**==> picture [202 x 50] intentionally omitted <==** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 01/01/2023 **Period start date To** 31/12/2023 **Period end date** **Charity name:** The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Christ Church, Alsager ## **Charity registration number: 1131298** ## **Objectives and Activities** |**Objectives and Activities**||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |**Summary of the purposes of**
**the charity as set out in its**
**governing document**|Para 1.17|The Parochial Church Council of Christ Church,
Alsager exists to:
1. Enable the church to play its part in God’s
mission to his world;
2. Co-operate with the minister in sharing
leadership;
3. Ensure legal compliance with charity law and
ecclesiastical law, in particular in the areas of
finance, employment and appointments;
4. Care for the buildings and churchyard so that
they may be best suited for the purpose of the
church’s ministry and mission;
5. Be a channel of consultation within the wider
Church through its synodical structures on
matters that affect the Church locally and
nationally.| |**Summary of the main**
**activities in relation to those**
**purposes for the public**
**benefit, in particular, the**
**activities, projects or services**
**identified in the accounts.**|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Regular public worship open to all; the provision
of sacred space for personal prayer and
contemplation; pastoral work including visiting
the sick and the bereaved; teaching of
Christianity through sermons; courses and small
groups; taking of religious assemblies in schools
and for schools in the church worship space; the
provision of youth clubs, children’s clubs and a
parent/carer and toddler group both with a
Christian Ethos; Promotion of Christianity
through the staging of events and meetings and
the distribution of literature; Promoting the
whole mission of the Church through provision
of activities for senior citizens, parents and
children and other fellowship/worship groups;
supporting other charities in the UK and
overseas.| |**Statement confirming**
**whether the trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission onpublic benefit**|Para 1.18|No| Page **1** of **8** **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 **Policy on grant making** Para 1.38 **Policy on social investment including program related investment** Para 1.38 **Contribution made by volunteers Other** ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity,**
**identifying the difference the**
**charity’s work has made to**
**the circumstances of its**
**beneficiaries and any wider**
**benefits to society as a**
**whole.**|Para 1.20|Full details are available in our Annual Report
which can accessed at
(http://www.christchurchalsager.uk/annual-
report.html)
In April, The Bishop of Stockport presided at our
confirmation service, with 78 people in attendance
(including 4 children). Six candidates were
confirmed (one 14 year old, one 19 year old and
four aged between 25 and 67).
In November, The Bishop of Chester appointed our
curate, The Reverend Sister Heather Susan
Kemball, to be Curate-in-Charge of the parish of All
Saints, Church Lawton in the Deanery of Congleton.
Church members getting confirmed; those who are
confirmed being called into ordained ministry; and
those who are ordained moving on to be church
leaders elsewhere are all signs of a healthy church
(although no church is ever perfect!). Healthy
churches also recognise that we all need to be
growing on our frontlines (that is the places where
we spend most of our time and the people with
whom we engaged with the most) to enable us to
grow into the people Jesus intends us to be, so we
can beargood fruit for him. That’s whyI love our| Page **2** of **8** ‘frontlines selfies board’ in the church hall that was populated in January. Once again, this year’s annual report gives an insight into the breadth and depth of the mission and ministry of Christ Church. It needs to be acknowledged that we couldn’t do the things mentioned without the support of our volunteer workforce. Many thanks to every one of you. The cost of living crisis continued through 2023 and many people have turned to the church to support them with warm spaces and health meals at Tea on Tuesday and Messy Church. Big Breakfast on Mondays continues to be popular community space for all ages. The challenge that we have is finding grants to enable use to fund our ministry and community activities, with more organisations competing for few and often smaller grants. Our grants to our mission partners locally and overseas are essential for the communities they support. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |**Achievements against**
**objectives set**|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |**Performance of fundraising**
**activities against objectives**
**set**|Para 1.41|| |**Investment performance**
**against objectives**|Para 1.41|| |**Other**||| ## **Financial Review** Page **3** of **8** |**Review of the charity’s**
**financial position at the end of**
**theperiod**|Para 1.21|Receipts: £226,313, payments £222,999. Net
assets: £178,949| |---|---|---| |**Statement explaining the**
**policy for holding reserves**
**stating why they are held**|Para 1.22|It is PCC policy to maintain a balance on
unrestricted funds (if possible) of approximately
3 months average expenditure| |**Amount of reserves held**|Para 1.22|£50,000| |**Reasons for holding zero**
**reserves**|Para 1.22|| |**Details of fund materially in**
**deficit**|Para 1.24|None| |**Explanation of any**
**uncertainties about the charity**
**continuing as agoing concern**|Para 1.23|Expected reduction of grant income; reduced
fees income.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal sources
of funds (including any
fundraising)|Para 1.47|Donations from congregation, fees and grants.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any social
investment policy adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Reduction in principal sources of income.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |**Description of charity’s**
**trusts:**||| |---|---|---| |**Type of governing**
**document**
**(trust deed, royal**
**charter)**|Para 1.25|PCCs are governed by two Measures: the**PAROCHIAL**
**CHURCHCOUNCILS(POWERS) **MEASURE1956 as amended
(http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/Eliz2/4-
5/3/contents)and the CHURCHREPRESENTATIONRULESas
amended.
(https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2019/1/schedule/3)| |**How is the charity**
**constituted?**
**(e.g unincorporated**
**association, CIO)**|Para 1.25|Body corporate (see S3 of Parochial Church Council
(Powers) Measure 1956 above)| Page **4** of **8** |**Trustee selection**
**methods including**
**details of any**
**constitutional**
**provisions e.g. election**
**to post or name of any**
**person or body entitled**
**to appoint one or more**
**trustees**|Para 1.25|The Vicar is appointed to post and is a trustee ex-officio, as
is the Curate.
The wardens are elected by a meeting of parishioners and
electoral roll members and as such are ex-officio
members.
Deanery Synod members are elected by a meeting of
electoral roll members and as such are ex-officio
members.
All others are elected by a meeting of electoral roll
members.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |**Policies and procedures**
**adopted for the induction and**
**training of trustees**|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |**The charity’s organisational**
**structure and any wider**
**network with which the**
**charity works**|Para 1.51|The Parochial Church Council Of Christ Church,
Alsager is part of the Diocese of Chester within
the Church of England| |**Relationship with any related**
**parties**|Para 1.51|The Parochial Church Council Of Christ Church,
Alsager is a member of Churches together in
Alsager.
The Parochial Church Council Of Christ Church,
Alsager has a Memorandum of Understanding
with the local Methodist Circuit regarding
services at Oakhanger.| |**Other**||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |**Charity name**|The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of
Christ Church,Alsager| |---|---| |**Other name the charity uses**|PCC of Christ Church,Alsager| |**Registered charity number**|1131298| |**Charity’s principal address**|Christ Church Office
35 Church Road, Alsager
Stoke on Trent
ST7 2HS| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for wholeyear**|**Name of person (or body) entitled to**
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Vice Chair||Parishioners and Members of
the Electoral Roll of the Parish| ||Dr D L Fidal|Church Warden
Vice Chair|Jan - April|As above| ||Mr R Hewitt|Church Warden|May - Dec|As above| ||Mrs S Jones|Deanery Synod Rep||Members of the Electoral Roll of
the Parish| ||Mrs A Ward|Deanery Synod Rep||As above| ||Mrs Debbie Preston|Deanery Synod Rep||As above| ||Mrs B Steel|Treasurer||As above| ||Mrs J Newman|Secretary||As above| ||Mrs A Chatterley|||As above| ||Mr M Holland|||As above| ||Mr G Chatterley|||As above| ||Ms G Bowers||Jan - Nov|As above| ||Mr C Follett|||As above| ||Mr S Roberts|||As above| ||Mrs R White|||As above| ||Dr D L Fidal||May - Dec|As above| ||Mrs Alison Thomas||April-Dec|As above| ||Phil Follett-Laing||April-Dec|As above| ||Jessica Follett-Laing||April-Dec|As above| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**|| |---|---|---| |Rev Daran Ward (church and
immediate surroundings, and
church drive held on trust for
parishioners. Held ex-officio as
incumbent)||| |Churchwardens (plate,
ornaments and other movable
goods of the church on trust
for parishioners. Held ex-officio
as churchwardens)||| |||| |||| |||| |||| Page **6** of **8** **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets Page **7** of **8** ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**ames and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**ames and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**ames and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Rev Daran Ward **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**[Chair ] **Date** 25th September 2024 Page **8** of **8** **==> picture [518 x 39] intentionally omitted <==** ||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Receipts**||**2023**|**2022**|| ||Congrega(onal Giving|A|158,456|129,471|| ||Gi8 Aid Recovered|A|40,080|24,350|| ||Grants|B|32,173|25,496|| ||Income from Church Ac(vi(es|C|18,486|16,412|| ||PCC/Other Fees||14,902|16,464|| ||Miscellaneous|D|3,216|15,620|| ||**Total Receipts**||**267,313**|**227,813**|| ||||||| ||**Payments**||**2023**|**2022**|| ||Parish Share||71,757|69,667|| ||Salaries|E|77,240|70,076|| ||Clergy /Staf Expenses|F|5,820|4,635|| ||Cost of Ministry /ac(vi(es|G|13,847|13,763|| ||Church RunningExpenses|H|18,614|37,679|| ||U(li(es|I|14,363|7,064|| ||Mission Givingand Dona(ons|J|18,190|12,946|| ||Miscellaneous|K|3,168|1,235|| ||**Total Payments**||**222,999**|**217,065**|| ||||||| ||||||| ||**_Current Assets_**|**_2023_**|**_2022_**||| ||Current Account|12,989|10,476||| ||Business Reserve Account|96,015|55,119||| ||CCLA Account|22,402|21,706||| ||60DN account|50,350|50,000||| ||Accounts Receivable|0|0||| ||Cash and unpresented cheques|31|41||| ||**Total**|**181,787**|**137,341**||| ||||||| ||**_Liabili2es_**|**_2023_**|**_2022_**||| ||AgencyCollec(ons|2,838|2,708||| ||Accounts Payable||0||| ||**Total**|**2,838**|**2,708**||| ||||||| ||**_Net Assets_**|**_2023_**|**_2022_**||| |||**178,949**|**134,634**||| ||||||| ||**Receipts**
**Payments**
**Excess (defcit) to date**
**Opening balance**
**Closing balance**|267,313
-222,999|||| ||||||| ||||44,314||| ||||134,634||| ||||**178,948**||| ||||||| ||**_Represented by Funds_**|**_2023_**|||| ||Unrestricted|163,774|||| ||Designated|170|||| ||Restricted|15,005|||| ||**Total**|**178,949**|||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| Page of 3 6 ## **Further Analysis - Receipts** ||**(A) CongregaLonal / other Giving**
**_2023_**
**_2022_**| |---|---| ||Unrestricted
Designated
Restricted
Total
Total| ||Standing Orders
89,777
0
1,200
90,977
87,544
Gi8-Aid Envelopes
200
0
0
200
200
Non Gi8 Aid S/O
8,426
0
1,200
9,626
6,491
Plate
1,832
0
0
1,832
1,890
Messy Church Collec(on
158
0
0
158
315
Cofee and Communion Collec(on
141
0
0
141
10
One-of Gi8s - GA
18,110
0
550
18,660
22,375
One-of Gi8s - non-GA
33,056
0
550
33,606
7,168
All other giving
1,893
20
117
2,030
938
Churchyard dona(ons
0
0
1,226
1,226
2,540| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||**Total**
**153,593**
**20**
**4,843**
**158,456**
**129,471**| ||| ||**Tax refund on GiQ Aid**
**40,080**
**0**
**0**
**40,080**
**24,350**| ||| ||| ||**(B) Grants**
**_2023_**
**_2022_**
Unrestricted
Designated
Restricted
Total
Total| ||| ||Recurring Grants
1,050
0
0
1,050
1,050
Youth / Children's Grant
0
0
23,000
23,000
20,000
Other (One-of) Grants
2,848
0
3,475
6,323
3,546
Bibles for Children
0
0
1,800
1,800
900| ||| ||| ||| ||**Total**
**3,898**
**0**
**28,275**
**32,173**
**25,496**| ||| ||| ||**(C) Receipts from church acLviLes**
**_2023_**
**_2022_**| ||Unrestricted
Designated
Restricted
Total
Total| ||Hall Hire
9,704
0
0
9,704
7,988
Magazine
240
0
0
240
275
Solar Feed-in
4,003
0
0
4,003
4,288
Cherubs
523
0
0
523
596
BB@C
4,017
0
0
4,017
3,200
F2F
0
0
0
0
65| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||**Total**
**18,486**
**0**
**0**
**18,486**
**16,412**| ||| ||| ||**(D) Miscellaneous**
**_2023_**
**_2022_**| ||Unrestricted
Designated
Restricted
Total
Total| ||Sales
600
0
0
600
170
Earmarked Income
550
0
0
550
0
Interest
1942
0
0
1,942
400
Pension contribu(on repayments
17
0
0
17
203
Insurance payment
0
0
0
0
14,747
Sundry - Other
-291
0
398
107
100| ||| ||| ||| |Note 1|| ||| ||**Total**
**2,818**
**0**
**398**
**3,216**
**15,620**| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| Page of 4 6 ## **Further Analysis - Payments** ||**Further Analysis - Payments**||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**(E) Salaries / Associated Costs**||**_2023_**||||**_2022_**| |||Unrestricted|Designated||Restricted|Total|Total| ||Salaries|55,294||0|21,945|77,240|70,076| ||**Total**|**55,294**||**0**|**21,945**|**77,240**|**70,076**| ||**(F) Staf Expenses**||**_2023_**||||**_2022_**| |||Unrestricted|Designated||Restricted|Total|Total| ||Working Expenses of the Vicar|216||0|0|216|493| ||Youth Worker Expenses|384||0|0|384|559| ||Children's Worker Expenses|18||0|0|18|120| ||Administrator Expenses|0||0|0|0|18| ||Vicarage Expenses|3,943||0|0|3,943|3,292| ||Support & Training Costs|416||0|0|416|135| ||Curate's expenses|843||0|0|843|0| ||Other expenses|0||0|0|0|18| ||**Total**|**5,820**||**0**|**0.00**|**5,820**|**4,635**| ||||||||| |||**(G) Ministry /acLviLes**||**_2023_**||||**_2022_**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||Unrestricted|Designated||Restricted|Total|Total| |||Youth|2,059||0|88|2,147|2,734| |||Children|1,240||0|472|1,712|2,927| |||Children - Bibles for Schools|0||0|1,065|1,065|976| |||Messy Church|1,710||0|81|1,791|1,645| |||Cherubs|83||0|0|83|307| |||Upkeep of Services|982||0|0|982|1,499| |||BB@C|3,294||0|0|3,294|2,749| |Note|2|Tea on Tuesday|405|||1,483|1,888|0| |||Ministry & Mission|548||0|0|548|451| |||Evangelism (Alpha)|337||0|0|337|475| |||**Total**|**0**||**0**|**3,189**|**13,847**|**13,763**| |||||||||| |||**(H) Running Expenses**||**_2023_**||||**_2022_**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||Unrestricted|Designated||Restricted|Total|Total| |Note|1|Church Maintenance|1,090||0|0|1,090|15,831| |||Church Insurance|3,728||0|0|3,728|3,490| |||Churchyard Maintenance|891||0|1,226|2,117|8,478| |||Church Major repairs|0||0|0|0|0| |||Hall Maintenance|1,528||0|0|1,528|1,211| |||Hall Insurance|1,224||0|0|1,224|1,440| |||Cleaning Supplies|970||0|0|970|807| |||Payroll /Bank Charges|772||0|0|772|810| |||IT/ tech Equipment|1,460||0|0|1,460|2,218| |||Phones and Internet|974||0|0|974|1,029| |||Admin Supplies|1,718||0|0|1,718|589| |||Media Publicity|607||0|0|607|70| |||Other equipment|100||0|996|1,096|284| |||Oakhanger Insurance|1,330||0|0|1,330|1,122| |||Governance charges|0||0|0|0|300| |||**Total**|**16,392**||**0**|**2,222**|**18,614**|**37,679**| |||**(I) ULliLes**||**_2023_**||||**_2022_**| Page of 5 6 ||Unrestricted
Designated
Restricted
Total
Total| |---|---| ||Church Electricity/Gas
6,810
0
0
6,810
3,334
Church Water
162
0
0
162
160
Hall Electricity
6,511
0
0
6,511
2,893
Hall Water
421
0
0
421
319
St Luke's U(li(es
459
0
0
459
358| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||**Total**
**14,363**
**0**
**0**
**14,363**
**7,064**| ||| ||| ||**(J) Mission Support (Far Out) /**
**Grants to Individuals**
**_2023_**
**_2022_**| ||Unrestricted
Designated
Restricted
Total
Total| ||UCB
2,570
0
0
2,570
1,870
Oakhanger Project
2,570
0
0
2,570
1,870
Wyclife Bible Translators
2,570
0
0
2,570
1,870
CSW
2,570
0
0
2,570
1,870
Icfem Mission
2,570
0
0
2,570
1,720
Tear Fund
2,570
0
0
2,570
1,720
PCF Gateway Trust
2,570
0
0
2,570
1,720
**Sub- total**
**17,990**
**0**
**0**
**17,990**
**12,640**
Hardship fund
200
0
0
200
306
Grants to Individuals
0
0
0
0
0| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||**Total**
**18,190**
**0**
**0**
**18,190**
**12,946**| ||| ||| ||**(K) Miscellaneous**
**_2023_**
**_2022_**| ||Unrestricted
Designated
Restricted
Total
Total| ||Earmarked Expenditure
550
0
0
550
0
Deanery Expenses
45
0
0
45
0
Trading costs
0
0
0
0
0
Cost of Fundraising
25
0
0
25
34
Sundry - Other
2,635
0
-87
2,548
1,201| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||**Total**
**3,255**
**0**
**-87**
**3,168**
**1,235**| ||| ||| Note 1 These two lines in 2022 relate to the cost of redecora(on of the Church offset by the Insurance claim Note 2[Tea on Tuesday was awarded a grant, by CE Council in April 2023, costs were separated at that (me. The ] restricted spend falls within the grant monies. **==> picture [518 x 52] intentionally omitted <==** Page of 6 6 Independent Examinerfs Report To the PCC of Christ Church, Alsager I r6POrt on the accounts for the year ended 31 st Decemb8r 2023 which are set out on pages 3-6. Respective responslbilities of the Trustses and Independent Examlner As trustees of the charity. the members of the PCC are r8sponsible for the preparation of the accounts. They consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 14412) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to examina the accounts under sectlon 145 of the 2011 Act foltow the prccedures laid down in the General Dlrections given by the Charlty Commissioners section 145(5llb) of the 2011 Act and stat8 whether particular mattars have come to my attention. Ba818 of independent examlner's roport My examination was Carried out in accordancè with the General Dir8Ctlons given by th& Charity Commission. An axamination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the Charity and a comparison of th8 accounts presented with those records. It also Includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures In the accounts. and seeking explanations from the management committee concerning such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be requirgd in a full audit. and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on th8 accounts. Independent examlnerfs statement In connection with my 8xamlnation, no matters have come to my att8ntion which glve me reasonable cause to believe that In any material respect the requirem8nts to keep accounting records In accordance with s.130 of the 2011 Act; or to to prepar8 accounts which accord with these accounting records have not been met," or 2. to which. in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed . IVy..(.oh/. Address:.........l%.. ...S.kI.Tr.%..... Date: . Xo MWGL I