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|Section  1|Vicar's Report for  2023||||2|
|Section  2|2,1|Churchwarden Report|||4|
||2,2|PCC Report|||5|
||2.3|Electoral Roll Report|||6|
|Section 3||Safeguarding Report|||7|
|||Reference and Administrative|Details||8|
|||Structure, Governance and Management|||9|
|||Objectives and Activities|||9|
|Section 4||Mission Support||||
|||Building and Resources||||
|||Senior Adults||||
|||Youth  Work||||
|||Children and Families||||
|Section 5|Report  on PCC Financial Activities (Treasurer's Report)||||18|
|Section 6|Independent Examiner's Report||||20|
|Section  7|Financial|Report  (Yearly  Accounts) -|see separate accounts|||
|Section 8|Report  on Deanery  Matters:  an annual  review of business||||22|
|Section 9|The Friends of Oundle  Parish Church|||||
|Section  10|Green Group|||||
|ection 1:||||||
|Registered Charity 5132677<br>North Street, Oundle, PE8 4AL||||GOD'S LOVE<br>|7 j|
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|||||Llnresincted|Restricted|Endowment|Endowment|TOTAL|FUNDS|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Funds|Funds|Funds||2023|2022|
||||Note|E|E|E||E|E|
|INCOMING<br>RESOLIRCES||||||||||
|Voluntary<br>Income||||277,685|18,275|||295,960|448,480|
|Fund generating<br>activities||||4,074||||4,074|3,986|
|Income Trom investments||||7,304||||7,841|2,594|
|Church activities||||T0,063|1.351|||11.414|12.048|
|TOT AL  INCOMING<br>|RESOuRCES|||299i26|19,626|||319,289|467,1 08|
|RESOURCES<br>EXPENDED||||||||||
|Church activities:<br>Grants{Donations||||25,939||||25,939|20,256|
|Church activities.<br>Relating dkectly to Church work||||258,439|22,248|||280,687|281,052|
|Costs oT genetaking<br>|volunlay<br>|income|||||||65|
|TOT AL  RESOuRCES|EXPENDED|||284,378|22,248|||306,626|301,373|
|NET  INCOMING<br>RESOURCES||BEFORE||||||||
|OTHER<br>RECOGNISED|GAINS|AND LOSSES||14,748|(2,622)||537|12,663|165,735|
|Revaluation<br>reserve||||||||||
|Fixed assets||||(860)||||(660)||
|Gains / (Losses)<br>on|laiy value|revaluation||||||||
|Investments||||(igi)|-|1,221||1.030|(1,619)|
|||||(851)||1,221||370|(t,stg)|
|Fund Transfers|||||683||(683)|||
|NET MOVEMENT<br>IN FuNDS||||13,sg7||1,075||l3fl33|164,fl6|
|BALANCES<br>BfFWD|IST JANLIARY|||288,453|149,029|16|,626|454108|289,992|
|BALANCES<br>C/FWD|31 DECEMBER|||302,350|147,090|17|,701|467,141|454,108|









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|The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Church  Accounting Regulations|
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|2006 together with applicable accounting standards and the Chati)ies SORP  (FRS S02).|
|The financial statements have been prepared under  the historical cost  convention except  for the valuation oT investment assets,|
|which are shown  ak markei  value.<br>The financial statements include  all transactions. assets  and liabilities  TOT<br>which the PCC is responsible in law|
|They  do not include  the accounts of church  groups  that owe their  main affiliation to another body. nor those  that are inTormal|
|gatherings of church members.|



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|Endowment Tunds are funds, the capdal  oT which must be maintained: only income  arising Trom||
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|investment of the endowment may be used either  as restncted or unteshlcted funds depending|upon the|
|purpose for  which  the endowment was established.||
|Restncted Tunds represent (a) income  from trusts  or endowments which may be expended only|on those|
|resttlcted objects  provided  in the terms of the trust  OT bequest,  and (b) donations or grants  received for a||
|specific object  or invited  by the PCC Tor a specific object.<br>The funds may only be expended on|the specific|
|object  Tor whk.h they  were given. Any balance  remaining unspent at the end of each year must|be camed|
|forward as a balance on that fund.<br>The PCC does not usually  invest  separately TOT<br>each fund.|Where|
|there is no separated investment, interest is apportioned to individual funds on an average balance  basis.||
|The unrestncled Tunds are general  funds  which  are used for purposes defined  by the PCC .-||



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|The Fund's  aim is to contain  al least fhtee  months  running  costs  oT the church, wi(h the PCC allocating any|
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|surplus.|
|BtllLDING<br>FUND|
|This contains monies  reserved  by the PCC to cover  specific future  projects  related  to the upkeep  of infrastructure, including  monies  allocated  for|
|Quinquennial repair  costs.|
|PARVIS ROOF|
|This contains monies  designated for the Parvis  RooT repaks.|
|ORGAN  FUND|
|This contains monies being donated specifically to be spent  on the organ.|
|QUINQUENNIAL<br>FUND|
|This contains monies  earmarked for quinquennial repair  cycle expenditure.|
|INCOMING RESOuRCES|



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|AudiolCCTV|Straight line over  5 years|
|---|---|
|Projector|Straight line over  5 years|
|Lighting|Straight line over SO years|
|Boiler|Straight line over S 0 yeays|
|Church  Assets|Straight line ovey 50 years|
|Staging|Straight line over 1 5 years|





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||INCOMING RESOuRCES||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||untesiricled|Reslncled||Endowment|TOTAL||FIINDS|
|||R3ild5|pplld5||Funds|2023||2022|
|||E|E||E|E||E|
|(a)|Voluntary<br>Income||||||||
||Planned  giving.||||||||
||Gifl Aid donations|135,851||60||135,911||136,656|
||Other|19,058||||19.058||17,795|
||Sundry donations:||||||||
||Grants|51 ,895|3,643|||55,538||147,478|
||Gift Aid donations|2,936|1,137||||4,073|22,971|
||Cash collections|1 ,603||760|||2,363|1,851|
||Thanksgiving Campaign|1 ,000|||||1,000|26,570|
||Legacies|15,987||||1|5,G187||
||Youth Minisier Seed Funding|5,100|||||5, 100|15,400|
||Other giving|7,055|12,376|||19,431||28,352|
||Tax recoverable|37,200||;gg||37,4gg||51,407|
|||277,685|18,275|||295!)60||448,480|
|(b)|Fund genetating activities||||||||
||Feed in Tariff  income|4,074|||||4,074|3,986|
|||4,074|||||4,074|3,986|
|(c)|Income  from investments|7,304|||||7,841|2,594|
|||7,304|||||7,841|2,594|
|(d)|From operaling activities||||||||
||Bookstall|73|||||73|326|
||Lettings|4,839|||||4,839|4,989|
||Munch  Club meals||1|,231|||1 ,231|1 ,583|
||Fees for weddirigs/funerals|5,151||120|||5,271|5,150|
|||T0,063|1|,351||11,414||12,048|
||TOT AL INCOMING RESOuRCES|299,126|19,626||537|319,289||467,108|





|4||RESOURCESEXPENDED|RESOURCESEXPENDED||||||UntesYcted|Restncfed|Endowment|TOTAL|TOTAL|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||Funds|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
||(a)||||||||E|E|E|E|E|
|||GranlslDonalions(see|||note|9)||||||||
|||Missionag|and chantable||||giving|||||||
|||Church|overseas|- missionary<br>||||societies|20,115|||20,115|14,600|
|||Other|||||||5,824|||5,824|5,656|
||||||||||25,939|||25,939|20,256|
||(b)|||||||||||||
|||Relating directly to church work||||||||||||
|||Ministry<br>|Expendilure|||||||||||
||||Diocesan<br>|parish||share|||128,728|||128,728|128,728|
||||Clergy expenses||||||1 ,gg:|||1 ,992|869|
||||Training||||||1 ,503|||1 ,503|220|
|||Church Expenditure||||||||||||
||||Maintenance||and||minor|repairs|6,785|5134||ii,gtg|8,656|
||||Quinquennial||||||||||21 ,688|
||||Building ministryprolects||||||s,ggo|9,304||15.294|19,617|
||||Building cleaning||||and sanitation||1 ,273|||1,273|1 ,953|
||||Insurance<br>|claim|||||1,090|||1 ,090||
||||Holdich Organ Project||||||sgo|||590|1,800|
||||Utiliiies||||||5,584|||6,294|8,632|
||||Worship||||||6 ,769|||6,769|4,663|
||||Outieach||||||2,487|||8,721|6,617|
||||Pastoral||||||58|||58|100|
||||Youth (including<br>|||salanes)|||12,518|||12,915|14,661|
||||VAT reclaimable||||under|LPWS|18,895|||18,8%|12,573|
||||Depreciation||||||3,294|||3,294|5,008|
|||Management<br>& Admitvstration||||||||||||
||||Insurance||||||6,051|||6,051|5,402|
||||Parish Office||||||10,409|469||10,878|5,196|
||||Other admin||costs||||173|||173|406|
||||Staff costs'||Salaries and  pensions||||44,250|||44,250|34,263|
||||||||||258,439|22,248||280,687|281 ,052|
||(C)|||||||||||||
|||Fund-iaising|costs|||||||||||
|||Costs of|Tundiaising||campaigns<br>|||and events||||||
|||TOT AL  RESOURCES|||EXPENDED||||284,378|22,248||306,628|301,373|





|(a)|FIXED ASSETS|||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Tangibb|||CHURCH|||||||PAYMENT<br>|ON||
|||||ASSETS||AUDIO||LIGHTING|BOILER|STAGING|ACCOUNT||TOTAL|
||CosWaluation|||||E||||E|E|||
||At cosUvaluation<br>|al S January<br>|2023|44,160||46,821|1 124|48,750|35,7Fi7||21 ,000||197  622|
||Additions||||||5.769|||5,765|<br>63,000||74,534|
||Revaluation<br>in year||||(660)||||||||(660)|
||At S January<br>and|31 December|2023|43,500||46,821|6,893|48,750|35.7B7|5,765|84,000||271 496|
||Depreciation|||||||||||||
||At 1 January<br>2023|||1|,200|45,747|1,124|48,750|35.767||||132,588|
||Charge for  the  year||||200|1,074|1,923|||96|||a,zg:i|
||At :31 December<br>|2023||1|,400|46,821|3,047|48,750|35,767|96|||135,881|
||Net  Book Value|||||||||||||
||At Jan 1 st 2023|||42,960||S,074|||||21 ,000||85,034|
||At Dec  31 st 2023|||42,100|||3,846|||5,669|<br>84.000||1351615|



|(b)|||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Investments||||||Unrestricted||||Restncfed||Endowmem|TOTAL|
|||||||||Funds||||Funds|Funds||
|||||||||E||||E|E||
||Market|value 1 January 2023||||||1106|||||12,866|13,972|
||Revaluation<br>gainj(loss)||||||||(igi)||||1,221|1 ,030|
||Market|value al31 December||2023|||||gi|s|||14,087|15,002|
||Holdings|at|31 December<br>2023|||||||||E|E||
||||||||Fund||||Opening|value|Movement|Value al 31712/23|
||4'l7 New|aid Shares in NatWest||Group|||General|||||1,106|(191)|915|
||Chancel:<br>|428 Income uniis  in CBF  Investment|||Fund||Chancel|||||8,837|839|9 676|
||Jesus Church: 195.151ncome<br>|||units  in CBF|Investment|Fund|Jesus|Church||||4,029|382|4 411|
|||||||||||||13,972|1,030|15.002|
||||||Unrestricted||Restncted||||Endowment||Total|Total|
||CLIRRENT||ASSETS||Funds|||Funds|||Funds||2023|2022|
|(a)||||||||E||||E|E||
||Stocks||||||||||||||
||Communion||supplies, cups||||||||||||
|(b)|||||||||||||||
||Deblors||||||||||||||
||Income tax||recoverable|||1,400||||89|||1,489|6,261|
||Other debtors and piepayments|||||T0,845||1|,900||||12,745|12,973|
|||||||12.245||i|,gsg||||14,234|19,234|
||LIABILTTIES||||||||||||||
||Creditors<br>|falling due  within one||year|||||||||||
||Accnials||and Deferred Income|||12,245|||||||12,245|T0,725|
||Other creditors<br>and accruals|||||3,848|||||||4,253|41176|
|||||||16,093|||||||16,498|51,901|





|GRANTSRECEIVABLE|GRANTSRECEIVABLE|||Unrestncied|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Funds|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|Listed Places of Worship<br>|||Grant Claims||||18,895|12,573|
|Worshipful<br>|Company<br>|of Grocers|||1.500||1 ,500|1 .500|
|Feeoffees|||||1.900||1 ,900|1 ,900|
|Feeoffees<br>|lot  Munch|Club||||||750|
|Anonymous|for  Munch|Club|||243||243||
|Diocese<br>ol|Pelarborough|||3,000|||3,000|4,755|
|Holdich Organ Grant||||30,000|||30,000|126,000|
|TOTAL||||51 ,895|3.643||55,538|147.478|



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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2023|2023|2023|2022|
|CHURCH<br>|OVERSEAS||E|E|E||
|Missionany|Societies||||||
|CMS|||||||
|Crosslinks|||8,935||8,935|4,860|
|SAT7|||4,240||4.240|4,060|
|TearTund|||1 ,700||i,700|1,620|
|Christian|Aid||1,000||i ,000||
|United Society|||4,240||4,240|4,060|
||||20,115||20,115|14.600|
|Other|||||||
|Historic|Churches Preservation|Trust|50||5(1|50|
|Hope into  Action|||1 ,700||1 ,700|1 ,620|
|FIT  to Tnends  of St Peters Church|||4 ,074||4 ,074|3,988|
||||5 ,824||5,824|5,658|
|TOTAL|||25,939||25,939|20,258|










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|||||||||||||||||||||||||||Balance at 31|
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|||||||||||Balance||||at j||Incoming|||||Resources<br>Transfers|||Revaluation||December|
||||||||||January|||||2023|resources||||||expended|||gains{losses||2023|
|Unrestricted|funds||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Designated|funds:||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Building|Fund|||||||||||||20,812||||1191||||||||22,003|
|General<br>|reserve|||||||||||||57.862||||5,363||||||||63,225|
|Quinquennial<br>reserve||||||||||||||8,364|||||||||5,500|||13.864|
|Organ Fund||||||||||||||T0,008||||671||||(590)||||10.089|
|General<br>fund|||||||||||||191 407|||||291,901|||(283,788)||(5,500)|(851)||193,169|
||||||||||||||288,453|||||299,126|||(284,378)|||(851)||302,350|
|Restricted|funds||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Feeoffees||||||||||||||4 ,105||||1 ,900|||(4,105)|||||1 ,900|
|Servery|Prolecf|||||||||||||5 ,860||||||||||||5,860|
|Worshipful|Company||of|Grocers||||||||||438||||1 ,500||||(438)||||1 ,500|
|Holiday|at Home|||||||||||||573||||782||||(737)||||618|
|Cremated|Remains|Area||||||||||||297||||||||||||297|
|Holdich|(kgan Project|||||||||||128,50C+||||||||||||||128,500|
|Heating<br>|repaks fund|||||||||||||591||||||||(591)|||||
|Fnends|of Oundle Parish|||Church||||||||||||||9,304|||(9,304)||||||
|Clock &|Bells  Fund|||||||||||||2,868||||120||||||||2,988|
|OCYA lot  Youth Minister||||||||||||||500||||||||(469)||||31|
|Munch Club||||||||||||||1 ,924||||i,474|||(3,398)||||||
|Frlends|in Need|||||||||||||2 ,729||||2,221|||(;i,ogg)|||||3,534|
|Bereavement<br>Fund||||||||||||||50||||||||||||50|
|Heating|costs fund|||||||||||||||||710||||(710)|||||
|West Porch Caf6||||||||||||||594||||1,615||||(ag7)||||1,812|
|||||||||||||149,029||||||19,626|||(22,248)|||||t<z,ogo|
|Endowment|funds||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Chancel<br>|compounding||fund|||||||||||12,035||||417||||||839||13,291|
|Jesus Church income|||fund|||||||||||4,591||||120|||||(883)|382||4,4iO|
|||||||||||||||16,626||||537|||||(683)|1,221||17.701|
|Total funds||||||||||||454,108||||||319,289|||(306,626)|||370||467,141|
|The  Feeoffees<br>was  grants||||received|for||expenditure|||||on||the  fabric|of||)he building|||and  for  youth minister|||costs||||
|The Servery|Project Fund|||contains|donations||||to||be spent on the||||Servery Project.||||||||||||
|Worshipful<br>|Company<br>|of|Grocers - grants||||to|be|spent||||on the  fabric|||of the  building.|||||||||||
|Holiday at|Home Fund|is donations|||received|||specifically||||||for  the  running||||oT the|Holiday at Home Event.||||||||
|The Cremated<br>Remains<br>|||Area fund||was||a legacy||||to be|||used  on the|||cremated<br>||remains area.||||||||
|Holdich Ckgan fund  - see  note  S 3 below.|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Heating repaks fund  -||monies donated||||specifically||||||for|the  cost of making urgent|||||||repairs to||the  heating|system||||
|The  Friends|fund  consists|||of donajions|||from|the|||Friends oT Oundle||||||Pansh Church||||to be spent on projects as aqreed between||||the|PCC and the  Fnends.|
|The  Ckick|& Bells  Fund||is|funding|for|the  Phase|||||2|Clock Tower|||and Bell  works.||||||||||||
|OCYA Tor Youih Minister|||is a donation|||received||||for  the||||costs related|||to the  Youth||||Minister.||||||
|The Munch|Club came|under St Peteis|||||umbrella||||from|||December|2(Y8.|||<br>The funds|||are administered<br>||separately.<br>|If ceased to|operate in 2023.||
|Friends in|Need  Fund|-|donations<br>||received<br>|||to|be allocated at the  Vicar's discretion||||||||||||for  parishioners<br>in need||||||
|PDBF br Heating - a||grant||Tram the  Diocese||||of||Pekerboorugh<br>bwards||||||||the  cosl ol|||healing|the  church|building.||||
|The Bereavement<br>fund  is a donation||||||specifically|||||for  the  use  of the|||||bereavement||||team.|||||||
|Heating costs fund  - donation made|||||towards|||the|||increased<br>costs||||of||heating the|||church building.|||||||
|The West Porch Caf6||fund||- funds|raised to|||be||expended<br>on youth.|||||||||||||||||



