The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Hyson Green and Forest Fields
(Registered charity, number 1132850) Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025
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# The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Hyson
# Green and Forest Fields Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 December 2025
Full name The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Hyson Green and Forest Fields
Other names by which the charity is known St Stephen with St Paul PCC PCC of St Stephen with St Paul Hyson Green (working name)
## Registered charity number
## 1132850
## Principal address
St Stephen’s Church, Bobbers Mill Road, Hyson Green, Nottingham, NG7 5GZ
## Trustees
Rev Clive Burrows, Vicar Mohammed Ashtari Rev Lesley Silcock, Curate Karen Burrows Sharon Bravo, Minute Secretary Peter Dixon Jean McCloughry, Warden Jonathan Julian, from 27/04/25 Stephen Paget, Warden Aleena David, from 27/04/25 Sandra Brailsford, Reader Carron Gawthorn, from 27/04/25 Jenny Lewin, Reader Albert Gill, until 09/01/26 Folasade Sowunmi, Reader Deirdre Dixon, until 30/07/25 Graham Lewin Linford Grant, until 27/04/25 Tamim Fetrat Arash Shayegan, until 27/04/25 Babatunde Olajuyigbe, Treasurer, from 27/04/25
## Independent examiner
Eva Stevens, employee of Community Accounting Plus, Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL
## Governance and management
We are governed in our operation and formulation by the Canons of the Church of England and Pastoral measures. Members are elected and appointed at AGM. The membership of the PCC lasts three years before stepping down for a year. Officers are excluded.
Trustees are elected at APCM.
## Objectives and activities
The principal aims of the PCC are to co-operate with the minister in promoting in the parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical, to spread the word of Jesus Christ in the area of Hyson Green and Forest Fields and minister to the people who live there.
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## The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Hyson Green and Forest Fields
## Public benefit statement
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, ‘Charities and Public Benefit’.
Summary of the main achievements during the period 2025 has been another busy year in the life of our vibrant, multicultural, inner urban city church. We continue to pursue our aim of ‘Crossing Cultures with Christ’. Our leadership and participation in church life expresses that desire.
This year more people have chosen to attend church in person but a few still join us using Zoom.
As a way of reaching out to the people in our parish, letting them know that we exist and that we care about them, we once again delivered Christmas cards to many homes in our parish. Our Christmas services this year had more visitors than for many years.
This year we continued with our Church Without Walls programme: offering free tea and coffee near a supermarket in our parish as an opportunity to meet people and get to know them. It has proved very successful. We meet fortnightly on Saturday morning and find that people are surprised and delighted that we are offering something new and a chance to chat. Although building numbers of those who come on Sunday morning to our services is not the real aim several have started to do so. We also offered the same service at Christmas at the switch on of the Christmas tree lignts.
On Tuesday evenings we hold an online Al Massira course for people from a Muslim background. The course takes about 6 months to complete and has about 15 members. When the course has been completed members move to our group that used to meet online on Thursday evenings. After several years meeting online, we are now meeting in person and that has greatly helped us to relate more closely with each other.
We have continued to serve the most vulnerable with deliveries of hygiene products, kindly given to us by another voluntary sector organisation, the Hygiene Bank.
This year community tensions have been quite taught over immigration, but we have attended meetings to try to address the issues that people are raising.
In June we had a national conference for churches that have large numbers of lranians. Guli Dehghani Tafti, the bishop of Chelmsford, our own Bishop Andy and the Archbishop of York, Steven Cottrell, attended. There was a wonderful feeling of support and shared resources and experiences.
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## The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Hyson Green and Forest Fields
Lesley Silcock, one of our longest standing members, was ordained deacon and is serving her curacy in our parish. She has brought a huge amount of ideas, pastoral care and new initiatives. One of those new ideas is a monthly Sunday evening 'Open to God' service in which we spend time in silence listening to God and sharing together what he has said.
Several leaders attended a ‘Cultural Bridge’ course to help foreign national church leaders understand British culture better.
Children, young people and families have always been an important part of the life of our church. During this year we have tried different ways of supporting and including them during services with special children’s activities, involvement in all age worship, including leading the service, and a summer programme. We have a monthly Youth Group for secondary school age children. We take regular assemblies at our local schools, including a private Muslim Primary School, and they visit the church for Experience Easter and Christingle and concerts. Once a month on Saturday mornings we hold Messy Church for families which attracts about 40 people. We have a large team of about 20 people that help facilitate the event, which includes lunch afterwards.
Our leadership training programme is helping new people to come forward to help lead. One of our members is training to be a Reader on our diocesan training programme.
We bought a new industrial cooker for our community centre, which has enabled us to offer more hospitality.
Despite a year of spending more than income, the church has given away over £11,000 including to those less fortunate in our own community and those in other parts of the world.
Fola Sowunmi, one of our Readers started a new monthly group, 'Mizpah', which works with women and has proved very popular. The women attending come from various parts of Nottingham and have appreciated the pastoral support and prayer ministry.
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## The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Hyson Green and Forest Fields
## Financial review
We have spent more than we have had come in, this shortfall has been covered by legacy money.
The charity’s policy on reserves The charity aims to keep 3 months running costs as reserves.
## Financial risks
The financial risk that the charity faces is an ageing long standing congregation and newcomers with little money.
Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees:
Rev Clive Burrows, Vicar, Trustee
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09/04/2026
## The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Hyson Green and Forest Fields Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 December 2025
|2024|||||2025|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Total||Unrestricted||Restricted|Total|
|Funds|||Funds|Funds|Funds|
|£||Note|£|£|£|
||Receipts|||||
|69308|Grants & donations|2|60355|17765|78120|
|25584|Gift aid||15041|-|15041|
|196|Fundraising||109|-|109|
|2674|Bank interest||2350|-|2350|
|1868|Sales & fees||800|-|800|
|145|Loan repaid||94|-|94|
|99775|Total receipts||78749|17765|96514|
||Payments|||||
|17|Bank charges||18|-|18|
|333|Children&young people costs||251|270|521|
|16737|Church||23995|-|23995|
|10456|Giving||9427|2625|12052|
|964|Hospitality& activities||341|-|341|
|1227|Incumbent, Curate & Priestexpenses||1094|-|1094|
|612|Legal& professionalfees||636|-|636|
|11518|Major repairs & redecoration||5806|-|5806|
|13288|Office||13448|-|13448|
|42120|Parishshare||44328|-|44328|
|2986|Service expenses||2143|3450|5593|
|100258|Total payments||101487|6345|107832|
|(483)|Netreceipts/(payments)||(22738)|11420|(11318)|
|233516|Cashfunds atstartofthis period||224992|8041|233033|
|233033|Cashfundsatendofthisperiod||202254|19461|221715|
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## The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Hyson Green and Forest Fields Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 December 2025
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2024 2025
£ Cash assets £
233033 Bank accounts 221715
233033 221715
Other monetary assets
235 Debtors - Loan 141
75 Debtors - Bank interest receivable 67
517 Prepayments - Service expenses - CCLI 531
827 739
Assets retained for the charity's own use
General equipment.
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Laptop purchased October 2020, cost £799. CCTV system purchased April 2022, cost £2,659. Alarm system purchased September 2022, cost £1,109.
## Liabilities
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(636) Creditors - Independent Examination (714)
(636) (714)
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These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:
Signed Z. Ni | aaa le Date_2G Ie 12 (, Lesley Silcock, Trustee
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## The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Hyson Green and Forest Fields Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025
1. Receipts & payments accounts Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.
2. Grants & donations
|2.|Grants & donations||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Unrestricted||Restricted||Total|
||||£||£|£|
||CAF/UKETVouchers||1000||-|1000|
||Church collections||3419||-|3419|
||Covenanted giving|48042|||-|48042|
||GiftDayand otherdonations||5296||17765|23061|
||Pledge envelopes||1036||-|1036|
||SumUp donations||1562||-|1562|
|||60355|||17765|78120|
|3.|Funds analysis||||||
|||Opening|Receipts||(Payments)|Closing|
|||balance||||balance|
|||£||£|£|£|
||Unrestricted funds||||||
||Churchgeneral fund|104992|78749||(101487)|82254|
||Designated developmentfund|120000||-|-|120000|
|||224992|78749||(101487)|202254|
||Restricted funds||||||
||Rooffund|6995|11420||-|18415|
||Sound deskfund|1046||-|-|1046|
||Persian conference|-|3000||(3000)|-|
||Messychurch|-||270|(270)|-|
||Coach journey|-||450|(450)|-|
||Special collections|-|2625||(2625)|-|
|||8041|17765||(6345)|19461|
Roof fund — funds raised for the restoration of the roof. Sound desk fund — fund for a sound desk. Persian conference — funds raised for a Persian conference. Messy church — funds for Messy Church costs.
Coach journey — funds specifically for a coach journey.
Special collections — funds raised for giving to other causes. This year comprised £375 for Tearfund and £2,250 for Unicef.
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## The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Hyson Green and Forest Fields
## 4. Trustees’ remuneration
Trustees received no expenses, remuneration or benefits in this period.
## 5. Related party transactions
There were no related party transactions in this period.
6. Glossary of terms
Creditors: These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.
Debtors: These are amounts owed to the charity, but not received in the accounting period.
Prepayments: These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period.
Restricted funds: These are funds given to the charity, subject to specific restrictions set by the donor, but still within the general objects of the charity.
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