2020-12-31-accounts

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The Parish of Bracknell Flnanclal statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 Independent Examiners Report to the PCC of the Parfsh of Bra¢knell This report on the staternents of Brthdl PCC. lor the year ended 31 December 2020 lch are set out in this Appendix 1 on pages 1 10, is in respect of an examination carried out in accordance with the Church Accounlng Regulations 20Q8 Cthe Regulati() and s.43 of Ihe CharitiesAct 19931'the Act'l. Re8PeCtlvo responslbllltl8s of the PCC and thg examlner As members of the PCC you are responsible for the preparati( of the financial statemen18', you con8Trder that the audit requIrent of the Regulations and s.43121 of Ihe Act does not apply. It is my responsibilty to issu8 this report on those financial statemetrts in accordance wth the torn of th8 Regulations. Basls of thls rgp)rt My examination was coted out in cOrdanCe with ts General Direc1i(S given by the Charity Comm5ssion under s.4317llb} of the Act and lo be fourvj in fhe Church guidance, 2006 edition. That examination iTKludes a remew of the accounting records kept by th8 PCC and a comparison of the accounts with those records. 11 also includes consid8ring any unusu81 items or discbsures in the financial slalements arKI seeking explanab.S from you as trustees cccernIng any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the eviderTrce that Wld be required in an audit. and consequenly I do not eyprv35 an audit Opbnion on the view given by the accounts. Indep8ndont gxamlnefs statemenl In wne¢tion with my examination, no matter has come lo my attention: whlch gives me reasons8 cause to bdieve that in any Materi resFwt lh& requirements (al to keep accountirvd records in acwrdarce th sxlion 41 of the Act., arKI Ib) to prèpa finanoal slalements. whid) accord with the accounting recortls and comply with the requirements of the Act and the Regulations have not been met.. or {21 to which, in my opinion. atteniion sId b8 drawn in order to en8bl8 a proper und8rStandIr of th8 accounts lo b8 re8ched. S K Douglas Chartered Management Accountsnt 62 Westmorland Drive Warfield 6th May 2021 AppendrA 1- Page 1 of 10

The Parish of Bracknell Flnancial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 statement of financial activities Unre5tsicted Designated Restried funds nds funds 2020 Totsl 2019 Total Notes Incoming resources Voluntary income Acjwities for generating fijnds In¢ome from Churth Actiwb'es 89.360 24.313 436 113.673 6,597 2.782 189,894 18,493 6,161 2.782 7.993 Invesknent income 3.82e 1,132 4,958 8,680 102.129 1.132 24.749 128.010 225,059 Resources expended Church Activities: Parish Share 46,075 5,119 51.194 85,900 31.883 44.798 Staffing and Clgrgy axpgnses Church wnning expensas Hall running exp¢nsgs Missi[ Giwng and donations Repairs & Building wc#* 20.624 12,841 4,428 33.465 15.563 19.989 11.419 11.419 15.339 12,301 3,499 15,024 18.0 250 Sub tola1¢1ch A¢litiOS 94,747 1.013 37,660 132,407 1,058 60 193,720 Cosls of g8ll8rallng funds ItmOnt ¢08ts 45 962 60 Governanco ¢01ts 90 Adjustmont to a¢¢ounts 37,705 133,615 194.832 IletlncomlnglfArtgolngl Yesowces 6219 6.551 1,132 {6,170) {12,956} {3811 15,6051 30.227 transfor8 botw86n funds Net movement In funds $038 13,337 15,605) 411,788 30.227 Total funds brought forward Total funds ewTied foThvard 194.336 1(,809 110.643 381,561 411,788 207.1( 101,771 97.306 Aprth4ix 1- Pag8 2 of 10

The Parish of Bracknell Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 Balance sheet as at 31 December 2020 Unrestricted Designated Resth"cted fvnds funds funds Total 2020 Total 2019 Notes Flxed assets Tangible assets Total flx•d a85•ts 12 663 663 663 Current assets Investments Debtor5 Accrued Income Prepayments Cash in hand and at bank Total current a888ts 13 14 14 14 93,191 7.531 40 93,191 8,647 60 90,863 9,495 20 (150} 315,373 415.601 1,116 20 108,701 209,463 101,771 101.771 95,507 96,643 3D5,979 407,877 Llabllltles 15 2,357 207,106 2.357 405.520 4,697 N•t ¢utr¢rf ¥ss¢ts 101.771 .643 Net assets 207,1L 101,771 97,3[ 406,183 411.788 Funds of the church Unrestrlcted funds General fund DeswJnated fund 207.1C 207,11 101,771 308,8TI 194,336 1 c.809 301.145 17 101.771 101,771 207,106 Restricted fund¥ 16 97,306 97,306 110,643 Tolal fund$ of the church 18 207,106 101,771 97.306 406,183 411,788 Approved by the Parochial Church Council on June 2021 and signed on Its behatf by.. Angela Evans Parish Warden Im Chalmers Ass(Kiate Priest Appendix 1 - Page 3 of 10

The Parlsh of Bracknell Financial staternents for the year ended 31 Decernber 2020 Notes to the accounts 1 Basis of preparatlon The finartia] stalemenls hgye t)een PTep3reil in aco)rdance ¥wth the Churc Ac<x)urfng Regulatk)ns1997 to 21. the Charlties Act 1993, applicat0 8ccountin9 Standards and the Statement of Recommend1 Pr¢&'AcCounting and RerM)rting ty Chant, Iravised 2(M)51. The )Unts ar¢ dr8rtn up un(f the histor1 cost cLJnvenlK)n a8 rYKKlifièd by the inclusion ol investrnenl assets at rllarket valuè. Thè 8ccounts include all tr8ns8th"ons. assets and liatMlits'e8 for whith thg PCC 15 responsible in law. These accounts do not indude the accourts of chutch gruups that owe th&r man affilration to another body nor se trt are informal gatherings of church members. The CoUnts hav& been Prepare on an acuual8 aCubrj basts. 2 Accounting policies Funds Unrgstn"(#ed fiJrYl$ are general funds availab fci the general obJ'e¢kns of the church. subject to any restrKlion règarding thèir us8. Dasignated funds are unfestted fu$ that have been set 88Kk by the PCC for parthxlar pu05$. Details of e$lgnated fuNls can be found in Note 17. Restricted funds can onty be tK8ed lor the pury)oses forwh they have been gNen, within the obiecbves ofthe church.Th cost of raising arKI adrllini8terirvJ sh funds d)arged agairtsl those speUr knd8. Detslls of restricted hdd fn be found in Note 16. End¢)wmenl fvnt18 a r6strthd fvnds whh must be hekj 8nd the Capbtal maintained whib the Income is restrthd. Bracknell PCC do not hcdd 8ny Er¥¥mt FuThJs. Incomlng r•soure All incorning re80urcgs are induded in the SOFA when the d)ureJ) bècomes legalty entitknj fr) Ihe incoThE and when the amount Can be qu8nlffd with raS8b certanty. Colledons are recognised when received by ttholf of the PCC. Plann1 giwng Is recogni5ed only whon CeIved. Grants and legacies are recognised as soon as the PCC becomes aware of it8 begal onb"tJement and the amount due is qU8ntifiable with reasonable certainty. Inrne tax recoverable on gift aid (knationg is )Unted r0rvrtn gift is received, not when tax refund is received. When incomlng rè8ourcs h8¥8 related tsxpenditure las with [undraIslt incAJme} the in¢LNning resources and the rd8lad resources exp are xounted for gross in the SOFAwhere PDssible. Rental income fmm leth'ng Ihe LAngl8y Hay is Unted knwhen (( falls due. Oividends and interest ats a(xounled forwhan receNabk and indudes 8ny rocoverable tax. Realised galns on assets hdd forth& thurth's own use ale tsken into )Unt atth8 time ofsale. Rosource8 ex11•d Expendittl is induded on an 8ccnJals basis and is Tecognised ¥vhen there is a l&Jal or con8budNe obligation lo pay f goods or 881v. AJI costs hove been direclly attnixrt&l tatho v8rfous (ztegleS within thè SOFA. P8ndix 1 - Pw4 of10

The Parish of Bracknell Financial statements for the year ended 310ecember 2020 Notes to the accounts Resources expended ¢onllnu8d Any ganèr81 gUPFth 0x18 have been albcated s$ acW ¢2xt calwieS a basis consrdtsntwrih the use ol résources based on an lLallOn of actual costs. A8 the Church is not registered fVAT. all ex1[lure is sFKMn Iu$l¥e ofVAT. Govemance costs indudg the cost ofthe preparab'on of Ihe ann accounts. Ih& cost of PCC meeliTrJs and the legal cost ol advi¢0 on govem8n( or ¢onstilutional matters. Grants aNJ charitBtrAe giving are account6d forwhèn pakl tsver orwhen awarded, rfthe vward creatss a binding obligallon on the PCC. provlded that there a no condttrons to be met reLgting lo the 9rantwhich remain in th8 Control ofthe church. Parish Share is accounted for when due exceptlhat any Partsh Share unpaKI atlhe end of the financial year Is provlded for in the accounts as a CXMStctive obltgation, Althgh not a liabifrty, and is inclLKled in the baLance sheet 8$ 8 liability, Flxed assgts I capital expenditure in excess of £250. for a $ingl8 it8rn or a group of sinilar items, IB Capttalls. Depreciab'on is lyed tangiue tsj assets, at rates Ca1lated to write off the cost eventy overthe expect1 useful ornmic life ol assets. Accordingty, ftwnittjre, ffltings arKJ equIent are depated over5 yeaT¥. Buildlngs: B1kne11 PCC is the benela1 ner of propereS herd in trust ftjrus by th8 focese of Oxl¢xd. Hoty TrinTty Churol is conseualed arK1 thefOre dedKxled to God. beiro set ashle SW for sr3d PLJryX)SèÈ. Con8eualwJ property is excluded from the finanud sfatanènts by 3.121{al ofthe chaiib.es Act 1993. M8irtsn8nca costs on consecrated propety 8re writt) off in Ihe year ttw are IUrred. The PCC have a benefKial interest in thè land ar Ixjlldings of L3ng Hall. Langloy Hall w88 tlf( over 30 years ago. The costs were written off atlhe time ofcumet10n. Tha Stat8mènl of Récommandèd Pl8cti for aOuntIng and reporting ISORPI 2005 requrfes Ihat Ihese bull dings should be capitalised. Howeverthere aro SuffiCIent CordS of the ori9inal costs. arKI no values have been induded in tho Bakqnce Sheet Our insurance policy, with Ecdesiastical Insuran Group. lor both Hoty Trinity Churd) and Langley Hall has changed to a combined wlry, Parish Plus. t)etails ol arè avaikthe in the Pansh Offi. Building and nIent values for both ¢huch 8fKI church hall have not been induded in Ihe balae sheet in 2020 lorsineA 20(1, a8 to do so would distort the over811 eW of our finances. st Paul's Church bel(M)gs tri URC. and Brad(1 PCC paid 8 d¢)nation for use of the buildfvig of £450 for J8nu8ryto M8rch 2020, after which. COVID bxk(kn¥vn meant we no Long¢r nee(lsd tk* 8pace.12019 . £2,295). InvgBtmgnts Investments are included at rnarkel value. Both realised and unrealised gains 8re under'other recognised galnsllk>sses}' section of ihe SOFA. CuThont assets Amounts owlng lo the PCC at 31 DeCber In rest¢t of fees, rents or other income 8r& shown as debtor5. dix1-Page5of10

The Parfsh of Bracknell Financial statements for the year erKled 31 December 2020 Notes to the accounts 2tr20 3 Analysis of Incoming resources Notss Unre8tn¢ted DesvJna1 Restlted Totsl fvnds 2019 TDtsI funds Voluntary IrKome Recurring inwme.. Envelope givitTrJ lexd. tax} Collectlons of kKJse cash at s¢Nces Olher planned giving (bankèrs orders) coff momings 4,268 4.268 1,038 67,857 126 73.289 13,612 4,63B 72,640 730 91,e20 58,917 8,940 64.281 9,OD6 N4Èjrring in¢xKve.' Legacies Grants One Off Donationa Donation- cashless - less tsken Gifts for individuals Collections for ch18$ 7,273 6.178 13,451 65,976 131 131 985 265 388 285 71, Gift Aid- Tax Covered VAT refvndad 16.443 3,127 19,570 25,870 720 24.313 113673 Actlvitlès for genÈrntlng funds Fund raising activttes Langley HalVC8r Park letting Parish Magazine advertislrYJ ChuTd) social evÈnt 436 436 6,161 459 17,121 153 76D 18.493 6.161 6.161 436 6,597 Incomè from Church Actfvltles Fee8- weddings, fuNeIS etc Church magazine 58lès Lets Go Bible Reading Fèllowship IrKom8 2,654 29 7,312 72 526 2,782 InvMtsnent In¢omo CBF deposit accounts CBF Trust Funds Investment movèment Bank Interest 1.315 1.315 1,482 2.328 183 2,328 1,315 4.958 5,503 1.695 8,680 1.132 1.132 Total Inccthlng resources 102.129 1.132 24.749 128.010 225,D59 ApFendrA l . Page 6 of 10

The Parish of Bracknell Flnancial statsments f4Y the year endgd 31 Decfftmber 2020 Notes to the accounts 2020 2019 Note5 utriCted Designated Resti lunds Total furwjs 4 Analysis of regources expended Chtsrch Actlvltles Pari8h Shwe Reba 46.075 5,119 51,194 87,693 1.793 46.075 ,119 51.194 staffing and ClergYen8es Salaries CrgY ewses CSu11an¢YlPIon8er rowstaff exr 19.071 6.103 25,174 1.533 16,944 3.330 11609 31.883 20 20,624 6.738 12,841 Chufch lni extnses Cost ofweddln9s and funerds etG Verger and organist fees St Paul's rent Mosaic expertses Let's Go & Chlldrens Insurance Outreach & Training L%Ence8lPerTNttsISub8UPtK)ns gan repairltunlng & Mug¢ utiliues Telepholle & Intemet Church Maintenance chU[h suppIEs Magaane Costs Equiprnenl )oks arxl publItIonS StatM)nery. Printing & supplbs 3,8C 5,435 2,29S 8,055 250 4,471 1,103 320 320 450 714 714 4,$58 107 1.645 797 75 182 1,645 797 2,600 810 2.000 744 187 1.671 19.9B9 2.586 827 4.3 2.0 191 3.100 300 243 5,260 44,798 187 Is.3 4,426 H1 runnin9 e>penses Cleani)vJ Malnlenanca Uts'lits IrUranC 3.683 4,22 3,683 4.(r22 6.660 3,55S 4,090 11,419 11,419 15,339 Mission GDiin9 and cknations 15,IY24 16,C•JJ 12,301 Rop8lr3 & &Jildlng wo Church Insurance aaim 10 10 250 250 25) 3.499 ost ol Church Actfvits 94,747 37.600 1¥J,720 CoBts of generdtlng fund8 Fundrèising eosfs Coffg? MorninglR¢fresl¥nents Glfts 13 13 376 45 1.013 1,058 Investrnent costs Bank iarges Governance costs Audit fee 60 11 90 90 Resource8 Used total 95,910 37,705 133.616 194,833 1- We 701 10

The Parish of Bracl(nell Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 Notss to the accounts 5 Grants Two grants were given to Brath[l pcc for £6.0(K)12019- £24.CIXII. One grant was fr(ffn Oxford Diocese Board of Finance for th8 Feasibility study for a Nèw Tipwn Centre wopcl and the othgr was 8erksl.re ConNnunity for Hardship COVID fina181 support in ts communty. 6 Fund raising aclivities 2020 2019 Easy FundraisiThJ Sponsored Slim BBQ Ride & Slridg rd Sak5rrea ttrA¢ls 15 4(K) 65 75 459 436 7 Clergy Expen$e$ No members ol PCC red any rSmurraIx)n forthe1rhl) ts the PCC. The <rgy, who arE ex offlcio members do recewe a 5tiknd but a not remunerataj for their serVe i)n the PCC. No PCC members dalm1 expenses atthough they woukl have been entsued to daim traTr1 costs for attenthrfj [eting. Tr cwy rel¥ed expenses in Ih¢ir role as parfsh prlests of £1,53312019- £2,983). 8 Consultancy and Staff Expenses Pionew roles for ts New T¢p•m Centre amounted to £10.7(K) ofwhth £6.920 was Pa. on a Co[tancY basis {2019." £11.6091. This also indudes an offset of monies rev1 fr<)m HMRC forfurloughed membors of staft duiiTrJ COVID lockdown. All rnonies le tsken from the NEwTown Centre restricW £118 was spent on Centr8 staff aXFenses12019." £01. 9 Mission Glvlng and donation8 2020 2019 Charitable DatiOnS m8d8 to th8 foll7j Instyiution5: children Sth%ety Age UK Food Bank Royal Briltsh Leglon christi Red Nose Day SANDS Intemational Christian Consula18 Bishop's Outreach Fund Sub Tol 210 25 163 345 637 18 40 72 1.319 2&5 NKJhtshelter exrRns98 COVID Hardship grants New Tom) Centre eynditure 379 7.7 7.285 9,673 Mlsslon GivirvJ'. 293 293 879 A Rocha UK Total Donatio Hardship Donationg including Gfft Nh1 Shelter incI1ng Gift Ahj New Town Centre Devebprnent gi¥¢n In donathong Total 6,602 150 275 49 337 49,873 A8 8 ofthe 2020 COVID pandemK. 26 grants, frrrt regtivxed fiJrKls, wpre gNen to 20 iThJNidual8 lo asskstwifh day to day lin0 Éxpenses due to a r110 in tr*ir or oth¥18¢ sUIts in hard8hip, totslliro £7,507. 10 Repairs & Bullding work A repair wa8 carried out to the chUh Toof of£2501£2019: £3.4991. No 0th8rtyJhYing woth8 wete undertaken olh than regular maintenance. xlrK 1 - P•J¢ 8 of 10

The Parish of Bracknell Flnancial ststèments for the year ended 31 D8c6mb•r 2020 Notes to the accounts 11 Audlt Fee 2020 2019 Auditor 90 90 12 Tanglble red asspts F4xiur6s Muskgl L8rvd Hall filtys & Instrmients Kitdn Total Net book value At 1 January 2020 CyJre¢Ia0n At 31 Dmb8r 2020 300 75 221 438 13 Inve8tmènt assets CBF Trust Valua cn 1 January 2020 t gainllk)881 on revalu8b'¢n for 2020 Value on 31 December 2020 85,3eii 5,504 90 864 2.328 Ther6 no 8thlitMs duri¥J Ihe year. Aly9 of I¢Sto 31.12.20 Grang8 Road TrustFund- Iforany eu4eskgs(i¢al wrtw •) the PaTh.} represenied by CBF C ofE Fund 55,936 Leave8 Gr8en Trust Furn1 Il In¢(me to be appld a5 part ofthe gwal ofthe Br&n81 represented by CBF Investment FuThl repreaenled by Income Shares 25,448 37.253 93.191 14 Dgbtors and prepayments (Amounts lalwng TthIn on8 y8ar) 2020 2019 Dgbtors Prepaymgnts In(twn¢ 8.647 9,495 1501 20 707 15 Gredltors and accruals INm)unts falling due within Or apartfr[ Hall afvj Key depostsl 2020 2019 Credfjtors Money held- Hall 8 Key D8posits Money held. Vveddlng and FunaraL8 Money ld . olher payTrEnts 715 soo 1,142 3,208 650 639 4.697 £500 hall and kay depos¢ mow has toen h8kllortMr w >tar. Awenth1- Page 9of10

The Parfsh of Brnckndl Flnancial statements for the year endod 31 D8cembor 2020 Notss to the IOUnts 16 Restrlcted funds FuThJ Fund baknces broughl IncnmirwJ Resou$ foThYdrd resour 6xpendèd Transfers forward Holy Trfnty Roof Fu Holy Trinity FaLC Fu1 Holy Trinity HnTr I se Books Holy Trfnlty Mu81c Fund Holy Trinity Music Director Holy Trinity Stsati Fund Hard8hip Grants Spg¢ial SerVis Tralnkng Ckrgy Expenses Youth &'bks Mosa MkssKn New Town Centre lthssion Nlght Shelter {250} 2,173 1,000 389 1.623 (751 12,237) 5,295 1.652 2.050 1.652 9,602 IT,2) 28 2(MJ 1,278 97 37,656 1.278 34.715 11.115 {8,1741 {321 57.5 2.717 3.275 150 119.0931 13241 41.rn 2.182 13811 110.643 24,749 37,705 381 17 Deslgnatod fund Fujwj bHlanc85 brougm ITKorvuThJ Resource5 loard rasourc8S &XP8nd8d Fund ba18nc8 Carrled fr)rward Tran8fer8 For Ec¢S18$'l matters aml ¢haritabk PurprS wlthln Bracknell pamh Hard8hlp Grants Car Patk compensation Ro¢1 HL8tory Project Organlmusic Lef8 Go Legacy C8F Leaves Green Furnl Total 10.000 16,0001 110,0001 10.(K)O 12,050 71.923 768 83 18.050 80.791 1.132 250 6.947 12501 6.947 11.89 1.132 101771 18 Summary of funds lunds funds funds rotsl t a8sets at 1 January 2020 194.336 11.809 110.643 411,788 Inrne in 2ff20 Expenthlure In 2020 Transfers b6tran fund8 102,129 195.9101 6,551 1,132 24,749 128,010 137.705) {133,fj151 1381} 16.1701 Net assets at 31 DtL*mber 2020 207,106 101 771 1- Pag8 10 oflo

Called together to make Christ known

The Parish of Bracknell Formerly the Bracknell Team Ministry until 30 November 2020 Annual Report and Accounts for the 2020 Year ended 31 December

HOLY TRINITY MOSAIC

TOWN CENTRE MISSION

Note from the Rev M Chalmers (Associate Priest)

It came as something of a surprise to find that I had been in Bracknell for two years on Tuesday 25 May. A few weeks later it was also the second anniversary of my having been licensed in the then Bracknell Team Ministry on Sunday 16 June 2019.

The phrase that kept springing to mind was, where have two years gone? In fact, what I should have been thinking was, why have they gone so quickly? People say that the year moves quickly when one is very busy. Well, that has indeed been true of the Parish, even though we have spent the bulk of 2020 either under lockdown, or working within strict government guidelines due to the Coronavirus pandemic. My sincere thanks must go to our Church Wardens, Russell Goodburn, Angela Evans and Paul Byron, who along with the PCC and our sub committees, made sure that we were able to continue operating as best as possible within these safety guidelines and the government legislation.

It has been an honour and a privilege to serve in this parish through what has been a huge challenge for us all. The pandemic has been described as one of those “once in a lifetime” experiences, and not a pleasant one at that. The parish leadership team rose to the challenge of pastoral work by telephone and the livestreaming of services via Zoom and the Parish Facebook page. I must pay tribute to Jim Barlow for being the driving force behind this initially, and thank both Jim and Harriet for their hard work in sharing the services on a roster with Janet and me, up until he left us to become the Team Rector of Totnes at the end of June 2020.

Although our Parish has had its share of sadness and faced many challenges, I feel there is still a great deal about which we can rejoice. Both Holy Trinity and Mosaic have had large numbers of regular virtual congregants attending services online since the start of the lockdown towards the end of March 2020. The majority of those viewers have remained faithful and still join us, not only from within our Bracknell community but from all over the world. On the pastoral front, the weekly phone calls from the pastoral team members have been greatly appreciated and we have managed to keep in touch with well over seventy members of the parish, over the age of seventy, who were shielded in their homes and often on their own.

Sadly, the night shelter at Holy Trinity, which had started running for the fifth season in Advent of 2019 with a wonderful team, had to close earlier than was planned because of the virus, but up until then had flourished for three months and two weeks, thanks to the support of those involved. The Town Centre Mission was kept active thanks to the work of our two part-time Pioneers, Lynn Davidson and Beth Quainton, albeit that a number of shops were closed for much of the year.

So, as we can see, there have been many blessings, for which we thank the Lord.

God bless and keep you.

Malcolm Chalmers June 2021

Aim and Purposes - Objectives and Activities. Achievements and Performance Summary Mission and Outreach, including Mosaic Worship and Prayer at Holy Trinity Buildings and Fabric Financial review Structure, Governance & Management Annual accounts

Aims and Purposes

The Parochial Church Council of the Parish of Bracknell (PCC) has the responsibility of cooperating with the Area Dean as Acting Priest in Charge and associate clergy, in promoting the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical in the ecclesiastical parish. The PCC is also wholly responsible for the maintenance of Langley Hall and carpark which is situated adjacent to Holy Trinity Church.

Objectives and Activities

‘ Called together to make Christ known’ is the mission statement of the Parish of Bracknell (Bracknell Team Ministry until 30 November 2020.) Our overall objectives are: to proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom; to teach, baptise and nurture new believers; to respond to human need by loving service; to transform unjust structures of society; to challenge violence of every kind and to pursue peace and reconciliation and to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth. Worship in a variety of styles is offered regularly at Holy Trinity and the Parks Community Centre (Mosaic). Until March 2020, services were also held at the St Paul’s URC building in Harmans Water. Opportunities for prayer, bible study, outreach and social activities are part of the regular pattern of church and community life.

Achievements and Performance

In 2020, albeit building operations were halted for a number of months, we continued to see growth in the new town centre, with new residents moving into the area (including converted office blocks adjacent to Holy Trinity) and into the large block of flats (Winchester House) opposite Waitrose.

Some highlights over the 12-month period have been:

Mrs Janet Chalmers was appointed Director of Music at Holy Trinity Church as of 1 February, having carried out this role on a temporary basis since September 2019.
A visit to Holy Trinity Church by the Year 11 RE Group from Garth College.
A visit to Holy Trinity Church by the 2[nd] Sandhurst Beaver Colony.
On Ash Wednesday, 26 February, Holy Trinity Church hosted the Ranelagh School Eucharist, at which the Fr Malcolm Chalmers Celebrated and the Fr Jim Barlow preached. Assisting clergy were the Area Dean of Sonning, Fr Richard Lamey, and the warden of Ascot Priory, Fr Paul McLaren-Cook.
Providing on-line Sunday worship for the Holy Trinity and Mosaic congregations, as well as on-line daily worship and a 10am Eucharist on Thursdays for many weeks since March 2020.

Saying farewell to Fr Jim Barlow, who after serving as Interim Priest-in-Charge and Priest Missioner for five years, was appointed as Team Rector of Totnes in the Diocese of Exeter in Devon. Due to the lockdown being in place in June, saying farewell to Jim and Harriet took the form of our third Zoom service with different parishioners being involved with the livestreaming. (Having previously only livestreamed services on Facebook, the first Zoom service took place on Trinity Sunday, 7 June.) The farewell service was well attended, virtually speaking, and took place on Jim’s last Sunday in the parish, namely 21 June, which was also Fathers’ Day.
Parishioners were able to watch the virtual Licensing of Jim Barlow as Team Rector of Totnes on YouTube on Wednesday 8 July. (Angela Evans was asked to be the “programme controller” for the occasion.)
Opening the church for private prayer each Wednesday as of 22 July onwards until 23 December.
Holding in-person services at the 8am said Eucharist from Sunday 6 September until Christmas Day (with a break in November); the 10am Thursday Eucharist was restarted in Langley hall on 9 December and continued until 24 December.
The new service pattern on Sunday mornings, as introduced at Holy Trinity in 2019, were maintained throughout the course of 2020, albeit most services being livestreamed.

Mission and Outreach

The church does not exist only as a gathered community but as a people who are sent into the world, to share in God’s mission. Mission has two components, proclaiming the love of God in Christ Jesus and demonstrating this in acts of practical love and service. BTM / Parish of Bracknell expressed this outward mission in various ways in 2020, but mostly through charitable support (food parcels through the Food Bank and the Food Hub and clothing donations via the Clothing Bank and the Parish Hardship Fund).

Building faith and community on the Parks Mosaic

Mosaic Bracknell is intentionally focussed on seeker friendly activities and positioned as a church for people who don’t do church and who either have no church experience or have been away from church for a long time. We place a strong emphasis on belonging to a community and a church family. Our services are informal and café style, for the whole family, with the minimum elements of a Service of the Word, including a short (typically 12 minute) talk and an aim to engage people in dialogue and response. Typically we start with the issue of the day, in a secular context, and then apply Bible readings and practical applications.

During the COVID lock down we have used this model for our services, typically hosted live on screen by a service leader and a speaker using StreamYard live studio software, streaming to Facebook. Our worship is either from live musicians, or pre-recorded by our own musicians, or (quite frequently) using YouTube videos for which we have the relevant licences. The full archive of our streamed services can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/MosaicBracknell/videos

In more normal times we meet face to face as a church family on Sunday mornings in The Parks Community Centre, 8 – 10 Nicholson Park, Bracknell, RG12 9QN. This location gives us a particular interest in outreach to The Parks Estate. We have run various community events with card drop invitations. Generally anything with free food works fairly well, but results have been mixed and we recognise that we do not have the natural annual flow of new community that is typical of a primary school.

We have always been a lay led congregation with a shared lay team of leaders under the supervision of the incumbent or an associate vicar. When we are meeting face to face, we aim to have someone ordained present once a month to lead us in a service of Holy Communion held after our main service and open to all. We have a small team of authorised speakers and a wider range of occasional speakers and activity leaders. We are active in the overall governance of the Parish of Bracknell and are currently (June 2021) represented by three PCC members including the Treasurer. We also actively support the Parish wide weekly prayer meeting on Saturday mornings, which has continued on Zoom during COVID lockdown.

Looking to the future, we are open to change as we “build back better” and find new ways to connect with our local community, in all age groups, while consolidating the many online relationships that have developed.

Supporting projects concerned with social justice

We continued to support the Food Bank and Food Hub through the year. We also worked with the Clothes Bank , to collect specific items of clothing and also gifts for lone parents. Volunteers from BTM / Parish of Bracknell continue to help out at distribution events and also as drivers.

The Parish Hardship Fund was set up in March 2020 to provide support to individuals and families in financial difficulties because of the pandemic, initially to those living in the parish, but broadened to those living in the Bracknell area, particularly if they were recommended by clergy in the area.

We continued to be one of the seven host churches for the Winter Night Shelter , run in conjunction with Pilgrim Hearts, and operating at Langley Hall on Monday evening from December to mid-March, when the shelter was forced to close because of the pandemic. In 2019/20 we provided food and overnight accommodation for about forty individuals, some every week, some for only a couple of nights. The maximum number on any one night was 17. Night Shelter brings together volunteers from the parish and other churches but also people without church affiliation and is a great expression of common purpose. The new MP for Bracknell, namely James Sunderland, visited the shelter at Langley Hall early in the New Year. We thank all our volunteers but especially Grant Cunningham (evening shift team leader), Angela Evans (morning shift leader) and Charlie Wall (admin and rotas).

Support to external charities – during the year the PCC agreed to support the following charities:

PWSA (Prada-Willi Syndrome Association)

A Rocha
Bethany Orphanage

Details of amounts raised are given in the annual accounts.

Town Centre Mission (One Step Closer)

Initially in 2020, the town centre mission continued with the core team as established in 2019, with Jim Barlow continuing to lead the mission. The team consisted of Lynn Davidson, in the pioneer role, with her wealth of organizational skills and passion for the gospel, assisted by Dan Baxendale as a pioneer explorer and Daniel Ravenhill with a brief to help us develop immersive drama in the public square.

Regrettably, the lockdown brought all the good work in the town centre to an absolute halt. All the plans for a visually dramatic Good Friday walk of witness and worship as well as a Passion play had to be put on hold, and our team members were furloughed.

The Bull Pub continued to serve as a venue for prayer meetings twice a month in the first three months of the year, and the monthly music sessions and the weekly Thursday morning meetings of ‘Babies and Bumps’ continued in Coffee Barker. Regrettably, the remainder of the year, like the rest of the country, saw the town centre almost become something like the scene of a ghost town in a classic western movie, with all activity being halted.

When the restrictions were relaxed in the latter part of the year, Lynn Davidson and Beth Quainton continued with the Town Centre work, where possible, as Pioneers under the management of the Parish Steering Group. This proved very successful, in that it not only helped us source where we could be of assistance, but also, in the words of one dear lady, “It’s reassuring to see you around again.”

Schools and Youth Organisations

In 2020, Ranelagh Church of England Secondary School and Harman’s Water Primary School (HWPS) continued to be the focus of our attention, albeit that all of our operations school-wise went online in late March. Fr. Malcolm Chalmers continued as a Foundation Governor at Ranelagh and was also responsible for coordinating our input into HWPS. The number of regular assemblies at HWPS had decreased due to changes in the school’s assembly pattern in 2019, but we were due to visit at least twice a term, but this did not happen because of the lockdown.

The 2019 changes we introduced in the way that we process applications for places at Ranelagh (and at church primary schools), asking parents to self-identify and issuing them with a card to record attendance as a safeguard against loss of continuity between clergy etc, worked well until just before the end of the second term. Fortunately the schools and Borough Council worked together in putting procedures in place whereby more flexibility regarding decisions towards admissions could be adopted in light of services being livestreamed.

Fr Malcolm, as an experienced Head Teacher and a Foundation Governor, was a member of the selection panel in the appointment of Mr Tim Griffith as the new Head Teacher at Ranelagh, with effect from 1 September 2020. He also served on the selection panel for the appointment of the Chaplaincy Team Leader to Ranelagh and Sandhurst Schools, which saw Mr Adrian Laws being appointed from January of 2021.

Mothers Union

Regrettably, due to the Covid19 restrictions, the members of the Mothers Union were unable to operate in their usual capacity.

Pastoral

The parish is blessed in having a very supportive pastoral team. At the start of lockdown the Pastoral Team was expanded so that contact could be made with as many members of the Holy Trinity congregation as possible. Letters and devotional materials were delivered on several occasions to those who do not have access to email and social media, and it was possible to deliver flowers provided by the Food Hub to many people between July and December. As most of our pastoral work was done by phone and through socially distanced chats at garden front gates, and the like, we managed to keep in touch with the seventy or so parishioners who had been isolated through lockdown.

Our pastoral work not only results in contacts with parishioners in hospital and in homes; we have also continued our good relationship with Clement House and Farningham House Retirement Homes, and now also have an association with Bickerton House in Warfield Road as well.

Worship, Prayer & Music at Holy Trinity and Midweek Services

The start of the year saw us continuing with the new service pattern at Holy Trinity which had been put in place in 2019 as follows:

EVERY SUNDAY:

8am said Communion Service.

FIRST AND SECOND SUNDAYS OF THE MONTH: Pattern A

9.30am Sung Choral Eucharist (Children’s Church and Youth Brunch in the Langley Hall.)

THIRD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH: Pattern B

9.30am Family Eucharist (Monthly Choir Practice in the Langley Hall Committee Room.)

FOURTH SUNDAY OF THE MONTH: Pattern C 9.30am Blended Worship Eucharist

These 2019 changes have resulted in the positive opportunity to worship as one church family, and our resources in terms of having only one priest, as well as limited assistants in running services being less thinly stretched. With the appointment of a Director of Music, the operational side to the Music department is now all under one umbrella. The plans to grow the choir and develop the music opportunities particularly for the Family Eucharist were scuppered by the arrival of Covid19 in late March. However, music

continued to play a large part in the online services, reflecting the liturgical styles being used on each Sunday of the month. Our livestreamed services certainly allowed greater opportunities to involve more readers and intercessors, especially younger people and families.

We continued with regular Sunday Evening Prayer (Vespers), which attracts a small but loyal following of 8-12 people each Sunday. This service, along with the daily offices has been offered throughout the year online from the end of March onwards.

Special services such as Education Sunday, Battle of Britain Sunday and Remembrance Sunday were all livestreamed, as were the Crib Service, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Midnight Mass and the Family Eucharist on Christmas Day.

We are very grateful for the supportive teams of Servers, Readers, Sides people, Flower arrangers, Cleaners, Sacristan and musicians who enable the services to run smoothly, when we were able to have the 8am service in church, as well as those helping online.

Midweek Communion services have been held for many years on Wednesdays at St Paul’s URC in Harmans Water; the congregation took the decision to join the Thursday congregation and the last service in Harmans Water was held on Wednesday 12 March. We are very grateful to St Paul’s for having agreed to us being able to continue having the Wednesday Eucharist in the years since we stopped services there on Sundays. Thanks must go to all the crew who assisted with running the services over the years, with a particular thank you to Angela Evans who was the “captain of the crew” in this regard, assisted by Margaret Latham and Ray Hobbs.

Thursdays at Langley Hall, have a regular and loyal group of worshippers, who enjoy the service and social time, which follows on with refreshments and conversations. As well as the benefit of the spiritual fellowship, they provide a friendly and supportive group who look out for one another. We are grateful to Shirley Taylor and Graham Dives for their regular help in setting up and clearing following the Thursday services. It was thus extremely sad for these parishioners who really look forward to midweek services when the pandemic forced us to close. The Thursday 10am Eucharist was restarted in December 2020.

There were 2 baptisms and 2 confirmations (in 2019 the figures were 9 and 9 respectively). No children were admitted to First Holy Communion during the year. The clergy also conducted 10 funerals, all but one at the Easthampstead Park Crematorium; 0 weddings and 0 renewal of vows, at Holy Trinity Church.

Attendance at the Easter and Christmas services could not be accurately accounted for with the services having been livestreamed.

Children, Youth Ministry and Youth Brunch

From January to the end of March, Children’s Church ran on the 1st and 2nd Sundays of the month during term time. The pandemic obviously caused the cancellation of all

activities for young people, and so we relied on the monthly family Eucharist in order to stay in touch with our Junior Church and Youth Brunch membership.

The Children have taken an active role in the form of reading during the livestreamed services, especially during the family and blended worship serviced. They also did a fabulous job in the Zoom Crib Service at Christmas.

We are very grateful to Lyn Watson and Elaine White for continuing with leadership responsibility this past year when operational, and for all our helpers, without whom running Children’s church would be impossible.

Also, many thanks must go to Charlie Wall and Lynn Page, for having run Youth Brunch when operational at the start of the year.

Social

The monthly Tuesday Coffee morning has a regular number of church members and local friends attending. Although the first three months of the year had normal in-person gatherings, the remaining gatherings were held weekly on Zoom from April onwards. A big thank you must go to Angela Evans for hosting these wonderful online get-togethers.

Bracknell Deanery Report

The Deanery of Bracknell has been operational through the thick of the pandemic with the meetings of Officers, the Pastoral and Standing Committees and the Synod all continuing on Zoom.

There were four meetings of the Standing and Pastoral Committees held on 22 January, 13 May, 9 September and 1 November.

The three Synod meetings took place as follows:

18 February (Meeting in-person). The guest speaker was Matthew Caminer who spoke about “Living as a Clergy Spouse.”
9 June. This was a Zoom discussion with Bishop Olivia about the work of Deaneries.
1 December. The guest speaker was the Archdeacon, Stephen Pullin, who spoke about the challenge facing Deaneries in a post pandemic world and how the influence of Parish Video and Zoom services might well remain as a central part of worship planning for the future.

The Deanery Gathering Day took place on Zoom as a Quiet Morning with Bishop Olivia on Saturday 17 October 2020. The theme was: Love in a pandemic - The wisdom of Julian of Norwich.

Lesley Johnson (Parish of Bracknell Deanery Representative)

Buildings and Fabric

The Buildings Committee consists of 4 members. We have not met during 2020 due to the Covid 19 restrictions, and so we have communicated by email. We were unable to carry out maintenance work in the church and hall, due to Covid restrictions. The

servicing and testing of the winch, electrical items, gas heating, and lightening conductor, have been completed.

The EICR (Electrical Installation Condition Report) previously known as 5 Year Electrical Inspection was carried out, and the church passed the inspection. In the Langley Hall, a new RCD was fitted. Some stonework has eroded on an existing coping stone on the Chancel roof and fallen to the ground. A new liner has been inserted in the drain run from the Langley Hall toilets

The York stone footpath along the North side of the church has been chemically cleaned. The gutters, valleys, gullies to the church roof have had their annual clean by the Roofing Contractor, who has also had to fit 12 new slates to replace the existing slates that had slipped on the South Nave roof, the slipped slates have made an indent in the lead gutter, which could leak in the future. We continue to patch up the existing slates on the Chancel and South Nave roofs. The boiler has been serviced, and a new hose had to be fitted to one of the radiators in the trench.

Some of the main items on the Quinquennial Report were:

Incorrect materials have been used inside on the plastered walls, and outside to repoint the flint work. This is causing damp. The correct materials should be sand and lime mix. There is still a lot of the flint repointing to be carried out, some of which have deteriorated further.
The Bell frame: fixing to the structure needs to be inspected by a qualified engineer, where access will need to be provided, in the meantime the rope to the bell has been tied up to prevent it being used.
In the Langley Hall, a new transformer and light has been replaced.
New Urinals and pipework have been installed.
The roofer has also cleaned the Langley Hall roof and outlets.

The Team Maintenance mornings continue with a few volunteers once a month and we are very grateful for their time. We need more help if we are to make some progress with outstanding items on the Quinquennial report and regular maintenance.

The building committee have drawn up a list of jobs from the Quinquennial report to be done in order of priority, at present we can only carry out items that effect health and safety due to lack of funds.

Malcolm Taylor (Chairman)

Financial Review

This financial year the Bracknell Team Ministry (Parish of Bracknell) had an income of £128,010 with £113,673 being of voluntary income, this being a decrease of £97,049 from 2019. We had expenditure of £133,615. The large reduction in income in 2020 compared to 2019 is attributed to a large reduction in one off income from grants and donations, a large fall in Langley Hall Income and a small reduction in regular giving.

The total funds of the church are now £406,183 which £207,016 is made up of unrestricted funds, £101,711 designated funds and £97,306 of restricted funds.

Our Parish Share contribution was £51,194, which we met fully. This Share was down from £85,900 in 2019, this reduction is attributable to the reduction to one funded Stipendiary post within the Parish.

The PCC set aside a Hardship fund (£10,000) with additional funds received via a Grant due to the 2020 COVID pandemic. Twenty-Six grants, from this restricted fund, were given to 20 individuals to assist with day-to-day living expenses due to a reduction in their income or other factors resulting in hardship, totalling £7,507.

Looking at Church income and expenditure from an unrestricted perspective in 2020 our Income was £102,129 and our Expenditure £95,910. The lower expenditure occurred due to the impact of COVID, only £250 spent on Church Maintenance, Church activities were suspended and all expenditure closely monitored.

Income generation will therefore continue to be a focus in the coming year to ensure we balance the fixed overheads of the church and ensure the PCC is able to deliver its outreach and charitable works.

The Finance & Administration Committee of the PCC continues to focus on close management of our expenditure and as lockdown eases maximising our income from the Langley Hall. The positive side of this is that the PCC has a clear view of all expenditure, much of which is Non-discretionary (Utility Bills) and increasing every year, therefore to continue to be able to achieve our outreach goals we need to focus on increasing our Income through Giving.

Neil Dove (PCC Treasurer)

Gift Aid and Stewardship

We are able to reclaim the tax from the HMRC on regular donations and on cash donations (up to £8,000 limit). In 2020 we successfully reclaimed tax of £16 443. We are grateful to all who financially support the life and work of the church to the best of their ability. It remains the case, however, that we are critically dependent on a small number of people (12-15) who give most of our income. We need to encourage more of our regular members to increase their weekly or monthly giving since this impacts on parish share and hence on the number of full time clergy we can sustain (see PCC section below).

Reserves Policy

Our financial reserves policy, approved by Bracknell PCC at its meeting on 6[th] September 2012, is that "our reserves should not fall below the total of: two months expenditure over 3 year average”, plus £30,000 contingency, plus any amounts in restricted funds which we are forbidden to use for general revenue spending. As at 31stDecember 2019 our two-month average expenditure was £38,027 and the Restricted Funds were

£110,643, giving a Reserve figure of £178,670 as at the end of 2019. At no stage during 2019 did our total funds fall below this Reserve figure.

Structure, Governance and Management

Safeguarding Report

Although face-to-face activities in the parish have been limited during the pandemic, the work of safeguarding has continued. It has been possible to carry out some DBS checks on-line, including renewals, and the Diocese has provided a programme of safeguarding training via Zoom since June 2020, while basic and foundation levels of safeguarding have been provided on-line by the Church of England. The PCC renewed its safeguarding Policy in September 2020.

Angela Evans (Parish Safeguarding Officer)

Electoral Roll

There has been very little change in the electoral roll membership for this revision. At last year’s APCM, we had 237 members; since then, we have had 4 new members join the roll, and sadly, 2 members have died. Therefore, the current membership as at the 2021 APCM is 239 .

Approximately two thirds of the members are female, and one third is male.

The breakdown of the membership by residential parish is… Bracknell: 54% Warfield: 23% Easthampstead: 17% Other parishes: 6%

… where the ‘other parishes’ comprise: All Saints, Ascot Heath Binfield Finchampstead & California Maidenhead St Andrew and St Mary Magdalene St. Sebastian, Wokingham Winkfield, Cranbourne & Chavey Down

Tim Dorrington (Electoral Roll Officer)

PCC

Membership of the PCC consists of the clergy (ex-officio), churchwardens, deanery synod representatives and members elected by members of the congregation who are on the electoral roll of the church. All who regularly attend our services are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC. The appointments are made as set out in the Church representation rules. The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the parish, including deciding on how the funds of the PCC are to be spent.

The PCC has a Standing Committee, which consists of the Parish clergy, the two Parish Wardens, the Treasurer and the Secretary (and representatives from the Mosaic congregation if not otherwise represented). The Standing Committee is authorised to transact the business of the PCC between PCC meetings, reporting to the full PCC.

The full PCC met 10 times in 2020.

Given its wide responsibilities the PCC has a number of committees, each of which deals with a particular aspect of parish life. These committees, which include Finance and Administration, Buildings & Fabric, are all responsible to the PCC and report back to it as appropriate with notes of their meetings and decisions.

The full PCC discusses and ratifies any decisions as necessary.

Examples of PCC actions in 2020

Agreed on the setting up of the Hardship Fund.
Decided on the three charities to be supported in 2020.
Discussed plans for the lockdown of Holy Trinity Church and Langley Hall.
Discussed the reopening of Holy Trinity and restarting worship, in accordance with government and church guidance.
Noted reports circulated by the Diocese about significant safeguarding cases, and renewed the Parish Safeguarding Policy.
Noted the appointment of Janet Chalmers as Director of Music.
Agreed to the Parish Budget for 2021.

The PCC employs on behalf of the parish (part-time), 1 Parish Administrator, (Linda Edwards), and 1 Finance Administrator, (Sally Evans). We are extremely grateful for their dedicated work during the past year, and their willingness to work flexibly in challenging times.

Administrative information

The address of the church office is Langley Hall, The Ring, Bracknell, RG12 1HD. Bracknell PCC is registered under charity registration number 1133886.

PCC members who have served at any time from 1 January 2020 until the date this report was approved are:

Ex Officio Members:

Clergy

Revd Jim Barlow – Interim minister (Sept. 2015) and Interim Priest in Charge (Sept. 2018) until 30 June 2020.

Revd Malcolm Chalmers – Associate Priest (June 2019)

Wardens

Mr Russell Goodburn Miss Angela Evans – Elected April 2019 Mr Paul Byron – Elected October 2020

Deanery Synod Representatives

Mrs Lesley Johnson Mr allan Wilson

There were 4 vacancies for Parish of Bracknell representatives on Deanery Synod as at 31 December 2020.

Elected members

Mr Paul Copping Mr Neil Dove (Treasurer) Mr David Foster Mrs Barbara Kinsella (elected April 2019) Mr Ade Odofin Mr Paul Page (elected April 2019) Mr Simon Sellick (Secretary from September 2019) Mrs Shirley Taylor (elected April 2019) There were 6 vacancies on PCC as at December 31 2020

Approved by the PCC and signed on their behalf by the Chair of the PCC: Rev’d Malcolm Chalmers