, given the success of these services.

Once music returns to normal in church (whenever that may be), I would expect our main focus to shift to live streaming. Therefore, over the coming months I will be using the experience I have gained so far to assist Josh and the PCC with this new challenge.

To conclude, if this pandemic has taught us anything, it is that the church is not the building, but its people – and I am grateful to have had so much support from so many of you over the last year.

Aidan Goldstraw – Director of Music St Giles

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BELL RINGING AT ST GILES REPORT 2020

Bell ringing practice took place on most Friday evenings at the beginning of 2020, alternating between Newcastle S.Giles and Wolstanton S.Margaret.

In the middle of March 2020 we were advised to cease bell ringing by The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers and therefore restricted social interaction to our existing “Whats App” group.

In May we began ‘remote’ practising using a combination of Zoom (hosted by Stephen Dainty, one of S.Giles’ ringers) and The Ringing Room – an application specifically devised to allow us to join together in a virtual belltower.

Use of this continued for the rest of 2020.

From the beginning of September 2020 until the second lockdown in mid-October we were able to provide socially distanced ringing before a number of Sunday morning services

Deanery Synod

The Deanery Synod’s first and last live meeting in 2020 was on Wednesday 29 January at S.Geroge’s with the topic ‘Considering Mental Health’ led by Chris Munday, CEO of Crossways Christian Community in Tunbridge Wells (a Christian mental health charity)

On Monday 12 October 2020 a virtual Deanery Synod was held by Zoom with the main speaker, Michael Quinnell from the Christian Police Association with the topic ‘Faith in Justice’.

John Maddison

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CHILDREN AND FAMILIES REPORT 2020

The start of the year was very promising. We maintained attendance numbers comparable with the first 3 month of 2019 for families at Little Fishes and All Age Sunday Worship despite Covid entering the country. But, there was a significant drop in the older congregants attendance at the February and March All Age services as awareness of the impending pandemic spread. Events

1. A School Heritage Day on Design was attended by 45 Yr3 children from our link school. It was very much enjoyed by students.

2. A Shrove Tuesday/Lent Messy Church facilitated 65 children and 55 parents hearing the message of Lent.

3. Mini Sunday Church which was meant to run every fourth Sunday was launched in January. We were delighted to welcome 17 children and 17 adults. This is the most children to attend St Giles on a "normal" Sunday for 20 years!

March Onwards

I was furloughed for the majority of the pandemic of 2020. However, I decided to maintain contact with our families by:-

1. Three email services, per week, for families to do at home together. I send different materials to over 100 families each Sunday, plus Little Fishes on Mondays and Rainbows each Wednesday. New families have asked to join our mailing list over lockdown. One new lady forwards my sessions on to Christian leaders who use them in London and the USA.

2. Family Face book Page I created and update.

3. Telephoning regulars

N.B. When I took a two week break in the summer I noticed on my return that the number of meaningful engagements had dropped. This highlights the importance of regular contact with our families.

One More Sleep was a great success thanks to the efforts of Rev's Josh and Peter. There was a good number of families who attend other family services. The children obeyed the safety rules perfectly! As the furlough rules did not allow me to participate I took the opportunity to meet and greet.

Christmas Contact - I purchased a small gift and card for each of the Little Fishes children including a few who are now too old but come to other services. And personally delivered them to their homes.

A Survey in October of the families who most frequently attend St Giles showed that just over half would be willing to attend our monthly All Age Worship. Some families declined because they are shielding grandparents.

The majority of Little Fishes parents were too worried to attend a Sunday service or large gathering but expressed an interest in returning to the Little Fishes meetings. However, they would want to see extra precautions in place such as taking temperatures before allowing anyone in.

The Future

In the hope that the rules will be relaxed and Little Fishes can reopen soon I have bought/gathered materials to include in named boxes which would only be used by the same family each week. Items include scarves, castanets, stationary and craft materials.

Marie-Claire and I are making up some craft kits which will be ready to use in either a socially distanced service or when Messy and Mini Church resume.

I have just purchased an online training course to learn how to edit films.

Conclusion

I was really heartened to see so many recognizable faces at "One More Sleep." The conversations I had with some of our families at Christmas made me realize that they still see St Giles as "their" church. My thanks to everyone who continues to support the children's work with all their dedication and hard work.

June Buckley

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1[ST] NEWCASTLE GUIDING REPORT 2020

2020 has been a very strange year for Rainbows/Brownies and Guides.

As I am sure you are aware 1st Newcastle Brownies celebrated their Centenary on 06/01/2020

We had planned many activities during the year but sadly most of them were cancelled due to Covid but we did manage to have a fantastic Celebration Pack Holiday in Jan 2020 and we had a Celebration Event at St Giles on 18/1/2020 when the Mayor, Aaron Bell (MP for Newcastle) and the Sentinel were in attendance.

We are the oldest surviving Brownie Pack in Stoke on Trent.

Unfortunately, all out other activities were cancelled, and we last met on Monday 23/3/20 after which Girlguiding prohibited ALL face-to-face meetings.

We did however provide badge work and activity packs to keep the girls in touch during the first lockdown.

After a lot of work writing Risk Assessments, we were able to hold a couple of outdoor meetings in the grounds of St Giles’ Church in September and a few meetings inside during October. The 2nd lockdown in November prevented this continuing and we are unsure when we will be able to resume face to face meetings.

We will deliver as many of the missed activities that we can when we resume, and we have rescheduled our Division Centenary Holiday from May 2020 to May 2021 to be held at Beaudesert campsite - however we are still unsure if this will take place.

So, our Centenary year has been memorable for different reasons.

Gill Powell

Powell Owl for the Rainbow and Brownie sections

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ST GILES CHURCHYARD MANAGEMENT PLAN GREEN TEAM REPORT 2020

The St Giles Churchyard Management Plan is a five-year joint enterprise between St Giles Church and Newcastle Borough Council. The Plan is funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £25,000. Volunteers in the St Giles Green Team tend the flower beds and borders, and remove litter and the Borough Council mows the lawns and keeps the drive and pathways clear. 2020 was a successful year and a Green Flag was awarded by ‘Keep Britain Tidy’. The Newcastle in Bloom competition, which was entered and for which awards were made to St Giles in 2019, was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The eight Green Flag assessment criteria are that the Churchyard should be; A Welcoming Place, Healthy, Safe and Secure, Well Maintained and Clean, show Environmental Management, promote Biodiversity, Landscape and Heritage, promote Community Involvement, Marketing and Communication and be Well Managed.

Spring saw a good display of daffodils and narcissus planted by children from Year 4 at St Giles’ and St George’s Academy, Church groups and the congregation in 2019. Lockdown, due to the pandemic put a stop to work and the grass grew high and weeds flourished but lifting of restrictions allowed renewed access and the situation was soon recovered. The hot, dry summer led to a profusion of flowers in all the borders. One bed by the SW door was replanted with shrubs and perennials and hedges were cut. All beds and borders were well maintained. A further 400 daffodil and narcissus bulbs were planted in the Autumn on behalf of Years 2 and 4 at the Academy and for Church Groups, none of which could plant in person because of COVID concerns. Three Cherry Trees were planted and dedicated by Reverend Josh to honour former members of St Giles. David Elks successfully photographed an elusive pair of Peregrine Falcons which use the Church Tower and Michael Pitstow published their photograph, along with other Green Team articles in the Parish News. Pat Lovatt purchased a green gardening fleece for each member of the Green Team from plan funds.

The Ash Tree by the main entrance is suffering Ash die-back disease and is being monitored by the Council’s Tree Officer.

A preliminary infrastructure survey was carried out with the Council and it is hoped that the findings will be reviewed at a meeting with the Council in 2021. Some aspects of the Plan have not progressed as hoped for because of the pandemic. Work on the erection of a Flagpole, Churchyard Lighting, the Saxon Stone, the Headstone Strategy and DNA / Genealogy Strategy have stalled. New volunteers would be most welcome to assist with these specific parts of the Plan or to help tend the gardens. All are welcome! The Plan will be updated for 2021 and PCC approval sought.

Expenditure on the Churchyard Plan in Year 2 (2020) was £1471.41 and Total Volunteer input amounted to approximately 150 hours. Thanks are due to The Clergy, all members of the dedicated and enthusiastic Green Team and Green Sub-Group, Newcastle Borough Council, and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Laurie Bailey

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MOTHERS UNION REPORT 2020

Mothers' Union has always been the cornerstone of St Giles. Over the decades, there have been many inspiring and dedicated leaders. Forty years ago, there were twenty- five/thirty branches in our Deanery. Today there are just two – St. James, Audley and St. Giles.

None of us have ever experienced a year like the last one. In February we had our AGM, followed in March by a display and talk about quilting by Nicky Griffiths. Then it all stopped!

Throughout the first lock down I kept in touch with all M.U. members. We were able to organise the collections of prescriptions and shopping for people who were unable to go out.This was done by Rev'd Josh and Rev'd Shell - I can't thank them enough.

I am still contacting members through the second and third lock down and very sadly, during this time we lost two members - Doris Jones and Cynthia Mc Dermott. It was a privileged to attend Cynthia's funeral as M.U. representative.

Everyone is being very positive and strong, and I know that one day soon we will all be able to meet together again when we hope to transfer our 2020 program to 2021.

Wendy Burke

Leader of St Giles Mothers' Union

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THE STAFFORDSHIRE CHOIRS ASSOCIATION REPORT 2020

As an organisation we have been using St Giles’ Church Hall every Tuesday 12.30pm- 1.45pm for our Staffordshire Daytime Community Choir (Newcastle) rehearsals since January 2018. In 2020 we used the hall from January until mid-March when ‘lockdown’ happened, and we were unable to meet face to face for rehearsals. After a phone call from the church on Monday 16[th] March advising us that the church had made the difficult decision to cancel the external hiring of the church due to the Coronavirus pandemic that was beginning to spread rapidly, we overnight quickly moved our choir rehearsals online, contacted all our choir members and were able to continue with all choir rehearsals, initially via Facebook, and then moving on to use Zoom. As we know, this then led to a ‘national lockdown’ the following week. During the early days of ‘lockdown’ we sadly had a few members who ‘opted out’ of choir rehearsals for various reasons, but we still had a core group of choir members who joined us on what was to be quite an extraordinary journey! It was important that we supported our choir family to stay connected, and for us also to maintain our small business. At that stage initial thoughts all round were that things may get back to some sort of ‘new norm’ by September/October 2020.

When ‘lockdown 1’ was eased Government guidance in place allowed us to meet again as a community choir in a Covid secure venue, with strict guidelines in place for us and our choir members. We worked closely with St. Giles in order for this to happen; we knew that the church had put safety measures in place, which we could support, and we knew that we had some choir members who were ready to come along to face to face rehearsals. So, choir members were contacted, guidelines were sent out, seating plans were put in place, cleaning products, additional facemasks and hand sanitisers were bought, and we managed a month of face-to-face choir rehearsals in the church in October. A limited number of our Staffordshire Show choir, Staffordshire Daytime Community Choir, and Staffordshire Community Choir members came along wearing face masks and maintaining social

distancing for their choir rehearsals. Those unable to come along, or who had chosen not to come along were still able to access the rehearsal via Facebook and Zoom, our new hybrid choir rehearsals! Sadly, just ahead of ‘lockdown 2’ we made the decision that we would stop face to face rehearsals again and revert to online, where we have been ever since.

Following Government guidelines, and at short notice ahead of ‘lockdown 2’ we were able to access St. Giles for recording a concert without an audience with our female close harmony group ‘Belles Voix’. This had been originally planned to be streamed ‘live’ in St. Giles on Remembrance Day but was brought forward so that it could still take place. This concert was recorded and streamed with profits from the sale of virtual “tickets” going to support the Royal British Legion and Help for Heroes. In December, following Government guidance, we were able to access St. Giles church once again to record a Christmas concert without an audience with ‘Belles Voix’, which was streamed at a later date, and to also use the church to support our ‘live streamed’ Christmas with the Choirs 4 workshops.

Thank you to St.Giles’ for providing an accessible Covid secure venue for us to safely rehearse and record in and enabling us to be able to provide music/concerts to an online audience. Thank you for your faith in us that we would work in, provide and leave a safe, clean and sanitised environment for all individuals using the space. Thank you also to Penny Richards for supporting and being our point of contact for all matters relating to using and accessing the church.

Tracy Mellor

Choir Administrator

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MINI-MARKET STALLS REPORT 2020

St Giles Friday Coffee mornings have been taking place for many years and has greatly been enjoyed by many people, both Church members and non -members alike. During that time the Mini-Market stalls have been able to raise a considerable amount of money towards church funds; particularly the Organ Fund.

All this came to a standstill in March 2020 with the outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic; when all social gathers had to shut down, including St Giles Church. As a result no money was raised during several ‘Lockdown’ periods. However, during a short relaxed couple of weeks in the beginning of September, Joanne and I were able to sort out a great deal of the stock; some of it was donated to the Air Ambulance, and some to the Cancer Research shop. The main Good Quality items were packed and sent to the Silverdale Antique and Collectable salesroom; and as a result of their sale in January we were able to raise the sum of £150; this was duly donated to church funds.

None of this would be possible without the generous donations of ALL manner of items from church members and customers alike; and as soon as it is safe to open the Church once again, the ladies who volunteer to man the stalls are ready and waiting to do so again.

The Friday coffee mornings is a great place to meet old friends and make new ones too! It is also a good place to practice a little ‘Outreach’ Hopefully the Coffee mornings will continue well into the future.

Pat Lovatt

Financial Review

Total Net Assets: £207,598

Deficit: (£2,630)

St Giles – Excess £4,370

Since taking over inputting the finances of St Giles – together with Jane Mckeever and the agreement of the Finance committee we have tidied up all of the funds. The General fund now shows a credit – this was in an attempt to make the accounts easier to read. The HLF Mound fund has been split into two. The funds not spent at the end of the main project and the fund to used for the maintenance of the Churchyard. Again making it easier to follow the audit trail. As the finance committee get used to the reports then they can start to designate funds for use if they choose to. St Giles has shown an excess in 2020 this is mainly down to the generous donation of £40,000 and the claim of tax recoverable of £12,743. Income shows and increase of £47,000 when compared to 2019 so there are areas where the income has decreased such as Regular giving – envelopes.

Expenditure has increased by £9,500 this is mainly due to the increase shown in payment of the Parish share. This will be checked with Lichfield as it would appear there is an overpayment of £8,315 which was the Parish Share support. Should this be the case then the overpayment will be applied to 2021.

The paperwork is being sent through on a weekly basis and posted to the accounts on at least a monthly basis. This will mean that there will be no shocks at year end and the Finance committee will be able to keep on top of income and expenditure.

St Thomas – Deficit (£7,000)

The paperwork for St Thomas for 2020 has been fully input into the accounts. Unfortunately there were some entries from 2019 which were not posted so these had to be posted into 2020 accounts. Including December 2019 Parish share of £440.50. Again the accounts now show the correct funds so moving forward the figures will be available during the year. St Thomas will also be sending their information through during the year rather than at year end. This again will help with planning.

Income had reduced by nearly £4,000 when compared with 2019 and is mainly loose plate collections and fees for Weddings and Funerals [which is no surprise]

Expenditure has increased by nearly £3,500 and this shows as mainly Organ tuning, upkeep of services and upkeep of Churchyard

Reserves Policy

It is PCC policy to try to maintain a balance on free reserves (net current assets) which equates to at least three months unrestricted payments. This is equivalent to £30,053. It is held to smooth out fluctuations in cash flow and to meet emergencies. The balance of the free reserves at the year end was £66,003which is higher than this target.

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Investment Policy

The charity is granted power to invest in suitable investments under the PCC Powers Measure 1956 and the Trustees Act 2000. As a charity, the Trustees have a duty of care to take such advice as is appropriate before investments are undertaken. This advice is sought from the Central Board of Finance (CCLA) in London.

The charity’s investment policies are based on two key principles: -

• Ethical Investment – this includes ensuring that investments are held in companies which have high standards of corporate governance and act in a responsible way towards stakeholders.

• Long-term responsibilities – the trustees are aware of their long-term responsibilities in respect of the Restricted and Unrestricted reserves and as a result follow a prudent approach to investment decisions.

Investment policy for long-term funds is aimed primarily at generating a sustainable income, with due regard to the need for the preservation of capital value, and the possible need to realise investments to meet operational needs. The charity does not have a policy of generating income at excessive or high risk – known as “purchasing income”, where high returns are guaranteed at the expense of capital.

In summary, the charity has an overall policy to maximise income while preserving the real value of its funds. Due to the nature of the charity, an ethical investment policy is taken into consideration when investments are made:

The charity follows the Ethical Investment Advisory policy as recommended by the Lichfield Diocese which includes the following:

• “We aim to invest in companies that:

• will develop their business in the interests of shareholders;

• demonstrate responsible employment practices;

• are conscientious concerning issues of corporate governance, the environment and human rights;

• are sensitive to the community in which they operate.”

Planned giving, collections and donations are the main sources of fund raising along with tax recoverable.

Safeguarding

The PCC believe they have fulfilled their duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (duty to have due regard to House of Bishops’ guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults).

Reporting Serious Incidents

A Serious Incident is an adverse event, whether actual or alleged, which results in or risks significant harm to the charity’s beneficiaries, employees, office holders, volunteers or to others who come into contact with the charity through its work, loss of the charity’s money or assets, damage to the charity’s property or harm to the charity’s work or reputation.

The trustees are not aware of any Serious Incidents in the last year

Fundraising

The PCC takes it fundraising responsibilities seriously and is very grateful to all donors – whether regular or occasional – for their support of the church and church events. PCC supporters are never taken for granted. The PCC take full responsibility for fundraising and do not use commercial organisations or professional fundraisers. All money raised is either by donations, fundraising events, special appeals or legacies for which the PCC are most grateful.

Volunteers

The members of the PCC would like to thank all the volunteers who work so hard to make our Church a lively and vibrant community.

Risk Management

The Church Wardens carry out regular Health and Safety Reviews and regularly inspect premises for potential hazards. We have safeguarding policies in place for child protection and for work with vulnerable adults, including rigorous DBS checking of staff and volunteers. Our insurances are reviewed annually to ensure adequate cover. An informal review of any new risks which may impact the work of the Church in the Parish is ongoing.

Structure, Governance and Management

The PCC is a Body Corporate established by the Church of England and is a Charity registered with the Charity Commission. The PCC is governed by the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure (1956) as amended that came into effect on 2[nd] January 1957, and the Church Representation Rules (contained in Schedule 3 to the Synodical Government Measure 1969 as amended).

The method of appointment of the PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. The Council comprises the Incumbent, the Churchwardens, a representative of the Readers, those elected to the Deanery Synod, and other members who are elected at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting, by those on the Electoral Roll. The PCC members receive training from

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courses run by the Diocese. Members of the congregation are always urged to join the Electoral Roll, and to stand for election to the PCC.

The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance in the parish, and for all financial matters. The PCC met 6 times in 2020. Given its responsibilities, the PCC has a Finance sub committee which reports back to the PCC with the minutes of their meetings.

Related Parties

Apart from Penny Richards no other PCC members or any related parties work for the PCC or have received any contracts to carry out work on behalf of the PCC

Donations from Related Parties

Donations from related parties during the year totalled £2,844.50 All these donations were received without conditions.

Remuneration paid to Trustees

One or more of the trustees has been paid remuneration or has received other benefits from an employment with their charity.

Penelope Richards is employed as the Parish Administrator. The post was advertised and two applicants interviewed. Penny was felt to be the best applicant based upon experience. The PCC of the Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton discussed Penny remaining as a Trustee [without Penny present] It was felt that her many years of serving the Church gave her suitable experience to continue as a Trustee.

Penny Richards is paid £360 per month and started in post in February 2020 total £3,960 during 2020.

No pension contributions were paid by the PCC and no other benefits paid.

Expenses paid to Trustees

No Trustees received any expenses.

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Reference and Administrative Details

Charity Name: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Newcastle Under Lyme – St Giles with St Thomas Butterton.

Other names the charity is known by: N/A Registered Charity Number : 1130602

Charity’s principal address: The Parish Church of St Giles Church Street Newcastle-Under-Lyme ST5 1QS Correspondence address: The Rectory Seabridge Road Newcastle-Under-Lyme ST5 2HS Website address: http://www.stgilesnewcastle.org.uk/

PCC Members: Who Served from 1 January 2020 to the date this report was approved

PCC Members: Who Served from 1	January 2020 to the date this report was approved
Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole period
Ex-Officio
Revd Joshua Penduck	Chairperson
Mr J Maddison	Deanery Synod
Mrs C Bailey	Church Warden
Mr D Wildman	Church Warden
Elected Members
Penny Richards
Caroline Walton		Resigned January 2021
Jane Mckeever
Charlie Titley		Resigned Oct 2020
Hannah Mead		Resigned Oct 2020
Pat Lovatt
Carol Stimpson	Secretary
Michael Pitstow
Laurence Bailey
Patricia Cawthorn
Gill Powell		Elected Oct 2020
Martin Rowlands		Elected Oct 2020
Gillian Elks
Dennis Brammer

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Independent Examiner’s report to the trustees/members of The PCC of The Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butteron

Registered charity number, if applicable: 1130602

I report on the accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2020 which are set out on the following pages.

Respective responsibilities of the Trustees and Independent Examiner

The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under Section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility

• to examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,

• to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and

• to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of Independent Examiner's Statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a “true and fair” view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent Examiner's Statement

In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect:

• accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act or

• the accounts do not accord with the with the accounting records

I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

• Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed: J Hill Jonathan Hill FCMA CGMA

Date: 17 May 2021 [Original on file]

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The Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 31[st] December 2020

Accounting Policies

The Financial statements of the PCC have been prepared in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 using the Receipts and Payments basis.

There may be minor discrepancies in the totals as the pence are not being shown.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant notes to these accounts. The financial statements include all transactions, assets and liabilities for which the PCC is responsible in law. They do not include the accounts of church groups that owe their main affiliation to another body nor those that are informal gatherings of Church members.

Cashflow Statement

The Charity has taken advantage of the exemption in FRS102 from the requirement to produce a cashflow statement on the grounds that the income does not exceed £500,000.

Going Concern

There are no material uncertainties relate to events or conditions that cast significant doubt on the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Accounting Estimates and Prior Year Errors

No changes to accounting estimates have occurred in the reporting period. No material prior year errors have been identified in the reporting period

Description of Funds

Unrestricted funds are income funds of the PCC that are available for spending on the general purposes of the PCC, including amounts designated by the PCC for fixed assets for its own use or for spending on a future project and which are therefore not included in its "free reserves" as disclosed in the trustees' annual report.

An explantation of purpose of each Designated fund are as follows

• Childrens Work – Funds set aside for work with Children and Youth workers salary

Restricted funds comprise of two elements :-

• a) income from trusts or endowments which may be expended only on those restricted objects provided in the terms of the trust or bequest

• b) donations or grants received for a specific object or invited by the PCC for a specific object. The funds may only be expended on the specific object for which they were given. Any balance remaining unspent at the end of each year must be carried forward as a balance on that fund. The PCC does not usually invest separately for each fund. Where there is no separate investment, interest is apportioned to individual funds on an average balance basis.

An explanation of purpose of each Restricted fund are as follows:

• Bibles – Specific funds for the Repair and renew of The Bibles in church

• Brittain Curate – Historic funds for the Curates expenses

• Brittain Mission – Historic funds for Domestic and Other Mission work

• Church Hall – Specific funds for the Repair and maintenance of the Church Hall

• Fabric – To Ensure the Fabric of The Church remains in good repair

• Mound Churchyard – Grant for the management of the Churchyard

• Mound HLF – Grant for the renovation and improvement of the Churchyard in conjunction with HLF

• Organ – Repair and upkeep of the Organ

• Rutter – Childrens work with The Sunday Club

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• Training – Training Members of the Ministry Team

Endowment funds are restricted funds that must be retained as trust capital either permanently or subject to a discretionary power to spend capital as income, and where the use of any income or other benefit derived from the capital may be restricted or unrestricted. Full details of all their restrictions are shown in the notes to the accounts.

An explanation of purpose of each Endowment fund are as follows:

The PCC of The Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton transferred the only endowment held in 2019 – Marie Turner £11,227.33 as the restrictions were ‘To be used for General Church Purposes’ – the fund was no longer producing £1,000 income per year.

There are no other endowment funds.

Incoming Resources

Planned giving, collections and donations are recognised when received or when the PCC becomes entitled to the resource and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability. Tax refunds are recognised when the incoming resource to which they relate is received. Grants and Legacies are accounted for when the PCC is legally entitled to the amounts due and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability. Dividends are accounted for when receivable, interest is accrued. All other income is recognised when it is receivable. All incoming resources are accounted for gross.

Resources Expended

Grants and donations are accounted for when paid over, or when awarded, if that award creates a binding or constructive obligation on the PCC. The diocesan parish share is accounted for when due. Amounts received specifically for mission are dealt with as restricted funds. All other expenditure is generally recognised when it is incurred and is accounted for gross.

Governance and Support Costs

Support costs should be allocated between governance costs and other support. Governance costs comprise all costs involving public accountability of the PCC and its compliance with regulation and good practice.

Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources eg by allocating staff costs by time spent and other costs by their usage.

Fixed Assets

Consecrated and benefice property is not included in the accounts by s.10(2)(a)&(C) of the Charities Act 2011.

Moveable church furnishings held by the Vicar and Churchwardens on special trust for the PCC and which require a faculty for disposal are inalienable property, listed in the Church’s inventory, which can be inspected (at any reasonable time). For anything acquired prior to 2000 there is insufficient cost information available and therefore such assets are not valued in the financial statements.

No depreciation is provided on buildings as the currently estimated residual value of the properties is not less than their carrying value and the remaining useful life of these assets exceeds 50 years, so that any depreciation charges would be immaterial. Other tangible fixed assets are valued at cost. The depreciation rates and methods used are disclosed in note XX.

Investments

Investments in quoted shares, traded bonds and similar investments are valued initially at cost and subsequently at market value at the year end. Investments held for re-sale are treated as current asset investments.

Debtors

Debtors are measured on initial recognition at settlement amount. Subsequently they are measured as cash expected to be received

Creditors and Accruals

Creditors are measured at settlement amounts less any trade discounts. Accruals are measured on best estimate of the amount required to settle the obligation at the reporting date

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The Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton St Thomas year ending 2020

Receipts and Payments Account

	Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Prior year funds funds funds funds total funds
Income and endowments from: Donations and legacies Income from charitable activities Other trading activities Investments Total income Expenditure on: Raising funds Expenditure on charitable activities Total expenditure Net income / (expenditure) resources before transfer Transfers Gross transfers between funds - in Gross transfers between funds - out Other recognised gains / losses Gains on revaluation, fixed assets, charity's own use Net movement in funds Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward Represented by Unrestricted General Fund Designated Brittain - Designated Childrens Work - Working With Children And To Fund Fabric - To Ensure The Fabric Of The Church Remain Rectory Decoration Trust 1407 - Arising From The Sale Of Curates Hous Restricted Agency collection Altar Cloths - Repair And Upkeep Of The Altar Clot Bibles - Repair And Renew The Bibles In Church Brittain - Curates Expenses Brittain - Designated Brittain - Domestic/Other Mission Work Butterton - Restricted To St Thomas Butterton Chur Church Hall - For The Repair And Maintenance Of Th	99,333 10,773 — 110,107 56,322 5,287 — — 5,287 12,524 550 230 — 780 4,482 261 1,147 — 1,409 1,497
	105,434 12,151 — 117,585 74,826 403 56 — 460 242 96,340 23,414 — 119,754 106,934
	96,744 23,471 — 120,215 107,176
	8,690 (11,319) — (2,629) (32,349) 158,069 40,385 — 198,455 — (71,380) (115,847) (11,227) (198,455) — (5,114) 6,691 (132) 1,443 —
	90,264 (80,090) (11,360) (1,185) (32,349)
	(24,260) 221,684 11,360 208,783 241,133
	66,004 141,594 — 207,598 208,783 57,686 — — 57,686 (99,747) — — — — 7,169 8,317 — — 8,317 10,000 — — — — 4,967 — — — — 678 — — — — 52,673 — — — — (2,790) — — — — 662 — 1,273 — 1,273 1,273 — 5,684 — 5,684 — — — — — 7,105 — 1,421 — 1,421 — — 3,986 — 3,986 29,503 — 9,696 — 9,696 9,694

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Disability Act/Hall - For The Disabled Toilet In T	—	—	—	—	4,899
Fabric - To Ensure The Fabric Of The Church	—	63,723	—	63,723	60,687
Remain
Legacies	—	—	—	—	14,202
Mission - To Help Fund Mission Activities Undertak	—	—	—	—	487
Mound - HLF For The Management Of The	—	21,410	—	21,410	50,373
Churchyard
Mound - For The Renovation And Improvement Of	—	25,373	—	25,373	—
The
Organ - Repair And Upkeep Of The Organ	—	7,824	—	7,824	7,322
Rutter - For Children's Work With The Sunday Club	—	—	—	—	2,396
Training Members Of The Ministry Team	—	1,202	—	1,202	1,202
Trust 1407 - Arising From The Sale Of Curates Hous	—	—	—	—	34,670
Endowment
Maria Turner - Income From This Fund Can Be	—	—	—	—	11,360
Used F

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Statement of assets and liabilities

General	Designated Restricted Endowment Thisyear Lastyear
Fixed assets - Investments CCLA - Fabric Account - CCLA - Maria Turner Charity - CCLA - Maria Turner Charity - CCLA - Newcastle St Giles Rector & Churc - Totals Current assets - Cash at bank and in hand Current Account - Main - Current Account - Main - Bank reserve account - PCC St Giles Church - Fabric Account - Organ Current Account - Bank current account - PCC St Giles Church - Church Hall Accoun - BB Inst Online - Mound Account - Cash in hand - Totals Liabilities - Agency accounts Agency collections - Totals Liabilities - Creditors: Amounts falling due in one year LDBF Salaries 7422 - Totals Grand total	— — 15,994 — 15,994 15,265 9,095 — — — 9,095 — — — — — — 8,681 — — 23,970 — 23,970 22,794
	9,095 — 39,964 — 49,060 46,741 52,206 8,317 77,360 — 137,885 21,313 — — — — — 124,058 — — 6,605 — 6,605 13,605 930 — — — 930 930 — — 3,956 — 3,956 33 — — 100 — 100 100 65 — 7,687 — 7,752 6,356 — — 310 — 310 310 114 — — — 114 —
	53,317 8,317 96,019 — 157,654 166,707 — — (883) — (883) 2,790
	— — (883) — (883) 2,790 — — — — — 1,875
	— — — — — 1,875
	62,413 8,317 136,867 — 207,598 208,783

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Analysis of receipts and payments

Receipts Donations and legacies 0101 - Regular Giving - Bank 0101 - Gift Aid - Bank 0110 - Regular Giving - Envelopes 0110 - Gift Aid - Envelopes 0301 - Loose plate collections 0302 - Special Services Loose Plate collections 0550 - Donations appeals etc 0601 - Tax recoverable on Gift Aid 0701 - Legacies 08A1 - Non-recurring one-off grants 0901 - Other funds generated- Promotions and Fu 0901 - Other funds generated Total Income from charitable activities 0902 - Sale of refreshments 1101 - Fees for weddings and funerals 1230 - Church hall hire Total Other trading activities 0910 - Mini Market 1260 - Parish magazine sales Total Investments 1001 - Dividends 1020 - Bank and building society interest Total		Total Unrestricted Designated Restricted Endowment This year Last year 10,578 — — — 10,578 9,283 — — 440 — 440 240 12,743 — — — 12,743 18,868 — — 5,143 — 5,143 6,214 4,396 — 46 — 4,442 8,546 92 — — — 92 702 57,468 — 313 — 57,781 — 12,102 — 2,364 — 14,466 5,006 500 — — — 500 — — 1,392 2,191 — 3,583 — 61 — — — 61 5,150 — — 275 — 275 2,312
		97,941 1,392 10,773 — 110,107 56,322 488 — — — 488 3,488 2,422 — — — 2,422 5,514 2,377 — — — 2,377 3,522
		5,287 — — — 5,287 12,524 — — 230 — 230 3,071 550 — — — 550 1,410
		550 — 230 — 780 4,482 261 — 1,131 — 1,393 1,362 — — 15 — 15 135
		261 — 1,147 — 1,409 1,497
INCOME TOTAL		104,041 1,392 12,151 — 117,585 74,826

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Payments

Raising funds 1720 - Costs of stewardship campaign 1730 - Costs of fetes & other events Total Expenditure on charitable activities 1910 - Ministry parish share etc 2001 - Other staff costs - Verger/Organist etc 2001 - Assistant staff costs 2002 - Salary - Youth Worker 2050 - Salary of parish administrator 2101 - Working expenses of incumbent 2130 - Rectory expenses 2150 - Vicar's telephone 2201 - Parish training and mission 2301 - Church running - insurance 2310 - Church office - telephone 2320 - Organ / piano tuning 2330 - Church maintenance 2331 - Cleaning 2340 - Upkeep of services 2350 - Upkeep of churchyard 2360 - Admin/Stationery&Postage 2401 - Church running - electric 2410 - Church running - gas 2420 - Church running - water 2430 - Church running - oil Total	310 — 56 — 366 — 93 — — — 93 242
	403 — 56 — 460 242 69,539 — 5,726 — 75,265 65,286 2,800 — — — 2,800 — — — 100 — 100 555 — 1,899 5,697 — 7,596 6,061 3,960 — — — 3,960 — (120) — — — (120) 567 — — — — — 2,385 180 — — — 180 — — — 77 — 77 1,501 7,001 — 2,577 — 9,579 9,356 150 — — — 150 — — — 3,140 — 3,140 — 1,913 — 2,128 — 4,042 5,394 204 — — — 204 29 654 — 941 — 1,595 1,445 1,345 — 2,164 — 3,509 996 2,801 10 55 — 2,867 5,713 1,506 — 328 — 1,835 2,202 2,394 — — — 2,394 4,744 99 — 64 — 164 164 — — 411 — 411 531
	94,431 1,909 23,414 — 119,754 106,934
EXPENDITURE TOTAL	94,835 1,909 23,471 — 120,215 107,176
GRAND TOTAL	9,206 (516) (11,319) — (2,629) (32,349)

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Fund movement by type

Opening Incoming Outgoing Transfers Gains/losses Closing	Opening Incoming Outgoing Transfers Gains/losses Closing
Altar Clot - Altar Cloths - Repai Restricted Sub-total for Altar Clot Bibles - Bibles - Repair And Restricted Sub-total for Bibles Brittain - Brittain - Designate Designated Restricted Sub-total for Brittain BrittainCu - Brittain - Curates E Restricted Sub-total for BrittainCu BrittainMi - Brittain - Domestic/ Restricted Sub-total for BrittainMi Butterton - Butterton - Restrict Restricted Sub-total for Butterton Childrens - Childrens Work - Wor Designated Sub-total for Childrens Church Hal - Church Hall - For Th Restricted Sub-total for Church Hal Churchyard - Mound - HLF For The Restricted Restricted Sub-total for Churchyard Disability - Disability Act/Hall Restricted Sub-total for Disability Fabric - Fabric - To Ensure T Designated Restricted Sub-total for Fabric General - General Fund Unrestricted Sub-total for General Legacies - Legacies Restricted Sub-total for Legacies Maria Turn - Maria Turner - Incom Endowment Sub-total for Maria Turn Mission - Mission - To Help Fu Restricted Sub-total for Mission Organ - Organ - Repair And U Restricted Sub-total for Organ Rectory De - Rectory Decoration Designated Sub-total for Rectory De Rutter - Rutter - For Childre Restricted Sub-total for Rutter	662 — — (662) — —
	662 — — (662) — — 1,273 — — — — 1,273
	1,273 — — — — 1,273 7,169 — — (7,169) — — 7,105 — — (7,105) — —
	14,274 — — (14,274) — — — — — 5,684 — 5,684
	— — — 5,684 — 5,684 — — — 1,421 — 1,421
	— — — 1,421 — 1,421 29,503 8,546 12,883 (21,179) — 3,986
	29,503 8,546 12,883 (21,179) — 3,986 10,000 1,392 1,909 (1,165) — 8,317
	10,000 1,392 1,909 (1,165) — 8,317 9,694 2 — — — 9,696
	9,694 2 — — — 9,696 50,373 50 1,616 (27,395) — 21,410 — — — 25,373 — 25,373
	50,373 50 1,616 (2,022) — 46,783 4,899 — — (4,899) — —
	4,899 — — (4,899) — — 4,967 — — (4,967) — — 60,687 1,131 — — 1,904 63,723
	65,654 1,131 — (4,967) 1,904 63,723 (79,984) 104,041 94,835 135,579 546 57,686
	(99,747) 104,041 94,835 135,579 546 57,686 14,202 — — (14,202) — —
	14,202 — — (14,202) — — 11,360 — — (11,227) (132) —
	11,360 — — (11,227) (132) — 487 — 77 (409) — —
	487 — 77 (409) — — 7,322 230 3,140 1,416 — 7,824
	7,322 230 3,140 1,416 — 7,824 678 — — (678) — —
	678 — — (678) — — 2,396 2,191 5,752 1,165 — —
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Training - Training Members Of Restricted Sub-total for Training Trust 1407 - Trust 1407 - Arising Designated Restricted Sub-total for Trust 1407 Grand total	1,202 — — — — 1,202
	1,202 — — — — 1,202 52,673 — — (52,673) — — 34,670 — — (34,670) — —
	87,343 — — (87,343) — —
	211,574 117,585 120,215 — 2,318 207,598

Staff Costs

	2020	2019
Wages & Salaries	£11,556	£7,596
Average number of Employees	2	1

During the year the PCC employed an Administrator and a Youth Worker [all part-time] and no payments were large enough to attract social security costs.

There were no employee benefits to key management personnel in the previous or current year.

No pension payments were made but this is being looked into as part of the Youth workers original contract Pension contributions would be made by The PCC.

The PCC will use the National Employment Savings Trust [Nest] via the Diocesan Payroll Scheme, for its pension payments

COVID-19 – The PCC received £3,584 in grants from the Government related to the Furlough Scheme

Trustees’ Remuneration & Expenses

Penny Richards, a trustee of the PCC was paid £3,960 by the PCC during the year for their role as Parish Administrator. No pension contributions were made by the PCC in connections with this employment

No Trustees received any expenses.

Related Parties

No other expenses were paid to any other PCC member, persons closely connected to them or related parties.

Donations from related parties [PCC members] totalled £2844.50.

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Analysis of Transfer between Funds

Reference	Date	Account	Debit	Credit	Description	Fund	Fund Type
To General Fund	09/10/2020	187211	-	2,678.34	To General Fund	Maria Turner	End
To General Fund	09/10/2020	187211	2,678.34	-	Per Maria Turner no longer an endow-Res- funds to be used for Generalpurposes	General	Unr
Tfr from Rectoryto General	09/10/2020	187211	-	678	To Generalproject complete to clear	Rectory Decoration	Des
Tfr from Rectoryto General	09/10/2020	187211	678	-	Per RectoryDecorationproject complete	General	Unr
Tfr from Brittain to Brittain Curate	27/11/2020	187211	-	5,684.00	To Brittain - Curate split to match original restrictions	Brittain	Res
Tfr from Brittain to Brittain Curate	27/11/2020	187211	5,684.00	-	Per Brittain - split to match original restrictions	BrittainCurate	Res
TFr from Brittain to Brittain Mission	27/11/2020	187211	-	1,421.00	To Brittain - Domestic/Other Mission work - split to match original restrictions	Brittain	Res
TFr from Brittain to Brittain Mission	27/11/2020	187211	1,421.00	-	Per Brittain - split to match original restrictions	BrittainMissio n	Res
Tidy up KB re email from Treasurer 19/11/20	15/12/2020	187211	-	6,750.00	To General fund re email 19/11/2020 from Jmck	Churchyard Maintenance HLF Fund	Res
Tidy up KB re email from Treasurer 19/11/20	15/12/2020	187211	6,750.00	-	Per Mound fund to repay two invoices paid from General	General	Unr
Tidy up KB re email dated 19/11/20 from Treasurer	15/12/2020	187211	-	18,312.88	To Mound-HLF to id funds easily if need to be returned	Churchyard Maintenance HLF Fund	Res
Tidy up KB re email dated 19/11/20 from Treasurer	15/12/2020	187211	18,312.88	-	Per Mound - Yard which will be used solely for upkeep	Churchyard Project HLF Fund	Res
Tfr tidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	7,169.00	Tfr to General fund	Brittain	Des
Tfr tidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	7,169.00	-	Per Brittain Designated fund	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	4,036.07	Tfr to General fund - agreed byPCC	Fabric	Des
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	4,036.07	-	Per Fabric Designated - agreed byPCC	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	52,673.00	To General Fund - Agreed byPCC	Trust 1407	Des
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	52,673.00	-	Per Trust 1407 - Designated Agreed byPCC	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	662	Tfr to General fund - Agreed by PCC assumed not dr to correct fund inpreviousyears	Altar Cloths	Res
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	662	-	Per Altar Fund - Agreed byPCC	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	4,899.00	Tfr to General fund-project complete	Disability Act/Hall	Res
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	4,899.00	-	Per Disability/Act Hall - Project complete	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	14,202.00	Tfr to General Fund - No restrictions on legacies - Agreed byPCC	Legacies	Res
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	14,202.00	-	Per Legacies fund - Agreed byPCC	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	409.1	Tfr to General fund - Agreed by PCC assumed not dr to correct fund inpreviousyears	Mission	Res
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	409.1	-	Per Mission	General	Unr
Tfr Tidyup	15/12/2020	187211	-	34,670.00	Tfr to General fund - Agreed by PCC no restrictions confirmed byLDBF	Trust 1407	Res
Tfr Tidyup	15/12/2020	187211	34,670.00	-	Per Trust 1407 - Restricted	General	Unr
Tfr from Mound Churchyard to Mound HLF to balance to Lauries figures	31/12/2020	187211	-	2,332.97	Tfr from Mound Churchyard to Mound HLF to ensure one fund is correct JM to check HLF fund in 2021	Churchyard Maintenance HLF Fund	Res
Tfr from Mound Churchyard to Mound HLF to balance to Lauries figures	31/12/2020	187211	2,332.97	-	Per Mound churchyard to balance that fund to Lauries figures JM to check HLF fund to balance in 2021	Churchyard Project HLF Fund	Res
Tfr from Childrens worker to Rutter to clear	31/12/2020	187211	-	1,165.92	To Rutter fund to clear	Childrens Work	Des
Tfr from Childrens worker to Rutter to clear	31/12/2020	187211	1,165.92	-	Per Childrens Worker fund to clear	Rutter	Res
Tfr TidyUpKB	15/12/2020	1617694	-	930.93	Tfr to General fund - Agreed byPCC	Fabric	Des
Tfr TidyUpKB	15/12/2020	1617694	930.93	-	Per Fabric Designated	General	Unr
Tfr to General as Endownment no longerproduces more than £1,000	09/10/2020	12256000 1T	8,548.99	-	Per Maria Turner Endownment	General	Unr
Tfr to General as Endownment no longerproduces more than £1,000	09/10/2020	12256000 1T	-	8,548.99	Tfr to General as Endownment no longer produces more than £1,000 and is for General use	Maria Turner	End
To Mound HLF as per email 09/02/21 Jmc	31/12/2020	187211	-	4,727.15	To HLF Mound fund per email 09/02/21 - To balance to agreed figures duringFinance meeting	General	Unr
To Mound HLF as per email 09/02/21 Jmc	31/12/2020	187211	4,727.15	-	Per Generalper email 09/02/21	Churchyard Project HLF Fund	Res
Transer to clear historicgeneral debit	31/12/2020	1173308	-	19,763.00	To General Fund to clear overdrawn position shown in 2019	Butterton	Res
Transer to clear historicgeneral debit	31/12/2020	1173308	19,763.00	-	Per Butterton Fund	General	Unr
Tfr from Organ to Butterton to contra 03712001	31/12/2020	1173308	-	2,662.80	To Butterton to contra 03712001	Organ	Res
Tfr from Organ to Butterton to contra 03712001	31/12/2020	1173308	2,662.80	-	Per Organ fund to contra 03712001	Butterton	Res
Tfr to balance to paperwork from St Thomas	31/12/2020	1173308	-	1,416.20	To Organ fund to balance to St Thomas paperwork	Butterton	Res
Tfr to balance to paperwork from St Thomas	31/12/2020	1173308	1,416.20	-	Per Butterton Fund	Organ	Res
Tfr from Butterton to Organ to clear 03712001	31/12/2020	3712001	-	2,662.80	To Organ fund to clear	Butterton	Res
Tfr from Butterton to Organ to clear 03712001	31/12/2020	3712001	2,662.80	-	Per Butterton Fund to clear Organ	Organ	Res

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Fixed Assets

a) Tangible Fixed Assets – The PCC have no Tangible Fixed Assets

b) Fixed Asset Investments

	At 1 Jan £	Additions £	Disposals £	Transfers £	Change in Market Value £	At 31 Dec £
Unrestricted funds
Investments		8,682	0.00	0.00	414	9,096
Restricted Funds
Investments	38,060	0.00	0.00	0.00	1,904	39,964
Endowment Fund
Investments	8,682	0.00	0.00	-8,549	-133	0.00
Total	46,742	8,682	0.00	-8,549	-133	49,060

CCLA – 122530001T – Fabric Account [Restricted] - £15,994 CCLA – 122560001T – Maria Turner Charity [Endowment – transferred to Unrestricted in 2020] - £9,096 CCLA – 620002001S – Fabric Account [Restricted] - £23,970

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The PCC of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton
Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st December		2019
Statement of Financial Activities
		Unrestricted Funds £	Designated Funds £	Restricted Funds £	Endowment Funds £	Total Funds 2019 £	Total Funds 2018 £
Incoming Resources							*see note 12 for full comparatives
Income and Endowments from:
Donations and Legacies	2a	54,329	-	-	-	54,329	179,632
Activities for GeneratingFunds	2b	5,482	-	3,072	-	8,554	10,064
Income from Investments	2c	1,498	-	-	-	1,498	1,911
Church Activities	2d	10,447	-	-	-	10,447	5,888
Other	2e	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total		71,756	-	3,072	-	74,828	197,495
Resources Expended
Expenditure on:
RaisingFunds	3a	242	-	-	-	242	236
Church Activities	3b	106,646	-	289	-	106,935	141,437
Other	3c	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total		106,887	-	289	-	107,176	141,673
Net Income/(Expenditure) before investment gains/(losses)		(35,131)	-	2,782	-	(32,349)	55,822
Net gain/(losses) on investments	7(b) & 8(a)			6,628	1,397	8,025	(939)
Net Income/(Expenditure)		(35,131)	-	9,410	1,397	(24,324)	54,882
Transfer between Funds	6	-	-	-	-	-	-
Net Movement in Funds		(35,131)	-	9,410	1,397	(24,324)	54,882
Total Funds brought forward	11	7,078	10,000	212,975	9,963	240,015	185,133
Total Funds carried forward		(28,053)	10,000	222,385	11,360	215,692	240,015

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< Annual Report and Financial Statements of the Parochial Church Council of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton

For the year ended 31[st] December 2020 Registered Charity Number: 1130602

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The Parochial Church Council of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31[st] December 2020

Charity registration number: 1130602

Objectives and Activities

The Parochial Church Council of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton (the PCC) has the responsibility of co-operating with the incumbent, the Reverend Joshua Penduck, in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelical, social and ecumenical. The PCC is also spiritually responsible for the maintenance of the church

The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church and to become part of our parish community at Newcastle Under Lyme with Butterton. The PCC maintains an overview of worship throughout the parish and makes suggestions on how our services can involve the many groups that live within our parish. Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer, scripture, music and sacrament. Also, through non sacramental activities of hospitality and fellowship we aim to reach non churched members of the community.

Public Benefit

The trustees of the Charity are aware of the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit in The Advancement of Religion for the Public Benefit and have had regard to it in their administration of the Charity. The trustees believe that, by promoting the work of the Church of England in the Ecclesiastical Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton, it helps to promote the whole mission of the Church (pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical) more effectively, within the Ecclesiastical Parish, and that in doing so it provides a benefit to the public by:

• Providing facilities for public worship, pastoral care and spiritual, moral and intellectual development, both for its members and for anyone who wishes to benefit from what the Church offers; and

• Promoting Christian values and service by members of the Church in and to their communities, to the benefit of individuals and society as a whole.

Achievements and Performance

Rectors Report 2020

Objectives

The primary objective of the PCC is to promote the Mission of God (Missio Dei}, evangelistic, pastoral, social and ecological, in collaboration with every member of the two congregations. Our Mission Statement is that we seek to ‘learn about God, to demonstrate

his love ...... and to share our faith with others’. In the context of St Giles with St Thomas this is done through regular public worship, catechism, pastoral care both individually and through occasional offices, engagement and/or collaboration with community organisations, groups and visiting individuals, and through environmentally sound care of our churchyards.

The secondary objectives of the PCC during 2020 were to:

• recruit two new wardens and a treasurer with the intended retirement of the current wardens and treasurer in April 2020, as well as recruit a PCC Secretary so that the PCC Standing Committee could have each of its allotted spaces filled;

• employ a parish administrator;

• seek funding for the Children and Families’ Worker;

• continue and develop the civic/public role of St Giles’ church in Newcastle-under-Lyme;

• begin a planned giving campaign in both St Giles and St Thomas

• continue and develop our Churchyard Project in collaboration with other community groups

Activities

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been able to meet most of the aspects of our primary objective:

• Worship has continued through a pre-recorded online service when the church was closed. Both St Giles and St Thomas were opened for private prayer in July-August and November-December and were open for public worship SeptemberNovember and December.

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• After the Lent Group Bible study was closed, catechism has continued only with particular individuals.

• Occasional offices have continued, including a Service for the Ordination of Priests, and pastoral care has been maintained through a pastoral network of individuals keeping check on each other.

• After the church was closed to community groups in March, our main community connections have been through St Giles and St George’s Academy, with Revd Joshua Penduck as a Director and also leading regular public worship online. However, from September to November, the church was also used by uniformed organisations, community choirs and other churches. The Thursday morning Keep-Fit Group are looking forward to returning when it is safe to do so. Furthermore, in January connections were developed with Asha, an organisation which works with asylum seekers.

However, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that several of our secondary objectives have only been partially met.

• The March-June lockdown meant that we were unable to have our APCM, and thus were not able to vote in our new wardens until October, when we were permitted to meet. The Wardens will not be admitted until January 2021. In June 2020, the PCC voted for Carol Stimpson to be the new PCC Secretary and Hannah Mead to be the new treasurer. In July 2020, Hannah Mead resigned as treasurer and from the PCC. In October 2020, Jane McKeever was voted in by the PCC as treasurer. The PCC also agreed to employ Kim Benton as their Financial Advisor in August 2020.

• In January 2020, Penny Richards began work as parish administrator.

• The COVID-19 pandemic meant that Jean Buckley, our Children and Families’ Worker, was kept on furlough from 18[th] May 2020. We are still applying for outside funding.

• In January 2020, the Newcastle-under-Lyme Burgesses continued to hire St Giles for its historic events. St Giles was able to continue its civic/public role in collaboration with our local MP, and council and armed forces representatives through outside and/or online services for VE Day, the Battle of Britain Sunday and Remembrance Sunday. An intended public art exhibition in celebration of the 60[th] Anniversary of the Moon Landings, ‘One Small Step’, in collaboration with Lichfield Cathedral and Arts Council England, was cancelled in March 2020 due to the lockdown.

• The pandemic has meant we have not been able to have a strategically planned giving campaign, though less formal requests for giving have been made.

• Our Churchyard Project has been continued and developed via a specific PCC Sub-Committee. Progress has been slow because of the competing attention needed for maintaining the church throughout the pandemic.

Review of 2020

Like many churches, St Giles and St Thomas have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, the review must have two halves: January-March, and March-December 2020.

January-March 2020

The PCC noted in January that attention needed to be given to a) raising giving for both churches after a considerable loss in 2019; b) applying for funds for our Children and Families’ Worker, Jean Buckley; c) and clarify the nature of the Churchyard Project.

In the early months of the year, there were four large developments in St Giles with St Thomas:

• As noted in the Objectives and Activities, we began to employ a Parish Administrator, Penny Richards, from 6[th] January 2020.

• Relations were developed with Asha, an organisation which works with asylum seekers. This culminated in an All-Age service with individuals from Asha leading music (including African drumming). Plans were made for an Asha/St Giles litter-pick later in the year.

• A Lent Group looking at the theme of creation in the Bible had a large attendance (before being cancelled due to the March lockdown).

• A large art exhibition in conjunction with Lichfield Cathedral and Arts Council England was planned for March-April 2020. This was called ‘One More Step’ and would have involved collaboration with the artist Peter Walker, Potboiler Theatre, and multiple local schools and community organisations. Sadly, it was cancelled several days before it began due to the lockdown.

On 6[th] January, the 1[st] Newcastle Brownies were 100 years old – the oldest surviving Brownie Pack in the Potteries. To mark this momentous occasion, St Giles Church Hall was hired on 18[th] January, with the Mayor, MP and the Sentinel present.

In February 2020, St Giles had a guest speaker from TearFund.

March-December

The COVID-19 pandemic changed all our plans at St Giles with St Thomas. At the March 2020 PCC Meeting, the PCC agreed to keep all our members of staff in employment, although on 18[th] May 2020, Jean Buckley was placed on furlough leave for the remainder of the year.

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As part of the lockdown, all community groups were unable to use the church, all but one wedding was cancelled, and midweek events – including Little Fishes, Rainbow, our midweek communion service, the Mothers’ Union, and Friday Coffee mornings – were all closed. We also had to end our monthly visits to five care homes.

As we were not able to worship in church, we instead created an online format through YouTube. This included Sunday services, Holy Week and Easter Day, a service for VE Day, and Ascension Day. My utmost thanks go to Aidan Goldstraw for ably and professionally ensuring that we have had a video each week since March, with thanks also going to Jane Perry in helping edit these videos. Thanks also go to Jane Perry, Penny Richard, Carol Stimpson, Christine Salts, Caroline Walton, and Hannah Mead, for their regular musical contributions, and also to our readers, prayers leaders and guest speakers. It has taken much time and energy for people to learn this new format of worship, yet we are profoundly grateful for the sacrifices made in doing so. The consistent high-quality nature of these videos has been noticed further afield, with people even in other countries tuning in to watch.

Since the end of the first lockdown in July, the following happened:

• 19[th] July, St Giles opened for private prayer for three hours each Sunday (12pm-3pm).

• 9[th] August, St Thomas also opened for private prayer (10.30am-12pm)

• 6[th] September, St Giles opened for public worship (9am and 11am)

• 20[th] September, St Giles led a small Battle of Britain service online and at the Cenotaph with the RAF Association (with an online sermon by Bishop Michael Ipgrave)

• 28[th] September, St Giles hosted a service for the ordination of priests

• 4[th] October, St Thomas opened for public worship (10.30am)

• 14[th] October, St Giles began our Wednesday Oasis service again

• Members of the Ministry Team have conducted a number of funerals at both churches and at the Crematorium

• On frequent occasions, the church bells at St Giles were rung (socially distanced) by our ringing team

Ensuring that congregation members are safe at such events has meant a considerable amount of logistical planning. Thanks go to Dr Naomi Forrester-Soto of Keele University, Lawrence Bailey and Hannah Mead for their help in planning. Special thanks must go to Penny Richards for her tireless work in reading through and applying the complex rules that have emerged in the wake of the pandemic. A thanks also to Michael Pitstow for his help in providing a screen-based liturgy for our public worship.

Since 29[th] September, St Giles was been open to community groups wanting to use the church or church hall. This has included regulars such as the Girl Guides and the Community Choir, as well as new groups. We ensured that such groups have their own risk assessments which are rigorously applied.

With the second lockdown in November-December, St Giles opened for private prayer, though St Thomas remained shut. On Remembrance Sunday, as well as an online service, members of St Giles ministry team led an outdoor Act of Remembrance at the Cenotaph alongside the Mayor, members of the armed forces and the Council. This was repeated on Remembrance Day.

St Giles and St Thomas opened for public worship again on the 6[th] December. During December, the following services happened:

• 19[th] December, St Thomas held an outdoor carol service in Butterton, with musical contributions from Oliver PritchardJones.

• 20[th] December, St Giles put on an online Lessons and Carols service. This included contributions from our church choir, the University Hospital Choir, Jane Bailey, Kari Kirkland, and Eve Perry.

• 20[th] December, St Giles held an in-church carols by candlelight, led by members of the St Giles choir.

• 24[th] December, in-church services were held at St Giles, including a family service and a Midnight Mass (both well attended). An online ‘Christmas Compline’ was also held, with contributions from the University Hospital Orchestra and Newcastle Baptist Church.

• 25[th] December, services were held at St Giles and St Thomas.

On 28[th] October 2020, the APCM was held. Particular discussion was had regarding amalgamating the administrative structures of St Giles and St Thomas, and the potential for a separate weekly All-Age Worship. Gillian Elks and Dennis Brammer were elected as wardens. In the 2019 TAR I thanked David Wildman and Christine Bailey for their service of this parish, so little can be added accept to reiterate my thanks once again.

In June 2020, John Maddison retired as Church Treasurer. John agreed to be church treasurer for a few months in 2017. It turned out to be a long stint. My thanks go to John for the hard work that has put into ensuring St Giles remains financially viable. Hannah Mead became treasurer at the same PCC Meeting, though resigned in July 2020. To ensure that the church finances were kept in order, the PCC decided to employ Kim Benton, a Diocesan-certified accountant. In October 2020, Jane McKeever was voted in by the PCC to be the new treasurer. I am also very grateful for the work of David and Pat Cawthorn in stabilising the finances at St Thomas’ over 2020.

Financially, St Giles and St Thomas have both been hit hard by the pandemic. A combination of a generous donation and the accumulated three years’ gift aid stabilised St Giles finances. However, unless there is an increase in giving or expenditure is reduced, St Giles will likely be financially insolvent within a few years. St Thomas has also struggled deeply and is likely to be

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financially insolvent by 2022 unless giving is upped. This is a challenge for a diminishing congregation and raises questions about the long term viability of running two churches. As can be seen from the financial report, there is a large unsustainable mismatch between income and expenditure even in good months.

Many thanks also go to the ministry team – which includes Revd Peter Nisbeck, Revd Ann Taylor, Revd Jean Walker, John Maddison, and honorary assistant priests Revd Shell Penduck and Revd David Beedon – for their time and effort in maintaining consistently high standard of worship during this difficult time.

Although the pastoral network has maintained links between people in the lockdown, we should not be naïve to think that much of the communal bonds have remained completely intact. My thanks go to those many individuals who have so kindly and caringly kept in contact with some of our most isolated and vulnerable members of the congregation over the last few months. Much of our family network was held together through Jean Buckley, who volunteered of her own accord to keep in touch with them on a personal basis whilst on furlough.

Each year, Michael Pitstow has maintained an excellent standard of editorship for the Parish News. In May, it was decided that the magazine would for the first time go online, which has happened each month throughout the year. Our thanks go to Michael for continuing this valuable aspect of our church life.

During 2020, several members of the congregation died. Although each are precious, particular note should be made of John Ward, who served the church faithfully for many years, with particular distinction in his role as treasurer. Our thanks as a congregation go to John, and his family remain in our prayers.

Through 2020, the PCC employed three members of staff:

• Aidan Goldstraw, Director of Music

• Jean Buckley, Children and Families Worker (currently furloughed)

• Penny Richards, Parish Administrator

Future Plans

The PCC have emphasised five areas which they feel need to be addressed in 2021:

• Balancing and restoring the financial capabilities for both St Giles and St Thomas. This will be done through sustained giving campaigns in both churches. This must be done for the first part of the year to keep St Thomas financially solvent.

• Re-gathering the community after the pandemic, with particular emphasis on children and families’ work (including seeking funding for our Children and Families’ Worker). This may be done through the addition of a weekly All-Age Worship.

• Installing Broadband Connections.

• Buying appropriate Internal Technology for online services.

• Continuing the develop the Churchyard Project and Installing outside lighting through the available remaining funds from HLF. This will be done through the PCC Churchyard Sub-Committee.

Revd Joshua Penduck

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SECRETARY’S REPORT 2020 23[rd] June 2020 to 31[st] December 2020

Resignations:

John Maddison stepped down as temporary acting Treasurer and Hannah Mead was elected Treasurer in June 2020. However, Hannah resigned from the role of both Treasurer and PCC member in July 2020. Caroline Walton also resigned as a member of the PCC in December 2020.

Standing Committee meetings & PCC meetings:

All meetings from June 2020 were held online because of the necessary COVID-19 pandemic social restrictions. Between June and December 2020 there were three Standing Committee meetings and six PCC meetings (plus one extraordinary PCC meeting). All meetings were well attended and there was lively and well-informed debate about several important issues.

Issues:

There was exploration of funding opportunities to pay for Jean Buckley’s post as St Giles’ Children’s and Family Officer.

Careful attention was given to the reshaping and formatting of both live and online services. The former requiring planning to meet strict social distancing measures demanded by COVID infection control. Plans were discussed to facilitate live streaming of services over the Internet for viewers in the UK and elsewhere.

St Giles and St Thomas will now work to amalgamate administration procedures. In future the administration of both churches will be handled at St Giles.

Church funds have declined during the pandemic and the PCC agreed the appointment of Kim Benton, a professional, independent financial advisor. In November, Jane McKeever was elected as a co-opted member of the PCC and also became the new Treasurer. We are pleased to report that Jane has been able to work closely with Kim on plans to streamline the financial procedures at St Giles. We are also pleased to report that backdated pension provision for Jean Buckley will be handled by Kim once the relevant employees of Lichfield Diocese return to work after the COVID furlough measures.

Father Terry Bloor agreed to deliver PCC training and many members were keen to attend his interesting and informative online talk. We look forward to future events.

Retirements and new appointments:

Rev Peter Nisbeck has retired from his membership of the PCC - we offered our thanks for his valuable work and advice. We are grateful that he will remain a good friend to the PCC.

We extend a warm welcome to three new members of the PCC: Gillian Powell, Martin Rowlands and Patricia Cawthorn.

Our veteran Church Wardens, David Wildman and Chris Bailey will retire In January 2020. Their dedicated service and wisdom during difficult times have been noted on several occasions. Our new Wardens, Dennis Brammer and Gillian Elks, were elected in October 2020 - we very pleased to see them in their new roles.

Carol Stimpson, PCC Secretary

(commenced PCC Secretarial duties in June 2020)

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CURCH WARDEN’S REPORT 2020

2020 – A year like no other . We all learnt a whole new vocabulary : furlough , lockdown and for me personally , the mysteries od Zoom meetings , recording Bible readings on my phone and Whats Ap ( appropriately named ).

For David and myself, we continued in our role as Wardens but not as we had known it previously. I will always be grateful to David for his unstinting support and advice through our time together.

For the latter part of 2020 , he ensured that all necessary maintenance matters were dealt with and organised the rotas for our Sunday Services. I would also like to thank our Parish Administrator , Penny Richards, for her work in organising and overseeing so many tasks which are essential for the care and smooth running of St. Giles and St. Thomas . And to all those who quietly take on so much and to whom we owe a big debt of gratitude – Thank you.

As we begin 2021, we can be sure that the life of St. Giles and the work of bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ will continue. A message which has never more been needed. In these strangest of times , we can be assured of the unchanging love of Our Lord.

Yes, Blessed assurance Jesus is mine. Indeed .Amen Let us all go forward together in Faith

Chris Bailey and David Wildman

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St Giles Newcastle with St Thomas Butterton Parish Administrator Report 2020

A new venture for St Giles’ Newcastle with St Thomas Butterton, the role of Parish Administrator came into being on 6[th] Jan 2020, following the request of the new incumbent, Revd Joshua Penduck, at his interview prior to his appointment and approval by the PCC to establish the role in 2019.

Things started gently with admin required for funeral services and creating a database for recording all the occasional offices services taking place in the parish, safeguarding training and DBS check updates and learning how to update a website ….. “in a few months you will be able to do it alone” said Josh!

Then Mini Messy Church began! It helped to get the baptism database started as we used that to contact the families to invite them to join us for the first event held at the end of January. (This database is almost up to date, thanks to the first pandemic lockdown).

At the start of February, we were excited to be invited by Diocese to host One More Step, an art installation celebrating 50 years since man’s first steps onto the moon. A lot of hours of work with Josh, Jean Buckley and Caroline Walton coordinating an art group to help us with some activities around the installation for schools and the wider public, arranging days for school visits and volunteers to host our potential visitors in the week and at the weekends, and keep our regular church hall activities and services running smoothly was leading to a busy fortnight for us all…….

And we were planning the APCM for April……..

Then Corona virus covid-19 struck. All activities were stopped including One More Step. Our focus was on information dissemination, getting a pastoral care network organised and working out how to stay connected to the whole congregation as a team. Live services stopped and we moved to recorded ones which needed “advertising” to everyone, and Josh and I could no longer meet face to face inside: telephone (with all its signal issues) and doorstep meetings have been favoured to escape the zoom screen!! We had to close churches and publish that information physically as well as virtually.

Parish News and Memo became online items: I had to learn how to edit a website remotely (and it was a painful process for my family!! I only do simple things!) so that our congregation could remain connected. There has been much address and phone number searching so that non-technology users have been kept in the loop: we’re still picking up names. It’s amazing how busy a closed church can be!!

The hours of information sorting preparing to get both our churches open again in the late summer, along with the physical planning have been hard and confusing, but also enlightening. Writing risk assessments is a manageable task easily adapted for any occasion and doing the banking is a weekly trip.

During the “open months” there were bookings for services to manage, a live APCM (finally) and special services such as Battle of Britain, Remembrance (affected by the second lockdown), Carols in the village, Carols by candlelight and Midnight Mass, which took a different sort of planning.

Most of this year has involved UNUSUAL work but I have managed to do “get a grip” on some “normal” things: when the clock gets her annual maintenance check, when the heating systems are serviced, the organ tuned, and that we have a humidifier for the organ that is looked after by another firm!?!

The IT learning curve and the role learning curve have been steep and will continue to be as Revd Josh and I discover what he needs from me and what the parish will need as we move towards the amalgamation of administration for St Thomas with that of St Giles’.

I still don’t actually know what my job is!! Can anybody let me know please???

Penny Richards – Parish Administrator

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Director of Music’s report

This brief report is somewhat unusual, in that my role at St Giles over the last 11 months has shifted away quite significantly from the original job description!

Online services

Towards the end of 2019 I purchased some video equipment and began teaching myself how to film and edit, with a view to producing material for my journalism and musical projects.

Thus in March 2020, when the government announced the first national lockdown, I liaised with Josh so we could immediately begin to produce online services, premiered each Sunday morning on our YouTube channel.

The first service was filmed entirely in church with just four people present, and premiered on Sunday, March 22. Following a Church of England ruling, it then became impossible to film in church and production switched entirely to remote working on everyone’s part.

The musical elements of the services were soon augmented by a small, dedicated group drawn from the choir and worship band, and my thanks go to everyone involved for their very significant contributions.

I am particularly indebted to Jane Perry, whom I fortuitously discovered had previously lectured in film production and has provided invaluable technical as well as musical support.

We quickly began to incorporate contributions of readings and intercessions from other members of the St Giles and St Thomas congregations, and there’s no doubt that seeing a wide variety of familiar faces on Sunday mornings has helped sustain morale in these challenging times.

Producing the videos has also been something of a personal challenge for me – not only in acquiring new knowledge and skills, but also in the amount of time spent in recording and filming material, collating contributions, and editing services. All of this is consuming significantly more of my time than my role prior to the pandemic.

During the summer of 2020, we were able to return to church services in a limited way. However, because of the strict restrictions on numbers, it was felt that maintaining our weekly online services was vital for those who couldn’t attend in person.

Given the significant restrictions with what could be done on site musically, Josh and I concluded that the most efficient use of time would be gained by repurposing music created for the online services for live screening in church.

That said, at Christmas we did manage to provide live music for both a modest carol service and Midnight Mass. In both cases, singing was restricted to a socially-distanced chamber choir of just four choristers.

Our main, carol service moved online. Thanks to the flexibility of video production, we were able to create several items featuring the entire St Giles choir, as well as contributions from others with a long association to our church, including University Hospital Choir, Jane Bryan and (in California!) Kari Kirkland.

The announcement of a further national lockdown in January (and the subsequent decision to once again suspend services at St Giles and St Thomas) has once again highlighted the importance of our online output, which has been a great success, and has reached out to people far beyond our own congregation.

To date, since our YouTube channel began, our videos have been viewed more than 12,500 times, with a total ‘watch time’ exceeding 2,700 hours. We have produced 75 videos, including many special services such as Holy Week, Remembrance Sunday and (most recently) the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

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The organ

By the end of 2019 there remained a number of unresolved issues left over from the organ restoration project, mostly centred around ciphers and sticking keys.

Contractors MC Thompson attributed most of the key problems to a mismatch between the key pivot pins and bushings. They acknowledged that the pins should have been replaced at the time of the original work and offered to do this without further charge.

However, at the time we were approaching Christmas and as this work would have involved removal of the organ keys for several weeks, it was put on the back burner. A start date was unfortunately not able to be arranged before the first national lockdown was introduced, and of course plans for this work had then to be put on hold.

Because of the constraints on singing in church, the organ was only used very occasionally in the run-up to Christmas 2020 after we were able to hold services in church again.

Unfortunately, just before Christmas, Peter and Josh made the discovery that the dehumidifier unit in the organ space had malfunctioned and was overflowing with water. Watkins and Watson, who maintain the dehumidifier, were called in to examine the unit, which was found to be in a very bad state.

MC Thompson were due to make a previously scheduled visit a couple of days later, and they found that water from the dehumidifier had leaked over one of the bellows chests of the organ, causing significant damage which may cost many thousands of pounds to repair.

Obviously, the continuing national lockdown has so far prevented us from addressing this remedial work. In the meantime, the dehumidifier has been switched off and isolated to prevent further damage.

Moving forward

I believe that maintaining a strong online presence for St Giles is a vital key to its future, given the success of these services.

Once music returns to normal in church (whenever that may be), I would expect our main focus to shift to live streaming. Therefore, over the coming months I will be using the experience I have gained so far to assist Josh and the PCC with this new challenge.

To conclude, if this pandemic has taught us anything, it is that the church is not the building, but its people – and I am grateful to have had so much support from so many of you over the last year.

Aidan Goldstraw – Director of Music St Giles

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BELL RINGING AT ST GILES REPORT 2020

Bell ringing practice took place on most Friday evenings at the beginning of 2020, alternating between Newcastle S.Giles and Wolstanton S.Margaret.

In the middle of March 2020 we were advised to cease bell ringing by The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers and therefore restricted social interaction to our existing “Whats App” group.

In May we began ‘remote’ practising using a combination of Zoom (hosted by Stephen Dainty, one of S.Giles’ ringers) and The Ringing Room – an application specifically devised to allow us to join together in a virtual belltower.

Use of this continued for the rest of 2020.

From the beginning of September 2020 until the second lockdown in mid-October we were able to provide socially distanced ringing before a number of Sunday morning services

Deanery Synod

The Deanery Synod’s first and last live meeting in 2020 was on Wednesday 29 January at S.Geroge’s with the topic ‘Considering Mental Health’ led by Chris Munday, CEO of Crossways Christian Community in Tunbridge Wells (a Christian mental health charity)

On Monday 12 October 2020 a virtual Deanery Synod was held by Zoom with the main speaker, Michael Quinnell from the Christian Police Association with the topic ‘Faith in Justice’.

John Maddison

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CHILDREN AND FAMILIES REPORT 2020

The start of the year was very promising. We maintained attendance numbers comparable with the first 3 month of 2019 for families at Little Fishes and All Age Sunday Worship despite Covid entering the country. But, there was a significant drop in the older congregants attendance at the February and March All Age services as awareness of the impending pandemic spread. Events

1. A School Heritage Day on Design was attended by 45 Yr3 children from our link school. It was very much enjoyed by students.

2. A Shrove Tuesday/Lent Messy Church facilitated 65 children and 55 parents hearing the message of Lent.

3. Mini Sunday Church which was meant to run every fourth Sunday was launched in January. We were delighted to welcome 17 children and 17 adults. This is the most children to attend St Giles on a "normal" Sunday for 20 years!

March Onwards

I was furloughed for the majority of the pandemic of 2020. However, I decided to maintain contact with our families by:-

1. Three email services, per week, for families to do at home together. I send different materials to over 100 families each Sunday, plus Little Fishes on Mondays and Rainbows each Wednesday. New families have asked to join our mailing list over lockdown. One new lady forwards my sessions on to Christian leaders who use them in London and the USA.

2. Family Face book Page I created and update.

3. Telephoning regulars

N.B. When I took a two week break in the summer I noticed on my return that the number of meaningful engagements had dropped. This highlights the importance of regular contact with our families.

One More Sleep was a great success thanks to the efforts of Rev's Josh and Peter. There was a good number of families who attend other family services. The children obeyed the safety rules perfectly! As the furlough rules did not allow me to participate I took the opportunity to meet and greet.

Christmas Contact - I purchased a small gift and card for each of the Little Fishes children including a few who are now too old but come to other services. And personally delivered them to their homes.

A Survey in October of the families who most frequently attend St Giles showed that just over half would be willing to attend our monthly All Age Worship. Some families declined because they are shielding grandparents.

The majority of Little Fishes parents were too worried to attend a Sunday service or large gathering but expressed an interest in returning to the Little Fishes meetings. However, they would want to see extra precautions in place such as taking temperatures before allowing anyone in.

The Future

In the hope that the rules will be relaxed and Little Fishes can reopen soon I have bought/gathered materials to include in named boxes which would only be used by the same family each week. Items include scarves, castanets, stationary and craft materials.

Marie-Claire and I are making up some craft kits which will be ready to use in either a socially distanced service or when Messy and Mini Church resume.

I have just purchased an online training course to learn how to edit films.

Conclusion

I was really heartened to see so many recognizable faces at "One More Sleep." The conversations I had with some of our families at Christmas made me realize that they still see St Giles as "their" church. My thanks to everyone who continues to support the children's work with all their dedication and hard work.

June Buckley

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1[ST] NEWCASTLE GUIDING REPORT 2020

2020 has been a very strange year for Rainbows/Brownies and Guides.

As I am sure you are aware 1st Newcastle Brownies celebrated their Centenary on 06/01/2020

We had planned many activities during the year but sadly most of them were cancelled due to Covid but we did manage to have a fantastic Celebration Pack Holiday in Jan 2020 and we had a Celebration Event at St Giles on 18/1/2020 when the Mayor, Aaron Bell (MP for Newcastle) and the Sentinel were in attendance.

We are the oldest surviving Brownie Pack in Stoke on Trent.

Unfortunately, all out other activities were cancelled, and we last met on Monday 23/3/20 after which Girlguiding prohibited ALL face-to-face meetings.

We did however provide badge work and activity packs to keep the girls in touch during the first lockdown.

After a lot of work writing Risk Assessments, we were able to hold a couple of outdoor meetings in the grounds of St Giles’ Church in September and a few meetings inside during October. The 2nd lockdown in November prevented this continuing and we are unsure when we will be able to resume face to face meetings.

We will deliver as many of the missed activities that we can when we resume, and we have rescheduled our Division Centenary Holiday from May 2020 to May 2021 to be held at Beaudesert campsite - however we are still unsure if this will take place.

So, our Centenary year has been memorable for different reasons.

Gill Powell

Powell Owl for the Rainbow and Brownie sections

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ST GILES CHURCHYARD MANAGEMENT PLAN GREEN TEAM REPORT 2020

The St Giles Churchyard Management Plan is a five-year joint enterprise between St Giles Church and Newcastle Borough Council. The Plan is funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £25,000. Volunteers in the St Giles Green Team tend the flower beds and borders, and remove litter and the Borough Council mows the lawns and keeps the drive and pathways clear. 2020 was a successful year and a Green Flag was awarded by ‘Keep Britain Tidy’. The Newcastle in Bloom competition, which was entered and for which awards were made to St Giles in 2019, was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The eight Green Flag assessment criteria are that the Churchyard should be; A Welcoming Place, Healthy, Safe and Secure, Well Maintained and Clean, show Environmental Management, promote Biodiversity, Landscape and Heritage, promote Community Involvement, Marketing and Communication and be Well Managed.

Spring saw a good display of daffodils and narcissus planted by children from Year 4 at St Giles’ and St George’s Academy, Church groups and the congregation in 2019. Lockdown, due to the pandemic put a stop to work and the grass grew high and weeds flourished but lifting of restrictions allowed renewed access and the situation was soon recovered. The hot, dry summer led to a profusion of flowers in all the borders. One bed by the SW door was replanted with shrubs and perennials and hedges were cut. All beds and borders were well maintained. A further 400 daffodil and narcissus bulbs were planted in the Autumn on behalf of Years 2 and 4 at the Academy and for Church Groups, none of which could plant in person because of COVID concerns. Three Cherry Trees were planted and dedicated by Reverend Josh to honour former members of St Giles. David Elks successfully photographed an elusive pair of Peregrine Falcons which use the Church Tower and Michael Pitstow published their photograph, along with other Green Team articles in the Parish News. Pat Lovatt purchased a green gardening fleece for each member of the Green Team from plan funds.

The Ash Tree by the main entrance is suffering Ash die-back disease and is being monitored by the Council’s Tree Officer.

A preliminary infrastructure survey was carried out with the Council and it is hoped that the findings will be reviewed at a meeting with the Council in 2021. Some aspects of the Plan have not progressed as hoped for because of the pandemic. Work on the erection of a Flagpole, Churchyard Lighting, the Saxon Stone, the Headstone Strategy and DNA / Genealogy Strategy have stalled. New volunteers would be most welcome to assist with these specific parts of the Plan or to help tend the gardens. All are welcome! The Plan will be updated for 2021 and PCC approval sought.

Expenditure on the Churchyard Plan in Year 2 (2020) was £1471.41 and Total Volunteer input amounted to approximately 150 hours. Thanks are due to The Clergy, all members of the dedicated and enthusiastic Green Team and Green Sub-Group, Newcastle Borough Council, and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Laurie Bailey

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MOTHERS UNION REPORT 2020

Mothers' Union has always been the cornerstone of St Giles. Over the decades, there have been many inspiring and dedicated leaders. Forty years ago, there were twenty- five/thirty branches in our Deanery. Today there are just two – St. James, Audley and St. Giles.

None of us have ever experienced a year like the last one. In February we had our AGM, followed in March by a display and talk about quilting by Nicky Griffiths. Then it all stopped!

Throughout the first lock down I kept in touch with all M.U. members. We were able to organise the collections of prescriptions and shopping for people who were unable to go out.This was done by Rev'd Josh and Rev'd Shell - I can't thank them enough.

I am still contacting members through the second and third lock down and very sadly, during this time we lost two members - Doris Jones and Cynthia Mc Dermott. It was a privileged to attend Cynthia's funeral as M.U. representative.

Everyone is being very positive and strong, and I know that one day soon we will all be able to meet together again when we hope to transfer our 2020 program to 2021.

Wendy Burke

Leader of St Giles Mothers' Union

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THE STAFFORDSHIRE CHOIRS ASSOCIATION REPORT 2020

As an organisation we have been using St Giles’ Church Hall every Tuesday 12.30pm- 1.45pm for our Staffordshire Daytime Community Choir (Newcastle) rehearsals since January 2018. In 2020 we used the hall from January until mid-March when ‘lockdown’ happened, and we were unable to meet face to face for rehearsals. After a phone call from the church on Monday 16[th] March advising us that the church had made the difficult decision to cancel the external hiring of the church due to the Coronavirus pandemic that was beginning to spread rapidly, we overnight quickly moved our choir rehearsals online, contacted all our choir members and were able to continue with all choir rehearsals, initially via Facebook, and then moving on to use Zoom. As we know, this then led to a ‘national lockdown’ the following week. During the early days of ‘lockdown’ we sadly had a few members who ‘opted out’ of choir rehearsals for various reasons, but we still had a core group of choir members who joined us on what was to be quite an extraordinary journey! It was important that we supported our choir family to stay connected, and for us also to maintain our small business. At that stage initial thoughts all round were that things may get back to some sort of ‘new norm’ by September/October 2020.

When ‘lockdown 1’ was eased Government guidance in place allowed us to meet again as a community choir in a Covid secure venue, with strict guidelines in place for us and our choir members. We worked closely with St. Giles in order for this to happen; we knew that the church had put safety measures in place, which we could support, and we knew that we had some choir members who were ready to come along to face to face rehearsals. So, choir members were contacted, guidelines were sent out, seating plans were put in place, cleaning products, additional facemasks and hand sanitisers were bought, and we managed a month of face-to-face choir rehearsals in the church in October. A limited number of our Staffordshire Show choir, Staffordshire Daytime Community Choir, and Staffordshire Community Choir members came along wearing face masks and maintaining social

distancing for their choir rehearsals. Those unable to come along, or who had chosen not to come along were still able to access the rehearsal via Facebook and Zoom, our new hybrid choir rehearsals! Sadly, just ahead of ‘lockdown 2’ we made the decision that we would stop face to face rehearsals again and revert to online, where we have been ever since.

Following Government guidelines, and at short notice ahead of ‘lockdown 2’ we were able to access St. Giles for recording a concert without an audience with our female close harmony group ‘Belles Voix’. This had been originally planned to be streamed ‘live’ in St. Giles on Remembrance Day but was brought forward so that it could still take place. This concert was recorded and streamed with profits from the sale of virtual “tickets” going to support the Royal British Legion and Help for Heroes. In December, following Government guidance, we were able to access St. Giles church once again to record a Christmas concert without an audience with ‘Belles Voix’, which was streamed at a later date, and to also use the church to support our ‘live streamed’ Christmas with the Choirs 4 workshops.

Thank you to St.Giles’ for providing an accessible Covid secure venue for us to safely rehearse and record in and enabling us to be able to provide music/concerts to an online audience. Thank you for your faith in us that we would work in, provide and leave a safe, clean and sanitised environment for all individuals using the space. Thank you also to Penny Richards for supporting and being our point of contact for all matters relating to using and accessing the church.

Tracy Mellor

Choir Administrator

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MINI-MARKET STALLS REPORT 2020

St Giles Friday Coffee mornings have been taking place for many years and has greatly been enjoyed by many people, both Church members and non -members alike. During that time the Mini-Market stalls have been able to raise a considerable amount of money towards church funds; particularly the Organ Fund.

All this came to a standstill in March 2020 with the outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic; when all social gathers had to shut down, including St Giles Church. As a result no money was raised during several ‘Lockdown’ periods. However, during a short relaxed couple of weeks in the beginning of September, Joanne and I were able to sort out a great deal of the stock; some of it was donated to the Air Ambulance, and some to the Cancer Research shop. The main Good Quality items were packed and sent to the Silverdale Antique and Collectable salesroom; and as a result of their sale in January we were able to raise the sum of £150; this was duly donated to church funds.

None of this would be possible without the generous donations of ALL manner of items from church members and customers alike; and as soon as it is safe to open the Church once again, the ladies who volunteer to man the stalls are ready and waiting to do so again.

The Friday coffee mornings is a great place to meet old friends and make new ones too! It is also a good place to practice a little ‘Outreach’ Hopefully the Coffee mornings will continue well into the future.

Pat Lovatt

Financial Review

Total Net Assets: £207,598

Deficit: (£2,630)

St Giles – Excess £4,370

Since taking over inputting the finances of St Giles – together with Jane Mckeever and the agreement of the Finance committee we have tidied up all of the funds. The General fund now shows a credit – this was in an attempt to make the accounts easier to read. The HLF Mound fund has been split into two. The funds not spent at the end of the main project and the fund to used for the maintenance of the Churchyard. Again making it easier to follow the audit trail. As the finance committee get used to the reports then they can start to designate funds for use if they choose to. St Giles has shown an excess in 2020 this is mainly down to the generous donation of £40,000 and the claim of tax recoverable of £12,743. Income shows and increase of £47,000 when compared to 2019 so there are areas where the income has decreased such as Regular giving – envelopes.

Expenditure has increased by £9,500 this is mainly due to the increase shown in payment of the Parish share. This will be checked with Lichfield as it would appear there is an overpayment of £8,315 which was the Parish Share support. Should this be the case then the overpayment will be applied to 2021.

The paperwork is being sent through on a weekly basis and posted to the accounts on at least a monthly basis. This will mean that there will be no shocks at year end and the Finance committee will be able to keep on top of income and expenditure.

St Thomas – Deficit (£7,000)

The paperwork for St Thomas for 2020 has been fully input into the accounts. Unfortunately there were some entries from 2019 which were not posted so these had to be posted into 2020 accounts. Including December 2019 Parish share of £440.50. Again the accounts now show the correct funds so moving forward the figures will be available during the year. St Thomas will also be sending their information through during the year rather than at year end. This again will help with planning.

Income had reduced by nearly £4,000 when compared with 2019 and is mainly loose plate collections and fees for Weddings and Funerals [which is no surprise]

Expenditure has increased by nearly £3,500 and this shows as mainly Organ tuning, upkeep of services and upkeep of Churchyard

Reserves Policy

It is PCC policy to try to maintain a balance on free reserves (net current assets) which equates to at least three months unrestricted payments. This is equivalent to £30,053. It is held to smooth out fluctuations in cash flow and to meet emergencies. The balance of the free reserves at the year end was £66,003which is higher than this target.

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Investment Policy

The charity is granted power to invest in suitable investments under the PCC Powers Measure 1956 and the Trustees Act 2000. As a charity, the Trustees have a duty of care to take such advice as is appropriate before investments are undertaken. This advice is sought from the Central Board of Finance (CCLA) in London.

The charity’s investment policies are based on two key principles: -

• Ethical Investment – this includes ensuring that investments are held in companies which have high standards of corporate governance and act in a responsible way towards stakeholders.

• Long-term responsibilities – the trustees are aware of their long-term responsibilities in respect of the Restricted and Unrestricted reserves and as a result follow a prudent approach to investment decisions.

Investment policy for long-term funds is aimed primarily at generating a sustainable income, with due regard to the need for the preservation of capital value, and the possible need to realise investments to meet operational needs. The charity does not have a policy of generating income at excessive or high risk – known as “purchasing income”, where high returns are guaranteed at the expense of capital.

In summary, the charity has an overall policy to maximise income while preserving the real value of its funds. Due to the nature of the charity, an ethical investment policy is taken into consideration when investments are made:

The charity follows the Ethical Investment Advisory policy as recommended by the Lichfield Diocese which includes the following:

• “We aim to invest in companies that:

• will develop their business in the interests of shareholders;

• demonstrate responsible employment practices;

• are conscientious concerning issues of corporate governance, the environment and human rights;

• are sensitive to the community in which they operate.”

Planned giving, collections and donations are the main sources of fund raising along with tax recoverable.

Safeguarding

The PCC believe they have fulfilled their duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (duty to have due regard to House of Bishops’ guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults).

Reporting Serious Incidents

A Serious Incident is an adverse event, whether actual or alleged, which results in or risks significant harm to the charity’s beneficiaries, employees, office holders, volunteers or to others who come into contact with the charity through its work, loss of the charity’s money or assets, damage to the charity’s property or harm to the charity’s work or reputation.

The trustees are not aware of any Serious Incidents in the last year

Fundraising

The PCC takes it fundraising responsibilities seriously and is very grateful to all donors – whether regular or occasional – for their support of the church and church events. PCC supporters are never taken for granted. The PCC take full responsibility for fundraising and do not use commercial organisations or professional fundraisers. All money raised is either by donations, fundraising events, special appeals or legacies for which the PCC are most grateful.

Volunteers

The members of the PCC would like to thank all the volunteers who work so hard to make our Church a lively and vibrant community.

Risk Management

The Church Wardens carry out regular Health and Safety Reviews and regularly inspect premises for potential hazards. We have safeguarding policies in place for child protection and for work with vulnerable adults, including rigorous DBS checking of staff and volunteers. Our insurances are reviewed annually to ensure adequate cover. An informal review of any new risks which may impact the work of the Church in the Parish is ongoing.

Structure, Governance and Management

The PCC is a Body Corporate established by the Church of England and is a Charity registered with the Charity Commission. The PCC is governed by the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure (1956) as amended that came into effect on 2[nd] January 1957, and the Church Representation Rules (contained in Schedule 3 to the Synodical Government Measure 1969 as amended).

The method of appointment of the PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. The Council comprises the Incumbent, the Churchwardens, a representative of the Readers, those elected to the Deanery Synod, and other members who are elected at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting, by those on the Electoral Roll. The PCC members receive training from

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courses run by the Diocese. Members of the congregation are always urged to join the Electoral Roll, and to stand for election to the PCC.

The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance in the parish, and for all financial matters. The PCC met 6 times in 2020. Given its responsibilities, the PCC has a Finance sub committee which reports back to the PCC with the minutes of their meetings.

Related Parties

Apart from Penny Richards no other PCC members or any related parties work for the PCC or have received any contracts to carry out work on behalf of the PCC

Donations from Related Parties

Donations from related parties during the year totalled £2,844.50 All these donations were received without conditions.

Remuneration paid to Trustees

One or more of the trustees has been paid remuneration or has received other benefits from an employment with their charity.

Penelope Richards is employed as the Parish Administrator. The post was advertised and two applicants interviewed. Penny was felt to be the best applicant based upon experience. The PCC of the Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton discussed Penny remaining as a Trustee [without Penny present] It was felt that her many years of serving the Church gave her suitable experience to continue as a Trustee.

Penny Richards is paid £360 per month and started in post in February 2020 total £3,960 during 2020.

No pension contributions were paid by the PCC and no other benefits paid.

Expenses paid to Trustees

No Trustees received any expenses.

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Reference and Administrative Details

Charity Name: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Newcastle Under Lyme – St Giles with St Thomas Butterton.

Other names the charity is known by: N/A Registered Charity Number : 1130602

Charity’s principal address: The Parish Church of St Giles Church Street Newcastle-Under-Lyme ST5 1QS Correspondence address: The Rectory Seabridge Road Newcastle-Under-Lyme ST5 2HS Website address: http://www.stgilesnewcastle.org.uk/

PCC Members: Who Served from 1 January 2020 to the date this report was approved

PCC Members: Who Served from 1	January 2020 to the date this report was approved
Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole period
Ex-Officio
Revd Joshua Penduck	Chairperson
Mr J Maddison	Deanery Synod
Mrs C Bailey	Church Warden
Mr D Wildman	Church Warden
Elected Members
Penny Richards
Caroline Walton		Resigned January 2021
Jane Mckeever
Charlie Titley		Resigned Oct 2020
Hannah Mead		Resigned Oct 2020
Pat Lovatt
Carol Stimpson	Secretary
Michael Pitstow
Laurence Bailey
Patricia Cawthorn
Gill Powell		Elected Oct 2020
Martin Rowlands		Elected Oct 2020
Gillian Elks
Dennis Brammer

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Independent Examiner’s report to the trustees/members of The PCC of The Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butteron

Registered charity number, if applicable: 1130602

I report on the accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2020 which are set out on the following pages.

Respective responsibilities of the Trustees and Independent Examiner

The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under Section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility

• to examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,

• to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and

• to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of Independent Examiner's Statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a “true and fair” view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent Examiner's Statement

In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect:

• accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act or

• the accounts do not accord with the with the accounting records

I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

• Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed: J Hill Jonathan Hill FCMA CGMA

Date: 17 May 2021 [Original on file]

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The Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 31[st] December 2020

Accounting Policies

The Financial statements of the PCC have been prepared in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 using the Receipts and Payments basis.

There may be minor discrepancies in the totals as the pence are not being shown.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant notes to these accounts. The financial statements include all transactions, assets and liabilities for which the PCC is responsible in law. They do not include the accounts of church groups that owe their main affiliation to another body nor those that are informal gatherings of Church members.

Cashflow Statement

The Charity has taken advantage of the exemption in FRS102 from the requirement to produce a cashflow statement on the grounds that the income does not exceed £500,000.

Going Concern

There are no material uncertainties relate to events or conditions that cast significant doubt on the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Accounting Estimates and Prior Year Errors

No changes to accounting estimates have occurred in the reporting period. No material prior year errors have been identified in the reporting period

Description of Funds

Unrestricted funds are income funds of the PCC that are available for spending on the general purposes of the PCC, including amounts designated by the PCC for fixed assets for its own use or for spending on a future project and which are therefore not included in its "free reserves" as disclosed in the trustees' annual report.

An explantation of purpose of each Designated fund are as follows

• Childrens Work – Funds set aside for work with Children and Youth workers salary

Restricted funds comprise of two elements :-

• a) income from trusts or endowments which may be expended only on those restricted objects provided in the terms of the trust or bequest

• b) donations or grants received for a specific object or invited by the PCC for a specific object. The funds may only be expended on the specific object for which they were given. Any balance remaining unspent at the end of each year must be carried forward as a balance on that fund. The PCC does not usually invest separately for each fund. Where there is no separate investment, interest is apportioned to individual funds on an average balance basis.

An explanation of purpose of each Restricted fund are as follows:

• Bibles – Specific funds for the Repair and renew of The Bibles in church

• Brittain Curate – Historic funds for the Curates expenses

• Brittain Mission – Historic funds for Domestic and Other Mission work

• Church Hall – Specific funds for the Repair and maintenance of the Church Hall

• Fabric – To Ensure the Fabric of The Church remains in good repair

• Mound Churchyard – Grant for the management of the Churchyard

• Mound HLF – Grant for the renovation and improvement of the Churchyard in conjunction with HLF

• Organ – Repair and upkeep of the Organ

• Rutter – Childrens work with The Sunday Club

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• Training – Training Members of the Ministry Team

Endowment funds are restricted funds that must be retained as trust capital either permanently or subject to a discretionary power to spend capital as income, and where the use of any income or other benefit derived from the capital may be restricted or unrestricted. Full details of all their restrictions are shown in the notes to the accounts.

An explanation of purpose of each Endowment fund are as follows:

The PCC of The Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton transferred the only endowment held in 2019 – Marie Turner £11,227.33 as the restrictions were ‘To be used for General Church Purposes’ – the fund was no longer producing £1,000 income per year.

There are no other endowment funds.

Incoming Resources

Planned giving, collections and donations are recognised when received or when the PCC becomes entitled to the resource and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability. Tax refunds are recognised when the incoming resource to which they relate is received. Grants and Legacies are accounted for when the PCC is legally entitled to the amounts due and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability. Dividends are accounted for when receivable, interest is accrued. All other income is recognised when it is receivable. All incoming resources are accounted for gross.

Resources Expended

Grants and donations are accounted for when paid over, or when awarded, if that award creates a binding or constructive obligation on the PCC. The diocesan parish share is accounted for when due. Amounts received specifically for mission are dealt with as restricted funds. All other expenditure is generally recognised when it is incurred and is accounted for gross.

Governance and Support Costs

Support costs should be allocated between governance costs and other support. Governance costs comprise all costs involving public accountability of the PCC and its compliance with regulation and good practice.

Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources eg by allocating staff costs by time spent and other costs by their usage.

Fixed Assets

Consecrated and benefice property is not included in the accounts by s.10(2)(a)&(C) of the Charities Act 2011.

Moveable church furnishings held by the Vicar and Churchwardens on special trust for the PCC and which require a faculty for disposal are inalienable property, listed in the Church’s inventory, which can be inspected (at any reasonable time). For anything acquired prior to 2000 there is insufficient cost information available and therefore such assets are not valued in the financial statements.

No depreciation is provided on buildings as the currently estimated residual value of the properties is not less than their carrying value and the remaining useful life of these assets exceeds 50 years, so that any depreciation charges would be immaterial. Other tangible fixed assets are valued at cost. The depreciation rates and methods used are disclosed in note XX.

Investments

Investments in quoted shares, traded bonds and similar investments are valued initially at cost and subsequently at market value at the year end. Investments held for re-sale are treated as current asset investments.

Debtors

Debtors are measured on initial recognition at settlement amount. Subsequently they are measured as cash expected to be received

Creditors and Accruals

Creditors are measured at settlement amounts less any trade discounts. Accruals are measured on best estimate of the amount required to settle the obligation at the reporting date

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The Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton St Thomas year ending 2020

Receipts and Payments Account

	Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Prior year funds funds funds funds total funds
Income and endowments from: Donations and legacies Income from charitable activities Other trading activities Investments Total income Expenditure on: Raising funds Expenditure on charitable activities Total expenditure Net income / (expenditure) resources before transfer Transfers Gross transfers between funds - in Gross transfers between funds - out Other recognised gains / losses Gains on revaluation, fixed assets, charity's own use Net movement in funds Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward Represented by Unrestricted General Fund Designated Brittain - Designated Childrens Work - Working With Children And To Fund Fabric - To Ensure The Fabric Of The Church Remain Rectory Decoration Trust 1407 - Arising From The Sale Of Curates Hous Restricted Agency collection Altar Cloths - Repair And Upkeep Of The Altar Clot Bibles - Repair And Renew The Bibles In Church Brittain - Curates Expenses Brittain - Designated Brittain - Domestic/Other Mission Work Butterton - Restricted To St Thomas Butterton Chur Church Hall - For The Repair And Maintenance Of Th	99,333 10,773 — 110,107 56,322 5,287 — — 5,287 12,524 550 230 — 780 4,482 261 1,147 — 1,409 1,497
	105,434 12,151 — 117,585 74,826 403 56 — 460 242 96,340 23,414 — 119,754 106,934
	96,744 23,471 — 120,215 107,176
	8,690 (11,319) — (2,629) (32,349) 158,069 40,385 — 198,455 — (71,380) (115,847) (11,227) (198,455) — (5,114) 6,691 (132) 1,443 —
	90,264 (80,090) (11,360) (1,185) (32,349)
	(24,260) 221,684 11,360 208,783 241,133
	66,004 141,594 — 207,598 208,783 57,686 — — 57,686 (99,747) — — — — 7,169 8,317 — — 8,317 10,000 — — — — 4,967 — — — — 678 — — — — 52,673 — — — — (2,790) — — — — 662 — 1,273 — 1,273 1,273 — 5,684 — 5,684 — — — — — 7,105 — 1,421 — 1,421 — — 3,986 — 3,986 29,503 — 9,696 — 9,696 9,694

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Disability Act/Hall - For The Disabled Toilet In T	—	—	—	—	4,899
Fabric - To Ensure The Fabric Of The Church	—	63,723	—	63,723	60,687
Remain
Legacies	—	—	—	—	14,202
Mission - To Help Fund Mission Activities Undertak	—	—	—	—	487
Mound - HLF For The Management Of The	—	21,410	—	21,410	50,373
Churchyard
Mound - For The Renovation And Improvement Of	—	25,373	—	25,373	—
The
Organ - Repair And Upkeep Of The Organ	—	7,824	—	7,824	7,322
Rutter - For Children's Work With The Sunday Club	—	—	—	—	2,396
Training Members Of The Ministry Team	—	1,202	—	1,202	1,202
Trust 1407 - Arising From The Sale Of Curates Hous	—	—	—	—	34,670
Endowment
Maria Turner - Income From This Fund Can Be	—	—	—	—	11,360
Used F

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Statement of assets and liabilities

General	Designated Restricted Endowment Thisyear Lastyear
Fixed assets - Investments CCLA - Fabric Account - CCLA - Maria Turner Charity - CCLA - Maria Turner Charity - CCLA - Newcastle St Giles Rector & Churc - Totals Current assets - Cash at bank and in hand Current Account - Main - Current Account - Main - Bank reserve account - PCC St Giles Church - Fabric Account - Organ Current Account - Bank current account - PCC St Giles Church - Church Hall Accoun - BB Inst Online - Mound Account - Cash in hand - Totals Liabilities - Agency accounts Agency collections - Totals Liabilities - Creditors: Amounts falling due in one year LDBF Salaries 7422 - Totals Grand total	— — 15,994 — 15,994 15,265 9,095 — — — 9,095 — — — — — — 8,681 — — 23,970 — 23,970 22,794
	9,095 — 39,964 — 49,060 46,741 52,206 8,317 77,360 — 137,885 21,313 — — — — — 124,058 — — 6,605 — 6,605 13,605 930 — — — 930 930 — — 3,956 — 3,956 33 — — 100 — 100 100 65 — 7,687 — 7,752 6,356 — — 310 — 310 310 114 — — — 114 —
	53,317 8,317 96,019 — 157,654 166,707 — — (883) — (883) 2,790
	— — (883) — (883) 2,790 — — — — — 1,875
	— — — — — 1,875
	62,413 8,317 136,867 — 207,598 208,783

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Analysis of receipts and payments

Receipts Donations and legacies 0101 - Regular Giving - Bank 0101 - Gift Aid - Bank 0110 - Regular Giving - Envelopes 0110 - Gift Aid - Envelopes 0301 - Loose plate collections 0302 - Special Services Loose Plate collections 0550 - Donations appeals etc 0601 - Tax recoverable on Gift Aid 0701 - Legacies 08A1 - Non-recurring one-off grants 0901 - Other funds generated- Promotions and Fu 0901 - Other funds generated Total Income from charitable activities 0902 - Sale of refreshments 1101 - Fees for weddings and funerals 1230 - Church hall hire Total Other trading activities 0910 - Mini Market 1260 - Parish magazine sales Total Investments 1001 - Dividends 1020 - Bank and building society interest Total		Total Unrestricted Designated Restricted Endowment This year Last year 10,578 — — — 10,578 9,283 — — 440 — 440 240 12,743 — — — 12,743 18,868 — — 5,143 — 5,143 6,214 4,396 — 46 — 4,442 8,546 92 — — — 92 702 57,468 — 313 — 57,781 — 12,102 — 2,364 — 14,466 5,006 500 — — — 500 — — 1,392 2,191 — 3,583 — 61 — — — 61 5,150 — — 275 — 275 2,312
		97,941 1,392 10,773 — 110,107 56,322 488 — — — 488 3,488 2,422 — — — 2,422 5,514 2,377 — — — 2,377 3,522
		5,287 — — — 5,287 12,524 — — 230 — 230 3,071 550 — — — 550 1,410
		550 — 230 — 780 4,482 261 — 1,131 — 1,393 1,362 — — 15 — 15 135
		261 — 1,147 — 1,409 1,497
INCOME TOTAL		104,041 1,392 12,151 — 117,585 74,826

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Payments

Raising funds 1720 - Costs of stewardship campaign 1730 - Costs of fetes & other events Total Expenditure on charitable activities 1910 - Ministry parish share etc 2001 - Other staff costs - Verger/Organist etc 2001 - Assistant staff costs 2002 - Salary - Youth Worker 2050 - Salary of parish administrator 2101 - Working expenses of incumbent 2130 - Rectory expenses 2150 - Vicar's telephone 2201 - Parish training and mission 2301 - Church running - insurance 2310 - Church office - telephone 2320 - Organ / piano tuning 2330 - Church maintenance 2331 - Cleaning 2340 - Upkeep of services 2350 - Upkeep of churchyard 2360 - Admin/Stationery&Postage 2401 - Church running - electric 2410 - Church running - gas 2420 - Church running - water 2430 - Church running - oil Total	310 — 56 — 366 — 93 — — — 93 242
	403 — 56 — 460 242 69,539 — 5,726 — 75,265 65,286 2,800 — — — 2,800 — — — 100 — 100 555 — 1,899 5,697 — 7,596 6,061 3,960 — — — 3,960 — (120) — — — (120) 567 — — — — — 2,385 180 — — — 180 — — — 77 — 77 1,501 7,001 — 2,577 — 9,579 9,356 150 — — — 150 — — — 3,140 — 3,140 — 1,913 — 2,128 — 4,042 5,394 204 — — — 204 29 654 — 941 — 1,595 1,445 1,345 — 2,164 — 3,509 996 2,801 10 55 — 2,867 5,713 1,506 — 328 — 1,835 2,202 2,394 — — — 2,394 4,744 99 — 64 — 164 164 — — 411 — 411 531
	94,431 1,909 23,414 — 119,754 106,934
EXPENDITURE TOTAL	94,835 1,909 23,471 — 120,215 107,176
GRAND TOTAL	9,206 (516) (11,319) — (2,629) (32,349)

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Fund movement by type

Opening Incoming Outgoing Transfers Gains/losses Closing	Opening Incoming Outgoing Transfers Gains/losses Closing
Altar Clot - Altar Cloths - Repai Restricted Sub-total for Altar Clot Bibles - Bibles - Repair And Restricted Sub-total for Bibles Brittain - Brittain - Designate Designated Restricted Sub-total for Brittain BrittainCu - Brittain - Curates E Restricted Sub-total for BrittainCu BrittainMi - Brittain - Domestic/ Restricted Sub-total for BrittainMi Butterton - Butterton - Restrict Restricted Sub-total for Butterton Childrens - Childrens Work - Wor Designated Sub-total for Childrens Church Hal - Church Hall - For Th Restricted Sub-total for Church Hal Churchyard - Mound - HLF For The Restricted Restricted Sub-total for Churchyard Disability - Disability Act/Hall Restricted Sub-total for Disability Fabric - Fabric - To Ensure T Designated Restricted Sub-total for Fabric General - General Fund Unrestricted Sub-total for General Legacies - Legacies Restricted Sub-total for Legacies Maria Turn - Maria Turner - Incom Endowment Sub-total for Maria Turn Mission - Mission - To Help Fu Restricted Sub-total for Mission Organ - Organ - Repair And U Restricted Sub-total for Organ Rectory De - Rectory Decoration Designated Sub-total for Rectory De Rutter - Rutter - For Childre Restricted Sub-total for Rutter	662 — — (662) — —
	662 — — (662) — — 1,273 — — — — 1,273
	1,273 — — — — 1,273 7,169 — — (7,169) — — 7,105 — — (7,105) — —
	14,274 — — (14,274) — — — — — 5,684 — 5,684
	— — — 5,684 — 5,684 — — — 1,421 — 1,421
	— — — 1,421 — 1,421 29,503 8,546 12,883 (21,179) — 3,986
	29,503 8,546 12,883 (21,179) — 3,986 10,000 1,392 1,909 (1,165) — 8,317
	10,000 1,392 1,909 (1,165) — 8,317 9,694 2 — — — 9,696
	9,694 2 — — — 9,696 50,373 50 1,616 (27,395) — 21,410 — — — 25,373 — 25,373
	50,373 50 1,616 (2,022) — 46,783 4,899 — — (4,899) — —
	4,899 — — (4,899) — — 4,967 — — (4,967) — — 60,687 1,131 — — 1,904 63,723
	65,654 1,131 — (4,967) 1,904 63,723 (79,984) 104,041 94,835 135,579 546 57,686
	(99,747) 104,041 94,835 135,579 546 57,686 14,202 — — (14,202) — —
	14,202 — — (14,202) — — 11,360 — — (11,227) (132) —
	11,360 — — (11,227) (132) — 487 — 77 (409) — —
	487 — 77 (409) — — 7,322 230 3,140 1,416 — 7,824
	7,322 230 3,140 1,416 — 7,824 678 — — (678) — —
	678 — — (678) — — 2,396 2,191 5,752 1,165 — —
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Training - Training Members Of Restricted Sub-total for Training Trust 1407 - Trust 1407 - Arising Designated Restricted Sub-total for Trust 1407 Grand total	1,202 — — — — 1,202
	1,202 — — — — 1,202 52,673 — — (52,673) — — 34,670 — — (34,670) — —
	87,343 — — (87,343) — —
	211,574 117,585 120,215 — 2,318 207,598

Staff Costs

	2020	2019
Wages & Salaries	£11,556	£7,596
Average number of Employees	2	1

During the year the PCC employed an Administrator and a Youth Worker [all part-time] and no payments were large enough to attract social security costs.

There were no employee benefits to key management personnel in the previous or current year.

No pension payments were made but this is being looked into as part of the Youth workers original contract Pension contributions would be made by The PCC.

The PCC will use the National Employment Savings Trust [Nest] via the Diocesan Payroll Scheme, for its pension payments

COVID-19 – The PCC received £3,584 in grants from the Government related to the Furlough Scheme

Trustees’ Remuneration & Expenses

Penny Richards, a trustee of the PCC was paid £3,960 by the PCC during the year for their role as Parish Administrator. No pension contributions were made by the PCC in connections with this employment

No Trustees received any expenses.

Related Parties

No other expenses were paid to any other PCC member, persons closely connected to them or related parties.

Donations from related parties [PCC members] totalled £2844.50.

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Analysis of Transfer between Funds

Reference	Date	Account	Debit	Credit	Description	Fund	Fund Type
To General Fund	09/10/2020	187211	-	2,678.34	To General Fund	Maria Turner	End
To General Fund	09/10/2020	187211	2,678.34	-	Per Maria Turner no longer an endow-Res- funds to be used for Generalpurposes	General	Unr
Tfr from Rectoryto General	09/10/2020	187211	-	678	To Generalproject complete to clear	Rectory Decoration	Des
Tfr from Rectoryto General	09/10/2020	187211	678	-	Per RectoryDecorationproject complete	General	Unr
Tfr from Brittain to Brittain Curate	27/11/2020	187211	-	5,684.00	To Brittain - Curate split to match original restrictions	Brittain	Res
Tfr from Brittain to Brittain Curate	27/11/2020	187211	5,684.00	-	Per Brittain - split to match original restrictions	BrittainCurate	Res
TFr from Brittain to Brittain Mission	27/11/2020	187211	-	1,421.00	To Brittain - Domestic/Other Mission work - split to match original restrictions	Brittain	Res
TFr from Brittain to Brittain Mission	27/11/2020	187211	1,421.00	-	Per Brittain - split to match original restrictions	BrittainMissio n	Res
Tidy up KB re email from Treasurer 19/11/20	15/12/2020	187211	-	6,750.00	To General fund re email 19/11/2020 from Jmck	Churchyard Maintenance HLF Fund	Res
Tidy up KB re email from Treasurer 19/11/20	15/12/2020	187211	6,750.00	-	Per Mound fund to repay two invoices paid from General	General	Unr
Tidy up KB re email dated 19/11/20 from Treasurer	15/12/2020	187211	-	18,312.88	To Mound-HLF to id funds easily if need to be returned	Churchyard Maintenance HLF Fund	Res
Tidy up KB re email dated 19/11/20 from Treasurer	15/12/2020	187211	18,312.88	-	Per Mound - Yard which will be used solely for upkeep	Churchyard Project HLF Fund	Res
Tfr tidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	7,169.00	Tfr to General fund	Brittain	Des
Tfr tidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	7,169.00	-	Per Brittain Designated fund	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	4,036.07	Tfr to General fund - agreed byPCC	Fabric	Des
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	4,036.07	-	Per Fabric Designated - agreed byPCC	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	52,673.00	To General Fund - Agreed byPCC	Trust 1407	Des
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	52,673.00	-	Per Trust 1407 - Designated Agreed byPCC	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	662	Tfr to General fund - Agreed by PCC assumed not dr to correct fund inpreviousyears	Altar Cloths	Res
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	662	-	Per Altar Fund - Agreed byPCC	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	4,899.00	Tfr to General fund-project complete	Disability Act/Hall	Res
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	4,899.00	-	Per Disability/Act Hall - Project complete	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	14,202.00	Tfr to General Fund - No restrictions on legacies - Agreed byPCC	Legacies	Res
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	14,202.00	-	Per Legacies fund - Agreed byPCC	General	Unr
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	-	409.1	Tfr to General fund - Agreed by PCC assumed not dr to correct fund inpreviousyears	Mission	Res
Tfr TidyupKB	15/12/2020	187211	409.1	-	Per Mission	General	Unr
Tfr Tidyup	15/12/2020	187211	-	34,670.00	Tfr to General fund - Agreed by PCC no restrictions confirmed byLDBF	Trust 1407	Res
Tfr Tidyup	15/12/2020	187211	34,670.00	-	Per Trust 1407 - Restricted	General	Unr
Tfr from Mound Churchyard to Mound HLF to balance to Lauries figures	31/12/2020	187211	-	2,332.97	Tfr from Mound Churchyard to Mound HLF to ensure one fund is correct JM to check HLF fund in 2021	Churchyard Maintenance HLF Fund	Res
Tfr from Mound Churchyard to Mound HLF to balance to Lauries figures	31/12/2020	187211	2,332.97	-	Per Mound churchyard to balance that fund to Lauries figures JM to check HLF fund to balance in 2021	Churchyard Project HLF Fund	Res
Tfr from Childrens worker to Rutter to clear	31/12/2020	187211	-	1,165.92	To Rutter fund to clear	Childrens Work	Des
Tfr from Childrens worker to Rutter to clear	31/12/2020	187211	1,165.92	-	Per Childrens Worker fund to clear	Rutter	Res
Tfr TidyUpKB	15/12/2020	1617694	-	930.93	Tfr to General fund - Agreed byPCC	Fabric	Des
Tfr TidyUpKB	15/12/2020	1617694	930.93	-	Per Fabric Designated	General	Unr
Tfr to General as Endownment no longerproduces more than £1,000	09/10/2020	12256000 1T	8,548.99	-	Per Maria Turner Endownment	General	Unr
Tfr to General as Endownment no longerproduces more than £1,000	09/10/2020	12256000 1T	-	8,548.99	Tfr to General as Endownment no longer produces more than £1,000 and is for General use	Maria Turner	End
To Mound HLF as per email 09/02/21 Jmc	31/12/2020	187211	-	4,727.15	To HLF Mound fund per email 09/02/21 - To balance to agreed figures duringFinance meeting	General	Unr
To Mound HLF as per email 09/02/21 Jmc	31/12/2020	187211	4,727.15	-	Per Generalper email 09/02/21	Churchyard Project HLF Fund	Res
Transer to clear historicgeneral debit	31/12/2020	1173308	-	19,763.00	To General Fund to clear overdrawn position shown in 2019	Butterton	Res
Transer to clear historicgeneral debit	31/12/2020	1173308	19,763.00	-	Per Butterton Fund	General	Unr
Tfr from Organ to Butterton to contra 03712001	31/12/2020	1173308	-	2,662.80	To Butterton to contra 03712001	Organ	Res
Tfr from Organ to Butterton to contra 03712001	31/12/2020	1173308	2,662.80	-	Per Organ fund to contra 03712001	Butterton	Res
Tfr to balance to paperwork from St Thomas	31/12/2020	1173308	-	1,416.20	To Organ fund to balance to St Thomas paperwork	Butterton	Res
Tfr to balance to paperwork from St Thomas	31/12/2020	1173308	1,416.20	-	Per Butterton Fund	Organ	Res
Tfr from Butterton to Organ to clear 03712001	31/12/2020	3712001	-	2,662.80	To Organ fund to clear	Butterton	Res
Tfr from Butterton to Organ to clear 03712001	31/12/2020	3712001	2,662.80	-	Per Butterton Fund to clear Organ	Organ	Res

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Fixed Assets

a) Tangible Fixed Assets – The PCC have no Tangible Fixed Assets

b) Fixed Asset Investments

	At 1 Jan £	Additions £	Disposals £	Transfers £	Change in Market Value £	At 31 Dec £
Unrestricted funds
Investments		8,682	0.00	0.00	414	9,096
Restricted Funds
Investments	38,060	0.00	0.00	0.00	1,904	39,964
Endowment Fund
Investments	8,682	0.00	0.00	-8,549	-133	0.00
Total	46,742	8,682	0.00	-8,549	-133	49,060

CCLA – 122530001T – Fabric Account [Restricted] - £15,994 CCLA – 122560001T – Maria Turner Charity [Endowment – transferred to Unrestricted in 2020] - £9,096 CCLA – 620002001S – Fabric Account [Restricted] - £23,970

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The PCC of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton
Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st December		2019
Statement of Financial Activities
		Unrestricted Funds £	Designated Funds £	Restricted Funds £	Endowment Funds £	Total Funds 2019 £	Total Funds 2018 £
Incoming Resources							*see note 12 for full comparatives
Income and Endowments from:
Donations and Legacies	2a	54,329	-	-	-	54,329	179,632
Activities for GeneratingFunds	2b	5,482	-	3,072	-	8,554	10,064
Income from Investments	2c	1,498	-	-	-	1,498	1,911
Church Activities	2d	10,447	-	-	-	10,447	5,888
Other	2e	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total		71,756	-	3,072	-	74,828	197,495
Resources Expended
Expenditure on:
RaisingFunds	3a	242	-	-	-	242	236
Church Activities	3b	106,646	-	289	-	106,935	141,437
Other	3c	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total		106,887	-	289	-	107,176	141,673
Net Income/(Expenditure) before investment gains/(losses)		(35,131)	-	2,782	-	(32,349)	55,822
Net gain/(losses) on investments	7(b) & 8(a)			6,628	1,397	8,025	(939)
Net Income/(Expenditure)		(35,131)	-	9,410	1,397	(24,324)	54,882
Transfer between Funds	6	-	-	-	-	-	-
Net Movement in Funds		(35,131)	-	9,410	1,397	(24,324)	54,882
Total Funds brought forward	11	7,078	10,000	212,975	9,963	240,015	185,133
Total Funds carried forward		(28,053)	10,000	222,385	11,360	215,692	240,015

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Independent Ex3miner'5 report to the trusteeslmembers of The PCC of The Parish of Newcastle St Giles with Butterton Registered charity number.. IL30602 I report on the accounts for the year ended 31, December 2020 which are set out on the following pages. Res ertlve res onsibilities of the Trustees and Inde endent Examiner The charity's trustee5 are responsible for the prepar3tion ol the accounts. The charl￿5 trustees consider that an audit is not required for thi5 year under Section 144 of the Cha Titles Act 2011 Ithe Charities Act) and ihèt an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility.. to eXaM￿ne the accounts under Section 145 of the Charities Aci, to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charlty Commisslon (under section 14515llbl of the Charitie5 Act, and ta State whether particular m8tter5 have come to my attention. 8asis of Inde endent Examiner's Statement My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examlnation includes a review of the accountin8 record5 kept by the charity and è compari50n of the tcounts presented with those records. li also includes eonsideration of any unusual items or discloS￿reS in the accovnts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedure5 undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an 3udit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a "true and fair" view alld the report is limited to those matter5 set out in the statement below. Inde endènt Examiner's Statement In connection with my examination. no material matters have come to my 3ttention which glves me cause to believe that in any material respect= accounting record5 were not kept in accordance wlth section 130 of the Charitie5 Act cir the accoijnts do not accord with the with the accounting records I have come acros5 no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be draw in order to enab5e a proper understanding of the accoullts to be reached. Signed.. Jonathan Hill FCMA CGMA Lichfield Dioces8n Board of Finance St Mary's House, The Close, Lichfield WS15 IGX Date..