## **ANNUAL REPORT for January to December 2022** Proverbs 29:18 Wherethere is no prophetic vision the peoplecast off restraint, but blessed is he whokeeps the law. ## **Contents** |Introduction|2| |---|---| |2022: A year in review|4| |From the Vicar|6| |Churchwardens report|6| |From the Trainee Minister|6| |PCC Report|8| |Sunday Services|9| |Youth and Children’s Work|9| |Discipleship and Pastoral Care|10| |Evangelism and Mission|11| |Operations|11| |Financial Reports|14| ## **Introduction** The primary object of St Alkmund’s PCCs is the promotion of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the doctrines and practices of the Church of England. The incumbent is Rev Dr James Hughes. Our mission statement is ‘Devoted to God, Devoted to One Another’ St Alkmund’s provides support for a significant church community, as well as education in the Christian faith, and social activities open to the wider community, as can be seen from the following report. This report contains contributions from the Vicar, Churchwardens and Trainee Minister, and a report from the PCC. This is followed by ‘a Year in review’ before we consider the ministry of the church under five headings: Sunday Services, Children and Youth Work, Discipleship and Pastoral Care, Evangelism and Mission, and Operations (which covers all the many activities we engage in to support our other activities). Throughout the report you will see that we rely extensively on volunteers to enable our mission and ministry; their endeavours are incalculable and greatly appreciated. This report covers an exciting period in the life of the church, as we were able to begin a number of new initiatives, and to re-envision ourselves for the future in October 2022. Financial reports follow the main report. 2 **Church address: Church Office Address (for correspondence):** St. Alkmund’s Church, Duffield Parish Hall Church Drive, Church Drive off Makeney Road, off Makeney Road, Duffield, Belper, Duffield, Belper, Derbyshire DE56 4BA Derbyshire DE56 4BA Telephone: 01332 987550 e-mail: office@stalkmundsduffield.co.uk; web site: www.stalkmundsduffield.co.uk The PCC is a charity registered with the Charity Commission at number 1134125 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 is a Registered Charity. Appointment of PCC members is governed by and set out in the Church Representation Rules. The PCC meets six times a year, with Standing Committee meetings in between as necessary. Standing Committee has delegated responsibility to make financial decisions as necessary, but we endeavour to make sure decisions are made at full PCC meetings as far as possible. PCC Members 2022: Rev Dr James Hughes (vicar, chair) Richard Lindop (reader, vice-chair) Paul Linford (Churchwarden) Roger White (Churchwarden until May 2022, PCC member from May 2022) Jodi Gray (Churchwarden from May 2022) Marion Taulbut Nick Peacock (PCC Treasurer, deanery synod rep) Rosemary Bull (deanery synod rep) Melinda Peacock (deanery synod rep) Andrew Jackson (Until May 2022) Gill Linford Tom Gray Michael Severn (until May 2022) Anna Maddison Alistair Boyd Janet Roulstone Elaine Parkin (from May 2022) Christine Fraser-Moodie (from May 2022) **Bankers:** HSBC, St Peter’s Street Derby **Independent Examiner:** Keith Gregory, 26 Barley Close, Little Eaton 3 ## **St Alkmund’s 2022- a Year in review** As we look back over 2022, here are some of the things that have happened. Back in **January** we launched the second half of our **Bible Overview** course, began small group training for our **A Passion for Life Mission** , and ran a successful **Life Explored** Course as a follow up to Christmas. In **February** these things continued, but we also had a little bit of **flooding** in the Church Hall. That of course is not something to celebrate, but the rallying round to clean up that we saw, as well as the subsequent work to sort out our **flood defences** have seen many people volunteering their time to serve. As people do every year, in many different capacities. **March** saw us continuing to prepare for our Passion for Life Mission, as well as celebrating **Mothering Sunday,** and preparing for Easter. As well as celebrating **Easter** in April 2022, we participated as a benefice in PFL’s nationwide ‘ **Find Life that Lasts** ’ mission initiative. Alongside various smaller-scale events (which included a ‘ **Murder Mystery Fish & Chip Supper** ’), we held special invitation/outreach services on 10[th] and 17[th] April 2022 (Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday). We also sent our young people up to Edale for our **Youth Weekend Away** , it was windy on the walk, but at least it didn’t snow. In **May** we appointed **James Munro** as our new Youth and Children’s Worker, to work alongside Adam Heaton. Or course, James didn’t arrive until September, and Hannah didn’t join him until they got married in October, but we made the appointment in May! **June** saw us beginning our planning for our vision day in October, with a congregational survey, and a staff away day. Which, yes, did involve a good number of post-it notes. In **July** sadly we had to say goodbye to **Emma Rollin** , who stopped working in the office after many years. Again, not a cause for celebration, but an opportunity to thank Emma for all her work. 4 **August** of course brought our **holiday club** , and the opportunity to reach out to our village with the Good News of Jesus Christ. You can decide for yourself who you think is having the most fun on this picture. **September** not only heralded the arrival of James Munro, but also the relaunch of what had been Covid Café as **Sanctuary** , a ministry which goes from strength to strength. We launched our new-look monthly **newsletter** , and we also sadly said our farewells in a special service to remember the life of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II. An opportunity for us to mourn and give thanks as a church, but also to invite the wider community to do the same on the day, or through our condolence book. In **October** we celebrated **Harvest,** but also had our **Vision Day.** This was a really encouraging day for us as a church, as we looked back at what had happened over the last five years, and looked forward to the future together. We have already started to see some of the ideas from that day implemented, and we look forward to that continuing to happening in 2023. **November** saw us host a quiz night, with many visitors, and unusual quiz questions. It also saw us move the 6.30pm service into the hall every week, and that is creating a very warm, informal, and welcoming atmosphere week by week – if you haven’t already, you should try it. And then what did we do in **December** ? Oh yes. **Christmas** 5 ## **From the Vicar** In many ways 2022 represented the first ‘normal’ year we have had for a while. We did have a little bit of flooding early in 2022, and have made some changes as a result, but we ran a full compliment of morning and evening services for the first time since 2018. We welcomed a number of new people to church, and were able to expand what we did. Much of what we did in 2022 is already covered in ‘a Year in review’, or will come up later on in this report, so I want to focus on saying thank you. First, thanks to all the volunteers who have been engaged in the life of the church over the last year, from serving coffee, to cleaning, to leading bible studies, to helping with children’s and youth work, and beyond. As a church we seek to be a family, and to be involved in family life, and it is always encouraging to reflect back on how people serve one another here. I’m very wary of starting to mention people as I will miss someone out, so I will restrict myself to thanking by name Paul Linford, Jodi Gray and Roger White who served as wardens for some or all of 2022. Second, my thanks go to the office team. In 2022 we said goodbye to Emma Rollin as one of our administrative team, and so I want to particularly record my thanks to her for her work with me over the last six years, and I know before that. Diane and Liz continue to work in the office, and Liz has increased her hours, and I am immensely grateful for all the support I, and we as a ministry team, receive from them. Third, I have the privilege of working here with three very supportive, encouraging, committed and hard working colleagues, in James R, Adam, and James M (since September 2022). I look forward to the time we are able to spend together, and thank them for their support and hard work. Finally, I want to thank you all for all that you came up with at the vision day in October. The Vision document from that day will be available at the AGM in April 2023, and I look forward to implementing those Imagine statements with you, as we seek to be devoted to God and one another. In challenging times for the Church of England, it is good to have confidence in our shared hope in Jesus Christ. James ## **Churchwarden’s Report** It has been a busy year for the church wardens with the installation of new flood barriers, a new heating system and a five-yearly report on the state of the church buildings all occupying our attentions. Following the installation of flood barriers across the link doors and youth office door last year, ‘Phase 2’ of the flood protection project was completed in February with the addition of removable posts and barriers around the whole ‘courtyard’ around the hall. Particular thanks are 6 due to David Henson and Alistair Boyd for their work on this, and to Derbyshire County Council and the Benefact Trust for financial support. Sanctioning the expenditure on the barriers has obviously entailed a considerable investment on the part of the PCC, but it will hopefully be worthwhile in terms of limiting the kind of disruption to church activities which resulted from the 2019 and 2022 flooding events. A 12-strong team comprising the keyholders and Flood Protection Group members will now be responsible for erecting the barriers in the event of flood warnings. With all hands on deck it should take no more than half an hour. The past 12 months also saw the Quinquennial Inspection by the church architect which, as its name suggests, is a five-yearly report on the state of the church buildings. It identifies a number of works which will need to take place over the next five years, but none of them require our immediate attention. In addition the church’s boiler control system was replaced with an App based version that can be programmed from a phone and which includes both an internal and external thermostat, and is thus capable of adjusting the heat based on outside temperature. Thanks are due to Roger White and Mike Stanier for their work on this project. During the year we have held regular warden's meetings with James and been part of the leadership team along with James H, James R and Richard, which has enabled us to look together at some strategic issues, including those facing the wider Church of England. Our work as wardens is made considerably easier by the continuing help of our team of keyholders - Martin Boyce, Martin Oliver, Alastair Boyd, Phil O'Brien, and Gerry Cunningham and Tom Gray who both joined the team this year. We are also grateful for the work of funeral verger John Lound, wedding verger Deborah Redfern, 'Mr Maintenance' Mike Stanier, Stuart and Irene Holmes who continue to help out with preparing morning communion and Merrilyn Wheatley who has taken on the job of organising the tea and coffee rota. Most of all we are grateful for the continued prayers of the church family as we carry out this ministry. Paul Linford and Jodi Gray ## **Trainee Minister’s Letter** Looking back on 2022, the year has felt like the first truly ‘normal’ year in the life of the church(s) after all the many covid-related difficulties and restrictions of 2020 and 2021. And – as you can read within this report - we have been able to continue with all the various ongoing activities across the life of our two churches and our benefice and begin some new initiatives too. 7 We have continued with our various pastoral care, discipleship and evangelism activities, successfully implementing a new ‘Events Team’ to support the latter. We have welcomed a second Youth & Children's Worker to our Staff Team. Our ‘Sanctuary’ event continues to meet a real need in the wider community and we have recently launched a new ‘TOTS’ group for younger children and those caring for them. We give thanks for all that we’ve been able to achieve as churches and as a benefice in 2022 and for all the many volunteers who help to make things happen. And God willing, we trust that we can continue doing more of the same in the year ahead, as we seek to share the ‘good news’ of the Gospel with all those around us. Many thanks to our church/benefice family for their continued support and encouragement over the past year and my thanks to James Hughes and our Staff Team and Wardens in particular. James Rollin ## **PCC Report** ## **Report on the Proceedings of the Parochial Church Council** It should be the duty of the minister and the parochial church council to consult together on matters of general concern and importance to the parish. (Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956). The Parochial Church Council met 6 times in 2022 and all meetings were in person in the church hall. Regular agenda items for discussion included a ministry update from the vicar, safeguarding information from Paul Linford and a finance report from Nick Peacock, the treasurer. At the meeting in March it was agreed to appoint a second youth worker. Members of the PCC together with the vicar interviewed and appointed for the post and James Munro started in September. Safeguarding, throughout the year, included new and renewed Disclosure and Barring certificates, reminders of mandatory course updates and any issues needing to be discussed. Changes were agreed to the work of the Standing Committee, which comprises the vicar, church wardens, vice chair, secretary and treasurer. It was decided that at each meeting this group would feedback to the PCC any action taken. Spending by the group was sanctioned up to £1000 where it was inappropriate to wait for the next PCC. A procedure to close the churchyard to the burial of coffins started in March 2022 and would finally be passed by the Privy Council in 2023. Flood protection was a regular and important agenda item at PCC meetings. In January 2022 the first phase was installed on the Link and Youth office doors and a £5000 grant paid for this. Non return valves were also put in place. At the October meeting it was agreed that a system of demountable posts and removable flood barriers around the patio area would be put in place. 8 A Quinquennial inspection of the church and hall was carried out in September and a report sent out for the November PCC meeting. There are works that need to be done within 18 months and others within 5 years. Timing of the works will be considered with a view to the costs and urgency. Reports on PCC business appear regularly in the church magazine. Janet Roulstone ## **Sunday Services** Our Sunday services at Duffield are normally at 10am and 6.30pm. The morning service includes creche and youth work for those aged up to 14. We also have an 8am communion service which currently at All Saints chapel on the 1[st] and 3[rd] Sundays of the month. During 2022 we continued our usual pattern of expository sermon series, seeking to explore the whole counsel of God. The morning saw us continuing looking at Matthew, in 1 Kings, exploring James together, and continuing to work through the book of Psalms in the summer. A similar pattern has been followed in the evening, looking at Luke, at Joshua, and at 2 Corinthians. We have continued to live stream services, and that will continue into the future. We also moved our evening service into the hall from November 2022, and that is creating a lovely relaxed atmosphere week by week. The **music group** continues to strive to provide music that enables the congregation to praise and worship God. We are very thankful for the small, dedicated team of **sound men** who are essential to ensure the sound the band is well balanced, and our team of **Streamers** , who make sure the internet behaves itself. Our **bell ringers** continue to encourage us into worship, and we are grateful that they have been able to resume ringing. Our thanks go to our musicians, power point operators, sides people, sound team, coffee and tea makers, tidy uppers, creche helpers and heating keeping going-ers (and many others) who contribute so much to make sure we can meet together as God’s people every Sunday. James Hughes ## **Children’s and youth work** This year we have focused on building stronger relationships with our surrounding schools and families. We’ve maintained our regular once a week assembly with William Gilbert and have been a part of their services throughout the year. We have also introduced family evenings with a quiz night in late October with the goal of further reaching not just our young people but their parents too. Every Sunday we run Sunday Club for 3-11’s and Fuel for 12-14s with our older teens frequently serving in our Youth band or helping with streaming. Ignition our group for 11-18s has changed to a Wednesday and has continued to grow and develop with Bible study, in addition to First Sunday 9 Specials once a month for fellowship during Salt Cafe. We have also taken steps to give access to 1 to 1 ministry for more of our 11-18s. We ran a three-day Holiday Club centred on the story of Adam & Eve in Genesis during August and look forward to expanding outreach with further events/socials to support our children & young people throughout the year. Adam Heaton and James Munro ## **Discipleship and Pastoral Care** Discipleship: A key opportunity for learning together is of course Sunday by Sunday at our weekly church services. However, we also continue to offer various opportunities for further learning and teaching in smaller groups as churches and a benefice. Our **Growth Groups** have continued to meet during the year, studying a range of material including Acts 1 – 5 and also the evangelism training materials produced by the ‘Passion for Life’ (PFL) organisation. If you are not currently involved in a Growth Group and would like to be, please contact either myself or the Vicar. Our benefice **Prayer Meetings** continue to be held on the first Wednesday evening of the month, (either at St Alkmund’s or St Paul’s), where there are opportunities to pray for the life of the church(s) and the benefice and for one another. There are also opportunities to consider at the prayer meeting, specific issues in more detail than is possible during a church service. Do please support this key meeting in the life of our benefice if you can. Our periodic **midweek teaching courses** have continued, with Church History covered most recently. We also encourage the church family to make use of other occasional teaching opportunities organised by third parties; for example the annual ‘Derby Bible Week’ meetings. Our other midweek activities include our **Tuesday Morning** service (which includes Communion once a month) on Tuesday mornings in term time. We also have opportunities for **1-1 bible-study** – if you are interested in this, please contact either myself or the church office. Pastoral Care: Recently we have been trying to undertake more **visits** with more people through visiting them in their homes, or going out for a coffee or going for a walk, etc; organised on an adhoc basis. If anyone feels that they would like a visit from a member of the pastoral care team, please get in touch with the church office and we can make arrangements. We also provide **meals for those in need** , together with a **prayer chain** and also our ongoing **Prayer Ministry after Sunday services** after the morning service at St Alkmund’s **.** Our **Sanctuary** event on Thursday afternoons provides a welcome space for people to come and chat and get support and company. Most recently, our new **‘TOTS’** group gives chance for those caring for younger children to meet and catch up. James Rollin 10 ## **Evangelism and Mission** ## Evangelism Our parish magazines continue to act as a good ‘low key’ evangelism tool for the wider village community and once again my sincere thanks go to our magazine editor Jeff Taplin for his tireless work in producing the magazines for both churches each month. As ever, any suggestions for content for the magazines are always gratefully received. In January 2022, as a follow-up to our various Christmas services (which present a good evangelistic opportunity in themselves), we ran the ‘Hope Explored’ course in the church hall and shortly after that we participated in the nationwide ‘Find Life that Lasts’ mission initiative organised by the ‘Passion for Life’ (PFL) organisation. As reported last year, we have developed an evangelism strategy (which has identified a need for a particular focus on reaching the ‘20s – 40s’ segment we’re currently not reaching as a benefice). As part of this strategy, an Events team has now been set-up to help in organising evangelistic/outreach events and (following the covid-induced ‘pause’ on such activities) we recommenced holding such events towards the end of 2022, including a Quiz Night in November. ## Mission We continue as a church to ‘tithe’ the income we receive in planned giving, supporting various organisations, from other local churches in Derbyshire, to local and national charities, together with support for international mission. The bulk of our benefice’s overseas giving goes to our international Mission Partners; Dan and Vicki, Dr Ted and Rachel Watts, who live and work at the Good News Hospital in Mandritsara, Madagascar; Graeme and Bequi Innes, working at Oastea Domnului, an Evangelical church in Chisinau, Moldova and John & Sian Newton-Webb, who lead a church plant in the city of Sapporo in the north of Japan; plus the Langham Partnership. We will continue to give updates on all our international Mission Partners going forward and do please continue to pray for them and the challenging work the Lord has called them to. James Rollin ## **Operations** Operations covers all the things we do to keep doing all the other things we do: our finances, the website, social media, the office, cleaning, maintenance, working parties, keeping the heating going, and many other areas. Again, as in so many areas of church life, this involves a large group of volunteers, who clean the church (often alone in a cold building), who mow the grass, and generally keep on top of everything. You can see the work Nick Peacock, our treasurer does from the following accounts. Out thanks to all our many, many unsung volunteer heroes. 11 ## **Treasurer’s report for the year to 31 December 2022** The church financial position has worsened in the last 12 months. The operating deficit in 2022 was £29,534 after a surplus of £5,220 in 2021. The main causes of this unplanned net loss of income/ rise in expenditure are as follows: |1)|Flood defences of £12,634 offset by a grant (£4,275) and insurance (£1,821).|+£6,538| |---|---|---| |2)|Planned giving -primarily gift aid claim|-£6,740| |3)|Second youth worker cost £9,400 offset by the proceeds of the gift day of £6,450|+£2,950| |4)|Parish magazine|+£3,500| |5)|Church roof repairs|+£1,650| |6)|Utility bills|-£1,390| |7)|Fees from weddings/ funerals|+£2,500| ||**Total**
|**+£17,490**| This deficit is then added to the planned deficit of £10,250 plus some lower donations, leads to the operating deficit of £29,534, but an even bigger deficit of £34,750 compared with 2021. This leaves unrestricted cash at the start of 2023 at £39,185. Without a significant change to income or expenditure in 2023, the forecast unrestricted cash at the end of 2023 will be only £15,437. Nick Peacock ## **Safeguarding Report** The work of safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults within the church continues to operate relatively smoothly. We currently have 63 people in the church family with valid DBS certificates enabling them to work with the above groups. During 2022, four people with DBS certificates either moved to new churches or stepped down from their roles, but six new people came onto the list for the first time while six existing certificates were renewed. The overall number of people with DBS certificates is still a relatively healthy number for a church of our size, representing more than half of the regular congregation. The move from five-yearly to three-yearly renewals will inevitably mean more work at our end but more people are being encouraged to sign-up to the automatic renewal process. A total of 11 certificates are due for renewal this year with 29 due in 2024. While Paul and Diane (as safeguarding administrator) have focused on keeping the DBS process running smoothly, Gill has continued to look after safeguarding training and has helped facilitate those unable to access online training to attend the face-to-face training sessions organised by the Diocese. 12 As we go forward, we continue to pray for God’s protection on our children and vulnerable adults, and on all of us in our relationships with each other. Paul and Gill Linford, Parish Safeguarding Officers ## **Health and Safety.** We continue to keep a record of accidents, which are reported to the PCC as appropriate. I am pleased to report that there have not been any Health and Safety incidents reported in the last period. There is one outstanding Health and safety issue to address. After the flood the fire detection system in the kitchen was removed and not replaced. Although the new extractor hood in the kitchen is an enhanced safety feature, we are seeking to replace this additional system. John Oakley 13 PAR(X:HIAL (-HI1RC:11 C'()IINC.'IL OF ST ALl¥MIIND, DiITrTr-IELD STATE.MEYT ()F FINkN(."IAL A<'TIN'ITIES rt**l•trd *•d appY•w For the >t*r ended 31st Dtcembtt 21122 14 PARQCHIAL CHIIRCH COIINCIL OF ST ALKMIIND. D(!FFIELD STATEI¥IEYT OF FIN.4NC'IAL AIYII'ITIES For the i'e*r e•ded 31 Deeember 2022 T(PTAL TrTINDS Uwe4tr1rted Re￿kIl￿ F¥ndJ 2•22 IN('OhiiNI: RE￿Il￿{.L8 J*) 18lJ85 4249 186.134 201.r24 l•cornthx resouKesfv• I￿1¥,￿tI fouwifj ¢*Jects 13J85 13J85 5.457 Jd) 3.486 4e) 12 6.612 TOTAI. IYCOM1￿C. RESOI"RCLS 4.?49 ?10.674 RESQIIRf.FS I"SfD 3(•) b) 2Q180 2239 22.419 20J40 4Jfthecknh 425 193.071 3(¢) d) 21751 910 23.￿1 18J07 TOT.4L RE%OI"R('.E% iISED ?35 177 3.574 ?0? 455 130258) 724 (241.534) 5220 I￿5 AYD ILO%SESI IT*l'LSTNIEYTS 10.C4XJ To.( 51bl IOJ07 NET NIOI'E.METhT nlliDS 1302581 13.W 133.rkn) 15J27 BALANCES BIiOLGHT FORWARDAT I JAhWARY 20221_)￿) I I 135.833 41R.4 BAL4hCES f.4RRIED FOIIM'ARD .4T JI DECEMBER 1O2111O2J 67J96 331185 433.917 15 PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST ALKMUND, DUFFIELD BALANCE SHFET AT 31 DECEMBER 2021 Pi•l* 21122 511) S(b) 294.368 49.Q79 J4J.447 294.J68 357.819 CURRRNT ASSETS S￿k 30.011 31348 SI￿￿ tenn drpDSits 68.814 72,446 99J25 103,694 LIABILrrIES.. AMOUNfs FALLING DUK IITniiN ONI YEAR 43.191 (27,526) 56.034 76,168 d** *ft¢r ••¢ y 4th).081 433987 FUNDS 69.433 330.041 256 3J5,731 40).081 433,987 AFvgwlbythe Cknw¢h Couti¢il zo, Z015 16 ## **PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST ALKMUND, DUFFIELD NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS** ## **For the year ended 31 December 2022** ## **1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES** The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 together with applicable accounting standards and the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP). The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. Investment assets are valued at Market value. **Funds** General funds represent the funds of the PCC that are not subject to any restrictions regarding their use and are available for application on the general purposes of the PCC. Funds designated for a particular purpose by the PCC are also unrestricted. The accounts include all transactions, assets and liabilities for which the PCC is responsible in law. They do not include the accounts of church groups that owe their main affiliation to another body or those that are informal gatherings of church members. ## **Incoming Resources** ## Voluntary income and capital sources Collections are recognised when received by or on behalf of the PCC. Planned giving under Gift Aid is recognised only when received. Income tax receivable on Gift Aid donations is recognised when the income is recognised. Grants and legacies to the PCC are accounted for as soon as the PCC is notified of its legal entitlement, the amount due is quantified and its ultimate receipt by the PCC is reasonably certain. Sales of books and magazines are accounted for gross. Funds raised by the Garden Party, Christmas Fair and similar events are accounted for gross. Other income Income from the letting of the parish hall is recognised when the rental is due. Income from investments Dividends are accounted for when receivable. Interest entitlements are accounted for as they accrue. Tax recoverable on such income is recognised in the same accounting year. Gains and losses on investments Realised gains and losses are Unrealised gains and losses are accounted for on revaluation at 31 December or when appropriate. ## **Resources used** Grants Grants and donations are accounted for when paid over, or when awarded if that award creates a binding obligation on the PCC. ## **Fixed assets** ## Consecrated land and buildings and moveable Church furnishings Consecrated and beneficed property is excluded from the accounts by s.96(2)(a) of the Charities Act 1993. Moveable church furnishings held by the churchwardens on special trust for the PCC, and which require a faculty for disposal, are accounted for as inalienable property unless consecrated. They are listed in the church's inventory (which can be inspected at any reasonable time). For inalienable property acquired prior to 2000, there is insufficient cost information available and therefore such assets are not valued in the accounts. No such items have been acquired during the year. All expenditure incurred during the year on consecrated or beneficed buildings, individual items under £1,000 or on the repair of moveable church furnishings acquired before 1 January 2000 is written off. Other fixtures and fittings Equipment used within the Church premises is depreciated on a straight line basis over 3 years. Individual items of equipment with a purchase price of £1000 or less are written off when the asset is acquired. Investments Investments are valued at Market Value at 31 December. Current assets Amounts owed at 31 December in respect of fees, rents or other income are shown as debtors. Realised gains and losses are recognised when investments are sold. Unrealised gains and losses are accounted for on revaluation at 31 December or when appropriate 17 PAROCHI,IL CHIIRCH COIIYCIL OF ST ALKMLIND. DUFFIELD NC)TES TC) TIIE ￿l￿A￿l.1.4L 5TATL.IIE,NT For the t￿led 31 Detember 2022 LNfoMIYG RFSOI".RC'.LS TQTAL FI'YDS 2•21 2D21 ?1rt) I￿1)￿1￿%￿yOwr¢jft￿ fj¢ft Aid 133.166 38hlQ ?7J ?J58 29.ItOS 16.744 4J55 4249 Colk¢tM¥ pkncl at ail 4J55 181.885 186.134 201.7?4 2fb) Other rtsfWf¢¥ 21cJ nsowresfnTrw c￿￿¢&1$ objerts 5J39 0?5 1.821 5.539 3ml Fur￿￿￿ 13J85 13J85 5.457 P•r￿1 ball lellinsx rfk". ￿VertIsIn$ 2279 1207 447 3.486 1.4 ?(eJ Imrsi•ients Pan"sh Hou5t f*1 5.890 722 26 6.61? 6.612 TOTAL IYCOMINf. RESOI."RCES 4.249 219.617 211A475 18 PAROC.HIAL CHIJRCH COIJNCIL OF ST ALKMIJND, DIJFFIELD ()TE.*i '[() THL Tr I%AYC'IAL STATEIIENT** IC"¢Hbtinued) For the i'tgr t￿ed 31 Dtcembtr 2022 RE￿1"R(￿l¥ IISED F¥4ds F¥•d 2•22 2Q21 31aJ atyl ¢Jwitsbk 8XVi•I Chwch 0Vet￿t*s.. . pafTf*ts . 1t1iefa￿ UK cknwc*eA 2239 St*ul8r chB¢iiics lfftd wwisfitioths 2239 21419 ?OJ40 3fb) A¢ththes dtre¢th' cknr 79ts4B 3.673 78th9(> 3.137 3J45 13.731 3.671 1.286 33.149 425 33J74 169 CLbt of*ervi£es 5.89(> 11.761 15.915 13.707 791 786 8.761 15.915 13.707 IOATr5% 3)1￿2 402 537 Chwch maihieti Ythjth Ckn"ktrc￿ xi¥¥ilx* Lpktep TiaÈniD8 & Nb'stsiort 4.701 1257 4.701 Pari¥h hall lJ16 IW_646 425 193.071 166JLK4 31d} Chwrh 910 19.139 1739 1224 559 I6M56 lJ23 fe 1.224 4$9 507 21751 910 23.661 IiJ07 TOTAL RE5O1TRC.LS I'.SED 3.174 ?39.151 -ty5.455 19 PARO(.'HIAL CHIIRCH COIINCIL OF ST ALKMIIND. DIIFFIELD NOTES TU TIIE FINAYC.'IAL S*TATEIIENT51C.omd•ued) For th¢ i'egr ¢￿ed 31 Dtetmber 2022 SIAFF C.05TS 2•22 21 Seerttsri*l & P8rith AMi4ao¢s 14y A584sla 40J98 33.ljo 37J¢ 13.731 FIXED.4&￿T5 FOR IISE BY THK pr.c TOT.4L 5(d) I:ROSS I'.4L11E 01.J44-22 Athjblw 31J l?.'?022 94.IrJ DEPRECIATIO 01-Jao-21 J¥*r 31111.2021 YET I'ALLE 01.1011•122 ?94.3h% 31j11￿22 94.16 I￿￿1t￿L Tr Gmss ofthe P*rtyh H*lL L?67.YMJ. is h￿d gnd is LxM)5idertd io ￿ a f*"restifyw¢ oftht cwreth %'*lue i# of tht propffj. Tht %*lut of P￿5￿ IMMX. L?6J¢6& i& Parish tt>tht rA￿￿￿e priLX. Thi"$ V*¥A t￿l¢ba Joimly by the PCC athl tXLffitld Gitls Inf*ts Rdw(m￿ E¢kntith) its Marih 1999. Tht ￿1 pkn £63.[￿ th¢ Duif*kl Giih wl IRE Trus[ ¢￿tthed U%.0[￿. 2•22 2•21 rrfTher￿ F¥•d Restrlrted Skns ith th CBF¥ Furthl J?9.78 51Lare& %xltsc &i Y¢ar ttsl £49.079 120212713.1 l £63.451 £IO.(m tr￿1*d 63451 20 PAROC.HIAL CHIIRCH COUNCIL OF ST ALKMIIND. DUFFIELD liOTES TU THE FINkNI."IAL STATE.IIEliT5{l."o•￿￿￿ed) For the l'ear eDd¢d 31 Ik¢tmber 2022 ANALI"SLS QF NET L&SETS BS, Fllh"D l."wM¢rkted Resirlrtt Trf•l Fixed ¥s¢ts ?&868 85.756 316J79 14.(ISg 343.417 99J25 CwTrw li￿ib.ti¢S F*1 2•22 2•21 DEBTORS 21 1770 25.11 26J P*riyb .JABILITILS:.4M(XI%TS FALLIliC. DIIE W'ITHIN OliE I'L4R lJ22 2•11 20.1 20J 3th9 P*riyb Hall Cath ¢,fffw Y4wth ￿￿1¢t l J70 1&4 J iht Girls & RE Ttw in tht 25(0) to 3YAIXII tht Yt4Xdiir thc purcb85¢ pri¢¢l. 21 PAROC.'IIIAL CHLIRCH C.'OIILYCIL OF ST ALKMLIND. DLIFFIELD I)TE¢* T() TIIE FI%,IYI"I..IL ST,ITEIIENTS (C.'Mdmued) For the i'tar t￿li.d 31 Dteember 2022 FIThD DKTAIiS- s￿lf￿ puqxw &skry¢d b). tbc C*th ofiht fiy Or F￿Ad Fumd 39 75 914 .714 IIJKH 31 Ikwothr Tr022 lJ67 Ntht.. Tht Btll C￿110￿ oftht Belfry Fuod aod tht Bell Fwd iti ettiitt C*th ofiht fiM* r¥tneral FuAd Fu•d 63.939 the 1.0!3 4.-,10 Bala￿¢ ￿ 31 lkctth_￿?• 49.IV) 22 PAROCHL4L CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST ALKMUND. DUFRELD STATEMENT OF RNANCIAL ACTivrriES For the y••r •nd•d 31 0￿mber 2022 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT Thls reF4Jrton the accowts oltht Pcclor the year ended 31 December 2022. set out on th¢ pre£*dln8 pages xx to Vy15 kn respect olan eXamina￿on carrkd out In accordance wAth the Church Accounfjn¥ Regu￿￿on$ 2006 (the Aeguthlnsl *d section 43 ofthe C￿￿11¢5 Aci 1953 lthe Act). Re5Fective responsibMi¢ie50fthe PCC and the exarn￿r. As ff*mbersol the PCC. you are respon￿ble for prepara￿0[> of the lknanclal State￿nts,. you ¢onsld•r that the •udlt requlretrents of the Re8ulatlons and se¢tlon 43121 olthe Act does notappty. h Is mv re5pons1b1l￿ 10 +ssue thls reporton those fIn￿¢14 state￿nts In a¢¢ord¥Ke the ferff6 ofthe Req￿alOn g¥1s olthls repNI exarrfnaiion was carrled out in accordance wlth the General Direc￿on5 gfven by the Charlty Con*nlssfj¢n under se¢iion 4317llbl of the Aft •nd to be found In the church guldance. 2006 edltlon. That exarninauon Includes a re￿¢W ofthe ac¢ounUng re¢ords kept by the PCC and a coffoari50n of the ￿COUnts wrth those records. It aL%o Snclude5 cansiderlng any unu5ual11•rn5 Dr dk5cloyJres kn the accounts and seeking explaThatlons fromyou a5 trUStee5 concernin8aThy Such rnètter5. The procedures undertrken do not pra￿de all the e¥ldeKe that wotsld be itquired in an consequentty I do not expre55 an audll opln4on on the ￿e￿ 8l¥en ty the aEcoun Ind•p•ndent Ex•nlnerfs statement In ¢¢nne¢ifion tAIth examina¥on. no matter has conp io rry attenthn.. 11 Whlch caus•s rm rea50nabkn t•us• to bell•v• In any materLIl respecl the requlrerrents to keep a¢countlw recordslTr arcord￿e 41 ofthe Acr to Prewe accounts tAthlch &cord whh the accountln8 records and to convty ith the reqUIre￿*￿ts ofthe Artand the Rewhtions hwe not been met 21 to t￿1£h, In my oplnk)n, attenibon shtyJM be dra￿ In order ty enab￿ • proper und@fStandkn8 ofthe accounts to be reached. 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