The Parish Church of St Michael Yorktown, Camberley In the Diocese of Guildford Annual Report and Financial Statements Of the Parochial Church Council For the Year Ended 31st December 2025
THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL YORKTOWN. CAMBERLEY CONTENTS Pa Parochial Church Council Report Independent Examinerfs Report Statement of Financial Activities 9-10 Notes 11-14
THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL YORKTOWN, CAMBERLEY Report of the Parochial Church Council for the Year Ended 31st December 2025 The Parochial Church Council present their report along with the financial statements of the Parish for the year ending 31st Dernber 2025. St Michael's Church is situated on London Road. Camberley and is part of the Diocese of Guildford. Reference and Administrative Details Correspondence Address.. The Parish Office 286 London Road Camberley Surrey GU15 3JP Independent Examiner.. Mr Nicolas Gooderham FCA 14 Shalboume Rise Camberley Surrey GU15 2EJ Bankers.. Barclays Bank plc Camberley Branch POBox191 Camberley Surrey GU15 3GS Parochlal Church Councll Background St Michael's PCC has the responsibility of co-operating with the incumbent in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. Revd Pippa Ford resigned and left the parish in February 2025 and for the remainder of the year Rev Ellen Turtle. Area Dean served in place of our incumbent. Sl Michael's PCC also has Maintenan responsibilities for the church buildings and churchyard of St Michael Yorktown. This annual report puts all the PCC'S financial statements into perspective and relates them to the wider life of the Church. It reviews the past year. and seeks to link financial plans, expectations and hopes for the future.
THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL YORKTOWN, CAMBERLEY Report of the Parochial Church Council for the Year Ended 31¥t December 2025 Membership Members of the PCC are either ex officio or elected by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in accordan with the Church Representation Rules. During the year the following members served as members of the PCC.. Incumbent.. The Revd Pippa Ford Chair- Resigned February 2025. Churchwarden." Mrs Alisa Whiteland Mr Glenn Turner Deanery Synod.. Mr David Parker Hon. Treasurer Mrs Hilary Tumer Elected members.. Mrs Alison Parker- Chairperson from February 2025 Mrs Patricia Ellis Mr Roy Ellis Mrs Carole Simons Mr Tony Carter Mrs Sarah Ayre Structure. Governance and Management Governin Document The Parochial Church Council is a charitable trust, and each PCC member is a trustee. The Registered Charity Number is 1132852. ointment of PCC Members The appointment of PCC members is governed by and set out in the Church Representation Rules.
THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL YORKTOWN, CAMBERLEY Report of the Parochial Church Council for the Year Ended 31st December 2025 Sunday worship continued during 2025 with 9am and 10.30am seNices and numbers appear to be increasing slightly. These services are linked, once a month with a breakfast which is open to the wider community. We have been blessed by excellent preaching, with both clerical and lay persons and have used our sound system to play music embedded into powerpoint slides. A morning prayer group has been running, along with a prayer and study group. A new Waiting on God group has met on some Tuesday evenings. St Michael's PCC met nine times during 2025 and meetings were vlI-attended. One PCC member attended the Church Growth Conference in September 2025. Our Vicar, Revd Pippa Ford resigned in February 2025. We have been so grateful to the clergy of the Deanery for their ministry for ELJ¢harist Services and to Revd Gerard Mee who has been so supportive at the 9.00am Holy Communion Se[Ce, travelling from Dorking lce a month. Many other clergy have supported us. including Revd Ellen Turtle, our Area Dean. We saw Revd Andrew Knowles of St Mary's Church, Camberley licensed as our Priest in Charge early in 2026. A major conrn about our finances continues. The PCC decided to further reduce our parish share payment to £3,500 a month, Grants from Surrey Heath Borough Council have enabled us to offer community breakfasts and coffee momings and to maintain our churchyard. We have not pledged outward giving this year as we have been able to do in the past, although special collections were taken for the Children's Society and for the Royal British Legion. We continue lo offer wedding, baptism and funeral services as well as the burial of ashes in the churchyard and are grateful to our Deanery clergy and lo Mrs Sue Nichols, our administrator for all the work done in providing funeral ServIS and burial of ashes and the new monument applications she has prOssed. The PCC is highly appreciative of the financial support from the Friends of St Michael's, but no work of a significant nature took place in 2025. Our engagement with the community has been active throughout 2025, with soup lunches during Lent, a family fun aftemoon in the Summer Holidays and a Light paty for families at the end of October. Christmas festivities included a Craft evening, Christingle services as well as a joint. traditional, candle-lit carol service with singers from both St Michael's and St Mary's Churches. We have held a community drop in coffee and chat each Wednesday morning which is popular and draws in some of those in our wider community. Fireflies Toddler group is continuing and making new contacts from the community. The Friday group for older children.is generally well- attended. The Youth and Children's worker we employ, had success in bringing worship into 2 local schools and she has organised school worship services within the church building. A team of people deliver Songs of Praise to a local nursing home once a month and we are grateful for the work done to prepare this.
Work continued on the Churchyard, with our contractor providing maintenance work strimming grass and cutting hedges and clearing leaves. A team of volunteers has met monthly to cut back and clear overgrown shrubs and carry out small repairs. The churchyard maintenance has been funded in part by a grant and other funding has come through weddings, funerals and monument payments. We are pleased to report that Mr Nicolas Gooderham carried out the role of Independent Examiner for the year 2025 and we are grateful to him for this kind attention. Financial Report for 2025. The "Main Fund" covers the core of the church's activities - the services, the work in the parish, the maintenance of the church and the contribution to the Diocese by way of the parish share. The restricted funds cover donations to the Renewal account and expenses associated with maintenance of the churchyard. The Full Parish Share increased again this year for 2025 to around £80,000. The payments we have made so far are £42.000 which represents 40 % of our total expenditure. The year 2025 was a year in which income from our accounts exceeded expenditure by around £27,000. This was partly due to reducing our parish to the Diocese to £3,500 a month and two generous legacies of £31,607 from two of our parishioners. We have an on-going under-payment of £70,415 to the Diocese (£12.500 from 2024 with a further deficit of £20,000 from the previous year and a deficit of £37,915.68 for 2025). Guildford Diocese keep an account of these shortfalls. It will be neSSary to re-address our stewardship and to increase the number of people attending. As said previously the fonnula used to calculate the share does not address fully the parish having a large area of industry and social housing, nor the cost of the churchyard and maintaining a large, listed building. It is also much more than other churches in the deanery are paying at the moment. We will address this concern in the Parish Share consultation. Now that we are sharing priest with St Mary's Camberley. our payments to the parish share scheme should cover the cost of a combined parish share. Our financial situation in the main fund remains a conrn, but the two legacies have put us on a slightly fimer plafform. We are not, however, covering our costs, but two legacies and a further reduction to the parish share have aided our balance. Without the legacies, we would have been around £4,000 in deficit at the end of the year. The sterling work of our deanery clergy and parish administrator has brought in funds from weddings and funerals to boost our income. Fees from wedding have risen and we were pleased to have 4 last year. Our income rose from funerals and wedding, but some of the income is paid in costs which include fees payable to Guildford Diocese Board of Finance, organists and bell-ringers, Income from hall and church hire fell a little this year, but we are pleased and grateful with our regular hall users. Sums for plate collections have increased, although the Sum Up machine remains useful especially now it is now being used for plate collections too via the QR code in the pews. This raised over £1,200 last year. Events held raised an extra £700 or so
and this is down to the hard work and generosity from our events- organiser and her team. It was not possible to hold a garden patylfete this year as the vicarage garden was rented out. The effect of this is shown in redUd income from events. We were able to make a charitable donation of £100 to the Bishop of Guildford We did have a significant one- off donation fof a sum of £2,800 and a number of smaller contributions eg £150 from Mother's Union, which helped with church maintenance and improvement. We also had community funds from Surrey Heath Borough Council to cover our outreach to the community via the Connect Cafè on Wednesday morning. Our only major discretionary spend we have is our staffing costs at £25,300 at 24 % of our total spend. We have also paid for the travelling expenses of a member of clergy who proved invaluable in delivering the 9.00 am Holy Communion service. During 2025-2026 our Insuran premium rose by £468. Water bills and fuel bills to heal the building for seNices, the hall and parish office were around £7,200 this last financial year and are less than last year. We have a good price on a 2-year fixed energy contract which lasted through the year, which has enabled us to keep costs as low as possible. It costs a lot of money to heat our church building. but careful management has reduced these costs over the course of the year. We have tried to reduce temperatures as much as possible to 150C, but this temperature is not really achievable in really cold weather. Expenditure remains tightly controlled and we also benefit from the generosity of time which redUS the need to pay for external services, but this is not always possible when we need to have safety inspections or regular maintenance of our gas and safety equipment. We have reduced our usage of colour photocopies and hope to do more cost-cutting as needed. Income from funeral fees have risen too and we are pleased that we managed to cover the majority of the costs of churchyard Maintenan at £7142.60 with churchyard fees and the grant from Surrey Heath Borough for £3,261. Less tree pruning was done last year which has redUd the cost of maintenance from 2024. St Michael's does, however, have a significant sum available in the Renewal fund and this continues to grow and is attracting a good rate of interest in the deposit account. It is planned to re-invest bank funds into a bank savings account soon. This fund is restricted for renewing the interior of the church with new flooring and chairs. As remarked upon above, we are continuing to run a deficit and the appearance of legacies cannot be relied upon. This is especially true in the early part of 2026.Now that we are in a partnership and share an incumbent with St Mary's church, it would be good to ensure that we can cover our own costs completely and use any legacies for specific projects. We will plan to institute a stewardship focus later this year and encourage all who are not in regular giving schemes to join. Please consider this matter of stewardship prayerfully. My thanks go to Mrs Sue Nichols for her assistance in using the new accounting SOare and data entry and all her Vrk with funerals, memorials and weddings Hilary Tumer May 2026
PCC responsibilities in relation to the financial 3tstements The members of the PCC are responsible for preparing the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practi relating to Charities. The Law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the PCC to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the Charity's financial activities during the year and of its financial position at the end of the year. In preparing those financial statements, the PCC should follow best practice and.. Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and pwdent" State whether applicable accounting standards and slatements of recommended practice have been followed subject to any departure disclosed and explained in the financial statements: and Prepare the financial slalemenls on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation. The PCC is responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the charity and which enable them to ascertain the financial position of the Parish and which enable it to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 1993, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations and the Church Accounting Regulations 2006. The PCC is responsible for safeguarding the assels of the Parish and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. Date May 2026 Mrs Alison Parker Chair of PCC
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE PCC OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL. CAMBERLEY FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER 2025 This report on the accounts of the PCC of St Michael's Church, Camberley for the year ended 31st December 2025 is set out on pages 9 to 13 is in respect of an examination carned out in accordance with Church Accounting Regulations 2006 and s145 of the Charities Act 2011. Respèctlve responsibllltles of trustees and examlner The ¢harily's trustees (The PCC) are responsible lor the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees Gonsider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 {the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to.. Examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act., Follow the pro¢edures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 14515) (b) of the Charities Act),. and State whether particular matters have come lo my attention. Basls of Independent examlnèrfs 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 charity 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 the trustees conceming any such matters. The prOdureS 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 lo those matters set out in the statement below. Independent examiner's statement In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention.. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirement.. to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities A¢l,' to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and lo comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act have not been met or,. to which, in my opinion. attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts lo be reached. N J Gooderham FCA 14 Shalbourne Rise Camberley Surrey GU15 2EJ Date 2 2026
Accounts for St Michael's Church for year ended 2025 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES For the y•ar onded 31st December 2025 Unrestricted Funds Main Designated Fund Funds Restricted Funds Note 2025 2024 INCOMING RESOURCES Voluntary income Other voluntary income Receipts from activities lor generating funds Receipts from church a¢tNilies Income from inve5tmentS 21al 21bl 73,466.45 31.607.10 992. 3.261.00 74.458.45 34,868.10 89.026.34 11,769.84 21cl 21dl 21el 1,105.04 18.014.03 575.99 0.00 1,105.04 18.014.03 5,855.75 2.737.38 10.632.00 6.375.41 5,279.76 TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES 124.768.61 9,532.76 134,301.37 120,540.97 RESOURCES EXPENDED Costs of geneiatin8 voluntary Income Charitable activitie5 Governance costs Other fesources expended 31al 31bl 31cl 31dl 294.70 95.977.23 1.145.34 259.59 o. 294.70 1,320.70 103.119.83 112,358.74 1,145.34 0.00 463.S9 1,107.42 7,142.60 0.00 204.00 TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED 97.676.86 o. 7,346.60 105,023.46 114,786.86 NET INCOMINGI{OUTGOINGI RESOURCES 27,091.75 2,186.16 29,277.91 5,754.11 Transfer beeen funds Transfer betrAeen unStcted funds NET MOVEMENT IN FUNOS Reconciliation ol Funds Balance5 Brou8ht Forward al 1st January 2025 27,091.7S 2.186.16 29.277.91 5.754.11 Total 31.563.56 36.16 126.296. 157,895.72 152,141.62 BALANCES CARRIED FORWARD At 31st December 2025 Cash Deposit Total 39,369.29 13.303.46 52.672.75 12.674.29 121,826.59 134,5CQ.88 52.043.58 28.434.91 135,130.05 129,460.81 187,173.63 157,895.72 Pa8e9
Accounts for St Michael's Church for year ended 2025 BALANCE SHEET AT 31ST DECEMBER 2025 Note CURRENT ASSETS Short term deposltS Cash at bank and in hand Debiors 135,130.05 52.1)07.32 129,460.81 28,434.26 0.00 187,137.37 157.895.07 LIABILITIES.. arnoltnts falling due wiihin one year 0.00 NET CURRENT ASSETS NET ASSETS 187.137.37 157,895.07 FUNDS Llnrestricted-main esl8nated 52,672.75 31,563.56 36.16 36.16 134,464.62 126,296.00 187,173.53 157,895.72 Restrlcted TOTAL Approved by the Paro¢hial Church Councll on and signed on its behalf by.. June 2025 Incumbent Rev Andrew Knowles Chair ol PCC M Alison Par ChufchwaTden Is P*io
Accounts for St Michael's Church for year ended 2025 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 31st DeCeMr 2025 ACCOUNTING POLICIES Basis of Accounting The accounts have been prepared in a¢cordante with the Parochial Church Councll's governing document. the Chaiities Act 2011 and -Accounting and Reporting by Charities.. Statement of Recommended Practice applrcable to charittes preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financlal Reporting Standard appltcable in the UK and Republic of Ireland IFRS 1021" lefle¢tive l January 20191. The Parochial Church Council is a Public Benefit Eniily a5 defifted by FRS 102. The Ilnancl31 statements have departed Irom the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulation$ 2008 only to the extent required to provide a true and fair view. This departure has involved lollowinB the Statement of Recommended Practice for chaiities applying FRS 102 rather than the version of the Siaternent of Recommended Practl¢e which Is referred to In the Regulation5 but whlch has since been withd¥awn. Investment Income, covenants and donations are accounted for on a receivable ba51$ to whlch Is added in Le8acy income is recognised when the CTitefia lor entitlement has been met. Expenditure is a¢¢ounted for when payable and includes value added tax. Tan8Trble Flxed Assets Tan8ible fixed assets do not include items of movable church furnishin85 as these are regarded as inalienable properly and cannoi be disposed without a fatulty. Tangible lixed assets are those held by the PCC for the continuing use in its work. Individual items over £I,OCQ of a capital nature are treated as fixed assets. Paee li
Accounts for St Michael's Church for year ended 2025 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 31st Decernber 2025 INCOME Unrestricted Funds Main Designated Fund Funds Restri¢tod Funds 2025 2024 21a} Voluntary Income Planned 8ivin8 PGS In¢ome tax and gift ald VAT recoverable Collections (open platel Donations Sumup Sundry One-off donations 48.201.84 14.412.75 465.00 0.00 503.C 48.666.84 14,412.75 503.00 5,212.81 1,209.05 4.454.00 60,375.76 15.537.87 556.00 4.365.67 936.39 7,254.65 5.212.81 1.209.05 4,430. 24.00 73.466.45 992.fy) 74,458.45 89,026.34 21bl Other voluntary Income Grants Le8acies Sundry Speeial collectlon 320.fAI 31.164.76 3,261.00 3.581.00 31,164.76 0.00 122.34 34,868.10 4,019.96 7,000.00 18.85 731.03 11,769.84 122.34 31.607.10 3,261.00 21c) Rec•lpts from •ctivStles generntlng fund8 Events 696.85 Refieshments 408.19 696.85 408.19 2,350.59 386.79 1,105.04 1.105.04 2,737.38 21d) Rocelpt8 from church actSvlties Church hall letting el¢. Weddin8 fees Memorial, Funeral and Buri31 lee5 2,657.SO 2.634.Th) 12,722.53 2.657.50 2,634.00 12.722.53 3,085.00 905.00 6,642.00 18,014.03 o.fy) 18,014.03 10,632.00 219) Income from Investments BaThk deposit ifiierest Deposits with Central Board of Finance 0.00 5,855.75 1.20 6,374.21 575.99 5,279.76 575.99 5,279.76 5,855.75 6,375.41 TOTAL Incomlng Resources 124,768.61 9.532.76 134.301.37 120,540.97 Page 12
Accounts for St Michael's Church for year ended 2025 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 31st Decomber 2025 EXPENDITURE Unrestricted Funds Restricted Maln Designated Funds Fund Funds 2025 2,024.00 31a) Cost$ of generatlng voluntary Income Stewardship envelopes Publicitv Electronic giving Licences, and subscrlption Events 284.70 284.70 0.00 O.OD 10.00 383.68 0.00 143.95 793.07 10.00 O.CK) Total13al 294.70 294.70 1,320.70 31bl Charitabl• A¢tSvltles Charitable donations Parish Share I see below) Clergy expenses Li8ht & Heat & water Insurance Telephone IT costs Photocopier expenses Church maintenance Church structural improvement RelreshmentS Salarles Churchyard upkeep schools and servi¢es Educatlon and cour5e5 APCS lor safe8uardin8 Costs of funerals and weddin8$ Totals 3lbl Icx).r)) 42.C#XS. 420.rxi 7,243.61 6,360.81 599.34 s73.Cl 993.60 3.294.03 3,300.C*) 181.13 2S,381.18 100.00 42.¢X)O.00 420.00 7,243.61 6.360.81 599.34 573.00 993.60 3,294.03 3,300.00 181.13 25.381.18 7,142.60 774.11 211.55 63.87 4.481.00 103.119.83 111,466.00 180.00 50,400.00 72.45 8,603.00 5,892.16 615.22 889.80 1.656.72 4,028.18 3,018.00 o. o.c 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 o. o. 25.319.56 7,938.00 2,053.96 775.00 23.95 7,142.60 o.NJ 774.11 211.55 63.87 4.481.O3 95.977.23 7,142.60 Totals for 31al and Ibl 96,271.93 7.142.60 103,414.53 112,786.70 31cl Govemance costs Quinquennial Independent examiner's lee 1,145.34 1,145.34 0.00 0.00 1,145.34 1.145.34 0.00 3{dl Other resour¢o9 expended Stationery Sundry expenses Bank charges 129.19 26.00 104.40 129.19 26.1)0 308.40 282.37 510.65 314.40 204.00 Tot•1 259.59 204.00 463.59 1,107.42 Total expended 97.676.86 7,346.60 105,023.46 114,786.86 Page 13
Accounts for St Michael's Church for year ended 2025 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 31st Do¢ember 2025 STAFF COSTS Wages and salaries Social security costs 25.381.18 During the year the PCC employed an administralor. and a youth worker Icleaner LIABILITIES18ee also footnote to Note 31b)) Amounts falllng duo withln 1 y•ar Accruals and deferred income 122.34 RESTRICTED DEPOSIT FUND CCLA FUND DETAILS Movement of rosourcei Transfers tween funds Balance at start of 2025 Balanco at end of 2025 St Michael's churchyard Organ Chapel Fund Renewal Fund Reserve Sundry Funds 4.226.92 4.226.92 3.109.02 3,249.72 954.17 997.35 108.443.23 113,350.90 12.727.47 13.303.46 1.65 1.70 129.462.46 135,130.05 page 14