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|Trustees'<br>annual<br>report||||
|Independent<br>examiner's<br>report|to the trustees|||
|Statement offinancial<br>activities||||
|Statement<br>offinancial<br>position||||
|Notes to the financial statements|||10|
|The following<br>pages do not form part of||the financial statements||
|Detailed statement<br>offinancial|activities||25|
|Notes to the detailed statement|offinancial|activities|27|





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|Office||||||Name||||Re-election date|Re-election date|
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|Ex Officio Members||||||||||||
|Incumbent||||||Rev Geoff Sowden||(retired Jan||2022)||
|Incumbent||||||ln Vacancy|||||n/a|
|Curate||||||Rev Emily Swinerd||(left October||2022)||
|Churchwarden||||||Mrs Pam Linfield|||||2023|
|Churchwarden||||||Mr Phil Sapwell|||||2023|
|Deanery. Synod||Rep||||Mrs Helen Weaver|||||2023|
|Deanery Synod||Rep||||Mrs Bobby Bailey|||||2023|
|Elected Members|(elections||are fora||three-year<br>term)|||||||
|Member||||||Mrs Julia Bishop|||||2023|
|Member||||||Mrs Helen Weaver|||||2023|
|Member||||||Mr Peter Croton|||||2023|
|Member||||||Mrs Bobby Bailey|||||2024|
|Member||||||Mrs Jill Elbourn|||||2024|
|Member||||||Mrs Ruth Huband||(Safeguarding||Officer)|2024|
|Member||||||Mr Stephen Fasham (PCC Treasurer)|||||2024|
|St Michael's<br>Church||is situated||in Lechlade Road, Highworth,|||near Swindon.|||It is part ofthe Diocese||
|of Bristol<br>within|the|Church|of England.|||The correspondence||address|is|Church|Office, Vicarage|
|Lane, Highworth,|Swindon,||Wiltshire SN6 TAD.|||||||||
|The PCC is registered||with the||Charity|Commission<br>(registered|||number 1132544).||||



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|||Statement o<br>Year ended|f Financial Activities<br> 31 December 2022|f Financial Activities<br> 31 December 2022|||
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|||funds|funds|funds|Total funds|Total funds|
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|Income and endowments|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|4|150,717|5,497||156,214|209,355|
|Charitable<br>activities|5|17,224|||17,224|15,346|
|Other trading<br>activities|6|2,808|||2,808|518|
|Investment<br>income|7|1,135|454||1,589|966|
|Total income||171,884|5,951||177,835|226,185|
|Expenditure|||||||
|Expenditure<br>on|||||||
|charitable<br>activities|8,9|169,131|33,576||202,707|203,242|
|Total expenditure||169,131|33,576||202,707|203,242|
|Net (expenditure)/income||2,753|(27,625)||(24,872)|22,943|
|Transfers<br>between<br>funds||(500)|(4,500)|5,000|||
|Other recognised<br>gains|and|losses|||||
|Coal Fund investment<br>gain||||(432)|(432)|915|
|St Michael's<br>Church<br>Fabric|||||||
|Fund investment<br>gain||||(2,079)|(2,079)|2,274|
|Inglesham<br>Church<br>Fabric|||||||
|Fund investment<br>gain||||(665)|(666)|375|
|Net movement<br>in funds||2,253|(32,125)|1,824|(28,049)|26,507|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward||36,580|74,732|29,369|140,681|114,173|
|Total funds carried forward||38,833|42,607|31,193|112,633|140,681|





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|Fixed assets||||||||
|Tangible fixed assets<br>Investments||||15<br>16||19,164<br>31,193|19,995<br>29,369|
|||||||50,357|49,364|
|Current assets||||||||
|Debtors||||17|12,641||32,779|
|Cash at bank and|in hand||||56,923||69,136|
||||||69,564||101,915|
|Creditors: amounts||falling due within|one year|18|7,288||10,598|
|Net current assets||||||62,276|91,317|
|Total assets less|current liabilities|||||112,633|140,681|
|Net assets||||||112,633|140,681|
|Funds ofthe charity<br>Endowment<br>funds||||||31,193|29,369|
|Restricted funds||||||42,607|74,731|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||38,833|36,581|
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|Planned<br>giving||||84,417||84,417|
|Tax recoverable||||19,806|2,459|22,265|
|Open plate|collections|||1,612||1,612|
|Collections|and|donations|for mission||13,220|13,220|
|Other donations||for church|purposes|12,516|690|13,206|
|Grants|||||||
|Grants||||30,944|(10,872)|20,072|
|Contributions|from other churches|||1,422||1,422|
|Government|grant income||||||
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||||||Funds<br>f|Funds<br>f|2021<br>f|
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||Planned<br>giving||||73,054||73,054|
||Tax recoverable||||18,037|1,016|19,054|
||Open plate|collections|||788||788|
||Collections|and|donations|for mission||6,559|6,559|
||Other donations||for church purposes||10,117|47,923|58,040|
||Grants|||||||
||Grants||||45,280||45,280|
||Contributions|from other churches|||4,580||4,580|
||Government|grant income|||2,000||2,000|
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|Church|Room rents|2,108|2,108|330|330|
|Church|hall rents|9,119|9,119|6,319|6,319|
|Wedding|and funeral fees|5,997|5,997|8,697|8,697|
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|Other trading activities|||||
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||Funds|2022<br>f|Funds<br>f|2021<br>f|
|Fund raising|2,126|2,126|232|232|
|Floodlighting|682|682|286|286|
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|investment<br>income||||
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||Funds<br>f|Funds<br>f|2022<br>f,|
|Income from listed investments|722|413|1,135|
|Bank interest receivable|413||413|
|Building society interest receivable||41|41|
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||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
||Funds|Funds|2021|
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|Income from listed investments|550|369|918|
|Bank interest receivable|5||5|
|Building society interest receivable||43|43|
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|Expenditure<br>on|cha|ritab|le<br>activities by fun|d type|||
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|Secular charities||||3,130|10,416|13,547|
|Youth project||||9,353||9,353|
|Ministry||||81,067||81,067|
|Church<br>running|expenses|||15,153||15,153|
|Church maintenance||||1,182|3,815|4,996|
|Upkeep ofservices||||2,704||2,704|
|Church<br>hall||||11,789||11,789|
|Uicars expenses<br>Church<br>room||||597<br>10,523||597<br>10„523|
|Major repairs|||||19,345|19,345|
|Other clergy expenses||||835||835|
|Moveable<br>furnishing||and|equipment|831||831|
|Curate's accommodation|||costs|10,539||10,539|
|Support costs||||21,428||21,428|
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|Secular charities||||3,035|6,859|9,894|
|Youth project<br>Ministry||||19,842<br>81,532||19,842<br>81,532|
|Church<br>running|expenses|||13,851||13,851|
|Church maintenance||||1,281||1,281|
|Upkeep ofservices<br>Church<br>hall||||1,773<br>6,298|659|2,432<br>6,298|
|Uicars expenses||||1,860||1,860|
|Church<br>room||||4,471||4,471|
|Major repairs||||10,879|15,136|26,016|
|Other clergy expenses||||870||870|
|Moveable<br>furnishing||and|equipment|831||831|
|Curate's<br>accommodation|||costs|13,200||13,200|
|Support costs||||20,864||20,864|
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||||directly|ofactivities|costs|2022|2021|
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|Secular charities|||13,547|||13,547|9,894|
|Youth project|||9,353|||9,353|19,842|
|Ministry|||81,067|||81,067|81,532|
|Church<br>running||||||||
|expenses|||15,153|||15,153|13,851|
|Church maintenance|||4,996|||4,996|1,281|
|Upkeep ofservices|||2,704|||2,704|2,432|
|Church<br>hall|||11,789|||11,789|6,298|
|Vicars expenses|||597|||597|1,860|
|Church room|||10,523|||10,523|4,471|
|Major repairs|||19,345|||19,345|26,016|
|Other clergy expenses<br>Parish office|||835||17,169|835<br>17,169|870<br>16,664|
|Moveable<br>furnishing||and||||||
|equipment||||831||831|831|
|Curate' s||||||||
|accommodation|costs||10,539|||10,539|13,200|
|Governance<br>costs|||||4,259|4,259|4,200|
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||Staff costs||||||13,516|13,516|12,915|
||Communications||and IT||||1,465|1,465|1,385|
||General office||||||2,188|2,188|2,365|
||||||||17,169|17,169|16,665|
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||Net (expenditure)/income||||is stated after charging/(crediting):|||||
|||||||||2022|2021|
||Depreciation|of|tangible|fixed assets||||831|831|
|12.|Independent|examination|||fees|||||
|||||||||2022|2021|
||Fees payable|to|the independent|||examiner for:||||
||Independent|examination|||ofthe|financial statements||3,960|3,960|





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|The total staff costs and employee|benefits for the reporting|period are analysed as|follows:|
|||2022|2021|
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||buildings|Equipment|Total|
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|Cost||||
|At 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022|16,873|63,558|80,431|
|Depreciation||||
|At 1 January 2022||60,436|60,436|
|Charge for the year||831|831|
|At 31December 2022||61,267|61,267|
|Carrying<br>amount<br>At 31 December 2022|16,873|2,291|19,164|
|At 31 December 2021|16,873|3,122|19,995|





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||investmentsf|
|Cost or valuation||
|At 1 January 2022|29,369|
|Additions|5,000|
|Other movements|(3,176)|
|At 31December 2022|31,193|
|Impairment||
|At 1January 2022 and 31 December 2022||
|Carrying<br>amount<br>At 31December 2022|31,193|
|At 31 December 2021|29,369|



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|Prepayments|and accrued income||1,600|
|Other debtors||12,641|31,179|
|||12,641|32,779|



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||Accruals and|deferred|income|||7,288|10,598|
|19.|Government|grants||||||
||The amounts|recognised<br>in the financial statements|||for government|grants are as follows:||
|||||||2022|2021|
||Recognised|in income|from donations|and legacies:||||
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|Church General||||||||
|Fund||(7,125)|164,823|(158,309)|||(611)|
|St. Michael's||||||||
|Church Fabric||||||||
|Fund||35,271|12||(500)||34,783|
|StJames' Church||||||||
|Fabric Fund||1,200|1,699|(1,504)|||1,395|
|St. Michael's||||||||
|Church<br>Hall|Fund|4,870|4,169|(8,367)|||672|
|St. Michael's||||||||
|Church<br>Flower||||||||
|Fund||514|150|(176)|||488|
|Highwoth<br>and||||||||
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|Fund||505|390|(470)|||425|
|Inglesham||||||||
|Church||||||||
|Churchyard||1,345|641|(305)|||1,681|
|||36,580|171,884|(169,131)|(500)||38,833|
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|Fund||(2,193)|165,929|(171,683)|823||(7,124)|
|St. Michael's||||||||
|Church Fabric||||||||
|Fund||35,268|||||35,270|
|StJames' Church||||||||
|Fabric Fund||1,888|121|(809)|||1,200|
|St. Michael's||||||||
|Church<br>Hall|Fund|7,657|3,293|(6,080)|||4,870|
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|Fund||8,663|41||(5,000)||3,704|
|Miss Mary||||||||
|Hambidge's|Will|||||||
|Coal Fund||||||||
|(Income)||7,311|413||||7,724|
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|Donations||24,726|16,369|(10,416)|500||31,179|
|Friends ofSt.||||||||
|Michael's||34,032|(10,872)|(23,160)||||
|||74,732|5,951|(33,576)|(4,500)||42,607|
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|Fund||8,621|42||||8,663|
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|Coal Fund||||||||
|(Income)||6,942|369||||7,311|
|Clintons<br>Gift||||||||
|Grants||822|||(822)|||
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|Donations||22,944|11,247|(9,465)|||24,726|
|Friends ofSt.||||||||
|Michael's||2,969|44,252|(13,189)|||34,032|
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|Fund||18,172||||(2,079)|16,093|
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|Fund||3,447|||5,000|(665)|7,782|
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|Fund||15,898||||2,274|18,172|
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|Tangible fixed assets||3,801|15,363||19,164|
|Investments||||31,193|31,193|
|Current assets||42,320|27,244||69,564|
|Creditors less than|1 year|(7,288)|||(7,288)|
|Net assets||38,833|42,607|31,193|112,633|
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|Tangible fixed assets||4,632|15,363||19,995|
|Investments||||29,369|29,369|
|Current assets||42,547|59,368||101,915|
|Creditors less than|1 year|(10,598)|||(10,598)|
|Net assets||36,581|74,731|29,369 .|140,681|



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|Income and endowments||||
|Donations<br>and legacies<br>Planned<br>giving||84,417|73,054|
|Tax recoverable||22,265|19,054|
|Open plate collections||1,612|788|
|Collections and donations|for mission|13,220|6,559|
|Other donations<br>for church|purposes|13,206|58,040|
|Grants||20,072|45,280|
|Contributions<br>from other churches||1,422|4,580|
|Government<br>grant income|||2,000|
|||156,214|209,355|
|Charitable<br>activities||||
|Church Room rents||2,108|330|
|Church<br>hall rents||9,119|6,319|
|Wedding<br>and funeral fees||5,997|8,697|
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|Other trading<br>activities<br>Fund raising||2,126|232|
|Floodlighting||682|286|
|||2,808|518|
|Investment<br>income||||
|Income from listed investments||1,135|918|
|Bank interest receivable||413|5|
|Building society interest receivable||41|43|
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|Expenditure||||||
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|||activities|||
|Wages and salaries||||13,516|12,915|
|Rent||||10,539|13,200|
|Rates and water||||1,175|290|
|Light and heat||||17,447|12,342|
|Repairs and maintenance||||34,851|31,498|
|Insurance||||7,188|6,789|
|Other establishment||||1,145|998|
|Legal and professional||fees||3,960|3,960|
|Telephone||||1,465|1,385|
|Other office costs||||1,066|1,053|
|Depreciation||||831|831|
|Other interest payable||and similar charges||299|240|
|Other expenditure|for|the work ofthe church||109,225|117,741|
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|Total expenditure||||202,707|203,242|
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|Expenditure<br>on charitable||activities|||
|Secular charities|||||
|Activities undertaken|directly||||
|Charitable<br>giving|||13,547|9,894|
|Youth project|||||
|Activities undertaken|directly||||
|Expenses|||9,353|19,842|
|Ministry|||||
|Activities undertaken<br>Parish share|directly||78,574|76,415|
|Weddings<br>and funerals|||2,493|5,117|
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|Church<br>running<br>expenses|||||
|Activities undertaken|directly||||
|Rates and water|||152|94|
|Light and heat|||8,248|7,403|
|Insurance|||6,753|6,354|
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|Church maintenance|||||
|Activities undertaken<br>directly<br>Repairs and maintenance|||4,996|1,281|
|Upkeep ofservices|||||
|Activities undertaken|directly||||
|Other expenditure<br>for the work ofthe church|||2,704|2,432|
|Church<br>hall|||||
|Activities undertaken|directly||||
|Rates and water|||428|156|
|Light and heat<br>Repairs and maintenance<br>Insurance|||5,847<br>3,934<br>435|1,992<br>2,717<br>435|
|Other establishment<br>costs|||1,145|998|





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|||||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Brought forward||||11,789|6,298|
|||||11„789|6,298|
|Vicars expenses||||||
|Activities undertaken||directly||||
|Clergy expenses||||597|1,860|
|Church room||||||
|Activities undertaken||directly||||
|Rates and water||||595|40|
|Light and heat||||3,352|2,947|
|Repairs and maintenance||||6,576|1,484|
|||||10,523|4,471|
|Major repairs||||||
|Activities undertaken||directly||||
|Repairs and maintenance||||19,345|26,016|
|Other clergy expenses||||||
|Activities undertaken||directly||||
|Other clergy expenses||||835|870|
|Parish office||||||
|Support costs||||||
|Wages and salaries||||13,516|12,915|
|Telephone||||1,465|1,385|
|Other office expenses||||1,066|1,053|
|Other expenditure||||1 122|1,311|
|||||17,169|16,664|
|Moveable furnishing|and||equipment|||
|Grant funding activities||||||
|Depreciation||||831|831|
|Curate's accommodation|||costs|||
|Activities undertaken||directly||||
|Rent||||10,539|13,200|
|Governance<br>costs||||||
|Independent<br>Examiner's||fees||3,960|3,960|
|Governance<br>costs - other finance costs||||299|240|
|||||4,259|4,200|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|||activities|202,707|203,242|



