## **The Parish of Ottery St Mary** _Address for correspondence: The Loft, The College, Ottery St Mary EX11 1DQ_ ## **Annual Report and Financial Statements** ## **of the Parochial Church Council** for the year ended 31[st] December 2021 Rector: The Reverend Lydia Cook Bankers: Santander PO Box 1109 Bradford BD1 5ZJ Independent Examiner: Mr Nik Cross 32 Pavey Run Ottery St Mary, Devon EX11 1FQ Our web site: ## **www.otterystmary.org.uk** The Parochial Church Council is a Registered Charity no 1133945 # **The Parochial Church Council of Ottery St Mary the Virgin, St Edward the Confessor and the Saints** ## **Annual Report for the year ended 31[st] December 2021** ## **Aim and Purpose** The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Ottery St Mary (“the PCC”) has the responsibility of cooperating with the Incumbent, the Reverend Lydia Cook (from October 2021), in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. As well as St Mary’s Church, it also has responsibility for the Church of St Edward the Confessor, Wiggaton (“Wiggaton”) which is licensed as a District Church, with its own elected District Council and Deputy Churchwarden. ## **Objectives and Activities** The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our Churches, and to become part of our parish family. When planning our activities, the PCC has considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, and in particular the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament. We try to enable ordinary people to live out their faith as part of our parish family, through: - Worship and prayer: learning about the Gospel, and developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus; - Provision of pastoral care for people living in the parish; and - Mission and outreach work. ## **Achievements and Performance** ## _**Worship and Prayer**_ In January, due to much increased levels of Covid 19 transmission and a new national lockdown, the churchwardens took the decision to suspend Sunday services in church. The church remained open for Private Prayer on Wednesday and Friday mornings, and funerals continued to take place in church. A new weekly online service called St Mary’s Musings was launched and a written reflection was also circulated by email and a hard copy was delivered to those with no internet capability. The church opened again at Easter and from April held one service each Sunday, a holy communion on the first Sunday of the month and a service of the word on the remaining Sundays. Morning Prayer resumed weekly on a Wednesday and Evensong was re-introduced once a month on the fourth Sunday of the month from September. From October 2021 with the arrival of the Rev Lydia Cook a new pattern of services was introduced with a resumption of regular services of sung Holy Communion on Sundays, the provision of two Book of Common Prayer services a month (Holy Communion and Evensong) and a midweek celebration of Holy Communion. Opportunities for prayer were also extended with services of Morning Prayer twice a week in Ottery and once a week in Wiggaton, and Evening Prayer four times a week in Ottery. It has not yet been possible to restart the healing services. We continued to offer weekly online services for parishioners who have been unable to return to church through the St Mary Musings. Baptisms are generally held on Sunday afternoons due to the number of guests many families wish to invite. At present there are 162 parishioners on the Electoral Roll, 132 of whom live within the parish. 3 names were added during the year, and 10 were removed, either because of death or moving away. The average Sunday attendance at the 10.30am Service on Sundays was 60. We held a Good Friday reflection and two services of Holy Communion on Easter Day, one in the churchyard and one in church. This was the first time the church had been open since January. The Remembrance services were very well attended by the town and uniformed organisations. The annual Advent Carol service for the Mission Community went ahead as did Christmas Carol services for the Guides and The Kings School. Christmas attendance was affected by the sudden onset of the Omicron variant of Covid. The Crib service was held outside and attracted 150 people. Attendance at the other Christmas services was lower than pre-pandemic. As well as our regular services, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of the journey through life. There have been 17 Baptisms, 18 weddings and 32 funerals (15 in church and 17 at the crematorium) during the year. Those who are no longer able to come to Church are not forgotten. As well as online services there is a team of Visitors – part of the Pastoral Link Scheme, a prayer list in the church weekly bulletin and from October Home Communions restarted. ## _Home Groups_ Tuesday home group has met weekly online throughout the year. ‘Explore’ met in person during the year, when Covid lockdown rules allowed. ## _**Deanery Synod**_ Four members of the PCC sit on the Otter Vale Deanery Synod. This provides the PCC with a link with the churches around us, and also with the Diocese as a whole. It also receives reports from the General Synod. Two meetings were held on-line in 2021, and one face-to-face. ## _**Church Fabric**_ St Mary’s church building is vested in Ottery St Mary Church Corporation (“The Governors”) by Royal Charter. As such the PCC has no responsibility for the upkeep of the fabric. The PCC has a working relationship with the Church Corporation, for which they are very grateful. Wiggaton building maintenance is self-funded, with the year-end restricted fund for that purpose standing at £20,927. ## _**Mission and Evangelism**_ The Explore home group have supported Kay Ammon, based in Kenya, in her work to combat gender-based violence. Members of Explore and the wider Parish Church together generously pay to support Kay’s daughter’s schooling in Kenya. ## _**Other Activities**_ In March each year the PCC publishes a separate document containing reports and details of the 20 organisations and groups that are part of our Church family. Activities range from Bell ringing to Tots’ Time - the latter was a new initiative which opened in June 2021, running weekly during school term time. Many of the PCC’s activities were curtailed or partially suspended due to the pandemic, but where possible these activities have had a careful risk assessment and where possible have restarted. ## **Financial Review** Our unrestricted funds for St Mary’s show a deficit of £1,505 on receipts of £97,148. Wiggaton contributed an additional deficit of £232 on receipts of £5,539. Our combined Diocesan Common Fund contribution was set at £77,482 of which we were only able to pay £66,464, due in the main to the reduction in our receipts outpacing the savings we could make (excluding Common Fund payment shortfall). ## _- Unrestricted funds Receipts_ The consolidated shortfall of unrestricted receipts compared with 2020 (£8,769 lower, attributable to St Mary’s) can be largely explained as follows ## _Decreases vs 2020_ - an attrition of £5,883 in overall giving. Whereas planned giving was lower by £10,189, ad-hoc giving and donations increased by £4,306. As a knock-on effect, gift aid recovery from HMRC reduced by £4,179. - OSM received £5,828 in Furlough pay subsidy in 2020, and none in 2021. ## _Increases vs 2020_ - For St Mary’s, hire of the church building and statutory fees from weddings and funerals together increased by £6,358, reflecting the backlog of postponed weddings resulting from 2020 lockdowns. - Fundraising across the two churches increased by £2,217 but this was against the backdrop of no St Mary’s Summer Fair for the second year running. The increase was due to a well-patronised Christmas Tree festival run by the PCC (in past years it has been organised by the Friends of the Church of Ottery St Mary whose own funds benefited). - St Mary’s Church Shop receipts increased by £1,630 as the shop (mainly closed in 2020) was re-opened in the summer. The balance against cost of stock was positive by £1,594. - Grants (unrestricted) were received to the value of £1,349 from the Governors, the Friends and the Heale Trust consisting of contributions to - the wages cost of our Administrator - advertising our Church Services following the re-opening of the building after COVID restrictions were loosened - the gas heating bill - cost of floodlighting the church - 25% of our cleaning costs - The cost of printing and posting copies of the weekly “Contact Sheet” to congregants, during the COVID restrictions ## _- Unrestricted funds Payments_ Overall, for most of 2021 activity only partially recovered – there were far fewer church services, at which average attendance was lower. This reduced level of activity, along with a Common Fund payment of 90% of the requested amount, led to outgoings reducing year-on-year by £8,329. Key areas where lower outgoings can be seen were: - Clergy expenses - £2,934 lower, reduced request from Otter Vale Team - Employee/self-employed costs[1] - £1,588 lower, reduced activity and ceasing of honorarium - Common Fund - £7,791 lower (see above) 1It is the church's policy to pay at least the national minimum wage to its staff. Pay levels are reviewed annually and adjusted by 2% or to align with any change in the national living wage. At the end of 2021, the PCC was informed of the statutory 6.6% increase in the National Living Wage from April 2022. The hourly rate of the Church Administrator was also increased effective January 2022, taking into account a benchmark from another church in the vicinity. Increases in other costs offset the above savings by around £4,500, including £564 higher fundraising costs and £1,227 increase in church shop outgoings. In October 2021, our gas supplier CNG Energy became one of the casualties of the unprecedented turbulence in the energy market. Our account was transferred by Ofgem to Pozitive Energy, and our kWH charge rate rose by 130%, which has been reflected in the final months’ costs of 2021, and in our 2022 budget. For outgoing charitable grants, the PCC continued its policy, in respect of St Mary’s, not to make such grants to other charities out of general fund donations, given that it has been unable to meet its Common Fund commitment. Special collections and charity-designated ad-hoc collections for such bodies are treated as liabilities and remitted to the targeted organisations along with any Gift Aid due, the latter to be reclaimed later. The breakdown of such remittances is shown in Table 5 below. Wiggaton DCC has not adopted this policy, and made donations totaling £498 from its general fund, as well as designated collections to the value of £402. ## _Restricted funds_ Grants were received for the Vicar’s Charities fund (£300), Tots’ Time (£500) and St Mary’s Flower Fund (£250). The Tots’ Time grant was earmarked for the purchase of equipment and toys, and a contribution to heating the building during the weekly winter sessions. £535 was withdrawn from the Abide fund to provide the Syrian family with emergency help with household bills, and to facilitate the provision of a laptop by the local school for the older children. In 2021, a new volunteer took over responsibility for the Flowers Fund, and it was agreed that the accounting would be migrated from paper records to the cloud-based accounts package employed by St Mary’s. The decision was also made to migrate the Bell-ringer’s fund and Wiggaton’s accounts in 2022 (whilst remaining the responsibility of their respective treasurers), providing greater transparency and avoiding the need for manual consolidation at year-end. The figures for Flowers and Bellringers are shown as a constituent of the Restricted Funds; Wiggaton’s funds are treated in the same way as those of St Mary’s. The Heale Trust - considered as a ‘connected trust’ and not an element of the PCC charity’s books – will be published in 2022 for the first time as a (separate) restricted fund. Restricted cash reserves for both churches are largely invested in the CBF Church of England Deposit Fund. The largest elements for St Mary’s are funds held for choir music and robes (£4,073); [ex]-Abide (£3066); Vicar’s charities (£2,901). For Wiggaton, during the year, all Ayre bequest (£4,220), Cook bequest (£1,470) and In Memoria (£169) funds in the CBF deposit account were withdrawn, of which £5000 was used to buy units in the CBF Investment Fund. The remainder (£859) was transferred from the Ayre bequest to the Building Fund, which now stands at £20,927. ## _Investments_ The value of St Mary’s invested funds (largely restricted) rose to a market valuation of £49,166 (2020: £46,742); but interest income on ‘cash’ accounts remained negligible as bank rates continue at very low levels. ## _Financial governance_ During the year, the Treasurer reported in detail bi-monthly, both to the PCC and the Standing Committee, on the progress of St Mary’s finances against budget and against the previous year. The PCC has a written policy outlining who may authorise what level of expenditure, and the level at which alternative estimates/quotes need to be obtained. The PCC is satisfied that the way in which receipts are handled is secure and achieves an acceptable level of accountability. _Reserves Policy_ St Mary’s unrestricted reserves policy is to retain sufficient cash funds to cover three months’ normal expenditure (equivalent in 2021 to about £25K). It has not been possible to fulfil this policy; and the budget process for 2022 suggested that some £9000 in cash would need to be carried over from the 2021 year-end in order to provide sufficient cash for the first few months of 2022. Wiggaton has about £5,100 in its unrestricted General Fund which represents over nine months’ expenditure coverage. Table 1 |Financial Statement for the
_Receipts and Payments Accounts, PCC_
**Receipts**
Note
Income and Endowments
_Income from Charitable Activities_
PCC fees income
Hire of church buildings
Income from catering
Printing & stationery income
_Income from Donations and Legacies_
Giving
Tax-efficient planned giving
Other planned giving
Cash collections at church services
Donations
Gift Aid from HMRC
Grants - Non Recurring
Grants – Recurring
Legacies
_Income from other trading activities_
Church shop receipts
Fetes, bazaars, other fund-raising events
Flowers income
Bellringers' fees
_Investment income_
Interest received
_Other incoming resources_
Other receipts
Reimbursement of costs from other churches
TOTAL RECEIPTS|Year Ended 31 December 2021
_of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Ottery St Mary (Consolidated**)_
Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment
Total
2020
Chk
_9332_
_9332_
_3899_
OK
6941
6941
2924
OK
1174
1174
626
OK
943
943
8
OK
274
274
341
OK
OK
_79765_
_6503_
_86268_
_105455_
OK
3960
OK
43507
43507
52164
OK
7435
7435
8967
OK
2505
2505
1792
OK
9294
453
9747
5990
OK
12782
12782
16961
OK
3109
1050
4159
12527
1132
1132
894
OK
5000
5000
2200
OK
OK
_5844_
_3945_
_9789_
_2190_
OK
3111
3111
1481
OK
2733
42
2775
649
OK
953
953
OK
2950
2950
60
_1381_
_0_
_1381_
_1537_
OK
1381
0
1381
1537
OK
OK
_6365_
_54_
_6419_
_12318_
OK
54
54
5893
OK
6365
6365
6425
OK
OK
102687
10502
113189
125399
OK|U
R
E
U
R
E
U
R
E
U
R
E
Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment
_9332_
6941
1174
943
274
_75031_
_5815_
_4734_
_402_
_36_
_250_
41252
2255
7135
300
1931
574
8744
15
550
402
36
11727
1055
3109
800
250
1132
5000
_5086_
_758_
_42_
_2950_
_953_
3111
1975
758
42
953
2950
_1334_
_47_
_0_
1334
47
0
_6365_
_54_
54
6365
Wiggaton
Ringers
Flowers
Ottery St Mary|U
R
E
U
R
E
U
R
E
U
R
E
Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment
_9332_
6941
1174
943
274
_75031_
_5815_
_4734_
_402_
_36_
_250_
41252
2255
7135
300
1931
574
8744
15
550
402
36
11727
1055
3109
800
250
1132
5000
_5086_
_758_
_42_
_2950_
_953_
3111
1975
758
42
953
2950
_1334_
_47_
_0_
1334
47
0
_6365_
_54_
54
6365
Wiggaton
Ringers
Flowers
Ottery St Mary|U
R
E
U
R
E
U
R
E
U
R
E
Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment
_9332_
6941
1174
943
274
_75031_
_5815_
_4734_
_402_
_36_
_250_
41252
2255
7135
300
1931
574
8744
15
550
402
36
11727
1055
3109
800
250
1132
5000
_5086_
_758_
_42_
_2950_
_953_
3111
1975
758
42
953
2950
_1334_
_47_
_0_
1334
47
0
_6365_
_54_
54
6365
Wiggaton
Ringers
Flowers
Ottery St Mary|U
R
E
U
R
E
U
R
E
U
R
E
Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment
_9332_
6941
1174
943
274
_75031_
_5815_
_4734_
_402_
_36_
_250_
41252
2255
7135
300
1931
574
8744
15
550
402
36
11727
1055
3109
800
250
1132
5000
_5086_
_758_
_42_
_2950_
_953_
3111
1975
758
42
953
2950
_1334_
_47_
_0_
1334
47
0
_6365_
_54_
54
6365
Wiggaton
Ringers
Flowers
Ottery St Mary| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||97148
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e|Explanation|||| |**Cash Funds**|||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| |Bank Current Accounts|||11285|1|5960|1a|||17244||||1|OSM & Wiggaton only|||| |Bank Deposit Accounts|||362||4113|2|||4475||||1a|OSM,Wiggaton,Ringers,Flowers|||| |PayPal account||||3|||||||||2|Of which £ 3067 = Abide funds retained after formalproject closure Sep2019|||| |CBF Deposit Accounts||OSM: 615278001|D
9048|4|35735|4|||44783||||3|OSM only|||| |Cash in Hand+Petty cash|||72|3|95|5|||167||||4|OSM & Wiggaton only|||| ||||||||||||||5|Ringers,Flowers|||| ||||||||||||||||||| |||_Sub-tot_|_20767_||_45903_||||_66669_||_67367_||||||| |**Other Monetary Assets**|||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| |Income Tax Recoverable|||3256|6|||||3256||||6|HMRCgift aid accrued 2021;to be claimed 2022|||| |Undeposited receipts|||||||||||||||||| |DONR (text giving)|||10|3|||||10||||||||| |SumUp (card-reader)|||5|3|||||5||||||||| |||_Sub-tot_|_3270_||||||_3256_||||||||| |**Investment Assets**|||||||||||45582
1161
_46742_
6907
_6907_
1722
2587
55
_4364_
125381||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| |CBF Investment Fund|||||49166|7|2970|8|52136||||7|Includes £18,886, part of OSM Toilets fund|||| |CBF Fixed Interest Fund|||||||1084|9|1084||||8|Miss M J Digbylegacy: Choir M £920;CI Main £1676|||| |||_Sub-tot_|||_49166_||_4054_||_53220_||||9|Mrs G B M Drake & others Gift(Wiggaton)|||| |**Assets retained for Church use**|||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| |Total|||7575|10|||||7575||||10|Depreciation is calculated but not shown in R&P accounts|||| |||_Sub-tot_|_7575_||||||_7575_||||||||| |**Stock**|||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| |Shop stock|||2198|11|||||2198||||11|OSM Stock count & valuation includingVAT.|||| |Guide books|||766|12|||||766||||12|2021: OSM churchguides valued atpurchaseprice|||| |Printing materials (OSM Church Office)|||360||||||360||||13|Based onphysical stock take|||| |||_Sub-tot_|_2963_||||||_2963_||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| |**Liabilities**|||||||||||||||||| |Creditors|||||||||||||||||| |Supplieraccounts payable|||-256||-1036||||-1292||||||||| |Payroll liabilities|||-89||||||-89||||||||| |||_Sub-tot_|_-345_||_-1036_||||_-1381_||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| |**Total**|||34410||94033||4054||132489||125381||||||| ## Table 5 _Grants to external charities – St Mary’s_ _Grants to external charities – Wiggaton_ |CHARITY|£900| |---|---| |Shelterbox|£600| |SightSavers|£300| | CHARITY COMMISSION F012 INGLAND AND WALES Independ¢nt oxaminef s report on Ihe accounts Se.Gtion ndependent Ex&miTrof'8 R&D•ri Onwiurtts ltsrthay•*r ended Clkyitynv I rem tO?helNstES ori rnYex￿￿￿￿￿￿Ql 8cwutlsolih)thoYg harky I'YFE I I￿rUl￿ Re¥pon¥ibiffti•• A¥ tlie IFth8 crf IliF Tr￿, you aro rwsl)1o prot￿￿￿ of r•pt*t ofih¥ *cc*dart•wlh rw8M￿￿CI kne crth￿A¢t ?[)11 l'tre Arfl. 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Nam•: Rthvsni FYofo££iornal quaIMc￿Qnl3> QT tsody i_yP_ OnlYr4)￿lF1￿￿ &Aaminer ncod&to N9hlkJht ¢mattw of Gonc￿￿ IS￿ CC32, knd6Ftn(53rtt e￿ninati)n 8t￿1￿6. rtW.IIn￿ and wd*)co lor IER O¢tob•r 2D1B ## **Safeguarding** The PCC has complied with the duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (duty to have regard to House of Bishops’ guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults). ## **Volunteers** The members of the PCC would like to thank all the volunteers who work so tirelessly to make our Church a lively and vibrant community. Our especial thanks go to our Churchwardens and Deputy wardens. ## **Structure, Governance and Management** The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. The Council comprises the Incumbent, the Churchwardens, a representative of the Readers (if so decided at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting [“APCM”]), those elected to the Deanery Synod, and other members who are elected at the APCM by those on the Electoral Roll. Wiggaton’s District Church Council is constituted such that, on an annual basis, a representative from one of Wiggaton’s habitual worshippers shall be elected as a PCC member at the APCM. Members of the congregation are always encouraged to join the Electoral Roll, and, if so qualified, to consider standing for election to the PCC. The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance in the parish, and for all financial matters. The full PCC met 12 times during the year, meeting nine times virtually and twice in a hybrid of in-person and via Zoom, and once in-person. The average level of attendance was 85%. To facilitate its work, the PCC operates through a number of committees, which meet between full meetings of the PCC. ## **Standing Committee.** This Committee met six times This is the only committee required by law. It also had two liaison meetings with the Church Corporation (The Governors) to discuss matters of common interest. **Link** sub-committee attends to pastoral matters, supporting existing and new members. The **Charitable Giving Group** recommends to the PCC those charities which the church might support and supplies ongoing information to the church community at large. ## **Administrative Information** The Parish Church is situated at The College, Ottery St Mary. It is part of the Diocese of Exeter within the Church of England. The correspondence address is The Parish Office, The College, Ottery St. Mary EX11 1DQ. Wiggaton’s church is located at Sidmouth Rd, Wiggaton, Ottery Saint Mary EX11 1PX. The PCC is a body corporate (PCC Powers Measure 1956, and the Church Representation Rules 2020) and a Charity registered with the Charity Commission. PCC members who have served from 1[st] January 2021 until the date this report was approved were: |Position|Name|From/to|Standingcommittee| |---|---|---|---| |**_Ex Officio_**|||| |**The Incumbent**|Rev’d Lydia Cook|From Oct 2021|Yes| |**Churchwardens**|Mrs Rosie Hall|From May2021|Yes| ||Mrs Margaret Whitlock|From Oct 2020|Yes| ||Mr Grenville Gilbert|To May2021|Yes| |**Deanery Synod Reps**|Mr John Maybery#|From Oct 2020|| ||Mr PhilipWhitlock|From Oct 2020|Yes| ||Mrs Rosie Hall|From Oct 2020|| ||Mrs Diana Passey|To Jul 2021|Yes| ||# Also elected from May 21 as the
PCC representative for St Edmund’s,
Wiggaton||| |**_Elected Members_**|||| ||Mr Brian Cammack|From Oct 2020|Yes| ||Mr David Rose|To Mar 2022|| Mrs Helen Atkinson Mrs Diana Gee Mrs Gillian Colev Mrs Sheila Williams Mrs Susan Jeacock Mrs Susan Clayton Mr Stephen King Mr Michael Farley Mrs Ruth Sims To Mar 2022 Frorn Qct 2020 Frorn Oct 2020 From Oct 2020 From Oct 2020 From May 2021 From May 2021 From May 2021 From May 2021 Yes Approvedby the Pccort 2*Morch 2022 0nd￿¢￿ed0￿ Its behollby.. ¥'d Lydla Cook (Chairl Mr Phlllp Whitlock ITreasurer}