2021-12-31-accounts

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

OF

ST MARK’S, BREDBURY

REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED

31[ST] DECEMBER 2021

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST MARK’S BREDBURY

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

The Parish of St Mark’s Bredbury, Diocese of Chester (Church of England)

Church Office

St Mark’s Church Hall, Redhouse Lane, Bredbury, Stockport SK6 1BX Tel: [phone]

Bankers

Lloyds Bank, 60/62 Merseyway Shopping Centre, Stockport SK1 1PL

Independent Examiner for the accounts

Julie Howard, 38 Crosland Edge, Helme, Holmfirth HD9 5RS

Legal officer

The Diocesan Registrar, Church House 5500 Daresbury Park, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4GE

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST MARK’S BREDBURY

ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31STDECEMBER 2021

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is a corporate body established by the Church of England. The PCC operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure and as a charity is registered with the Charity Commission; charity number 1132326. The PCC has no other charities under its control.

The PCC pays Parish Share, at a level set by the Diocesan Synod, to the Chester Diocesan Board of Finance Ltd (Registered Charity) to provide the stipends for the clergy, support other parishes in the diocese, pay for vicarage repairs, pay for the central work of the Chester Diocese and the national work of the Church of England.

The Parochial Church Council - (PCC)

These are either ex-officio or elected according to Church Representation rules at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM). The Churchwardens are chosen by the Vicar and those present at a Meeting of Parishioners, held immediately before the APCM.

Vicar:	Revd Andy Bull (Chair)
Curate:	Revd Martin Makin
Reader:	Ruth Bull (Deanery Synod Rep)
Churchwardens:	Dave Brotherton (Deanery Synod Rep)
	Les Cope
Elected members:	Victoria Cope	2021-2024
	Harry Davies (Deanery Synod Rep)	2021-2024
	Richard Hall (Secretary)	2020-2023
	Kate Hughes	2021-2024
	Rachel Kanes	2021-2024
	Naana Kufuor	2020-2023
	Simon Owen	2021-2024
	Sadena Piroozfar	2021-2024
	Harold Rothwell	2021-2024
	Shirley van Olffen	2019-2022
	Christine Wrenn (Treasurer)	2020-2023

The appointment of PCC members is governed by and set out in the Church of England Representation Rules.

• Members are elected for a term of three years after which they may not stand for reelection for one year.

• Members elected to fill casual vacancies may stand for re-election for a further term of three years at the end of their two or one year term.

• Deanery Synod members are elected for a three-year term and may stand for reelection immediately. However, in line with the updated 2020 Church Representation Rules, the 2020 APCM voted that henceforth, individuals may not serve for more than two successive terms on Deanery Synod.

• The PCC may co-opt up to two more electoral roll members if they wish to.

Standing Committee

This sub-committee is required by church law. It has power to transact the business of the PCC between its meetings. This is composed of the clergy licensed to the parish, the churchwardens and treasurer, and the PCC secretary, appointed at the first meeting of the PCC following the APCM.

Safeguarding

The PCC oversees safeguarding in the life of the church, along with the church’s designated Parish Safeguarding Co-ordinator, Kevin McKeown. The PCC conducts an annual review of all its procedures, and each year approves amended safeguarding policies for work amongst children and adults. All leaders in children's and youth groups have undergone DBS checks and have signed confidential Declarations of Criminal Offences prior to taking on leadership roles. Safer recruitment procedures are carried out with regards to volunteers working with adults, in line with the church's policies.

Contact details for our Safeguarding Co-ordinator along with the Diocesan Vulnerability and Safeguarding Officer are displayed prominently in the church premises. If there are any matters of concern to you, please contact them. As always, our aim is that all of the children, young people, and adults who have contact with the church should be kept safe from harm, and to this end, the most important factor that we can all contribute is to maintain a culture of informed vigilance.

Health and Safety

The PCC has delegated responsibility for Health and Safety to the churchwardens, who makes regular reports to the PCC.

Aims of the Church

The official aim of the PCC is to "cooperate with the minister in promoting in the parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical". (PCC (Powers) Measure 1956).

St Mark’s Church vision is centred around the following three areas:

Loving God: We aim to be a church where people are pursuing a wholehearted relationship with God , devoted to a life of worship and prayer, applying the Bible to their daily lives, and responding to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Sharing Life: We want to be a welcoming, generous and loving community, where people encourage and support one another.

Growing Faith: We seek to be a church that connects people with Jesus. By being missional and adventurous we will try to create as many opportunities as possible for people to encounter God.

COVID continued to impact St Mark’s into 2021 with many of the church's activities remaining online for the first half of 2021. However, as restrictions lifted we were able to do more in person services, gatherings and events. Highlights from the period under review include:

• In another year of change and restriction, our Sunday services remained at the heart of our engagement. Up until July 2021 our church building was open each Sunday morning to screen our pre-recorded online Sunday services. Initially booking was required so that we could adequately socially distance. Our online Sunday services have provided the opportunity for many newer people to contribute in our services through Bible readings, prayers, testimonies, etc. From July onwards we have been meeting back in the church building for our services.

• A new vicar! – Andy was officially inducted as the vicar of St Mark’s on Wednesday 13th January. Up until this point he had been the priest-in-charge. The short service was led by the new bishop of Chester, Mark Tanner and archdeacon Ian Bishop preached. Attendance had to be very small because of Covid-19 but a few photos were taken!

• Schools work – We have really missed welcoming St Mark’s school to our church building every Friday morning for a short worship service, and our regular visits to Woodley school to lead assemblies. However, we found a solution — online school assemblies! On Friday mornings, each classroom at St Mark’s school broadcasts simultaneously a pre-recorded assembly.

• Alpha – During the autumn, some 35 people completed our 10-week Alpha. It was nice to be able to run the course in-person again and it seemed to be a positive experience for all who attended.

• CAP Life Skills – It was great to complete our Life Skills course in person in September. Despite the restrictions we enjoyed a strong sense of community.

Members have learnt lots of practical skills, built a loving/supportive community and experienced God's presence & goodness.

• Foodbank – Our Foodbank ministry continued with a smaller team and managed to keep up with the need for emergency food provision for local people.

• Christmas – This year our Messy Church Christingle took place in person and the church was full after a long time of being empty! We also brought some Christmas joy and light to our local communities with an Advent trail! The trail was made up of 10 scenes (mainly in church members’ windows), each illustrating a part of the Christmas story and route maps were supplied online. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services were very busy once again, with children participating in our Christmas Eve nativity in a brilliant re-telling of the nativity story.

• Lent & Easter – On Shrove Tuesday we had a fun gathering on zoom, flipping pancakes, and having a Bible story. It was great to see some of our younger church family gather together for this unique occasion. Then on Ash Wednesday we began our 6-week zoom Lent series in which focusing on some spiritual disciplines. Despite the strangeness of not being able to gather physically, it was wonderful to celebrate communion together online as part of this first session. Easter week was marked online with a Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday services.

• Muddy Church – As we weren’t able to meet for Messy Church much of 2021, we continued with Muddy Church instead. Participating in Muddy Church is an opportunity for people to wander and wonder about God in a fun and engaging way to explore and enjoy nature by following a trail with a map.

• Prayer – The church community has gathered to pray more than ever before over the last year. In addition to the Monday and Friday morning zoom prayer meetings, there have been a couple of Prayer Weeks and various Prayer Nights. St Mark’s Church building has also been open for quiet individual prayer on Tuesdays and Fridays, 10:00-11:30am.

• Small groups – Last year we launched our new online small groups which have been meeting over zoom on Wednesday evenings. The format is to worship with some songs before studying a Bible passage together using questions which have been sent out during the days prior to the evening. This year these have slowly transitioned to meet in person again.

• Graveyard gang – Towards the end of 2020 the Graveyard Gang was established. Each Monday and Tuesday morning this team has continued to gather in the churchyard to keep on top of the maintenance of the church grounds.

Occasional Offices

Many of our ordinary services such as baptisms and weddings were interrupted by the

pandemic restrictions. In 2020, we conducted the following 'occasional' offices:

• Baptisms: 14

• Weddings: 4

• Funerals: 28

• Interment of Ashes: 6

I have never been more grateful for the church members at St Mark’s, who have done so much to support one another throughout another challenging year.

The trustees' report was approved by the PCC on 17[th] March 2022 and signed on its behalf by:

Andy Bull Vicar

INDEPENDENT EXAMINERIS REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESWSTICAL PARISH OF ST. MARKS. REDHOUSE LANE, BREDBURY. STOCKPORT- 1102 I report to the charity Irustees on my examinalion of the accounts of The Parochial. Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Sl. Mark5. Redhouse Lane Bredbury, Stockport, for th8 year ended 31 December 2021. Respectlva responsibllitles of Trustees and Examlner As members of the PCC you are responsible for the preparation of the Accounts. you consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 3(3) of the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 and SeGtion 144{2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the Act) do not apply. It is my responsibilty to issue this report on those Accounts in accordance with the terms of the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 and the Charities (AGcounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Independent exarninerfs statement I have completed my examination. l confirm that no fflaterial matters have come to my altenlion in con nection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in respeGt of thg Trust as required by section 130 of the Act,. or 2. the accounts do not accord wtth those records" or 3. the accounts do not comply.with the applicable requlrements con¢eming the fom and content of accounts set out in Ihe Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accoun*s give a true and fair viewwhich is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no Gon￿mS and have corne across no other matters in connectlon with the Bxarnination to which attention should be drawn in Ihis ftEport irt order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Name JJU.I.... V(ctsLD................ Address . Signature .Date.,

st.Marks Church Balance Sheet.detalled Aaat 3111212021 3111212020 Fi%ed.a&8ets 30101.. PaH5h Hall 200.￿)0.00 00..O(N),00. rotal Fixed455&ts 200,OOQOD 20ts,ty)MO C'urr•rtt aagets 30201.. CurentWC'Lby4$rr5Ei 13.275.03 7,843.•0 24.236.71 14.657.92 7.843.211 30203.. CBF investment A¢'count 30?04. TSB Dep05iLAc¢ounl 30Tr06.- Petry Cash Zll5. ArcounL% Rc¢¢w4bk. 518.60. 530 10 Totalcurrènt ass•ts 45.87d.16 47,25&03 Llabilltl88 6699.. A8one}' éole¢iknrJ* ZQ4 AL'iounL% Piyabl 3,76•.45 I Ig,059.44 18.059.44 TO￿ UAblllloB 121.821.89 11tr.20&14 NotAu8t8wplu¥s168fficJtl 124052.27 128.047.89 ￿￿esS Ild¢fiEIII to dalt Zol.: Start￿8 bab￿$ 3,995.62) 128.D47.X9 1-2B,047.19 Total Ro8wv88 1240522T 12Q047.89 Repfv5ent8d by Funds UnTestrickd 117,076.95 29.ti44.D7 113.568.75) 1?3,801.5.7 tksignBthd RLslrthed (14,327.871 EndoI￿1Èrtt Total 124oJL27 q28,ts47.B9 93 April ?02ry Pa8¢ 1

SLMark$ Church Analysls of Inctsme anfl expendlture Sèléctgd perl¢d: 01 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 Yotsl UDvBknFl•d Restsktod ThIBy•4r Lattygar Incoming resources Incomlng rnsourcès froth genordted fundsAq Voluntsry Inconie A7a 1010? _ S￿nd￿$ orde￿ l.Gdl AIO} 10103- stsnd￿￿ Ord¢.￿ (no CJIH Aha) 10104- F.nveknpe5 140 10.& Aid) 1".0105- Envdknpes 41-130 InuGti7 Ad 3S,542 5 J28 3-3.91Q. 1.600 5,228 50 10106- T&Y Recbllned IunT¢5thrtedl 10107 colle¢t￿Th Plat¢ ot serYKes 10109_ ￿￿15¢ donal￿115 no AVJ 10110- U#pbnn¢d Gift Avl ]ncom(% 10112. 108a¢ies- G¢rerBI Fund 10?06_ Other F￿nd￿J[sN￿. 10602- HallDon8tiDns.+ GittAvJ I0603. HallDonatK)ns rto QiftAbl 10801 . Chrisik?ng aga￿$t PovErty 10803. Perpeillal Care ofChurchy&¥d 10804. Restoralxlth Foi IOa13 To)ver Repab Fiind IOBfj9- Fot)d Bank 1.0831- Church ReoFderll)g ProF¢t 11832. Friends * gthaid 6.902 5,679 2287 2,-190 4,830 lio I.OLN) 1,0 480 400 1.683 1.690 1,850 ,620 8.800 120 1•6 1.098 Voluntary income Ala sub. totals 62.fi67 55a 67..626 lQlJ69 Actlvltlos for gengratlni funds Alb 01 I I Votm Candles etc 0203- f.hrtstrnas P&ir 06al - Rtnts 47 .559 3.279 A￿1vItI&8 for 9weratlng funds Alb Sub-tolalg ,559 Inv85tment Incoma Ale 10114- Inte￿$t 102 Invostmgnt Incom• Ale Sub- totsls l2 102 Incomlng resources from generated fundsAI Totals 61,679 9.109 76.198 106.435 23 April 20?? Pa&e I

Total Unwtrlctsd D21iunllt•d Re¥lrfEts Thlsy•aT L#ty&ar Ineomln9 resources from charltabk activiti05 A2 Incomlng resource6 from CMrEt¥b￿ actFvllles A2 10302- Weddin8 Fe¢$ PCC 1030J - Foryer31 +.Church>ard Fees pcc 857 2.803 6,012 10304. add￿lOnal Churbhward knconie 10501 . hknjoml PAI￿￿Y 6QU 600 420 3.441 Incomlng rosouicos from ¢haritsble actlYlti•s A2 su tot315 S.S75 7,521 In¢)ming r050urGw from charitablea¢tivities A2" Totats 8.$75 8J75 7.521 Incomlng resource5 Grahd totals 71,555 9.109 4.409 85.073 Rasour¢es used Costs ofgenerating funds Bl Fundraisin9 tradin9= ¢OSt of good$ $old •ts B1b U501 ￿k￿0￿￿1 Paihivay 1.720 -9i02- NtsSaz￿e 20504- CD5tof fundrd4%ffig a¢tivii$ 1.720 244 F¥Jndraising trading= cost of goodB sord 81b Sub-tots 2',957 Costs ofgeneratln9 fuhds Bl Totals 1,72D 2.9>7 Chan"tabffe activltles B2 Charitablo 8Ctl¥ltles B2 20101 Parish Share 0102- ]kan¢ry ConlributsD 20103- EyEnSeS 20104- Curdte's Eipell5e& 20106.. Ilraragt Expense8 ?0107- fjuralE's hou5e.expense 20201 Worship Ban 20203. ChancclS￿pPj￿9 20?05- Otheriterns for serW￿¢S 20301 - Chuwh Repalls 203a2. knsuNnc 203U4- MEG Chur¢h Buikl•ig expenge$ •0305 Church lJrilki¢s 10402 - OJICÈ Supplies 20403- serv￿11s of Equipment 2040i- Plivne &kntern¢t 56.400 30 26 51.7.nJ 30 26 3.484 4.746 30Q 4.746 30 30 359 359 636 4.192. 1.926 3.776 1.926 1249 1,249 431 1,737 136 946 795 Thérnmaybg mtn0rdl8crnp•J￿l•6 Inth• roratsWth•p•ncor8 nolb¢rrtw#hown Z3 ApTfj Ztr12 P•ge_

Tot41 UllTeslrth Lkntqn•ted Re5tr1ctsd LISt￿ar ?D400- chErges 2D401 .Othtr Adm 2U601- Hall Insuranct 2tN50? . Hall CJ45 2￿03-HaIl Eleclrtc 2(K4ts4- HalllVal¥F 2thOi- Hall LlraTrBy 21JSl3- Hall ¢r&i%re1L4neous 21614. 14all Kitchen 20?13 other mi%sion 20804- RcslorBIIDn F¥nd 20S06._ fbisrrs 10814-Oiherrcstrrted expendiDJre ryo823-TO￿er Repaws 272 Ig 708 708 1.796 1,625 .906 1,863 851 174 2.055 49 •,403 1,470 234 3.650 5354 3,768 79.557 150 1-.61R Chorftable activtti85 B2 Sub. tota15 76,619 7,079 123,423 Charmable actlvltlès B2 rotals 76,619 3.650 87,3lY 123,42J Resources usod Grand tolals 78,340 .89.U69 fhgrnrnayba'ttthorth¢ropanel•&th th•ioialsfflhep•n¢••r•not)•ing#hgwn 23 Apni 2022 Pa8e 3

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