## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE** the Church Representation Rules 2022 **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STANFORD IN THE VALE WITH GOOSEY AND HATFORD**
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 STANFORD IN THE VALE WITH GOOSEY AND HATFORD**
## **LEGAL & ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE Stanford Mill Farringdon Road Stanford in the Vale Oxfordshire SN7 8NP GOVERNING DOCUMENTS PCC Powers Measure 1956 and the Church Representation Rules 2022 CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 1132033 MEMBERS OF THE PCC Rev Paul Eddy (incumbent) Marion Galley (church warden) Michelle Sinclair (resigned (church warden) December 2025) Nigel Archer Peter Gill Jenny Howard-Jones Suzanne Penman Yvette Upton (resigned May 2025) Janet Warren Jeanette Gill (resigned May 2025) Clementina Mary Hardman (resigned December 2025) Judy Shippobothan (resigned May 2025) Elizabeth Ward Nicholas Boden (appointed May 2025) INDEPENDENT EXAMINER Sarah Crispin ACA Stewardship 1 Lamb's Passage LONDON EC1Y 8AB **INDEX**
Page 1 Legal & Administrative Details Pages 2-4 Trustees' Report Page 5 Independent Examiner's Report Page 6 Receipts and Payments Account Page 7 Statement of Assets & Liabilities Pages 8-9 Notes to the Accounts
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**THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE**
# **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STANFORD IN THE**
# **VALE WITH GOOSEY AND HATFORD**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
The PCC has pleasure in submitting the Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and aims**
The objectives of the PCC are defined by the Parochial Church Council (Powers) Measure 1956 as _**'to co-operate with the minister in promoting in the parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical'**_ .
## **Main activities and achievements**
The parish seeks, prayerfully, to build our church community on the person, teaching and work of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Bible. As a Parish, we focus our mission and ministry around four ‘values’:-
- **Deeper Into God** (Worship & Prayer)
- **Deeper into Fellowship** (developing and modelling Christian community)
- **Deeper Into our Villages** (service & evangelism)
- **Deeper Into God’s Creation** (responsible environmental stewardship and practice)
## **The Parish Five Key Priorities 2022-27**
Reliant on the Holy Spirit, and with the resources (people and finances) that God provides, the Parish’s priorities for the coming five years (2022-27), agreed by the PCC are to:-
**1** Launch, resource and develop **Denys@4** , focussed on establishing a new Congregation amongst young families
**2** Develop worship patterns, **discipleship resources and pastoral support** for older members of our church family
## **3** Execute **Phase One of the Reordering** of St Denys Church
**4** Develop our Communications, and **establish a Digital** _**(internet/hybrid church)**_ **presence** to ensure our worship, and resources, are available to the housebound, and the spiritually searching
**5** Explore **viable options to ensure our two Chapels of Ease can be permanent resources** for the residents of Goosey & Hatford for todays, and future generations
Throughout 2025, **Denys@4** weekly attendance grew from an average of 18 solid attendees to near 38/40 – with a further fringe of around 15-20. It has been a joy to watch so many grow in faith and plans are in hand for 9 baptisms, including three adult ones!
**Discipleship resources and pastoral support** are primarily offered through our homegroups, pastoral visits and by printed and electronic resources offered to church members on themes, plus a Resource Desk. During the year a number of mini-preaching series were featured around the theme of growing in faith, and a new Life group was established, meeting for five weeks at a time for bible study and prayer, then a break, then re-advertised so people only have to commit to a 5-session gathering and not every week. This has become very popular and will continue.
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The **Reordering of St Denys** continued to be dogged by lots of changes of views by DAC members and officers, but as we ended 2025 and started 2026, progress was being made and we are confident the Faculty will finally be submitted by end of summer 2026.
Services at both **Chapels of Ease** continue to draw good attendance. Veronica Buxton, a Licensed lay Minister from Uffington benefice, who had helped us for two years at both stepped back for family reason, to be replaced by Bob Skade at Goosey and Mike Muraay at Hatford – both licenced lay ministers.
Our **Church Bellringers** , under the enthusiastic leadership of Jackie O’Hagan, Tower Captain continue to play for services throughout the year and have seen a number of young people join them through the year, though they are always looking out for new members to join.
The **Stanford Festival Weekend** was a success again, bringing together villagers – old and new – and we are very grateful to the Public Purposes Charity for making a grant to cover the cost of a number of expense items which benefited the whole village. This year’s festival fell on one of the hottest weekends of the year, but thanks to business sponsorship and the PPG grant, enabled a very welcome addition to funds.
We continue to have a very close relationship with **Stanford in the Vale CofE Primary School.** Each week I am honoured to take a Collective Worship, and our Open The Book Team also go in weekly and act out a Bible story which is really appreciated by staff and pupils alike.
I would like to note on record our sincere thanks to Sue Penman who, at the end of 2025, retired having been treasurer for 10 years, and to Maz Galley who has worked tirelessly as church warden throughout 2025. Thanks also go to Michelle Sinclair - who resigned as church warden in December 2025 - for all her efforts, both behind the scenes and in overseeing all the building works at All Saints Goosey.
## **Financial review**
Thanks to the generosity of church members, we ended 2025 with an unrestricted surplus of £4,477 after fund transfers though this was only because we contributed £40,000 towards our Parish Share of £51,000. At its January 2026 meeting, the PCC decided to send an additional £4,100 toward our share contribution.
The restricted expenditure of £57,000 included £12,000 on St Deny’s Reordering and £38,000 on Goosey Fabric. There was a £5,000 decrease in unrestricted voluntary income, compared to 2024, but an increase in fees for weddings & funerals.
Going forward we need to continue to encourage inflation-proof giving and, to encourage the new worshippers to see giving as a part of their weekly discipleship.
## **Reserves policy**
The PCC has determined that the charity should aim to hold unrestricted cash equating to no less than 3 months’ unrestricted expenditure (approximately £15,000 based on current expenditure levels) so that the charity could continue to operate should income and / or expenditure vary adversely. At the year end, our unrestricted cash reserves were £25,967 and the PCC are meeting their reserves policy. There was a very small increase in reserves due to the small surplus for the year.
## **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
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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 rests with the PCC which meets regularly to monitor the activities of the charity.
## **Other matters**
Regarding 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 last quinquennial inspection was held in 2021, with the next ones due 2026. No significant immediate work is required on St Denys Church or St George, Hatford. Works recommended for All Saints Goosey are referred to above.
## **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:
## Paul A. Eddy
Paul A. Eddy (Apr 29, 2026 10:51:46 GMT+1)
The Revd Paul A Eddy _FRSA, MCIPR, MPRCA, MIoL, DipTh.Min_ **Vicar**
## **Date:** Apr 29, 2026
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT**
## **TO THE TRUSTEES OF**
## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STANFORD IN THE VALE WITH GOOSEY AND HATFORD**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Stanford in the Vale with Goosey and Hatford ('the charity') for the year ended 31 December 2025 on pages 6 to 9 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.
## Sarah Crispin
Sarah Crispin (Apr 29, 2026 12:29:29 GMT+1)
Sarah Crispin ACA
Stewardship 1 Lamb's Passage LONDON EC1Y 8AB
Date: Apr 29, 2026
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## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STANFORD IN THE VALE WITH GOOSEY AND HATFORD**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
|Notes
**_Income receipts_**
Voluntary receipts
2(a)
Fundraising income
2(b)
Charitable activities
2(c)
Investment income
2(d)
**_Capital and similar receipts_**
**_Total receipts_**
**Payments**
Church activities
Parish share
Clergy and staffing costs
3(a)
Church running expenses
3(b)
4
**_Total payments_**
Transfers between funds
**Net movement in funds**
Cash funds as at last year end
**Cash funds at this year end**
A
Net of receipts / (payments) before transfers
Mission giving and donations
Sale of investments
Fundraising expenses|Unrestricted
Funds
£
45,570
10,590
5,805
560
62,525
-
-
62,525
40,000
3,131
14,986
58,118
2,617
-
60,735
1,791
2,686
4,477
21,491
25,967|Restricted
Funds
£
26,207
-
198
5,106
31,510
-
-
31,510
-
-
57,040
57,040
-
-
57,040
(25,530)
(2,686)
(28,216)
137,442
109,227|2025
£
71,777
10,590
6,003
5,665
94,035
-
-
94,035
40,000
3,131
72,026
115,158
2,617
-
117,774
(23,739)
-
(23,739)
158,933
135,194|2024
£|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||74,417
9,640
3,874
6,785|
|||||94,716|
|||||1,249|
|||||1,249|
||||||
|||||95,964|
|||||40,000
3,116
43,101|
|||||86,217
3,549
590|
|||||90,356|
|||||5,608
-|
|||||5,608
153,325|
|||||158,933|
The notes on pages 8 - 9 form part of these accounts.
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## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STANFORD IN THE VALE WITH GOOSEY AND HATFORD**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
|**A**
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank with immediate access
Notice deposits
**B**
**Other monetary assets**
Gift aid due to charity
**C**
**Liabilities**
**Falling due within one year**
Parish share
Fee for Independent Examination
Fees owed to DBF
**D**
**Investment assets**
COIF Charities Investment Fund
Paynter Fund Trust
CBF CoE Fixed Investment Fund - Income shares
Cotton Endowment Fund
Johnson Endowment Fund|Unrestricted
funds
£
25,967
-
**25,967**
2,499
**2,499**
4,121
1,560
810
**6,491**
-
-
-
**-**|Restricted
funds
£
18,032
91,195
**109,227**
602
**602**
-
-
-
**-**
6,338
-
-
**6,338**|Endowment
funds
£
-
-
**-**
-
**-**
-
-
-
**-**
-
751
8,704
**9,454**|2025
£
43,999
91,195
**135,194**
3,102
**3,102**
4,121
1,560
810
**6,491**
6,338
751
8,704
**15,792**|2024
£|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||56,268
102,665|
||||||**158,933**|
||||||6,384|
||||||**6,384**
|
||||||-
1,890
-|
||||||**1,890**
|
||||||6,656
782
9,066|
||||||**16,504**|
The Paynter Fund Trust is restricted to the upkeep of the family mausoleumn in St George's church, Hatford. Income from the Cotton Endowment Fund is restricted to the maintenance of the Cotton memorial and graves, and inscriptions legible and re-cut from time to time.
Income from the Johnson Endowment Fund is restricted to the maintenance of the St Deny's Church churchyard.
## **E Assets retained for charity's own use**
|Laptops
Mower|Fund to
which asset
belongs
General
General|Current
value
£|
|---|---|---|
|||-
-|
|||-|
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:
Paul A. Eddy ___________________________________The Revd P EddyPaul A. Eddy (Apr 29, 2026 10:51:46 GMT+1)
Apr 29, 2026 Date: ______________
The notes on pages 8 - 9 form part of these accounts.
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## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STANFORD IN THE VALE WITH GOOSEY AND HATFORD**
## **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.
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**
Donations
Other grants
Gift aid recovered
**b) Fundraising income**
Village Festival
Christmas bazaar
Other
**c) Church activities**
Fees for weddings and funerals
Outreach events
**d)**
**Investment income**
Interest from cash deposits
Dividends from CBF investment funds
**3**
**a)**
**Clergy and staffing costs**
Clergy expenses|Unrestricted
funds
£
38,164
773
6,633
45,570
6,602
1,571
2,418
10,590
4,791
1,014
5,805
560
-
560
Unrestricted
funds
£
3,131
3,131|Restricted
Funds
£
19,106
1,600
5,501
26,207
-
-
-
-
198
-
198
4,646
460
5,106
Restricted
Funds
£
-
-|Total
2025
£
57,270
2,373
12,134
71,777
6,602
1,571
2,418
10,590
4,989
1,014
6,003
5,206
460
5,665
Total
2025
£
3,131
3,131|Total
2024
£|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||65,583
1,600
7,234
|
|||||74,417|
|||||6,055
1,682
1,903
|
|||||9,640
|
|||||2,948
926|
|||||3,874|
|||||6,321
463
|
|||||6,785|
|||||Total
2024
£|
|||||3,116|
|||||3,116|
Rev Paul Eddy (who is a clergy member of the PCC) receives a stipend from the Diocese; the cost of this stipend is not included in payments however it should be noted that some of the Parish share is used to help pay the stipends. Rev Paul Eddy was provided with accommodation (which is customary for clergy). Rev Paul Eddy incurred expenses whilst serving as clergy and these costs are disclosed in the above note.
|**b)**
**Church running costs**
Cost of services
Other ministry costs
Insurance
Independent examiner's fee
Admin
Communications
Utilities
Building repairs & maintenance
St Denys Building project|359
2,175
2,950
2,070
1,464
2,027
2,625
1,316
-
14,986|735
155
2,210
-
34
74
1,353
40,438
12,040
57,040|1,094
2,331
5,160
2,070
1,498
2,102
3,979
41,754
12,040
72,026|3,192
2,673
5,074
2,010
1,561
1,836
5,340
8,618
12,798|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||43,101|
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## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STANFORD IN THE VALE WITH GOOSEY AND HATFORD**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
## **4 Mission giving and donations**
Mission elsewhere in UK and overseas Barnabas Fund
- - - 590 - - - 590
## **5 Movement on designated, restricted and endowment funds**
|General funds
Restricted funds
Hatford General
Goosey General
St Denys Church Devpt Fund
St Deny's Building Fund
Hatford Building Fund
Fabric Fund Goosey
Cotton Bequest
Paynter Fund Trust
Youth & Children Fund
Parish Weekend Bursary Fund
Churchyard Fund (including Johnson Bequest)
Vicar's Discretionary Fund
Christian Defence Fund
Village Compassion Fund
Other restricted funds
Total funds|Opening
balance
£
21,491
300
300
88,200
288
5,479
33,293
1,779
711
1,962
872
1,416
409
58
2,247
130
137,442
158,933|Receipts
£
62,525
3,854
2,573
4,505
1,328
248
16,285
102
186
860
-
252
-
-
346
971
31,510
94,035|Payments
£
(60,735)
(1,622)
(2,120)
(12,040)
(1,615)
-
(38,731)
-
-
(708)
-
(120)
(85)
-
-
-
(57,040)
(117,774)|Transfers
£
2,686
(2,233)
(453)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(2,686)
-|Closing
balance
£
25,967
300
300
80,665
-
5,727
10,847
1,881
897
2,115
872
1,548
324
58
2,593
1,101|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||109,227|
||||||135,194|
## _Transfers_
The transfers to general funds from Hatford General & Goosey General relate to their contribution towards the Parish Share.
## _Restricted Funds_
The Hatford General Fund is restricted to the running costs of St George's church, Hatford.
The Goosey General Fund is restricted to the running costs of All Saints. Goosey.
The St Denys Church Devpt Fund is restricted to the planned improvements to the facilities inside the St Denys' Church building. The St Denys Building Fund is restricted to the maintenace of St Deny's church buillding.
The Hatford Building Fund is restricted to the upkeep of the church and churchyard at St George's, Hatford.
Fabric Fund Goosey is restricted to the maintenance of the All Saints, Goosey church building.
The Cotton Bequest fund is the income from the Cotton endowment and is restricted to the maintenance of the Cotton memorial and graves, and inscriptions legible and re-cut from time to time.
The Paynter Fund Trust is restricted to the upkeep of family mausoleum in St George's church, Hatford.
The Youth & Children Fund is a restricted fund for the costs of running children's and youth activities.
The Parish Weekend Bursary Fund is a restricted fund to be used to help with costs for attending Church weekend away.
The Churchyard Fund is restricted to the upkeep of the St Deny's churchyard and includes income received from the Johnson Bequest endowment fund.
The Vicar's Discretionary Fund is restricted grants given for the vicar to use at his discretion to help parishioners.
The Christian Defence Fund relates to an appeal to provide legal support Christians in Afghanistan.
Other restricted funds includes the Belfry Fund and money raised for the organ pipes.
In addition to these restricted funds held as cash funds, there are restricted fund and endowment fund balances held as investments as shown in the Statement of Assets & Liabilities. The movements on these do not form part of the Receipts and Payments Account.
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