HOLY TRINITY
Ashby de la Zouch
Parochial Church Council of Holy Trinity Church, Ashby De La Zouch
Receipts and Payments accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2024
Overall Summary 2024.
| Receipts Note |
Total 2024 General Fund Designated Funds Restricted Funds |
Total 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Planned Giving 1 All Other Giving/Voluntary Receipts 2 & 3 Gif Aid Recovered 4 Actvites for Generatng Funds 5 Income from Investments 6 Job Retenton Scheme 8 Shared Expenses 7 Wedding and Funeral net Income 9 CAP Income (Personal Donatons) R1 CAP Income (Other Donatons) R1 Foodbank Income R2 Hall Income R3 |
69,252 0 0 69,252 11,129 100 4,350 15,579 21,945 25 68 22,038 3,851 0 0 3,851 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4,626 0 4,626 0 0 12,520 12,520 0 0 11,636 11,636 0 0 42,213 42,213 0 15,262 0 15,262 |
71,684 13,242 18,696 4,971 0 0 52 7,393 12,917 14,797 34,667 21,996 |
| Total Receipts | £ 106,177 £ 20,013 £ 70,787 £ 196,977 | £ 200,415 |
| Payments Note |
Total 2024 Total 2023 General Fund Designated Funds Restricted Funds |
Total 2024 Total 2023 General Fund Designated Funds Restricted Funds |
|---|---|---|
| Charitable Giving 10 Church Actvites 11 Church Admin expenses 12 Church Building Expenses 13 Parish Contributon Stafng Costs 14 PCC Designated Accounts Exp. 15 PCC Restricted Accounts Exp. 16 CAP Expenditure (Stafng) R1 CAP Expenditure (Operatons) R1 CAP Expenditure (Emergency Aid) R1 Foodbank Expenditure R2 Hall Expenditure R3 |
9,850 0 0 9,850 5,817 0 0 5,817 4,824 0 0 4,824 9,453 0 0 9,453 58,585 0 0 58,585 23,547 0 0 23,547 0 227 0 227 0 0 4,015 4,015 0 0 19,283 19,283 0 0 7,776 7,776 0 0 139 139 0 0 24,382 24,382 0 9,516 0 9,516 |
9,749 5,693 6,353 21,799 58,000 24,672 228 9,900 15,869 8,249 80 17,304 9,877 |
| Total Payments | £ 112,076 £ 9,743 £ 55,595 £ 177,414 | £ 194,952 |
Net Movement in year -£ 5,899 £ 10,270 £ 15,192 £ 19,563 £ 10,071
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Ashby de la Zouch
Statement of Assets and Liabilities at the end of the period.
| Accounts | Balance | Balance |
|---|---|---|
| Dec-24 | Dec-23 | |
| Current Accounts | 213,649 | 194,038 |
| Totals | £ 213,649 | £ 194,038 |
Net Fund Movements in 2024.
| HTA Account | Balance Forward |
Receipts Payments Transfers |
Net Change |
Carried Forward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General fund | 1,429 | 106,177 112,076 -110 |
-6,009 | -4,580 |
| Restricted - PCC Church Building Ashby Clothes for Children Childrens work in church Flower fund Alpha fund Soul Café Tiny Tots Audio Visual Equipment Pathways café The Garden room MDMC AgencyCollectons |
3,789 181 564 333 225 70 238 135 124 374 113 90 |
120 135 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 435 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 223 0 893 295 0 523 654 0 0 0 0 2,868 2,273 0 |
95 0 0 0 -435 0 0 -210 598 -131 0 595 |
3,884 181 564 333 -210 70 238 -75 722 243 113 685 |
| Designated - PCC General Reserve Wedding & Funeral Net income Church Hall Bequests Vicars Discretonaryfund |
10,000 1,959 15,724 0 -524 |
0 0 0 7,898 3,272 0 15,262 9,516 0 0 0 0 125 227 0 |
0 4,626 5,746 0 -102 |
10,000 6,585 21,470 0 -626 |
| Restricted - Other CAP Ashby CAP Fresh Start CAP Emergency Aid ACTS 435 Ashby Foodbank |
22,156 450 971 269 135,416 |
20,486 23,360 75 0 0 0 0 139 -336 3,670 3,699 261 42,213 24,382 0 |
-2,799 0 -475 232 17,831 |
19,357 450 496 501 153,247 |
| Totals | £ 194,087 | £ 200,248 £ 180,686 £ - | £ 19,562 | £ 213,649 |
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Ashby de la Zouch
Notes relating to Designated and Restricted Funds
Restricted PCC Funds
Church Building Money reserved for church re-decoration and improvements. Ashby Clothes for Children Fund to help provide clothes for Families with Children in need. Children’s Work in Church Fund to support children’s work in church. Flower fund Donations and expenditure relating to flowers in church. Alpha fund Donations and expenditure related to the running of the Alpha course in church. Soul café Monthly gathering for Women during term time offering fellowship and support.
Tiny Tots A Weekly parent and pre-school group meeting in church. Audio Visual Equipment Maintenance and purchase of Audio / Visual and Internet (On-line church) related equipment. Pathways café A café offering support in church open to all. The Garden Room A new project to develop a Garden/allotment adjacent to Church open to everyone to contribute.
MDMC Make Do Mend and Create – A group committed to recycle clothing wherever possible.
Agency collections A temporary holding fund for collections made in church on behalf of other organisations. This would normally be at zero as payments are made ASAP to the organisation involved. There is a small surplus this year awaiting the decision of the benefactor and also some outstanding payments to organisations collected for.
Designated PCC Funds
General Reserve The church reserve fund. This has been held at £10,000 in 2024. Wedding and Funeral Net Income Net Income from Weddings and Funerals to be used by the PCC. Church Hall Net income from the Church Hall. Vicars Discretionary Fund Money allocated to the Vicar to give in food and provisions to those arriving at the Church in need.
Bequests A Fund in which to place Bequests so they can be spent on meaningful projects, rather than General spending.
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Restricted Other
CAP Ashby CAP ‘general spending’ fund used for salaries and expenses. CAP Emergency Aid Emergency Aid provided to CAP clients. CAP Fresh Start CAP fund for providing one-off payments to clients – Debt aid – not used in 2024. ACTS435 A Fund used by CAP for assistance to clients in purchasing essential items. Ashby Foodbank Foodbank ‘general spending’ fund used for salaries and expenses.
Assets and Liabilites of the Church at end 2024.
Assets
Money is owed to the church for the following: Unpaid invoices:5 ‘Consent to perform’ references C00312,313,314,315,316 each for £230.45 Grand total :- £1152.25.
Liabilities
Money is owed by the church for the following:
Agency fund:£506.05 owed to the Children’s Society for the Christingle service collection. £95.90 owed to SHARP from Christmas collection. £69.06 collected for TLG. Grand total :- £671.01.
Summary of Total Fund Movements by Organisation in 2024.
| HTA Account | Balance Forward |
Receipts Payments |
Net Change |
Carried Forward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church | 34,824 | 133,879 129,106 |
4,773 | 39,597 |
| CAP | 23,846 | 24,156 27,198 |
-3,042 | 20,804 |
| Foodbank | 135,416 | 42,213 24,382 |
17,831 | 153,247 |
| Totals | £ 194,086 | £ 200,248 £ 180,686 | £ 19,562 | £ 213,648 |
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Ashby de la Zouch
Church spending by activity in chart form.
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£9,850 9%
£23,547 21%
£5,817 5%
£4,774 4%
£9,453 8%
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Charitable Giving
Church Activities
Church Admin.
Church Building
Parish Contribution
Staffing Costs
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£58,585 52%
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Note: The largest expenditure is the Parish Contribution, followed by Staffing costs, Charitable giving, Church Building, Church Activities, Church Admin and neglegible other costs.
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Ashby de la Zouch
Notes to the Accounts
General Notes
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The financial statements of the PCC have been prepared in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 using the Receipts and Payments basis.
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The activities of the Church Hall, CAP Ashby and of Ashby Foodbank have been aggregated with the PCC accounts.
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Fixed Assets, consecrated and benefice property are not included in the accounts in accordance with section s.96(2)(a) of the Charities Act 1993.
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The Church Hall and associated land are not included in the accounts as assets since ownership is unclear and there is no available valuation at the time of preparation of this report.
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2023 figures are provided only for comparison by the PCC with the current year.
Funds
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Restricted Funds represent income from trusts or endowments, donations or grants received, or money raised for a specific purpose. Consequently the funds may only be used for the purpose specified by the donor or when raised.
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Unrestricted Funds i.e. the General fund, is used for ordinary PCC income and expenditure.
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Designated Funds are sums set aside out of the General fund for specific designated purposes. They can be transferred back to unrestricted funds at any time if the PCC so decides.
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Endowment Funds are funds, the capital of which must be maintained. Only income arising from investment of the endowment may be used. No endowment funds existed at 31[st] December 2024.
Notes.
The money held in the Bank across all accounts totals £213,649 at 31/12/2024. This agrees with the total across all in funds on page 2. A correction of £50 write-down has been entered in table 12 under ‘Church Admin expenses’ to account for a long standing difference arising when the account package ‘Expense-Plus’ was introduced.
Reserves Policy: It has been agreed by the Church PCC to maintain a reserve of roughly 10% of the General fund income. This equates to £10,000 for 2024 and currently stands at £10,000 . The reserve fund is intended only for emergency spending i.e. urgent building repairs or cash flow problems.
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Ashby de la Zouch
Notes on Receipts
1. Planned Giving
| Category | 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Giving (STO) | 55,312 | 57,645 | |
| Planned Giving (PGS) | 11,690 | 13,039 | |
| Planned Giving (Env) | 0 | 0 | |
| Planned Giving (xGA) | 2,250 | 1,000 | |
| Totals | £ | 69,252 £ | 71,684 |
Regular weekly, monthly or quarterly donations.
“STO” refers to donations direct to the church bank account (Standing orders).
“Env” refers to weekly envelope donations usually in the Sunday collection. The PCC decided to withdraw the envelope payment facility and encourage Standing orders or Electronic payments. “PGS” – Parish Giving Scheme - is a diocese sponsored scheme where donations are collected and gift-aid automatically reclaimed.
“xGA” indicates donations received from third party schemes that independently claim gift aid so no GA is reclaimable by Holy Trinity.
2. All Other Giving/Voluntary Receipts
| Category | 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | 0 | 334 | |
| Donatons (Personal) | 8,220 | 11,849 | |
| Donatons (GASDS) | 170 | 574 | |
| Donatons (Not GA) | 0 | 0 | |
| Collectons (Other services) | 1,279 | 29 | |
| Bequests | 0 | 0 | |
| Sum Up payments | 1,175 | 456 | |
| Ofertories at Services | 4735 | ||
| Totals | £ | 15,579 £ | 13,242 |
Sum-Up payments, largely taken in the Church Contactless payment machine, were to General fund.
Offertories at Services is money (Cash or Cheques) given anonymously, and without Fund directives, in the Church service, and is for the General Fund. It totalled £4735 in 2024.
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3. All Other Giving/Voluntary Receipts by Fund
| Fund | 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | 11,129 | 10205 | |
| Pathways | 894 | 500 | |
| Building | 120 | 334 | |
| Vicars Discretonary | 100 | 0 | |
| AV Equipment | 0 | 50 | |
| The Garden Room | 468 | 263 | |
| MDMC | 0 | 0 | |
| Flower | 0 | 11 | |
| Alpha | 0 | 500 | |
| Agency | 2,868 | 1379 | |
| Totals | £ | 15,579 £ | 13,242 |
4. Gif Aid recovered
| Fund | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| General Fund | 21,945 | 18,627 |
| Building | 0 | 0 |
| AV Equipment | 13 | 0 |
| The Garden Room | 55 | 69 |
| Vicars Discretonary | 25 | 0 |
| MDMC | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | £ 22,038 £ | 18,696 |
5. Actvites for Generatng Funds
| Category | 2024 | 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church Hire - Ashby Concert Band | 2,762 | 2,178 | ||
| Church Hire - Local Community Use | 160 | 190 | ||
| Other income | 929 | 2,210 | ||
| Fundraising Events | 0 | 393 | ||
| Totals | £ | 3,851 £ | 4,971 |
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6. Income from investments
| Category | 2024 | 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interest Received | 0 | 0 | ||
| Totals | £ | - £ | - |
7. Income from shared expenses
| Category | 2024 | 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shared Expenses - General Fund | 0 | 52 | ||
| Totals | £ | - £ | 52 |
Shared expenses are where expenses such as telephone bills which are shared with other users of the facilities.
8. Income from Job Retenton Scheme.
There was no income from this source in 2024 for Church Staff.
9. Wedding and Funeral Net Income
| Category | 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| W&F Income | 7,898 | 7,393 | |
| W&F Fees to LDBF | -815 | -2,096 | |
| W&F Minister Fees | -1,318 | -1,914 | |
| W&F Minister Expenses | -307 | -244 | |
| W&F Organist Fees | -688 | -390 | |
| W&F Other Costs | -144 | -270 | |
| PCC Authorised payments | 0 | -2,249 | |
| Totals | £ | 4,626 £ | 230 |
W&F Other costs refers to the Sound Engineer charge for use of the equipment at Weddings and Funerals. This is paid to the sound engineer but funded by the undertaker.
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HOLY TRINITY
Ashby de la Zouch
Notes on Expenditure
10. Charitable Giving
| Category | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Church Tithe | 9,600 | 9,749 |
| Missionary & Charitable | ||
| Giving (Non Tithe) | 250 | 0 |
| Totals | £ 9,850 £ | 9,749 |
Church Tithe includes 12 standing orders for £225 for AYFC and CAP respectively and £50 for supporting the Frizelles making £6000 total, which is towards the 2024 Tithe.
| Tithe Recipients | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Ashby Youth for Christ | 2,700 | 2,700 |
| CAP Ashby | 2,700 | 2,700 |
| Hospice Hope | 100 | 100 |
| Street Pastors | 250 | 250 |
| Frizelle - YWAM (Guatemala) | 600 | 600 |
| CMS - Mark & Rosalie Balfour | 600 | 600 |
| CMS - Lea and Petra Williams | 600 | 600 |
| New Wine | 500 | 500 |
| Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS) | 250 | 250 |
| Flame Internatonal | 200 | 250 |
| SeaFarers | 250 | 250 |
| Tear Fund | 250 | 250 |
| Natonal Churches Trust | 100 | 100 |
| Evangelical Alliance | 250 | 250 |
| CofE Children's Society | 250 | 250 |
| Tithe Totals | £ 9,600 £ | 9,650 |
Some Tithe Recipients were sent in 2024 but were part of the PCC’s designated tithe for 2023. The PCC were late in allocating payments for 2024 so some have slipped into 2025. In 2025 all Tithe payments will be made by monthly standing order so all can now be considered on-time.
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11. Church Actvites
| Category | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| General Church Actvites | 3,644 | 1,613 |
| Children's & Youth Actvites | 169 | 229 |
| Outreach Events & Actvites (inc Alpha) | 46 | 281 |
| Welcome, Hospitality & Gifs | 446 | 501 |
| Travel Expenses & Mileage | 575 | 1,114 |
| Books, Training & Conferences | 877 | 1,955 |
| Other Church expenditure | 60 | |
| Totals | £ 5,817 £ | 5,693 |
‘Other Church expenditure’ in 2024 was a £60 donation to ‘Toilet Twinning’ made by the Church Wardens on 09/04/2024.
12. Church Admin Expenses
| Category | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Parish Ofce & Admin | 779 | 1,904 |
| Website (Church Insight - PCC) | 683 | 1,691 |
| Telephone, Internet & TV | 2,420 | 2,474 |
| Statonery, Postage & Printng | 167 | 98 |
| Photocopier | 537 | 27 |
| Bank Charges | 188 | 159 |
| Expense-Plus Write Down | 50 | |
| Totals | £ 4,824 £ | 6,353 |
The Expense-Plus write down arises from the introduction of the Expense-Plus accounting software in 2019. There was evidently a £50 difference between the actual monies held in the bank accounts and the declared sum total held across all the funds entered at start up.
13. Church Building Expenses
| Category | 2024 2023 |
|---|---|
| Church Insurance | 3,300 4,724 |
| Gas, Water & Electricity | 3,887 12,280 |
| Repairs & Maintenance | 2,266 4,795 |
| Church Organ | 0 - |
| Totals | £ 9,453 £ 21,799 |
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14. Stafng Costs
| Category | 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salaries | 19,125 | 20,712 | |
| HMRC NI & PAYE | 418 | 58 | |
| Pension contributons | 4,004 | 3,902 | |
| Totals | £ | 23,547 £ | 24,672 |
15. PCC Designated Accounts expenditure
| Fund | 2024 | 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vicars Discretonary Fund | 227 | 228 | ||
| Totals | £ | 227 | £ | 228 |
16. PCC Restricted Accounts expenditure
| Fund | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Agency | 2,273 | 1,289 |
| Building | 135 | 5,067 |
| Audio Visual (AV) | 223 | 2,324 |
| Garden Room | 654 | 457 |
| Organ | 0 | 0 |
| Pathways cafe | 295 | 488 |
| Alpha Course | 435 | 275 |
| Totals | £ 4,015 £ | 9,900 |
It will be noted there have been no large expenditures this year.
In the Agency Fund are monies collected for other organisations collected through Church activities and passed directly on to the intended organisation.
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Transfers between Funds.
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A sum of £110.00 was transferred from General funds to the Building fund for the Notice Board Appeal. This appeal had been started using the General fund in 2023 and this action merely transferred the money to the correct fund.
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A Sum of £336.05 was transferred from the CAP emergency fund to the ACTS435 CAP fund. The CAP fund manager highlighted this funding error by email on 18/07/2024 and requested this transfer. This money is remaining in the CAP accounts.
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The CAP fund manager emailed on 15/08/2024 requesting the year end surplus from ACTS435 be transferred to the General CAP fund. This was a sum of £74.56 and this money is remaining in the CAP accounts.
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HOLY TRINITY Ashby de la Zouch
R1 CAP Ashby Income & Expenditure.
| CAP Income (Personal Donatons) 2024 |
2023 10,828 121 1,968 £ 12,917 |
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| CAP Donatons (Personal) 10,386 CAP Monthly Giving (GASDS) 0 CAP Gif Aid Reclaimed 2,134 |
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Totals £ 12,520 |
| CAP Income (Other Donatons) 2024 |
2023 |
|---|---|
| Acts 435 Income 3,670 CAP Church donatons 4,262 CAP Fund raising 237 CAP Grants 3,000 CAP Other donatons 467 Emergency Aid 0 |
2,040 3,900 1,266 5,000 1,991 600 |
| Totals £ 11,636 |
£ 14,797 |
| Total CAP income £ 24,156 |
£ 27,714 |
| CAP Expenditure Operatons 2024 |
2023 |
| Acts 435 Expenditure 3,699 CAP Events & Actvites 107 CAP HQ Charge 3,600 CAP HQ Release groups 0 CAP Ofce & Admin Costs 370 |
2,171 959 3,600 0 1,519 |
Totals £ 7,776 |
£ 8,249 |
| CAP Expenditure (Stafng) 2024 |
2023 |
| CAP Staf Expenses 469 CAP Stafng Costs 18,814 |
163 15,706 |
Totals £ 19,283 |
£ 15,869 |
| CAP Expenses Emergency Aid 2024 |
2023 |
| CAP Emergency Aid Payments 139 CAP HQ Fresh start 0 |
80 0 |
| Totals £ 139 |
£ 80 |
| Total CAP Expenditure £ 27,198 |
£ 24,198 |
| Net Movement in year -£ 3,042 |
£ 3,516 |
| CAP Funds Balance 01-Jan £ 23,847 CAP Funds Balance 31-Dec £ 20,805 |
£ 20,332 £ 23,847 |
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R2 Foodbank Income & Expenditure.
| Foodbank Income 2024 |
2023 1,105 0 15,209 16,024 0 2,329 0 0 £ 34,667 |
|---|---|
| Foodbank Donatons (Churches) 1,554 Foodbank Donatons (GASDS) 0 Foodbank Donatons (Others) 7,683 Foodbank Donatons (Personal) 30,686 Foodbank Fundraising 0 Foodbank Gif Aid reclaimed 1,983 Foodbank Grants 0 Trussel Trust / Tesco Top-Up 307 |
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| Foodbank Income Totals £ 42,213 |
| Foodbank Expenditure 2024 |
2023 |
|---|---|
| Foodbank Church Insight 0 Foodbank Expenditure 6,293 Foodbank Premises Costs 13,346 Foodbank Salaries 3,566 Foodbank Staf & Volunteer Expenses 817 Trussell Trust Franchise Fee 360 Foodbank Expenditure Pety Cash 0 |
0 4,250 10,269 1,056 1,369 360 0 |
Foodbank Expenditure Totals £ 24,382 |
£ 17,304 |
| Net Movement in year | £ 17,831 £ 17,363 |
|---|---|
| Foodbank Funds Balance 01-Jan | £ 135,415 £ 118,051 |
| Foodbank Funds Balance 31-Dec | £ 153,246 £ 135,415 |
| Foodbank Pety Cash | Balance Forward |
Receipts Payments |
Net Change |
Carried Forward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Money from account (above) Direct Small Cash Donatons Food and items Spending |
38 | 0 0 2,337 0 0 1,678 |
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| Totals | £ 38 | £ 2,337 £ 1,678 | £ 659 | £ 697 |
Foodbank Petty cash is managed direct by spreadsheet separately from the main accounts. Full records are available for inspection should this be required.
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R3 Hall Income & Expenditure.
| Hall Income 2024 |
2023 |
|---|---|
| Hall Grants 0 Hall Hire - Miscellaneous 78 Hall Hire - Regular Users 15,017 Job Retenton Scheme 0 Shared Costs 167 |
0 311 21,440 0 245 |
| Hall Income Totals £ 15,262 |
£ 21,996 |
| Hall Expenditure | 2024 2023 |
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|---|---|---|
| Hall Building Maintenance | 6,828 4,662 | |
| Hall Electric, Gas & Water | 783 2,428 | |
| Hall Insurance | 586 1,043 | |
| Hall Operatng Costs | 1,319 1,744 | |
| Hall Staf Costs | 0 - | |
| Hall Expenditure Totals | £ 9,516 £ 9,877 | |
| Net Movement in year | £ 5,746 £ 143 | |
| Hall Funds Balance 01-Jan | £ 15,724 £ 15,582 | |
| Hall Funds Balance 31-Dec | £ 21,470 £ 15,724 |
It should be noted the Hall fund is a Discretionary fund and as such Hall monies can be used by the PCC on spending as deemed appropriate. There is also a separate Hall bank account but this is retained for convenience only and no longer reflects the Hall fund balance. The PCC and Hall accounts should therefore be amalgamated and taken as a whole.
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Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the Parochial Church Council (PCC) of Holy Trinity Church, Ashby de la Zouch, on the accounts for the year ended 31" December 2024.
Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner
The PCC is responsible for the preparation of the accounts and it considers that an audit is not required for this year under section 744 of the Charities Act 2011 {the Charities Act} and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility:
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to examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
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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
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to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent Examiner's statement
My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the PCC 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 PCC 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:
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which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material aspect the requirements.
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to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act, and
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to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act
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have not been met, nor
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to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts can be reached.
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