# **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF WITHAM (CHARITY NO. 1133036)**
**ST NICOLAS' CHURCH CHIPPING HILL WITHAM CM8 2JS**
# **ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS - 2022**
**Team Rector Revd Dr Jonathan Pritchard Associate Priest Revd Susan Malam Associate Priest Revd Christine Newmarch Pioneer Minister Revd Will Abbott**
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# **WITHAM PCC THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN THE TOWN OF WITHAM CENTRED ON THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICOLAS**
The Parish Church is on Chipping Hill in Witham. The correspondence address is:
The Parish Office, St Nicolas Church Hall, Chipping Hill, Witham. Essex CM8 2JS
In 2022 the Parochial Church Council has consisted of:
Revd Dr Jonathan Pritchard, Team Rector Revd Susan Malam, Associate Priest (SSM) ex officio Revd Christine Newmarch, Self-Supporting Associate Priest (SSM) Revd Will Abbott, (Pioneer Minister until 31 July 2022) Ms Marian Mitchell, Church Warden (ex officio) & Vice Chair of the PCC Mr Mike Robinson, Church Warden (ex officio) PCC Secretary and (ex officio - Deanery Representative)
Mr John Hassler PCC Treasurer
Mrs Jenny Robinson (ex officio Deanery Representative) (Assistant PCC Treasurer)
Mrs Christine Brown (ex officio - Deanery Representative) Mrs Lyn Corke (elected 1 May 2022) Mr Rodney Cullum elected Mr Andrew Holt (ex officio - Deanery Representative) & Electoral roll officer Mr Trevor Myatt (elected 1 May 2022) Ms Dayo Akande (elected 1 May 2022) Mr Agboola Bemigbele (elected 1 May 2022) Mrs Olufunke Bemigbele (elected 1 May 2022) Ms Tracey Mackay (elected 1 May 2022) Mrs Anna Pritchard (elected 11 October 2022) Mrs Samantha Rees (elected 11 October 2022) Ms Liz Tymms (elected 11 October 2022)
**The PCC Standing Committee** comprises the two Churchwardens, the PCC Secretary and the PCC Treasurer.
The PCC Accounts are held by Barclays Bank plc, Witham and funds are also held by the CBF Church of England Deposit Fund, London.
The Independent Examiner is Mrs Ann Clarke, Witham.
St Nicolas’ Church is part of the Witham and Villages Team Ministry which has responsibility for the town of Witham and the neighbouring parishes of Terling, Fairstead, White Notley, Faulkbourne, Rivenhall and Silver End. Each parish has its own PCC. The Witham and Villages Team Ministry is also joined with the parish of Hatfield Peverel with Ulting to form the Pilgrim Rivers Mission and Ministry Unit (MMU).
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
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The Parochial Church Council is a corporate body established by the Church of England. The PCC operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure. The PCC was exempted by order from registering with the Charity Commission until 2010 when it registered and was given the Charity number 1133036.
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The PCC has six accounts which must be spent on Restricted purposes as follows;
## **a) Abrey Trust**
The Managing Trustees [the PCC] shall apply the clear income and at their discretion the whole or part of the property of the Church Charity in or towards rebuilding, repairing, enlarging, altering, furnishing and equipping the Church of St Nicolas in the said ecclesiastical parish.
## **b) Church House Fund**
Under the control of the Incumbent & Churchwardens to be used to provide any building for the purposes of:
1. Divine Worship } 2. Classes or Lectures 3. Meetings } Church 4. Clubs }
2. Classes or Lectures } Connected with the
5. Clerical Meetings & Social Conferences }
6. Any purpose in the opinion of the Incumbent & Churchwardens for improving conditions of the population of the Parish. Building may not be used in any way against the principles of the Church of England.
## **c) Fabric Fund**
Income & capital for upkeep of the fabric of St Nicolas church and churchyard.
## **d) Graves Fund**
Income for upkeep of graves.
## **e) John Suddards Memorial Fund**
Income and capital to provide discretionary funds in memory of the late Reverend John Suddards.
## **f) Church Community Fund**
Income and capital for Witham based hardship cases / people in urgent need of money. This fund is administered via Braintree Halstead & Witham CAB.
The appointment of PCC members is governed by and set out in the Church Representation Rules.
PCC members are recruited from the wider congregation, and all are encouraged to consider standing. New members are offered induction training by the Church Wardens on a one to one basis, and from time to time all members are briefed together on compliance with health and safety legislation, safeguarding, data protection and other like legislation. Members also have access to specific training events organised on a Deanery, Area or Diocesan basis, and provision is made for sharing information and skills gleaned at such events and for the dissemination of appropriate briefing documents.
The PCC met from February to July and from September to December.
The PCC Standing Committee did not meet during 2021, but conferred for any particular matters. The following work was conducted by email correspondence:
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- **a)** set the Agenda for the next PCC Meeting **b)** deal with financial matters, and
- **c)** advise the clergy on any matter connected to the Parish.
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The PCC also has the following sub-committees:
- **a)** The Medieval Fayre Committee has delegated power to organise and run the Annual Medieval Fayre, and following a reduced Autumn Fayre in 2021, organised by this committee, the 2022 Medieval Fayre was held on 25 June.
- **b)** The Church Hall Committee is concerned with the fabric and facilities of the Church Hall and makes recommendations to the PCC, but that there was no meeting in 2022.
- **c)** The Church Fabric Committee advises the PCC on fabric and property matters generally, met twice in the year.
- **d)** Finance and Stewardship committee did not meet.
Working groups also report to the PCC as required
- a. Outreach & Mission Group which concern themselves with the mission, pastoral, and worship activities of the Parish.
- b. Christmas Tree Festival Group, concerned with the development and management of the
- St Nicolas Christmas Tree Festival. This working group did meet during 2022 and the Festival was held.
In addition, the **First Sunday Group** exists to assist the clergy on the content and delivery of the Sunday morning All Age Eucharist on the First Sunday of the month. This group met in person.
Messy Church was not held during the pandemic, and has not re-started. The **Messy Church Group** , which used to plan the content and delivery of the monthly meeting, has not met in 2022.
The Team Rector worked in close collaboration with the members of clergy, the PCC, and the lay members of the congregation throughout the whole Parish. Over the year he was responsible for the activities of the Parish Church, including to continue streaming of the Sunday services and for funerals when requested, and for the overall administration of the Parish, pastoral matters and worship.
The Pioneer Minister was responsible for Sunday worship at Howbridge Church of England Junior School and provided the services streamed via Facebook. He also helped to provide ministry in Terling, Fairstead and Faulkbourne. He furthermore headed community support charity initiatives.
The PCC Secretary, Mr Mike Robinson, is Lay Chair of the Witham Deanery and a Lay Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral.
Trevor Myatt continues to serve in a voluntary lay capacity as Pastoral Assistant.
Pat Pullen is a licensed Lay Funeral minister.
David Martin, Mike Robinson and Andrew Holt continue to serve as Authorised Lay Preachers.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
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The primary objective of the PCC is the promotion of the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to the doctrines and practices of the Church of England.
The PCC is fully committed to co-operating with the clergy team in promoting in the parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical.
During the year, the work of the PCC returned to normality following the previous Covid restrictions. This included resumption of opportunities for fundraising, including the annual Mediaeval Fayre and Christmas Tree Festival. This reduced the impact of the epidemic on the finances of the church, however numbers of regular attendees had not yet reached the previous levels.
The church building re-opened for the year, for services and occasional visitors. There have been some work to the building, including repair of lead to weather damage at the South-east corner of the north aisle; work on the gutters and hops in July; in November high level repairs to the guttering of the tower was effected and temporary flashing installed over the join between the roofs to the Lady Chapel and South Aisle to prevent water ingress. The churchyard was kept neat and tidy by volunteers, though there was little growth during the extreme heat of the summer.
The PCC worked with the clergy to encourage growth of the congregation following the difficult year, and to ensure that fruitful and effective discipleship is developed, particularly at the festival services and during Lent. Chatterbox, the toddler group for pre-school children, re-started in person, meeting weekly on Mondays in term time. The All Age Eucharist on the first Sunday of the month also re-started.
The lockdown had impacted on work with the schools and this also recommenced.
Park View Residential Home had been closed to worship during the Covid restrictions, which included the teams organised through Churches Together in Witham. Four worship teams were confirmed via Churches Together, and services restarted early in 2022, with fifth Sundays led by a composite team from all the churches. A monthly service also recommenced at St Georges Residential Home.
In 2022 the clergy officiated at 41 baptisms, 7 weddings, 13 funeral services in church, 19 at the crematorium, and 8 interments of ashes in the churchyard.
The Easter March of Witness happened again, organised by Churches Together in Witham, but there were no other ecumenical services in 2022. The AGM for Churches Together in Witham & District was held physically on 27 October.
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The church receives the services of a Director of Music, Mr David Martin, and has a paid Parish Administrator, Mrs Fiona Abbott. The church is very dependent on the goodwill and hard work of the many volunteers, in particular, the church officers, church cleaning, churchyard maintenance, odd jobs, church hall letting, duplicating service sheets and the like, sacristan duties, worship organisation, and many other specific tasks are all achieved through volunteer work. In 2022, past Covid restrictions these activities returned, and thanks are expressed to all those who helped to carry out those duties.
Christian Aid was supported this year at Christmas and during Christmas Aid week in May, but attendances were not good. Similarly the Children’s Society was supported at the sole Christingle Service, rather than two or three in the past. We did also collect toys for the charity Homestart at St Nicolas-tide.
The Mothers’ Union held their usual full calendar during the year.
St Nicolas Church was able to participate fully in Heritage Open Day again, but in person.
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## **ACHIEVEMENT**
The church enjoyed a successful year of worship and witness. Most of the regular congregation re-joined the 10.00 am service, which changed to 9.30 am at the start of November, and which also changed to a lay-led service on the fourth Sunday of the month. Those changes enable ministry to the other parishes in the Team. Evensong also returned, and also continued streaming, continuing additional attendees. As promised the on-line services will continue in parallel.
We have a fund named “Church Community Fund” to provide small sums of money to people in urgent need, which is administered by the Citizens’ Advice Bureau in Witham. There have been no requests of support from this fund during the year.
## **FINANCIAL**
Total receipts on ordinary unrestricted funds (General and Equipment Funds) were
£104,040 (2021 £89,238) and are detailed in the financial statements.
£98,177 was spent regarding Church Activities, including the contribution of £45,800 to the Diocesan Parish Share, the formula for which requires a benefice to pay for its ministry costs plus a contribution towards central diocesan costs which is calculated by a formula based on church members. £5,717 has also been used for fundraising.
The net result for the year on the ordinary unrestricted funds was a surplus of receipts over payments of £16 (2021 surplus £228.) The small surplus was achieved by not paying our Parish Share in full. The PCC paid £45,800 but was unable to pay the balance of £55,262, to meet the Share request of £102,062 to have done so would have meant depleting our unrestricted reserve to zero.
After adding bank and deposit balances brought forward at the beginning of the year, the balance carried forward at 31st December 2022 for the ordinary unrestricted fund totalled £35,727 (2021 £35,458).
## **RESERVES POLICY**
It is PCC policy to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds (if possible), which equates to approximately four months unrestricted payments to cover emergency situations that may arise from time to time. The balance of £35,727 on unrestricted funds at the year-end is under this target.
It is our policy to invest our funds balances with the CBF Church of England Deposit Fund.
## **Approved by the PCC on 8 February 2022 and signed on their behalf by Revd Dr Jonathan Pritchard (PCC Chair)**
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|**Receipts and Payments Accounts**||||||||
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||**Note**|**Unrestricted**
**Fund**|**Unrestricted**
**Designated**
**Fund**|**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Endowment**
**Funds**|**Total 2022 **|**Total 2021**|
|||£|£|£|£|£|£|
|**Receipts**||||||||
|**Voluntary receipts**||||||||
|Planned giving||43,994||||43,994|40,746|
|Collections and othergiving||6,605||||6,605|15,299|
|Allothergiving /voluntaryreceipts||6,343||500||6,843|4,162|
|Gift AidRecovered||11,318||||11,318|5,543|
|**Total Voluntary Receipts**||68,260|0|500|0|68,760|65,750|
|||||||||
|Activitiesforgeneratingfunds||23,758||||23,758|9,745|
|Investment Income||74|253|441||768|29|
|Church Activities||6,220||||6,220|6,288|
|Redemptionof Investments||0||||0|0|
|Other receipts||5,728||||5,728|9,943|
|**Total Receipts**||**104,040**|**253**|**941**|**0**|**105,234**|**91,755**|
|||||||||
|**Payments**||||||||
|**Church activities**||||||||
|Parishshare||45,800||||45,800|43,500|
|Clergy and stafng costs||14,857||||14,857|15,355|
|Church running expenses||26,045||||26,045|25,338|
|Hall running costs||5,619||||5,619|2,871|
|Church Repairs &Maintenance||5,856||||5,856|839|
|Hall Repairs &Maintenance||0||||0|0|
|Mission giving and donations||0||||0|0|
|**Total Church Activities**||98,177|0|0|0|98,177|87,903|
|||||||||
|Costofgeneratingfunds||5,717||||5,717|978|
|Governance costs||130||||130|130|
|Other payments||0||||0|0|
|**Total Payments**||**104,024**|**0**|**0**|**0**|**104,024**|**89,011**|
|||||||||
|**Excess of receipts over payments /**
**(payments over receipts)**||**16**|**253**|**941**|**0**|**1,210**|**2,745**|
|||||||||
|MovementsBetween Funds||||||0|0|
|||||||||
|Cashatbankandin hand at 1Jan||12,558|22,900|40,328|0|75,786|73,041|
|||||||||
|**Cash at bank and in hand at 31 Dec**||**12,574**|**23,153**|**41,269**|**0**|**76,996**|**75,786**|
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|**Statement of Assets and Liabilities**||||||||
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||**Note**|**Unrestricted**
**Fund**|**Unrestricted**
**Designated**
**Fund**|**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Endowment**
**Funds**|**Total 2022 **|**Total 2021**|
|**Cash Funds**||||||||
|BankCurrent Account||9,654|3,685|1,592||14,931|14,915|
|Deposit Accounts||2,920|19,468|39,677||62,065|60,871|
|**Totals**||**12,574**|**23,153**|**41,269**|**0**|**76,996**|**75,786**|
|||||||||
|**Liabilities**||||||||
|Missionary and Charitable Giving||89||||89|89|
|ChurchCommunityFund||||1,592||1,592|1,592|
|JohnSuddardsMemorial Fund|||3,685|||3,685|3,685|
|Hope Community Witham Fund||||2,990||2,990|2,490|
|Parochial Fees Paid in Advance||||4,760||4,760|0|
|**Totals**||**89**|**3,685**|**9,342**|**0**|**13,116**|**7,856**|
|||||||||
|**Total Net Assets**||||||||
|General Fund||12,485||||12,485|12,469|
|Equipment Fund|||19,468|||19,468|19,215|
|Abrey Trust||||16,974||16,974|16,754|
|Church House Fund||||3,574||3,574|3,527|
|FabricFund||||13,406||13,406|13,232|
|GravesFund||||2,734||2,734|2,734|
|Parochial FeesPaidin Advance||||-4,760||-4,760|0|
|Hope Community Witham Fund||||0||0|0|
|JohnSuddardsMemorial Fund|||0|||0|0|
|ChurchCommunityFund||||0||0|0|
|**Totals**||**12,485**|**19,468**|**31,928**|**0**|**63,879**|**67,930**|
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|**Financial Statement for theyear ended31st December 2022**|||||||
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|**General Fund(Unrestricted) Receipts and Payments Ac**|||**count**||||
||||**2022**||**2021**||
|**Receipts**||**Note**|||||
||||||||
|**Regular Giving**|||||||
||Plannedgiving||43,994||40,746||
|||||**43,994**||**40,746**|
|**Collections and othergiving**|||||||
||Looseplate(Non-Gift Aid Donations)||4,508||1,679||
||One-off Gift Aidgifts||2,097||13,620||
||Gift Aid Income Tax recovered||11,318||5,543||
|||||**17,923**||**20,842**|
|**Other voluntary receipts**|||||||
||Legacies||0||0||
||Charitable donations||0||0||
||MessyChurch||0||0||
||Donations||5,446||4,031||
||Votives||252||81||
||Flowers - donations||645||50||
|||||**6,343**||**4,162**|
|**Receipts from activities forgenerating funds**|||||||
||Mediaeval Fayre||14,079||0||
||Concerts||591||516||
||Christmas Tree Festival||2,052||0||
||Easyfundraising.co.uk||407||147||
||General Fundraising||791||4,905||
||Church hall lettings income||5,838||4,177||
||Magazine sales & advertising||0||0||
|||||**23,758**||**9,745**|
||||||||
|**Investment Income**||||**74**||**2**|
||||||||
|**Receipts from Church activities**|||||||
||Parochial fees||6,220||6,288||
||Choir and Organ Income||0||0||
||Literature Income||0||0||
|||||**6,220**||**6,288**|
|**Other Receipts**|||||||
||Insurance Claims||1,475||307||
||Grant(Children & YoungPersons Worker)||4,253||7,076||
||Other Receipts||0||70||
|||||**5,728**||**7,453**|
|||||**104,040**||**89,238**|
|**Payments**|||||||
|**Church Activities**|||||||
||Diocesan Parish Share||45,800||43,500||
||Clergyand staffingcosts||14,857||15,355||
||Church runningexpenses||26,045||25,338||
||Hall runningcosts||5,619||2,871||
||Church Repairs & Maintenance||5,856||839||
||Hall Repairs & Maintenance||0||0||
||Overseas mission and relief agencies||0||0||
||Home Mission and other Church societies||0||0||
|||||**98,177**||**87,903**|
|**Fundraising Costs**|||||||
||59 Club||0||0||
||Other fundraisingcosts||364||978||
||Magazine Costs||0||0||
||Mediaeval Fayre||5,353||0||
|||||**5,717**||**978**|
|**Other Payments**||||**130**||**130**|
|||||**104,024**||**89,011**|
||||||||
|**Excess of Receipts over Payments**||||**16**||**227**|
||||||||
|Movements Between Funds||||0||0|
|||||**16**||**227**|
||||||||
|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January||||12,557||12,330|
||||||||
|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**||||**12,573**||**12,557**|
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|**Financial Statement for theyear ended 31st December 2022**||||||
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|**Fabric Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**||||||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
||Bank Interest||174||7|
||||174||7|
|Payments||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
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|Excess of Receipts over Payments|||174||7|
|||||||
|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||13,232||13,225|
|||||||
|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**13,406**||**13,232**|
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|||||||
|**Church House Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**||||||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
||Bank Interest||47||1|
|Payments||||||
|||||||
|Excess of Receipts over Payment|||47||1|
|||||||
|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||3,526||3,525|
|||||||
|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**3,573**||**3,526**|
|||||||
|||||||
|**Abrey Trust Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**||||||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
||Bank Interest||220||9|
|Payments||||||
|||||||
|Excess of Receipts over Payment|||220||9|
|||||||
|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||16,754||16,745|
|||||||
|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**16,974**||**16,754**|
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|**Witham Parochial Church Council- St Nicolas Church - Charity No**|||||**1133036**|
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|**Graves Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**||||||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
|||||||
|Payments||||||
||Bank Charges|||||
|Excess of Receipts over Payment|||0||0|
|||||||
|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||2,734||2,734|
|||||||
|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**2,734**||**2,734**|
|||||||
|**Witham Parochial Church Council- St Nicolas Church - Charity No**|**Witham Parochial Church Council- St Nicolas Church - Charity No**|**Witham Parochial Church Council- St Nicolas Church - Charity No**|**Witham Parochial Church Council- St Nicolas Church - Charity No**|**Witham Parochial Church Council- St Nicolas Church - Charity No**|**1133036**|
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|**Financial Statement for theyear ended 31st December 2022**||||||
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|**Fabric Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**||||||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
||Bank Interest||174||7|
||||174||7|
|Payments||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|Excess of Receipts over Payments|||174||7|
|||||||
|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||13,232||13,225|
|||||||
|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**13,406**||**13,232**|
|||||||
|||||||
|**Church House Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**||||||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
||Bank Interest||47||1|
|Payments||||||
|||||||
|Excess of Receipts over Payment|||47||1|
|||||||
|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||3,526||3,525|
|||||||
|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**3,573**||**3,526**|
|||||||
|||||||
|**Abrey Trust Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**||||||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
||Bank Interest||220||9|
|Payments||||||
|||||||
|Excess of Receipts over Payment|||220||9|
|||||||
|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||16,754||16,745|
|||||||
|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**16,974**||**16,754**|
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|**Witham Parochial Church Council- St Nicolas Church - Charity No**|||||**1133036**|
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|**Graves Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**||||||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
|||||||
|Payments||||||
||Bank Charges|||||
|Excess of Receipts over Payment|||0||0|
|||||||
|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||2,734||2,734|
|||||||
|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**2,734**||**2,734**|
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|**Church Community Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**|**Church Community Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**|**Church Community Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**|**Church Community Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**|**Church Community Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**||
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|Receipts||||||
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|Payments||||||
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|Excess of Receipts over Payment|||0||0|
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|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||1,592||1,592|
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|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**1,592**||**1,592**|
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|**John Suddards Memorial Fund Receipts and Payments Account**|||**- Designated Fund**|||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
||Net Receipts|||||
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|Payments||||||
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|Excess of Receipts over Payment|||0||0|
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|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||3,685||3,685|
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|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**3,685**||**3,685**|
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|**Hope Community (Witham) Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Restricted Fund**||||||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
||Donation||500||2490|
|Payments||||||
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|Excess of Receipts over Payment|||500||2,490|
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|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||2,490|||
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|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**2,990**||**2,490**|
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|**Equipment Fund Receipts and Payments Account - Designated Fund**||||||
||||**2022**||**2021**|
|Receipts||||||
||Bank Interest||253||10|
|Payments||||||
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|Excess of Receipts over Payment|||253||10|
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|Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 1st January|||19,215||19,205|
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|**Bank Current and Deposit accounts at 31st December**|||**19,468**||**19,215**|
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|**Witham Parochial Church Council -St Nicolas Church - Charity No 1133036**|**Witham Parochial Church Council -St Nicolas Church - Charity No 1133036**|**Witham Parochial Church Council -St Nicolas Church - Charity No 1133036**|**Witham Parochial Church Council -St Nicolas Church - Charity No 1133036**||
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|**Financial Statement for theyear ended 31st December 2022**|||||
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||**Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st December 2022**||||
|||**2022**||**2021**|
|Cash funds|||||
||Current Accounts|14,931||14,914|
||Deposit Accounts|62,065||60,871|
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||**Total Current and Deposit Accounts**|**76,996**||**75,785**|
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|Liabilities(General Fund)|||||
||Parochial Fees(paid in advance)|4,760||1,718|
|||**4,760**||**1,718**|
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|Other tangible assets|||||
||Lawnmower, cards and office equipment for our Parish and Mediaeval Fayre||||
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|**Notes**|||||
|1|The financial statements of the PCC have beenprepared in accordance with the Church Accounting||||
||Regulations 2008 usingthe Receipts and Payments basis.||||
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|2|The followingassets are recognised but not necessarilyvalued in the Statement of Assets and||||
||Liabilities: Moveable church furnishings held bythe church wardens on special trust for the PCC and||||
||which require a facultyfor disposal.||||
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|3|The expensespaid to clergymayinclude a small immaterialproportion, which relates to their||||
||function as PCC members. No otherpayments were made to PCC members.||||
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|Approved bythe PCC on 28th February2022 and signed on their behalf byRevd Dr.Jonathan Pritchard(Chair)|||||
|and MrJohn Hassler(PCC Treasurer)|||||
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## **Independent examiner's report to the PCC of St Nicolas Church, Witham**
I report on the accounts of the PCC for the year ended 31 December 2022 which are set out within the report.
## **Respective responsibilities of the PCC and the examiner**
The charity’s trustees 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.
It is my responsibility to
- Examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act;
- Follow procedures laid down in the general directions given by the Charity Commissioners section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and
- State whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of Independent Examiners 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 management committee concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in a full audit, and consequently l do not express an opinion on the accounts.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
- (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
- to keep accounting records in accordance with s.130 of the 2011 Act; or
- to prepare accounts, which accord with these accounting records have not been met; or
- (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Mrs A C Clarke
4 Abercorn Way Witham, CM8 2UF
31 March 2022
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