St. Dionis Church Annual Report January – December 2022
Reference and Administrative information
Members of the PCC are elected at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in accordance with the Church Representation Rules. During 2022 the following served as members of the PCC:
Non-Elected members:
Vicar: Revd Tim Stilwell Associate Vicar: Will Van der Hart SSM Curate: Lucinda Van Der Hart SSM Curate: Russell Rook (from July 2022) Church Warden : Jo Colman
Deanery Synod Reps: Andrew Slazenger, Su Gahan and Laura Hicks (from April 2022)
Elected members:
Aki Akiwumi-Thompson Amy Franco (until November 2022) Emily Marten James Mulford (from April 2022) Jen Symes Laura Hicks (until April 2022 – joined Deanery Synod) Sam Calder
At the first meeting of the PCC following the APCM (16.05.2022) the following officers were appointed: Chair: Revd Tim Stilwell
Lay Vice Chair: Jo Colman Secretary: Laura Bennett (nee Brimacombe) (in attendance) Treasurer/Chair of the Finance Committee: James Mulford
St Dionis is a registered charity number 1132734.
St Dionis uses the banking services of Metro Bank and Santander.
Derek Rodwell was appointed to carry out the independent examination for 2022. His address details are:
Impact The Future Ltd, Bennett Verby, 5 St Petersgate, Stockport, Cheshire. SK1 1EB
The postal address of the church building is: The Church Office, St Dionis Church, 18a Parsons Green, London, SW6 4UH.
STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
Responsibilities of the PCC
The PCC of St Dionis has the responsibility, together with the Vicar, the Revd Tim Stilwell, to promote in the parish the whole mission of the church. This includes the pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical aspects. It is also responsible for the maintenance of the building complex of St Dionis. As a Church of England Parish church, the PCC and Vicar follow the requirements of Church of England
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Canon Law.
The PCC continues to operate effectively with two separate Sub (standing) Committees, complete with their own terms of reference.
The Finance Sub-committee focusses on monitoring the quarterly reports, PCC accounts and the budgetary process.
The Human Resource Sub-committee focusses mainly on staff related issues and their respective areas of ministry and mission.
Both Standing Sub-committees meet in between the main PCC meetings and report back to the main meeting. It is proving effective with the sub-committees enabling more people with specific expertise to engage with these key areas of PCC leadership and oversight while at the same time releasing more time at the main PCC meetings for detailed evaluation centred around our three core values: encounter; embrace; engage.
Finance Standing Committee:
James Mulford (Chair & PCC member – from April 2022) Laura Bennett (nee Brimacombe) Revd Will Van der Hart Sam Calder Emily Mangles (lay member) Geoff Searle (lay member)
HR Standing Committee:
Jo Colman (Chair until May 2022) Revd Tim Stilwell (Chair from November 2022) Emily Marten Amy Franco (Chair from May until November 2022) Kimberley Vanderspar (lay member until August 2022) Tim Carpenter (from November 2022)
Objectives and activities
The objectives of St Dionis are to glorify God by promoting in the parish the whole mission of the Church. More specifically, the stated mission is ‘Growing mission-minded disciples who live for Jesus wherever they are’.
The PCC organises itself to carry out its aims and objectives by having regular meetings and various sub-committee meetings. The PCC met six times over the year. Topics discussed by the PCC included finances, safeguarding, prayer, staffing, Embrace; formation and discipleship, LLF and the pastoral principles and the Partnership, specifically connecting more with our local community via the Engage ‘tier 1’ events of the Partnership funnel. In addition to these meetings, the PCC held an extra ‘Thermostat Morning’ in October (ahead of the final budget setting for 2023), where each ministry leader shared the vision for their ministry area in 2023 and how that would impact the budget. This time created space for the PCC to be united in the 2023 vision, pray over the individual ministry areas and ‘set the temperature’ for the year ahead and subsequent PCC meetings.
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Members on the Electoral Roll are able to nominate candidates for the PCC. The PCC and Church Wardens are then elected annually at the APCM. PCC members are introduced to the workings of the PCC at the beginning of the serving year by the Vicar who provides a briefing paper and verbal comments where necessary.
Day-to-day management of the church is delegated to the Vicar, Revd Tim Stilwell.
Safeguarding
The PCC have begun using the Parish Safeguarding dashboard (introduced this year, a digital tool from the London Diocese Safeguarding team) to help monitor safeguarding actions and progress. We are currently on level 3, which is the highest level and have made good progress with all actions. This is checked regularly and outstanding actions are reported on at every PCC meeting.
In 2022, we initiated DBS checks on all members of the PCC, as advised by the Charity Commission. A new training module for PCC members was also introduced on Domestic Violence, which the majority of PCC members have completed.
The PCC also approved a procedure outlining the process we follow when handling all safeguarding concerns, and one outlining how any complaints made about how a safeguarding disclosure/concern was handled, would follow. These are now both on the St Dionis website, on the safeguarding page. Following advice from the London Diocese Safeguarding team, St Dionis has delegated the responsibility to report serious safeguarding incidents to the Charity Commission (a legal requirement) to the London Diocese Safeguarding team.
As more children and young people have gotten involved with the worship band and AV team, we have carried out DBS checks and mandated that certain members of the teams complete the necessary safeguarding training. This means our children and young people can safely take part in the running of the church and serve on Sundays.
Following the re-opening of the CAS halls, Jen Symes (Church Safeguarding Officer) has worked alongside Laura Bennett (Partnership Director) to ensure the CAS safeguarding policy and St Dionis safeguarding policy work alongside each other, and it’s clear where the responsibility to report safeguarding concerns sits.
Following a requirement on the dashboard, we now have a generic role description for all volunteers at St Dionis, and this signposts the safeguarding responsibility of all volunteers, particularly those who work with children, young people and adults at risk from harm or abuse.
St Dionis also participated in Safeguarding Sunday on Sunday 20th November. We told the church about safeguarding, what we do, what all members of the church can do to support safeguarding and why we value keeping everyone safe.
Church attendance
‘Sunday attendance’ at St Dionis in 2022 was a mixture of in person and online as we had both options available most of this year. We decided to stop streaming our morning services in November as fewer people were engaging with the morning livestream, but continue to livestream our 5pm service. Our sermons are also available in podcast format. Our average attendance was 168 people per week. At the end of the year, there were 300 active members on the church database.
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Electoral Roll
The electoral roll had 165 registered members. The figure has decreased from last year as members of the church have moved out of London. We are working to add new members to the Roll as we have lots of newer members eligible to join the Roll in 2023.
Church Staff
Georgie Harlow joined the team in May as our new Operations Manager. This formally released Laura Bennett to become the new Partnership Director, overseeing the new partnership vision of both St Dionis church and CAS Charity.
Louie van Der Hart was ordained priest at St Luke’s, Chelsea, in June. She was appointed as part time chaplain at Francis Holland in September and took up her post in October.
Russell Rook was ordained deacon as a Minister in Secular Employment in July. He spends most of his week in and around Westminster as a partner for the Good Faith Foundation.
Sarah Downes re-joined the team as Front of House Manager to cover the busy Christmas season and the Weekend Away.
Supporting local and other organisations
Public Benefit
The PCC members confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit. The church of St Dionis benefits the community through a range of activities, and particularly through Children’s Work and in supporting other charities through our volunteer programme, prayer and financial support as appropriate.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE
Worship Services
All three services have been marked by a striking number of newcomers throughout the year (not just in September). Many of them have plugged into the church.
Following an extensive survey and consultation with the regular attenders of the ‘worship for everyone’ service at the 10am, we decided to continue with the initial ‘all age’ experiment for the foreseeable future.
The teaching in 2022 covered topics including: Christians Basics from Romans; Luke 15: The Running Father; Ezekiel: Restoring Hope; Jeremiah 18: The Potter; Proverbs: Wisdom to Live By, and Fight Valiantly: Unpacking the Exhortation to Baptismal Candidates (accompanied by John Mark Comer’s book, ‘Live No Lies’).
Register of occasional services
Throughout the year we conducted 13 baptisms, 5 thanksgiving services for the birth of a child, 6 weddings and 5 funerals (either in church or at one of the local cemeteries). These numbers represent a significant increase on previous years, including pre-covid.
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Sung Worship
During the last year Matt has been keen to develop and build upon the work of previous seasons still walking with the same worship vision strap line “People of God, in the Presence of God, Pursuing the Heart of God, Pouring out authentic worship”. In the last 12 months we have experienced turnover in the membership of the team and have seen numerical growth of the team from 28 to 36 people.
We have seen worship leaders be grown and sent out, more young people involved throughout our Sunday gatherings, and a greater growing of creativity through our times of sung worship.
Throughout the last year Matt has built upon the success of the first team night with the team meeting together once a term to eat together, worship as a team, dive into topics around worship and pray for one another. A stand-out worship night was Nick Herbert’s (creative Christian songwriter and artist) session on releasing creativity and fostering the presence of God in sung worship.
Matt has continued to pastorally connect with the worship team 121 and has several touch points where the worship team are able to connect.
Brand/website
2022 was the year we reopened the CAS halls, and as such, we rebranded to reflect the partnership between the charity and St Dionis. The new logo, fonts, and colour palette designed by James Fraser (a member of our congregation), are used across all communications, such as 60 Seconds and social media, and feature on all signs, documents, and banners, as well as on the website. The content of the website is regularly updated to ensure it remains informative, and to reflect an accurate representation of church life.
DISCIPLESHIP AND FELLOWSHIP
Prayer plus Central Prayer & Worship
In 2022 St Dionis transitioned away from a weekly online prayer call to a larger in person event; Central Prayer & Worship. Whilst less regular than the previous model, CP&W has gathered significant numbers of people (+50) each time it has happened and created a space where different models of prayer and ministry can be expressed. Central Prayer & Worship has also been the context into which we have been able to do some Holy Spirit Ministry and Prophesy training as well as putting these things into practice. Matt and the worship team have also provided an invaluable context of worship within which prayer and ministry can be housed, and this has led to some powerful encounters with God over the course of the year.
New Wine
In 2022, a small group of the St Dionis congregation and staff team set up camp at New Wine Christian summer festival, United. We worshipped together amongst thousands from across the globe, and enjoyed incredible bible teaching from Amy Orr-Ewing, Pete Greig, Miriam Swanson, Paul Harcourt, Ben Doolan and our very own Will Van Der Hart and Tim & Jo Stilwell.
We had a fantastic time socialising and eating together, with the staff team on rota providing breakfast and an evening meal for everyone in our camp. This also included two other families who we hosted;
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one family all the way from Belgium!
8 of our 5pm service congregation also visited for a day to join in with the sessions and plenary talks. We enjoyed a special BBQ lunch on that day all together.
Weekend Away
In January, 119 members of the church attended the ‘St Dionis Weekend Away’. We returned to the De Vere Hotel near Windsor, with great facilities and delicious food. The weekend itself was full of worship, fellowship, and teaching from Bishop Ruth Bushyager on Exodus. The children and youth groups focused on how God Chooses Us, Rescues Us and Makes a Way for Us through Moses’ story.
We also had free time on Saturday afternoon which some members swam in the River Thames as the pool at the hotel was closed. On Saturday evening we had a great quiz night hosted by Jam Jones, Michael Strachan, and Tom Grew.
Life Groups
Life Groups continued to be highlighted as an important way to engage in life at St Dionis. Two challenges confronted a number of groups: one was the ongoing issue of balancing the convenience of on-line with a preference for in-person to suit as many individuals as possible. The other was the life stage shift of a number of regular Life Group members – a number of couples gave birth to babies. Two groups stopped meeting as a direct result of this; towards the end of the year two new groups emerged.
Men’s Ministry
The St Dionis Men have enjoyed some really great social events together over the course of the last year. These included a some well attended curry events as well as a number of more sporting socials. Some of the highlights were Axe Throwing, American Pool, Flight Club Darts and Sixes Club’s simulated cricket. We have been working to ensure that we are connecting men from across the 3 St Dionis services as well as welcoming guests who may have little experience of church or Christians before. Sam Ricketts and James Fraser have been invaluable leaders in the men’s ministry, which also includes a lot of mentoring and encouragement around Sundays and Life Groups. We are looking forward to more opportunities to connect in the year ahead and the Weekend Away was a great start to the year for us.
Women’s Ministry
Women from St Dionis met for a number of events through 2022. These included socials such as indoor golf, a curry night and a women’s self-defence evening. Sophie Hamilton led an enlightening tour of art featuring the nativity story in the Wallace Collection for a number of our women. Over Easter 2022 Louie led a ‘retreat in Daily Life’ which explored women in the Easter narratives. The women’s ministry continues to seek to see all women at St Dionis flourish, and particularly aims to build cross-generational relationships among women in our church.
Children and Families Ministry
This year we have continued to prioritise intergenerational worship through Worship for Everyone at the 10am service. In April a feedback survey was sent out to all those regularly attending this service, the majority of responses were overwhelmingly positive. We love seeing how this service continues to grow in number, diversity and vision.
We continue to review how best to engage and disciple both adults and children of all ages and stages.
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Children’s Groups have continued on the first Sunday of the month for 2-11 year olds throughout 2022. The programmes have been based on the same sermon themes as in the main service. The team were very excited to be able to use the newly refurbished CAS Halls for the first time in November. Use of this space will provide more opportunities for creative children’s and youth ministry in 2023.
Messy Church happened five times in 2022, the themes were Lent, being part of God’s Family, Seaside, a Space Light Party and Christmas. We love seeing church full of families from the local community building connections, being creative and learning about Jesus. We are looking at how to build more links between Messy Church and the wider church in 2023.
Supporting and equipping parents continues to be an important part of the Children and Families Ministry. Louie took over running the Soul Food Mums group in 2021 with the aim of providing a space for Mums of new babies to support each other. The team also ran a workshop on ‘Nurturing Faith in Children’ as well as a four-week Parenting Course aimed at those with preschool and young primary aged children.
Other highlights in 2022 have included the Easter Trail, Parsons Green Fair, Families lunch and the Carols for Everyone and Crib Services over Christmas.
Youth Ministry
The midweek youth group has continued in 2022. Although sometimes small in number there has been great value in building relationships with the young people and being able to check in with them weekly. It has been especially important for maintaining connection with those who don’t regularly come on Sundays. Hannah also meets up with the girls regularly to encourage and support them individually.
At the beginning of 2022 we increased Youth at the 5pm to twice a month. With the vision of helping foster independence in the young people’s own faith, giving space for them to encounter God through the worship and group time, build friendships with each other and to be inspired by being part of a congregation with a large proportion of young adults. However, having a consistent group has been challenging. At the end of November, we made the decision to pause this while we seek feedback from parents and young people and explore alternative options for a youth gathering on Sundays.
The number of young people serving in church has increased, with young people on the Worship & Production, Welcome and Children’s Teams. This is something we want to continue to encourage them to do going forward.
Hannah has remained connected in with the Kensington Area co-running Soul Net a monthly gathering of children’s and youth workers, and as a Growing Younger Champion; a group which looks to promote work with and empower churches to engage with young people.
Hannah is currently exploring doing more collaborative youth work with a couple of other local churches in 2023.
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Schools Ministry
Hannah, Tim and Will have continued to lead assemblies, talks and events at a number of local primary and secondary schools. Will has run workshops for students and CPD for staff in Lady Margaret School particularly focused on emotional mental health.
Hannah continued running a weekly Christian Union in Lady Margaret with Katherine Miller from St Matthew’s Church. A highlight was welcoming the group to St Dionis at the end of the term. The group resumed in the new academic year as the students moved into year 8 and continue to have a regular group of 15-20 students every week.
Six different year groups from Thomas’s Academy were again welcomed to the church in December to hear the Christmas story and talk about what Christians are celebrating at Christmas time. Students from Lady Margaret and Thomas’s Academy were also involved in the Lights on the Green event.
The Parenting Course
In May and June 2022 we ran a parenting course for parents of lower-primary aged children at St Dionis with expert contributions from Jo Stilwell and Hannah Dunlop. The course explored areas including attachment, confident parenting, and boundaries/discipline. It was really well received, and the attendance remained strong across the 4 sessions. Given our high number of young families and new parents at St Dionis, this is an area that we will be pressing into further in 2023.
Marriage Preparation
In September 2022 Will and Louie hosted a Marriage Preparation course for 6 couples. This consisted of 3 online sessions exploring Conflict, Communication and Commitment. Attendance remained consistent throughout the course and sessions where well received. There is certainly an opportunity to follow this course up with a general Marriage Course for the whole church over the next 12 months.
Dating Course/Singleness Conversations
In September 2021 St Dionis hosted The Dating Course which was attended by 60 people and proved to be a popular course which led to lots of healthy conversations around relationships for Christians. In 2022 we followed this up with an ‘Online Dating in a Digital World’ one-off session as much of the feedback and questions from the Dating Course were around online dating specifically. This was a really fruitful evening, with guest speaker Lauren Windle sharing a little of her book relating to this topic ‘Notes on Love’. Will then also hosted a Singleness Conversation event with Revd Kira Taylor in September. 64 people attended this event (single and married) which explored the whole landscape of singleness and the associated expectations facing people today. This session has been recorded and is currently being formatted into a Small Group resource which should be available for use at St Dionis over the year ahead.
Recovery Course & STEPS course
Following the departure of Lauren Windle, we have been unable to host the Recovery Course in 2022. However, we continue to support people in recovery at St Dionis pastorally. With the reopening of the CAS Halls at the end of this year, AA meetings are beginning to reopen and it is our ambition that a strong recovery culture will be re-established on our site.
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EVANGELISM AND WORK IN THE COMMUNITY
The CAS Partnership
2022 was a really important foundational year for the CAS Partnership and has lain the foundations for what we hope will be a very significant ministry in the years to come. There have been three key tracks of development that have been realised over the last 12 months. The first, and most obvious to see, has been the beautiful renovation of the CAS Halls (formerly known as The Mission Hall) which have now been handed back to us. The results are outstanding and, both the restoration and new elements of the build are better than we could have anticipated.
The second area of development began well before 2022, and that has been the streamlining of governance and the recruitment of staff into the Partnership. Laura Bennett is now Partnership Director and is doing an incredible job in establishing all of the infrastructure for hall hires, usage, and ministry. Currently, further recruitment is being finalised to cover the Front of House & Facilities Manager and Facilities Assistant roles.
The third area of development over the last year has been the articulation of vision for the Partnership. This has been realised in our new design and media work, and also articulated in what we have described as ’the story of blessing in Parsons Green’ which has tied together with the life and work of the patron Charlotte Antonia Sulivan, with our contemporary vision to share the good news of Jesus with our local community.
The halls are already bristling with activity and populated by lots of lessees as well as several important ministries.
As the CAS Halls have been closed for the duration of 2021 and the majority of 2022, there has not been much ‘engaging’ with the local community, however, as we begin to re-open the CAS Halls (November 22), we currently have one weekly AA meeting booked in and we are in touch with three other AA meetings (other nights/times of the day). We also have other bookings such as Little Kickers, Monkey Music and ballet classes.
CAS Charity also across 2021 and 2022 awarded community grants to local charities/churches such as Brownies, Guides, St Dionis church, St Matthews church and SEAPIA (who used the grant to provide over 200 hot snacks to disadvantaged children. They provided families with weekly food boxes donated by the Hurlingham Club and provided extra care packages and stationary resources to help the children with their home schooling). These grants are a core ongoing feature of the charity.
The year ahead promises to see further mission partners using the facility and the building of new relationships through the work of the joining staff. Exiting times indeed.
The Alpha Course
In 2022 St Dionis held one Alpha course, which was a hybrid of online and in person. This seemed to be very effective, especially the in-person Holy Spirit Day held at St Dionis church; co-run and with guests from St Pauls Hammersmith.
Glass Door
On the 7[th] October, a small but very committed group of St Dionis Glass Door volunteers, took part in
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the Glass Door Sleep Out; sleeping out overnight in Duke of York Square to raise money and awareness for the charity.
Sadly, due to the CAS Halls refurbishment not being fully ready in time, we have been unable to run the night shelters here, however, James Mackenzie-Smith has still been co-ordinating the volunteers and St Dionis have been providing regular volunteers. We have been trialling a Life Group volunteering as a group each week instead of meeting as a Life Group. This has worked well so far, and we will consider continuing this in the future.
We continue to support Glass Door in their amazing work and are committed to partnering with them in the future, especially hosting the night shelter back in the CAS Halls for the 2023/24 season.
Foodbank
Foodbank offers food parcels via a voucher scheme to those most in need in the local community. In 2022, we now have Ali Gillum as our Foodbank Champion (handed on from Ali Calder). We have done 3 collections this year, including special Harvest and Christmas collections alongside smaller more regular collections via the Foodbank basket, which is available year-round in the Living Space for ad-hoc donations, collected by Ali as needed.
Social Prescribing
We have continued social prescribing on a smaller scale in 2022 with the St Dionis volunteer team making regular friendly phone calls and helping people gain confidence with going out again post lockdown. There have been numerous stories of God moving through these small acts of kindness and we know that there will be plenty of fruits that we will never know about. Sadly, this year a few people that we helped have passed away. We have been regularly checking in with our new social prescribers Magda and Francesca who joined the social prescribing team in October about ways we can keep supporting the programme.
Crosslight Debt Advice
The pilot of the St Dionis ‘satellite’ Crosslight Debt Advice Centre (which started in July 2021) has now very much become an embedded missional activity, every other Monday, with a very committed and dedicated team of volunteers, providing support and advice to those struggling with debt via a mixture of phone and in-person appointments. The team is slowly growing and are continuing to train up new volunteers. We plan to continue this on into 2023.
This year we also ran a one-off budgeting session (online). We plan to do this again next year, and we hope to open it up to the wider community too.
We are currently planning how best to host the 6-session long Crosslight Money Course (currently hosted at St Pauls Hammersmith) in Spring 2023.
Fulham Memories
In 2021, our contact at Fulham Foundation became uncontactable, and therefore (alongside Covid concerns) the Fulham Memories programme was put on hold. However, having regained contact a Fulham Memories Taster Day took place on the 1st of December 2022 and continues every Thursday from the 12th of January 2023 (fully funded by the Fulham Foundation for 16 sessions). The hope is that this will gain enough traction that we then continue the programme either fully facilitated by St Dionis volunteers or with one Fulham Foundation Facilitator (funded by St Dionis).
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Once we have a significant client base for the Fulham Memories sessions, we will launch the Silver Space lunches, once a month (likely to be mid-2023).
Safe Families
We have continued to work alongside Safe Families throughout 2022, with a small number of our congregation connecting with local families who require additional help and support; be that a friend to chat to, a spare room for one of the family members to sleep in every so often, or someone to give practical help and advice. We hosted a Safe Families training day at St Dionis early in 2022.
We also shared requests from Safe Families directly with the church congregation via 60 Seconds, and have been able to provide a buggy, a desk and a matching set of cupboard and drawers for local families in need.
We will continue to encourage the congregation to sign up and support our local families in need through the work of Safe Families.
Kids Matter
Having run one programme in 2021, we ran a taster session in 2022, however we struggled to get enough referrals and sign ups for the Programme to run. We are trying to think differently about referrals for 2023 and how to make the connections with the families through other avenues such as Make Lunch etc.
IJM
We dedicated Sunday 25 September to IJM (IJM Sunday), which coincided with the final day of the IJM London to Paris 3 day Freedom cycle ride, where 14 of our church congregation (with a number of St Mark’s Battersea Rise) cycled 280km across 3 days (Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September), from Parsons Green to the Eiffel Tower, Paris, raising over £25,000 for IJM! This is the equivalent to five IJM operations to find and bring to freedom people from cases of trafficking and slavery.
We also continue to support the work of Blue Bear Coffee who give a proportion of their profits to IJM: they are our main coffee supplier.
Eco-Church 2022
As an A-Rocha Bronze Award Eco-church, we have continued to consider the environment in all our purchases, be that stationery, online shopping, cleaning supplies, refreshments.
February saw the return of the Fulham Litter Pick, organised and run by one of our PCC members, Jen Symes. They had several encouraging conversations with members of our local community about the Litter Pick and who we are as a church. We plan to do these in 2023 and we hope that members of our community will join in with us.
Christmas
In 2022 we were able to have our local nurseries and schools back for Christmas Services and rehearsals in person. We welcomed Zebedee Nursery, Pippa Poppins Nursery, Parsons Green Prep, Thomas Fulham, Thomas Academy and Lady Margaret School. All schools had in person carol services/performances and Thomas Fulham had Tim doing a Christmas talk for their carol services.
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We started the Christmas season with the Parsons Green Christmas Light Switch On with over 400 people attending. Tim gave a short talk, and we served hot drinks after the carols and promoted our Christmas Services and events via our leaflets.
We had two wonderful Carol Services with refreshments afterwards, with numbers consistent with last Christmas. Our Traditional Carol service and Contemporary Carol service offered two very different styled services which both had very positive feedback.
We had 162 people at the Contemporary Carol Service and 155 people at the Traditional Carols. Both services were streamed online.
This year we were glad to be able to do the Crib Service in person. Families were given a bag full of props and crafts to help them join in with and experience the Christmas story. It was a time of great celebration with over 200 adults and children worshipping together.
Our Midnight Holy Communion Service and Christmas Day Celebration were in person only, and not livestreamed. On Christmas Eve we had 48 people attend and on Christmas Day we had 60 people hearing the great news of the Christmas message.
We also hired out our space for two private Carol Services, one for Westonbirt School and the other to fundraise for the work of the Marsden hospital.
Finally, as in previous years, we rented out the front garden to Thomas, a Christmas Tree seller, and lit up our nativity silhouette which gave a lovely Christmassy feel to the front of church for all those passing by.
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Financial Report
Income
The principle source of funding is from congregation members and other supporters in the form of unrestricted donations, regular collections, standing orders and direct debits via the Parish Giving Scheme. The total amount raised in this way for the ministries of St. Dionis in 2022 was £419,776 (2021 £613,340).
Additional income of £89134 (2021 £48,075) was also generated from the rental of the building, investment income and other church activities including restricted funds.
Expenditure
Expenditures are analysed according to different church activities outlined in Note 3 of the financial statements. As is customary, the majority of expenditure was allocated towards each of the key priorities of the church.
St. Dionis contributed £102,240 (2021 £99,627) to the London Diocese Common Fund. In 2022, the Parish Standard Cost was £85,200 (2021 £85,200). Due to our relatively privileged financial position, we were pleased to provide the additional £17,040 (2021 £14,427) to support other local churches.
Policy on reserves
PCC policy is to not deliberately build up reserves unnecessarily. The Church of England recommends holding three months of working capital in reserve. Due to the growth of the church as well as higher costs, the Finance Committee has increased the designated Reserves Fund to cover three months of expected operational spending, resulting in a reserve of £140,000 (2021 £120,000).
Total unrestricted and designated free reserves at 31 December 2022 amounted to £340,447 (2021 £411,301) (see Note 9 - Total Funds less Restricted Funds and less Fixed Assets).
In 2019, the PCC accepted a £200,000 5-year loan from the London Diocese to help cover the costs of the church building refurbishment project. In 2022 this loan was repaid early in full to release funds back to the London Diocese to help other parishes.
Risk assessment and mitigation
The financial risks which St. Dionis faces have been considered and measures have been implemented to ensure that appropriate systems, policies and procedures are in place to manage and mitigate the risks. As a matter of general policy, independent professional advice is taken where appropriate.
The PCC are confident that with the continued support of the congregation, and appropriate management of expenditure, the church is a going concern and will continue to be financially viable during the ongoing cost of living crisis. The PCC are thankful to God’s provision and to all those who gave their time and money so generously 2022, without whom we would not be able to grow and maintain a successful church in Parsons Green. The PCC would like to record its deep gratitude to everyone who has supported the vision and mission of St. Dionis.
Charity law requires the Parochial Church Council to prepare a statement of financial activities and statement of assets and liabilities for each financial year, which gives a true and fair view of the state
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of affairs of the church and of its financial activities for that year and adequately distinguishes any material special trust or other restricted fund of the church. In preparing those financial statements the Parochial Church Council is required to:
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Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
• State whether the policies adopted are in accordance with the appropriate SORP on Accounting by Charities and the Accounting Regulations and with applicable accounting standards, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
• Prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the church will continue to operate.
The Statement of Financial Activities for January – December 2022 can be found at Annex A.
The Parochial Church Council is responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose, with reasonable accuracy at any time, the financial position of the church, and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with applicable Accounting Standards and Statements of Recommended Practice, and the regulations made under the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the church and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Approved by the PCC of St Dionis and signed on its behalf;
Name: James Mulford Position: Chair of the Finance Committee/Treasurer Date: 10 March 2023
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Independent Examiner's Report to the PCC of St Dionis, Parsons Green
I report on the accounts for the year ended 31st December 2022 that are set out on pages 16 to 27.
Respective responsibilities of the PCC and Independent Examiner
The PCC is responsible for the preparation of the accounts. They consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
Having satisfied myself that the church is not subject to audit and is eligible for independent examination it is my responsibility to:
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examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act;
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follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and
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state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
This report, including my statement, has been prepared for and only for the PCC as a body. My work has been undertaken so that I might state to the PCC those matters that I am required to state to them in an independent examiner’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, I do not accept or assume responsibility to any other than the church and the PCC as a body for my examination work, for this report or for the statements that I have made.
Basis of Independent Examiner's Statement
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission.
An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the church and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you the trustees, concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
Independent Examiner's Statement
In connection with my examination, no matters have come to my attention:
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which give me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
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to keep accounting records in accordance with s.130 of the 2011 Act; or
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to prepare accounts which accord with these accounting records have not been met; or
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to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Date: 17[th] March 2022 Derek Rodwell FCCA
ITF Ltd, Bennett Verby, 7 St Petersgate, Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 1EB
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ANNEX A
Statement of Financial Activity
Parochial Church Council of St. Dionis, Parsons Green For the year ended 31 December 2022
| Year Ended | 31 December 2022 | Year Ended | 31 December | 2021 | 2021 | |||||
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| Notes | Restricted Funds |
Unrestricted Designated Funds |
Unrestricted Funds |
TOTAL FUNDS |
Restricted Funds |
Unrestricted Designated Funds |
Unrestricted Funds |
TOTAL FUNDS |
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| Turnover | ||||||||||
| Total Congregation Giving & Donations | 2a) | 4,667 | 548 | 419,776 | 424,991 | 2,254 | 0 | 613,340 | 615,595 | |
| Income from Charitable Activities | 2b) | 200 | 4,562 | 54,226 | 58,988 | 0 | 0 | 20,827 | 20,827 | |
| Investment Income | 2c) | 0 | 0 | 91 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 105 | |
| Other Income | 2d) | 4,500 | 1,529 | 18,811 | 24,839 | (1,709) | 0 | 26,599 | 24,890 | |
| Total Income | 9,367 | 6,639 | 492,904 | 508,910 | 545 | 0 | 660,871 | 661,416 | ||
| Expenditure | ||||||||||
| Expenditure on Charitiable Activities | 3 | 9,236 | 22,767 | 499,304 | 531,306 | 4,582 | 0 | 379,952 | 384,534 | |
| Cost of Generating Funds | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1,196 | 1,196 | 0 | 0 | 785 | 785 | |
| Development of Site | 3 | 0 | 2,202 | 2,202 | 51,117 | 0 | 17,671 | 68,788 | ||
| Total Expenditure | 9,236 | 22,767 | 502,702 | 534,704 | 55,699 | 0 | 398,409 | 454,108 | ||
| Net Incoming (Outgoing) Resources | 132 | (16,128) | (9,798) | (25,794) | (55,154) | 0 | 262,462 | 207,308 | ||
| Transfers | ||||||||||
| Gross transfers between funds - in | 0 | 51,056 | 51,056 | 40,619 | 160,224 | 200,843 | ||||
| Gross transfers between funds - out | (51,056) | (51,056) | (200,843) | (200,843) | ||||||
| Net movement in funds | 132 | 34,928 | (60,854) | (25,794) | (14,535) | 160,224 | 61,619 | 207,308 | ||
| Funds Brought Forward 1January | 9 | 0 | 273,124 | 196,301 | 469,425 | 14,535 | 112,900 | 134,682 | 262,117 | |
| Funds Carried Forward 31 | ||||||||||
| December | 9 | 132 | 308,052 | 135,447 | 443,631 | 0 | 273,124 | 196,301 | 469,425 |
Note
Expenditure is split between Charitable Activites, Cost of Generating Funds (primarily online payment fees) and Development of Site (through Living Space Project) A further analysis is shown in Note 3
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Balance Sheet Report
Parochial Church Council of St. Dionis, Parsons Green As at 31 December 2022
| As at 31 December 2022 | ||||
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| Account | Notes 31 Dec 2022 31 Dec 2021 | Movements in Year | ||
| Fixed Assets | ||||
| Total FixedAssets | 4 | 103,052 | 58,124 | 44,928 |
| Current Assets | ||||
| Total Debtors | 5 | 25,081 | 54,755 | (29,674) |
| Total Cash at bank and in hand | 6 | 327,007 | 501,283 | (174,276) |
| Total Prepayments and accruedincome | 7 | 24,594 | 23,148 | 1,446 |
| TotalCurrentAssets | 376,682 | 579,186 | (202,504) | |
| Total Creditors: amounts falling due within one year | 8a | 36,104 | 67,885 | (31,781) |
| Net Current Assets(Liabilities) | 340,578 | 511,301 | (170,723) | |
| Total Assets less Current Liabilities | 443,631 | 569,425 | (125,794) | |
| Total Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year | 8b | 0 | 100,000 | (100,000) |
| Net Assets | 443,631 | 469,425 | (25,794) | |
| Capital and Reserves | ||||
| Current Year Earnings | (25,794) | 207,308 | (233,103) | |
| Retained Earnings | 469,425 | 262,117 | 207,308 | |
| Total Capital and Reserves | 9 | 443,631 | 469,425 | (25,794) |
These accounts were submitted to and approved by the Parochial Church Council (The Trustees) and signed on their behalf by;
Name: James Mulford
Position: Chair of the Finance Committee/Treasurer Date: 10 March 2023
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Statement of Cashflow - Indirect Method
Parochial Church Council of St. Dionis, Parsons Green For the year ended 31 December 2022
| Notes Cash Flows from Operating Activities: Net (expenditure)/income for the Year Adjustments for: Depreciation 4 Interest Expense for Long Term Loan (Increase) Decrease in operating activity debtors 5 (Increase) Decrease in operating activity deposits & prepayments 7 (Decrease) in operating activity creditors 8 Net Cash Flow from Operating Activities: Cash Flows from Investing Activities: Purchase of fixed assets 4 Net Cash from Investing Activities: Cash Flows from Financing activities: Interest paid on Long Term Loan Loans received in Current Year from Financing Activities (Repayments) from long term borrowing 8b Issuing of Loans Net Cash Flows from Financing activities: Net (Decrease)/Increase in Cash and Cash equivalents Movement in cash and cash equivalents: Net (Decrease)/Increase in cash and cash equivalent Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period Cash and cash equivalent as at end of Period |
2022 £ (25,794) 16,128 562 (326) (1,446) 8,220 (2,657) (61,056) (61,056) (562) (140,000) 30,000 (110,562) (174,275) (174,276) 501,283 327,007 |
2021 £ 207,308 13,654 3,460 13,307 (11,574) (12,792) |
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| 213,363 (35,390) |
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| (35,390) (3,460) (40,000) (50,000) |
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| (93,460) | ||
| 84,513 | ||
| 84,513 416,770 |
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| 501,283 |
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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST. DIONIS , PARSONS GREEN, LONDON SW6 4UH
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022
1 Accounting Policies
a Basis of preparation
The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 together with and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011.
The PCC meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s). The financial statements include all transaction, assets and liabilities for which the PCC is responsible in law. They do not include the accounts for church groups that owe their affiliation to another body, nor those which are informal gatherings of church members.
The PCC considers that St Dionis Church is a going concern as it has prepared what it considers a viable budget that shows that the current level of unrestricted reserves is appropriate to support the activities planned for 2023 and for the foreseeable future. Therefore, the accounts are prepared based on St Dionis Church being a going concern.
b Reconciliation with previous Generally Accepted Accounting Practice
In preparing the accounts, the PCC has considered whether in applying the accounting policies required by FRS 102 and the Charities SORP FRS 102 the restatement of comparative items was required. No restatements have been considered necessary.
c Fund Accounting
Funds held by the PCC are:
Unrestricted Funds - General Funds which can be used for PCC ordinary purposes Designated Funds - Monies set aside by the PCC out of Unrestricted Funds for specific future purposes or projects . These can be redesignated to unrestricted funds at any time by the PCC.
Restricted Funds
a) Income from trusts or endowments which may be expended only on those restricted objects provided in the terms of the trust or bequest;
b) Donations or grants received for a specific object or invited by the PCC for a specific object. The funds may only be expended on the specific object for which they were given. Any balance remaining unspent at the end of the year is carried forward as a balance on that fund.
d Description of Funds
Funds held by the PCC are:
General Fund - the General Fund is used by the PCC for general and ordinary operations of the Church
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PCC Reserves Fund (Designated) - Monies set aside by the PCC out of the General Fund to ensure that the Church has reserves equivalent to 3 months working capital on general operating expenses.
Building Fund (Designated) - Monies set aside by the PCC out of the General Fund for future costs of maintaining the structure and integrity of the Church building
Tangible Asset Fund (Designated) - Monies used to purchase Fixed Assets for the Church and allows recording of depreciation separately
AV Projector Fund (Designated) - Monies set aside by the PCC for potential revamp of the projectors in church - fully utilised in 2022
Youth Shed Fund (Designated) - Monies set aside by the PCC for a "youth shed" building to provide separate space primarily for use by the Youth.
Worship Track Recording (Restricted) - Monies given for specific use to record a worship track - fully expended in 2022
Living Space Fund (Restricted) - Monies set aside by the PCC out of the General Fund and additional monies raised specifically for Living Space. Living Space is the project name given to the redevelopment plans of the Church Building
Bursary, Support Grants & Mission giving (Restricted) - Fund used to identify where giving was meant for a specific purpose such as specific appeals.
Tangible Asset Fund (Restricted) - Historic restricted monies used to purchase Fixed Assets for the Church and allows recording of depreciation separately [these assets were fully depreciated as of Y.E 2021 and therefore Designated Fund created.]
e Income
All Income resources are accounted for as gross except for Goodbox where the net receipts are auto processed.
Voluntary Income
Collections are recognised when received and assumed to be part of regular giving unless for a specific response
Regular Giving is recognised only when received Gift Aid Recoverable is recognised on an accrual basis
Grants and Legacies are recognised when the PCC is legally entitled to the amounts granted
Income from Investments
Dividends are accounted for when they are due and payable. Interest entitlements are accounted for on an accrual basis
All Other Income
All other Income is recognised on an accrual basis
Gains and Losses on Investments
Realised gains are recognised when the investments are sold
Unrealised gains and losses are marked to market on a revaluation date of 31 December 2022
f Expenditure
Resources Expended are accounted for on an accrual basis and are accounted for gross.
Grants
Grants and donations are accounted for when the PCC awards the amounts inline with a preagreed figure. Otherwise, grants and donations are accounted for when paid.
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g Fixed Assets
Tangible Fixed Assets
Consecrated and beneficed property of any kind is excluded from the accounts by S.96(2) of the Charities Act 1993
Movable church furniture held by the Vicar and Church Wardens on special trust for the PCC and which may require a faculty for disposal, are accounted as inalienable property unless consecrated.
They are listed in the church's inventory which can be inspected.
For inalienable property acquired prior to 2000, there is insufficient cost information available and therefore such assets are not valued in the accounts.
Individual items acquired since 2000 have been capitalised in the accounts and depreciated over their useful economic life
All expenditure on consecrated or beneficed buildings and individual items costing £1000 or less are written off in the year they were incurred.
h Depreciation
Depreciation is calculated to write down the cost of tangible fixed assets, excluding freehold properties, over the useful life of the asset. The rates adopted by the PCC are:
Furniture and Fittings 10% Straight Line Audio / Visual Equipment 20% Straight Line Piano Held at book value
i Investments
Investments are stated at Market Value at the Balance Sheet Date
j Current Assets
Amounts owing to the PCC at 31 December 2022 in respect of fees, rents or other income are shown as debtors less provision for amounts that may be proved uncollectible, currently no such provision exists.
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| 2 Income | Breakdown Year Ended 31 December 2022 Year Ended 31 December 2021 Restricted Funds Unrestricted Designated Funds Unrestricted Funds TOTAL FUNDS Restricted Funds Unrestricted Designated Funds Unrestricted Funds TOTAL FUNDS Congregation Giving and Donations Regular Giving - - 295,209 295,209 - - 311,434 311,434 One Off Donations 1,991 548 47,357 49,895 1,282 - 191,385 192,667 Service Collections 2,677 - 3,639 6,316 972 3,374 4,346 Income Tax Refunded - - 73,571 73,571 - - 107,147 107,147 Total Congregation Giving & Donations 4,667 548 419,776 424,991 2,254 - 613,340 615,595 - - 0 0 - - - 0 0 Income from Charitable Activities Hire of Church Building - - 30,723 30,723 - - 17,853 17,853 Statutory Fees Collected for PCC & Diocese - 1,907 2,289 4,196 - - 1,406 1,406 Other Church Income 200 2,655 21,215 24,070 - - 1,568 1,568 Total Income from Charitable Activities 200 4,562 54,226 58,988 - - 20,827 20,827 - - - - - - - - Investment Income Interest Income - - 91 91 - - 105 105 - - 91 91 - - 105 105 - - - - - - - - Other Income Network Tower & Other Income 4,500 1,529 18,811 24,839 - - 26,599 26,599 LPOW Reclaim - - - - 1,709 - - - 1,709 - 4,500 1,529 18,811 24,839 1,709 - - 26,599 24,890 - - - - - - - - 9,367 6,639 492,904 508,910 545 - 660,871 661,416 |
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| 3 Expenditure Breakdown Expenditure on Charitable Activities Contribution to London Diocese Youth & Childrens Ministry Worship Ministry Mission Giving Church Services, Ministries & Outreach |
Note Direct Costs Staff Costs Depreciation Central Costs Total 2022 Direct Costs Staff Costs Depreciation Central Costs Total 2021 102,240 102,240 99,627 99,627 3,659 31,380 18,363 53,401 2,751 29,641 13,431 45,823 11,956 19,655 12,870 18,363 62,843 9,191 16,887 11,089 13,431 50,598 3b 38,511 38,511 5,617 5,617 83,925 40,225 3,258 146,903 274,311 47,909 39,900 1,044 94,015 182,869 |
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| Expenditure on Charitable Activities | 240,290 91,259 16,128 183,629 531,306 165,095 86,429 12,134 120,877 384,534 |
| Cost of Generating Funds Development of Site Central Costs |
1,196 1,196 785 785 2,202 - 2,202 53,837 1,520 13,431 68,788 3a 77,552 106,078 183,629 - - 68,287 66,020 134,307 - - |
| Total Expenditure | 321,240 197,337 16,128 - 534,704 288,005 152,449 13,654 - 454,108 |
Expenditure has been split in order to show core elements of the church operations and fulfilment of the charity objectives, with the below summary to aid readers understanding
| Category | Direct Costs | Staff Costs |
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| Contribution to London Diocese Youth & Childrens Ministry Worship Ministry Mission Giving Church Services, Ministries & Outreach Cost of Generating Funds Development of Site Central Costs |
Direct costs associated with worship including the depreciation of the Audio Visual assets Financial gifts given to partner charities, details shown in 3b) below Costs Associated with raising funds - primarily from using 3rd party apps such as Stripe to facilitate donations All overhead costs related to runninga charity,includingfacilities, governance and finance This is the common fund contribution to the central london diocese, that covers the salary of the incumbent and wider central Church of England costs. More details can be found on the London Diocese webpage https://www.london.anglican.org/support/finance/common-fund/ Direct costs associated with all youth and childrens ministries Other resources spent from the charity, primarily related to costs incurred with building improvements from the living space project Church service running costs and all other ministries & outreach costs, ordinand costs and associate vicar living costs |
Children & Families Pastor Worship Pastor Associate Vicar (paid via Diocese) PartnershipDirector,Ops Manager,Ops Admin & Front of House |
3a) As per SORP guidelines, the central costs are allocated across the related categories - the allocation key is detailed below and factored based on time of central staff and usage of central resources Youth & Childrens Ministry 10% Worship Ministry 10% Church Services, Ministries & Outreach 80%
No central costs are allocated to Contribution to London Diocese or Mission Giving as these are payments to other charities. None is allocated to Cost of Generating Funds as immaterial
3b) Mission Giving list of charity partners
| 2022 | 2021 | |
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| IJM | 5,792 | 4,755 |
| Toilet Twinning | - | - |
| Evangelical Alliance | 200 | 200 |
| Glass Door | 1,056 | - |
| Foodbank | - | 387 |
| CrossLight | - | 833 |
| Kids Matter | 1,056 | |
| Accrual | - | (559) |
| CAS | 30,000 | |
| Ukraine | 407 | |
| Total | 38,511 | 5,617 |
*Note: The main gift given to IJM is accrued at the end of the year in alignment with the PCC policy to gift 10% of earned income to charity (split IJM and £200 to EA), but given in the next accounting year.
3c)
Central Costs Analysis
The central costs can be broken down by source spending as below
| 2022 | 2021 | |
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| Utilities | 18,393 | 14,609 |
| Other Building Costs | 24,279 | 22,300 |
| IT & Other Admin Costs | 24,426 | 24,915 |
| Professional Fees | 10,453 | 6,368 |
| Staff Costs | 106,078 | 66,020 |
| Total Central Costs | 183,629 | 134,212 |
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4) Fixed Assets
Fixed Asset Reconciliation
Parochial Church Council of St. Dionis, Parsons Green For the year ended 31 December 2022
| Fixed Asset Reconciliation Parochial Church Council of St. Dionis, For the year ended 31 December 2022 |
Parsons Green | |||
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| Audio | Furniture | |||
| Visual | & | Piano | Total | |
| system | Fixtures | |||
| Opening Cost | 88,232 | 34,218 | 2,000 | 124,450 |
| Additions | 57,770 | 3,286 | 0 | 61,056 |
| Disposal | (7,844) | (7,844) | ||
| Closing Cost | 138,157 | 37,504 | 2,000 | 177,662 |
| Opening Accum Dep | 56,849 | 9,477 | 0 | 66,326 |
| Depreciation | 12,870 | 3,258 | 0 | 16,128 |
| Disposals | (7,844) | (7,844) | ||
| Closing Accum Dep | 61,874 | 12,735 | 0 | 74,609 |
| Opening Book Value | 31,383 | 24,741 | 2,000 | 58,124 |
| Closing Book Value | 76,283 | 24,769 | 2,000 | 103,052 |
*Additions & Depreciation includes an adjustment for a sale of asset of old projectors which had a opening cost and oppening acc depreciation value of £7,844.28
Fixed Asset Reconciliation
Parochial Church Council of St. Dionis, Parsons Green
For the year ended 31 December 2021
| For the year ended 31 December 2021 | ||||
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| Audio | Furniture | |||
| Visual | & | Piano | Total | |
| system | Fixtures | |||
| Opening Cost | 60,616 | 26,443 | 2,000 | 89,060 |
| Additions | 27,615 | 7,775 | 0 | 35,390 |
| Closing Cost | 88,232 | 34,218 | 2,000 | 124,450 |
| Opening Accum Dep | 45,759 | 6,913 | 0 | 52,672 |
| Depreciation | 11,089 | 2,565 | 0 | 13,654 |
| Closing Accum Dep | 56,849 | 9,477 | 0 | 66,326 |
| Opening Book Value | 14,857 | 19,531 | 2,000 | 36,388 |
| Closing Book Value | 31,383 | 24,741 | 2,000 | 58,124 |
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| 5 Debtors | 2022 | 2021 |
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| Accounts Receivable | 120 | 1,143 |
| Other Receivables | 4,961 | 3,612 |
| CASLoan | 20,000 | 50,000 |
| Total Debtors | 25,081 | 54,755 |
*An interest free loan was issued to CAS (Charlotte Antonio Sulivan Charity) to aid in the refurbishment work of the charity. CAS is a charity that exists to support the objectives of St Dionis church. Rev Tim Stilwell is a trustee of CAS along with being the Vicar of St Dionis.
The loan was extended into 2023, and reduced by £30,000 which was given as a gift.
6 Cash at bank and in hand
| 6 Cash at bankand in hand | ||||
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| LC Credit Card SecurityAmount | 4,551 | 4,547 | ||
| Living SpaceFundraisingAcct | 5,711 | 5,690 | ||
| PCCReserveDepositAccount | 7,533 | 7,525 | ||
| Santander BusinessAccount | 233,541 | 293,792 | ||
| St. Dionis- ActivityAccount | 35,927 | 43,028 | ||
| St. Dionis- BusinessAccount | 39,233 | 27,067 | ||
| Stripe GBP | 510 | - | ||
| CCLA Depositfund | - | 119,635 | ||
| Total Cash at bank and in hand | 327,007 | 501,283 | ||
| 7 Prepayments and deposits | 24,594 | 23,148 | ||
| 8a) Current Liabilities | ||||
| 2022 | 2021 | |||
| Accounts Payable | 3,944 | 1,271 | ||
| Credit Card Spend | 2,490 | 1,836 | ||
| Deferred Income | - | 660 | ||
| Deposits received for Weekend | Away | 19,036 | 13,304 | |
| Loan payable to diocese within 1 year | 1 - |
40,000 | ||
| Other Accrued Payables | 10,633 | 10,813 | ||
| Rounding | 1 | - | 0 |
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| Total Creditors: amounts falling due within one yea 36,104 |
67,885 | |||
| 8b) Non Current Liabilities | ||||
| Loan Payable to London Diocese over 1 year 0 |
100,000 | |||
| Total Liabilities | 36,104 | 167,885 |
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9) Statement of Funds
| Unrestricted Funds General Fund Designated Funds AV Projector Fund Building Fund PCC Reserves Tangible Assets (Designated) Youth Shed Fund Pass Through Funds Restricted Funds Living Space Project Tangible Assets (Restricted) Worship Track Recording Bursary, Support Grants & Mission giving TOTAL FUNDS |
Balance Brought Forward Income & Other Gains / (Losses) Expenditur e Transfer s Balance Year Ended Balance Brought Forward Income & Other Gains / (Losses) Expendit ure Transfer s Balance Year Ended 01-Jan-22 31-Dec-22 01-Jan-21 31-Dec-21 £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ 196,301 492,904 (502,702) (51,056) 135,447 134,682 660,871 (398,409) (200,843) 196,301 196,301 492,904 (502,702) (51,056) 135,447 134,682 660,871 (398,409) (200,843) 196,301 30,000 (30,000) 0 0 30,000 30,000 50,000 0 0 50,000 12,900 0 0 37,100 50,000 120,000 0 0 20,000 140,000 100,000 0 0 20,000 120,000 58,124 (16,128) 61,056 103,052 58,124 58,124 15,000 15,000 0 15,000 15,000 6,639 (6,639) 0 273,124 6,639 (22,767) 51,056 308,052 112,900 - - 160,224 273,124 0 0 0 0 0 12,218 (1,709) (51,117) 40,608 0 0 0 0 2,317 (2,317) 0 0 0 1,450 (1,450) 0 0 0 7,917 (7,786) 0 132 2,254 (2,265) 11 0 0 9,367 (9,236) 0 132 14,535 545 (55,699) 40,619 0 469,425 508,910 (534,704) 0 443,631 262,117 661,416 (454,108) (0) 469,425 |
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340,446.68
| 9b) Analysis of Net Assets by Fund Fixed Assets for Church Use Cash & Cash Equivalents Other Current Assets Total Liabilities |
Unrestrict ed Funds Designated Funds Restricted Funds TOTAL FUNDS TOTAL FUNDS (General) (Building & Reserves) (Including Living Space & Tangible Property) 2022 2021 £ £ £ £ £ |
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| 103,052 - 103,052 58,124 121,876 205,000 132 327,007 501,283 49,675 49,675 77,903 (36,104) (36,104) (167,885) |
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| 135,447 308,052 132 443,631 469,425 |
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10 Staff Costs, Numbers & Key Management Personnel 2022 2021
Wages & Salaries 144,450 104,782
Employers National Insurance Contributions 9,281 5,585
Employers Pension Contributions 3,380 2,182
Total 157,112 112,549
Average FTE # Staff 4.73 3.51
Above figures exclude clergy who are paid through the diocese.
No employee received remuneration in excess of £60,000 (2021: none)
The key management role is performed by the Revd Tim Stilwell who receives his stipend directly from the Diocese. The Revd Stilwell
received no remuneration or benefits in kind directly from St Dionis during the financial reporting period.
The church encourages and relies upon the ongoing involvement of volunteers from the congregation who help with all aspects of the work of
the Parish including serving on Sundays, assisting at church led events and prayer groups.
11 Related Party Transactions
The total known identifiable donations to St. Dionis Church by serving Trustees in the year ended 31 December 2022 was £38,331
(2021: £61,444.10).
Expenses were paid to Lucinda Van Der Hart of £953.35 (2021: £670) (wife of Will Van Der Hart) in relation to childminding to enable her to
attend various church / PCC events in capacity as an ordinand.
There were no other disclosable transactions in respect of PCC members or other persons closely connected with them or related parties.
12 Post Balance Sheet Events
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