2020-12-31-accounts

THREE IN ONE

A Vision for the third decade of the third Christian Millennium

Annual Report 2020

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THREE IN ONE

A vision for the third decade of the third Christian millennium

This is the title we have given to our Annual Report 2020. The title arose out of open Zoom meeting we held in January 2021 about the Diocesan vision 2030. We invited participants from the Kensington Council of Churches, Churches together in Notting Hill, Anglican communion partners in Mozambique and ecumenical partners in the Diocese off Berlin – Brandenburg. This gave us the wide perspective we were seeking.

At its heart lies the Holy Trinity – three in one and one in three. - expressing the conviction that at the heart of God lies relationship. Human beings, created in the image of God, are therefore built for relationship. The diagram on the cover expresses this in terms of interdependence, all centred on the love of God and in Christ which our interdependence relationships demonstrate.

We developed this diagram as a result of the Zoom consultation as it expressed un a better way for us, this central theological truth. The diagram which accompanied the Diocesan vision, though it had similar content, was in the form of a pyramid. Many felt that the pyramid has resonances of the old, medieval hierarchical Church which does not work for the 21[st] Century. The IICSA (Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse) report on the Church of England identified the culture of deference as a significant problem for the Church. We offer this model as a 21[st] century liberation, and one which is rooted in Scripture and Tradition.

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SERVICES AT ST JOHN’S

THE CHURCH IS OPEN DAILY FROM 8.30AM UNTIL 5.15PM

Monday-Friday

• 8.45am Morning Prayer 5.00pm Evening Prayer

SUNDAY

• 8.00am Holy Communion

10.30am Sung Eucharist (Once a month, an All Age format is used)

• 12.30pm Tagalog Mass 5.30pm Evening Prayer

• 6.30pm Choral Evensong – Once a month

Wednesday

• 12.30pm Holy Communion

Healing Service

A healing service, with anointing with oil and the laying on of hands, is held monthly, generally at Evening Prayer, and twice a year as part of the Parish Eucharist.

Farsi Eucharist

A Farsi Eucharist is held once a month, on Sundays at 4.00pm, as part of our growing ministry to Farsi speakers.

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Vicar’s Foreword

The Rev’d Canon Dr. William Taylor : Let’s start with a platitude- 2020 has been a challenging year. I returned from China in mid-January and at the end of January I raised the question in a clergy meeting as to what we were planning to do when the COVID pandemic arrived in this country. The question was swept aside. On March 23[rd] , 811 years to the day since the closure of Churches in 1207 the first lockdown was introduced by the UK government. This included the closure of all places of worship. We remained closed until July 4[th] when we re-opened for public worship. This of course created a dramatic fall in our income, both from the giving of worshippers (other than by direct debit) and from lettings. We immediately addressed this by:

• Furloughing our staff

• Negotiating a reduction in our Common Fund with the Diocese

• Appealing to our Electoral Roll members to give by bank transfer.

• Negotiating a new lease with Acorn Nursery (the previous nursery Monkey Puzzle, failed as a result of COVID)

• Negotiating a new lease with the Café at St John’s as the previous Café also failed as a result of COVID

• Rearranging the interior seating of the Church to make it COVID secure for whenever we were allowed to open.

• Applying to the Lottery emergency fund for emergency funding, especially for damage caused by the lockdown. We were awarded £36,700.

• Establishing a new wildflower and food growing project, together with the Filipino Chaplaincy and the Persian Anglican Community of London

• Negotiating new contracts for gas and electricity with 100% renewable sources and at a lower price

• Changing the telephone and internet supplier for a better deal

• Introducing new contactless collecting plates and a contactless donation point at the main door of the Church.

Going forward after the lockdown ended, the leadership of the Parish developed a robust theological position based on our being an open sacramental Church, serving the local community. This position rooted in the freedom of the Church to continue its lawful business has its origins and roots in the provisions of Magna Carta 1215. This helped us greatly to maintain our consistent position even in the second lockdown of November/December. Together with thousands of others we wrote a public letter to our MP appealing against the closure of Churches. At the same time, it was revealed that there was not one single reported case of the transmission of the virus in any place of worship in the 2 Boroughs of RBKC. We knew from the beginning that the provisions made in this relatively large space that we were one of the safest spaces to use- 100 times safer than any supermarket.

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Supermarkets remained open as people need physical food, but we argued that public worship is also essential as spiritual food, and for human flourishing and mental wellbeing.

As a result, we ended 2020 in a relatively good position, and more resilient to face the challenges ahead. In our finances the end of the year accounts show a deficit of £14,005 which we hope will not be repeated as a result of the measures we have taken. No Church or charity can run a deficit without the possibility or probability of bankruptcy. Our regular worshippers understand this and have responded, and our responding generously.

Staff Team

It has been difficult to meet regularly as the staff team in 2020 due to staff furlough and the two lockdowns, but we were in regular contact by phone and zoom.

As in previous years, we owe a very significant debt of gratitude to Tobi Iyanda Parish Manager and Misha Ibelgauptas Steward & Maintenance Manager, for the dedicated and hard work they do. The three of us work closely together and in “normal” times begin every week after Morning Prayer on Monday with a weekly operational meeting looking at the needs of the Church and those who use it for the week ahead. For the level of activities we now have, two full time members of staff is the bare minimum. The positive effect of their hard work is in plain sight in the counts for all to see.

Ecumenical Work

I have continued to carry out two ecumenical functions in 2020 – one for the Kensington Episcopal Area, and one for the Church of England.

Ecumenical Adviser to the Kensington Episcopal Area

My work as Ecumenical Adviser for the Kensington Episcopal Area involves facilitating contacts and work between Christians of different traditions on behalf of the Bishop of Kensington. These meetings took place in 2020 via Zoom.

Anglican and Eastern Churches Association

As Chairman of the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association (AECA), my work involves a national responsibility for the Church of England in furthering contacts with the Orthodox Churches. The AECA is the oldest ecumenical association of the Church of England, founded in 1864, and I am proud in this role to be following in the footsteps of my esteemed predecessor as the last Vicar of the “stand-alone” Parish of St John Notting Hill, Austen Oakley. Anyone with eyes to see inside the Church of St John will see physical evidence of its long and fruitful cooperation with Orthodoxy. We met in 2020 by Zoom, including the Constantinople lecture given by Dr Dragos Herescu, of the Romanian Orthodox Church on “Secularism, Orthodoxy and Europe”.

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Work in the Community

Windsor Leadership Trust

The Windsor Leadership Trust was not able to meet in 2020

Christians in the Middle East & Persecuted Christians

Throughout 2020, I also continued my work as a

Director of JMECA, looking after the interests of the four Anglican Dioceses of the Church of the Province of - Jerusalem and the Middle East, and continued as a Patron of Iraqi Christians in Need (http://icin.org.uk/) both organisations meeting by Zoom.

The Parish as a whole developed its particular charism caring for Christians who are persecuted for their faith.

Notting Hill Group Ministry

The Notting Hill Group Ministry of St John’s and St Peter’s, established in 2003, was dissolved in April 2020.

Standing Committee & Churchwardens

I often say that the model of shared ministry between lay and ordained in a Parish is modelled by Vicar & Churchwardens. It is most important that these three can speak regularly and often in an atmosphere of complete trust and confidentiality. This we are fortunate to have. We share news, views, hopes, and aspirations in a completely open way. We do not always agree, but we know that the mutual support that we owe each other is always there. Until September 2020, it was a continuing delight to work with Cllr Gerard Hargreaves (who became Mayor of RBKC in May) and Julius Cruz as Churchwardens and with Rosemary Warcup and Aaron Jessop since September. I am grateful to the Churchwardens for the solid support and wise counsel they always offer me.

At St John’s we have a slightly larger Standing Committee than is required. This is another manifestation of how we like to work in the Parish - by inclusion, consensus, and sharing the load. In 2020, all Standing Committee meetings (most by Zoom) have been open to any PCC member to attend, and this has resulted in new ideas and new energy. At those meetings, the papers and agenda for each PCC meeting are agreed, so that each meeting is properly prepared and briefed – with a PCC ready, when necessary, to take the informed decisions it needs to make.

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The Parish Church in the Community

We continued to develop and grow in our role as the Parish Church, by being open as much as the law allowed and by some live streaming. We have been slightly more critical of the benefits of live streaming than the current orthodoxy. Our analytics showed that the average length of engagement with livestreamed services was approximately 6 minutes. Many did not engage with it at all and as we emerged from the pandemic it would be very good to have informed theological debate about virtual Church and an independent study of how many regular worshippers the Church of England lost by the closure of Churches. We are here and remain open for the whole community. It is important for me that The Church of England appoints Vicars of Parishes not chaplains to congregations.

In terms of demography, Notting Hill has always been at the sharp end. A former Bishop of London used to say to me “Notting Hill is either a laboratory of the future or a genetic mutation.” To which I would respond “It is both!” Let me illustrate this. 2020 was the year of Black Lives Matter-1958 and 1961 saw the race riots of Notting Hill (St John’s hosted a meeting with Michael de Freitas or Michael X); 2020 raised the issue of affordable housing more sharply- the 1950s saw the phenomenon of Rachmanism in Notting Hill and the establishment of the Notting Hill Housing Trust in which St John’s was intimately involved; ‘diversity politics’ became more prominent in 2020 whereas diversity has been our lifeblood since the 1960s.

Shared Ministry

Everything I have written about represents a ministry which is active, and shared. St John’s is indeed fortunate to be blessed with its historic resources (buildings, grounds, and location) and its contemporary dynamism. This dynamism can only come from people, connecting in real time and real space with each other.

Thanks

So, enjoy reading these reports, and the commitment each report represents. I thank each and every person who works with us in this ministry and gives of their time and energies in a selfless, giving way. I see this all the time and thank God for it.

Laus Deo.

William

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Confident Disciples

Servers

Tobi Iyanda : The Serving Team continues to underpin the liturgy of St John’s by its dedicated service. We are especially grateful to the members of the Filipino Chaplaincy and the Persian Anglican Community of London who have supported the team faithfully. This link between different linguistic worshipping communities on Sundays is a special one and much valued.

The Servers make a vital contribution to the liturgy at St John’s; not only are they essential to the smooth running of the Parish Eucharist on Sunday mornings but they do the unseen things which make that service possible. Sunday by Sunday they come early to help prepare for the service and stay afterwards to clear up. We are most grateful to all who serve in this way and we would welcome anyone who would like to join the team and experience the liturgy in a different way. This is a lovely thing for children to do, so any parents with children who might like to serve should speak to a member of the clergy team about this. We are also in need of adults prepared to train as thurifers, acolytes and crucifers so if you would like to do this let the clergy know.

Eucharistic Ministers

Nemr Elias: This year Eucharistic Ministers were not as active as they should be as we were able to practice our role only in the first quarter of the year 2020.

The big challenge for us this year was COVID-19, not only for our church in London, but also for the entire world religious practice for all religions.

The decision to change the way we distribute Communion was correct to avoid spreading the virus caused by COVID-19. Hopefully, with the coming vaccine, we will be able to receive Communion the way it used to be.

We join the whole world in praying to end this pandemic as soon as possible.

As always, Thanks to Revd William for his usual and unlimited support. I would like to thank everyone for giving a high degree of commitment and support by being patient and adhering to the rules set by Government.

Pastoral Care Team

Larry Galon: Pastoral Care had to be practiced in a different way in 2020 as we were prevented from meeting in person, particularly in people’s houses. We attempted to stay in touch by telephone and by video conferencing which has been especially important for the lonely and isolated. The prayer list sent out by email has been helpful in informing Pastoral needs.

Junior Church

Amy Buckley : St John's Junior Church holds term-time sessions for the children in the congregation, as long as we are legally permitted under Covid restrictions to do so. Each term’s Junior Church schedule is posted on the church noticeboard, and the weekly newsletter highlights the Junior Church schedule for the current and following Sundays. There are no Junior Church sessions during All Age services or during school holidays.

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Junior Church uses Roots teaching materials. Roots materials are written by experienced ordained and lay practitioners from all denominations and traditions and are flexible and easily adapted to suit a wide range of patterns and styles of worship and learning.

We continue to run our sessions with a dedicated pool of volunteer teachers. The volunteers are grouped into "leaders" and "helpers" to assist with preparation and continuity for the teachers and children. Typical lessons include a reading or story from the Bible, a short discussion and a project or game. The Junior Church leaders occasionally bring the results of the morning’s session up at the end of the service, to display to the congregation.

We are hoping to continue to hold our art sessions led by Jenny Taggart and Jane Eve who work with the children to make seasonal displays, although it is possible these will need to take a slightly different format in 2021 depending on the vaccine rollout. These sessions are publicised ahead of time, and both children and adults enjoy seeing the children's colourful efforts on the dedicated Junior Church noticeboard in the Church.

The Junior Church team welcomes volunteers to assist in the preparation and delivery of lessons. No experience is required, and it does not need to involve a large time commitment. Donations of arts and craft materials are also most welcome at any time. Please contact Amy Buckley for more details.

Children’s Music

Hannah Reeves: Due to the pandemic, this year has been a rather quiet one on the children’s and All Age music front. With current government guidelines only allowing professional singing at services, there has been no congregational singing in the church since mid-March. We look forward to a return of the lively all age services involving children’s and whole-congregation singing as soon as regulations allow.

Music

Tom Primrose: Music has played an important part in the continuing ministry of St John’s over the past twelve months. During a time when most of our musical establishments have fallen silent and when much of our artistic experience has moved unsatisfactorily online, the continuing provision of live liturgical music at St John’s has been more important than ever.

In terms of personnel, we have said goodbye to some long-standing members of the music department, and hello to others. In the spring, we said goodbye to Francis Melville and Joe Derry, who are both now working as junior doctors in Hampshire and Manchester respectively. Both have a long association with St John’s, particularly Francis who has been our longest-serving choral scholar, joining the team back in 2015! Both were members of Imperial College Chamber Choir, and I’m delighted that we’re able to continue our association with that ensemble through our Organ Scholar and through Francis’s and Joe’s replacements, who we welcomed in September. Ben Miller and John Moore are both exciting young musicians whose contributions to the musical life of the parish have already been significant. We also said goodbye to our soprano scholar, Emma Louise Jones, who continues her studies as a solo singer, and also takes a new position at a church nearby. We wish her the best of luck. We welcome Lizzy Humphries, a familiar face as she sang with us a great deal over the autumn term.

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Various plans we had for music in 2020 were overtaken by the pandemic. However, we were able to continue providing music both electronically and eventually live, and ultimately maintained a number of our seasonal highlights, albeit in slimmed down forms. Both the Advent and Christmas Carols were huge musical successes (though with slightly smaller ensembles than we’ve become accustomed to) and our streamed Faure Requiem was a highlight. While we haven’t been able to make use of our relationships with local ensembles and Musicians in Residence, we look forward to welcoming them back when regulations allow. I have plans for recitals and concerts utilising all of our St John’s musical connections, and hope and pray that we may be able to enjoy such performances as early as late spring.

Our fundraising campaign which began in Advent 2019

had some positive responses for which we are extremely grateful. After the inevitable interruption of the coronavirus pandemic, I am still keen to pursue this campaign in the coming year as we seek to plug the funding hole left by reduced bookings during the pandemic. At this time when the music and the arts find themselves in serious jeopardy and musicians and musical establishments face ruin, we all more than ever appreciate the importance of the church’s music ministry. High quality music provision doesn’t come without a price, and concerts and recitals generally cost money rather than make it! So, I’d be delighted to hear from anyone who thinks they may be able to help contribute financially, and particularly to “Sponsor a St John’s Scholar”. Paying some or all of a scholarship fee is a really meaningful and targeted way to help ensure the ongoing security of the music department, and ensure our services continue to be enriched by music well into the future. Please contact me either directly or through the office to discuss contributing.

Welcomers

Caroline Sterling: There is a regular team of helpers who are Welcomers at services and who also prepare the service sheets etc. and tidy up after the service. I am delighted and most grateful that we have several members of the Filipino and Farsi speaking communities joining our teams. This is a wonderful way for the congregations to unite.

It is a pleasurable duty to welcome those arriving at the service and make sure that everyone is aware of the facilities we offer for children etc. It is also a good way of getting to know worshippers, regular or newcomers! If you would like to join us please ask any Welcomer, even if you feel you can only welcome on an irregular basis! Thank you to all Welcomers for being so flexible and adaptable.

There is also a variety of leaflets available which we are able to offer to visitors to help answer their questions, for example regarding the history of the church, the organ and our mission to the wider world and facilities we offer to children. There is also a leaflet for children to help them enjoy and explore St. John’s. During the pandemic, welcomers have played a key role in introducing worshippers to new guidelines as they have evolved and changed.

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Stewardship Advisory Group

Olakunle Babarinde: This was my first year as Stewardship Recorder and my overarching message is one of thanks. Given the unprecedented challenges faced by the church, the level of support has been very encouraging.

As we all know, stewardship is prayerful giving of more than just money, therefore without naming individuals because the list would be too long, thanks must be extended to everybody who gave of their time, effort and expertise. Thank you!

As I mentioned in my first notice as recorder in the spring, our regular giving had decreased by several hundred per month coming into 2020, and that trend did not change as the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic became clear. We did however begin to be blessed with giving of one-off amounts that occurred on individual bases and which may have coinciding with parishioners realising they were unable to attend church in person, which we gratefully continued to receive throughout the year.

In late spring the treasurer managed to negotiate a reduction in the common fund monthly commitment, from £8,341 down to £4,170 from May.

However, the declining trend stabilised and after the summer months we began to see growth in giving that was sustained and gradually continued for the rest of the year, resulting in a surplus against our agreed commitment to the tune of £4,562, summarised below.

Year	Common Fund Commitment Paid	Income	Surplus/Deficit
2017	£78,400	£75,490	-£2,909
2018	£82,600	£72,614	-£9,986
2019	£83,800	£89,107	£5,307
2020	£66,732	£72,379	£5647

A note of thanks must go to Amy Buckley, Ludovic Claude, the wonderful performers and everybody who joined the global Midsummer Nights Quiz on zoom. A worryingly competitive affair, and that's just speaking of myself, which raised a record £1,092 towards Stewardship.

In January 2021 the common fund commitment of £4,170 per month will be increased to £5,000 plus £1,200, which represents the sum for the residence of our Filipino Chaplain, Fr Larry Galon. The commitment for 2021 as it stands is therefore £6,200pm or £74,400. Depending on ongoing circumstances we will need to consider whether we can ring-fence the 2020 surplus and contribute it to the common fund, which could be unlikely given the progressive lowering of the level of our reserves.

But once again we give thanks that our parish in 2020 has been able to meet the common fund commitment wholly by our stewardship giving.

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Flowers

Elizabeth Marden: Simple flower arrangements have continued, but new ideas and styles would be most welcome!

Anyone wishing to turn a hand to this activity need not be afraid of the basic cost involved, which the church is prepared to refund; all that is needed is creativity, enthusiasm and time!

If you would like to try your hand, please contact Elizabeth for further details.

Intercessors

William Taylor: We have a dedicated team of intercessors, who lead intercessions with care and skill. The booklet of guidelines continues to be a sound basis for this ministry and is particularly valued by new intercessors. We always welcome further volunteers, and training is always given. Caroline Sterling assists with the administration of the intercessors list and encouraging new membership of the team. There is also the possibility to read set intercessions for those who wish to lead intercessions but do not feel able to write them themselves. New resource materials have been obtained – both books and internet links. We also continue to experiment with “dialogue” forms of intercessions between president and intercession leader, as well as intercessions which use music.

Readers

Elizabeth Marden : As services have been limited and congregations smaller recently, we have kept to well-established readers, rather than introducing and training new ones. However, we would welcome anyone interested and willing to read the first two lessons on any Sunday; all they need to do is to contact Elizabeth so that they can meet and go through the routine. (A training session can be arranged if wanted or needed.) There are still plenty of gaps on the list.

Deanery Synod

The Deanery Synod met by Zoom in 2020. dealing with such topics as mission and outreach in the Community and Common Fund. Constitutionally, probably the most important things the Deanery Synod does is to elect Governors to Church Schools in the Deanery and to elect members of the General Synod. Our Deanery Synod reps are William Salomon, Myrna Ocomen, Ofelia Magalit and Gerard Hargreaves. Deanery Synod members were elected at the Annual Meeting in September and are ex officio members of the PCC of their Parishes and serve a 3-year term.

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Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults & Confirmation (RCIA)

William Taylor: In 2020 we prepared 14 adults for confirmation, all of whom were due to be confirmed at St John’s by Bishop Michael Colclough at the Easter Vigil. Unfortunately, none were confirmed due to the National Lockdown in England. We hope that Easter 2021 will see the return of Confirmation services. We used the RCIA material again this year in the Anglican version prepared by Jeffery John, This is our Faith . It is a privilege to accompany adults on their journey of faith in this way.

First Communion

William Taylor: The Clergy and Pastoral team, together with Junior Church leaders and children’s parents are responsible for preparing children for First Communion around the age of seven. Children were due to be admitted at Easter 2020 but again this was not possible. We look forward to a date when it will be.

Baptism Visits

Hannah Reeves: There have been fewer baptisms at St John’s this year compared to previous years: this is understandable given that no public services took place inside the church for approximately four months throughout the first and second national lockdowns. I am pleased to report on the ten baptisms that were able to go ahead: two infant baptisms at Candlemas on 2nd February, six adult baptisms spread over two dates in August, and finally two infant baptisms at the Feast of John the Evangelist on 27th December. It was wonderful that, despite the misery caused by the pandemic, worshippers were able to gather and witness the beginnings of new journeys of faith for those being baptised, which I, for one, found a source of comfort and hope. The beautiful octagonal font in its prominent place in the church serves as a permanent architectural reminder of our own baptisms, where we were brought to true health as we entered a new life in Christ.

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Compassionate Communities

St John’s 2020 Financial Report

Richard Burnet-hall: 2020 will be remembered as the year that the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Almost immediately after the first lockdown started on 23[rd] March, all Church of England churches were required by the Archbishop of Canterbury to stop holding regular services. The numbers of people attending other “gatherings”, including weddings, christenings and funerals, were severely restricted by law. Consequently, none of the various meetings of groups that would have hired space in in the church proper, in meeting rooms, or in the undercroft, could take place. Unsurprisingly, the (as yet unaudited) accounts for the calendar year 2020 show a deficit of £14,005. Though expenditure was down by some £111,350 compared with 2019, overall income dropped by more, namely £144,000. Nevertheless, we were fortunate in being able to start with a sufficient level of reserves, and so this loss was manageable.

Income

It was heartening that stewardship donations held up remarkably well throughout the year. They kept pace with the 2019 figures until November and December, during which there was a second lockdown, and numbers attending the Advent and Christmas services were substantially lower. The major hit to income came in the general legal prohibition of “gatherings” of significant numbers of people, which prevented our hiring the spaces we would normally let out. In particular, the Monkey Puzzle nursery school could not continue to take a viable number of children, and after giving us a pessimistic report on its ability to reopen, we had no option but to terminate its contract with us for its failure to pay any rent from April onwards. We were fortunate in finding the Acorn Nursery School wishing to take over the space vacated by Monkey Puzzle, which it did from mid-August, so our loss of rent from the undercroft was limited to 3½ months.

Common Fund

Generating sufficient stewardship income to meet our Common Fund commitments is always a challenge and 2020 was no exception. However, we were able to agree with Mary Spredbury, the Diocesan Kensington Area Finance adviser, a reduction in our monthly Common Fund payments. With that help, we ended the year with a small surplus over the reduced total commitment. WE must nevertheless recognise that Diocesan finances have taken a heavy hit, and that we must play our part in restoring them, and not only our own just as soon as we can.

Other Expenditure

The main head of costs is inevitably the cost of those who staff it, none of whom can be readily spared. However, both Tobi and Misha were temporarily furloughed under the Government’s scheme for several months, which meant they were not available for regular work, but at least they received 80% of their pay from the Government.

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2021 and beyond

With the availability of effective vaccines, we can reasonably hope that life will begin to return to at least near normal during this coming summer, and that from around September onwards we will be able to resume at St John’s all the activities that will have been wholly or partly restricted for 18 months. Provided we can all keep soldiering on in the meantime, and supporting the church as well as in 2020, the prospects are good.

The Governing Body - PCC

Rosemary Warcup: The PCC held 2 meetings in person between January and March dealing with finance, safeguarding, Green energy, musicians ‘contracts, staff remuneration and mission. After the national lockdown we were no longer able to meet in person and the PCC delegated its ordinary functions to the Standing Committee, who met by Zoom until the autumn.

Kristina Axe: The Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) was held on Sunday 6th September 2020. The APCM was held in September this year rather than the usual April meeting, following Diocesan guidelines that allowed us to delay our Annual Meeting whilst the first UK lockdown was ongoing. The terms of both Churchwardens, Gerard Hargreaves and Julius Cruz, were completed and we thank them both for their support and years of service. Rosemary Warcup and Aaron Jessop were elected as our new Churchwardens, and we thank them both for taking on this responsibility. Tony Maxwell completed his term as treasurer and Richard Burnett-Hall was appointed in his place – thanks were offered to both. Rosemary Warcup completed her term as PCC Secretary, to become Churchwarden, and Kristina Axe was appointed PCC Secretary in her place. We thank Rosemary for the administrative tasks that she undertook in her role as volunteer PCC Secretary, without this support, these tasks would be overwhelming for one person. New PCC members were elected to replace those standing down at the end of their term of office. The PCC held its first meeting directly after the Annual General Meeting. Over the year the PCC attended to its legal responsibilities, meeting on six occasions in a variety of formats to accommodate social distancing. The meetings covered the whole range of Parish and Diocesan business. Minutes are displayed in the Church and on the website. A definition we use at St John’s for the PCC is vision setting, policy making and load bearing.

Restoration Fund

Chris Bodker: The trustees were unable to meet for the most part of the year due to COVID. It has thus been a quiet year, perhaps more benignly described as a year of consolidation. We do however maintain plans to raise funds, in particular for the redecoration of the church and for a new lighting scheme. As soon as COVID allows, the trustees will be meeting once again with a view to launching new initiatives to meet these objectives.

The Undercroft

Tobi Iyanda: The Undercroft was leased Monday to Friday to Monkey Puzzle Nursery until April 2020 when the nursery went into liquidation. Fortunately, the Church was able to negotiate a new lease for the neighbouring Acorn nursery who took on Monday – Friday occupancy of the undercroft from August 2020.

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Many of our weekend groups including children’s parties have been unable to take place for much of the year. We hope 2021 sees a recovery.

Garden and Grounds

Elizabeth Marden: As usual Pines and Needles hired a section of the garden to sell Christmas Trees. This has become a yearly activity, which is not only profitable to the church but also draws attention to the church of St John’s in its prime position at the top of the hill, and attracts a lot of local customers from the surrounding area. Pines and Needles also leaves the section of the garden tidy and in good condition.

Under the excellent supervision of Lidija, Community Payback has continued the weekly task of keeping the grounds swept. Misha has continued to keep the grass cut and carry out numerous other activities to render the garden tidy.

Project F.A.I.T.H & Wildflower Meadow

Nelson Rowe : As a direct result of the pandemic, with an increasing appreciation of our reliance on the natural environment, Project F.A.I.T.H. (Food Available In The House) was initiated in October to help develop and cultivate a deeper connection between the church community and their food. This project involved 3 communities working as one – St John’s, The Filipino Chaplaincy and The Persian Anglican Community of London. The project’s primary goal is to encourage and support this development through a hands-on approach, offering a local space for interested parties to hone their horticultural curiosity.

In order for this goal to be reached, a spot was allocated onsite for some raised planters to be erected, filled with the appropriate growing medium and sown with various seeds. This was diligently assembled by members of the 3 communities, and now 4 erected vegetable beds stand on the north side of the Church. The seeds sown were selected for the autumn/winter season, as the project

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commenced at the end of October, and have germinated and with varying success. Entering the spring/summer seasons of 2021, it will be necessary to create a growing plan f or the beds in order to obtain the highest yielding vegetables within the contained area. A wider variety of vegetable seeds should be purchased, as well as an increased supply of recycled containers to allow for greater participation and success. It would also be beneficial to have allocated days organised to allow the involvement of the community. It is hoped that bees will be introduced in the course of 2021. Adjacent to Project F.A.I.T.H. on the west side of the grounds, the space has been made available for the implementation of a wildflower meadow. The aim here is to encourage a greater biodiversity in the area by sowing and cultivating native flower species. Seeds were sourced from the highly regarded company, Emorsgate, which specialises in native wildflower seeds, and the space was prepared by members of the Church working together with Community Payback/Probation Service. Seeds were

subsequently sown at the opening of the projects by the Members of the 3 communities. The project was formally opened by the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of RBKC together with the new Consul General of the Philippines.

For the success of the wildflower meadow, it will be important to allow another sowing in the Spring to complete the arc, as well as filling the gaps of failed or eaten seeds. In would be greatly beneficial if a seed collecting initiative was created. This would increase the interaction between members of the community and nature, allow for taxonomic skills to be developed, as well as providing a supply of seeds for further use.

arc, as well as filling the eaten seeds. In would be if a seed collecting created. This would interaction between community and nature, taxonomic skills to be well as providing a supply further use.

Hopefully, these

two projects will continue

to receive interest and support, and truly develop into something meaningful and beneficial for the local community in the year 2021 and onwards.

Safeguarding

Danielle Anaba: Safeguarding means protecting, looking after and maintaining the well-being of children. At St John’s, we are committed to creating an environment in which children are safe. We are dedicated to creating a welcoming, safe and stimulating environment where children grow in confidence.

In order to provide this environment, we must ensure that the people involved in working with children at St John’s, have undertaken a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check. This checking process is undertaken by the Parish Office.

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If you are interested in working with children at St John’s (as a paid employee or volunteer) it will be necessary for you undertake a DBS check. A DBS check would require you to complete a form and provide supporting information (evidence of name, address and DOB). If you have any queries regarding DBS or Safeguarding, please do contact the Parish Office.

Safeguarding also extends to include adults and we believe that knowledge of what Safeguarding is would be of benefit to us all.

Sadly, there was a safeguarding issue regarding two members of the Filipino Community in September last year. The safeguarding officers were notified, and the incident was reported to police, social workers and the safeguarding team in the diocese.

Visits to the Housebound and Residential Homes

Fr Larry Galon: For much of the year it has not been possible to make visits to the housebound or our elderly in residential homes. We hope this will become possible again in 2021.

Electoral Roll

Tobi Iyanda: At the end of 2020, St John’s Notting Hill had 206 members on the roll, while the Filipino Chaplaincy had 168 members. We have also updated all our databases in the office, providing us with a new and effective database for much of our work, in line with the GDPR regulations which came into force.

Churchwardens’ Fabric Report

Gerard Hargreaves and Julius Cruz : (January – September 2020)

2020 was a year of continued maintenance and work on the items highlighted in the 2015 Quinquennial Inspection Report.

The masonry cracking in various parts of the church continues to be monitored by a structural engineer on a regular basis and this will continue and inform any recommended remedial works in the future.

(See St John’s Architect’s Annual Report 2020 for more information- editor’s note: The architect’s report has not been received )

The existing nursery in the undercroft closed in July and a new 5-year licence was negotiated with Acorn Nursery which commenced in August 2020. The nursery rooms were fully redecorated thanks to a grant from Heritage Lottery Fund.

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Pines and Needles, who use the church grounds for sales of Christmas trees had another record year. This will produce an income in excess of £5,000 for St John’s. We look forward to the arrangement continuing in 2021.

St John’s Restoring the Future Campaign continues with its plans to raise to a further £500,000 to complete the three major projects that we have already received the necessary permissions to carry out: restoring the magnificent original polychromatic Victorian roof interior (painted over in thick brown paint in the 1950’s), the installation of an inspiring piece of twenty first century art - The Tree of Life and highlighting all with a new energy efficient lighting system. These three projects will complete the programme of work, enhancing St John’s as a beautiful and vibrant place of worship and community hub.

The PCC working group on the feasibility of installing solar panels on the sections of the church roof continued to explore options and will make recommendations to PCC in due course.

We are very grateful to Misha for all his hard work during this challenging year in ensuring that our church building is in good working order. Also, being able to do most of this work “in-house” has saved us thousands of pounds as can be seen from the 2020 Accounts. We are fortunate to have such a multi skilled “can do” Maintenance Manager.

It takes an incredible amount of effort in keeping St John’s up and running. Most of the work is done behind the scenes by Fr William, Tobi and Misha. The churchwardens are very grateful for all their hard work, patience and flexibility.

Aaron Jessop & Rosemary Warcup : We were elected at the Annual Meeting on September 6th 2020 and immediately set to work with the urgent priorities to hand, especially being in the middle of the pandemic. As we understood it from our work on the PCC for a number of years they were:

• The setting up of digital “contactless payments” and the move away from Cash; the renewal and rationalising of the office equipment; the renewal of our IT and broadband contract especially to enable live streaming of services; the renewal of our utilities contract with a move to 100% renewable energy. We started this work immediately and by the end of the year had achieved all of the above.

This aspect of our work was “immediate ambulance” work. We felt it was important that St Johns should be seen as a beacon of hope on top of this Hill – The Parish having gone through two world wars and the Spanish/American flu pandemic. So, in October we

were pleased to launch the new gardening project involving the Filipino Chaplaincy and the Persian Anglican Community of London. In this, we created a Wildflower Meadow and introduced new planters with herbs and vegetables. In the grounds we renewed our contract with Pines & Needles to sell Christmas trees from the Ladbroke Grove side of the Church. Business was good this year, as most people were forced to stay at home.

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We are mindful of our duty of looking after the building and look forward to a renewal of the “Restoring the future” campaign to uncover the stunning Victorian polychromatic roof interior together with an imaginative and energy efficient lighting system. In 2020, our statutory quinquennial was due but this proved not possible with our inspecting architect. We look forward to undertaking this as soon as possible.

We look forward to 2021 with great hope for the future for our parish. We do believe that we have used the pandemic to make our structures more resilient.

Architect’s Report

Simon Ablett : Not received

Churches Together in Notting Hill

Mary Ardant: It has been - not surprisingly - a somewhat dormant year for CTNH, but our monthly ecumenical prayer lunches - including one we hosted at St. John's in November 2019 - continued until lockdown and will, hopefully, resume shortly. The Vicar, as Kensington Ecumenical Adviser, also organised an ecumenical Lent group. We continue to work closely with the Kensington Council of Churches, including worshipping together at the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and World Day of Prayer. CTNH continues to circulate information between the churches about special events open to others, encouraging a sense of a larger, broader community. Sr. Brenda of the Sisters of Sion has been elected as the Chair.

Training and Nurture Programme

William Taylor: In 2020 St John’s joined an ecumenical study course for Lent in conjunction with Kensington Council of Churches. The group used the CTBI course Opening the Scriptures - most of the organisation fell to me as the Kensington Ecumenical Adviser. This Lent Course was an exploration of the interaction between believer and text which makes Scripture come alive. Working together in this way makes sense in many ways – the numbers of people who come to the evening sessions are much greater and we receive important insights from each other. This year the groups met in St Johns, The Carmelite Church, The Coptic Orthodox Church, The Armenian Church and St James Norland Gardens. Of the 5 sessions planned we were only able to complete 3 in person before the lockdown.

Pilgrimages & Retreats

Pilgrimage remains an important activity for us and we will return to it as soon as we can. Meanwhile many have had the opportunity during lockdown to make an interior pilgrimage.

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Filipino Chaplaincy

The Rev'd Canon Larry Galon : The Filipino Chaplaincy program of the Diocese of London based in the Parish of Saint John’s Notting Hill continues to work, collaborate and take part in every program which involves the whole community in the area. Though badly hit by the blow of pandemic in which many died, most of our members tried their best to catch up the pace to stand against the present evil that ravages our society. Though many members fall into the category of “no work, no pay”, this didn’t stop their resiliency. They became more vigilant showing the world that in times of tribulation and when society is afraid, church becomes the conscience of the nation and will step-up and stand to serve the less fortunate, the poor and marginalised of society in many forms- examples of which

are bringing goods to the distressed and elderly members, offering shelter to several members who lost their jobs and therefore were not able to pay the rent.

Abuse also happened during lockdown which was reported to the safeguarding team of the Diocese and reported to the local police and Social Services. The case is now closed.

In a short period of time, churches were told to close down by the Government and only offer online worship, yet embers of the community had been seeking the presence of God in His marvellous house, the Church. Even in the event of recording the Holy Eucharist, congregations were begging to attend the recorded Eucharist. As a chaplain, I told them it is not permitted, but they simply answered; Father, many people do not care about the church, whether we are closed or open. For us, who love the church, we are hurt not be there.

Thankfully, and with God’s grace and protection, all members of the Filipino Chaplaincy in the Parish continue to be at peace with God in his holy place but also are well aware of our responsibilities as good citizens by social distancing, hand sanitising, wearing masks, completing the contact tracing paper and the one door entry and two doors exit policy.

May God continue to protect us all.

Persian Anglican Community of London

The Rev’d Aptin Samadi: We started 2020 with a new Discipleship Course in Farsi language on Friday evenings in St John’s. Our Eucharistic services continued to take place once a month, gathering Persians from across London for worship and fellowship. The beginning of the pandemic and lockdown forced us to stop our meetings in St John’s, but we started our online Zoom meetings on every Sunday afternoon at 4pm.

Having weekly Sunday services helped us to grow in our relationships and fellowship as well as our spirituality and discipleship.

After the first lockdown, we returned to our monthly Eucharistic services in St John’s but at the same time kept meeting on Zoom every Sunday. This led to a growth in numbers of those who attended our services. We have been also able to welcome Persians beyond London, some from other part of the UK and some even from Iran.

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We finished the year with our Christmas service in St John’s and welcomed several new people into our community in that occasion.

We are deeply grateful to Fr. William for his support and encouragement and to everyone at St John’s for their contribution to the life of the church and the Persian community.

Hospitality

Peter Hodges: We were only able to offer refreshments for a few Sundays in the year which we did outside to aid social distancing.

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Creative Growth

Energy and Environment Group

Richard Burnett-Hall: As foreshadowed in the 2019 report of the Solar Panels Group (formerly “Green for God”), which no longer exists as such, we have been given a wider remit by the PCC, and accordingly re-badged as the Energy and Environment Group (“the EEG”). Our remit is set out here for the record.

“The EEG will be responsible for advising the PCC, by acting on its own initiative and/or at the request of the PCC, on the following matters:

• The generation, supply and use of all forms of energy at St John’s, including means of minimising its use;

• Ensuring, so far as reasonably possible, that all activities at St John’s, from all Church users, are conducted in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner;

• Such other matters related to the above as the PCC may ask the Group to undertake.

In carrying out its functions, the EEG will:

• have regard to such relevant official government and Church of England guidance as there may be on sustainable and environmentally responsible good practice; and

• consider, and if appropriate, make recommendations on any desirable modifications to the structure of the church and/or to the equipment in it that may be necessary or desirable for implementing the advice of the EEG to the PCC.”

The project for installing solar panels on the roof of St John’s has thus become just our most immediate priority. However, due to the Covid pandemic we have not been able to progress this as fast as we would have liked. Nevertheless, in late November, the Mayor of London announced a further round of the London Community Energy Fund, which is part of his Green New Deal Mission, and which for the first time offers support of up to £15,000 to cover the costs of preliminary work on appropriate community energy projects. The EEG spent much of December developing an application for such a grant, which was submitted in time to meet the very tight deadline of 11 January 2021. We think it likely there will be objections to our project on ‘heritage conservation’ grounds from the RBKC’s planners and others. Nevertheless, it would undoubtedly implement important policy objectives of all of the Church of England, the Mayor of London, and the present UK Government. We believe we should press for it as much we sensibly can, and that success could lead to many other similar opportunities being developed around the country quite apart from the immediate benefits to St John’s.

An environmental initiative called Eco-Church was launched in the London Diocese in 2016. This is designed to help churches “to respond to God’s mandate to human beings to care for His creation, by integrating environmental care throughout their church’s life and mission”. All are strongly encouraged to join Eco Church, and we are now doing so. Initially, this just entails reporting our annual energy (gas and electricity) usage, but we are invited to consider virtually all aspects of sound environmental behaviour. Awards are given to those churches that have made particularly significant improvements. We can learn from the many churches that have made particularly significant improvements. There are many churches that have faced problems similar to ours; that we can learn from; we hope in due course to be setting examples for others to emulate. Installing solar panels would be an excellent start.

Communication

Tobi Iyanda: 2020 proved to be a very eventful year for us in terms of communication. We learnt new skills-live streaming, editing videos due to the lockdown. We made use of YouTube during the lockdown to upload and live stream services. We struggled to live stream during the second lockdown because of poor internet connection but rectified this problem and now have high speed internet connection in the Church, thanks to Churchwarden Aaron Jessop and Rosemary Warcup who facilitated a new system. I volunteered during the first and second lockdown when I was furloughed to help with recording and live streaming the service.

We continued to send out weekly notices on Thursdays. This was especially important while the Church was closed as were able to keep in contact with the community. We were also mindful of those who don’t have internet access and made regular phone calls. In 2021 we plan on improving on our newly acquired skills, hopefully integrating into our regular worship.

Mission and Outward Giving

Frances Pepys : As we all know and has been reflected in almost every report, 2020 has been a difficult year for us all. Unfortunately, because of the various lockdowns throughout the year our mission giving opportunities have been cut - we could not as usual support the bishop’s Lent Appeal or support Christian Aid as a parish, although we did this individually.

We have however seen generosity from parishioners to various mission projects which has resulted in our being able to send £10,000 to the Mathieson School Kolkata for their Trees and Children against Climate Change project in which trees have been planted around the fishpond in the grounds of the school by landscape gardeners who have

donated their services.

We have also been able to send £1,000 to the Holy Rosary School, Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines. We raised £78 for the British Legion’s poppy appeal and we sent £100 to the Al Shurooq School near Bethlehem from money raised by the Parish Christmas Card.

Palestinian Fair-Trade Goods

Caroline Sterling: As part of our mission outreach at St John’s, we sell fair-traded Palestinian goods (imported through Hadeel ( www. hadeel .org/ ), a member of the British Association for Fair Trade, and Zaytoun ( www. zaytoun .org/ ) a member of the World Fair Trade Organisation), and, this year for the first time, a Bedouin Women's Co-operative based in Aizaria (Bethany) just outside East Jerusalem on the first Sunday of every month after the 10.30 a.m. Eucharist, and after other services when it seems appropriate, especially before Christmas

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During 2020 we sold about £1,100 worth of goods about half of what we normally sell. Sadly, this year we were not able to sell goods at either King’s College, University of London or the summer Fair or Christmas Market (because of COVID). The money received from these sales supports Palestinian families in the West Bank, the Gaza strip and a refugee camp in Lebanon. Sadly, there are people who were born in Palestinian refugee camps over 40 years ago and who continue to live, work and bring up their families in the camps. Recently we have been hearing about the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. The money received from sale of the craft work is vital for each family’s well-being. The need is great. Embroidery is done by women either in refugee camps or poor, isolated villages, then brought to their own cooperative or other social enterprise for finishing and marketing. Most of the wood carving and jewellery comes from Bethlehem. Oasis, an organisation based in Beit Sahour (near Bethlehem), helps adults with special needs to make

cards from recycled paper and candles; other cards are sold in aid of the deaf school in Atfaluna (Gaza), where they also produce pottery. The Lutheran Church has established a centre in Bethlehem to create artefacts out of glass found on the streets, a wonderfully creative use of broken glass. Silver jewellery, made using casts of individual olive leaves so each silver leaf is unique, is also made at this centre. The L’Arche Community located in Bethlehem works with those suffering from intellectual difficulties. They produce felt crafts from natural sheep wool (purchased from local shepherds in the Bethlehem area), small purses, felt cribs, figures and sheep – very popular and camels, all of which we sell. We also have magnets which reproduce some of these figures. A selection from each workshop is on sale on the stall. Olive oil, olive oil soap, and dates (produced in Palestine and supplied through Zaytoun) are also sold.

Many of the organisations that produce the goods are themselves supporting those less fortunate: the visually impaired, the deaf, and many forms of handicap – physical and mental.

I am most grateful to everyone who has shown support to the Palestinians by continuing to purchase the goods, allowing the Palestinian organizations in turn to support families and communities in need. There are leaflets available for anyone who is interested in obtaining further information about the various workshops.

Thank you to friends at St John’s who have assisted me over the year with setting up, sale and putting away of the produce.

For further details see the St. John’s website, under “Fair Trade”.

Traidcraft

Jon Burden : Members of St John’s continued to support fair trade despite the challenges posed by Covid-19. We sold a little over £1,000 of fairly traded goods from the monthly Traidcraft Stand. This is about one third less than usual so we were unable to support any Church activities directly.

Purchasing Traidcraft items, though, still helps farmers and crafts people in some of the poorest parts of the world.

Joe, Oliver and Jon thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you at the stand on the first Sunday of the month.

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Musicians in Residence

Orpheus Leander Papafilippou: 2020 has been a unique year for me, the Music of the Spheres Ensemble and I feel all of us in the Parish of St John's Church Notting Hill. My faith and resolve has been bolstered by being a part of St John's Church Notting Hill and recently the opportunity we had of recording Christmas Videos for a Charity Gala gave us our first chance to play in and record at St John's this year. Due to the pandemic we greatly missed giving concerts at St John's throughout the year. There are many difficulties in our society in London, the UK and throughout the world due to the continuation of this terrible pandemic, I feel that by continuing and where possible deepening our relationship with St John's Notting Hill we as a group and I myself will be stronger in facing and continuing to create and give musically despite the challenges ahead. Now is a time more than ever to affirm friendships and collaborations and stand united in our support of each other and I felt privileged to be a part of St John's embrace in this past year. Looking forward we want to give back more to St John's through our music and in doing so we will gain so much as musicians and help to keep music alive and part of our community in Notting Hill in 2021 and further into the future. We are keen to find ways that are socially distanced and safe to give live performances of music, perhaps through live streamed or pre-recorded events to those who need it most and cultivate our residency at St John's to help the community through music.

Summer Fair

Aaron Jessop: Typically, summer is a thrilling time for the church, the calendar crammed with fairs, exhibitions, and events. But as COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, accelerated and continued to wreak havoc around the world, the usually active season took a turn. The 2020 summer fair was cancelled due to lockdown. In lieu of sponsoring the fair, Clarendon Cross Canines Limited provided sponsorship of £1911 to pay for the purchase of the Goodbox system; a set of contactless donation plates, and a custom designed donation podium. This system has enabled the collection of covid-safe contactless gifts, raising over £1255 in the first month of operation. With health and safety as the ultimate priority our team remain hopeful and encouraged by the vaccination progress that a summer fair in 2021 will be held.

In 2021 it is highly anticipated that we will welcome our community back to celebrate together in the grounds of St Johns, with live music, fresh food, and fun games for all the family.

MayFest

William Taylor: The annual popular Mayfest, a month-long programme of concerts, exhibition and community events could not take place in 2020. Plans are already being made for events in May 2021 not dependent on the state of Government regulations.

Christmas Market

Funke Adebusuyi : Due to the uncertainty surrounding social gatherings as a result of COVID-19, the decision was taken in June to cancel the 2020 Christmas Market that was scheduled for December. We hope to be back bigger and better in 2021. The date has already been set: it is Saturday 4th December and will run from 11 am to 5 pm as usual.

The loss of this fundraising opportunity did not go unnoticed and as a partial substitute Caroline Sterling and Danielle Anaba organised an autumn raffle. As a result of their initiative and hard work the raffle raised £560.

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Community Payback

Lidija Armanda : The Community Payback Unpaid Work scheme continued for some of 2020, outside of lockdown. The contribution of the unpaid offenders to the good order and cleanliness of the church and grounds is immense. The Vicar continued in his role as supervisor of individuals on community payback, on days when there were no supervised programmes. In addition to providing worthwhile work for the participants, the programme makes significant savings for the church’s maintenance and cleaning bills, which shows clearly in the accounts for 2020. Often, participants in the programme present useable skills, such as decorating and plumbing. More importantly, offenders often find it to be a turning point for the better in their lives, through the culture of respect and worthwhile work for which this project has been nationally noted.

Health & Safety

At St John’s our aim is to provide and maintain a safe environment which allows people to be involved in God’s work and celebrate their beliefs without being harmed.

Parish Manager

Tobi Iyanda: For much of the year I was furloughed, especially when the Church and office were closed in the first lockdown. Much of the regular necessary administration fell to the Vicar and I am conscious of the extra load this placed on him. Most of the time he did this cheerfully!

The Café in The Space & The Café at St John’s

Radmila Fuccilo : The cafe reopened on the 13h of January 2020 after the Christmas holidays. We resumed with the same enthusiasm and vision for the year ahead. We welcomed back our customers and other regular visitors and groups from the community. At the end of the month of January COVID 19 started making the headlines first in China and then very quickly spilled into Europe. The following 4 weeks saw a rapid decline in visitors and customers. National lockdown was introduced and the church as well as the cafe had to close its doors to the public in March.

Rima Sams: The café opened as the Café at St John’s in October 2020, under the management of Rima Sams. Rima writes: Meals are all made in-house. From freshly prepared daily soups and sourdough toasties to the more substantial ‘St John’s Bowl’ comprising; nutty organic short grain brown rice, organic house black beans plus a selection of the three daily salads and for an extra couple of quid you get to choose either roasted organic chicken, tofu or fish to place on top. Our Italian chef also makes a mean Papardelle Ragu! Children are very welcome and there are smaller soups, toasties and special daily pasta dishes on the menu.

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Staff

Vicar: The Revd Canon Dr WilliamTaylor, 020 7727 3439 email: [e-mail]

Filipino Chaplain: The Revd Canon Larry Galon, 074 1408 2228

email: [e-mail]

Licenced Lay Minister : Serena Lancaster

email: [e-mail]

Parish & Facilities Manager : Tobi Iyanda, 020 7727 4262

email: [e-mail] Steward & Maintenance Manager: Misha Ibelgauptas, 07929439704 Director of Music: Tom Primrose

email: [e-mail]

Children’s Music Coordinator: Hannah Reeves

Email via: [e-mail]

Parish Office

St John’s Church, Lansdowne Crescent, W11 2NN

020 7727 4262 e-mail: [e-mail]

Officers

Churchwardens

Aaron Jessop, email: [e-mail] Rosemary Warcup email: [e-mail]

PCC Treasurer

Richard Burnett-Hall, email: [e-mail]

PCC Secretary

Kristina Axe email: [e-mail]

Website

www.stjohnsnottinghill.com

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It’s hard to gossip in face masks, even if they are liturgical

New friends in 2020 - we hope you made some!

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THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH OUNC OF PARISH OF ST OHN THE EVANGELIST NOTllNG HILL CHAIRMAN'S REPOR the ear eMded31 tknmber 2tr20, togetherwith the wholeworl¢ wasa ddlenpng JtLtt'S Nolting Hill teuuseof the CoronaviTUS pandemic. ThÈ cknure ofall th￿r(￿S in En8land (the first tiDSitKE 12891 IWJ to a SI￿1￿{￿t l(kns of Ixth iJtcvrne and ￿pIe. HowevÈT, with.8wift and deci5iYeactith tehalfof ￿ paris￿ FCC was able to prolpct and safeguard oui inLI)me and the fvture of the Parish to a vw largÈÈxknL The Monkpy Puuk Nurry and Ca(é went0ut0fbu5En￿, but the PCC was ablÈ to n%obate new ILBse5wilh Ihe ALVM Nuwand a new Caté oternior, as well ag reducuEour Cornmon Fund payment Ihe DiLKese (by ￿ll￿al LY￿sent} and kning awarded a Erant from HerIts￿ knttery Fund kne89ential repair& The GovemThnt furlou8h 8ththe akn helrEd g￿llY inad￿vin8 theend o(yearresuliwe have. C(k8ts were clcEely nK)niknr￿l and keptas knw &8 p￿tt￿llY ￿th[e witknuldaTh8ingany ofthe aspFcts ol the work whlth the Pansh d<& Tributeneeds FRid toour iwo full memtwsofslaff - Tobi Jyanda as Parish Manager. and Mykhaylo IEtlgauptra8 PTemi Manager. We (ouldnothave thievpd the Tesult we w(thed without thetr ded]￿tea Work 4md the Lwtribution of a krge numlrof volun1￿5 gi1￿ Iheir tin fr￿ly. The Trts5t￿ Lynfirrn thathave had due regard k> theguldaTKEr￿￿][￿l in Ihe (Tharity CommT*lon's8￿eralgUlddn￿ on publie lthefiiwhen reviewing the ￿tIvItIE¥ 0[the￿tiM durin8 ￿￿Year. The Rerfd Caftcm Dr Wil]lam Tayk (￿￿]M￿7n. St J(thn's PCC.

ThE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OFTHE ECC IAST PARISH O ST HN THE EVANGELIST No￿￿c HILL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 31 %)21L unts and CK)mply with the (haritrfs deed5. the (Thatitie5 Act 2011 and thÈ proviBirnsoftheSlatementof R￿0t￿rnended practi￿ WRP)-Ac(x>unting and Re&Vrti￿bY ChatitiÉ< IFF5 I￿2 BACKCROUND The Pansh ofStJ(M Nottin8 Flill was Thied th l I￿5at same the Nolkng Hlll Group Miti￿ty was LTeaied The Nott￿ Hill GTOUP was diwlved in April XY20. REPERENCE ANDADMINISTRATIVE D￿All5 The FLdesiasts¢al Parishof St John EvèJ)£eJisL NC11￿ HIII ig a tharfftty. rytslpred with the Charity Principal addre sdownÈ CTE8cen¢ Notbng HllL WII 2NN The RÉrfd can￿ Dr. Wdliam Taylor Cllr Gerard Har￿¥Ve5 Jullub Cruz R￿marY Warcup Aaron Je950P Treasllffer Richard Bumett-Hall Tony Maxwell Vke (￿a]r & Sk￿d￿￿com￿Y.U I￿1pJ￿d &plemtEr 20￿￿) VK2 Qthir & 5tandingConmiitlee (￿lsned &ptpmbeT 202)) Chair & SlandingCotr￿l￿e (AppxnFed &p1pm1￿r 2￿0 (hir &SknthgCommitk (Appxxnlpd 5epiethFEr ITr20} Rcwnary WarLup Kri￿Ina Axe RJ"Lhard Bumett.Hall 0]akUn￿ ￿t￿rInde PCCSyJetary / Strandin8COti￿Illee IApFX)inted ￿ple￿i￿r2020) Stewardship Tewrder IRt%iy￿I MaT(h ￿)1 SlewaTdshiprec￿deF {ApFX)inted MaThh2120) O]iYer5t Joh The]ma Tamayo Amy Buckley Diane Burke Jane Ryan Kri8tina Axe Der81￿￿1 MakdesA Fil dBp (Reswed (Resi￿ &ptemtrÉr 2YJII Aatyon Jewp Ofelia Ma8alit Jelfrry knaba Ludo C]aude Annaheservidad Mthsa 7ari Paula Law& (R￿l￿se1eMtr￿ IApFxMnted&ptenth 2 IApExMnlEd &piemI￿r 2020) IAppniÈd ￿PIE[￿t￿r 21no) Coker Clar8a Coker (Ap￿Ie{l 21r20)

COUN GEU OF FST OHN G HILL )RTOFTHE TRUSTEES Mary Ardant O]akunle Eebhrinde Christie ￿Ugh]￿ (Appjintod ￿Ptem￿r IRW &plem￿l 3￿1) William Salo￿on G￿ard Hargreatsts (Applnted&pteM￿r3m> The Rerfd Larry C Karen Fong INDEPENDENT EXAMINER RML Tayhx. FCCA B￿kS &Co timikd ofl.camy Newbury. Wire. RG14 5DJ AIMS AND PURPCY3ES Sl John's Par￿hial Churth C(Mmo"l (FW h&¥ the OfCw￿lIng wilh Ihe in p￿￿￿tt￿8 in the er.cles1asb￿j praslL thè whole mxgsi(mofthe fft8tor&L evan8plistiG ￿1￿[ and OBJECTtVES AND ACTtvrTIES The obieetiveof the Church isas slated in Ihe Mis￿￿A￿lE￿ Pkn whith is available the(thurth and (m the weEeite. The Chutth maijitains a le￿ll0( fundin8suffiLiefttk> eTrablÈit to<￿tinUe wlth its w<rk lTheChut¢h community continued io grow dllttt￿ ￿￿tand[4)W indude5 a si8nifi(zntnumir ofthe wider corntnutiity who ulili8e Ihe church buildi￿ fk&il8 of the individual activit¥ thvemÈnts are 8Èven in the annual review whith Is awailable the Church and ￿ thewet6ile. Deanery Synod Four Thm￿r5 of Ihe FrCsit￿ lknrysywi. Thls Provid￿ Pccwithan ithwrlant link Eeween the parishand the wider structhres of QhurdL F￿ANCIAL REVtEW Re•etves Poia<y The fx)]icy of the Ffc i8 lo rnaintain suffic￿1 funds th@ Churth b) net ils$knted oFitivesand obligations. Investmelltpollcy andobJe(tiveg The funds of the PCC invested in inslaTht&￿de￿￿il ￿T￿￿l￿wIth IheCBF awrthof W deF￿'t fL4n(L ott￿￿ fUnd$a￿ rrotniainal in NatWe& Bank pk curw)tand de￿￿]1 actounl& STRU￿. COVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENr RISK AND MANACEMENr Thp meml*r6 ofthe PCC have a duty ID idffltify and revlew the rjsks ￿wh1th the Ffc i5 expxed and to en8ure

PAIUSH OF ST OHN THE EVANGEIJST NOTIING HIIL community. EXEMFIYONS FROM DISCLOSURE FLINDS HELD ASCUSTODJAN TRUrnON BEHALF OFOTHFJiS ON BEIIAIS OFTHEBOARD

THE PAROCHtAL CHUR(JIC OF DENT R'SR ended 31 Dccenj Forthov OF IretKrtto the chartty trustLBOn my ￿4￿>1￿1￿￿￿￿4￿Oun15dvp￿atttyfj)rthe￿re￿jed3l D￿ter 2u11wN¢ha￿￿t￿j14ThPage5S]x knfiN]rteaL of the Cb•tili&s Att2ni rtknAttl. nder¥th 145(5)(bl ofth¢A 14>£4the %ni Acl I<Dnfirmthat l wabEed kn utkkrtkntheeXaTtuaaii(￿b￿r￿￿ of RkhaTd Lo4eTykTFCCA L Cm&eR(Kd Newl RG14 5DJ

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH CO CIL si PARISH OF ST OHN THE EVANGELIST No￿lNc HILL TATENfEWT OF FINANCIAL STATEME For theyear cnded 31 IV20 2019 Tolal funds Tota] funds funds 140A 793 141,128 IIU93 148J61 Charitsble activttie5 Olher tradtng attiviti& 793 470 470 Total kncomin8 EXPENDITURE ON: Rais￿% futtds charl￿ble activittes Other exp*nditure Covernantrttsts 432 432 11 iiJJJ) lij￿) 189M5 189fj35 2W28 É6J34 83￿) 271W3 384154 INCOMVIWENDITURE) TRANSFER BThEN FUNDS {14￿5 18A51 NET MOVEMETrry FUNDS 13 {14JX)51 18A51 RECONCILIATION OF FUND Totsi hmds broutht forward 14 117 99JgJ 12J)J8 91A825 lo3￿3 117

PAIU5H OF ST X)19 fimds Totsj fur*kn TotalhE Tati8ib]e assets I￿20 17 16fj70 12&178 36X¢V W,gY2 IOW 9]￿5 yea po,]￿) CJ0.￿) (27A IOA98 iou 117 T(yfALASSErs 11018 i(B 117 THE FUfvTJS OF171E aiARnY i(B 117A8 haifbr.

HIAL CHUR COUNCIL H OFST OHN THE EVANGELIST NOThkNG THE FINANCIAL STA eDded31 De¢ember2 PARI IAS the ACCOUNllNC POLICIES conventio charity corLsts"lules a publ l￿fil enlity deflld by FFS 1(ri The s¢ateuw¢ts ha¥e preEXted gomgallKwn IH5is under hisi0rfft￿ cc6t(rnv@nEK)nand in aeLDrdatL￿ the tharities Act 3)11 and in ac(Dr￿a￿ with the￿Ur￿ AccY)untin8 Regulati￿ 2￿￿goVern￿ the individual alrounls of PCCS. and wtth Rwlation<~trueand fair vMY~ ￿0visI￿4 Ihe5tatementd Recommended Practsce I￿)RP)~A<LXyun1Irtga￿d ReFx)rlJng by awitio< IFRS 1021. All incoTnin8 re￿urcesa[t indudedThi thesia1et￿Trl of FIr￿￿1#1 AcEivltie5 when the(tr￿Tity is lesally entitled to the incDll and IheallKwnton ￿quantified WIthr&wnal￿ acruracy. ExpendlttsTe RttosDitknn the charity tt? thatexFndituty it is ￿tseIde￿wtw￿ ￿￿Ulted and the ar￿)￿￿t ofthe obI￿ation measured te]]ably. E¥a)diiure isa((xwntEd foron ana￿nth15 and has]￿1 c}￿l￿ed underheadings thataggre8ale all LXKSt6 re]ated to category. Wherea%b onTKrt Ee directly attribuied to PMTticularheaditw they have Fen alk￿led lo actKvfftties CA) a ba8tsqThi%tentwith the u8È0f rwuTCES. Grantsoffetyd suty.ect tv eonditions whith have ￿tteen ￿tal theyear•KI daiearern￿ a)n￿ltu￿nts bulrntacuued a5 eX5￿dit￿re. Tanglble Axed tn 50 frar as c￿￿e(rated and pro￿rtY ofany kind ts exduded fTom the 5ts1utory definiti(m a5 'thartty' by &ction io (21 la) aTKt (c) of ￿ (Tharities AItZ)11 s￿afftts ate not(apilaIi￿d in Ihe fuwnuqi slatemen Tanglbk fi¥ed assets forllge by De￿lati￿ is provided at follow￿ arnual rdles JnoTder iowriteoff aet 0￿r its estimated useful Jif& -25% (m Lr&t .25%thLUt .25￿ts Fixtures aTrd fittings Officeequlpm￿t DebtOTSand￿eaIkn￿￿(thabftelP￿YbAe withtn o•E year {CJI￿) the amounLs T￿p1vIlble are re(wsed at the p)mtAI whKh ￿ awtty isenlitted toc]alnL The revenue retsipt actr)unted for on the ￿￿al basi8 and matdwd in the frthnLial slatCTnenb viith the rela￿ ￿ts￿or whith the gtsnt 18 inknded Taxatlo The dwiy 15 exempt ftom tsX(￿ Ats dwltsble ￿1vI

CH COUNCI OF THE H OFST ESKAS OHN ANGE JST N(yrriNG HI ACCOUWINC FOLICIES tontiftllod.... Fund4LYnU#lin8 Unrestric￿ ftJndsoTh be vsed inacrLrkn wilh Ltytivo5 at tt% of the Restric￿ fun& (2D IE ￿ed for prkncutsr retstricw within the of Ihe dmrity. Rentsjs ￿ld tsnder 0￿dtIng ￿a￿tt￿[ged kn the51atert￿t Offin￿l￿ adivitieson a straight kne (￿er￿ll rlsk kn opÈRtion# ]n comttK>nwith Jnany other thayitses. theoutbreakof Covid.19 in Ihe UKand the nasures ￿]rt8 takn ￿ c￿￿1[01 sP￿d ha￿ had an imwt5t IM1aJ￿st￿teVenIs and &tordin8ly. the aL and rtsults ofttacttvities for. the year ended 31 tknmtTT ￿)haVe￿>t Ikthadjusted ￿rell￿t their ]mtwL

EPA IAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLES SH OFST IST NOTllNG HILL NOTES TO STATEMETrnS endod 2019 tK)NATIONS AND LECACIES 127.140 13.no 140WAI 118.516 22612 141,128 Gift Aid 785 2213 iio,(r20 61793 111233 (YTHER TRADING AcrivmES Fund raisingevents i48.￿] 25.J5 I48,￿1 INCOME FROM JNVFSTMENTS 470 EXPENDrruREON RAISING FUNDS Fund rdl8￿ 432 EXPENDITURE ON CHAIUTABLE AcllvJTIES ]].( ts relating ID the work of the (hurth 189AkZ3 612 2LI5.378 951 189fi35 Xb.329 ]ndÈpendeftt Examinati(m fee 1,680 TRUSTEES, REMUNERATION AND BENEFTTS No tru5tee5' remuneiatm or otheT ￿￿efits for ￿r￿uled.7] 2rA) I£Nil ))191. PCC no FoYll￿nts were nmde lo ofthe Ffc Ckne120t*. Iwo) Truth rwxkvÈd rp- ond disburgemenls were Rerfd William Taylor a[￿ ReT<d iarryGaim in rest￿ofw0rkll￿eX￿. 11 STAFFCOSIS 2019 Wages and5alaTi4 NICand p￿81 61169 in8 ¢xxg14 of Jnore than

E PAROCHIAL C URCH OUNCIL OF THE ECCLE PARISH OF ST OHN THE EVANG 1ST NOTllNG HILL OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMEpirs . ear ended 31 Deojllber 12 ￿COmE n9 The netxncome i$8lated afkn (harsuig: 1(fj2 13 19 Total ftsnds funth Donations and legaci& CharitableactriVitie5 141.128 IiU33 48J61 117 141.128 IIZl33 Other fund generdttngaclivilies I(A)AKK) 148.361 76 301m9 I[￿.766 Raising hJnd5 Charitable activities Othe.rexFÉnditllTe Governancea￿ts 11*81 A65 17 205.319 271296 IiOJ58 3H154 NET INCOMV(FxPEND￿UK Iiom2) 18A51 NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS 110.092) 18ASI RECONCILIATION OF FUND& Total funds browt forwatd 101.917 g)yJ7 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED K)RWARD 26m3 25 117 li

EPAR IAL CHURCH OUNC OFTHE ECCL PAR H OFST OHN THE EVANGELIST Norr￿G HILL NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMEN r ettded 31 Dtrembetml 14 MOvem￿t i hmd$ Unrestricted funds Restrlcied funds I271￿3} 114(IMI Intereston f*TVE5 (27W3J 114(X)41 Movernent in fund$ UnrestrKted Mnds Restritkd fwids Intereslon reserves 2T&296 28x3 7&5 766 IIOA58) IIQ0921 18A51 iio IW.706 384,154 15 RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Atl Jan Net Al3]DK￿l in fund5 ¥eÈn erdl 4Jl4) IZ018 Other restricted fund4 TOTAL 91.825 117 {14JTh) 103A3 COMPARATIVE RECONCILIATION CMI FUN[ Atljan Nrt Tra￿fer At 31 DÈC a)19 General 26Ab23 ReS¢rIc￿a￿Thd5 Other restricted fun(ts 101,917 9J397 (lorn) 91125 117 TOTAL 12

THE AROCHIAL CH PA￿s OFST CH COUNCIL OF THE THE EVANCELIST N LES Tl NOTES TO THE FINAN STA 16 TANGIBLE FJXED ASS￿5 pkntt& Fi>luresand quipment COST At I latwary 201) Addition5 iiJ Z245 27.M> 1026 At31 Xf20 11.7 13AY) 4.2n 29AI& At l January 21Ta) Cknge for Ihe yÈaT At 31 1120 ii. 13A39 Z245 27,39) IL 13A 1752 Nvf BOOK VALUE At 31 D￿miEr 2(120 At 31 Decemkn )X9 Con8e(raled pnbperty and furni6hin8B cOn￿ated and L￿DefiCial pwty ofany kind 15 exduded fEOrn ttacLX)unts by￿tion IOQXC) of the Charilies Act 2011. Moveable chutth fUm￿h￿￿￿eId by the Ymxr￿d Clwrthwardensm tnL4t for ts PCC and whi(h uire a laculty for disEKwL are ￿)UTh1￿d as ina]ithalAe proity LNtsecrated. are listed in the thurch's inventory whi(h Caft￿ (atany Yèp5(mable limel. For ]na]l￿b￿ prom there is insuffictent (￿t infornwbffl aYaikb]e, and therefore suth ￿13 are rK>t •raiued tt￿ mainterHntE or improvement is written off. No 25 iadbroko R¢LL tA>nd(fft Wll thecurreni ￿￿8(￿8P I￿)￿ for Ihe pr￿h ofStJ(ty Notting HilL Thts proFErty is ownedby the DKK¥A8e and admi￿r&I byits Payw e<wd OtherfixtuTr4 f£iiiM8• office eqidyment OfliLE equipment and otherequlpll￿t ￿ed within the thTw¢hwemistsarÈ deprecraiEd ￿ a straight line basis over 4ytrs. items ofeywlpm￿I witha ￿TthaSe wi(p0f£l.L￿0r less atewriitenoff when Ihe ets a￿a£￿]Eed. 13

THE PAR(KHIAL CHUR HOFS COUN ANC ILOF 1ST Ic NOTES NCIAL ettdÈd 2019 17 DEBTORS 372 oth￿ Deb 4212 4,552 16.298 16,670 18 3512 2&619 30,131 27,(KX) 27,UX) 19 Expiring within ￿￿and five yeats RELATEDPARTr DISCLOSURE The Vior and thurthwardensof St j￿￿ Notting Hitl are ex4)ffiti) Trustee& Other Ihan Trustee eXp@n￿ (note 10) IherÈate norelatsdwty t[￿&￿ti ULTIMATE CONTROLLINC PAirrY ttuslpLS ate ¢￿sIder￿ to ￿ the ttltiEtiaie a)ntTolling Imrty dwity by virtsEof alrility to VOLUNTEERS In all warious activities FrrAS de￿dent Servi￿ of unl￿a voluni*rn The Val￿of this StsPFKirt during Ihe fina￿la1 Year￿ I￿eTr estinwled at£￿IlX1. This etimated value is not 14

St John's NOTTING HILL EPA (￿H1 co CIL OF ECCLESIASTIC OHN THE EVANGELIST NOTTING HILL PARISHOFST REPORT OFTHE TRUSTEES AND UNAUDryED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS R THE ECEMBER

THE PARIXHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OFTHE ECCL ISH OF ST E EVANGELIS SJAS CAL NTS OF FIN d31 Lkn STATEM CHAlliMAN'S REPORT REPORTOF THE TRUSTEES REPORTOPTHE INDEPENDENT EL4MINER TOTHE TRUSTEE STATEMEwfoF FNANCIAL ACTtVTnES BALANCE SHE NOTES TO THEgINANCIAL STATEME1I15

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH OUNC OF PARISH OF ST OHN THE EVANGELIST NOTllNG HILL CHAIRMAN'S REPOR the ear eMded31 tknmber 2tr20, togetherwith the wholeworl¢ wasa ddlenpng JtLtt'S Nolting Hill teuuseof the CoronaviTUS pandemic. ThÈ cknure ofall th￿r(￿S in En8land (the first tiDSitKE 12891 IWJ to a SI￿1￿{￿t l(kns of Ixth iJtcvrne and ￿pIe. HowevÈT, with.8wift and deci5iYeactith tehalfof ￿ paris￿ FCC was able to prolpct and safeguard oui inLI)me and the fvture of the Parish to a vw largÈÈxknL The Monkpy Puuk Nurry and Ca(é went0ut0fbu5En￿, but the PCC was ablÈ to n%obate new ILBse5wilh Ihe ALVM Nuwand a new Caté oternior, as well ag reducuEour Cornmon Fund payment Ihe DiLKese (by ￿ll￿al LY￿sent} and kning awarded a Erant from HerIts￿ knttery Fund kne89ential repair& The GovemThnt furlou8h 8ththe akn helrEd g￿llY inad￿vin8 theend o(yearresuliwe have. C(k8ts were clcEely nK)niknr￿l and keptas knw &8 p￿tt￿llY ￿th[e witknuldaTh8ingany ofthe aspFcts ol the work whlth the Pansh d<& Tributeneeds FRid toour iwo full memtwsofslaff - Tobi Jyanda as Parish Manager. and Mykhaylo IEtlgauptra8 PTemi Manager. We (ouldnothave thievpd the Tesult we w(thed without thetr ded]￿tea Work 4md the Lwtribution of a krge numlrof volun1￿5 gi1￿ Iheir tin fr￿ly. The Trts5t￿ Lynfirrn thathave had due regard k> theguldaTKEr￿￿][￿l in Ihe (Tharity CommT*lon's8￿eralgUlddn￿ on publie lthefiiwhen reviewing the ￿tIvItIE¥ 0[the￿tiM durin8 ￿￿Year. The Rerfd Caftcm Dr Wil]lam Tayk (￿￿]M￿7n. St J(thn's PCC.

ThE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OFTHE ECC IAST PARISH O ST HN THE EVANGELIST No￿￿c HILL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 31 %)21L unts and CK)mply with the (haritrfs deed5. the (Thatitie5 Act 2011 and thÈ proviBirnsoftheSlatementof R￿0t￿rnended practi￿ WRP)-Ac(x>unting and Re&Vrti￿bY ChatitiÉ< IFF5 I￿2 BACKCROUND The Pansh ofStJ(M Nottin8 Flill was Thied th l I￿5at same the Nolkng Hlll Group Miti￿ty was LTeaied The Nott￿ Hill GTOUP was diwlved in April XY20. REPERENCE ANDADMINISTRATIVE D￿All5 The FLdesiasts¢al Parishof St John EvèJ)£eJisL NC11￿ HIII ig a tharfftty. rytslpred with the Charity Principal addre sdownÈ CTE8cen¢ Notbng HllL WII 2NN The RÉrfd can￿ Dr. Wdliam Taylor Cllr Gerard Har￿¥Ve5 Jullub Cruz R￿marY Warcup Aaron Je950P Treasllffer Richard Bumett-Hall Tony Maxwell Vke (￿a]r & Sk￿d￿￿com￿Y.U I￿1pJ￿d &plemtEr 20￿￿) VK2 Qthir & 5tandingConmiitlee (￿lsned &ptpmbeT 202)) Chair & SlandingCotr￿l￿e (AppxnFed &p1pm1￿r 2￿0 (hir &SknthgCommitk (Appxxnlpd 5epiethFEr ITr20} Rcwnary WarLup Kri￿Ina Axe RJ"Lhard Bumett.Hall 0]akUn￿ ￿t￿rInde PCCSyJetary / Strandin8COti￿Illee IApFX)inted ￿ple￿i￿r2020) Stewardship Tewrder IRt%iy￿I MaT(h ￿)1 SlewaTdshiprec￿deF {ApFX)inted MaThh2120) O]iYer5t Joh The]ma Tamayo Amy Buckley Diane Burke Jane Ryan Kri8tina Axe Der81￿￿1 MakdesA Fil dBp (Reswed (Resi￿ &ptemtrÉr 2YJII Aatyon Jewp Ofelia Ma8alit Jelfrry knaba Ludo C]aude Annaheservidad Mthsa 7ari Paula Law& (R￿l￿se1eMtr￿ IApFxMnted&ptenth 2 IApExMnlEd &piemI￿r 2020) IAppniÈd ￿PIE[￿t￿r 21no) Coker Clar8a Coker (Ap￿Ie{l 21r20)

COUN GEU OF FST OHN G HILL )RTOFTHE TRUSTEES Mary Ardant O]akunle Eebhrinde Christie ￿Ugh]￿ (Appjintod ￿Ptem￿r IRW &plem￿l 3￿1) William Salo￿on G￿ard Hargreatsts (Applnted&pteM￿r3m> The Rerfd Larry C Karen Fong INDEPENDENT EXAMINER RML Tayhx. FCCA B￿kS &Co timikd ofl.camy Newbury. Wire. RG14 5DJ AIMS AND PURPCY3ES Sl John's Par￿hial Churth C(Mmo"l (FW h&¥ the OfCw￿lIng wilh Ihe in p￿￿￿tt￿8 in the er.cles1asb￿j praslL thè whole mxgsi(mofthe fft8tor&L evan8plistiG ￿1￿[ and OBJECTtVES AND ACTtvrTIES The obieetiveof the Church isas slated in Ihe Mis￿￿A￿lE￿ Pkn whith is available the(thurth and (m the weEeite. The Chutth maijitains a le￿ll0( fundin8suffiLiefttk> eTrablÈit to<￿tinUe wlth its w<rk lTheChut¢h community continued io grow dllttt￿ ￿￿tand[4)W indude5 a si8nifi(zntnumir ofthe wider corntnutiity who ulili8e Ihe church buildi￿ fk&il8 of the individual activit¥ thvemÈnts are 8Èven in the annual review whith Is awailable the Church and ￿ thewet6ile. Deanery Synod Four Thm￿r5 of Ihe FrCsit￿ lknrysywi. Thls Provid￿ Pccwithan ithwrlant link Eeween the parishand the wider structhres of QhurdL F￿ANCIAL REVtEW Re•etves Poia<y The fx)]icy of the Ffc i8 lo rnaintain suffic￿1 funds th@ Churth b) net ils$knted oFitivesand obligations. Investmelltpollcy andobJe(tiveg The funds of the PCC invested in inslaTht&￿de￿￿il ￿T￿￿l￿wIth IheCBF awrthof W deF￿'t fL4n(L ott￿￿ fUnd$a￿ rrotniainal in NatWe& Bank pk curw)tand de￿￿]1 actounl& STRU￿. COVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENr RISK AND MANACEMENr Thp meml*r6 ofthe PCC have a duty ID idffltify and revlew the rjsks ￿wh1th the Ffc i5 expxed and to en8ure

PAIUSH OF ST OHN THE EVANGEIJST NOTIING HIIL community. EXEMFIYONS FROM DISCLOSURE FLINDS HELD ASCUSTODJAN TRUrnON BEHALF OFOTHFJiS ON BEIIAIS OFTHEBOARD

THE PAROCHtAL CHUR(JIC OF DENT R'SR ended 31 Dccenj Forthov OF IretKrtto the chartty trustLBOn my ￿4￿>1￿1￿￿￿￿4￿Oun15dvp￿atttyfj)rthe￿re￿jed3l D￿ter 2u11wN¢ha￿￿t￿j14ThPage5S]x knfiN]rteaL of the Cb•tili&s Att2ni rtknAttl. nder¥th 145(5)(bl ofth¢A 14>£4the %ni Acl I<Dnfirmthat l wabEed kn utkkrtkntheeXaTtuaaii(￿b￿r￿￿ of RkhaTd Lo4eTykTFCCA L Cm&eR(Kd Newl RG14 5DJ

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH CO CIL si PARISH OF ST OHN THE EVANGELIST No￿lNc HILL TATENfEWT OF FINANCIAL STATEME For theyear cnded 31 IV20 2019 Tolal funds Tota] funds funds 140A 793 141,128 IIU93 148J61 Charitsble activttie5 Olher tradtng attiviti& 793 470 470 Total kncomin8 EXPENDITURE ON: Rais￿% futtds charl￿ble activittes Other exp*nditure Covernantrttsts 432 432 11 iiJJJ) lij￿) 189M5 189fj35 2W28 É6J34 83￿) 271W3 384154 INCOMVIWENDITURE) TRANSFER BThEN FUNDS {14￿5 18A51 NET MOVEMETrry FUNDS 13 {14JX)51 18A51 RECONCILIATION OF FUND Totsi hmds broutht forward 14 117 99JgJ 12J)J8 91A825 lo3￿3 117

PAIU5H OF ST X)19 fimds Totsj fur*kn TotalhE Tati8ib]e assets I￿20 17 16fj70 12&178 36X¢V W,gY2 IOW 9]￿5 yea po,]￿) CJ0.￿) (27A IOA98 iou 117 T(yfALASSErs 11018 i(B 117 THE FUfvTJS OF171E aiARnY i(B 117A8 haifbr.

HIAL CHUR COUNCIL H OFST OHN THE EVANGELIST NOThkNG THE FINANCIAL STA eDded31 De¢ember2 PARI IAS the ACCOUNllNC POLICIES conventio charity corLsts"lules a publ l￿fil enlity deflld by FFS 1(ri The s¢ateuw¢ts ha¥e preEXted gomgallKwn IH5is under hisi0rfft￿ cc6t(rnv@nEK)nand in aeLDrdatL￿ the tharities Act 3)11 and in ac(Dr￿a￿ with the￿Ur￿ AccY)untin8 Regulati￿ 2￿￿goVern￿ the individual alrounls of PCCS. and wtth Rwlation<~trueand fair vMY~ ￿0visI￿4 Ihe5tatementd Recommended Practsce I￿)RP)~A<LXyun1Irtga￿d ReFx)rlJng by awitio< IFRS 1021. All incoTnin8 re￿urcesa[t indudedThi thesia1et￿Trl of FIr￿￿1#1 AcEivltie5 when the(tr￿Tity is lesally entitled to the incDll and IheallKwnton ￿quantified WIthr&wnal￿ acruracy. ExpendlttsTe RttosDitknn the charity tt? thatexFndituty it is ￿tseIde￿wtw￿ ￿￿Ulted and the ar￿)￿￿t ofthe obI￿ation measured te]]ably. E¥a)diiure isa((xwntEd foron ana￿nth15 and has]￿1 c}￿l￿ed underheadings thataggre8ale all LXKSt6 re]ated to category. Wherea%b onTKrt Ee directly attribuied to PMTticularheaditw they have Fen alk￿led lo actKvfftties CA) a ba8tsqThi%tentwith the u8È0f rwuTCES. Grantsoffetyd suty.ect tv eonditions whith have ￿tteen ￿tal theyear•KI daiearern￿ a)n￿ltu￿nts bulrntacuued a5 eX5￿dit￿re. Tanglble Axed tn 50 frar as c￿￿e(rated and pro￿rtY ofany kind ts exduded fTom the 5ts1utory definiti(m a5 'thartty' by &ction io (21 la) aTKt (c) of ￿ (Tharities AItZ)11 s￿afftts ate not(apilaIi￿d in Ihe fuwnuqi slatemen Tanglbk fi¥ed assets forllge by De￿lati￿ is provided at follow￿ arnual rdles JnoTder iowriteoff aet 0￿r its estimated useful Jif& -25% (m Lr&t .25%thLUt .25￿ts Fixtures aTrd fittings Officeequlpm￿t DebtOTSand￿eaIkn￿￿(thabftelP￿YbAe withtn o•E year {CJI￿) the amounLs T￿p1vIlble are re(wsed at the p)mtAI whKh ￿ awtty isenlitted toc]alnL The revenue retsipt actr)unted for on the ￿￿al basi8 and matdwd in the frthnLial slatCTnenb viith the rela￿ ￿ts￿or whith the gtsnt 18 inknded Taxatlo The dwiy 15 exempt ftom tsX(￿ Ats dwltsble ￿1vI

CH COUNCI OF THE H OFST ESKAS OHN ANGE JST N(yrriNG HI ACCOUWINC FOLICIES tontiftllod.... Fund4LYnU#lin8 Unrestric￿ ftJndsoTh be vsed inacrLrkn wilh Ltytivo5 at tt% of the Restric￿ fun& (2D IE ￿ed for prkncutsr retstricw within the of Ihe dmrity. Rentsjs ￿ld tsnder 0￿dtIng ￿a￿tt￿[ged kn the51atert￿t Offin￿l￿ adivitieson a straight kne (￿er￿ll rlsk kn opÈRtion# ]n comttK>nwith Jnany other thayitses. theoutbreakof Covid.19 in Ihe UKand the nasures ￿]rt8 takn ￿ c￿￿1[01 sP￿d ha￿ had an imwt5t IM1aJ￿st￿teVenIs and &tordin8ly. the aL and rtsults ofttacttvities for. the year ended 31 tknmtTT ￿)haVe￿>t Ikthadjusted ￿rell￿t their ]mtwL

EPA IAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLES SH OFST IST NOTllNG HILL NOTES TO STATEMETrnS endod 2019 tK)NATIONS AND LECACIES 127.140 13.no 140WAI 118.516 22612 141,128 Gift Aid 785 2213 iio,(r20 61793 111233 (YTHER TRADING AcrivmES Fund raisingevents i48.￿] 25.J5 I48,￿1 INCOME FROM JNVFSTMENTS 470 EXPENDrruREON RAISING FUNDS Fund rdl8￿ 432 EXPENDITURE ON CHAIUTABLE AcllvJTIES ]].( ts relating ID the work of the (hurth 189AkZ3 612 2LI5.378 951 189fi35 Xb.329 ]ndÈpendeftt Examinati(m fee 1,680 TRUSTEES, REMUNERATION AND BENEFTTS No tru5tee5' remuneiatm or otheT ￿￿efits for ￿r￿uled.7] 2rA) I£Nil ))191. PCC no FoYll￿nts were nmde lo ofthe Ffc Ckne120t*. Iwo) Truth rwxkvÈd rp- ond disburgemenls were Rerfd William Taylor a[￿ ReT<d iarryGaim in rest￿ofw0rkll￿eX￿. 11 STAFFCOSIS 2019 Wages and5alaTi4 NICand p￿81 61169 in8 ¢xxg14 of Jnore than

E PAROCHIAL C URCH OUNCIL OF THE ECCLE PARISH OF ST OHN THE EVANG 1ST NOTllNG HILL OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMEpirs . ear ended 31 Deojllber 12 ￿COmE n9 The netxncome i$8lated afkn (harsuig: 1(fj2 13 19 Total ftsnds funth Donations and legaci& CharitableactriVitie5 141.128 IiU33 48J61 117 141.128 IIZl33 Other fund generdttngaclivilies I(A)AKK) 148.361 76 301m9 I[￿.766 Raising hJnd5 Charitable activities Othe.rexFÉnditllTe Governancea￿ts 11*81 A65 17 205.319 271296 IiOJ58 3H154 NET INCOMV(FxPEND￿UK Iiom2) 18A51 NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS 110.092) 18ASI RECONCILIATION OF FUND& Total funds browt forwatd 101.917 g)yJ7 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED K)RWARD 26m3 25 117 li

EPAR IAL CHURCH OUNC OFTHE ECCL PAR H OFST OHN THE EVANGELIST Norr￿G HILL NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMEN r ettded 31 Dtrembetml 14 MOvem￿t i hmd$ Unrestricted funds Restrlcied funds I271￿3} 114(IMI Intereston f*TVE5 (27W3J 114(X)41 Movernent in fund$ UnrestrKted Mnds Restritkd fwids Intereslon reserves 2T&296 28x3 7&5 766 IIOA58) IIQ0921 18A51 iio IW.706 384,154 15 RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Atl Jan Net Al3]DK￿l in fund5 ¥eÈn erdl 4Jl4) IZ018 Other restricted fund4 TOTAL 91.825 117 {14JTh) 103A3 COMPARATIVE RECONCILIATION CMI FUN[ Atljan Nrt Tra￿fer At 31 DÈC a)19 General 26Ab23 ReS¢rIc￿a￿Thd5 Other restricted fun(ts 101,917 9J397 (lorn) 91125 117 TOTAL 12

THE AROCHIAL CH PA￿s OFST CH COUNCIL OF THE THE EVANCELIST N LES Tl NOTES TO THE FINAN STA 16 TANGIBLE FJXED ASS￿5 pkntt& Fi>luresand quipment COST At I latwary 201) Addition5 iiJ Z245 27.M> 1026 At31 Xf20 11.7 13AY) 4.2n 29AI& At l January 21Ta) Cknge for Ihe yÈaT At 31 1120 ii. 13A39 Z245 27,39) IL 13A 1752 Nvf BOOK VALUE At 31 D￿miEr 2(120 At 31 Decemkn )X9 Con8e(raled pnbperty and furni6hin8B cOn￿ated and L￿DefiCial pwty ofany kind 15 exduded fEOrn ttacLX)unts by￿tion IOQXC) of the Charilies Act 2011. Moveable chutth fUm￿h￿￿￿eId by the Ymxr￿d Clwrthwardensm tnL4t for ts PCC and whi(h uire a laculty for disEKwL are ￿)UTh1￿d as ina]ithalAe proity LNtsecrated. are listed in the thurch's inventory whi(h Caft￿ (atany Yèp5(mable limel. For ]na]l￿b￿ prom there is insuffictent (￿t infornwbffl aYaikb]e, and therefore suth ￿13 are rK>t •raiued tt￿ mainterHntE or improvement is written off. No 25 iadbroko R¢LL tA>nd(fft Wll thecurreni ￿￿8(￿8P I￿)￿ for Ihe pr￿h ofStJ(ty Notting HilL Thts proFErty is ownedby the DKK¥A8e and admi￿r&I byits Payw e<wd OtherfixtuTr4 f£iiiM8• office eqidyment OfliLE equipment and otherequlpll￿t ￿ed within the thTw¢hwemistsarÈ deprecraiEd ￿ a straight line basis over 4ytrs. items ofeywlpm￿I witha ￿TthaSe wi(p0f£l.L￿0r less atewriitenoff when Ihe ets a￿a£￿]Eed. 13

THE PAR(KHIAL CHUR HOFS COUN ANC ILOF 1ST Ic NOTES NCIAL ettdÈd 2019 17 DEBTORS 372 oth￿ Deb 4212 4,552 16.298 16,670 18 3512 2&619 30,131 27,(KX) 27,UX) 19 Expiring within ￿￿and five yeats RELATEDPARTr DISCLOSURE The Vior and thurthwardensof St j￿￿ Notting Hitl are ex4)ffiti) Trustee& Other Ihan Trustee eXp@n￿ (note 10) IherÈate norelatsdwty t[￿&￿ti ULTIMATE CONTROLLINC PAirrY ttuslpLS ate ¢￿sIder￿ to ￿ the ttltiEtiaie a)ntTolling Imrty dwity by virtsEof alrility to VOLUNTEERS In all warious activities FrrAS de￿dent Servi￿ of unl￿a voluni*rn The Val￿of this StsPFKirt during Ihe fina￿la1 Year￿ I￿eTr estinwled at£￿IlX1. This etimated value is not 14