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HOLY TRINITY PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL, STEVENAGE
including the churches of Holy Trinity and Christ the King
ANNUAL ACCOUNTS
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FINANCIAL REVIEW
YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER 2020
Registered Charity No. 1131873
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Aim and purposes
Holy Trinity's Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of co-operating with the Vicar, in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It also has maintenance responsibilities for the Church buildings and Churchyard of Holy Trinity, High Street, Stevenage and the Curate's house at 413 Scarborough Avenue, Stevenage.
The PCC also has responsibility to the Anglican Congregation at the Church of Christ the King Local Ecumenical Project located within the parish at Filey Close, Symonds Green, Stevenage. Currently, there are no ecumenical partners engaged with the project in this Church.
Objectives and activities
The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our churches and to become part of the parish community of Holy Trinity. The PCC maintains an overview of worship throughout the parish and makes suggestions on how our services can involve the many groups that live within our parish. Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament.
When planning our activities for the year, the PCC have considered the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. In particular, we try to enable ordinary people to live out their faith as part of our parish community through:
Worship and prayer; learning about the Gospel; and developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus Provision of pastoral care for people living in the parish Missionary and outreach work
To facilitate this work it is important that we maintain the fabric of the Church of Holy Trinity as well as supporting the Joint Church Council in the maintenance of the Church of Christ the King.
Achievements and performance
Worship and Prayer
This PCC is keen to offer a range of services during the week and over the course of the year that our community find both beneficial and spiritually fulfilling. For example, morning and evening prayers provide a quiet, intimate and reflective environment for worship whilst opportunities are provided for people to engage in more outgoing worship such as that provided by the use of contemporary music at Church of Christ the King on a regular basis. This year, with COVID restrictions in place, has seen the introduction of new ways of providing services and worship with the use of telephone dial-in options, Zoom online meetings and broadcast of services via Facebook and YouTube.
The PCC continues to seek ways in which to involve new families and young people in the life of the church and a number of family focussed services have been provided. The PCC also offers a series of "Messy Church" events which have proved to be popular in attracting youngsters to the church. Unfortunately, COVID lockdown arrangements has not permitted the development of this form of outreach this year.
Deanery Synod
Three members of the PCC sit on the Deanery Synod. This provides the PCC with an important link between the parish and the wider structures of the church.
Pastoral Care
Whilst the Parish Rooms continue to serve as a regular meetings venue for a number of community groups, including the Old Town Toddlers, Stevenage Rainbows, Stevenage Women's Institute, Stevenage Chess Club, the NHSRF group and the St Albans Retired Electricians, COVID restrictions have prevented such meetings from taking place except for the first few months of the year. Similarly, the Wednesday and Saturday Tea Bars were only able to serve the drop-in needs of the community in the earlier part of the year and the same curtailment has affected meetings of Friendship Cafe and Knit & Natter drop in tea bars operating at Christ the King. However, some groups have still been able to meet via Zoom/telephone conferencing systems.
Following the introduction of COVID restrictions, the activities of the Art Club have been put "on hold" until further notice. We look forward to its resumption and the group once more providing original artwork to enhance wider church activities.
Following the introduction of COVID restrictions, the activities of Trinity Tots (a group set up for young parents and toddlers) have been put "on hold" until further notice.
The daytime open church policy permits casual visitors to the church to find a quiet place to sit and pray and, from the entries made in the visitors' book, this has proved to be more greatly used than had been envisaged when the policy had been agreed by the PCC. However, due to COVID restrictions, the opening of the church for private prayer has been severely cut back to just a few hours per week and it is hoped that normal openings will be resumed as soon as it is safe to do so.
A Pastoral Care group meets (currently, virtually) as necessary to consider the needs of those in the parish unable to attend church due to sickness or infirmity. A prayer group actively prays for those in need. Home Communion is provided to those who have requested it and a team of volunteers provide a rota to ensure that this can happen week by week.
Whilst local schools and groups are encouraged to explore the church in relation to either general or religious educational activities, this has not happened this year due to COVID restrictions
Administrative information
Holy Trinity Church is situated in the High Street, Stevenage. It is part of the Diocese of St Albans within the Church of England.
The correspondence address is The Vicarage, 18 Letchmore Road, Stevenage, Herts. SG1 3JD.
The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is a charity
PCC Members who have served from 1 January 2020 until the date this report was approved are:
| Ex Officio Members: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Vicar | Rev'd Dr Ruth Carroll (PCC Chairman) | |
| Self-Supporting Associate Minister: | Rev'd Andy Thomas | |
| Reader: | Mrs Anne Price | |
| Reader: | Mr Clive Bell | Deanery Synod to 18 October 2020) |
| Reader: | Mr Keith Battarbee | |
| Wardens/Treasurers: | Mr Lee Slater (Vice-Chairman) | Deanery Synod (from 18 October 2020) |
| Mrs Elaine Hawkes | ||
| Deputy Warden: | Mrs Sue Benford | |
| Elected Members: | ||
| Representatives on the Deanery Synod | ||
| Mr John Morgan | PCC Treasurer (to 18 October 2020) | |
| Mrs Caroline Howard | (to 18 October 2020) | |
| Mrs Glynis Ireton | (from 18 October 2020) | |
| Mr Lee Slater | (from 18 October 2020) | |
| Mrs Suzanne Sandry | (from 18 October 2020) | |
| Parish Representatives | ||
| Ms Rebecca Birch | ||
| Mr Ian Hamilton | (to 18 October 2020) | |
| Mr Clive Hearmon | ||
| Mrs Angela Hepworth | (to 18 October 2020) | |
| Mrs Glynis Ireton | (to 18 October 2020) | |
| Mrs Maureen Lucraft | ||
| Mrs Carol Bigby | (to 18 October 2020) | |
| Mrs Val Piesse | ||
| Mrs Suzanne Sandry | (to 18 October 2020) | |
| Mr Geoff Withers | ||
| PCC Secretary | Mrs Janice Apthorpe |
Approved by the PCC on 9th March 2021 and signed on their behalf by the Rev'd Dr Ruth Carroll (PCC Chairman)
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Statement of Financial Activities
| Note INCOMING RESOURCES Voluntary Income 2(a) Activities for generating funds 2(b) Income from investments 2(c) Church activities 2(d) Other incoming resources 2(d) TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES RESOURCES EXPENDED Church activities 3(a) Cost of generation of voluntary income 3(b) Fund-raising trading costs 3(b) Governance costs 9(i) TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED NET INCOMING RESOURCES BEFORE OTHER RECOGNISED GAINS AND LOSSES Gains on investment assets: on disposal on revaluation NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS BALANCES B/FWD 1 JANUARY 2020 BALANCES C/FWD 31 DECEMBER 2020 |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Endowment Funds TOTAL FUNDS 2020 2019 £ £ £ £ £ 73,149 - - 73,149 68,938 14,230 - - 14,230 19,377 4 - - 4 7 12,605 - - 12,605 17,407 9,206 - - 9,206 13,436 |
|---|---|
| 109,194 - - 109,194 119,165 |
|
| 105,565 - - 105,565 115,361 2,966 - - 2,966 5,622 475 - - 475 1,985 - - - - 1,740 |
|
| 109,006 - - 109,006 124,708 |
|
| 188 - - 188 5,541 - - - - - - - - - - |
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| 188 - - 188 5,541 - 9,852 - - 9,852 15,393 |
|
| 10,040 - - 10,040 9,852 |
Parochial Church Council of Holy Trinity, Stevenage
| Note FIXED ASSETS 5 Tangible Investments CURRENT ASSETS Stock Debtors 6 Short term deposits Cash at bank and in hand LIABILITIES Creditors - amounts falling due in one year 7 NET CURRENT ASSETS / (LIABILITIES) Total assets less current liabilities Creditors - amounts falling due after one year TOTAL NET ASSETS PARISH FUNDS 8 Unrestricted Restricted Endowment |
2020 £ 18,410 - 18,410 197 4,749 491 14,655 20,091 12,613 7,478 7,478 10 7,468 7,468 - - 7,468 |
2019 £ 17,750 - |
|---|---|---|
| 17,750 | ||
| 679 - 489 7,536 |
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| 8,704 | ||
| 8,072 | ||
| 632 | ||
| 632 12 |
||
| 620 | ||
| 620 - - |
||
| 620 |
| 2.INCOMINGRESOURCES Note VoluntaryIncome 2(a) Plannedgiving: GiftAiddonations TaxRecoverable other |
Unrestricted RestrictedFunds Endowment TOTAL Funds Funds FUNDS 2020 2019 £ £ £ .£ £ 52,222 52,222 47,768 12,848 12,848 11,953 8078 8078 9,216 |
|---|---|
| 73,149 73,149 68,938 |
| Other ministry costs | 9(f) | 13,404 | - | - | 13,404 | 13,228 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church running and maintenance | 9(g) | 6,819 | - | - | 6,819 | 10,201 | |
| Church Utilities | 9(g) | 2,962 | - | - | 2,962 | 3,161 | |
| Parish magazine costs | 284 | - | - | 284 | 596 | ||
| Printing and stationery | 9(h) | 819 | - | - | 819 | 1,169 | |
| Major renovations/repairs | - | - | - | 0 | - | ||
| Governance Costs | 9(i) | 0 | - | - | 0 | 1,740 | |
| Extraordinary expenditure | 9(j) | 528 | - | - | 528 | 3,233 | |
| Wages and Salaries | 4(a)9(k) | 6,303 | - | - | 6,303 | 6,983 | |
| 105,565 | 0 | 0 | 105,565 | 117,100 | |||
| Fund raising costs | 3(b) | ||||||
| 100 Club | 2,570 | - | - | 2,570 | 3,380 | ||
| Parish Breakfast | 365 | 365 | |||||
| Other | 32 | - | - | 32 | 2,242 | ||
| Sub-Total | 2,966 | 0 | 0 | 2,966 | 5,622 | ||
| Traidcraft | 475 | - | - | 475 | 1,985 | ||
| Sub-Total | 3,442 | 3,442 | 7,607 | ||||
| TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED | 109,006 | - | - | 109,006 | 124,706 | ||
| 4. STAFF COSTS | |||||||
| Wages and salaries | 4(a) | 6,303 | - | - | 6,303 | 6,983 |
During the year the PCC employed an organist, parish secretary and administrator, grass cutter and two church cleaners (all part time) but no payments were large enough to attract social security costs. Other similarly small payment of fees were paid in respect of occasional duties performed by vergers, relief organists and sexton.
Together these employees equate to less than one full time employee.
Payments to PCC members 4(b)
Payments in respect of expenses incurred on behalf of the PCC have been paid to PCC members: Rev'd Dr Ruth Carroll, Janice Apthorpe, Glynis Ireton, Anne Price.
A salary has been paid to Janice Apthorpe in her role as Parish Secretary
Fee payments have been made to associates of PCC Members: Janice Apthorpe, Geoff Withers. 100 Club prizes have been paid to, or associates of, PCC Members: Ian Hamilton, Elaine Hawkes, John Morgan; Val Piesse.
5. FIXED ASSETS
With effect from 1 July 2011, the Church Commissioners have awarded the PCC a small share in the equity of the Curate's House at 413 Scarborough Avenue, Stevenage in recognition of improvements made to the property by the PCC. Estimated value of property = £280,000
Equity Share = 6.57534% which approximates to £18,410
6. DEBTORS (UNRESTRICTED FUNDS)
| Prepayments and accrued interest 7. LIABILITIES Amounts falling due in one year (unrestricted funds) Accruals for utility and other costs Other creditors |
2020 £ 4749 2020 £ 812 0 11801 12613 |
2019 £ 0 2019 £ 0 0 7513 |
|---|---|---|
| 7513 |
8. FUNDS
Designated funds have accumulated over time and represent funds that have been set aside for various purposes. The amounts remain held accounted as such unless, or until, the PCC determines that payments be made from them.
| Fund movements Balance as at 1 January 2020 Incoming resources Resources expended Balance at 31 December 2020 |
£ 33,142 18,400 -19,325 |
|---|---|
| 32,217 |
Please note that it has been necessary to call upon these reserves to the extent of £23,722 in order to meet current costs.
| Activities for generating funds 2(b) Collections (open plate) 9(a) Donations, appeals, etc. 9(b) Fund-raising 9(c) Messy Church Crozier Magazine Income from Investments 2(c) CBF of Church of England Deposit Interest Parish Breakfast Deposit Interest Income from church activities 2(d) Church hall lettings Fees Parish Breakfast Traidcraft Stall Other 9(d) Sub-Total 413 Scarborough Avenue letting Extraordinary Income 9(e) Sub-Total Total incoming resources 3. RESOURCES EXPENDED Church activities 3(a) Missionary and charitable giving Overseas: Familia Moja Future Hope Mission Aviation Fellowship SCIMP Traidcraft Exchange Sub-Total Home: Beds & Herts Historic Churches Trust Bridgebuilders Church Urban Fund Darcies Wish Dementia UK Diabetes UK Garden House Hospice Herts Young Homeless Holy Trinity Keech Hospice Care Riding for the Disabled Stevenage Haven Stevenage Old Town Business & Community Partners Stroke Association The Children's Society The Oak Church USPG Total Charitable Giving Ministry: Diocesan Parish Share Wider Church: JCC/Deanery/CTiS Sub-Total |
2,624 - - 2,624 6,452 5,071 - - 5,071 6,253 5,064 - - 5,064 5,312 3 - - 3 173 1,467 - - 1,467 1,187 |
|---|---|
| 14,230 - - 14,230 19,377 |
|
| 2 - - 2 4 2 - - 2 4 |
|
| 4 - - 4 8 |
|
| 1,251 - - 1,251 3,947 7,131 - - 7,131 5,608 591 591 2,306 738 - - 738 2,428 2,894 - - 2,894 5,425 |
|
| 12,605 0 0 12,605 19,714 8,486 - - 8,486 8,528 720 - - 720 4,908 |
|
| 9,206 - - 9,206 13,435 |
|
| 109,194 - - 109,194 121,472 2020 2019 - - - - 1,980 - - - - 200 - - - - 200 4 - - 4 49 - - - - 86 |
|
| 4 0 0 4 2,515 337 - - 337 458 1,500 - - 1,500 1,200 - - - - 100 - - - - 357 - - - - 5 - - - - 105 - - - - 83 - - - - 200 2,699 - - 2,699 1,500 - - - - 5 - - - - 467 - - - - 9 h - - - - 10 - - - - 72 - - - - 71 1,500 - - 1,500 1,200 - - - - 118 |
|
| 6,039 0 0 6,039 8,475 65,887 - - 65,887 64,731 2,520 - - 2,520 3,584 |
|
| 68,407 - - 68,407 68,315 |
| 9. ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR THE PARISH (a) Collections (open plate) General Plate Baptism Services Wedding Services Funeral Services Other Services (b) Donations, appeals, etc. CAF Donations Church Urban Fund Dementia UK Diabetes UK Donation for IT/Zoom costs Donation for permitting filming Donation towards Care Coordinators Lunch Donation towards Walsworth visit travel costs Donations in memory of Elaine Ryan Donations in memory of Helen Shaw Donations via DONr Donations via GoodBox Donation for Telephone Conference Calls Garden House Hospice General Donations Historic Churches Bike n Hike JustGiving Donations Keech Cottage Riding for the Disabled Ruth Huelser/Familia Moja SCIMP Stevenage Haven Stroke Association The Children's Society USPG 9(c) Fund Raising 100 Club 2019 reclaimed Book Sales Bike 'n Hike Burger Stall Care Coordinators Lunch Charitable Giving 2019 reclaimed CtK Christmas Raffle CtK Concert & Carols CtK Summer Sounds Traidcraft Exchange Trinity Tots 9(d) Other Income Flower Fund 100 Club Christmas Dinner Retreat Sundries Wedding Deposits 9(e) Extraordinary Income Art Club Bequest Charitable Giving from 2018 Collection for Derek Slater (Sacristan) Collection for Rev'd Fiona Souter Donation towards boiler fan repair (B/Fwd) Donation towards funeral of Chris O'Sullivan Donations towards cushions for Chancel Grant towards video equipment Receipt intended for JCC:CtK Vacancy Receipts |
2020 2,595.16 £ - £ - £ 4.00 £ 25.00 £ 2,624.16 £ 2020 25.00 £ - £ - £ - £ 20.00 £ 200.00 £ 250.00 £ 66.15 £ 161.00 £ 864.25 £ 25.00 £ 372.00 £ 72.00 £ - £ 2,491.50 £ - £ 521.00 £ - £ - £ - £ 3.52 £ - £ - £ - £ - £ 5,071.42 £ 2020 1,490.00 £ - £ 630.50 £ - £ - £ 2,698.55 £ 75.00 £ - £ 170.00 £ - £ - £ 5,064.05 £ 2020 18.81 £ 2,188.00 £ - £ - £ 4.00 £ 683.00 £ 2,893.81 £ 2020 20.00 £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ 700.00 £ - £ 720.00 £ |
2019 5,396 £ 326 £ 43 £ 186 £ 501 £ 6,453 £ 2019 ‐ £ 96 £ 5 £ 105 £ ‐ £ ‐ £ ‐ £ ‐ £ ‐ £ ‐ £ ‐ £ ‐ £ ‐ £ 83 £ 5,176 £ 697 £ ‐ £ 5 £ 432 £ 30 £ 49 £ 9 £ 72 £ 72 £ 118 £ 6,950 £ 2019 ‐ £ 63 £ ‐ £ 532 £ 88 £ ‐ £ ‐ £ 477 £ 1,064 £ 86 £ ‐ £ 2,309 £ 2019 412 £ 2,407 £ 1,200 £ ‐ £ 128 £ 1,278 £ 5,425 £ 2019 838.17 £ 500.00 £ 1,500.00 £ 90.00 £ 155.00 £ 500.00 £ 200.00 £ 625.00 £ ‐ £ 500.00 £ ‐ £ 4,908 £ |
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| 9(f) Other Ministry Costs Clergy Expenses Clergy Travel Fees 413 Scarborough Avenue 9(g) Church running and maintenance Admin Christmas Dinner Faith Development Flower Arranging General Maintenance Heat & Light Insurance of the Church Messy Church Organ Maintenance Postages Retreat Stewardship Sundries Telephone Upkeep of Services(includes £783 COVID-19 costs) Water Wedding Deposits Used 9(h) Stationery Miscellaneous Ink Cartridge Photocopier Rental Photocopier Paper Photocopies 9(i) Governance Costs Architect Quinquennial Inspection 9(j) Extraordinary expenditure Art Group Bursary - Messy Church Training Cushions for Chancel Donation for Boiler Fan Repair Funeral - Chris O'Sullivan Gift for Derek Slater (Sacristan) Gift for Rev'd Fiona Souter Receipts intended for JCC:CtK Video Equipment 9(k) Wages Caretaker Grasscutter Organist Sacristan Secretary |
‐ £ 365.75 £ 4,489.00 £ 8,549.73 £ 13,404.48 £ 2020 18.00 £ - £ 676.33 £ - £ 939.67 £ 2,795.16 £ 1,704.61 £ - £ 156.00 £ - £ - £ 122.10 £ 70.00 £ 1,136.31 £ 1,945.57 £ 166.45 £ 50.00 £ 9,780.20 £ 2020 42.28 £ 91.27 £ 468.00 £ 33.28 £ 184.57 £ 819.40 £ 2020 - £ - £ 2020 51.75 £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ 475.99 £ 527.74 £ 2020 368.00 £ 275.00 £ 1,082.40 £ - £ 4,577.28 £ 6,302.68 £ |
- £ 1,206 £ 3,366 £ 8,656 £ 13,228 £ 2019 67 £ 1,200 £ 211 £ 442 £ 1,635 £ 2,990 £ 1,693 £ 247 £ 335 £ ‐ £ ‐ £ 122 £ ‐ £ 1,012 £ 1,940 £ 171 £ 1,298 £ 13,362 £ 2019 88 £ 161 £ 468 £ 109 £ 343 £ 1,169 £ 2019 1,740 £ 1,740 £ 2019 651 £ 420 £ 691 £ 500 £ 200 £ 151 £ 120 £ 500 £ ‐ £ 3,233 £ 2019 768 £ 275 £ 1,362 £ ‐ £ 4,577 £ 6,983 £ |
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