Seven Saints Team Annual Report and Accounts 2021 ## **THE DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER BOLTON DEANERY** ## **THE PARISH OF SEVEN SAINTS NEW BURY WITH GREAT LEVER** ## Annual Report and ## Financial ## Statements ## of the Parochial Church Council for the year beginning 1st January 2021 and ending 31st December 2021 ## **Ministers** ## **Team Rector:** Rev. Mark Cowling Seven Saints Rectory 130a Highfield Road, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0AJ **Associate Rector:** Vacant position **Team Ministers:** Rev. Alison Comber OLM **Methodist Link** Rev. Darren Garfield **Pentecostal Minister** Rev. Stephen Garner **Evangelism Project Officer** **Bank** The Co-operative Bank Charity Registration Number: 1134133 1 Seven Saints Team Annual Report and Accounts 2021 ## **Parish of Seven Saints, New Bury with Great Lever** The Parish is a single parish Team ministry covering the area of South Farnworth and Great Lever in Bolton; it is part of the Deanery of Bolton and the Diocese of Manchester. It came into being on October 10th 2011 by the joining of the former parishes of Five Saints and SS Simon and Jude’s. The population is approx. 31,000; and there are high levels of deprivation. The Parish is mainly residential with some large council estates and an industrial and commercial corridor along Manchester Road and the northern section of the parish. There are 4 centres of worship in the Team. St Catherine’s Church in Highfield & Community Hall (Anglican/Methodist LEP) St George with St James Church and Hall - Plodder Lane St Michael with St Bartholomew Parish Church SS Simon and Jude’s School, Newport Road Great Lever The Electoral Roll at the APCM in 2018 was 204 |The average Weekly attendance*
was –
over 16’s
Under 16’s
*taken from Statistics for Mission|2015
166
71|201
6
141
60|2017
151
71|2018
168
113|2019
225
157|2020
54
16|2021
140
100| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Report October fgs|||||||| There are 4 church schools in the parish – St James CE Secondary Voluntary Aided, St James CE Primary Voluntary Controlled, St Michael’s CE Primary Voluntary Aided and SS Simon and Jude CE Primary Academy ## **Priorities:** **Priority 1** - We will enhance the attractiveness of our worship communities – offering a range of distinctive congregations and communities (including traditional, modern and family friendly). We will welcome baptism, funeral and wedding families into our church families; and we will ensure that our welcome and activities genuinely show that “no-one is excluded” **Priority 2 -** We seek to deepen the prayer and spiritual life of the parish, and ourselves. We will do this through our collective worship, through being involved in small groups and through our private prayer and study **Priority 3 -** We will maintain and build on our work with children, young people, and young adults. We will resource Messy Church through the staffing transition and beyond. We will ensure that children are welcomed and included at all services, but at the same time we will have good quality alternative worship provision that focuses on children (while welcoming and including adults). **Priority 4 -** We will improve the future viability of the parish through improving our finances and completing repairs and improvements to our buildings. **Mission Statement:** Seven Saints Team aims to be a worshiping, growing and transforming Christian presence at the heart of our community. This Vision will be the focus of all we do – it will inform how we plan our services and other events, how we use our resources (time, buildings, money), how we 2 Seven Saints Team Annual Report and Accounts 2021 pray both collectively and individually, and how we engage with our neighbourhood and the wider world. Web Site: www.sevensaints.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sevensaintsteam/?hl=en Facebook: www.facebook.com/SevenSaintsTeam Twitter: www.twitter.com/SevenSaintsTeam Youtube: Seven Saints **----- Start of picture text -----**
Seven Saints PCC & Meeting Membership 2021
St
Position Catherine's St George's St Michael's SSSJ's
PCC
Andrew Elaine Guest-
Warden Gibbons Mandi Stott Evans Deb Lyons
Deputy Warden Sheila Smith Rob Tyler Anne Cheetham VACANCY
Andrew Elaine Guest-
Synod Gibbons Evans Val Holden
Marion Lesley Margaret Sam
PCC Rep 1 Caughey Durosomo Moulton Bowerbank
Susan Sandra
PCC Rep 2 Stephens Bromley Helen Butler Stella Crank
PCC Rep 3 Tim Goddard VACANCY Kath Crossley VACANCY
Andrea
PCC Rep 4 Gibbons
Stewardship Team/Finance & Standing Committee
Andrew Elaine Guest-
Warden Gibbons Mandi Stott Evans Deb Lyons
Deputy Warden Tim Goddard Rob Tyler Anne Cheetham VACANCY
(Andrew Andrea
Treasurer Gibbons) Jackson Kathryn Fox Peter Lyons
Lesley
Stewardship Rep 1 Tim Goddard Durosomo Kath Crossley Stella Crank
Joy Sam
Stewardship Rep 2 Fairbrother VACANCY Bowerbank
Volunteer Val Holden
Pastoral Action Team
Lesley Elaine Guest-
Pastoral Rep 1 Sheila Smith Durosomo Evans VACANCY
Catherine
Pastoral Rep 2 Lee
Mission Action Team
Andrea Nadia
Mission Rep 1 Gibbons Mandi Stott Margaret Brockie Osypanka
Catherine Deborah
Mission Rep 2 Lee Rob Tyler Kath Crossley Urmston
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Stephen Margaret
Verger/Sacristan Shelia Smith Garner Anne Cheetham Burke
Elaine Guest-
Evans
Joy Sandra Elisha Guest-
Noticeboard Rep Fairbrother Bromley Evans Kerry Jones
Methodist Circuit Andrew
Rep 1 Gibbons NA NA NA
Methodist Circuit
Rep 2 Shelia Smith NA NA NA
Methodist Circuit Joy
Rep 3 Fairbrother NA NA NA
Methodist Youth Andrea
Rep Gibbons NA NA NA
CCPAS Lead Lesley
Gift Aid Sec Stella Crank Recruiter Durosomo
Parish
Safeguarding Mandi Stott
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Electoral Roll Officer: Elaine Guest Evans P. C.C. Treasurer: Lesley Durosomo P. C. C. Secretary: Andrea Gibbons Vice Chair: Stella Crank (Team Clergy are ex-officio on the P.C.C. and the Teams above) ## **PCC REPORT** 2021 was another exceptional year as we dealt with the limiting factors caused by the pandemic. Services were social distanced until August when rules were relaxed. It was good to return to face to face school assemblies, Junior Church and Messy Church. The PCC met 5 times during 2021 to oversee the work of the action teams and to consider major issues within the parish. Lesley Durosomo took over as our Parish Treasurer from Ross Pyle. The Parish was able to pay £13,770 towards the £27,540 Parish Share requested prior to the pandemic by the Diocese. This was again due to the loss of income per the Treasurer’s Report from hall rental and giving. Our 2022 Parish Share assessment is £28,090.80 We continued our online broadcasting of our services and school assemblies via YouTube live for most of the year. We continued operating as a Farnworth and Kearsley Foodbank centre at St Georges on Mondays along with a Job Club and re-started our Mothers and Toddlers Group and Friendly Hour at St Catherine’s. St Michael’s celebrated it’s 170[th] anniversary in September with some special events. 4 Seven Saints Team Annual Report and Accounts 2021 Two of our Wardens, Elaine Guest Evans and Mandi Stott stepped down and we thank both of them for their years of dedicated service to us in this Parish. We also said goodbye to Mike Lusty, our young adult trainee lay minister, who had worked alongside us for 8 months. With the arrival of the new Area Dean, Simon Cook, we started to think about the plans to be part of “Mission Community 4” in the Deanery, including St Matthews Little Lever, the Farnworth and Kearsley Team and St Augustine’s Tonge Moor. In December we received an Archdeacon’s visitation which we received a positive report from and Simon Cook and Keith Lewis presented at our PCC meeting on 14 March 2022. ## **STEWARDSHIP TEAM REPORT** Stewardship Team met 3 times in 2021 to oversee the finances of the parish and the fabric of our buildings. Other areas of finance that we worked on included : - continuing a refurb of St George’s Church Hall and Kitchen in partnership with Third Space Bolton Work and Skills Project - recovering Gift Aid claims. - managing church rental bookings at St G and St C ## **MISSION TEAM REPORT** Mission Team met 1 time in 2021 to lead and envision the PCC on Mission Action Planning after preparation from 2019. As a parish: -We have partnered with Farnworth and Kearsley Foodbank and run a centre on Mondays at St G. We have also got Lottery Funding to run a Job Club along side this. -We have registered as Eco churches with Arocha -run the Alpha course for a number of new believers In addition to the shared Parish plans, we hope to restart our mission activity according to each of our churches specific visions: St Simons – re-opening after the pandemic and consolidating a viable congregation again after 18 months being closed due to the pandemic. St Georges – hosts the St G centre of the Farnworth and Kearsley Foodbank on Mondays. Also running on this day is a St G Job Club and a group Teaching English. Grant Robbins has helped lead an outreach to the Flower Estate called Groundbreakers. St Catherine’s – Urban Outreach Summer Lunch Club at Church for children. Mother and Toddler Group and Friendly Hour on Tuesdays. And ministry to the two Thursday night congregations. St Michael’s – Curating our History -completed phase 1 of a project working with High School children to record interviews and stories with older people to capture 5 Seven Saints Team Annual Report and Accounts 2021 our social heritage -Country Church in a Town project planned to develop conservation in the churchyard and engage the community about Climate and the Environment. St M achieved a Silver Eco Church Award from Arocha -We hope to restart in future Summer Concerts and World Cafe. ## **PASTORAL TEAM REPORT** Pastoral Team across the churches met informally with the Rector and OLM in 2021 to consider ways to follow up and care for people during the pandemic. The WhatsApp groups for the churches were very helpful to keep connected and the Prayer Chain for prayer support We continued to pray for and visit the sick and the housebound, and where appropriate to take home communion. Our Rector completed training for the Kentsugi Hope Mental Health Course for churches with a view to running it in 2022. ## **DEANERY SYNOD REPORT** Parish reps (Val Holden and Elaine Guest Evans) have been our Deanery Synod reps. ## **METHODIST CIRCUIT REPORT 2021** - Report not available Ministers Revd D Garfield Revd P Brown Revd T Sibanda ## **SAFEGUARDING OFFICERS REPORT** Our Safeguarding Officer is Deb Lyons and Diocesan Church Safeguarding Training has been received for Safeguarding leads over the last 12 months. We are happy to note that no safeguarding issues have been brought to our attention this year. We have an up-to-date register of all of the people who need DBS checks and when they received their last training. ## **Seven Saints Treasurers Report 2021** See report from Lesley Durosomo PCC Treasurer. Signed by Team Rector: Rev. Mark Cowling Date: 17 April 2022 6 ## Seven Saints, Bolton ## Statement of Financial Activities ## **Financial Year:** 2021 ||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Prior Year| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Incoming Resources|||||| |Donations & Legacies|46,990.27|3,520.00|0.00|50,510.27|33,675.89| |Charitable Activities|16,630.25|8.47|0.00|16,638.72|24,739.81| |Investments|219.90|0.00|0.00|219.90|211.98| |Trading Activities|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| |Other|1,229.05|9,233.37|0.00|10,462.42|18,499.05| |Total incoming resources|65,069.47|12,761.84|0.00|77,831.31|77,126.73| |Resources Used|||||| |Charitable Activities|52,770.35|0.00|0.00|52,770.35|38,336.65| |Raising Funds|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| |Other Activities|11,289.24|13,132.20|0.00|24,421.44|18,027.74| |Support|492.80|6,779.99|0.00|7,272.79|2,610.00| |Total resources used|64,552.39|19,912.19|0.00|84,464.58|58,974.39| |Net Incoming / Outgoing Resources (before transfers)|517.08|-7,150.35|0.00|-6,633.27|18,152.34| |Fund Transfers In|20,411.34|2,362.38|0.00|22,773.72|38,986.62| |Fund Transfers Out|20,093.46|2,680.26|0.00|22,773.72|38,986.62| |Net Incoming / Outgoing Resources (before gains/losses)|834.96|-7,468.23|0.00|-6,633.27|18,152.34| |Investment Gains (or Losses)|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| |Net Incoming / Outgoing Resources (before Asset Revaluation)|834.96|-7,468.23|0.00|-6,633.27|18,152.34| |Asset Revaluation|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| |Net Movement of Funds|834.96|-7,468.23|0.00|-6,633.27|18,152.34| |Total Funds Brought Forward|45,066.58|69,609.89|0.00|114,676.47|96,524.13| |Total Funds Carried Forward|45,901.54|62,141.66|0.00|108,043.20|114,676.47| |Represented By|||||| |Seven Saints (Unrestricted)|10,579.19|0.00|0.00|10,579.19|11,302.28| |SSSJ (Unrestricted)|1,178.75|0.00|0.00|1,178.75|829.87| |St. Catherines (Unrestricted)|1,823.94|0.00|0.00|1,823.94|1,290.41| |St Georges Building Fund (Restricted)|0.00|11.25|0.00|11.25|2,413.79| |St. Michaels (Unrestricted)|5,542.68|0.00|0.00|5,542.68|2,780.65| |St. Georges with St.James (Unrestricted)|3,198.98|0.00|0.00|3,198.98|5,994.93| |TMCP (St Catherines) (Restricted)|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| |St James Churchyard Account (Restricted)|0.00|26,385.94|0.00|26,385.94|26,621.51| |St Georges with St J Designated (Designated)|6,650.19|0.00|0.00|6,650.19|7,142.99| |St Michaels Churchyard Appeal (Restricted)|0.00|1,487.73|0.00|1,487.73|492.83| |Grave Yard Maintenance (Designated)|10,660.45|0.00|0.00|10,660.45|10,441.74| |Church Yard Legacy (Restricted)|0.00|20,000.00|0.00|20,000.00|20,000.00| |Insight - Football (Designated)|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| Powered by ExpensePlus Generated at 06:22 on 09/02/2022 Page 1 of 2 ||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Prior Year| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Seven Saints Toddler Group (Restricted)|0.00|541.14|0.00|541.14|1,200.00| |St Michaels Organ Fund (Restricted)|0.00|4,668.09|0.00|4,668.09|4,634.72| |St Michaels Renovation Designated (Designated)|5,308.04|0.00|0.00|5,308.04|5,308.04| |Job Club (Restricted)|0.00|991.38|0.00|991.38|5,316.74| |Heritage Project (Restricted)|0.00|866.30|0.00|866.30|8,930.30| |Petty Cash (Unrestricted)|-24.33|0.00|0.00|-24.33|-24.33| |Ground Breakers (Restricted)|0.00|2,117.44|0.00|2,117.44|0.00| |Community Champions (Restricted)|0.00|2,810.01|0.00|2,810.01|0.00| |Messy Church & Family Activities (Designated)|983.65|0.00|0.00|983.65|0.00| |Stafng Support (Restricted)|0.00|2,262.38|0.00|2,262.38|0.00| Powered by ExpensePlus Generated at 06:22 on 09/02/2022 Page 2 of 2 Independent Examiner's Report to the PCC I report to the trnsttts on my examination of the accounts of the PCC for the year ¢nding 31, December 2021. Respeetive responsibilitie As the charity trustees of the PCC you are reswnsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act,) I reEN)rt in respect of my examination of the PCC accounts. carried out und¢r sxtion 145 of the 2011 ACL and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the ACL Basts of thts reporL The examination includes a review ofthe accounting records kept by the PCC and a comparison of the accounts with those records. It also includes considering any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provid¢ all the evidence that would be required in an audil and conscquently I do not ¢xpr¢ss an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts. Independent exgmin¢r'$ stgtement. I have completed my examination. I ￿nrimi that no material matters have come to my attention in cotll￿¢t10n with the exan]ination givin8 me cause to believe that in any material respect: l. Accounting records were not kept in respect of the PCC as required by section 130 of the Act. or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records" or 3, the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the forni and content of accounts set out in the Charilies (Accounts and R¢ports) Regulations 2008 other than any requiretllent that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter considered as pan of an independent cxamination. I have no concerns and have eome across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understsnding of the accounts to be reached. SUTCLIFFE F.C.CA Chartered Certified Accountant Centre of Excellence Hope Park Trevor Fosler Way Bradford BD5 8HH Date 13 October 2022