## **Trustees Annual Report and Financial Report** ## **of** **The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of** ## **St Andrew’s Church, Hove** **St Andrew’s Church, Church Road, Hove BN3 2RQ** Registered Charity no. 1134129 **For the year ended 31st December 2021** ## **CONTENTS** ## **Page** - **2 Trustees annual report** - **9 Summary of financial receipts and payments** - **10 Statement of assets and liabilities** - **11 Notes to the annual financial report** - **14 Report of the independent examiner** Website: standrewshove.org Incumbent: The Revd D Henderson 17 Valance Gardens, Hove BN3 Independent examiner: Mr S Laws ACA 41 Coleman Avenue, Hove BN3 5ND Bankers: Barclays Bank Plc, Natwest Plc CBF - Church of England Funds ## **St Andrew’s, Hove Trustees Annual Report for 2021** ## **Our aims and purposes as a charity** The PCC has the responsibility of co-operating with the Incumbent, The Rev'd Dan Henderson, in: - The promotion of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the doctrines and practices of the Church of England; - Promoting in the parish the whole mission of the church, pastoral, social, evangelistic, and ecumenical. In this context, we aim to - encourage all people to Love God and Love Hove like Jesus (our Church Vision based on Matt. 22:36-40) and to reach out to our parish with his message. - give practical and spiritual support and care to people in the parish, from the youngest to the eldest, irrespective of the level of need or, ability to pay; - provide financial support to those in need and to other organisations with similar objectives. ## **What we planned to do to achieve our charitable objectives** In order to fulfil our vision to Love God and Love Hove we see three emphases: To Know Jesus’ voice (studying, learning, developing, deepening, nurturing faith), To Follow his way (living out these things in our lives), and To Share his love (impacting our community for good with our faith). When planning our activities for the year, our incumbent and the PCC have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the specific guidance on ‘charities for the advancement of religion’. The council has complied with the duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016, fully recognising its duty to have due regard to House of Bishops' guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Throughout 2021 & 2022 we aim to develop and launch our new mission action plan to achieve our vision and structure our ministry over the next five years. In 2021 the ministries we discussed, planned and carried out to fulfil our vision and aims included: - Continuing to develop our streaming ministry so that everyone can have access to the services at St. Andrew’s. - Structuring and preaching sermon series’ on Daniel, John and the Apostles’ Creed for nurturing new and existing believers. - Serving our local faith school and other schools by providing weekly collective worship resources online and introducing Zoom assemblies. 2 - Providing assistance to the poor and needy of the parish by creating a food bank collection facility at the church (accessible 24/7) in conjunction with Brighton & Hove City Mission Food Bank and recruiting volunteers to keep this running. - Maintaining the fabric of the church building as a historic centre and focus of life in the city and recruiting volunteers to manage and maintain the churchyard to reduce anti-social behaviour. We also did urgent emergency maintenance on our church tower with a grant won from Historic England. - Completing stage two in our Vision & Giving Campaign for becoming a fully giving funded church. ## **Review of the Year** The full PCC met six times during the year with an average level of attendance of 90%. Meetings have been both via the Zoom platform and in person later in the year. Committees met between meetings and reported on their deliberations to the Parochial Church Council and were discussed where necessary. During the past year some highlights of the work of the PCC and church family included: - Recruiting two new PCC members adding to the commitment and skills of the church leadership. - Putting together a working group to begin considerations for a re-ordering project. - Supporting the School Governor’s committee in recruiting new foundation governors. - Project managing the tower maintenance project. - Beginning our 5 year Mission Action Plan - Restarting and planning various fellowship related events after the pandemic lockdowns. - Launching the ‘Growing Partnerships’ initiative between the church and our linked school and - appointing a PCC school link. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic our Hall closed as a venue in 2020. The PCC have decided to let the hall remain closed for external hire with the exception of Starfish, the after-school club, which serves our school. We hope to revisit the hall as a venue for hire in the future once we are able to fully maintain building and manage the process. The PCC also carried out a project to clarify our contracts with car park users during 2021 so that the administration became more manageable. Our relationship with St Andrew's school continues to grow and we have been able to support the school through the pandemic by creating weekly online video collective worship resources and by hosting Zoom services and assemblies for the school classes to engage with. These have helped to maintain the sense of togetherness and have been gratefully received. They have also used by other schools in our Diocese and highlighted by our Diocesan Education Department. Our PCC have recruited two additional foundation governors for St. Andrew’s School and we will be seeking a further 2 to 3 governors during 2022 to support the Christian ethos and maintain the organisation of the school. 3 ## **What we achieved and how we affected beneficiaries’ lives** ## _**Attendance at worship**_ - The church family welcomes visitors from within as well as outside the parish boundary. Visitors attend by personal choice and, it is our great pleasure to welcome anyone from all walks of life to take part in the life of the church. We contend that voluntary attendance to worship the Lord Jesus Christ, is a major demonstration of the public benefit of our activities. After the mandatory closure of our church building during much of 2020 we reinstated ‘in-person’ services as safely and as soon as we were able to. This was of huge benefit to many people and particularly those who live alone and hadn’t had the regular interaction with others they would normally gain from meeting at church. - The average regular weekly attendance, counted during October, was 85 adults and 41 children. We have been excited to see new people joining the church through the new live-streamed services ministry, many of whom are now attending in person. ## _**Other ministries**_ - We have worked hard during 2021 to keep the children and families in our church engaged, especially while our regular Sunday morning children’s work had not been able to restart. We managed to begin this again towards the end of the year and this has been greatly appreciated by families in our parish. - We have also managed to restart our time of fellowship and refreshments after the Sunday services having had to stop this during the Covid restrictions. This is really important as it provides a time for people to get to know each other more and also for people to support each other, particularly those who are vulnerable, isolated or who do not see many people throughout the week. - We worked hard on safeguarding and risk assessments which meant we could have ‘in-person’ Holy Week and Easter services once again. As with all our services we have continued live streaming to support those in our parish who are not ready to return to the building, but this has also been of benefit to local care homes who have been able to offer their residents a live-streamed church service on Sundays. - As the Remembrance Sunday service in 2020 was restricted to outside singing only we found that the local community actually appreciated this public outside Act of Remembrance and worship. We continued this in 2021 and have decided to do so going forward. This year’s service was again a poignant reminder for our community of all those who gave their todays for our tomorrows. - Christmas is a very special time of celebration where many sections of the community come together to join in the services. Again, with lots of planning and risk assessment, we ensured that we were able to welcome our community into our building to celebrate Christmas together. In addition to this we partnered with Attree & Kent, one of our local funeral directors, to host a Christmas Lights of Love service to allow people to gather to mourn and remember loved ones who had died. This was well attended and provided an important chance for people to grieve, to process all that had happened in the past few years, and also to hear the message of hope Jesus brings in the face of death. - We have also relaunched our youth group which has grown and now serves 22 young people in the parish giving them a safe space for activities, discussion, and mutual support. 4 ## _**Teaching, baptising and nurturing new and existing believers**_ With restrictions, we have only had two baptisms this year, though these were joyful occasions and we were pleased to be able to be part of nurturing the candidates and their families. In 2021 there have been 3 weddings and a further 3 were rescheduled to 2022 due to covid restrictions. We have had 4 funerals in the church building, 4 funerals conducted at crematoriums and cemeteries and 2 burials of ashes. ## _**Evangelism and outreach**_ We have continued our outreach to the school community and this year have appointed a PCC school link which has strengthened our relationship and ensured that the school community is invited to services and events at the church more frequently. We have also concentrated on honing our streamed services, particularly at Christmas and Easter, so we can reach out to a wider demographic as a church. We have run evangelistic marriage preparation and baptism preparation courses which have been gratefully received by all the participants and two couples who came to St. Andrew’s to get married have continued coming and become part of the church. We have not been able to run our Alpha course this year and we have plans to reintroduce this next year as it forms an important part of our Mission Action Plan. We have also opened the church building to a number of ‘level 1’ evangelistic events whereby we can break down preconceptions people hold about coming into a church building. Every Friday night we partner with a local music promoter for a Jazz Night. This benefits the church vision through donations but also helps to break down those obstacles. ## _**Provision of the church building for people to enjoy**_ We continue to battle the anti-social behaviour in the churchyard working with the local police. This year we have brought together a strong group of volunteers to maintain the churchyard as well as partnering with GoodGym Brighton who come once a month to help with this. Together these actions help keep the churchyard a local green space where people can reflect, relax and enjoy. We made emergency repairs to our tower so that we didn’t have to close off the churchyard and to ensure people could safely make use of the church building. ## _**Provision of pastoral care for people living in the parish**_ We have been able to keep in contact with those who are vulnerable or in need of support in our parish using the networks put in place during the first year of the pandemic. We also maintain our meals rota to help people through stages in life such as the first weeks of a new baby or after injuries or illness. We have made our school staff and community aware that the church is open and people are available at certain times for prayer and pastoral support and we have also strengthened links with the Brighton & Hove City Mission particularly through their ‘Care Homes’ team who we partner with. This year we have reintroduced a Friday morning coffee drop-in time. This particularly benefits local people who are lonely and don’t have established support networks. Through this we have provided prayer and listening ears as well as referred people to our partner foodbank and helped to organise housing for someone. ## _**Provision of tangible support to the poor and needy**_ We maintained and improved our collection point for food donations to our local foodbank and a grew the team delivering them. This year we have had fundraising events and services for Christian Aid, Off the Fence and The Children’s Society. We also supported local young asylum seekers from Syria and a number of other places by partners with other local churches and care organisations to organise activities, provisions and support in the local hotels and hostels. 5 Financial Review The church tamily vision is to Love God and Love Hove like Jesus and this vision has infornied our Financial declsion making throu8hout the year. The Impact of the global cov1￿19 pandemic contlnue5 to play a part in how we thlnk about our day to day church finan￿$. Durlng 2021. PCC has Substant￿lIY completed varlous programmes and project works needed to address lon8 terni operatlrq defldts and is operatlng at a surplus. These strurtural chan8es meon that PCC is now much better placed to absorb the cost of unfo￿Seen adverse financl•l circum5tance5 In the future. Net income: The total recelpts on general Un￿strICted funds recel%*d were £126.33812020.' É104.210) and the total payments from general Un￿striCted funds htre £103,492 {2020= £98.7961 which resulted in an operatin8 surplus of £22,84612020- £5,414) all of whkh is detailed In the Flnanclal Report. Charitable Activitles.. The PCC raised £2,21% durin8 the year whlch was used to purchase a new plano for the church. Donations a nd legacies - PGS: As a church family, we ￿08n1$e that by far the best way to glve money back to God's Work In our Parlsh Is by monthly gfvln8 through the Parlsh Giving Scheme IPGSI. PGS donatlons Increased to £43.15712020: £31,491). Accordirely, PGS 8fft •id intreased to £9,91412020.. £7,273). We ralse note of thanks to the Teom at PGS for raisln8 these glft akl clalms for us, as thls frees up our Parlsh Offlce to dedicate more tlme to helpln8 those locally in need. lknrall, total don•tions have Increased by Il% to £75,875. Our Church Glvin8 Ratio. h•$ increased lo 73%. *Church Giving Ratio.. We aim to ful￿ fund our vision to Love God and Love Hove entlrely from our own church family 8ivin8. To help us track our progre55, we define our Church Giving Ratlo as the ratio of our total unrestricted donatlons a5 a proportion of our total unrestricted payments. ITarget - lOO%I Other receipts - Grants.. A total grant of £11,5￿ was recelved from the dlssolutlon of the Hoty Trinlty Trust whlth had been set up by the Hove Deanery to mana8e and disperse of the proceeds from the sale of Hoty Trlnity Church. The bulldlng now setves as a medkal centre for ihe local communlty whkh Includes member5 of our Parfsh. CorOnavin￿ Job Retention Scheme ICIRSI gfants lotalling £3,350 were recelved to contlnue to furlough the role of Church Operations Mana8er. Thls role was made redundant when the CIRS ended. Further grants from the UK Hertta8e Fund totalllng £4.893 were recefrMI for the project of repairs to the churth tower. These works were completed during the year and the church was able to reclaim VAT on these works totallin8 £4,564, which were also directed towards the costs of the project. Sharing the ministry costs of the Diocese of Chichester: The largest expendlture of the PCC was the sum of E68.464 paFd to the Diocese for our share of all churches, Parlsh Mlnlstry CoMs12020: £55.953). In 2021. two years earlier than planned. PCC was able to resume full payment of our share of these costs lar8ety thanks to the Increase in regular monthty congregatbonal giving by PGS. The total of our share of all churches. Parish Mlnlstry Costs relate5 directly to the houslng, support. stipend and penslon costs of the dergy of this parlsh. training of new ordinands. a contrlbution to national church funds and, shared costs of the Christian family thro￿Out the whole diocese, includlng asslstance towards the upkeep of churthes less able to mana8e than oursel¥e& It ￿MaInS an Integral part of our thurch farnity pkn to contlnue to I￿ease the mow that we 8i¥e back to God so that we can fvIPy fund our vlsknn to Love God aThJ Ho¥e. Other charitable costs- UK Heritage: The full and flnal cost of the project to make repairs to the church tower was £25.610 and ih15 amount was fully fvnded by restrlcted 8rants recelved for this purpose. Other charltable costs-Trustee payments and expenses: The PCC also supported the cler8y by payln8 Counc51 Tax of £2,95212020.. £2.812) and for Water and envlronrnental char8es amountin8 to £89312020: £7201 for the Vicarage and other cler8y costs. Mrs Lucy Hu8hes, who Is also a trustee, recel¥ed £3,350 In CJRS payments. Reverend t)an Henderson. as a trnstee, recelved refund of expenses amountln8 to £3,13712020: £2.6111 There were no other payments to persons related to or connected to, the trustees. Other charitable costs Repairs to the fabric of the church building.. Excavatlon In one of the church alsles was necessary io make ￿paIrS to plumbin8 In the church heatlng system whlch contrlbuted to Church repalr costs of £2.SY1912020.. £2.263). Investment Assets.. The value of our Investment assets declined to £117,96212020: £126.158) rtpreSentI￿ the market valve as at 31st December 2021. Balance Sheet.. All of the foregoi￿ ￿ rellerted in our Balance Sheet whlch shows the movement In Yotal bank and dewsit accounts, up from £33.646 In 2020 to £39,845 as at 31st December 2021. Reserves Poliry: Further to a pollcy revlew In 2021. KC has updated Its poliry to rnaintain a balance on the 8eneral unrestrlcied funds whkh equate5 to at least three months of unrestricted payments a5 contln8ency against unforeseen situation5. PCC has substantièlty increased its balance of unrestricted funds to £39,845 as at 31st December 2021 {2020: £16.6971 and is f￿W operatlng in line with this policy. There are a19) investigations on goirya to confirn) rf there are restricted fvnds designated for '8eneral ecclesiastical purpose5. that the PCC could draw on for future investment proiecls. such as the Te- orderin8 of the church buildiry. ## **Structure, governance and management of the charity** The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is registered with the Charity Commission as required by the Charities Act 2011. Its governing document is the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956. During the year the following served as members of the Parochial Church Council: ## **PCC MEMBERS 2021-2022** **Chair:** The Rev’d Dan Henderson **Safeguarding Officer:** ## **Churchwardens:** (Term expires April 2022) Mark Mangan Fiona McConnell Ally Soanes **External Safeguarding Consultant (nonPCC):** Jason Tingley ## **Members:** (Term expires April 2022) Dan Kaufmann Ally Soanes John Beard (vacant) **Electoral Roll Officer (non-PCC):** Mel Cartwright **Ordained Members:** The Rev’d Dan Henderson (Term expires April 2023) George Bartley Lucy Hughes Kathy Du Four Anne Jakeman (Term expires April 2024) Annelies Clarke Nicole Giesl (vacant) (vacant) **Co-opted:** PCC Secretary Sharon Hartnell PCC Treasurer Mark Mangan (Treasurer) **Deanery Synod Representatives:** (Term expires April 2022) Renate Baxter Sue MacFarlane (Term expires April 2023) Mark Mangan Membership of the PCC is determined under the Church Representation Rules and consists of certain ex- officio members (Incumbent), the churchwardens and members of the Deanery, Diocesan or General Synods and 9 members of the church (currently three possible vacancies) who are elected at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM). The congregation are warmly encouraged to stand for election to the PCC and we try to ensure a balance of skills and experience where possible. We thank Mr. Stuart Laws ACA for examining the accounts and all those who have helped to ensure that the finances of the church run smoothly. Also, we thank all of you who give your time and money to St Andrews throughout the year. This Trustees' Annual Report was **approved** by the PCC and signed on their behalf by The Rev’d Dan Henderson, PCC Chairman …………………………………………………………………………………………………… Date......................................................... 17/04/2022 8 St Andre￿S Church, Hove registered chority number 1134130 Summary of Financial Receipts and Payments The flnanclal effect of our actlvtties during the year can be summarised as follow5 Total Totol Genewal.: oes1￿ate11 Fund:. Ertdowed All Fund5 All Fund5 2020 Notes Fund In¢ome and endty*mek)ts from: CharIta￿e Attl¥Atles 2,206 20.268 Donatlons and legacles Investments 75,875 i 75.875 20,217 24.496 6&757 17,683 Other receipts 11.689.: 4,564 8,243 20,399 Total re¢e6ved 126.137 8.243 141.351 127,106 Dbcesao Parfsh Sha 55.953 5alar*s 1710 18.039 3,350 9.039 Church runnlw expenses Tradlni Costs Other Charitsble Co515 19.304 2,171 18.377 1711 11,568 1,711 21.842 3Y,878 Total pald 103,492 25,1921 135,152 104.743 Recon¢illotltrn olfunds.. Net $nCLN￿ or Inel expend1￿re] 22A45 302 116.9491 6.199 22.363 Transfers between funds 302 13021 N*t movemeni In fvnds 23,147 1169491 199 21363 Bank accounts at l January 16.697 16,949 33,646 lJ.283 Bank iccount5 at 31 DecÈmbtr 39,845 39•5 33.646 A&l St Andrew's Church, Hove registered charity number 1134130 Statement of Assets and Liabilities Our financial p)sition at the year*nd was frtoi Totol All Funds 2021 All Funds Fund 202 Notes A55ets: Bankcurrent accounts 39I45: 39W5 33,646 Total bank and deposlt •ccwn 39•5 39.845 33,646 R&P Debtor&' Rentsls Qr Park Leases 3.050 Gfft Ald recoverable 2,500 Total Debtors 3.550 3,550 5.268 C8F Imiestrnent Fund shares 115.577 115,577 2.385 123.802 1356 126,158 Carnlval plc Shareholding In¥estmerf Juets at market VI￿ 2,385 115JTI 117J62 Totsl o55ets 45.780 115577 16L357 165,072 Uabllltle&' Dlocesan Fees 535 '. 535 12c¥) ', 493 '. 2,200 493 M1551on Gfvln8 Total Il•biiiiles TIH8 Flnan¢lal Report for the year erKled 31st Decembef 2021. I￿lUdIng th8 notes follrymng, was approved by Ihe PCC and sKJned on rts b8haW by Revd. Dan Henderson. PCC Chaimian: 1710412022 10 St AndreWs Church. Hove registeredcl>ority number 1134130 Notes to the Annual Financial Report l The finorKial statements olthe PCC have been prepared in accordartt knlth the Charitie5 2011 and ¢uryent Church Accountln8 ReWat10￿, u￿O￿the Recelptsand Pa￿[￿nts ba￿5. 2 Thefollo¥A￿ *s£ets are re¢i)gnlsed ￿ r￿t val￿d kn the ofA¥sets UatI1￿$.. Movable church fumtshlngs held by the thwchwardens on special tnLSt forthe PQ Yequlre a facutyfof thisposal. 3 Anatysls of iotal rect￿ed. Totol AN Funds Al Fund5 Notes FundraI￿n1- FaIrpr￿4$ FundraI￿n8- Pl•no FUndraI￿n8- Other PCC Fees 2J30 768 313 516 2.052 15,781 2.123 2Q,269 31.491 7.273 Ji UR of Churrh f?dltt*slrepeotln81 Us* of church fadlllleslontroffl Totsl Ch•rftabl• Athltkns IOA68 108 1575 20.763 4IIS7 >.914 557 PGS t*￿￿1]0￿$ 43.157 PGSGWtAI¢ ollettions GASDS ContactlessGfvlni fh4SDS 9.914 IA41 3.653 5.611 1676 6,553 Dlreu one of1donat￿A5 Glft •Jd. Man￿l￿alM LeKade5 Planntd GlOn# Ist•ndth8ordersl Tot•1 OoMllon* •nd 5,611 5,156 75075 1&955 3.262 7.253 68.757 13,279 4163 240 75*75 16.95S Use of churth car park Intertst from Investménts PdTrtine Fees Tot•1 In¥•stff•nts Grants- Hove Deanery Grants. ￿SseX Polke 10217 Iix 14217 iiwj 17,682 Grants- UK CIRS JJ50 3.450 16,449 Grants- UK Hema8e Grants-UK LPOW Grants- UK LPOW l Herfta8e Totsl Oth•v rK•lpts 4.56¢ 2U96 4564 IOJ99 T•i•l r•¥e 116331 14L3SI 127,106 St Andrew's Church, Hove reglsteredcharlty number 1134130 Notes to the Annual Financial Report 4 Anatysis of totsl paid.. Unrestrirted T4*al Ttrtol Funds IAM Ntrt tYo¢es•n Parfsh s￿re SS,953 9,039 2.710 146 3350 Courses and ￿angelI$M costs Uti11lles Insurances 146 4.967 4.462 192 4967 4862 192 370 4,745 4.452 773 46D Accountsncy Bank Charye5 CCLI I}￿nce Fk)wers and Deoyatlon5 370 903 1.049 120 Grounds mainten•n¢¢ Office prfntln W•ste collertlon Other expenses Total Churth runnlniexp•nsqs Tridlni Costs Clerw- Coundl Tax cJ•r￿. Other Èxpenses Oeryy. SQ￿te Cover ergy- Vlcarage utlllty bllls Mlsslon 8lvln8 Fundralslngtosts Church plano Church repalr5•VAT rn¢l•im Church Streirnln8S•Nlces Churthyard SerJJrlty Hall rep•lrs Payments- UK Herfta8e Total Other Ch•rft•ble C¢sis 2.171 2,253 2.569 1&039 2.711 2.952 3,137 609 17T 1,837 2.220 2,559 19.204 2.271 2,U12 2.611 348 720 2,645 424 2.253 2,569 18,039 2.711 1952 3.137 893 893 536 536 22lX) 2.2 Z263 Z497 527 517 505 4.056 4.268 21,342 2S.610 39178 liJ68 18,377 Total P￿￿41 103892 25,192 135,151 104.743 12 St Andrew's Church, Hove reg15tered charity number 1134130 Notes to the Annual Financial Report 5 Ststement of bank fund5.' BaL￿n￿5 other Balns 01-J*21 Deslgnotedfunds.. Grants- UK LPOW l Herrtage a)urch Muslcl Plano 4268 2.2C T¢>t¥l Des natad funds 13021 RertrlrtedAunds.' Grants. Sussex Pdke fjrants- UK ORS Grants- UK Herltage 3.350 4,893 3,350 21.342 16,449 Tot¥1 Reslrlrted fvnds J49 8.243 25,192 6 Stalement of In¥eslment ￿ets. Tr•rdfvrs. oth•r 8• al•nc•s 01-J*21 Unrestrkted assets". Carnlval pk 5hartts)Idl 2.3 13B5 Subtotol. Unrestrtrtedossets 29 2.385 CBF RestrIrted¢￿sets.' PCC Stlpend Churchyard Hobley Memo￿)1 School proceeds Brittle Usher rntsslor￿ry fund 48.472 14,923 47,155 11107 L145 13.2201 19911 13.1331 45,252 13,931 44,022 11.303 1.069 1761 Subtotul- COF Restrictedossets I23.￿2 14225) 115,$77 Total In¥estment hsset5 116,158 8,196 117.962 7 The Parlsh sharè to the Chlchester Dbo¢ese Is for the payrnent of aew and other central costs. £68,464 comproses contrlbutlon5 amounting lo ICQ% of ihese costs in 2021. HIstorI￿[ty these costs are calculated net of certain rebate5 and allowances applled by Hove deanery. PCC has resolve(I to make contributlons to co¥er the full gro￿ cost5 In 2022. 13 ## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the PCC of St Andrews’s Church, Hove for the Year Ended 31[st] December 2021** This is my report to the Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish (PCC) of St Andrew, Hove, on the annual report for the year ended 31[st] December 2021 set out on pages 2 to 13. **Respective** The PCC members are responsible for the preparation of the annual reports. The PCC **responsibilities of** members consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the **trustees and examiner** Charities Act 2011 (“the Charities Act”) and that an independent examination is needed. ## It is my responsibility to: 1. examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act, 2. to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and 3. to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. **Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the **examiner’s statement** Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. **Independent** In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my attention **examiner's statement** which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act or • the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Examiner’s signature** ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. STUART LAWS **Examiner’s name** _CAPITALS_ ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 31 March 2022 **Date Relevant professional** …………………………………................ Associate of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales **qualification(s) or body** _if any_ …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 41 Coleman Avenue, Hove BN3 5ND **Examiner’s address** …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 14