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← The Parochial Church Council Of The Ecclesiastical Parish Of Belper, St.peter

2023-12-31-accounts

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The Parish of

Belper St Peter Incorporating the churches of St Peter’s, St Mark’s and St Swithun’s

Annual Report

Year Ended 31 December 2023

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Registered Charity No 1132878

Parish Church Other Churches in the Parish St Peter’s Church St Mark’s Church St Swithun’s Church Chesterfield Road Over Lane Holbrook Road Belper Openwoodgate Belper Derbyshire Derbyshire Derbyshire

Correspondence should be addressed to c/o The Vicarage, 6 Chesterfield Road, Belper, DE56 1FD.

Legal Status

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Belper, St Peter’s is a registered charity, number 1132878

PCC Membership (Trustees)

Ex Officio Members:

Clergy Anne Stratton Vicar April Tompkins Retired Priest

Churchwardens David Skelton

Deanery Synod Representatives John Hastings-Thompson St Peter’s Anne Clark St Peter's Chris Craddy St Peter’s Sandra Beresford St Mark’s Elected Members: Steve Bennett St Peter’s Patience Atkinson-Gregory St Peter’s Julian Hodgson St Peter’s Margaret Goddard St Peter’s Tracy Drake St Peter’s Helen Hodgson St Peter’s Derek Adams St Mark’s Chris Gregson St Mark’s Janice Storey St Mark’s Geraldine Comery St Mark’s Joan Foster St Mark’s Christine Catherall St Mark’s David Anderton St Swithun’s Keith Wollerton St Swithun’s Philip Thomas St Swithun’s Barbara Anderton St Swithun’s Co-opted Sian Kellogg St Peter’s Charles Beresford St Mark’s Sue Allen

Deputy Warden PCC and St Peter’s Treasurer Deputy Warden

Deputy Warden Treasurer Deputy Warden to June Deputy Warden from June

Treasurer Deputy Warden

Retired Clergy

Safeguarding

Jenny Wyatt PCC Secretary non-member

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AIMS AND PURPOSES

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of co-operating with the incumbent in promoting the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical in this ecclesiastical Parish.

The PCC is also specifically responsible for the maintenance of the Church House, known as St Mark's House in Openwoodgate, Belper.

1. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

St Peter's Parish falls within the Dove and Derwent Deanery, within the Church of England Diocese of Derby and serves an area with a population of approximately 18,000 adults making it one of the largest single Parishes in the Diocese. The Parish participates ecumenically through Churches Together in Belper and Hope for Belper.

The Parish Mission Statement is “Jesus at the Centre – transforming our community”. The PCC promotes this vision and is committed to enabling people to grow in discipleship through worship and teaching and to be active in supporting the community both local and worldwide and allowing people of all race, gender, learning level, sexuality to be an active part. The PCC maintains an overview of worship throughout the Parish and makes suggestions on how the services at our three churches can involve the many groups that live within the Parish.

To facilitate the above work, it is important that the fabric of the churches of St Peter’s, St Mark’s and St Swithun’s and the church hall at St Mark’s is maintained. During this year each church building had a Quinquennial Survey carried out by Blair Gratton architects.

The Parish greatly benefits from the help of several active retired clergy and three fully trained Readers. They all assist in different ways in the daily life of the Church. There are currently three additional people at various levels of training.

However, the bulk of the work and activities is carried out by the many lay volunteers who give freely of their time and effort and without whom nothing would be achieved to promote the gospel, encourage people to follow Jesus and be an active presence within the local community.

In particular Churchwardens, Deputy Churchwardens and Treasurers work tirelessly to ensure that everything runs smoothly, safely and efficiently. The Parish also has an administrative team and two cleaners who are paid employees.

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2. ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

Church Statistics

hurch Statistics
Parish Total St Peter’s St Mark’s St Swithun’s
2023 2022 2023 2022 2023 2022 2023 2022
Electoral Roll 180 180 125 125 32 32 23 23
Sunday attendance
(adults)		 116 105 70 61 30 28 16 16
Baptisms 19 17 17 15 2 1 0 1
Thanksgivings 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Weddings 4 4 4 4 0 0 0 0
Renewal of Wedding
vows/Marriage
blessing		 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Funerals at Church 26 32 21 23 5 7 0 2
Funerals at Crem only 9 4
Thanksgiving for life 0 1
Burial of Ashes St P
Burial of Ashes Cem		 2023 2022
1 1
1 0
Confirmation
Admittance to HC		 0
4
8 0
0 4

Worship and prayer

Services are held in all three churches each Sunday. The pattern of worship ensures that there is a communion service each Sunday within the Parish.

Morning services include Common Worship Holy Communion and Service of the Word. At times these have been taken by Wardens and people on the Diocesan Discipleship Training Course. A more relaxed style of worship was introduced in the autumn at St Peter’s led by a varied team of people.

Communion is now fully available in each Church. An additional Communion Service takes place on a Wednesday morning at St Swithun’s Church.

Main services at St Peter’s are live streamed via YouTube with the appropriate licenses. This is also available for a small fee for weddings and funerals.

There are around 4 Parish combined services during the year.

There is a daily service of Morning Prayer offered by the Vicar and reader support on Facebook which has a regular congregation. Regular direct viewers around 10 but hits around 90 are shown cumulatively during the day.

Weekly Prayer meetings are held at St Mark’s Church.

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Service Patterns across the Parish

Week St Peter's St Peter's St Mark's St Mark's St Swithun's St Swithun's
1 10.00am MW with
Baptism		 10.00 am HC 11.00 am MW
2 10.00 am HC 10.00 am MW 11.00 am MW
3 10.00 am Relaxed
Worship		 10.00 am MW 11.00 am HC
4 10.00 am HC 10.00 am MW 11.00 am MW
5 Flexible 11.00 am MW may be led
by Warden
In addition, a few joint parish services in any year.

Occasional Offices

37 funerals or burial of ashes or thanksgiving for a person’s life were conducted during the year by clergy from the Parish, both in the Churches and at Markeaton or Amber Valley Crematorium. Burials take place at Belper cemetery and burial of ashes is available in the Garden of Remembrance at St Peter’s.

During the last year four weddings were conducted in the Parish.

There were 17 Baptisms at St Peter’s, two at St Mark’s and none at St Swithun’s. Preparation sessions are held for parents and Godparents. The parish policy is not to book baptism dates before families have attended preparation which is called ‘First Steps’. Families are also expected to attend at least one worship service and a baptism or thanksgiving service within the Parish before coming to preparation. This period of preparation helps families to decide whether Thanksgiving for the birth of a child or Baptism is more appropriate for them.

3. CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK

Children in Sunday Club

There is a regular Sunday Club at both St Peter’s and St Mark’s. The present system has 1 leader and 1 helper in each church each week. Safeguarding, clearly defined roles, rotas, are well established.

St Mark’s meets in the Vestry area and has several helpers. Around 6 children or young people gather each week and also one adult with learning difficulties.

Sunday club at St Peter’s now regularly has between 4 and 12 children attending. We have only one group, which works well and is sustainable. We have 5 leaders, 4 helpers and 3 who double up. As Sunday Club grows it would be good to have more volunteers, for either task. Keep praying for our children.

YPF

The aims of YPF are to provide a safe, accepting and fun environment where young people from our church and beyond can feel comfortable to be themselves, make meaningful friendships and develop their relationship with God.

We have met regularly throughout the year each Friday during school term times in St Peter’s West End. Our usual evening programme will include a bunch of silly games alongside a Bible based teaching session with time for tuck shop and chats thrown in.

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Special events during the last 12 months have included the annual Christmas party, a bird encounter (!), climbing sessions at The Unit in Derby, 10 Pin Bowling evenings and the residential weekend away to the Peak Centre in Edale. This year’s Edale weekend included sessions of indoor climbing and outdoor activities along with faith-based discussions.

Messy Church

Messy Church started at St Swithun’s church in September 2014 and takes place on the second Saturday of each month (except August) from 4pm to 6pm. It is a monthly event for families to come together to enjoy learning about God through craft activities, games and stories and by eating a meal together with friends.

The first hour of each session is spent on a variety of craft activities around that month’s Bible theme. We have a team of helpers who assist with the craft activities. After the craft activities, we have a time of celebration during which we sing, have a Bible story and pray. Then we sit down to eat a hot meal together.

The number of attendees varies considerably from month to month – averaging between 10 and 20 children plus adults and helpers.

St Mark’s Messy Church began in February 2022 and takes place on the fourth Saturday of each month (except August) from 4pm to 6pm. Each session follows a similar format to the one at St Swithun’s. Attendance similarly varies with an average of 6 to 16 children plus adults and helpers.

April Tompkins

Little Church and Prams and First Shoes

These meet at St Peter’s and St Mark’s respectively for pre-schoolers and their parents one morning a week during term time.

School links

The Vicar plus two additional members of the congregation - Patience Atkinson-Gregory and Rachel Kenning, are elected by the PCC as Foundation Governors at St John’s Primary School and Nursery. The Foundation Governors meet regularly in addition to full governors’ meetings to encourage and support the spiritual life of the school and to pray regularly. The school regularly visits the Church for worship, learning and musical activities. The Vicar provides a weekly online Collective Worship and a face to face one on a half termly basis. The Lighthouse Club at St John’s School continues to run on a Tuesday afternoon now led completely by Church members.

Pottery School came to St Peter’s for their annual Christmas service. Herbert Strutt School attends St Swithun’s for their Christingle and Nativity services.

4. PCC SECRETARY'S ANNUAL REPORT

PCC Meeting Attendance
PCC 28thMarch 23 15
APCM 25thApril 23 35 plus 3 on Zoom
PCC June 15
PCC August 13
PCC October 14
PCC December 15

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PCC meetings this year were all in person. All members attended at least one meeting. Patience Atkinson-Gregory continues in the role of PCC Treasurer. Two PCC Away Days have been held during the year to look at strengths and weaknesses in the Parish and to think about who would be a good fit when the current incumbent retires.

Last year saw the end of Covid restrictions but cost of living increases continue to hit everyone and the Church is certainly not excluded. After losing our beloved Monarch Queen Elizabeth II we celebrated the Coronation of our new Monarch King Charles III and held a Coronation Big Lunch on the 7[th] May.

Individual churches held many concerts. Concerts included: Explosive Light Orchestra, Elvis versus Jackson, Silver Sax “Swinging Spring”, Judie Tzuke and Beverley Craven, Karen England (soprano), Bohemians, Salt and Light, Floyd in the Flesh, Dark Horses/Pride in Belper.

Outside spaces have again been utilised. The trees at St Peter’s regularly being covered in thought provoking attire. The Woollen Woods found a new home in St Peter’s churchyard, and an Easter Garden has become an annual event.

Indoor events or meetings are flourishing: craft evenings, board games afternoons, warm spaces, …. Summer fairs and Winter markets. Operation Orphan knitting groups, Harvest suppers, Holiday at Home. St Mark’s hosts baby signing as well as their own Prams and First Shoes.

Courses have included Alpha, Lent Course and two confirmation courses and services have taken place.

John Hastings-Thomson edits our magazine ‘Three in One’. Our online newsletter ‘Enfold’ via email is edited by Pamela Gough. Both have kept people informed and included throughout the year.

Who knows what 2024 will bring? Rev Anne, having been here for 14 years now has less than one year of leading us in ever changing circumstances. I am stepping down as PCC Secretary after many years and wish my successor well.

Jenny Wyatt PCC Secretary

5. ST PETER’S PARISH FABRIC REPORT

All churches now have maintenance schedules drawn up so that no activity is missed during the year. Quinquennial surveys were carried out during the year and the urgent work identifies addressed.

St Peter’s Church

Following on from the quinquennial inspection done at the beginning of the year. Overall, the building is in reasonable condition for its age. The wardens carry out regular routine inspections.

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QUINQUENNIAL INSPECTION REPORT JOB NO. 720.01 St. Peter’s Church, 6 Chesterfield Road, Belper, Derby DE56 1FD 40.00 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WORKS OF REPAIR

40.01 Urgent works requiring immediate consideration, planning and attention:

(1) Carry out stonework repairs to the windows of both vestries (2.13, 10.02)

(2) Clear stone boundary walls of plants and instigate a programme of re-pointing (35.02).

(3) Obtain approval for the removal of the yew tree to the north boundary.

(4) Consider repair of handrail and steps from Chesterfield Road to prevent further decay. This would require resin dowelling the stone step and a shoe for the existing handrail.

(5) Consider repair of the lamp.

6) Contact Peter Butler who may be able to give guidance on a rolling programme of window refurbishment/repair with likely costs involved. Begin a process of applying for outside funding/grants to see if monies can be obtained. It may be necessary to obtain up to three quotations for grant applications, so the process is likely to take time and in view of that, begun sooner rather than later.

(7) See Item 14 below – work should be carried out to areas of damage before winter wherever possible. Lime mortar cannot be used when the temperature drops below 5°C and the coming warmer and brighter months should be taken advantage of to begin what will be an ongoing process at St Peter’s due to its size.

40.02 Works recommended to be carried out during the next twelve months:

(8) Re-paint choir vestry, part of vicar’s vestry, parts of south staircase (18.02) and the kitchen store

(20.03). Repair plaster where necessary. Use correct specifications for materials.

(9) Replace defective boiler (24.01). In hand.

(10) Paint two clock faces (12.01) – in hand.

(11) Gutter and gulley clearance spring and autumn (5.02).

(12) Consider issue of vandalism and the mesh window screens (10.02). If works to the windows is carried out and the screens removed assess whether they are painted and refitted or left off.

40.03 Works recommended to be carried out during the quinquennial period:

(13) Electrician to check lighting and church to consider upgrades if required (25.02).

(14) Repair and paint second notice board (35.03).

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(15) Paint rainwater goods (5.01) particularly the backs which are hard to reach and often corrode.

(16) Local repair of mullions, sills, mouldings, filling of large holes to prevent moisture ingress before winter (8.03 & 10.02). The work carried out to the boundary walls and the church at St Swithun’s during the last quinquennial is a good benchmark where the correct lime mortar and pointing types have been employed. Large gaps have been filled with clay tile pieces to prevent slumping and the mortar falling away.

David Skelton, Julian Hodgson, Steve Bennett Wardens

St Mark’s Church and Hall

(Comprising church, vestry, church hall, kitchen and outside play area)

Church

Vestry

Church Hall

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Outside

Derek Adams & Geraldine Comery Deputy Wardens St Mark’s

St Swithun’s Church

In May, a Quinquennial Inspection was carried out with a few recommendations which were subsequently carried out.

Inside

Outside

Keith Wollerton Deputy Warden St Swithun’s

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St Mark’s House

St Mark’s House, a property owned jointly by St Peter’s Parish and the Derby Diocesan Board of Finance, became vacant in late October 2023 and some remedial work was needed before it could be offered for let. As the prior tenant did not pay the final month’s rent their deposit was retained for this missing rent and therefore the repairs were not covered.

These repairs included a new window, minor repairs, cleaning, areas of decoration and work in the garden. Thanks to all who helped across the congregations.

The new tenant moved in on 2[nd] Feb 2024.This change of tenant has enabled the rental management to be moved from Your Move to Matthew Thomas Residential and the church oversight moving from Roy Stratton to Patience Atkinson-Gregory.

The property is being let for about £1000/month with a net income to the church of £904/month.

Roy Stratton and Patience Atkinson-Gregory

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Accidents and Near Misses

All three churches carry out Health and Safety inspections and have accident books. Completed forms are retained securely.

St Peter’s

St Mark’s

St Swithun’s Church

Keith Wollerton Deputy Warden

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7. SAFEGUARDING THE CHURCH FAMILY

We appoint a Parish Safeguarding Officer (PSO), who is based at St Peter’s, the largest church of the three: there are Safeguarding Links at both St Mark’s and St Swithun’s.

We had no specific safeguarding incidents in 2022. Our congregation is, however, very committed to maintaining good safeguarding practices and raises possible concerns if necessary. These are dealt with appropriately.

This is a large and very busy parish which has many activities for children, young people and some adults who may be considered to be vulnerable. These activities returned to the pre-Covid norm during 2023. Covid risk assessments were no longer carried out.

Our church officials and activity leaders take their safeguarding responsibilities very seriously with 57 non-clergy people holding a current DBS certificate by the calendar year end. This is a reflection on how much activity takes place in our parish. The automatic renewal option has been taken by most people, this reduces the amount of paperwork and checking in future years.

All PCC members and activity leaders have completed the Basic and Foundation online training courses. The Safeguarding Leadership course via zoom was taken by a further four people and the Domestic Abuse course by a further seven.

The Parish Safeguarding Policy v7 plus photos and contact details of the safeguarding contacts are displayed in prominent positions in the three churches.

Many activity leaders are conscientious in recording these for new members of activity teams. Attendance sheets are completed whenever Sunday clubs are held.

Completed copies of forms, which are confidential, are given to the PSO and are scanned, stored on the parish office pc and the originals then shredded.

The PSO supplies a safeguarding report for every PCC meeting.

The parish dashboard is updated monthly although, as always, it can get out-of-date very quickly because of changes in personnel plus the increasing number of activities.

Sue Allen Parish Safeguarding Officer

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8. DOVE AND DERWENT DEANERY SYNOD

Dove & Derwent Deanery held two synods, in February and November.

In February we met at St Michael’s, Kirk Langley where we shared our parish round up of good news and what had worked well and what hadn’t.

We welcomed Steve Johnson, the Diocesan Living Generosity advisor who spoke to us about how we could encourage growth in our communities, we watched a short presentation and discussed the four elements of the acronym MINT (Mechanisms, Impact, Need & Trust) to help develop a generous culture in our churches.

Once we have created the best environment for people to give, we also need to cultivate a generous culture where we grow an understanding of Gods generosity and share that generosity throughout our ministry and mission.

There are many motives for giving whether we have faith or not, but it was up to us to make the giving as easy as possible by QR codes, Contactless Giving, Parish Giving Scheme and Legacy Giving. The Diocese can advise all parishes on additional mechanisms to make giving easy.

The deanery has gone through some changes, Area Dean Jacqueline Stober resigned and moved to Canada in the spring and sadly our Lay Chair Gordon Thornhill passed away in June.

Reverend James Hughes became our new Area Dean on his return from sabbatical in September and Reverend Stella Greenwood was made Assistant Area Dean.

We had our second deanery synod at St Paul's Church Hall in Little Eaton.

Area Dean James spoke to synod members about the need to elect a new lay chair and encourage members to think if it is a role that they would like to do.

The Diocese is updating its Vision, our parishes and benefices have a vision but synod was asked about the deanery, do we have a vison, we were asked questions, what do you want from the deanery and what don’t you want from the deanery, members spent time in their own benefice groups and produced a list which James collated and the feedback will be discussed at our synod on the 7th March.

We continue to have reports from General and Diocesan synods, with time allocated for further discussion if needed, such as Net Zero.

9. FINANCE REPORT

Accounts for the individual churches may be found at each church. Many givers are now doing so via the Parish Giving Scheme or direct debit.

The accounts for St Peter's Parish are made up of the funds of the PCC and those of the three individual churches. Within the Parish accounts the funds of each church are shown as a restricted fund for that particular church, although they may be made up of several separate funds, both restricted and unrestricted, within the accounts of the individual church.

During the year a piece of land which was jointly owned by the Diocese of Derby and St Peter’s Parish was sold at auction with a net income of £70,524.

This money is to be placed in a high interest account operated via Insignis. The income from this is to be used as per the PCC resolution:

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The Parochial Church Council of the parish of Belper St Peter, as Administrative Trustees of the trusts established by a Conveyance dated 26[th] November 1942 (‘the 1942 Conveyance’) in relation to a piece of land situate at Openwoodgate in the parish of Belper St Peter and more particularly described in a Conveyance dated 31[st] December 1912 (‘the 1912 Conveyance’) hereby resolve to request the Derby Diocesan Board of Finance Limited, as Custodian Trustees:

1. In accordance with the authority and subject to obtaining the consents set out in clause 2(b) of the Schedule to the 1942 Conveyance, to extend by means of a formal Deed of Variation of Trusts the trusts set out in clause 1 of the said Schedule to incorporate also:

2. To sell the land comprised in the 1912 Conveyance which is presently used as casual allotments and which is edged green on the plan now presented to the PCC and attached to this resolution

  1. To authorise the use of the net capital proceeds of sale of the land referred to at 2) of this resolution in accordance with the trusts set out in clause 1 of the Schedule to the 1942 Conveyance as will be extended by a Deed of Variation of Trusts of the 1942 Conveyance

The original conveyance indicates that income should be used for the purpose of insuring both the church and the house at 11 Openwoodgate.

Operational Matters

The expenses of Parish ministry continue to be shared among the three churches using a formula based on attendance and electoral roll to contribute to the Diocesan Common Fund and Parish expenses. The contribution from St Swithun’s was reduced during 2023.

St Peter’s and St Mark’s now make use of contactless giving via Sum Up and donations can be made using the linked Give a Little account. Donations and payments can also be made using a Pay Pal account. During the year the PCC agreed that money that arose due to the rental of the St John’s Car Park should be used for Children and Family work across the Parish.

Reserves Policy

Reserves are held in the Church of England Deposit Fund which is regularly reviewed to ensure that the best possible interest rate is being obtained. In addition, the PCC agreed that money be deposited in Derbyshire Community Bank, even though this might not give the best return, but this is in line with the mission of the church as allowed by the Charity Commission. The Parish seeks to find the highest return for reserves. The sale money from the Allotment land is being invested via Insignis which has a variable high rate of interest and easy access.

As shown in the balance sheet on page 18, the total funds for the PCC at the end of the year amounted to £144,837 with a further fixed asset in St Mark’s House valued at £265,000.

The house was revalued following the completion of the refurbishment and was let until November 2023 at £950/month and the rental handled by Your Move as our agent.

The St John’s land is also owned by the Parish but there is no corresponding asset fund as this asset is fully depreciated and has a “nil” book value. It is held in trust jointly by the Derby Diocesan Board of Finance and the Church Commissioners of the Church of England on behalf of the Parish, who have now been appointed the managing trustees. The land is now leased to Belper Town Council for use as a car park. The rent was reviewed in 2023 to £8021/year with a review due in 2028. The PCC agreed that this income should be ring fenced for use on Children, Young people, families and schools work across the

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Parish. £2500 was used from the fund to pay towards two teachers from St John’s School visiting Scot Lane School in Kolkata.

Funds held by the individual churches are treated as restricted funds for the purposes of the particular church within the context of the Parish accounts.

Reserves at St Peter's Church amounted £34557. £20,520 is in the general fund, £2910 is in the belfry fund, £133 is designated to Pop UK for October 2023, this fund will be transferred to the ring fenced St John’s Car Park fund. £5726 is restricted for future work on the organ and £5267 in in the restoration fund for completion of the work on the electrical upgrades and boiler work.

Reserves at St Mark's Church amounted to £9278, the music fund has been zeroed, the Church Hall designated fund is £2155, this shows a loss on the year for the first time. Rent on the Hall is being reviewed.

Reserves at St Swithun's Church amounted to £13693.

St Swithun’s is supported by the Hanson Trust an independent Trust Fund established by the founder Mrs Hanson to maintain a Christian presence in the area of “Cow Hill” Belper. This Trust contributes to major repairs and renovations and pays the annual insurance on the building. Noted in the accounts as a recurring grant.

10. STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Anyone who is on the individual church's Electoral Roll may seek election onto the PCC by being nominated and seconded by anyone else who is on the Electoral Roll.

Under the governance structure nominations are made by the individual churches and elections take place at the Annual Parochial Church General Meeting. All terms of office are for three years with one third of the council standing down each year.

The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. Members of the individual churches form the Trustees Local Committee (TLC) dealing with the day to day business and mission of each individual church under the guidelines and recommendations of the PCC. Other members of each local church are encouraged to be part of groups and committees. Specialist expertise is shared across the Parish.

The full membership comprises: Ex-officio members:

The Vicar All other clergy licensed to serve specifically in the Parish

2 Parish Churchwardens - appointed annually at the meeting of Parishioners prior to the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM)

Deanery Synod members - nominated by the District Church Annual meetings and elected at the APCM Diocesan Synod Representatives

General Synod Representatives

Elected members:

• 6 members from each of the churches, the number to include the Deputy Churchwardens and District Church Treasurers and, if possible, the Parish Treasurer.

Co-opted members:

• Up to 2 co-opted members during the year

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The PCC met six times during the year, dealing with business affecting the whole Parish. The APCM took place in April with people socially distanced in St Peter’s Church and also present on Zoom. Additional urgent decisions were taken via email as allowed in our constitution.

The PCC has a standing committee, made up of the Vicar, Churchwardens, Deputy Churchwardens, PCC Secretary and PCC Treasurer. It has power to transact the business of the PCC between its meetings, subject to any directions given by the PCC, including urgent expenditure of up to £500.

The councils of the individual churches (Trustees Local Committees TLCs) are all accountable to the PCC. Processes are in place to ensure that matters discussed at those council meetings are reported back to the PCC on a regular basis.

Administrative and other statutory information

The Parish of Belper St Peter is made up of the churches of St Peter's, St Mark's and St Swithun's. It forms part of the Deanery of Dove and Derwent in the Diocese of Derby. It is a member of Churches Together in Belper.

The PCC is a body corporate established by the Church of England and is the actual governing body within the framework of the Parish and is a registered charity. Representatives from the PCC form the Trustee Local Committee for each Church; the PCC delegates the day to day decision making of the individual churches to those TLCs.

The PCC is also required to operate under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure 1956 as amended. This Measure states that the PCC "is to co-operate with the minister in promoting the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical".

The property of St Swithun’s Church is owned by the independent charity “St Swithun's Church or Mission Hall” (registered charity no. 217994), also previously known as the “Hanson Trust”. This Charity also makes grants to the St Swithun’s Church TLC for major repairs and alterations in the Church and exists to serve the “social, spiritual and educational needs of the people of Cow Hill”. Ex-officio members of this trust are the Vicar and the two Churchwardens of St Peter's Parish.

Under Charity Law and Church Accounting Regulations, the PCC is required to present an Annual Report together with a set of Consolidated Accounts for the whole Parish, prepared on an accruals basis and examined by an Independent Examiner.

PCC members who have served during 2023 and at the date this report was approved, are as shown in this booklet.

Approved by the PCC on 26th March 2024 and signed on their behalf

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PCC Chair

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PCC

Consolidated Financial Statement

For year ended

31 December 2023

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CHARITY COMMISSION Independent examiner's report on the FOR ENGLAND AND WALES accounts

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Section A Independent Examiner's Report Independent Examiner's Report Independent Examiner's Report
Report the trustees/
member of		 ~~I~~ St Pete(s Parish, Belper
On account for the year 31sDecember 2023
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As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accunts in acordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
Responsibiliies and
basis of repr		 ("the Act").
I repor in respec of my examination of the Trust's accunts carried out
under secion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carring out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Direcions given by the Charity Commission
under secion 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent
examiner's
statement		 The charity's gross income exceeded£250,000 andI am qualified to
examiner's statementundertake the examination by being aqualified
member of theAssociation of accounting technicians
I have cmpleted my examination. I confirm that no material matters
have come to my attention in connecion with the examination which gives
me cause to believe that in, any material respec:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ Signed: ~~I~~ � Date: ~~{~~ Name: ~~I~~ Martin Coe Relevant professional Association of Accounting Technicians qualification(s) or body (if any): I..__ _______ _, Address: 49 Sandbed Lane, Belper DE56 0SJ**

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Parish of St Peter, Belpe r

Statement of Financial Activities

for the year ended 31 December 2023

Note
Incoming Resources
Activities for generating funds
2
Church activities
3
Income from investments
4
Other incoming resources
5
Voluntary income
6
Total Incoming Resources
Resources Used
Cost of church activities:
Cost of generating funds
7
Cost of generating voluntary income
8
Redevelopment works
9
Governance costs
10
Investment management costs
11
Mission and charitable giving
12
Other
13
Parish Share
14
Resources Used before transfers
14
Allocation of parish expenditure
Total Resources Used
Balances brought forward
Net Incoming (Outgoing) Resources
Balances carried forward at 31
December 2023		 Unrestricted
Funds
P.C.C.
P.C.C.
St Peter's
St Mark's
St
Swithun's
2023
2022
Church
Church
Church
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
2,784
19,780
1,499
2,575
26,638
28,744
4,266
7,810
551
398
13,024
18,708
16,501
508
12,119
199
29,327
18,064
70,524
8,375
-
5,816
84,715
8,684
-
93,281
33,655
17,719
144,655
133,767
TOTAL PARISH FUNDS
Restricted Funds
94,076
-
129,753
47,823
26,707
298,359
207,968
243
429
-
303
976
6,471
46,632
38,446
12,060
13,105
110,243
81,770
-
11,744
-
-
11,744
6,852
442
100
50
20
612
1,405
1,450
8,910
-
10,360
8,899
7,300
2,760
1,300
11,360
11,139
-
-
-
-
49,950
18,163
10,582
78,695
78,697
48,766
-
107,969
41,944
25,310
223,990
195,233
(28,944)
20,850
6,677
1,418
1
(1)
19,822
-
128,819
48,621
26,728
223,990
195,232
74,254
-
934
(797)
(22)
74,368
12,736
13,055
265,000
33,623
10,075
13,715
335,468
322,732
87,309
265,000
34,557
9,278
13,693
409,836
335,468

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Parlsh of St P•tsr, Bglpor Bolonce Sheet aF 31 Dec•mber 2tr23 Note Fixed Assets Tonglble fixed ossets 265,1 265.(MJ) Current A55et5 Debtor5 and preF)ayments Cash ol bank ond in hand 4J70 18 150.$67 75.856 155.143 75.970 Current L￿tY]11￿$- lolling due wthin one ye Creditor5 {￿d accrLsoIs Net A55ets 19 10.307 409.836 s.￿2 335.468 FUNDS Income Funds UNè5tiicted- geneiol - designoled Restricted (31) 1471 18.808 317.431 409.830 316.706 335.408 AprKoved by Pcyoch￿l Chlrch cOur￿ll on 261h M(xch 2Y24 ond signed on its beholf by." IPCC M8mberl PCC Tre05urer 20

Parish of St Peter, Belpe r

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the year ended 31 December 2023

Basis of Accounting

The financial statements have been prepared on an accruals basis and in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations 2016, together with applicable accounting standards and the Statement of Recommended Practice on Accounting and Reporting for Charities, issued in 2019 (SORP for Charities (FRS102)).

Funds

Unrestricted general funds represent the funds of the parish that are not subject to any restrictions regarding their use and are available for use, at the discretion of the Parochial Church Council, for the general purposes of the parish.

Designated funds are unrestricted but are amounts which have been put aside at the discretion of the Church Councils.

Restricted funds are either subject to specific conditions imposed by donors or they represent the funds of the individual churches. Funds within the individual churches themselves maybe unrestricted, unrestricted but designated, or restricted. They are, however, treated as restricted in the accounts of the parish as they relate to the particular local church.

The accounts include all known transactions, assets and liabilities for which the Parochial Church Council is responsible. They do not include the accounts of church groups that owe their main affiliation to another body nor those that are informal gatherings of church members.

Incoming Resources

Voluntary income and capital sources

Collections, grants and income from fund raising efforts are recognised when received by or on behalf of the local Church Councils. All non gift aided giving is now under the heading Small Gift Aided giving. Small Gift Aid is reclaimed up to the HMRC limit of £8000 of this total for each building.

Planned giving receivable under Gift aid is recognised only when received.

Income tax recoverable on Gift aid donations is recognised when donations are received.

Statutory fees from funerals and weddings are accounted for on a receivable basis.

Grants to the individual churches are accounted for as soon as that church is notified of its legal entitlement, the amount due is quantifiable and its ultimate receipt is reasonably certain. Sales of books and the Church magazine are accounted for gross.

Income from investments

Bank interest is accounted for when received.

Land owned jointly by the Parish and Diocese of Derby was sold at Auction with a net income of £70,524. This money is to be invested. The income is to be used for insurance and major fabric works at St Mark's Church. The rest available for Mission and Ministry across the whole Parish.

Related Party Transactions

No member received remuneration except for the bona fide reimbursement of expenses.

Grants

Grants and donations are accounted for when payable.

Activities directly relating to the work of the Church

Amounts due to the parish by the three churches are accounted for when payable.

Fixed Assets

Consecrated and beneficed property is excluded from these accounts by virtue of Section 96(2)(a) of the Charities Act 1993.

St Mark's House was revalued to a gross value of £265000 in 2020. No Depreciation is applied

Items of equipment are written off when the asset is acquired.

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Parish of St Peter, Belpe r

Unrestricted
Funds Restricted Funds TOTAL PARISH FUNDS
St
P.C.C. P.C.C. St Peter's St Mark's Swithun's 2023 2022
Church Church Church
2 Activities for generating funds £ £ £ £ £ £ £
Fundraising events 90 15,963 705 1,486 18,245 13,697
Fund raising events Gift Aided 60 60 -
Building rental 3,756 793 1,090 5,639 13,300
Magazines 2,164 2,164 1,598
Photocopying income 530 530 149
2,784 - 19,780 1,499 2,575 26,638 28,744
3 Church activities
Fees p
- Weddings and funerals		 2,207 3,331 450 5,988 6,060
certificates etc 336 26 362 160
- organ 440 80 520 680
Mission, Ministry & Discipleship 318 12 330 1,203
Contributions to refreshments 98 98 297
Belfry income 1,659 1,659 1,126
Bookstall 172 172 213
Organists' fees donated back 1,750 1,750 1,750
Children & Young People 1,266 1,266 1,661
Miscellaneous Income 139 420 21 300 880 5,558
4,266 - 7,810 551 398 13,024 18,708
4 Income from investments
Interest received 508 1 199 708 248
Car Park rental 8,021 8,021 7,700
St Mark's house rental 8,480 8,480 10,117
Hall rental 12,118 12,118
16,501 - 508 12,119 199 29,327 18,065
5 Other incoming resources
Sale of land 70,524 70,524 -
Grants 6,100 4,530 10,630 7,460
Donation for Insurance (Hanson) 1,173 1,173 1,093
Flowers and misc 25 113 138 131
VAT refund 2,250 2,250 -
70,524 - 8,375 - 5,816 84,715 8,684
6 Voluntary
Gift Aided donations 27,628 10,668 1,950 40,246 47,320
Small Gift Aid scheme 11,177 6,029 6,560 23,766 21,267
Non gift aided donations 15,569 4,278 1,687 21,533 21,023
Parish Giving Scheme 16,088 6,734 4,524 27,346 23,006
Income tax recoverable 12,963 5,737 2,999 21,699 20,534
Project Donations GA 4,196 209 4,405 190
Project Donantions non-gift aided 2,660 2,660 220
Legacies and bequests 3,000 3,000 208
- - 93,281 33,655 17,719 144,655 133,768
Total Incoming resources 94,076 - 129,753 47,823 26,707 298,359 207,969

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Parish of St Peter, Belpe r

Outgoing Resources

Outgoing Resources
Unrestricted Restricted
Funds Funds TOTAL PARISH FUNDS
St
P.C.C. P.C.C. St Peter's St Mark's Swithun's 2023 2022
Church Church Church
£ £ £ £ £ £ £
7 Costs of generating funds
Fayres and other fund raising
events - expenses 48 303 352 5,389
Use of Church costs 110 110 70
Hall Maintenance - 502
Website Costs 243 243 243
Publicity costs 270 270 267
243 - 429 - 303 976 6,471
8 Cost of generating vol income
Parish ministry:
Clergy expenses 1,209 1,209 752
Parish Support Staff 25,511 25,511 23,413
Vicarage water rates 632 632 582
Children & Young People 6,925 2,432 9,357 3,226
Mission, Ministry & Discipleship 1,489 2,847 108 4,443 2,921
Education and outreach 660 660 285
Miscellaneous expenses 116 148 264 559
Individual churches:
Church premises -
- heat, light, water & insurance 18,874 3,446 3,358 25,677 19,256
- PCC cleaning 10 1,566 4,573 1,044 7,194 6,419
- maintenance 1,859 676 1,561 4,096 2,735
-local cleaning expenses 415 204 9 628 1,923
- major repairs 3498 3,498 3,418
- equipment purchased 185 56 68 308 2,546
-professional fees 700 1650 1,530 1,050 4,930 240
- churchyard 45 4,535 4,580 141
Corporate worship costs 435 139 257 831 1,474
Organists' honoraria & fees 1,820 350 2,170 1,820
Music and AV Costs 939 471 206 1,617 1,107
Subscriptions 80 60 60 200 200
Miscellaneous costs 5,201 299 5,499 1,483
Church bookstall costs 143 143 143
Church belfry costs 550 550 410
Organ upkeep 528 396 353 1,277 1,490
Printing, postage, stationery and
telephone 1,838 15 482 2,335 2,742
Photocopier 2,340 2,340 2,296
Bank Charges other 266 27 293 190
46,632 - 38,446 12,060 13,105 110,243 81,770

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Parish of St Peter, Belpe r

Unrestricted Funds

Unrestricted Unrestricted Unrestricted
Funds
P.C.C.
P.C.C.
St Peter's
St Mark's
St
Swithun's
2023
2022
Church
Church
Church
9
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
11,744
11,744
6,852
-
11,744
-
-
11,744
6,852
10
(170)
100
50
20
-
700
324
324
417
288
288
288
442
-
100
50
20
612
1,405
11
Investment mangement costs
1,450
8,910
10,360
8,899
1,450
-
8,910
-
10,360
8,899
12
1,400
1,400
1,350
325
325
-
325
325
315
1,400
1,400
1,350
1,400
1,400
1,350
-
315
Deaf-initely
1,400
1,400
-
1,400
690
325
2,415
2,378
690
690
687
Blue Box
325
325
315
690
690
-
-
1,350
300
300
325
MAF
690
690
-
water aid
663
Children's Society
55
Special Friends belper
687
7,300
2,760
1,300
11,360
11,140
Restricted Funds
TOTAL PARISH FUNDS
Open Doors
Mission and charitable giving
Independent examination and
other accountancy fees
Governance costs
Payroll preparation costs
Governance
Hope for Belper
Cottage Project
Air Ambulance
Derby Contact Centre
Link for Hope
Heartlink
Church Army
Smiles
St Crispins, Pune
Treetops hospice
Building running costs
Redevelopment works		 Funds
P.C.C.
P.C.C.
St Peter's
St Mark's
St
Swithun's
2023
2022
Church
Church
Church
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
11,744
11,744
6,852
Restricted Funds
TOTAL PARISH FUNDS
-
11,744		 -
-
11,744
6,852
50
20
-
700
324
417
288
288
442
-
100		 50
20
612
1,405
8,910
10,360
8,899
8,910
-
10,360
8,899
1,400
1,350
325
325
-
325
325
315
1,400
1,350
1,400
1,350
-
315
1,400
-
690
325
2,415
2,378
690
690
687
325
325
315
690
690
-
-
1,350
300
325
690
690
-
663
55
687
7,300 2,760
1,300
11,360
11,140

13 Other

Depreciation - St. Mark's House

13 Other
ii '
Deprecaton - St. Marks House - -
- - - - - -
14 Parish Share
Diocesan Parish Share 49,950 18,163 10,582 78,695 78,697
Proportion of Parish expenses (28,944) 20850 6,677 1,418 1 (1)
(28,944) - 70,800 24,840 12,000 78,696 78,696
Total Outgoing Resources 19,822 - 128,819 48,621 26,728 223,990 195,232

The expenditure of the Parochial Church Council is apportioned among the three churches in the ratio of the average Sunday adult attendance and electoral roll of the churches. During the year St Peter's was levied 65.77%, St Mark's 23.08% and St Swithun's 11.15% Parish share and a reduced amont levied on St Swithun's due to loss of income during Covid.

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Parish of St Peter, Belpe r

St Mark's House Gross book value £ 1st Jan 2023 265,000 31st Dec 2023 265,000 -

16 Tangible fixed assets

St
P.C.C. St Peter's St Mark's Swithun's TOTAL
Church Church Church 2023 2022
epayments and accrued income
Income tax recoverable on gift aid - 2,687 1,178 438 4,303 0
Other debtors - - 208 64 272 114
- 2,687 1,386 502 4,576 114
ash at bank and in hand
Short term deposit with Central Board of Finance 16,238 34 3,412 19,683 19,029
Bank accounts 87,472 23,315 9,374 6,847 127,008 53,144
Credit Union 115 3,118 3,234 3,182
Cash in Hand 19 408 70 146 642 501
87,491 40,077 9,477 13,523 150,567 75,856
mounts owed and deferred income
Loans - - -
Agency accounts 182 (1,347) 51 7 (1,108) 2,812
Other creditors - 9,555 1,535 325 11,415 2,690
182 8,208 1,586 332 10,307 5,502

17 Prepayments and accrued income

18 Cash at bank and in hand

19 Amounts owed and deferred income

20 Funds

Unrestricted

Unrestricted Unrestricted Unrestricted
(31)
(31)
(47)
8,000
8,000
6,649
8,816
8,816
6,453
70,524
70,524
-
87,309
-
-
-
87,309
13,055
Restricted
(Unrestricted in the individual churches' accounts)
20,520
7,092
13,755
41,367
39,851
20,520
7,092
13,755
41,367
39,851
(Unrestricted but designated in the individual churches' accounts)
2,910
2,910
1,806
2,186
2,186
3,900
2,910
2,186
-
5,096
5,706
St Peter's Belfry Fund
St. Mark's Church Hall
General account
Designated - St Mark's House Account
Designated - St. John's Hall Account
General account
Parish reseve account
20,520
7,092
13,755
41,367
39,851
churches' accounts)
2,910
2,910
1,806
2,186
2,186
3,900
2,910
2,186
-
5,096
5,706

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Parish of St Peter, Belpe r

(Restricted in the individual churches' accounts)

PCC St Peter's St Mark's St Swithun's
Parish Asset fund 265,000 265,000 265,000
Organ Maintenance 5,726 - 1 5,727 4,065
Music Fund - 20
Church Redevelopment fund 5,267 5,267 5,030
I Sing Pop UK 133 133 2,434
Flower Fund (22) (22) (36)
Churchyard (42) (42) 344
265,000 11,126 - (62) 276,064 276,855
Total Restricted funds 265,000 34,556 9,278 13,693 317,431 316,706
Balance at Incoming Outgoing Fund Balance at
Movement in Funds **1st Jan 2023 ** Resource Resource transfers 31st Dec 2023
P.C.C - non TLC element £ £ £ £ £
Unrestricted - general funds
General fund -47 76,308 11,617 64,644
Unrestricted but designated funds
St Mark's House Account 6,649 8,480 1,280 13,850
St. John's Property Account 6,453 9,287 6,925 - 8,815
Parish asset fund 0 70,524 - 70,524
13,055 94,076 19,822 - 87,309
Parish Asset Fund
Restricted
St. Mark's House 265,000 - 265,000
265,000 - - - 265,000
278,055 94,076 19,822 - 352,309
St Peter's Church Balance at Incoming Outgoing Fund Balance at
Unrestricted - general funds **1st Jan 2023 ** Resource Resource transfers 31st Dec 2023
General fund 20,287 108,777 108,549 20,514
20,287 108,777 108,549 - 20,514
Unrestricted but designated funds
Church Belfry fund 1,806 1,659 550 2,914
1,806 1,659 550 - 2,915
Restricted
Organ Maintenance Stat fees 4,064 2,190 528 5,726
Church Redevelopment fund - part 5,030 17,128 16,892 5,267
I sing pop 2,434 2,300 134
11,528 19,318 19,720 - 11,127
33,621 129,753 128,819 - 34,556

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Parish of St Peter, Belpe r

Balance at Incoming Outgoing Fund Balance at
St Mark's Church **1st Jan 2023 ** Resource Resource transfers 31st Dec 2023
Unrestricted - general funds
General fund 6,156 35,416 33,891 (558) 7,123
6,156 35,416 33,891 (558) 7,123
Unrestricted but designated funds
Church Hall fund 3,900 12,118 13,863 2,155
Music Fund 20 289 867 558 (0)
3,919 12,408 14,730 558 2,155

Restricted

- - - - -
10,076 47,823 48,621 - 9,278
Balance at Incoming Outgoing Fund Balance at
St Swithun's Church **1st Jan 2023 ** Resource Resource transfers 31st Dec 2023
Unrestricted - general funds
General fund 13,407 22,444 21,743 (353) 13,756
13,407 22,444 21,743 (353) 13,756
Restricted -
Flower Fund (36) 113 98 (22)
Churchyard 344 4,150 4,535 (42)
Organ Fund 1 - 353 353 1
308 4,263 4,986 353 (62)
13,715 26,707 26,728 - 13,694

Specific collections and donations are treated as agency funds and go directly to the charity or organisation for which they are intended and therefore do not form part of the Parish income or expenditure.

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