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← The Parochial Church Council Of The Ecclesiastical Parish Of St Paul, Chippenham With Langley Burrell

2023-12-31-accounts

The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of

St Paul, Chippenham with Langley Burrell Annual Report and Financial Statement for the year ending 31[st] December 2023 Charity Commission Number: 1131637

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St Paul’s Chippenham

Langley Burrell

Contents

Part 1 Reports relevant to St Paul’s and St Peter’s
Part 2 Life at St Paul’s Church including Finance
Part 3 Life at St Peter’s Church including Finance
Part 4 Official Information

(Final combined St. Paul’s and St Peter’s accounts agreed by the Independent Examiner to be added before posting to the Charity Commission website)

Signed: ________ PCC Trustee.

Incumbent Report for Benefice Annual Meetings 2023 – Simon Dunn

2023 Rector Annual Report for the 2024 Greenways Benefice Annual Meetings 2023 was a massive mix of emotions on a personal front. Having “collapsed” at Christmas 2022 there was 3 months of waiting with reduced mobility for a full knee op and then just over 3 months “off” work recovering. This was followed by further recovery time and the year ending in a nudge from God to explore (and ultimately be appointed to) a ministry position elsewhere. Not planned at all! But certainly God is in all of it.

Pastoral support and “normal” priestly activities continued all year of course, albeit relying on zoom and phone calls and others travelling! And the wider ministry and leadership team we have developed stepped up to the plate even more than usual and have been (and are) amazing. We are blessed. This is shared leadership. Thank you and Bless you.

2023 saw a larger than average number of weddings as the covid factor continued to be played out. Nick Childerhouse offered himself to assist with the funeral ministry and has shared the load throughout the year. Baptisms have been average. Finance has been challenging, yet the reordering at St Pauls, and the planned ones at St Peters and St Nicholas, and the provision of youth ministry, provide good foundations to continue to build on. Seasonal activities and services this year recovered to pre covid levels and offer huge missional opportunities as we move forwards. As alluded to earlier, it was announced in November that we would journey an interregnum as after 12+ years Si follows God’s call to minister elsewhere. We give thanks to God for the past, the present, and the future.

Shalom S

Diocesan Synod Report 2023 - Julia Childerhouse

This year there have been three overarching themes at Synod:

Other things that have come up include

And we also celebrated the life of service to our Diocese as Lee Rayfield retired, and we welcomed the new Suffragan Bishop of Swindon, Neil Warwick

Chippenham Deanery 2023 - Phil Townsend

The Deanery Synod meets 3 times a year and the major focus this year has been a Mission Area Plan. Much thanks go to Julia Childerhouse who worked tirelessly in coordinating and fleshing out the proposal to get it in a suitable state for submission. It was subsequently approved at the Programme Board, with funding made available.

The proposal is for:

Chippenham Town Mission Area inc. St. Paul's, St. Peter's Frogwell and St. Andrew's

  1. United Christian voice in the town

  2. Shared opportunities

  3. Schools and community ministries, for which there is funding available.

Rural Ministry Support

  1. Shared links and support across Benefices

  2. Developing new ministries

  3. Connecting for some occasional offices

Deanery Admin Centre

  1. Virtual Hub for shared admin support, for which there is funding available.

  2. Network of knowledge and support

  3. Safeguarding support

Youth worker and admin hub role descriptions are being written.

The Synod receives regular reports from the Diocesan Synod and on EcoChurch matters but also other areas of interest are discussed.

Life at St. Paul’s

St Paul’s Church Wardens report 2023

As a church fellowship we have had a positive year with the church hall space being put to good use to serve our community and share God’s love with activities such as Messy church, Christmas Fayre, Light party, children’s preloved sale, Coffee Club and another West End has Faith concert along side our normal services. We have also rented out the space for a number of functions. The Church hall also continues to be popular to hirers.

We would like to thank those who continue to act as Warden’s on a Sunday. Thanks also to Andrew Rose who stepped down from the team this year due to a spell of ill health.

Thanks also to the Eco-church team who continue to oversee the maintenance and planting in the churchyard. Unfortunately we no longer have the services of the Community payback team.

The Quinquennial inspection was undertaken in 2023 and at time of writing we are awaiting the report.

This year we have unfortunately identified some significant maintenance difficulties which will need addressing as soon as we have the finance. The floors in the church hall have risen in areas causing health and safety issues with users which has meant that we have been unable to increase charges to cover the rise in energy prices. John Dymel has made temporary repairs to the window frames in the church hall this summer, and a number of people have painted those facing the road, however all the frames are at the end of their useful life and really need replacing. Thanks go to all who took part in that enterprise. The heating system for the church hall has required maintenance costing in excess of £500. The church boiler required parts (circa £100) but has since failed completely and at time of writing is still awaiting repair.

In November this year Simon informed us of his call to another church. We received this news with sadness but wish him well in his new calling and ask Gods blessing on him and Ann in their new ministry. We are fortunate to have a leadership team who are able to lead us through the coming interregnum and we thank God for His blessings over the last year and await with expectation the way He will lead us into next year.

Youth, and Schools Ministry Report 2023 - Rebecca Morrey

During 2023 136 different young people attended one or more of our regular term-time church youth (11–18-year-old) groups (Immerse, Spy, Ignite and God Squad).

We have seen lots of growth in our youth groups and we have seen more connections between different groups with more young people coming to several groups.

Including all our children and youth groups, and all the school Christian Unions, we have had contact with about 350 under 18s though the year. This does not include one off activities like messy church, The Hub or school lessons/ visits.

Youth Report SPY

Spy is a group aimed at school years 6 to 9 (age 10-14) which meets term time on a Friday evening. This group is for young people to come and have some fun in an evening filled with games, activities, lots of mess and a place to make friends. We also have a 5-minute slot where we have a discussion about topics which are relevant to them and use that time for leaders to share a bit of their faith.

We have had an average 34 to each session this year and 106 different young people, plus six 14–16-year-old young leaders over the year. As we have seen an increase in young people, we have had a number of adults step forward to help which has been fantastic.

A majority of the young people who attend were from outside the church. We have carried on seeing a lot of the young people who attend Sheldon and Hardenhuish coming to Christian Union Lunch Clubs I run after they have started coming to Spy. Also lots of families from here attending Messy church events.

Highlight of the year was having a silent disco as part of our Christmas celebrations.

Leaders involved in 2023; Becky Meilton, Charlie Meilton, Jonny Cooper, Robyn Byatt, Ness Cooper, Sophie Oldacres, David Owens, Jane Bailey, Joe Cooper, Tanya Withers, John Neale, Kadie Needham, Natalie S, Tim Sinclair

Ignite

Ignite is a youth church which meets on a Sunday evening during term times for those in Secondary school years (age 11-18). The group is made up from young people from St Pauls Church and a few from other churches or nonchurched young people. This group has links with Station Hill Baptist, with a number of the leaders coming from there who help.

This year we looked at a range of topics. We ran a number of series, 10 commandments, Jesus miracles, People in the bible – what we can learn from them, and the Youth Alpha Course. After Alpha we have seen some so the young people who were new, some of which had come with friends from Spy continue to come afterwards which is encouraging.

Once a term we have our social nights, where we do things like, pizza making, taskmaster night, Christmas parties, fire pit, prayer walks. At least once a month we have a young person’s band lead worship. Each term some parents coming to lead worship as well.

Ignite had 44 different young people attend over the year with an average attendance of 17 young people each week.

Leaders involved in 2023; Becky Meilton, Nick and Julia Childerhouse, Chantal Bryan, Charmaine Elkerton, Jonny Cooper, Joe Cooper, Sophie Lambert, Josh Hallett and Sophie Lambert .

God Squad

God Squad meets on meet alternate Thursday evening term time. The group is for those in school year 10-13 (14-18yrs). They have a chance to explore their faith and the Bible a bit deeper. The young people at God Squad choose what we study each term, and then each takes it in turns to lead the sessions. We looked at a number of things this year, how to live out our Christian faith when thinking about; relationships, the supernatural, drugs and Alcohol. We watched the program The Chosen for a term with time to discuss it afterwards, and lots of other things. God Squad meets in a different leader’s house each week.

18 Young people attend over the year, with an average of 7 to each session. Leaders involved in 2023; Becky Meilton, Elaine Jones, Sophie Lambert, and Chantal Bryan

Immerse

Immerse is for those who are in school years 7-11 (ages 11-16), during the 10am Church service.

We meet in the small hall, we covered a range so topics this year, from worldly topic like, poverty, the environment and war, to stories in the New Testament. At the end of September, we started a series which should take most the academic year looking at the whole story of the Old testament and how it fits together.

Throughout the year we had 34 different young people attend with an average of 12. The average number does not fully reflect the number of 11-16 year olds in the church, as very often there will be a few on the media desk, worship band, assisting the BSL interpreter or helping in Activ8, which we really encourage!

Leaders involved in 2023; Becky Meilton, Hannah Holden, Jonny Copper, Phil Townsend, Hugh Webber and Becca Childerhouse, Kadie Needham, David Owen for helping run it this year.

Monthly Youth Band practice

We had a monthly group meeting on a Friday after school for a few hours for those who want to learn play worship together. They can come with any musical ability, and just have a go playing together. The group has no pressure to play in Ignite or Church, but we have seen that almost all of them who come choose then to be a part of the band in some form.

We have had 9 different young people come, with an average of 6 attending when we meet.

Leaders involved in 2023; Becky Meilton, Jonny Copper, Joe Cooper and Julia Childerhouse

Youth Led Services

The aim is to have 3 youth led 10am Sunday services a year.

The young people plan and run the whole service and have complete control of what they do.

March – The young people lead the service looking at Women in bible July – Fashion Day

December – Nativity – gogglebox style

The Hub

In the summer we ran The Hub, which was three afternoons, when there was a drop in safe place, for the young people to hang out. We had a tuck shop, pool, table football/tennis, games, and crafts available. It was open to 10-18 year olds. Over the three sessions we had about 45 Young people attend, with an average of 22 young people each week.

Trips and One off events

Due to a smaller team, we did less one off events then previous years, however we did manage to a few things including a summer camp;

Satellites - We took a group of 14 young people (plus a few more came for day visits) to Satellites during the summer holidays. It is a new summer youth festival held in Shepton mallet showgrounds by Youthscape. We had a fantastic week, worship God, spending time together, and having lots of fun. Everyone seemed to have a fantastic time!

Ignite Family walk – In July at the end of term had had family walk up Cherhil White horse for all those who attend Ignite to invite their families.

Youth Alpha Away Day - In October During our Alpha course we had an away day where we went to Stanton St Quinton hall, followed by Laser Quest. We took 24 young people.

Schools Work Report

In both Hardenhuish and Sheldon secondary schools we run a lunch time club Christian Union. In both schools some of those who attend are from St Paul’s church, or attend SPY. In both schools it is about 50/50 split to those with or without a faith.

A normal session normally has a game or activity loosely linked to a topic, and then a 5-10 minute deeper activity or talk to get them thinking about a faith issue. Lots of time is given to building relationships within the group, and they need time to relax and eat lunch as it is there lunch break.

The Christian unions have a team of us from a number of churches going into them; they have consisted of; Naomi Elkerton (NWMA) Sophie Lambert

(Station Hill), Becky Meilton (St Pauls) Lisa Wakefield (St Pauls) and Dan Ovens (Corsham Baptist church) and Charmaine Elkerton

Sheldon School We averaged about 18 each week. And have had about 30 different young people though out the school year.

Hardenhuish School We averaged 22 over the year with around 45 different young people having come over the year.

Lessons

I was invited to go into Sheldon to do lessons as part of the relationship lesson they do in Year 10 once again this year. This consisted in 10 double lessons. I also went into Hardenhuish and did a few lessons with their GCSE year where they could ask any questions. Sheldon visited the church over a few weeks, their year 7 coming and look around the church as part of the RE lessons. They also had the had to opportunity to ask me questions.

School Church Visits

At Christmas we had Hardenhuish School music department held their carol service for parents in the church as well as their year 7s Christmas end of term celebration

Silverwood School also came back to the building for the first time since covid for a Christingle service before Christmas.

·St Pauls Primary school conducted their Christmas carol service in the church with the parents invited.

Childrens Ministry Report

- Créche (0 3 years) 2023

There is currently no ‘staffed’ crèche running during the church service. The facility is open with toys available for people to use at any time during the services.

- Sparks (0 5 years) 2023

Sparks is a church outreach baby and toddler group for children 0-5 years old and their careers. Our aim is to take opportunities to share the Christian message with everyone who comes to SPARKS through our actions and words,

we encouraging people to come along to Messy Church and seasonal Church celebrations. It is a popular group, run on a weekly basis and is very well attended.

Approximately 17 families come to SPARKS each week, (this equates to 24 children and 22 adults on average), almost none of whom regularly attend St. Pauls church. Over the last year we have seen 107 different families.

People like about Sparks is its free, no need to sign up, and people come of a few weeks, and miss a week without being kicked out the group. Which is why how many which attend each week can vary greatly.

Each week we have a craft activity, lots of toys for the children to play with, while carers can socialise with each other and we serve them each a hot drink. After an hour of this we have a snack time for the children followed by a bible story time and some songs.

We have seen lots of families from Sparks engage with messy church, Christmas fair and older siblings join Spy.

Leaders involved in 2023; Becky Meilton Simon Dunn, Ness Cooper, Mel and Mike Smith, Ann Showering, Ron Pool, Jacqui Dymel, Emma, and Eve Cale

Active8 Report 2023

2023 found us fully reverted back to our term time morning sessions.

Although we are small in number and cover quite a big age range the children enjoy coming over for their sessions which now includes the popular breakfast of toast, pain au chocolates etc.

The children really enjoyed taking part in the Eco Church weekend where they planted different types of seed in various places around the Churchyard as well as in the planters. Hopefully this year we can build on our involvement in Eco Church.

Over the year the children have been learning about characters from the Old Testament including Deborah, Gideon and Jeremiah. We have also learnt about different aspects of our Christian Character through the Gifts of the Spirit such as self control, peace etc.

The children have also been part of the Youth Services that have taken place over the year as well as sorting out and taking part in our Nativity which went really well.

A new group called Spy Kids began as a fortnightly group on a Thursday evening for school years 3-5 and is now a weekly group.

At present in the Church we do not have a large number of families although activities such as Messy Church and Sparks generate good numbers of families it is working out a way to get these families to begin to come to Church.

The Activ8 leaders are Ness Cooper, Gemma Durnell Mary Fitzmeilton and Faith Ward. We are also assisted by Cath Bartlett, Meinda Biro, Joe Cooper, Sophie Oldacres, Julie Townsend and Tanya Withers and we extend our grateful thanks to them.

Spy Kids

Spy Kids started in January 2023. The group was for children school years 3-5. The year started with them meeting alternate Thursdays and in the September went to every Thursday in the term time.

The group was fairly similar to Spy, but for younger children. It too had lots of games and activities, with 5 minute “food for thought” thinking about our values and faith.

We had 30 different young people attend over the year, with an average each week of 13.

We had 6 under 12-17 year old young leaders.

The adult leaders involved in 2023 are: Becky Morrey, Mary Meilton, Gemma Durnell, Ness Cooper, Joe Cooper, Luci Comport, Eve Cale, Hil Wilson, Jen Firth, Julie Townsend, and Hannah Holden

Messy Church

The Messy church team ran a few messy churches thought out the year, and also some family events.

All were really well attended, and we have seen families from Spy, Spy Kids and Sparks attend them. There are also families we are starting to recognise who are just attending these events.

Valentines Messy church

This was a part of the 10am Sunday service and was a part of our invite service, designed to invite people into church.

Messy Easter

Was meant to be held at St Nicholas but due to poor weather moved to St Pauls. Many families attended.

Messy Church – the environment

In July there was a messy church all about the environment, which coincide with the environment weekend ECO church was doing.

Seaside Messy Easter

Another invite service, so held as part of the main 10 am church service. we saw lots of Sparks families come.

Light Party

As alternative to Halloween. We saw 250 people attended! Lots of lights around the church, disco at one end and a few activities around the church. · Christmas Fayre – messy church activities as part of the fayre.

Safeguarding Report 2023

Julie Swales, Parish Safeguarding Officer, St Pauls Church Chippenham

Statement of commitment to Safeguarding :

We continue to try and make our group of churches places where all people are welcomed into open and secure communities that make known Christ’s reconciling peace. The Greenways Parish is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk.

Policies

The Safeguarding Policy and Domestic Abuse Policy have been reviewed and have been agreed by the PCC at its meeting in October 2023.

Activities

The PCC oversees all activities for Church/Young People or for vulnerable adults.

Safer Recruitment and DBS

The PCC is responsible for the safe recruitment of people wanting to work with vulnerable groups through the activities at our group of Churches. Throughout the year numerous people have been recruited to support those groups.

DBS Checks

As part of the safer recruitment process, where eligible, volunteers working with vulnerable groups have been DBS checked at the level appropriate to the role. Because the parish provides activities for vulnerable groups, the PCC members are also eligible for an enhanced DBS check. All current volunteers/PCC members who require a DBS check for their role have a current check (i.e. the check has been completed within the last three years).

Training

Safeguarding training at different levels is a requirement for all roles. All safeguarding training is disseminated by the PSO to the various role holders and a record of training is kept (but only if PSO is notified).

The PSO has recently undertaken Modern Day Slavery Training and disseminates information from the training body to the PCC/DCC.

Reporting to the PCC

The PCC was updated about Safeguarding matters in the parish at its latest meeting. Safeguarding is a standing item at all DCC/PCC meetings.

HOPE Annual Report 2023

This report covers a number of activities that have been labelled “HOPE”. The most recent HOPE project team was formed to drive the reordering work and to progress the HOPE vision. The first phase of the reordering was completed, and the aspiration was to complete a refurbishment of the church servery and add another toilet. Unfortunately, this was not possible with the resources (people and money) available. Therefore the buildings were “handed back” to the Wardens to manage the on-going maintenance.

The Hall Committee was rebranded the HOPE Centre Team to include the church (the name HOPE Centre had been introduced in order to help with grant applications) and meets virtually to discuss annual price rises, user issues with

the church/hall and other such items. Faith, who is accountable for the HR issues, is a member of the team. The team liaises with the Benefice Administrator on matters arising and reports to the PCC through Faith and the PCC Secretary.

The website was modernised encompassing the HOPE Centre within the first edition of a new St Paul’s website. However, ownership of the website has passed to the Benefice Administrator? after the web designer left St Paul’s. Internal communication of the vision for the HOPE Centre was started, with discussions with the PCC and a number of home groups but was halted due to the issues with church finances and possible changes to the St Paul’s Strategy (raised by Rev Si Dunn) taking understandable priority. Wider marketing of the HOPE Centre as a set of venues (small/large halls and church) has not been progressed due to resource constraints. It was hoped that word of mouth after events such as concerts, Christmas Fayre, Folk Festival etc would help to increase the utilisation of the Church. Use of the church during the Folk Festival for Morris dancing caused offence in some quarters and the PCC met to discuss any clarifications in the hiring policy. The outcome is yet to be communicated. The drive to maximise the use of the HOPE Centre is now driven through the auspices of the Finance Team, PCC and Benefice Office.

Opening the doors of the church throughout the week has always been a part of the HOPE strategy.

The Monday Coffee Club was part of this open-doors strategy. It continues to run weekly, welcoming both community and church members to meet over a complimentary hot drink, homemade cake and a chat. The Coffee Club team enjoy offering this service and hope to be able to continue as long as it is needed. A Christmas wreath workshop and Christmas Singalong were well supported. The Living Well Team from Age UK continue to refer people to us. People who attend have asked to contribute so a collection is now offered weekly which allows the club to run without drawing on church resources (heating aside J) This float is managed by the Coffee Club team.

If the church was open daily, it had been suggested that information boards on the history of the church, the benefits of prayer and reading the Bible (prayer corner) youth work and missionary support etc should be produced so that visitors could find out more about the life of St Paul’s. This has not been actioned until funding/resources are available.

As mentioned earlier, the further development and communication of the HOPE strategy was halted and its budget subsumed in to the general fund. There is no longer an endorsed “co-ordination” role through “HOPE”. Therefore it is proposed that there is no longer a need for a HOPE report. The Finance Team activities with the Diocese, the PCC accountabilities during the interregnum and appointment of a new incumbent will no doubt lead to a revised strategy for St Paul’s and will drive us forward.

Music Report 2023

We continue to be blessed with a number of musicians who are able to lead our sung worship at St Pauls. We continue to aim to be an inclusive group with only Keyboard players and music lead put on a rota. The rest of the team are given a WatsApp call at the beginning of the week for volunteers. This works well.

Both Andrew and Ray have had time off this year due to spells of ill health however by the end of the year both were able to rejoin us. Praise God for His healing. We have also had a couple of new voices join the singers and Joe rejoin the music group following a move back to Chippenham.

During 2023 one of the youth members lead several fund raising events to enable us to buy a new digital drum kit. Thanks go to Elod and to all who contributed.

Many thanks go to everyone who takes part in this vital ministry.

Prayer Ministry 2023 - Maddy Crook

We have a Prayer Team who offer prayer on a regular basis after Sunday services; we are a small group of people who feel called to pray with others. All the team are DBS checked, have undergone Safeguarding training and are experienced in offering prayer.

I would encourage you all to come forward for prayer whenever this is offered. However please remember we can all pray and I would encourage you all to pray for and with each other as the need arises.

The Prayer Chain remains a good source of support for more general open prayers. Be aware this is a more general list of people who pray. please ask

permission of anyone you might like to put on this list, and be aware of confidentiality.

If you have any concerns regarding safeguarding, please contact: Julie Swales: 01249 650837

Please do contact a member of the Ministry Team if you need pastoral or prayer support.

“Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.” Colossians 4:2

St Paul’s Church Mission Support 2023 - Michael Meilton

St Paul’s Church has traditionally supported Mission and the Church Mission Society (CMS) and Church Mission Partners with prayer and financial support. This has been historically through an element of the Church tithe, which has supported both the CMS General Fund and our Mission Partners.

Our Mission partners

Garry Ion - CMS Partner

After 25 years of mission and development work in East Africa and South Sudan, Garry has come full circle, returned in 2020 to his home county of Cumbria and city of birth, Carlisle to support his ageing parents, both of whom sadly died in 2023

He is currently working with the Diocese of Carlisle and their charity 'Restore Cumbria', part of their vision for innovative mission that is bearing fruit. Garry is actively involved in the Community Shed Project in the City, supporting and connecting with people on the margins.

Katia Rocks: - CMS Partner

Katia, our mission partner in Florianoplis, Brazil visited St. Pauls in February 2023 and gave us an insight to her life and mission .She continues to serve at the Vineyard Floria church sharing Gods love in the community around them and has access to the local female prison once a month.

Gillian Rose :

Gillian is a church Mission Partner in Bangladesh. Formerly a member of St Paul’s, she moved in 1995 to Bollobhpur Hospital, near the Indian border, as a qualified nurse and midwife. She is now the Nursing Director and is involved in the training of student nurses.

We should hold our Mission Partners in our thoughts and prayers as they give evidence of God’s love for the communities in which they serve and we continue to pray for their safety.

St Pauls Eco Church Report 2023

Steve Cozens on behalf of EcoChurch team

Overview

We give thanks to God our Father and creator through Jesus Christ our Saviour and the Holy Spirit our Sustainer, during 2023 your EcoChurch team assisted with

‘ Hands on work’

Thinking and promoting better understanding of the state of creation and our part as church, through

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The Light of Christ in all this

We have worked together to continue to understand the challenges that the change in our climate brings to our personal doorsteps and church communities, and how shining the light of Jesus Christ into topics around “eco church” will encourage fearless engagement going forward.

Diocese and A Rocha

We continue to engage with the diocese and the A Rocha charity.

More information on this is available from the Diocese webpages https://www.bristol.anglican.org

and at https://arocha.org.uk/what-we-do/eco-church/

Looking into 2024:

We will continue to press on towards an ARocha sponsored award.

• We will support the leadership team during the vacancy through ongoing prayer and hands in activities.

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Sharing plans and information

We will continue to keep church informed and up to date with developments through the notice sheet and welcome new volunteers to join us in working together,

Soli Deo Gloria.

Thank you for playing your part in the EcoChurch at St Pauls.

Church Membership Report 2023

What is the Electoral Roll?

In the Church of England there is a requirement to hold a list of a parish’s register of electors; it is the list of those qualified to vote at the annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) where the elections take place for: The Parochial Church Council (The PCC), and the parish’s representatives on the Deanery Synod.

The Electoral Roll is also our membership list, the number we can count upon as committed members of the Parish. Each church has an electoral roll officer and for St Paul’s and St Peter’s Langley Burrell it is Maddy Crook: Email: membership@stpaulsweb.org.uk

If you have not yet joined our membership, please complete a membership form which you will find at the back of church.

Membership of St Pauls, Chippenham 2023: 163 St Peter’s Langley Burrell: 38 Maddy Crook

St Paul’s Financial review

Background

We were unable to present to the Annual Meeting in 2023 any accounts for St. Paul’s for the year ended 31 December 2022, although it was very obvious that the church’s finances would need careful management to avoid significant financial problems from arising. At this point no bookkeeping entries had been entered into the Church accounting system since June 2022, although invoices had been paid.

A team was set up to look at the Finances in an effort to manage the situation. Initial steps to restart the bookkeeping data input by church members were unsuccessful and in July 2023 it was agreed we would engage Data Developments (who supply the software) to do the data entry for us. This proved successful and with their effort and input from our Finance team, the 2022 accounts were completed and signed off by the Independent Examiner in time to meet the 31[st] October filing deadline.

Data Developments have subsequently undertaken data entry for the year ended 31 December 2023. This has taken a while and we had hoped to be in the position to present a finalised set of accounts for this annual meeting. We are almost there, but at the time of writing, there are a few outstanding postings that mean the accounts are not yet totally finalised. We expect these remaining postings to be made within the next month ahead of the accounts being provided to the Independent Examiner.

The accounts are materially correct as of now, meaning we are able to provide an overview on 2023 and a draft Statement Of Financial Activities (SOFA) and Balance Sheet for the year ended 31 December 2023, together with a fund movement summary, all subject to these final postings.

Observations

The main observations on the 2023 accounts are:

General Fund (Unrestricted)

This all means that in 2023 the general fund had a surplus of £16k (2022: deficit of -£39k) after the £14k of Youth expenditure is transferred . This compares to a budgeted deficit of -£32k for the year, a significant improvement.

The General fund reserves stood at £20k at 31 Dec 23 (£4k at 31 Dec 22) after the £14k of Youth expenditure is transferred .

Hope Fund (Designated & Restricted)

will need to be made up over time through transfers of surplus from the general fund.

Property Fund (Designated)

Cash Position

We ended the year with £89k of cash, with £57k in our current account (31 Dec 22: £60k) with a further £33k on deposit at CCLA (deposit account).

Summary

As we cannot realise the value of the church hall and car park, this all means we are not yet in a sustainable financial position , with overall reserves excluding the property fund standing at only £5k .

In order to put our finances on a stable footing for the future we need to generate future surpluses in the general fund through a combination of further increases in giving, the sourcing of grants and making the most of our church and hall spaces to generate additional income.

Diocesan Loan

In the summer of 2022 St. Paul’s took a £100k loan for the Diocese repayable over 10 years to enable to re-ordering to be undertaken. At 31[st] December 2023 £85k remained outstanding. In discussion with the Diocese, they waived any interest payments in 2023 and agreed to a 2% interest rate for 2024 and 2025 with further discussion in 2025 in light of the then financial position of the church.

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Official Information

A District Church within the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Paul, Chippenham with Langley Burrell PCC Charity Number: 1131637

DISTRICT CHURCH COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT

for the Year 1st January – 31st December 2023

DESCRIPTION OF CHURCH

St Peter's, Langley Burrell, is an ancient Anglican Church building with origins dating from Saxon times, and, is one of two Parish Churches in the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Paul Chippenham with Langley Burrell.

The Parish is divided into two Districts, each served by one of the two Parish Churches, St Pauls Chippenham and St Peter’s Langley Burrell. Together with the adjoining Parish of St Nicholas Hardenhuish, the three churches comprise the Greenways Benefice, Chippenham (formerly known as the “North Chippenham Group of Churches”), within the Chippenham Deanery, the Archdeaconry of Malmesbury and the Diocese of Bristol.

St Peter’s Church aims to be an outward-looking and inclusive Church, in the evangelical tradition. The value of our inheritance is acknowledged, and we aim to retain the best from the past, whilst also being responsive to the changing world in which we live. Accordingly, the Church’s aspiration is to offer a blend of regular Sunday services which contain elements of traditional liturgy in an accessible form, and also services which are more informal and engaging for young families with children. Visitors and enquirers are always welcomed by our friendly congregation and leadership team.

St Peter’s is a small but viable parish church serving the local community. We are slowly adapting to change, while remaining true to our core values and

respecting our inherited traditions. It is a fact that we have an ageing congregation, with some less active than they once were. However, most show commitment to the church and do what they can to support it in many valuable ways: Can we claim to have the oldest church cleaner in the Diocese at 97 (part of a small team)? Lay involvement in leading services has ensured they can continue twicemonthly. The work preparing for these requires commitment: organising rotas, locating on-line talks and songs (we no longer have an organist available), and other essential tasks. We are sincerely grateful to those involved.

Our secretary and treasurer have taken on, between them, many formal administrative tasks to keep the church functioning, along with representing St Peter’s on the PCC. The District Church Council currently has five members, but age and illness have had an impact on the availability of some. There has been no lay chair of the DCC and the rector’s enforced absences in 2023 added to the challenges of maintaining a functioning church leadership. Average attendance at Sunday services was 20 adults. Only on three occasions were any children present at services. The last of these was a carol and nativity service when there were actually 12 children present, with most taking an active part in proceedings. Rev.Simon Dunn and Lisa Wakefield LLM dressed impressively as Joseph and an angel (respectively). A good number of visitors were there and gave very positive feedback. There were four weddings during the year and two baptisms; total attendance 567, of whom 53 were children. Additionally, there were three funerals and one celebration of life. The largest funeral was attended by approximately 320 people.

With a grade one listed heritage building to care for, fabric maintenance is a significant on-going responsibility. A quinquennial visit by the church architect took place on 22 November and we await the resulting report. Previous assessments had identified the need for pointing of stonework for which Ellis & Co produced the most competitive quotation of £6540. Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust has awarded a grant of £3k towards this, to be released only 1 when the full cost has been raised and the work completed and invoiced. Another problem has been water ingress from the lead channel between the tower and the nave roof - an area challenging to access. Two church members did some urgent clearance of rubbish from the channel and subsequently Ellis & Co have been employed to clear all guttering and to patch the South slope of the nave roof. Progress is being made towards replacing the existing

outbuilding with a new structure that will incorporate an accessible-to-all toilet. This is funded in large part by a grant from the Langley Burrell Parish Council that arrived in January 2023. The grant could be made because St Peter’s is an important destination on a new Heritage Trail - which should attract more visitors to the church. The Diocesan Advisory Committee have approved plans and the application has gone to the Chancellor for legal permission, after which the tendering process can commence. The project has proved unexpectedly costly due to inflation and the many reports from outside agencies that had to be sought, together with consultations and necessary permissions from relevant interested bodies:

A funding shortfall of around £30,000 is possible. The state of church finances is set out in the spreadsheet on the next page. We have benefited from the commitment to give regularly and reliably from a few, mainly via the Parish Giving Scheme. Occasional large individual donations have been appreciated, as has the church’s share of the proceeds from the annual village fete. We engage in all the above not for its own sake, but as followers of Jesus Christ and in service of the Kingdom of God.

Howard Morland

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Official Information

Aim and Purposes

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Paul, Chippenham with Langley Burrell is responsible for controlling the management, finance and the administration of the charity and to cooperate with the minister, in the whole mission of the Church; pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. The Council appoints and delegates to groups of people or individuals to help in carrying out its aims and objectives whilst keeping the whole PCC membership informed so that the trustees can accept, reject or amend proposals put to them. The PCC is responsible for St Paul, Chippenham and St Peter’s Langley Burrell.

Objects and Activities

Both Churches are committed to the Diocese of Bristol’s vision to create communities of wholeness with Christ at the centre. Details of St Peter’s ministry will be found in Part 3.

St Paul’s vision is to be “the community’s church” which reflects not only, our desire for the church congregation to grow as a community and for all to be actively engaged in church life, but also our desire to be a church where local people can come and feel at home at St Paul’s and regard it as their church even if they do not normally attend church.

The four strands of the community’s church vision to enable this to happen are for St Paul’s to be:

The Trustees have read the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission and are keen to engage with work that provides public benefit alongside our charity’s primary purpose of the advancement of religion.

In particular St Paul’s tries to enable a wide cross section of ordinary people to have opportunities to learn about the gospel, to develop their knowledge and love of Jesus and to live out their faith as part of the parish community. We do this in particular through the following distinctive ministries at St Paul’

To facilitate this work, it is important that we maintain the fabric of the church of St Paul’s and its Church Halls; and have good quality facilities available for mission, outreach and community use.

Structure, governance and management

The Parish of St Paul, Chippenham with Langley Burrell is part of the Ecclesiastical Benefice of St Paul, Chippenham with Hardenhuish and Langley Burrell (known now as ‘The Greenways Benefice’); although pastoral measure changes have not gone to the Queen in Council for amendment, we effectively, since the end of 2014, no longer work with the benefice of Kingston St Michael. The former ‘Team Ministry’ and ‘North Chippenham Group of Churches’, for all practical purposes, has ceased to exist. In practice this means there are just three church communities (The Greenways Benefice) operating with one Minister in leadership.

Since September 2015, when the agreed (at the APCM 2015) governance changes were implemented, each church operates under its own District Church Council (DCC).

These DCC’s function under delegated powers from the trustees and in guidance from a Bristol Diocesan ’scheme for separate representation of congregations’. ‘St Paul, Chippenham with Langley Burrell’, still share one Parochial Church Council, and this aims to meet, a minimum, of four times per year.

The Diocese of Bristol is the Trustee for the charity and as such holds the title to the Churches. The charity is governed by the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure 1956 (as amended) and Church representation rules (reissued 2020).

The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. Our PCC membership, since the governance changes in September 2015, consists of the Priest in Charge, our Curate, our Associated Minister, our Churchwardens, our elected Deanery and Diocesan Synod representatives and 10 elected members nominated by the two DCC’s (five from each DCC). To be elected to a DCC or the PCC, members need to be on the relevant church electoral roll. All PCC members are Trustees of the charity.

The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the Parish, including deciding on how the funds of the PCC are to be spent.

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Administrative information

St Paul’s is situated on the corner of Malmesbury Road and Greenway Lane in Chippenham. Its address is Malmesbury Road, Chippenham, SN15 1PS

St Peter’s is situated on the Swindon Road (B4069) and its address is Langley Burrell, Chippenham, SN15 5LX

Correspondence for both churches should be addressed to the Greenways Group of Churches Office at St Paul’s Church Hall, Malmesbury Road, Chippenham, SN15 1PS. Telephone (01249 444771) and email (greenways@stpaulsweb.org.uk).

St Paul’s website address is: www.stpaulsweb.org.uk

PCC Members who have served during 2023 are shown in the following table:

PCC Members for year ended 31st December 2023

Priest in Charge Simon Dunn Youth Minister `` Becky Morrey (Non-Voting) Wardens John Dymel Jacqui Dymel Secretary Vanessa Cooper Treasurer Rob Harvey Others: Faith Ward Howard Morland (LB) Hazel Sheldon Jane Humphries Michael Meilton Alaric Childerhouse

Members elected to Deanery Synod throughout whole year Phil Townsend

The Deanery Synod provides an important link between the parish and the wider structures of the Church of England.

Our Ministry team members are: Our Ministry team members are:
Clergy: Simon Dunn (Priest-In-Charge)
Youth Minster Becky Morrey (Youth Minister)
Licensed Judith Eckersley
Lay Ministers:
Kadie Needham Becky Morrey
Ron Pool Joy Webber
Lisa Wakefield John Moncrieff
Barbara Wood (retired) Julia Childerhouse
Nicholas Childerhouse

Stephen Cooper (Methodist Local Preacher, Licensed to preach)

PCC Business

The PCC is legally expected to meet (a minimum of) 4 times a year and as Trustees maintains an oversight of the finances. The Standing Committee may progress delegated business from the PCC by email or occasionally by meetings as required, between PCC meetings. The Standing Committee currently consists of the Priest in Charge, the Associate Minister and the St. Paul’s and St. Peter`s Church Wardens.

PCC Accounts – Control Issues

It was agreed in October 2020 that All St Paul’s Accounts will have five authorised signatories; (increased from four) these would be the Treasurer, the Churchwarden, PCC Lay Chair, Ex-Treasurer and the PCC Secretary. Any two of these must sign all authorisations i.e. cheques, transfers, standing orders, direct debits etc. Cheques which are written for one of these signatories or their immediate family are not signed by them.

The ‘Churchwardens 2’ account receipts are mainly church collections; most of these are paid either by regular standing order into the account or by the Parish Giving Scheme (PGS) which collects direct debits on the first of the month and then pays them in to the bank account by the 10[th] of the month. The PGS scheme also claims any Gift Aid due from HMRC and pays it direct into the bank account monthly. Cash collections after a service (including Gift Aid and other envelopes) are counted by two unrelated people at church after the main Sunday Service, and then passed on to the person responsible for the banking. They are then banked with the paying in information being e-mailed to the Treasurer.

Since October 2019 we have offered contactless payments as a way of donating. The system used is called sum up and any payments made are paid into the bank account within 2-3 days with a small management fee being charged for the service.

The Church Hall receipts are mainly from bookings, these are received and paid into the Churchwardens 2 account by the Church Administrator acting in the role of Hall Bookings Secretary. Paying in information is e-mailed to the Treasurer. This portion of the Administrators work is paid for by St Paul’s only.

Payments are made by the St. Paul’s Treasurer on receipt of signed invoices from the Administrator.

Langley Burrell’s activities are reported to the Charity’s Treasurer and monthly along with the bank statements. This is so that they can berecorded and reconciled on the Treasurer’s computer; the Treasurer currently acts as the Gift Aid Secretary and therefore is able to reclaim the tax using this information. Langley Burrell has one current bank account with NatWest. In addition a CBF deposit account was opened in 2009 for their reserves. This account is operated by post for paying in and for withdrawals. Withdrawals are paid direct into the current bank account at NatWest.

The Treasurer’s computerised accounts system is backed up monthly onto OneDrive for safe keeping. Similarly the Gift Aid Secretary’s computerised donations system is also backed up monthly.

Benefice Accounts

Involved in the day to day running of the churches are payments relating to the three churches in the benefice, mainly to do with the clergy. These payments are made out of St Paul’s account and then are split by the previous year’s attendance ratios. Langley Burrell pay a monthly standing order and Hardenhuish pay an annual cheque after being invoiced with any further money owing (or excess) paid by cheque after the year-end Accounts have been prepared.

Staff

There is one part time member of staff, one full time staff and 1 cleaner doing ad hoc hours

The Administrator works 3.5 hours per week on St. Paul’s hall bookings, and 13.5 hours per week for the benefice.

The Youth Minister role is full time

Annual Accounts For the year ended 31 DecembeT 2023 The Parothial Church Council of the Ecdesiastical Par15h of St Paul, Chippenham with Langley Burrell Reglstered Charlty No: 1131637 Index Front Sheet Independent Examinees Report Statement of finanaal Activltles Balance Sheet Cash Flow Statement Notes to the Accounts 6-15 P•Je 1 of 15

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Tho Par¢Khknl Church Councll of the E¢cl•sla•tkal Parl•h ￿ St Paul. ChIP￿nh•ffl wllh Lanql•y Burr•ll Note l - Accounting Pollc108 GENERAL INFORIAATION AND BASk8 OF PREPARATION The PCC is an unincuporaw ¢hariM registered in ErrKI aNJ Wales. The address ofthe PCC is given and n￿re of the PCC'S operati(￿S and priW are set in the PCVS Annual Rep)rt Thg PCC ¢yJnstits a Publ￿ benefft entity 89 d•finod FRS 102. The finaThxd Statem￿ hav• been wepared under the Ctrtarities Art 2011 and in accordm with the Church AuxMJnting Regulatims 20￿ goveming the individual xcounts of PCCS. and rylh the R&JUlali￿s. Irue and fair together with A￿ntIng and Reporting ty char￿e$.. Statemert of Rec¥)mmon￿ Prathe a￿￿bI9 to thariti8s prepariNJ their ￿OUnts in ac4>)rdance ryth the FinaTrial Rwting Stsndard a￿rats￿ in ts UK and Rewblic of Ireland {FRS 102) issued in October 2019, the Fin8ncial Reixxtry Standard SP￿ble ￿ the Unitwj lfjngdom and Republ￿ of Ireland {FRS 1021 and UK Generdty Awted Acmmting Pri. Tho financial ststem&ts wepored to give a aThJ fail ￿ 8Th1 have d8PHrted from Ihe Charities (Accounts and Reports) RegulatNMs 2008 to extwtt required to provth a and fatr vi. This departure has involved fc41tyMng A¢ctyJntng and RerKJrtiTrJ by Charitses preparing their accounts in acCOrda￿e with the F￿anCIal Reportlng Stsndard aFpIKable in the UK and ReWbI￿ of Ireknd {FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014 rather than the P£counting arKI Reporthg ty Chaiilies: statem￿ of Re(xJnmonded Praclice effe￿r￿ fnjm 1 April 2005 has since wi￿ra￿. inelude cetsn items at far Va￿e. The finaThial SIm￿ aro wesented in stertirvj is Ihe fvnclional currency of ts PCC and round&J to the noarBst £ INCOME RECOGNrrioN Recognluon ol Incomo Incyjne is Inclu￿ kn the Statern￿t of Financial A(rfit￿ (SOFA) VI￿.. the infbw of e¢L¥￿IC benefft 15 prc&able', arKI Where income has related expendtture (as with fvndraising or ￿ntract income) the incorne and related expendiiure are rewrted gross in the A. Grants and donalJns are onty includ8d in the SOFA the PCC has uTrxnamonai ￿meffient 10 the resour￿. Tax r•clalm• on donth and 91ft8 Incorr* from tax r￿k￿rn8 k8 inclu￿￿ in th8 SOFA at the sm time as the gfft to which ft fetates. Grants •nd donallon8 relat•d grants Donatod 8•NIco8 and facHIII•• Tlwe are onty Inclu￿ In incane {wtth an ￿uWal8nl amount in exFendtlure) where the t￿efft to the PCC is reastyW quantifiable, measurable and m8teriaL The ￿u6 placed on these resources is the Voluntggr holp The value of any volunl8ry ￿1ved Is not iThSuded In the acuMJnts but the In&ees' annual report Inv•8tm•nt Incomo This ￿￿udeS gain or Ioss ￿ the sale of investsnents and any gain or loss resulkng frrxn fevaluwvj irwestrwts to Pair value at the end of the Pagg 6 of 15

Tho P•rochl•l Clwrch Couficll frfth• ECelM￿ Parlsh of Sl PauL ChIp￿nh•M wlth Lawley Burrell Yar•nd•d 31st D•e•mb•r 2023 ExpeNDrruRE AND LIABIUT Liability r•cognltlon obligatTh and settbennt ig probable WKI quantifiable and settlement 18 These rthde the ¢osts of the preparation and examination of statrJtDry ounts. the (xxts of trustee rne8tings cost of any legal advu to wKlud&J rylhin suppjt costs Thth fomB part of Charitsb￿ activtties of tr PCC. Previjjsty these classffied as'cAher expendI￿re, arKI they speafic of Ser￿ or ouWo be provKled, such grants are onty recognised in the SOFA on(x the ￿1p1￿￿ ofthe grant has prOv￿ed made and there are no c¥nditl>￿ to be met to grant tAthich remain in the o)ntrol of the PCC. SuP￿rt Costs e.g. alkKairwJ pYoF%rty casts by fioor areas, or pw capita. stsff ctssts by th8 time Sp￿t other oJ8ts ty their usage. A88Efs AND LIABILmE8 from the stattrtory definIb￿ of'chariif ty SectK)n 10(2> (a) and Ic) of the Charilies Ad 2011 assds are not caprtalisod in the firkgncial slatements. Tanglblo fflX￿ a880ts for u8• by TaNiLqo f￿j assets arn stated at cA)8t (IY deeTh￿l ¢ost) valuatx lass acoJmulJ de￿atr)n and xcumulated impainnent k>s88s. TW e captsls•J rf tPEy can be uwj ts mwe tt￿n onè year. and tst al kast £1.lJ(Q. They are vaued at or. if gifted. at a reason ite off the cos( less estimated resKlual value. of ￿ asset on a sYsteff￿ basis ts expe(d useful lrfe. Fixlures. fftb'ngs and equipment are desKwA'aknJ & 25% Stra￿h1 line. is 1￿ik11ngs, the remaning useful frfe of these assets 18 estiffl￿ at 20 ￿15 frorn 2018 An inpaimnt review carried at ￿r-end ar#J aiy resuttant Ic)ss idenufied Included h expendibJre yew. The far value of and is Oy)sid￿ at 1 yg8r end, and a d*ailed rev•￿8￿￿ is n¢vmaly ClXKlucted 5 yws (Fast r￿alUp)J In 2023). Py7of1S

Thg Paro¢hlo1 Church Coun¢ll of tho E¢¢l•slaslkal PartBh of St Pau4 Chlppmham wlth L•ngloy Burrnll Y•ar Ond￿ 31st D•cemb•r 2023 Inveslffttts are recr)Jnised initialty at fair value which is nornaly the tr￿S0¢1K￿ prKe exdLbding tyansactw)n costs. Subsequently, they arn mèasured at ts va￿￿ ryth ¢hanges rw)wnised in 'net gains l {k6ses) on in¥estsnts' in the SOFA IF the shares are publicly tradpjj or their fair value can be m8asured reli. Other investments are •.y m8asured at ¢x)st tess im￿1r￿￿ payabl• wlthkn one y￿r i&rvJ from imp31￿￿nt rwni8ed in expWKlTr￿re. FUNDS availabl8 ts use at the discretTh of the ttustees in furtheran￿ of Ihe general objeCtr￿ ofthe PCC arKt whrh Pove been denated lor other pur[￿. De•lgnatad fund• Des¥nated lunds comwtse unr8stricted funds lh* t•1 $8t a81 assets or for spending ￿ a firture The aim and use of each des¥Jnated fund 15 set out in the notes to the financial statements. Restricted funds are funds whth are to be us&1 in accordance spedk restrktw$ Impos￿ ty donors orwhlch have tréen raised by the PCC for wrFK)ses. Tho ctht of rak%ing and administering such funds are chw agwnst the ¥eific fund. The aim and use of each restricted fuThJ is Set out in the notas to the financial statements. are r8strthd fvnds that must retaingj as trust C8Pital either kwmanenty or subject to a discretionary poww to spend capital as income. and vrtwe the use of any Ir￿￿e or other benefft denved from the ¢aprfal may be restr￿￿ or unrestri(tsJ. Full dtitals of al the EndoMn•nt fund• GOING CONCERN The financial stateM￿ts FHve been Fwred on a going concem basis as the trustees telieve that no material uncertainties exist. The tfuste8S have o)nsKlered the levd of fvnds hebJ and the expected18vel of In￿Me and exrendiiure for 12 months from auttmyising tfv finan￿al statements. The budgeted income ￿ expèndrtura is sufficiènt wth thg le￿1 of reser4es for the PCC to be abb to ¢Ontsn￿ as a ping concem. Pap8ofl5

Planned GpiiThJ 111401 4.219 121.041 4219 89,215 22.￿ 111.￿ 3,459 2.088 8.388 8.882 3,425 Sundry Donations Tax recoverabkn on Gbl hid 10,456 16,875 13,028 VAT Re¢l8kn as L¢ted Bvikli¥J Leg•de8 61,921 61.921 138.782 197.152 10T.￿9 101.976 2Ce,045 Fees for￿eddIng8 and fil￿a 9.318 9.318 5.353 10.SC6 6,722 Fete and SI￿ar acmes Churth Hal L1 370 370 1.520 24,121 24.121 14,C&2 1.420 15,472 DWend$ Bank De￿it NC & other I Churth Hal Car Pa￿ Rent 158 123 153 1,817 1.817 3,7 2.554 3,590 Itwmn¢e fims 3,476 3.476 180,624 3.478 3.476 3,176 3,178 134.588 103.426 238,014 T¢>tal Income 58.4LM) 239.024 3. Exwndlturn l)vlThJ 3.160 3.160 8.111 8.111 3.1 8.111 c1w￿￿ A¢tsvit Wedding and Funw•l Expwws 1.674 753 7,789 50.517 80,733 1.874 791 7.789 50.517 eo.771 $01 9.870 501 9,870 Hall Running Exp￿￿08 Depreaation Parish Shar8 St8ffin9. saLqrl•s. p￿1￿. •xp Group expen St Pa￿6 Cterw. PCC oyroes Churth Bulding e41 Chur( Maintenance Churth rnajor repars costs Support ￿$ts, knc 8rt Int•ro$t payaL Gover￿nCe Costs Young people's Office expenses Hope I Churth Rettth 84.393 38.825 34,078 34.078 4258 31.886 4.7S9 11489 14.075 11489 14,101 12.568 5,214 4,320 1.293 1,381 13,949 5,242 1,757 1.291 (911) 1.293 (911) 2.924 148 2.537 4.147 2.537 255 1,079 137214 13.678 1￿.8 150.589 398,172 546.781 Co•t of gffi•rntsng lunrf• Grnnd t¢lJl• 189.851 13.676 213.527 219.471 W,240 815,711 P•p9c110

Tho Parochlal Church C￿￿¢￿ dth• Eccl6•la•lkal Parllh of St Pwl. Chlwmbham wlth L•wlry Burv•ll Y•r 31st D•GwnlJer 2023 Not• 4 . Support Costs The maln supwt I￿$t is £2,266 (2022: £2,083) fLY thg ex•ninthi {8e8 5.2) 18 8hcphn wilhln Note 5 . Detslls of certaln It&M of expendknrn 6.1 Trusts• •xp•ns88 Th18 yoar Last y￿r Totsl anM)unt ￿ld £ Thh yoar Last Independent examlnefs fws for reportlng on the accounts Undor pvovknlon pw•vlous y•4 Not• 6 - Staff Costs and Employee Benefits 6.1 Slaff Costs Thkn Gross wago4 Mlarles and benefits kn klnd Pon8lon Costs 37.367 1.324 34.573 1.248 Tolal ¢<ts No ￿lloYeeS af the PCC eam•Y over £eoK durirg th• y orw¥x y￿. P8r80nnd durtrfj the curmt IY y Th18 year Number Last ye•r Numb8r Th• parts ot charlty In whlch Fundrthl 0.25 Totsl Not• 7 - Grantmaklng 7.1 Totsl valu• of rants PuTpo8e for whlch grnnts m•d• i5siona 1ndrvldL￿I$ Relief and Deveiopm ncie5 ¢yne Mission e¢uiar Ch￿￿8$ Grants to ￿￿￿dUal* Total amount £ Total •mount £ 250 1160 Pallo 10 of 16

7.2 Gr4ntsn•klry ¢o•ts 7.3 Grants mad• ts in•tlts Totsl amount of grnnts pald £ 2.702 250 55 153 3.160 CMS- Ggnef Mer Shi $UK Wilt8hire Hk%twiG Churthes MissKf tar Charilies Nots 8 . Compar*iva SOFA . 2022 nd• D￿akns and legac4e8 107.L 101,976 14.052 Olhgr incfjmè Tolal incfyn• ExpenditUYg on.. 3.176 3,176 238.014 103A28 219.433 398210 615.￿3 68 61J711 R8i8ing FuTrJ8 Totsl e 219 Not 98￿$ l Oossesl on invest Not In¢om• I Itur• (132) 132 14 378 374 Gr(w tran819rn t•lWn fvr¥lo. Gross tMnsf0rs b•ts4•n fvnds. Olh•rrn¢ognlsod galns/(loss•s) Net m¢)v•ment In l)Jnd• 1132) 1378,3741 Total fund• 1 101981 (01.741) T15 P&J• 11 ￿ 15

Th• Parochlal Chur¢h COU￿11 ¢rftt• E¢¢10•kn￿l Parl•h of St Paul, Chlpponhml wmh Lawloy Burr•ll Noto 9 . Tangibh fixad assets 9.1 Co•t or voluatlon Other land & I￿lIdIng& Total oqulpmont Balance bro￿ht lo￿￿ Additions Disposals Revaluations Balance carried fO￿Ard 175 282 Usefvl Ltle 20 SL 25.00% Impaimient provi￿On8 Revaluatmjns Charp ftK the year 1,577 48,383 9.3 Not book valu• Brought forward Carried for4vard 702,088 5,611 707,699 484,034 9.4 Rwaluadon The buikling8 (churth hall and ￿r park) wwe revalued in 2023 to fair value of £480.000 folltrwing an extemal valL￿tion by Strakw¥ Chartw&J Supwors. The fair vah will be r￿Sses￿ at each year end. The next full reValu￿On tyll take place in 2028. Not• 10 . Investment assets 10.1 Flxod a8ry•t• Inv•8lm•nts FaFr (fflartet) value al begnnlrwJ of ye Add.. add[t￿$ to in8trnnts at c4)st L￿. disposals at earrying value Addl{d•duct): net gainl(bssl on rw4uatN Fair {marf¢ety value at WKI ol 423 10.2 & 10A An￿ ol Inv•8tm•nts 10.2 10.3 Not galn I 110881 on rwaluatlon Mark•t valu• at y••r •nd CBF Invo•1￿ by Lang* Burrell 389 423 Ptye 12 0115

Th• PaTrxhl•l Church Councl ofth• EKIthI P4ri•h of St P•uL Chlppnhn wlth Langlry 8urrnll Nots 11 . Debtorn and wepayments wlthln on• Th18 y•ar after morn than one Th1• yoar La•t ymr Oth•r d•btorn Prnpaym•nt• •nd Inco 7,244 3,21 S 3,226 Totsl Not• 12 - Credltoys and 4￿n￿lS AMty•l• ol ¢rndttor• Amount• falllry du• nM)r• than on• ymr Th1• y•ar Last y•ar wlthln on• ymr Th1• y•ar La•t y•ar Loan• •nd ov•vdr Trnd• Cr￿110￿ Oth•r Crndltorn Accru•l• and d•f•rr•d Incom• 10.L ,77 20.000 75,002 Tolal An unI￿red loan of £100,000 TWa8 rxelvod In 2022 from th• Bfi8tol t)kx•an Bcwd of Flnance to 8UPPOrt reorderlng xtfr4lttes. Th loan 18 repayable over 10 ith interest payable ba81 on a 8cheduled porc•ntaga each month. The Intsrest Schedule was r•negotstsd in 2023, rejultsw in no Intsrest bekng due in 2023 and futuro perLYJntage8 alw redulxl. A• •t 31 0￿4mber 2W23 the amount repvffjblo £85,022. Not• 13 - Fund• of tho charlty 13.1 Fund• h•ld Fund Nam• General Kitchen Typ• Unrestricted Desi nated Desi naled Desi natod De81 nated Restricted Restrycted Restricted R••trict•d Restrthd Restrthj General For kitchen fftts. 8 and ent Holds churc hall and car rk asts '￿t to install W.C. and 8erye in churth buikli 'ect to make reater u88 of the church tr￿Ildi Pro to install W.C. and in church buikdi For Church flov provis￿ of Sunda services endvhinorrt intef•St R• Ir• to th• t¢wMr gnd b•ll# Maintenance ofthe church Ythjlh minis to make tuard$ ul W.C. and Serve HOPE for Commun W.C. and Se Flower Sunda Tow•r and B•Jl• Youth Minister HOPE for Commun reater u80 of the thurch buildi Fundin Buikli Maintenance Burrell Provisw)n of rnus￿ end(Yrnt interest End(ywmnts hold the Bristol Diocese Endowment for Su Maintenance R Maintenance Music 8DBF End Restr Restrthd Restricted Pemi. End. Pemi. End. Proparty fund YM8 (xeated in 2016 frrtho wrrA>g• of hL*Jing the church hall aThl pfirt assets. The8e abs8ts wwe prevKW held In the Gen￿81 fund. The Hope Desfjnated lund was (Y￿d in 2W20. It18 th8 agrwj ￿ndS d88v￿ hPCM in 2019 for tr P•Ae 13 of 15

The Pvoehlal ChuT¢h Councll dth• E¢¢l••la•lkal Parf•h o18t Paul. Chlppmham vAth LaNJloy Burroll 132 Movem•nt• of funds hold . currnnt Fund nam Fund Typo lan¢0 ¢ff Gw81 18,9fy) 180.624 1153.045) 389 Sul>Tot Kitthen Property W.C. and SeNery HOPE for Commun Su&Tolal W.C. and Seryery Sunday Tower and Bel Churthyard Youth Mini8ter HOPE for Comm D￿gnated Designated gnaled 702.088 10.565 70,000 (175.282) 480,000 10,$65 70,000 2.639 550 (4) 53,189 Restricted Re¥tricled Restricted Restrided 244 91 84,735 244 {1,412) (89.058) 2.492 5.878 {3,995) {10201) Restricted Restricted Restricted Re8tricl•d Maintenance Maintenance Re Musi¢ 20 <1) (1) sU￿TOtal 181,741) 675 (37. ln BDBF ErKI Survjay End Penn. End. p￿￿. ErMI. 100 Sul>Totsl T4)tsl Funds 723.587 239.022 (213,525) (174.859) 574.225 13.2 lA0v•m￿ oflund• h•ld. Fund 1Mlan￿ Incomlng Galn8 & und baknnc￿ clf Fund Typ• Transf•rn Genernl 57,522 134,588 (172,8651 (5451 18,90 SutsTctsl Kitch8n Pro W.C. and S HOPE for Comm s￿￿T0181 3,000 748.894 10,565 70,000 naled (48.￿) 702.088 10,565 70,000 W.C. and Sun Tower aTrJ Bdls ReslrKted {1) 244 25 125) (4.79n {391.413) Youth Kfinistsr HOPE for Commun Electric MaIntena￿e Maintenanc& Re 208,340 98.338 (84.735 20 20 p) (2) SutFTol BDBF End Pemi. ETr1. Pemi. End. (132) 675 Ify) T￿1 Total Fund 1,101, 238,014 (615.711) 723,587 Pap14rf15

Th• Parochlal Church Coun¢ll of th• E¢¢l•8la8lkal PartBh (rf St Paul. Chlpwham wlth L•ngloy BuYr•ll 132 Tran8f•rn b•lYMn furn18 In ts the year ended 31 Decmber 2￿23 there no betw fvr#Js (2022: £nil). Nots 14 . Tran8actlon8 wlth r•latsd partles l&1 Romuneratlon and bonofft• Amounts Thls y￿r Last yoar Non• 14.2 Loan• The Charity does not make loar to the trustees or oU)er rela￿ pari*S. Nam• of th• tntstsg or rel•ted Rolallonship to charfty Thlb yoar 15 of15