## St John's and St Nicholas PCC
Report and Accounts Year ended 31 December 2025
1 Lamb's Passage, London EC1Y 8AB www.stewardship.org.uk
## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN & ST NICHOLAS**
## **LEGAL & ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
|ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE|ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE|14 Arrowe Road|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||WIRRAL|||
|||Merseyside|||
|||CH49 1RA|||
|GOVERNING DOCUMENTS||PCC Powers Measure|1956 and||
|||the Church Representation Rules 2011|||
|CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER||1131951|||
|MEMBERS OF THE PCC|_Ex_|_Officio members:_|||
|||Rev Simon Paul Stride||(incumbent)|
|||Jane Chesters|(Resigned 31 May 2026)|(church warden)|
|||Olive Kielty|(Resigned 31 May 2026)|(church warden)|
||_Elected members_||||
|||Jane Ross|(Appointed 18 May 2025)||
|||Judith Cashin|(Appointed 18 May 2025)||
|||Janet Lindoe|(Appointed 18 May 2025)||
||||(Appointed 18 May 2025)||
|||Derek Cashin|(church warden since 31 May 2026)||
|||Rebecca Moore|||
|||Raymond Hutton|||
|||Stephanie Williams|(church warden since 31 May 2026)||
|||Emma Craig|||
|||Barbara Brassey|||
|||Lauren Campbell|||
|||Charlotte Gilmartin|||
|||Anthony Bassett|(Resigned 31 May 2026)||
|||Susan Beattie|||
|||Helen Nile|||
|||Clare Sanderson|(Appointed 31 May 2026)||
|||Rachel Rimmer|(Appointed 31 May 2026)||
|||Linda Wilde|(Appointed 31 May 2026)||
|||Richard Shrimption|(Appointed 31 May 2026)||
|INDEPENDENT EXAMINER||Hannah Clack|||
|||Stewardship|||
|||1 Lamb's Passage|||
|||LONDON|||
|||EC1Y 8AB|||
|||**INDEX**|||
|Page 1|Legal & Administrative Details||||
|Pages 2-5|Trustees' Report||||
|Page 6|Independent Examiner's Report||||
|Page 7|Receipts and Payments Account||||
|Page 8|Statement of Assets & Liabilities||||
|Pages 9-11|Notes to the Accounts||||
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## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN & ST NICHOLAS**
## **REPORT OF THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
The PCC has pleasure in submitting the Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025.
## **Objects of the charity**
The charity is responsible for co-operating with the incumbent, in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the Church be it pastoral, evangelistic, social or ecumenical. The PCC is also responsible for maintaining certain church property situated within the parish, namely church hall, the vicarage, St John’s and St Nicholas Church buildings.
## **Summary of the charity's main activities and achievements**
To further the above objects and vision, the charity's main activities and achievements were as follows:
In January 2026 the PCC met for a morning away together at the Sisters of Jesus Way in West Kirby. We prayed and set out to seek the vision of the Church asking the Holy Spirit to inspire us for the year ahead. We also received Holy Communion and worshiped. Our goal was to create a mission statement building on our former three values, to pray, love God and share with others. After a fruitful time prayer, thoughts and ideas, we collaboratively summed up the church’s vision into three core values that will remain…
FAITH (in Christ) LOVE (God and others) GROW (Prayer, Worship, Community)
FAITH
We are a FAITH-filled Church family where all are invited to belong, form friendships and find faith in the hope of Jesus Christ. LOVE
We believe in God’s LOVE, living for Jesus, loving God passionately and sharing His love with others.
GROW We want to GROW God’s Goodness in our community through Prayer, Worship and Good witness through His Word by demonstrating Love in Action.
I reiterated our revised core values at Vision Sunday back in February and asked the church family to write down a prayer of one thing you would like to see in the Church/Parish for the year, here were your some of your prayers…
- For the Church to be open to the community filled with God’s love
- An increase in young people curious about Jesus and the church
- For the church family to grow in faith and socially
- People coming together to give a clear message of the love, hope in Jesus
- A revival of faith in our community, deeper faith
- More younger people and children in Sunday Worship
- Worship and prayer evenings
- Prayer walks around different parts of the Parish/Wirral Way
- Midweek bible study groups and home groups
- Praying and sharing together more deeply.
I was encouraged to hear some common themes that came from our prayers together and I trust that the Lord is already working them all out. Let’s keep on praying for our vision prayers to become our reality in Jesus’ name. We’ll take on board all these things and put in place the steps to make them happen. Prayer and Worship We began this new term by hosting a prayer evening Thy Kingdom Come held on Ascension Sunday. This was a powerful and yet quiet evening dedicated to praying for the world and others that they would come to know the Lord Jesus. We were all encouraged to pray for five people to come to faith and continue to do so. Everyone in the church family also received prayer journals and devotions for writing personal prayers and reflections to God. We decided it was right to open St Nicholas’ every two months for an evening of worship and prayer starting with our re-launch 60-year anniversary service with Bishop of Chester, Mark Tanner who re-dedicated the building for public worship and gave a hope filled message on unity. It was also lovely to hear both, traditional and modern worship side by side, with the band and choir leading old hymns and new worship songs. As previously mentioned, we also just held our Thy Kingdom Come Prayer evening, which was the most well attended in the past three years. Last year we talked and prayed about developing bible study home groups for the church and we have already had a great deal of interest from hosts to small group leaders. We aim to launch midweek home groups in the autumn 2026 and are putting in the accountability structures to make them robust and sustainable.
## **Children, families and young people.**
Our ‘Little Lights’ has been running weekly for almost two years during term times and has grown from strength to strength seeing between 30 and 40 toddlers plus adults every week! Although the team is changing, due to house moves, health and others on mat. Leave, we thank the Lord we are still able to continue. Thanks to your prayers and others willing to volunteer and join the team once a month It has been wonderful to see relationships form between parents, childminders and carers in this time. More importantly, to see everyone engage in crafts, songs and story time which share the good news of Jesus. We also continue to have an active Christian presence in our local non-faith schools, Brookdale, Greasby Infant and Junior School. Our Churches Together Assemblies team continue to take assemblies every fortnight. The assemblies are pack with fun consisting of games, bible quizzes, Q&A, a video, bible stories, talks and action songs. This autumn term we have an exciting opportunity, an invitation to partake in RE lessons from both Brookdale and GIS. Also, from the success of LEGO in Lent, we have been asked to trial LEGO club in school lunchtimes as well as running Messy Church in Greasby Infant School. Do hold us in your prayers. As a team we have been blown away for the thoughtful participation from pupils and teachers. We also invited all three schools for Remembrance Day to learn the significance of why we hold services in Church and the importance of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. The children had lots of fun writing prayer hands and placing on the cross.
Over the past year we have seen a steady engagement with families through our Light Party and Messy Church. All of these events were a great witness in sharing the love and message of Jesus Christ to children and families. It is worth saying that these events are made possible by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. Also, because of all your support in prayer and service, these events are fruitful so thank you. We would love to see an increase in the number of younger people and families through prayer, working with the diocese, PCC and other local churches, we feel that distinctive worship services and fresh expressions of church cater particularly well for the un-churched. For those with no faith or religion it is a big and brave step to set foot in a church for the first time, and so we want to make that step as easy and accessible as possible for them.
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Please do pray as continue catering for all ages with intergenerational worship, you’ll appreciate this is not an easy task from tiny babies to those in into their 90s! The reality of this means that every age will have different worship preferences as we learn to love and appreciate the variety of styles. Young and old worshipping side by side rather than making separate provisions. We must remember to keep the focus and main thing in worship Jesus, it is all for Him and not always about our style preferences.
As we continue to build on children’s ministry, we are starting to look at possibilities for youth provisions in Greasby. We have heard from Dan Sach, the director of Wirral Youth For Christ and all the exciting faith work that is happening across the secondary schools.
We have heard great stories of youth coming to faith at Wirral YFC’s leader’s gatherings at St. Nicholas’ as one of their host venues. We were encouraged to see youth workers from across the Wirral meet together to pray in and for our Parish, share stories of what the Lord is doing in secondary schools and youth clubs locally. We will continue to pray that we begin to find new ways to see young people engage with God and Church within our Parish.
## **Churches Together:**
We continue with our strong relationship with Greasby Methodist Church and their newly appointed minister, Revd. Phy Fanning who has warmly welcomed worshipping together for more joint services and events. These included the Palm Sunday Passion play, Maundy Thursday Holy Communion and our annual Good Friday outdoor witness service. We are currently planning activities together for Celebrate Greasby Day event. **Greasby Community Association:**
We are grateful for all the community led events the community association run throughout including Celebrate Greasby day on Saturday 13th June. This summer we have the opportunity again to join in the fun with sharing a church stall with Greasby Methodist Church full of activities to share the Gospel. Also, this year we will be setting up a prayer tent for those who want a space of contemplation and prayer. If that’s not enough we are holding a special ‘Celebrate Greasby Day Afterhours’ dance music style worship for all ages, especially young people and families. **Light up Greasby**
Our relationship is also growing with the Light up Greasby team who do a wonderful job bring some colour and light in the village at Christmas time. This year we are looking at hosting a whole village event in the autumn to fundraise the big switch on. We are glad to be involved in these great events and pray that these relationships continue to strengthen as we work together for the Kingdom of God, showing His love and goodness to all those around us.
As a Church family, we have continued to build relationships with our neighbours, local community groups, shops, businesses, local pubs and restaurants. We have recently connected with Eddie’s cafe (formerly The Oak) and he is really keen to work together more with the church. Our regular church family social groups are still running; Men at the Pub and Tea on Tuesday but the Ladies socials are on pause for now until we get more interest leaders and hosts. We will continue to develop these that we begin to see the work of the Holy Spirit and the light of Christ in us as we reach out to share His good news through Frankby and Greasby.
## **Safeguarding**
Over this past year Becky Moore, our Parish Safeguarding Officer has done a great job at reviewing and updating our Safeguarding Policy and Procedures. Vicki, our administrator has setup DBS and Safeguarding records on our ChurchSuite database and has made sure that all our volunteers are up to date with training. The PCC had updated our Safeguarding policy October 2025.
## **Updates and fundraising**
As you might be aware, we have been blessed with legacies in our Church and the PCC have agreed we use some towards the upkeep and maintenance of our buildings. However, we will also be continuing major fundraising projects this year for funding a new kitchen for St Nicholas’, painting and decorating the Church hall and repairing the North Aisle of St John’s roof and re-painting the interior. Last autumn we had undergone major renovation work carried out at St. Nicholas’ Church thanks to the Cashin’s and team at Jaguar Land rover. These projects have gone smoothly and we are grateful for all your support as the works have all been prayerfully and thoughtfully considered. (please read buildings and maintenance committee report for more info). I am also grateful to Sing Me Merseyside choir and BOST who put on special musical concerts to fund raise the further works needed to complete St Nic’s such as carpeting and flooring the foyer area and church office, fitting blinds and repairing broken windows. Vicki and I also completed the UK 3 peaks hike at the end of summer to raise money towards ongoing works. We are grateful for all your generous donations making our buildings fit for purpose for worship and mission, a safe space for everyone.
## **Mission and Charities**
As well as maintaining our buildings, we also give to those in need through our charities and mission partners and last year we heard from different charities once a month. The PCC also agreed that we give ten percent of our offerings received divided across the charities we support outside of our seasonal
mission weeks. (please read Olive’s charity report).
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## **Churchwardens**
Last but by no means least, I would like to say a big thank you to the
Churchwardens for stepping up to the role serving over the past 12 years. They have both decided to step down and pass the baton onto those who have been nominated for election at our upcoming AGM and APCM service. I am so grateful for all the hard graft, behind the scenes, hours, weeks, months and
years they have put in to keep the church in good shape.
## **Administrator**
Last year the PCC, churchwardens and I have decided it was important to invest in people and teams, both volunteers and developing staff. Thus, we decided to form subcommittees and team ministries in order to grow in the mission and ministry of the church and share its gifts and workload. We felt that it was important to develop infrastructure, operational and administrative support. In September 2025, we recruited Vicki as part time administrator (11 hours per week) for the church which has been a major shift of how we operate the day-to- day functioning of the church. Semng up new filing systems in the church office. Digitalising everything to our database and supporting across all our different volunteers. By Vicki taking on this role, it has enabled the communications to be better and stronger within the church and for the pastoral ministry to flourish giving more time to home visits and outreach in the village.
## **Community and partnerships**
Our relationships and connections with other churches and the community is continually growing, especially with Richard Shrimpton recently joining the team. He has given two days a week for community development and engagement. Richard is doing extensive research of how best for the Church to
engage with the wider community and is also meeting key people locally. Richard will share more about this in his ministry update at the APCM. We are so grateful to have him based in the church office Mondays and Tuesdays. Thank you to all for your ongoing support in this Church/Parish, it really has been another year of being surprised by God’s faithfulness and your generosity. We couldn’t have done any of this without you and leaning on the Lord’s strength. We have come a long way in little time and God has so much more to show us and teach us! I pray that we keep our faith in Christ, love for God and others and grow in prayer and worship in our community.
Most the charity's activities are undertaken by volunteers and the charity could not operate effectively without their efforts.
In planning the activities the PCC has applied the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission.
## **Financial review**
During the year income increased by £10,088 to £152,393 and expenditure increased by £5,835, to £145,657. As a result, the cash held by the charity increased by £6,736, to £167,139, of which £159,238 is unrestricted and can be used for any charitable purpose.
## **Reserves policy**
The PCC has determined that the charity should aim to hold unrestricted cash of no less than £84,000 (which equates to about 6 months' of unrestricted expenditure) so that the charity could continue to operate should income and / or expenditure vary adversely. At the year end, the charity held unrestricted cash of £159,238 and the charity is complying with its reserves policy.
## **Governance**
The charity is registered with the Charity Commission and operates under the Charities Act 2011. The governing documents for the charity are the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956 (as amended) and the Church Representation Rules 2011.
The appointment of PCC members is governed by, and set out in, the Church Representation Rules. The PCC comprises ex-officio members (which includes clergy and churchwardens), elected members and co-opted members. The PCC organises elections annually before the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) to fill vacancies. The members of the PCC are the charity's trustees for the purposes of charity law.
Responsibility for setting policy and for determining the parameters within which the charity should operate for making operating decisions rests with the PCC which meets regularly to monitor the activities of the charity. Responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the charity has been delegated to a management team led by the incumbent, including the church administrator, and sub committees of the PCC including finance, mission and charities, pastoral, buildings and maintenance, and standing committee.
## **Risk statement**
The charity is exposed to various risks - be they operational, financial or reputational. The PCC reviews the charity's activities regularly to identify significant risks and, where possible, it takes appropriate measures to mitigate those risks.
## **Other matters**
With regard to the PCC’s obligations to safeguard children and vulnerable adults, the members of the PCC confirm that they have complied with their duties under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016.
The Diocese have assessed the PCC’s Parish Share to be £ 77,605 for the year to 31 December 2025; having reviewed the PCC’s finances, the members of the PCC have paid this obligation in full.
The last quinquennial inspection was held in 2022; some work on the St John’s church roof was required. Having reviewed its findings, the members of the PCC determined some work was required, this is expected to cost £17,340, a quote was received November 2025, and the members of the PCC anticipate that the works will be paid for by June 2026. There will be consideration for further fundraising this year, to repair the whole of the church roof.
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## **Responsibilities of trustees**
Charity law requires the PCC to prepare financial statements for each accounting year which record the receipts and payments of the charity for the year.
The PCC is responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable us to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011.
We also have a responsibility to safeguard the assets of the charity and to take reasonable steps to prevent fraud or any other irregularities.
## **Approval**
This report was approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf by:
## Simon Stride
_____________________________________________Rev Simon Paul StrideSimon Stride (Jun 11, 2026 11:56:02 GMT+1)
simon@frankbygreasby.org www.frankbygreasby.org Jun 11, 2026 Date: ________________
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT**
## **TO THE TRUSTEES OF**
## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN & ST NICHOLAS**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN & ST NICHOLAS ('the charity') for the year ended 31 December 2025 on pages 7 to 11 following.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the trustees of the charity, the members of the PCC are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with the accounting records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## Hannah Clack
Hannah Clack (Jun 25, 2026 10:22:24 GMT+1)
Hannah Clack Stewardship 1 Lamb's Passage LONDON EC1Y 8AB
Date: Jun 25, 2026
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## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN & ST NICHOLAS**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
|||||||Unrestricted|Funds|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||General|Designated||Restricted|||
|||||||Funds||Funds|Funds|2025|2024|
|||||Notes||£||£|£|£|£|
|**_Income receipts_**||||||||||||
|Voluntary receipts||||2(a)||107,889||1,655|9,969|119,513|108,971|
|Fundraising income||||2(b)||2,258||-|-|2,258|4,725|
|Church activities||||2(c)||23,652||-|2,600|26,252|24,980|
|Investment income||||2(d)||4,371||-|-|4,371|3,629|
|||||||138,169||1,655|12,569|152,393|142,305|
|||||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**||||||138,169||1,655|12,569|152,393|142,305|
|**Payments**||||||||||||
|Church activities||||||||||||
|Parish share||||||77,605||-|-|77,605|75,344|
|Clergy and staffing costs||||3(a)||2,535||-|-|2,535|1,292|
|Church running||expenses||3(b)||53,618||1,608|2,947|58,173|53,819|
|Hall running costs||||3(c)||2,474||-|-|2,474|5,957|
|||||||136,232||1,608|2,947|140,787|136,412|
|Fundraising expenses||||4||-||-|-|-|-|
|Mission giving and|donations|||5||-||-|4,869|4,869|3,409|
|||||||136,232||1,608|7,816|145,657|139,821|
|||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**||||||136,232||1,608|7,816|145,657|139,821|
|Net
of
receipts|/|(payments)|before|||||||||
|transfers||||||1,937||46|4,753|6,736|2,484|
|Transfers between|funds||||-|547||-|547|-|-|
|**Net movement in funds**||||||1,390||46|5,300|6,736|2,484|
|Cash funds as at last year end||||||150,331||7,471|2,601|160,403|157,919|
|**Cash funds at this year end**||||A||151,720||7,517|7,901|167,139|160,403|
The notes on pages 9 - 11 form part of these accounts.
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## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN & ST NICHOLAS**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
|General
Designated
funds
funds
£
£
**A Cash funds**
Cash at bank with immediate access
151,721
7,517
**151,721**
**7,517**
**B Other monetary assets**
Gift aid due to charity
4,013
-
Legacy due to charity
65,157
-
Refund due from supplier
300
-
Bank Interest
981
-
**70,451**
**-**
**C Liabilities**
**Falling due within one year**
Payroll
602
-
Fee for Independent Examination
1,440
-
Accrued expenses
1,028
-
**3,070**
**-**
**Total**
**3,070**
**-**
**D Assets retained for charity's own use**
Land and buildings made up of:
St Nicholas Church, Arrowe Road, Birkenhead, Greasby, Wirral, CH49 1RA
the Church Hall, at St Johns Church, Frankby Road, Greasby, Wirral, CH49 1PE
PA and IT equipment
Unrestricted Funds|Restricted
funds
£
7,901
**7,901**
-
-
-
-
**-**
-
-
-
**-**
**-**|2025
£
167,139
**167,139**
4,013
65,157
300
981
**70,451**
602
1,440
1,028
**3,070**
**3,070**|2024
£|
|---|---|---|---|
||||160,403|
||||**160,403**|
||||-
-
-
-|
||||**-**|
||||-
-
-|
||||**-**|
|||||
||||**-**|
||||Current
value
£|
||||759,160
3,042|
||||762,202|
Current values have been estimated by the trustees.
Consecrated property, beneficed property and moveable church furnishings which require a special faculty for disposal are excluded from the above list of charity assets.
The accounts were approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf by:
## Simon Stride
Simon Stride (Jun 11, 2026 11:56:02 GMT+1) ___________________________________Rev Simon Paul Stride
Jun 11, 2026 Date: ______________
The notes on pages 9 - 11 form part of these accounts.
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## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN & ST NICHOLAS**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
## **1 Accounting policies**
The accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis and comprise a statement that shows the charity's receipts and payments, a statement that summarises the charity's assets and liabilities and related notes. The accountancy profession have determined that only accounts prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards present a 'true and fair' view and, as these receipts and payments accounts have not (and cannot) be prepared in accordance with accounting standards, these accounts do not present (and are not intended to present) a 'true and fair' view of the charity's financial activities and state of affairs.
In the previous year the charity prepared its accounts on an accruals basis. As the charity's income is less than £250,000, it has taken advantage of the option to prepare its accounts on a receipts and payments basis and the results reported previously have been restated; further information is given in note 7 below.
General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the PCC in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity. Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds that have been set aside by the PCC for particular purposes. Restricted funds are donations which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors; they include donations received from appeals for specific activities or projects.
|**2**
**a) Voluntary income**
Planned giving
Collections at services
Legacies
Other donations
Gift aid recovered
**b) Fundraising income**
Special Events
Postbox
**c) Church activities**
Church Hall Rent
Fees for weddings and funerals
**d)**
**Investment income**
Interest from cash deposits
**3**
**a)**
**Clergy and staffing costs**
Staffing costs
Clergy expenses|Unrestricted Fun
General
funds
£
49,500
16,124
19,606
11,235
11,424
107,889
2,258
-
2,258
22,110
1,542
23,652
4,371
4,371
Unrestricted Fun
General
funds
£
1,987
548
2,535|ds
Designated
funds
£
-
-
-
1,655
-
1,655
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ds
Designated
funds
£
-
-
-|Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
9,969
-
9,969
-
-
-
-
2,600
2,600
-
-
Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-|Total
2025
£
49,500
16,124
19,606
22,859
11,424
119,513
2,258
-
2,258
22,110
4,142
26,252
4,371
4,371
Total
2025
£
1,987
548
2,535|Total
2024
£|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||46,794
11,211
21,025
14,942
15,000|
||||||108,971|
||||||4,683
42|
||||||4,725|
||||||20,325
4,655|
||||||24,980|
||||||3,629|
||||||3,629|
||||||Total
2024
£|
||||||-
1,292|
||||||1,292|
Simon Stride (who is a clergy member of the PCC) receive a stipend from the Diocese; the cost of these stipends is not included in the above payroll cost however it should be noted that some of the Parish share is used to help pay the stipends.
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## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN & ST NICHOLAS**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
|**b)**
**Church running costs**
Organ and other music costs
Cost of services
Children and youth ministry
Other ministry expenses
Insurance
Independent examiner's fee
Other legal and professional fees
Printing, postage and stationery
Telephone, internet and IT
Church utilities
Routine church maintenance
Major repairs to church
**c)**
**Hall running costs**
Hall light and heat
Routine hall maintenance
Major repairs to hall
**4**
**Mission giving and donations**
Mission elsewhere in UK and overseas
Donations of less than £1,000 to Institutions
Individuals
Relief of poverty
Children's Society
Tearfund
Donations of less than £1,000 to Institutions|-
-
-
2,508
6,087
-
-
3,564
1,154
12,914
11,792
15,600
53,618
-
2,474
-
2,474
-
-
-
-
-|-
-
1,608
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,608
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|-
2,947
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,947
-
-
-
-
140
120
1,590
1,331
1,688
4,869|-
2,947
1,608
2,508
6,087
-
-
3,564
1,154
12,914
11,792
15,600
58,173
-
2,474
-
2,474
140
120
-
1,590
1,331
1,688
4,869|-
2,077
42
899
5,898
-
-
1,661
724
10,155
11,448
20,914|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||53,819|
||||||-
5,957
-|
||||||5,957|
||||||-
360
-
1,410
-
1,639|
||||||3,409|
## **5 Transactions with related parties**
Vicki Stride, who is the spouse of the a trustee, was paid £2,108 for her role as Church Administrator.
## **6 Movement on designated, restricted and endowment funds**
|Opening
balance
£
150,331
General funds
Designated funds
Little Lights
(Previously known as Children's account budget)
988
Youth and Children
6,483
7,471
Restricted funds
Fabric Fund
937
Post Box
1
-
Special Events
811
Chester
329
Ministry Fund
465
Charitable Fund
60
Land & Property Funds
628,882
631,483
Total funds
789,285|Change of
basis
(note 7)
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
628,882
-
628,882
-
628,882
-|Receipts
£
138,169
1,446
208
1,655
6,193
-
-
2,600
-
3,776
-
12,569
152,393|Payments
£
136,232
-
984
-
624
-
1,608
-
-
-
-
2,947
-
-
4,869
-
-
7,816
-
145,657
-|Transfers
£
547
-
-
-
-
-
1
811
-
18
-
1,339
-
547
-|Closing
balance
£
151,720
1,450
6,067|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||7,517|
||||||7,130
-
-
-
465
306
-|
||||||7,901|
||||||167,139|
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## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN & ST NICHOLAS**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
Little Lights (previously known as Children's account budget) This fund is from donations for the toddler groups, and costs for running it. Youth and Children. This fund is for the purpose of running children's and youth events, such as our after school club and Sunday Kids Group, funds are
Fabric fund are donations given specifically for the repairs and maintenance of the church's building, fixtures and fittings. These are spent on repairs for the church, or items required.
Post Box This is the money donated as cash to the box held in St John’s church
Chester Diocese are funds received from wedding and funerals which are owed to the diocese.
Ministry Fund Funds available for clergy to use, and for pastoral care
The charitable fund represents funds received for the purpose for giving to other charitable causes Land & Property Funds The PCC own the church hall, and St Nicholas Church building
The special events funds can be transferred to general funds as they represent unrestricted income that was raised at events held at that such as Christmas events and concerts
## **7 Reconciliation with previously reported funds**
As explained in note 1 'Accounting Policies' , in the previous year the charity prepared its accounts using the accruals basis; in the current year the charity's income was less than £250,000 and the charity has taken advantage of the option to prepare its accounts on a receipts and payments basis. The comparatives presented in these accounts have been re-stated using the receipts and payments basis and a reconciliation with the reserves and results reported previously follows:
|_Reconciliation of reserves_
Previously reported reserves, at 31 December
Adjustments arising from use of receipts and payments basis:
Exclusion of previously included fixed assets
Adjustments arising from timing corrections for receipts and payments
Recognition of giving income
Uncleared cheques at year end
Re-stated reserves, at 31 December
Previously reported results
Adjustments arising from use of receipts and payments basis:
Previously capitalised expenditure, less depreciation, now expensed
Adjustments arising from timing corrections for receipts and payments
Recognition of giving income
Re-stated results
_Reconciliation of results_|2024
£
783,425
(628,881)
-
5,760
98
160,403
2024
£
(14,682)
15,183
2,303
2,484|2023
£
798,107
(644,064)
-
3,458
419|
|---|---|---|
|||157,919|
||||
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