Pa r ish of Padiham
with Hapt o n and Padiham G r een
(St. Leonard’s Pa d iham and St. Margaret’s Hapton)
A nnual Report and Financial Statements
of the
Paro c hial Church Council for the y ear ended 31[st] December 2021
Incumbent Rev. Canon Mark A. Jones The Vicarage 1 Arbory Drive Padiham Burnley BB12 8JS
Independent Examiner Mr. I. Todd
Ba n ks:CafCash Barclays Bank Kings Hill, St. James St. West Malling Burnley Kent. Lancs. ME19 4TA BB11 1NH
Registered Charity N umber: 11311 8 2
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Parish of Padiham
with Hapton and Padiham Green
Annual Report for 2021
Background
The Parochial Church Council (P.C.C.) has the responsibility of co-op e rating with the incumbent, Rev. Mark Jone s , in promoting in the ecclesiastical pa r ish, the whole mission of the Church as set o ut in the Mission statement.
Parish Mission Statement
We, God’s people of the Pari s h of St. Leonard, Padiham, depending on the Holy Spirit, undertake to Worship God w o rthily, and to proclaim the Good News of His love shown to us in Jesus, our Saviour.
We will endeavour to develo p spiritually and to bring more people to k now Jesus. We will seek to serve both our c hurch family and the local community. We will aim to work together with our fello w Christians both at local level and withi n the worldwide Christian Church.
Membership
Members of the Parochial C h urch Committee are either ex officio or elected by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting in accordance with the Church Representation Rules.
During 2021, the following s e rved as members of the P.C.C:-
Incumbent Rev. Canon M. A . Jones (Chairman) Curate Rev. C (Kit) W a lker Wardens Mr. R. Birch Mr. R. Smyth ( V ice-chairman)
Diocesan Synod Members Mr. J. Pendley Mrs. L. T r udgill Deanery Synod Representatives:- Mr. F.W. Birch Mr. G. T r udgill Mrs. K. Hudson Mr. J. D e ll
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Elected members:St. Leonard’s Mrs. C. Beattie 2022 Mrs. K. Proctor 2022 Dr. M Wright (resigned) Mr. A. Summers 2023 Mr. J. Sellick/*2024 Mrs. R. Pickles 2024 Mrs. M. Morton 2022 Mr. J. Addison 2023
St. Margaret’s Mrs. E. Geldard 2022 Mrs. K. Foreman 2023 Mr. P. Lamport 2023
Years refer to date when period of office ends/re-election.
- Denotes Church Treasurer ** Denotes Parish Treasurer
The PCC is a charity, which is registered with the Charity Commission and is governed by the Church of England rules.
Committee
There were 4 main meetings of the PCC in 2021. The average level of attendance at meetings was 82%.
Finance Committee
The Incumbent, Parish Wardens, those who act as Wardens at the daughter church and all the treasurers meet from time to time to discuss Parish matters, such as the Parish Budget, before they are presented to the full PCC.
Church Committees
Each church has its own Church Committee, reports of which are published separately.
Electoral Roll
The revised roll has a total of 180 members.
St. Leonard's has 138 on the roll 89 resident in the parish, and 49 non-resident. Since last year, 4 people are deceased, 6 have been removed, 2 have left the area and there are 13 new members.
St. Margaret's has a total of 42 members, 33 resident and 9 non-resident. There has been one death and 4 new entrants.
Fred Birch
Secretary’s Report
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There were 4 main PCC meetings held in 2021, two via Zoom and two in person. The main items under discussion at the start of the year were the Audio Visual improvements at St. Leonard’s and the then ongoing impact of the pandemic on our Parish. We decided at our January meeting to keep both churches open without people feeling obliged to attend in person. Later in the year we discussed Safeguarding and training requirements for all church officers, which were subsequently undertaken. Changes to Lay Ministry and new Youth Provision were discussed and these have been started in the second half of the year. After a visitation by the Archdeacon, we discussed a revised Mission Action Plan and items from this have either been started or will be started in 2022.
Richard Birch
Treasurer’s report (See accounts at rear of booklet also)
The Parochial Church Council (commonly known as the PCC) is the legal organisation responsible for our two churches. Each of the churches run their own accounts, with the PCC account used to take care of common expenses, such as clergy costs and payments to the Diocese, etc. It also receives income from fees, rent from our property in St. John’s Road and other outside sources. It is also responsible for the assets of any other organisation e.g. The Food Bank and Christians Against Poverty (CAP).
As last year, in spite of the problems and challenges caused by Covid,, I am able to present a positive report. However, before I report on the main activities of the PCC, I am going to refer briefly to the Food Bank and the CAP accounts.
The Food Bank account was set up at the beginning of the year with a generous donation of £10K from a local business. We subsequently received a few other donations, etc. totalling £405. (After discussions with the original donor, £5K was later transferred to the CAP account.) Subsequently, £453 was spent setting up the Food Bank and a further £649 was spent on the purchase of food. At year end, there was £4,272 in the bank account plus £30 cash
The CAP account received donations and grants totalling approx. £21,581 (£14,548). Salary and expenses of the CAP Manager totalled £12,471 (£11,864), together with administration costs of the CAP organisation of £7,200 (£3,600). An additional £482 was spent on food. Non income items were specific amounts given to clients from an organisation called Acts 435 with £150 still outstanding. The Gold account was set up to hold larger amounts of money (attracting interest) until it was required. The year finished with a total of £6,473 (£4,990) in the CAP account.
As you will appreciate, almost 70% of the PCC income comes from St. Leonard’s and St. Margaret’s churches. Fortunately, both churches were able to pay their quota in full £62,053 (£65,335) which helped us through the year. The re-introduction of weddings during the year was reflected in slighty higher fees £5,911 (£4,560).
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We continue to receive a regular income of £7,080 (£7,140) from our property in St. John’s Rd. and the income of £935 (£1,134) from advertising in our magazine is used to offset the cost of printing. Any revenue raised by the sale of copies of the magazine is retained by each church.
The payment that we are required to make to the Diocese was considerably reduced this year. As we are designated to be in a deprived area, we received initial grants from the Diocese amounting to £21,110 and a further grant in November of £1,118. This helped to reduce our Parish quota from £69,085 to £42.924 (£47,975). This year our Regular Weekly Attendance (based over 3 years) fell to 132 members (both churches), which means that we paid £523 to the Diocese for each regular attendee. The costs of our Curate -£19.407 - were lower than in 2020 (£24,565) due to his salary being transferred onto the Diocesan payroll in September.
Maintenance costs of £2,740 (£200) for our property in St. John’s Road were higher than anticipated, mostly because of unexpected roof repairs.
We continue to support our overseas partners (Alun and Debbie Burt) through Crosslinks, with a regular contribution through the year amounting to £2,396 Fee credits to the value of £5,516 (£4,594) are the amounts that were paid back to both churches following weddings, funerals, etc.
During the year the PCC made a grant of £1,000 to St. Leonard’s to help with the cost of Streaming services and also a grant of £3,000 to the Bishop’s Vision Fund. We withdrew £5,000 from our Church Investment fund and also £5,000 from our Deposit funds to help with the costs of our Curate and the two grants mentioned earlier. In spite of the withdrawal, the value of our investment account rose by approx 12%
In conclusion, the basic PCC account rose to £245,439 (£236,948). However, the introduction of the Food Bank and CAP accounts has increased our assets to £256,183.
At this stage, I would like to thank our examiner Ian Todd, for examining our extended accounts.
John Sellick
Soon after the Debt Centre was launched at the end of February, as we know lock down was instigated. At that time we had 2 clients. Since we could not visit these clients in their home CAP was forced to introduce a new way of working which involved introducing new safeguarding regulations and consultation with the regulator the Financial Conduct Authority. After a gap of approximately 2 months a way was found to start to engage again with clients and so the work started again. In the meantime local CAP centres either closed or their staff were furloughed. I was then heavily engaged in publicising our centre with referral agencies who also were struggling to find a way to help their clients.
However we have now transitioned from a wholly telephone system back to the original way of working which means meeting clients in their homes again. This has recently started with the easing of restrictions.
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Recently I have given virtual presentations to the staff from 2 local Job Centres and had referrals from them. We now have 30 clients actively working with us. Over the last 2 years we have helped 70 clients, a few from other centres in our region and 13 clients have gone debt free with others in the pipeline.
Most of our clients are struggling for food and CAP have set up an emergency fund to help clients with food, energy, prescriptions, mobile phone top ups and school uniforms. All this has to be done on-line and our centre has helped most of our clients with 2 or more of these issues. In addition I have been able to access our local food bank to help clients who are struggling. We continue to pray with our clients and share the Gospel.
We visited one client who was in a really bad way with mental health issues and at times suicidal. We helped her with food and energy and the Befriender took her shopping paid for by CAP and invited her to church and an Open Door centre. She enjoyed the church service and has made a few friends there. She continues to attend. Her mental health has improved, her debts are being dealt with by CAP and no thoughts of suicide now. She is now looking forward to getting back to work. Just one example of how CAP’s ministry can be effective.
Our current need now is for more clients and to this end Grahame Trudgill has volunteered to be our Community Links Coordinator and is talking to referral agencies and seeing our client base grow. We are also very pleased to have appointed an additional Debt Coach to work with me and see our ministry grow particularly in Nelson and Colne. She is currently being trained and due to start in June.
Finally as our centre grows the need for Befrienders increases. We are therefore making an appeal for people to volunteer for this role.. Please see me for more details.
Rev. John Graver
Curate’s Report
Even though 2021 finished a few months ago, I still remember this detail very clearly: the year ended better than it began. To move from those 12 months of continually changing rules and restrictions to a place of more comfortable normality has been a most welcome development. Restrictions or otherwise, however, my ministry has both continued and grown.
The most visible parts of a curate’s role are the Sunday services we take part in across the parish. These continue to be the ‘high point’ of the worshipping week as the days build toward each Sunday. The occasional offices have also seen an increase in my time. From January through to December I conducted funerals in church and at the crematorium; April 2021 saw me officiate at my first wedding (and two others since); and the summer saw a return to regular baptisms as Mark and I ‘cleared the backlog’. In 2021 Mark and I also covered our colleagues in the local area, quite significantly, for both Sunday services and other events due to sickness and leave. Over the course of the year, I have been given greater access to our church schools as the Covid situation improved. This remains, in my opinion, a vital role for our church to hold in this community as we take the opportunity to share Jesus with our pupils
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and staff. It is worth saying that the Parish Foodbank came into its own during 2021 with no small amount of help from our partners at our schools. That ministry handing out up to 30 food parcels per week toward the end of 2021 and finishing the year with Operation Dinner Out.
The installation of the new cameras and screens has enabled us to continue to stream services, and to a higher quality. There is always more to be done in this area and I would enthusiastically welcome anyone who wanted to contribute to the success of our online presence. We have also been able to stream some weddings, funerals, and baptisms.
On countless occasions through 2021 it has been the role of Pastor which has been most impactful. Far more than only supporting people through the obvious crises of life (illness, bereavement, relationship difficulties, etc.), it has also been through the joys of preparing people for a life-long marriage, seeing someone come to faith, or grow in their walk with Jesus, which makes the difference.
Rev. Kit Walker
Overseas Missionary Giving
Padiham Parish continues to support our Mission Partners, Alun and Debbie Burt , who serve with Crosslinks in South Africa. A total of £2396 was given by our parish in 2021. Alun and Debbie have faced many challenges with the Covid pandemic but continue to do a great work in Heideveld, a community deeply affected by the legacy of Apartheid.
Alun serves as rector of St Thomas Church and is keenly involved in evangelism and discipleship, as well as training apprentices for bible teaching ministry. Debbie spends the majority of her time at home with their four children, Likhona, Ilana, Malachi and Timothy. She homeschools Likhona and Ilana and is involved at St Thomas Church with Sunday School and women’s discipleship.
Last year Debbie wrote the following: ‘Despite the effects of sin around us, it is the most wonderful encouragement to see the Lord changing hearts by his word. Most of my fellow brothers and sisters with whom I study the Bible weekly, have family members who have or are using drugs. All have been victims of crime multiple times, several have lost spouses very young, all have been racially prejudiced, many have suffered physical violence. Brokenness is evident and yet the Lord is transforming them by the power of his Holy Spirit. Imperfectly and slowly, broken sin-marred people are being changed into ever-increasing glory. People are learning to love their enemies, angry tongues are being tamed, sin addicted hearts are learning self-control and racial unity is seeping through. This is not through any work we have done, nor any Oprah Winfrey self-help type programmes, but the regular opening of the truth of God, revealed in the pages of the Bible.’
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We receive a prayer letter from the Burts roughly every 6 months – paper copies are available at church or a link to the letters on the Crosslinks website is put in parish email. Please pray for them. We look forward to a visit from Alun and Debbie on Sunday 24[th] July 2022.
Rev. Canon Mark Jones
Safeguarding
After the uncertainty of the last 2 years, we are thankful that our youngsters and older members of the church family are now able to enjoy and benefit from our wide and varied activities.
All those leading our groups hold valid a DBS clearance that is renewed every 5 years in accordance with the current Parish Policy, which is available to all on the parish website, with a paper copy displayed on the notice boards at both churches.
Mark and I have worked closely with the Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser to confirm that correct procedures are followed and to ensure all policies are up-to-date, as well as refresher training carried out where needed.
Happily, there are no incidents or concerns to report with regard to Safeguarding however, I would encourage anyone with any worries to report them immediately to either Mark, myself, or the Church Wardens.
Claire Beattie
Deanery Synod
Burnley Deanery Synod met twice in 2021. The first meeting was in March at St John’s Church, Worsthorne. Lynne Trudgill was appointed Lay Chair. The main topic was Lessons from Lockdown – how we do church and be church. The Area Dean, the Rev’d Chris Casey, stated that churches had responded to lockdown positively and in many different ways, eg the use of social media. He said there are lessons to be learned, but this should perhaps be made a more substantial issue, as it might be useful to know what individual churches are doing or have done to exercise Christian ministry through challenging times.
The November meeting also took place at St John’s Church, Worsthorne. Our speaker was the Rev’d Sarah Gill, a church minister in Blackburn, who spoke about church engagement within a diverse population. She spoke with great experience and enthusiasm, firstly on knowing the context in which God has called you; then on learning about the faith of our neighbour and finally advised us to be honest, confident and true in all of our faith conversations. She likened faith to the Parable of the Sower, reminding us that if our faith roots are strong, they will grow even stronger.
Lynne Trudgill, Deanery Synod Rep.
Pastoral Group
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The Pastoral Team comprises Rev. Canon Mark Jones, LLM (formerly Reader) Lynne Trudgill; ALM’s (formerly Pastoral Assistants) Elaine Geldard and Grahame Trudgill, who are now licensed to the vicar, and David Edmondson, Eucharistic Minister and Server. David Edmondson and Julie Sidhu are now also in training to be ALM’s We also have help from our curate, Rev’d Kit Walker. We continue to meet approximately every 3/4 months to go through the list of Home and Sick Communions and discuss who is to do which visits. The team works throughout the parish, and with parishioners from other churches in the care homes, if requested.
Our aim continues to be to take communion to former members of our churches who are now housebound or in poor health, and those in care homes, once a month if possible. Visits were severely restricted all through the pandemic, and for some months we were unable to visit at all, although we could still keep in touch by phone. We are still mindful of individual care home rules and take personal precautions. Sadly, we have lost several people in those months, but give thanks for their lives of faith. As at December 2021, there were 16 individuals on our list, and several care homes.
I would like to thank all on the team on your behalf for the work they do in our parish.
Grahame Trudgill
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