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Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
St. Clements Church
On accounts for the yoar
ended
31" December 2025
Charity no
(if any)
1131185
Set out on pages
1and2
Respèctive As members of the PCC, you a responsible for the preparation of the
rasponsibilities of financial statements. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not
trustees and oxaminer 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 seclion 145 of the Charities Act,
to follow the produreS laid down in the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission (undèr section 145(5Xbl of the Charities Act. and
to slate whether particular matters have come to my attention.
8asls of Independent My examination was carried out in accordan with general Directions given
gxamlner's statement by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the
a¢¢ounling 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
Irustees conceming 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 Ihe accounts present a 'true
and fair, view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the
statement below.
Independent In connection with my examination. no matter has come lo my attention
examiner's statement lother than that disclosed below )
which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any mat8rial respect,
the requirements:
to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the
Charities Act: and
to prepare accounts whi¢h accord with the accounting records and
comply wilh the accounting r8quirements of the Charities Act
have not been met" or
2. to whith, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts lo be reached.
Slgned:
Date:
2510312026
Name:
hris Burton
Relevant professTonal
qualification(s} or body
MA4T
IER
March 2012
(if any):
Address:
Burton and Company (Accountants) Ltd
76c Davyhulme Road
Davyhulme. Manchesler. M417DN
Section B
Disclosure
IER
March 2012
Give here brief dolails of
any items that the
èxaminer wishes to
disclose.
The accounting records are generally found to be accurate and free from
material error. However. updales in respect of how records are kept should be
considered going forwards. This will be discussed with the finan committee al
a later date.
IER
March 2012
**Charity Name St. Clements**
**CC16a**
**No (if any) 1131185**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date Period end date **For the period from To** 01/01/2025 31/12/2025
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted N funds**
**to the nearest £**
## **Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**Investment Funds**
**to the nearest £**
**Total funds Last year**
**to the nearest £ to the nearest £**
||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**10,995**
**12,435**
**3,221**
**-**
**389**
**2,956**
**50,000**
**1,098**
**12,576**
**1,650**
**1,835**
**2,051**
**11,622**
**114**
**10,947**
**13,047**
**623**
**102**
**135,661**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**135,661**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**741**
**-**
**741**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**741**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,995**
**12,435**
**3,221**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**389**
**2,956**
**50,000**
**-**
**-**
**1,098**
**12,576**
**1,650**
**1,835**
**2,051**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,622**
**114**
**10,947**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,047**
**1,364**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**102**
**-**
**-**
**136,402**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**136,402**||
|**Voluntary Receipts**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**|
|**Regular Giving**|||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
|Planned Giving- Gift Aid|**10,995**||||**8,361**|
|Other Planned Giving|**12,435**||||**20,388**|
|Other Collections|**3,221**||||**2,694**|
|Gift Aid Credited to Parish Share Account|**-**||||**-**|
|||||||
|**Other Voluntary Receipts**||||||
|||||||
|Donations & Receipts for Other Charities|**389**|||||
|Donations for Water Heater|**2,956**|||||
|Legacies Received|**50,000**|||||
|||||||
|**Activities for Generating Funds**||||||
|||||||
|Christmas Fair / Autumn Fair / Winter Warmer|**1,098**||||**3,425**|
|Coffee Mornings / Concerts / Events|**12,576**||||**6,119**|
|100 Club Subscriptions|**1,650**||||**1,328**|
|Raffles|**1,835**||||**2,453**|
|General Fundraisingand Donations|**2,051**|||||
|||||||
|**Receipts from Church Activities**||||||
|||||||
|Fees for Weddings and Funerals|**11,622**||||**7,748**|
|Branch Church Room Hire|**114**||||**1,064**|
|Parish Hall Room Hire|**10,947**||||**13,568**|
|||||||
|**Investment Income**||||||
|||||||
|Rental of CuracyHouse|**13,047**||||**10,163**|
|Bank Account Interest|**623**||||**2,249**|
|||||||
|**Other Incoming Resources**||||||
|||||||
||||||**4,000**|
|SundryReceipts|**102**||||**172**|
|||||||
||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**135,661**||||**86,067**|
||||**-**
**-**
**-**|||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**||||||
||**-**|||||
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**||||||
||**135,661**||**-**||**86,067**|
## **A3 Payments**
|**A3 Payments**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,100**
**5,791**
**620**
**3,422**
**9,619**
**11,126**
**11,523**
**7,305**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25**
**2,338**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**378**|**-**|
|**Church Activities**||||||**-**|
||||||||
|Diocesan Parish Share|**27,100**|||||**22,741**|
|Gift Aid Credited to Diocesan Parish Share|**5,791**||||||
|Encouragement Scheme Credited to Diocesan Parish Share|**620**||||||
|Minister's WorkingExpenses|**3,422**|||||**4,423**|
|Church RunningExpenses|**9,619**|||||**-**|
|Church Maintenance|**11,126**|||||**15,250**|
|Upkeepof Services|**11,523**|||||**10,486**|
|Occasional Service Fees|**7,305**|||||**6,554**|
|Diocesan Historic Loan Balance Repaid|**5,000**||||||
|||||||**-**|
|**House Expenses**||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|CuracyHouse Expenses|**25**|||||**-**|
|CuracyHouse Management Fees|**2,338**|||||**2,198**|
|||||||**-**|
|**Fund Raising Expenses**||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|Fund raisingexpenditure|**378**|||||**-**|
|Refreshments|**118**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**118**
**600**
**1,088**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**901**
**350**
**13,956**
**1,959**
**514**
**696**
**1,108**
**-**|**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|100 Club Prizes|**600**|||||**600**|
|Moneyraised for other charities|**1,088**|||||**150**|
|||||||**-**|
|**Support Costs**||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|Photocopier|**901**|||||**1,697**|
|Independent Examination of Accounts for 2024|**350**|||||**350**|
|Gas and Electricity|**13,956**|||||**12,994**|
|SundryExpenses|**1,959**|||||**2,257**|
|Insurance|**514**|||||**8,166**|
|Legal and Professional Fees|**696**|||||**-**|
|Correction for historic cash balance error|**1,108**|||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**105,537**||**-**|**-**|**105,537**|**91,095**|
|**A4**|**Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
|||||||||||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
||**_Sub total_ **||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**0**|||**-**|
|||||||||||||||
||**_Total payments_**||**105,537**||**-**|||**-**||**105,537**|||**91,095**|
||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||**30,124**||**741**|||**-**||**30,865**||**-**|**5,028**|
|**A5**|**Transfers between funds**|**-**|**19,383**||**19,383**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|**A6**|**Cash funds last year end**||**44,199**||||**-**|||**44,199**|||**44,199**|
||**_Cash funds this year end_**||**54,940**||**20,124**|||**-**||**75,064**|||**39,171**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Parish Hall
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
CCLA Education Fund Account
CCLA Grants Account
Cash on Hand
CCLA Rose Window Restoration Fund
RBS Current Account
Weddings and Funerals Account
**Details**
**Details**
Curate's House (157 Stretford Road, Urmston) -
Currently let to tenants
CCLA Charities Investment Fund
Burton and Company Accountants Ltd -
examination and accounts fees
Church Furnishings (Included in inventory and
vested in the Wardens on special trust)
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**8,302**
**792**
**45,423**
**423**
**54,940**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Unrestricted
Restricted -
Education
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
Unrestricted|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**9,525**
**10,598**
**20,124**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**350**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Investment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||||
||||||
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||||
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Investment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
||||||
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||Burton and Company Accountants Ltd -
examination and accounts fees|Unrestricted|**350**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print|Name|
|---|---|---|---|
Date of approval
## **PCC Report 2025**
## **Aims, Objectives and Activities**
The PCC (Powers) measure 1956 states that a PCC ‘is to co-operate with the minister in promoting in the parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical.’
The PCC is committed to:
- encouraging more people to become disciples of Jesus Christ
- enabling as many people as possible to worship at our Church
- growing the church community across all age groups and backgrounds to become part of our parish community at St Clement’s
When planning our activities for the year, we have considered the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the supplementary guidance on charities for the advancement of religion.
We try to enable ordinary people to live out their faith as part of our parish community through:
- Worship and prayer; learning about the gospel; developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus
- Provision of pastoral care for people living in the parish
- Missionary and outreach work
## **Pastoral Care**
Helping and keeping in contact with others is a demonstration of our faith. During the year we have kept in touch with many members of our church community and offered pastoral care though the following:
- Visits and contacts by the clergy and laity
- Weekly and monthly newsletters
- House visits and regular service of worship at Manor Hey Nursing Home
- Regular prayer
- The parish website; A Church Near You web site and other social media platforms
- Social activities
## **PCC Meetings 2025**
There were 8 meetings of the PCC in 2025. Attendance of PCC members at these meetings was good overall by the majority of PCC members.
The following were among the major issues addressed through the year:
- Updates on the continuing application to the Charity Commission to free up funds from the sale of the Branch Church.
- Plans for the Confirmation Service.
- Taking time to reflect on what the PCC is called to do in the service of God’s church through the ‘PCC Tonight’ sessions.
- The maintenance of the buildings and grounds including: updating guidance to families relating what is appropriate to place in the Garden of Remembrance; sale of the Branch Church organ; the challenges of storage in church; tree survey; organising work mornings; repairs to the hall; purchasing of equipment that is safe to use.
- Updates on Church discipleship courses, including an Autumn Bible Study.
- Continuing to implement advice from Chris Burton relating financial procedures and practices. In particular, the formation of a Sunday count team.
- Management of 157 Stretford Road.
- Safeguarding updates and decisions necessary to meeting all our safeguarding responsibilities.
- Receiving updates from Deanery & Diocesan Synod.
- Support of social and fundraising activities.
- Annual accounts and decisions relating to finance and the parish share.
- Decisions relating to hall hire. In particular, meeting Trafford Council’s requirements relating to the types of groups which can meet in the hall.
- Appointment of a parish health and safety officer. Implementation of health and safety audits and fire risk assessments for the church and the hall.
- Appointment of Adrian Pearson (our church architect) to draw up plans for the renewal of the Rose Window.
On behalf of St. Clement’s PCC
_Rev. Matthew Carlisle_