## **Trustees Annual Report and Financial Report** 

**of** 

**The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of** 

## **Moulsecoomb and Bevendean** 

**St Andrew’s Church, Hillside, Bevendean BN2 4TA** 

Registered Charity no. 1131166 

## **For the year ended 31st December 2020** 

## **CONTENTS** 

**Page** 

- **1 Trustees annual report** 

- _**5**_ **Summary of financial receipts and payments** _**6**_ **Statement of assets and liabilities** _**7**_ **Notes to the accounts** 

_**11**_ **Report of the independent examiner** 

Priest-in-Charge: Vacant since July 2020 Acting Priest-inThe Rev. Betsy Gray-Hammond Charge Coldean Vicarage, Brighton, BN1 9EL Izabell Bisack-Snitter M.A.T.T. Independent examiner: 27 Kenilworth Close, Brighton, BN2 4LF Bankers: HSBC Brighton North Street, Brighton, BN1 1RE 



## **St Andrew’s Moulsecoomb** 

## **Trustees Annual Re ort for 2020 p** 

## **Background** 

The Parish of Moulsecoomb covers the communities of Moulsecoomb, Bevendean and Coldean focused on the churches of St, Andrews in Moulsecoomb, St Mary Magdalen in Coldean and Holy Nativity Community Church in Bevendean in the North-East Brighton. 

In March 2020, Moulsecoomb and Coldean each became independent parishes within a united benefice. 

## **Our aims and purposes as a charity** 

The primary objective of the Moulsecoomb PCC is the promotion of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the doctrines and practices of the Church of England. The Parochial Church Council is responsible for co-operating with the clergy in the parish. 

- ➢ The Reverend Martin Powell was licenced as priest in charge of the parish of Moulsecoomb in December 2018 ending a 2 ½ year interregnum but left the parish in July 2020 leaving the parish in a second interregnum. 

- ➢ The Reverend Betsy Gray-Hammond was licenced as the team vicar to Coldean in June 2014 and is also Acting Priest-in-Charge of Moulsecoomb. 

- ➢ The Reverend John Michael Collins is a non-stipendiary priest who has been working in the parish for several years. 

They help in working towards our primary charitable purpose of promoting the pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical mission of the church in the ecclesiastical parish of Moulsecoomb. 

## **What we planned to do to achieve our charitable objectives** 

The council has complied with the duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016, fully recognising its duty to have due regard to House of Bishops' guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. 

In their Mission Action Plan produced in 2016, the PCC set out the objectives for the future as 

- ➢ Enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church and 

- ➢ Enabling as many people as possible to become part of our parish church community in Moulsecoomb 

The PCC maintain an overview of worship throughout the parish and works in partnership with clergy  to include and involve the many groups that live within our parish. 

Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament. When planning our activities, the clergy and PCC consider the Charity Commission’s guidance on the public benefit, and in particular the specific guidance on ‘charities for the advancement of religion.’ In particular we try to enable local people to live their faith as part of our parish community through: 

- ➢ Worship and prayer; learning about the Gospel; and developing their knowledge of and trust in, Jesus 

- ➢ Provision of pastoral care for people living an working in the parish 

- ➢ Missionary and Outreach work 

To facilitate this it is important that we maintain the fabric of both St Andrews, Moulsecoomb and Holy Nativity Community Church at Bevendean. 

## **What we achieved and how we affected beneficiaries’ lives** 

## _**Attendance at worship**_ 

There are 135 on the parish rolls across the benefice, with 71 within the parish of St. Andrews Moulsecoomb, and 28 non-residents. Numbers have been reduced due to the Corona 19 Pandemic and enforced closure for much of the 

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year. The average attendance during the October count was 23 adults attending and on average 7 joining the service online. 

## **Review of the year** 

- ➢ The PCC met four times via ZOOM throughout the year with an average level of attendance of 80%. Reports were presented by the Parish Warden and received from Boys Brigade and Junior Church when restrictions eased. 

- ➢ In line with the parish’s Mission, services were tailored for live streaming and allowing regular services to run in parallel as Government and Church of England restrictions were lifted. 

- ➢ Large social and fund raising events came to a halt as social distancing and lockdown continued. A few individuals overcame this and managed to create a fund raising programme for individuals or families which also maintained some pastoral links across the parish. 

- ➢ During the year, a number of building and repair projects have been completed. 

- ➢ St. Andrews completed the reports for its Quinquennial Inspection and received the final report in December 2020. We are continuing to work through  the recommendations. 

## **Financial Review** 

## _**Incoming and outgoing resources**_ 

The total receipts on general unrestricted funds received were £50,933, as detailed in the financial statements. With an expenditure totalling £50,198, the parish broke even financially over the year, with a minor surplus. 

The total amount raised for charities during 2020 was £353, consisting of £18 per month to Plan International supporting a child in Ethiopia, collections for WaterAid during Lent and collections for the Children’s Society at the Christingle service. 

The accounts and financial statements for Holy Nativity Community Church, Bevendean have been submitted separately with St. Mary Magdalen Coldean. 

## _**Sharing the ministry costs of the Diocese of Chichester**_ 

The largest expenditure of the PCC was the sum of £21,180 paid to the diocese to cover ministry costs. This amount covers clergy housing, stipend, pension and training, and a standard sum for diocesan central costs and a contribution to national church funds. 

The parish pays about 37% of the parish ministerial costs calculated by the Diocese for this parish. During 2020, the parish reduced its contribution temporarily due to the drop of income and fund-raising opportunities as a result of the pandemic. 

## _**Staff costs**_ 

The PCC pays for an organist for church services and a caretaker for the hall. 

## _**Trustee payments and expenses**_ 

The PCC maintained the vicarage by paying Council Tax and water. 

Anne Webb and Barry Burtenshaw received refunds of expenses amounting to respectively £168 and £328 relating to purchase of sundry items for the church and parish office. 

There were no payments to persons related to or connected to, the trustees. 

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## **Reserves Policy** 

Reserves held at the end of 2020 amounted to an equivalent of six months of expenditure during that year. The PCC consider that an adequate reserve at present, given the uncertainty around income streams as a consequence of the pandemic and the parish entering into vacancy. 

## **Future Uncertainties** 

The greatest present uncertainty is the duration of the current vacancy and the difficulty in putting into practice a mission action plan to stimulate church growth and work towards our aims and objectives as a church. 

## **Structure, governance and management of the charity** 

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is registered with the Charity Commission as required by the Charities Act 2011. Its governing document is the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956. 

The Parochial Church Council are the trustees for the parish accounts, fund management and decisions relating to the life and welfare whilst maintaining the Church’s Mission within the parish. Regular meetings are held and reported at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM). Members are warmly encouraged to stand for election to the PCC and we endeavour to ensure a balance of skill and experience where possible. 

During the year the following served as members of the Parochial Church Council: 

## _Ex Officio members_ 

|_Ex Officio members_|_Ex Officio members_|
|---|---|
|Priest in Charge Vacant since July 2020||
|Acting priest in Charge|The Reverend Betsy Gray-Hammond|
|Assistant Priest|The Reverend John Michael Collins (PTO)|
|Lay readers|Mr Levison Kandi|
|Church Wardens|Mrs Anne Webb (Parish Warden)|
||Mr Barry Burtenshaw (Church Warden)|
|Treasurer|Vacant|
|Representative on the|Mr Robert Brown|
|Deanery Synod||
|PCC Elected Members|Mrs Margaret Demott|
||Mr Kevin Clarke|
||Mr Kuda Madzivanyika|
||Mr Bernard Fennell|
||Mr John Lewry|



The accounts and financial statements for St Andrew’s Moulsecoomb were submitted after the required May/June 2021 deadlines, due to the ill-health and retirement of the former treasurer, with no suitably qualified replacement treasurer being found in the short-term. 

This Trustees’ Annual Report was **approved** by the PCC and 

signed on their behalf by 

## **Reverend  Betsy Gray-Hammond Acting Priest in Charge** 

……………………………………………………………………………… 

Date………………………………………………… 

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## **Annual Financial Report** 

**of** 

**The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of** 

## **Moulsecoomb and Bevendean** 

**St Andrew’s Church, Hillside, Bevendean BN2 4TA** 

Registered Charity no. 1131166 

**For the year ended 31st December 2020** 

## **CONTENTS** 

|**Page**||
|---|---|
|**_5_**|**Statement of financial receipts and payments**|
|**_6_**|**Statement of assets and liabilities**|
|**_7_**|**Notes to the accounts**|
|**_11_**|**Report of the independent examiner**|





## **St Andrew’s Church, Moulsecoomb** _registered charity number 1131166_ **Summary of Financial Receipts and Payments** 

The financial effect of our activities during the year can be summarised as follows: 

||**_Unrestricted_**|**_Unrestricted_**|**_Unrestricted_**|||||**_Total_**|_Total_<br>_All Funds_<br>_2019_|_Notes_<br>_Note_<br>_A&L_|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**General**<br>**Fund**|**Designated**||**_Restricted_**||**_Endowed_**||**All Funds**|||
||||**Funds**||**Fund/s**||**Fund/s**|**2020**|||
|**Income and endowments from:**<br>Donations and legacies<br>Charitable activities<br>Other trading activities<br>Investments<br>Other receipts|£<br>23,597<br>-<br>18,224<br>7,730<br>1382||£||£||£|**£**|_£_<br>_28,432_<br>_6,327_<br>_32,892_<br>_-_<br>_273_||
||||||||||||
||||-||-||-|**23,597**|||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**18,224**|||
||||-||-||-|**7,730**|||
||||-||-||-|**1382**|||
||||||||||||
|**Total received**|**50,933**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**50,933**|_67,924_||
|**Expenditure on:**<br>Cost of raising funds<br>Charitable costs<br>Trading costs<br>Other payments|250<br>44,342<br>5,555<br>50||||||||_-_<br>_50,226_<br>_8,151_<br>_7,299_||
|||||||||**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**250**|||
||||-||-||-|**44,342**|||
||||-||-||-|**5,555**|||
||||-||-||-|**50**|||
||||||||||||
|**Total paid**|**50,198**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**50,198**|_65,676_||
|_Reconciliation of funds:_|||||||||||
||||||||||||
|**Net income or (net expenditure)**|735||-||-||-|**735**|_2,248_||
|Transfers between funds<br>**Net movement in funds**<br>Bank accounts at 1 January|||||||||_-_||
||||||-||-|-|||
||**734.79**<br>24,424||**-**||**-**||**-**|**734.79**|_2,248_<br>_22,176_||
||||||||-|**25,128**|||
|**Bank accounts at 31 December**|**25,158**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**25,158**|_24,424_||



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## **St Andrew’s Church, Moulsecoomb** _registered charity number 1131166_ **Statement of Assets and Liabilities** 

Our financial position at the year-end was 

||**_Unrestricted_**|**_Unrestricted_**|**_Unrestricted_**|||||**_Total_**|_Total_<br>_All_<br>_Funds_<br>_2019_|_Notes_<br>_R&P_<br>_8_<br>_9_|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**General**<br>**Fund**|**Designated**||**_Restricted_**||**_Endowed_**||**All Funds**|||
||||**Funds**||**Fund/s**||**Fund/s**|**2020**|||
|**Assets:**<br>Bank current account<br>Bank deposit account|£<br>19,473<br>69||£||£||£|**£**|_£_<br>_24,307_ <br>_69_ <br>_48_||
||||||||||||
||||-||5,568|||**25,041**|||
|||||||||**69**|||
|CCLA deposit account|48|||||||**48**|||
|PCC-owned bank balance<br>Diocesan Assigned Fees received|19,590||-||5,568||-|**25,158**|**24,424**<br>_-_||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
|**Total bank and deposit accounts**|**19,590**||**-**||**5,568**||**-**|**25,158**|_24,424_||
|Wedding fees not yet received<br>Local Authority grant for churchyard<br>Gift Aid recoverable|-<br>-<br>2,591||||||||_-_||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
||||-||||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**2,591**|||
|**Debtors**|**2,591**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**2,591**|_-_||
|6000 CBF Investment Fund shares|||||||||||
||||-||-||-|-|||
|**Investment assets at market value**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|_-_||
|500 CBF Investment Fund shares|-||||||||||
||||-||-|||-|||
|**Investment assets at cost**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|_-_||
|**Freehold, St Andrew's Church Hall**|**780,000**||||||||_780,000_||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|**780,000**|||
||||||||||||
|**Total assets**|**802,182**||**-**||**5,568**||**-**|**807,750**|_804,424_||
|**Liabilities:**<br>Unpaid Diocesan fees for<br>weddings/funerals<br>Electricity used since last billed (est'd)|-<br>-||||||||_-_<br>_-_<br>_380_<br>_-_||
||||||||||||
||||-||-||-|-|||
||||||-||-|-|||
||||-||-||-|-|||
||||||||||||
|**Total liabilities**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|_380_||



This Financial Report for the year ended 31st December 2020, including the notes following, was approved by the PCC and signed on its behalf by The Revd Betsy Gray-Hammond: 

……………………………………….……………………….. 

Date ………………………………………………………… 

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## **St Andrew’s Church, Moulsecoomb** _registered charity number 1131166_ **Notes to the Financial Report** 

**1** The financial statements of the PCC have been prepared in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 and current Church Accounting Regulations, using the Receipts and Payments basis. 

**2** The following assets are recognised but not valued in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities:  Movable church furnishings held by the churchwardens on special trust for the PCC, which require a faculty for disposal. 

**3** Analysis of total received 

|**3**Analysis of total received|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**|||||||**Total**|_Total_<br>_All Funds_<br>_2019_|_Notes_<br>_4_<br>_5_|
||**General**<br>**Fund**|**Designated**||**_Restricted_**||**_Endowed_**||**All Funds**|||
||||**Funds**||**Fund/s**||**Fund/s**|**2020**|||
|Planned giving (excl. tax refunds)<br>Planned giving (no tax refunds)<br>One-off giving (no GA)<br>One-off giving - GASDS<br>Gift Aid recovered<br>Legacies<br>Grants|£<br>15,667<br>861<br>3,182<br>991<br>2,516<br>-<br>380||£||£||£|**£**|_£_<br>_10,849_<br>_4,868_<br>_2,915_<br>_1,186_<br>_2,414_<br>_6,200_||
||||-||-||-|**15,667**|||
||||-||-||-|**861**|||
||||-||-||-|**3,182**|||
||||-||||-|**991**|||
||||-||-||-|**2,516**|||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**380**|||
|**Donations and legacies**|**23,597**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**23,597**|_28,432_||
|Fees for weddings & funerals<br>Other fundraising|-||-||-||-|**-**|_1,442_<br>_4,885_||
||||||||||||
|**Charitable activities**|**-**||-||-||-|**-**|_6,327_||
|Fete<br>Concert<br>Sales of parish<br>magazine/cards/books<br>Church centre hiring fees<br>Magazine advertisement fees<br>Candle sales|436<br>-<br>397<br>17,174<br>216||-||-||-|**436**|_477_<br>_32,125_<br>_290_||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**397**|||
||||-||-||-|**17,174**|||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**216**|||
|**Other trading activities**|**18,224**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**18,224**|_32,892_||
|Bank & CBF deposit interest<br>CBF investment fund dividend<br>Letting of property (hall flat)|7,730||||||-|**-**|_-_||
||||||||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**7,730**|||
|**Investments**|**7,730**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**7,730**|_-_||
|Other receipts|1,382|||||||**1,382**|_273_||
|**Total received on all funds**|**50,933**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**50,933**|_67,924_||



**4** The grant of £380 was a single amount from Sussex Community Fund. 

**5** Other receipts includes an adjustment of £704 relating to receipts in 2019 omitted from previous report. 

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## **St Andrew’s Church, Moulsecoomb** _registered charity number 1131166_ **Notes to the Financial Report** 

## **6** Analysis of total paid 

||**Unrestricted**|**Unrestricted**|**Unrestricted**|||||**Total**|_Total_<br>_All Funds_<br>_2019_|_Notes_<br>_6_<br>_7_|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**General**<br>**Fund**|**Designated**||**_Restricted_**||**_Endowed_**||**All Funds**|||
||||**Funds**||**Fund/s**||**Fund/s**|**2020**|||
|Summer fete expenses<br>Concert posters & musicians<br>expenses<br>Other appeals expenses|£<br>-<br>-<br>250||£||£||£|**£**|_£_<br>_-_<br>_-_||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**250**|||
|**Cost of raising funds**|**250**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**250**|_-_||
|Charitable grants and donations<br>Parish share to Chichester Diocese<br>Salaries and honoraria incl NI<br>Clergy and other people's expenses<br>Mission & evangelism costs<br>Sunday school/Children's work<br>Insurance<br>Water, Gas, Electricity, and Oil<br>Printing & photocopying<br>Organ, piano and licences<br>Other regular church running costs<br>Accounting and Examiner's fees<br>Church maintenance &<br>redecoration<br>Churchyard maintenance<br>New building work|216<br>21,180<br>1,248<br>2,904<br>-<br>695<br>3,651<br>2,403<br>4,256<br>617<br>1,915<br>-<br>300<br>157<br>4,800||-||-||-|**216**|_536_<br>_31,512_<br>_1,440_<br>_4,795_<br>_588_<br>_3,487_<br>_2,275_<br>_5,202_<br>_391_<br>_-_||
||||-||-||-|**21,180**|||
||||-||-||-|**1,248**|||
||||-||-||-|**2,904**|||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**695**|||
||||-||-||-|**3,651**|||
||||-||-||-|**2,403**|||
||||-||-||-|**4,256**|||
||||-||-||-|**617**|||
||||-||-||-|**1,915**|||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**300**|||
||||-||-||-|**157**|||
||||-||-||-|**4,800**|||
|**Charitable costs**|**44,342**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**44,342**|_50,226_||
|Church hall caretaking & cleaning<br>Hall maintenance & redecoration<br>Magazine printing/bookstall<br>Other trading costs|5,394<br>161<br>-<br>-||-||-||-|**5,394**|_5,929_<br>_2,222_||
||||-||-||-|**161**|||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
||||-||-||-|**-**|||
|**Trading costs**|**5,555**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**5,555**|_8,151_||
|Other payments|50|||||||**50**|_7,299_||
|**Total paid on all funds**|**50,198**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**50,198**|_65,676_||



**7** A monthly grant of £18 to Plan International. 

**8** The Parish share to the Chichester Diocese is for the payment of Clergy and other central costs. The full cost of parish ministry amounts to approximately £72,000. 

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**St Andrew’s Church, Moulsecoomb** _registered charity number 1131166_ **Notes to the Financial Report** 

- **9** Payments to PCC employees: 

|**9**<br>Payments to PCC employees:|||
|---|---|---|
|Wages, salaries and honoraria<br>Employer National Insurance<br>Employer pension contributions|**2020**|_2019_|
||**£**<br>**1,248**|_£_<br>_1,440_<br>_-_|
||**1,248**|_1,440_|



- **10** Payments were made to PCC members in the year for reimbursement of expenses incurred on behalf of the PCC 

   - a) Clergy support: Council tax £870, BT telephone services, £329. 

   - b) 2 members received reimbursement for sundry expenses amounting in total to £446. 

- **11** Transactions with persons related to PCC members: 

There were no transactions benefitting persons closely related to PCC members. 

- **12** Transactions with related charities: 

There were no transactions with related charities. 

- **13** Statement of funds: 

_**Endowed funds** are required by the donors to be invested and the income spent on specific objectives_ 

The parish does not have any endowed funds. 

_**Restricted funds** are not invested permanently but are to be spent within reasonable timescales_ 

The Toddler Play and Pray Fund was started in 2019 with a purpose of running a toddler group associated with the church. No payments were made out of this fund during 2020. 

_**Unrestricted funds** are not subject to any donor restrictions and can be spent as the PCC decides_ 

_**The summary of all funds appears on the next page**_ 

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## **St Andrew’s Church, Moulsecoomb** _registered charity number 1131166_ **Notes to the Financial Report** 

## **14** Summary of funds 

Fund income and expenditure and final balances are as follows: 

||**Balances**<br>**b/fwd**<br>**1 Jan 2020**|**Income**|<br>**Expenditure**|**Transfers,**<br>**other gains**<br>**and losses**|**Balances**<br>**c/fwd**<br>**31 Dec 2020**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||£|£|£<br>-<br>-|£<br>-<br>|**£**<br>**-**<br>**-**|
|**Total of all endowed funds**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Toddlers Play and Pray Group|5,568||-<br>-<br>-|-<br>-<br>-|**5,568**<br>**-**<br>**-**|
|**Total of all restricted funds**|**5,568**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**5,568**|
|General fund|18,856|50,933<br>-|(50,198)<br>-|**-**|**19,590**<br>**-**|
|||||||
|**Total of all unrestricted funds**|**18,856**|**50,933**|**(50,198)**|**-**|**19,590**|
|||||||
|**Total funds**|**24,423.51**|**50,932.65**|**-50,197.86**|**0.00**|**25,158.30**|



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## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the PCC of St Jude’s Church, Chicheston for the Year Ended 31[st] December 2020** 

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## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the PCC of St Jude’s Church, Chicheston for the Year Ended 31[st] December 2020** 

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