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 2022 and ending 31st December 2022 ## **Ministers** **Team Rector:** Vacant Position 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 2022 was 135 |The average Weekly attendance was –
over 16’s
Under 16’s
*taken from Statistics for Mission Report
October figs|2016|2017|2018|2019|2020|2021|2022| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||141|151|168|225|54|140|135| ||60|71|113|157|16|100|101| ||||||||| 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 pray both collectively and individually, and how we engage with our neighbourhood and the wider world. 2 Seven Saints Team Annual Report and Accounts 2021 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 ||**Seven Saints PCC & Meeting Membership 2022**|**Seven Saints PCC & Meeting Membership 2022**|**Seven Saints PCC & Meeting Membership 2022**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |Position|St Catherine's|St George's|St Michael's|SSSJ's| ||**PCC**|||| |Warden|Andrew Gibbons|Mandi Stott|Elaine Guest-Evans|Deb Lyons| |DeputyWarden|Sheila Smith|Rob Tyler|Anne Cheetham|VACANCY| |Synod|Andrew Gibbons||Elaine Guest-Evans|Val Holden| |PCC Rep1|Marion Caughey|Lesley
Durosomo|Margaret Moulton|Sam Bowerbank| |PCC Rep2|Susan Stephens|Sandra Bromley|Helen Butler|Stella Crank| |PCC Rep3|Tim Goddard|Mary Quayle|Kath Crossley|VACANCY| |PCC Rep4|Andrea Gibbons|||| ||**Stewardship Team/Finance & Standing Committee**|||| |Warden|Andrew Gibbons|Rob Tyler|Elaine Guest-Evans|Deb Lyons| |DeputyWarden|Tim Goddard|Rachel Bridge|Anne Cheetham|Sam Bowerbank| |Treasurer|(Andrew
Gibbons)|Andrea Jackson|Kathryn Fox|Peter Lyons| |StewardshipRep1|Tim Goddard|Lesley
Durosomo|Kath Crossley|Stella Crank| |StewardshipRep2|JoyFairbrother|VACANCY||Sam Bowerbank| |Volunteer||||Val Holden| ||**Pastoral Action Team**|||| |Pastoral Rep1|Sheila Smith|Lesley
Durosomo|Elaine Guest-Evans|VACANCY| |Pastoral Rep2|Catherine Lee|||| ||**Mission Action Team**|||| |Mission Rep1|Andrea Gibbons||Margaret Brockie|Nadia Osypanka| |Mission Rep2|Catherine Lee|Rob Tyler|Kath Crossley|Deborah
Urmston| |||||| |Verger/Sacristan|Shelia Smith|Stephen Garner|Anne Cheetham|Margaret Burke| ||||Elaine Guest-Evans|| |Noticeboard Rep|JoyFairbrother|Sandra Bromley|Elisha Guest-Evans|KerryJones| |Methodist Circuit Rep1|Andrew Gibbons|NA|NA|NA| |Methodist Circuit Rep2|Shelia Smith|NA|NA|NA| |Methodist Circuit Rep3|JoyFairbrother|NA|NA|NA| |Methodist Youth Rep|Andrea Gibbons|NA|NA|NA| |Gift Aid Sec|Stella Crank||CCPAS Lead
Recruiter|LesleyDurosomo| |Parish Safeguarding|Deb Lyons|Lesley
Durosomo||| 3 Seven Saints Team Annual Report and Accounts 2021 Electoral Roll Officer: Elaine Guest Evans P. C.C. Treasurer: Lesley Durosomo P. C. C. Secretary: Andrea Gibbons P.C.C Chair Andrew Gibbons Vice Chair: Stella Crank (Team Clergy are ex-officio on the P.C.C. and the Teams above) ## **PCC REPORT** 2022 was another exceptional year as we dealt with resignation of the Team Rector and trying to recover to pre pandemic services. It was good to return to face-to-face school assemblies, Junior Church and Messy Church. The PCC met 5 times during 2022 to oversee the work of the action teams and to consider major issues within the parish. For financial information see the reported accounts Rev Mark Cowling resigned as Team Rector in the summer of 2022 leaving th parish in interregnum. The congregation have worked tirelessly to maintain services With the 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. ## **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 REPORT** 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. 4 Seven Saints Team Annual Report and Accounts 2021 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. St Catherine’s – Urban Outreach Summer Lunch Club at Church for children.. And ministry to the Thursday night congregations. St Michael’s –We restarted in future Summer Concerts and World Café and see the primary school make excellent use of the church for educational visits ## **PASTORAL TEAM REPORT** 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. ## M **ETHODIST 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 supported by Lesley Durosomo 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 PCC Secretary (2024) Lesley Durosomo Date: April 2022 5 ## Seven Saints, Bolton ## Statement of Financial Activities ## **Financial Year:** 2022 ||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Prior Year| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Incoming Resources|||||| |Donations & Legacies|46,289.36|1,340.00|0.00|47,629.36|50,510.27| |Charitable Activities|24,844.56|35.59|0.00|24,880.15|16,638.72| |Investments|8.63|0.00|0.00|8.63|219.90| |Trading Activities|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| |Other|2,545.85|0.47|0.00|2,546.32|10,462.42| |Total incoming resources|73,688.40|1,376.06|0.00|75,064.46|77,831.31| |Resources Used|||||| |Charitable Activities|51,879.42|0.00|0.00|51,879.42|52,770.35| |Raising Funds|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| |Other Activities|4,036.16|3,319.78|0.00|7,355.94|24,914.24| |Support|2,626.00|3,181.66|0.00|5,807.66|6,779.99| |Total resources used|58,541.58|6,501.44|0.00|65,043.02|84,464.58| |Net Incoming / Outgoing Resources (before transfers)|15,146.82|-5,125.38|0.00|10,021.44|-6,633.27| |Fund Transfers In|8,814.25|3,969.54|0.00|12,783.79|22,773.72| |Fund Transfers Out|12,753.00|30.79|0.00|12,783.79|22,773.72| |Net Incoming / Outgoing Resources (before gains/losses)|11,208.07|-1,186.63|0.00|10,021.44|-6,633.27| |Investment Gains (or Losses)|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| |Net Incoming / Outgoing Resources (before Asset Revaluation)|11,208.07|-1,186.63|0.00|10,021.44|-6,633.27| |Asset Revaluation|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| |Net Movement of Funds|11,208.07|-1,186.63|0.00|10,021.44|-6,633.27| |Total Funds Brought Forward|45,901.54|62,141.66|0.00|108,043.20|114,676.47| |Total Funds Carried Forward|57,109.61|60,955.03|0.00|118,064.64|108,043.20| |Represented By|||||| |Seven Saints (Unrestricted)|8,110.82|0.00|0.00|8,110.82|10,579.19| |SSSJ (Unrestricted)|1,267.39|0.00|0.00|1,267.39|1,178.75| |St. Catherines (Unrestricted)|1,404.80|0.00|0.00|1,404.80|1,823.94| |St Georges Building Fund (Restricted)|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|11.25| |St. Michaels (Unrestricted)|12,455.62|0.00|0.00|12,455.62|5,542.68| |St. Georges with St.James (Unrestricted)|11,150.78|0.00|0.00|11,150.78|3,198.98| |TMCP (St Catherines) (Restricted)|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00| |St James Churchyard Account (Restricted)|0.00|26,177.49|0.00|26,177.49|26,385.94| |St Georges with St J Designated (Designated)|4,824.96|0.00|0.00|4,824.96|6,650.19| |St Michaels Churchyard Appeal (Restricted)|0.00|845.78|0.00|845.78|1,487.73| |Grave Yard Maintenance (Designated)|10,663.52|0.00|0.00|10,663.52|10,660.45| |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 17:37 on 05/02/2023 Page 1 of 2 ||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Prior Year| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Seven Saints Toddler Group (Restricted)|0.00|541.14|0.00|541.14|541.14| |St Michaels Organ Fund (Restricted)|0.00|4,668.56|0.00|4,668.56|4,668.09| |St Michaels Renovation Designated (Designated)|5,308.04|0.00|0.00|5,308.04|5,308.04| |Job Club (Restricted)|0.00|944.16|0.00|944.16|991.38| |Heritage Project (Restricted)|0.00|866.30|0.00|866.30|866.30| |Petty Cash (Unrestricted)|-24.33|0.00|0.00|-24.33|-24.33| |Ground Breakers (Restricted)|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|2,117.44| |Community Champions (Restricted)|0.00|1,833.81|0.00|1,833.81|2,810.01| |Messy Church & Family Activities (Designated)|1,948.01|0.00|0.00|1,948.01|983.65| |Stafng Support (Restricted)|0.00|2,262.38|0.00|2,262.38|2,262.38| |St Michaels Energy Grant (Restricted)|0.00|977.75|0.00|977.75|0.00| |St George with St J Energy Grant (Restricted)|0.00|812.93|0.00|812.93|0.00| |St Catherines Energy Grant (Restricted)|0.00|1,024.73|0.00|1,024.73|0.00| Powered by ExpensePlus Generated at 17:37 on 05/02/2023 Page 2 of 2 IndfpEndYllt E¥gmiDcr's Reporttothe PCC l til the ITu51Lw ￿MmIn&t1￿1) tsft￿ PCC for thrytwthlin831 D￿ernbEr2022. 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