PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL (PCC) OF ALL SAINTS’ FARINGDON
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AIMS and PURPOSES
All Saints’ PCC is responsible, in co-operation with the Vicar, for promoting the whole mission of the Church – pastoral, evangelistic and social – within the ecclesiastical parish, and for maintaining the fabric of All Saints’ Church and Coach Lane cemetery.
The PCC of All Saints’ Faringdon is a corporate body established by the Church of England and operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure. The PCC exceeds the limits for exception from registering with the Charity Commission and is therefore registered under the name of “The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of All Saints’ Faringdon” (Charity No. 1134401).
The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. The membership of the PCC consists of the Vicar, Licenced Lay Ministers, and Curate, Churchwardens, Deanery Synod representatives and members elected by those members of the congregation who are on the electoral roll of the church. All those who are members of our congregation are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC.
The PCC is aware of the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit in “The advancement of Religion for the Public Benefit” and have regard to it in the administration of the parish.
The PCC believes that, by fulfilling its responsibility to work together with the Vicar and co-operating in all matters of concern and importance for the promotion of the whole mission of the Church, it provides a benefit to the public, both to individuals and to society as a whole, by: providing resources and facilities for public worship, pastoral care and spiritual, moral and intellectual development, both to its members and for anyone who wishes to benefit from what the church offers; promoting Christian values and the service by members of the church to their communities.
To facilitate this work, it is important that we also maintain the fabric of both All Saints’ church and the Barber Rooms.
This review summarises the life of All Saints’ church during the calendar year 2021 and highlights a number of events and activities. Again this year, those responsible for many of the church’s activities have been invited to contribute.
The PCC met 6 times during 2021, with an average attendance of 16 (out of 20) members. During the year the following served as members of the PCC, ex-officio, elected or invited to attend.
Ex officio members:
The Vicar and Chair Revd Dr J Stephen Bellamy
Licensed Lay Minister Helen Wilson Graham Weller
Church Warden Linda Ritchie
Deanery Synod Reps
Peter Foot John Seedell Margaret Starr
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Elected Members (members are elected for three years)
Until APCM 2022 Julie Campbell Elaine Cox Immy Newcome Katie Foot Until APCM 2023 Emma Kate Crebbin Joanne Raybone Chris Horley David Wilson Until APCM 2024 Jim McGowan Helen Jackson Mark Jackson Laura Bond Hon Treasurer David Wilson Hon Secretary Mandy Hathway
Vicar’s Report
2021 was another taxing year with the ‘stop/start’ levels of lockdown and restrictions because of COVID preventing any smooth transition to a new post-COVID ‘normal’, though this will, hopefully, emerge as 2022 progresses. But amidst all the challenges I want to pay tribute to the hard work and dedication of many people who have cheerfully kept us serving God, his people and our community through All Saints’. Our ‘COBRA’ group merit particular mention as they have met on Zoom weekly and now fortnightly from the first lockdown onwards. They’ve offered much needed support, advice and help in dealing with almost weekly challenges concerning our ministry during a pandemic. So, a huge thank you to those who have been part of that group – Linda Ritchie, Jim McGowan (until June), Helen and Dave Wilson, Graham Weller, Margaret Townsend (until October), Alison Scott (since October), Paul Walker (until June) and Josey Speller (since October). This group have monitored the changing situation and helped us tailor our opening for services to enable as many of us as possible to be at worship safely in such difficult times.
Jim McGowan stepped down as churchwarden in June after 4 years of extremely committed service in this role, but we are fortunate indeed to have his continued help as an assistant warden and as the leader of our Fabric group taking care of our buildings.
Linda Ritchie has worked tirelessly – as our only churchwarden since June - a situation we hope to rectify at the APCM this year. Words fail me in adequately describing just how hard and how willingly Linda has worked to facilitate the smooth running of All Saints and its continuing ministry and mission. Her involvement in so many aspects of All Saints’ life as churchwarden has entailed countless hours’ work both on Sundays for services and during the week. But in addition to this she does an excellent job in overseeing the applications for memorials in Coach Lane churchyard, organising and training assistant wardens, and, every other week, editing and posting the online service (many thanks too to Edward Bond who shares this editing responsibility so faithfully). Linda also oversees our website, verges at funerals, can set up the sound desk, makes sure we have cleaners employed to look after our buildings, monitors our safety with a CO2 recorder . Oh - and she helps to lead a homegroup as well and probably does a thousand more things
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quietly but faithfully that I and most of us never realise. We really do need to record our deep gratitude to Linda and ensure that this year we do what we can to share the load so that we can expand our ministry together without undue burdens being carried by just a few folk. I want also to thank Jim and Linda’s spouses Julie and Mark whose willing support has been invaluable.
Linda has mentioned in her report the loss of several good friend of All Saints’ in 2021 and to that number have been added this year Judith Couch and George Abell – please pray for their families and friends in their loss.
Thank you to our relatively new band of Assistant Wardens, who have been a great help in enabling us to welcome and provide for everyone on Sunday mornings and to spread the load of what needs doing week by week.
Alongside the much appreciated ministries of Licensed Lay Ministers Helen Wilson and Graham Weller, we have benefitted again from the dedication, in retirement, of Barbara Mapley, Paul Winchester and Dick Whittington and are delighted to have recently welcomed Chris Etherton and Jeremy Mais as ministers with permission to officiate. The Standing Committee - myself, churchwarden Linda Ritchie, treasurer Dave Wilson, and secretary Mandy Hathway- have continued to meet by Zoom, as has our PCC.
A big loss this year was having to say goodbye to our curate Paul Walker after his 3 years with us. We hugely miss him and Sheree, Charlotte, Harriet and Alice. Because of restrictions in July, I was the only person able to be present at Paul’s institution as Vicar of at All Saints’ Dedworth, Windsor. The service was livestreamed so many of us watched from Faringdon and we were able to send a video of our farewell applause and thanks at Paul’s last service here. It’s good to hear that the Walkers have settled in well to their new surroundings and that Paul is enjoying being a Vicar. Their move has certainly inevitably added several hours a week to my workload and necessitated the burning of more midnight oil than is healthy.
On the positive side, it has been a great joy to welcome to All Saints’ Josey Speller, along with her husband Chris, and also Chris’ son Toby. Josey brings a wealth of experience of church-based work with children, teenagers and families. Josey has come as our Children and Families Leader, half funded by the Diocesan Development Fund. Mid-pandemic is not an easy time to arrive, but after Chris and Josey were married in September, and she moved up to Swindon, Josey has worked with great dedication to re-establish Junior Saints on Sunday mornings, after we’d had no children’s work for 18 months. An important goal is to ensure that we have enough volunteers to enable us to run 2 Junior Saints groups – one for 4 to 7s and another for children aged 7 to 11, so that we again begin properly to serve ‘junior’ age children. In addition, Josey is working on enabling the Little All Sorts baby and toddler group to restart after Easter 2022 and has offered to help lead the FROG group for teenagers which needs to get back to meeting regularly again. Josey has also made some good links with Faringdon Junior School, who enjoyed a preChristmas visit to All Saints’ to discover the real meaning of Christmas and will hopefully make a similar trip to discover what Easter is all about. Josey devised a nativity trail of Christmas characters around more than 20 shops in the centre of Faringdon in December and she is running a Zoom Lent group/ book club this Lent.
Amongst this year’s other highlights have been: our second ‘Ice Cream Sundae Sunday’ at the start of September when an ice cream van came up the church drive to offer everyone a free ice cream after the All Age Service; the Sanctuary Day at All Saints’ attended by 63 people in October at which Rev Stewart Fyfe from Resource led us so helpfully – have travelled all the way from Cumbria to be with us for the weekend – thanks to Barbara Mapley for helping to set this up; the number of people coming back to
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membership of home groups – by Zoom but also in person as we now have 6 groups meeting in daytime and evening, with around 60 members in all.
After a period of lockdown early in 2021, we enjoyed being back together at worship from April 11[th] , meeting at first for one service before, in September, moving to a traditional Book of Common Prayer Communion at 9am and a more informal main morning service at 10.30am. While attendances are, as is the case across the country, about 30% down on pre-COVID levels, it has been wonderful to welcome between 20 and 30 newcomers to All Saints’ with more new faces appearing regularly. In several cases it has been the availability of online worship that has helped guide new friends to join us. Therefore, while in all honesty it is often exhausting to provide online services week after week together with in person ones, we must keep providing this opportunity for those who either cannot manage to come to church anymore, or are worried about returning – or are beginning to seek out a place that may become their spiritual home.
We thanked Margaret Townsend in October for all she did as our Administrator and were very pleased to welcome Alison Scott into this vital role. Alison now works for 4 mornings a week, Monday to Thursday, in the church office. Thank you also to the many who keep our buildings looked after and maintained – Geoff Edgington, Mark Jackson, Mark Ritchie are amongst those working with Jim McGowan on this. Jeni Summerfield has at last been able to work with the Flower Guild again on providing flowers in church to our great benefit. Wendy Tynan works hard to keep our churchyard in Coach Lane in good order. We are well served by Caroline and others who have been involved in cleaning the church building and Barber Rooms. Chris Raybone has served us with great consistency and commitment on our excellent new sound and AV desk – more volunteers needed to help please – full training will be given!
As we look ahead into less restricted times, we have been learning that in order to begin to reach new people with the good news of Jesus we need to be more flexible and ready to change and move forward. The PCC are keen to resume, where COVID made us stop, the discovery of what changes other churches have made in their buildings to improve their fitness for 21[st] century mission. We hope to visit churches that have re-ordered soon with a view to learning what God might be calling us to do by way of adapting our building for more flexible and fruitful use.
Thank you very much to everyone at All Saints’ (mentioned above by name or not!) for keeping on keeping on through the enormous challenges of the last two years of pandemic. Let’s continue to be the welcoming church that God has taught us to be and keep working to fulfil the vision he has given us to be ‘connecting people with Jesus, sharing his love in our everyday lives’. In a precarious world and in a time beset by worrying increases in the costs of living, the importance of anchoring ourselves to the rock, the Lord Jesus Christ and building on him alone cannot be overstated.
Financial Review for 2021 – David Wilson
Total receipts on unrestricted funds were £128,644 of which £85,547 was unrestricted planned voluntary donations, and a further £19,653 was from Gift Aid. Restricted income and donations (including gift aid) of £16,342 were also received. No legacies were received in 2021.
£115,559 was spent from unrestricted funds to promote the whole mission of the church within the parish and beyond. Our diocesan parish share of £70,112 was paid in full (£68,885 after rebates received for paying by direct debit and because the deanery share for the first half of the year was paid in full before the end of July). Donations to missions and charities of £14,360 were made.
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Overall funds increased by £48,728 during the year. There was a reasonable increase in the General Fund of £14,085 (helped by having significantly less repairs and maintenance work than previous years). Restricted funds also increase by £14,982, primarily due to gains in investment assets. Designated and Endowment funds also both increased in value due to slight increases in the value of funds invested in the stock market.
PCC Reserves Policy – David Wilson
The PCC needs to hold reserves as it has fixed (and usually rising) expenditure each year to cover expenditure such as Parish Share, Parochial expenses, Insurance, Repairs and Maintenance, Gas/Electricity/Water to support church services with no guaranteed income.
The risk of income not arising each year to cover these core expenditure items is small (there are a reasonable number of committed/planned givers who provide a good base level of income each year).
The PCC believe that reserves amounting to between three and six months of annual expenditure on the items above is reasonable to cater for a downturn in income as well as providing an appropriate level of funds to cover expected buildings expenditure. This would equate to around £30,000 to £60,000 on 2021 general expenditure.
The PCC currently has reserves (unrestricted and designated) within this range which is pleasing given the situation at the end of last year.
It is our policy to invest the short-term investment fund balances with the CCLA Church of England Deposit Fund, and the remainder typically in the CCLA Church of England Investment Fund.
Church Fabric Report - Jim McGowan
During the past year, two significant jobs have been completed – roofing repairs and the installation of external CCTV cameras. The roofing repairs have been ongoing for almost three years and in the summer of 2021 the final section (focussing on the north side of the church, including replacement rooflights over the North Aisle) was completed. Last autumn the final two CCTV cameras were fitted on the church, with the result that we now have five cameras covering the church and Barber Rooms – we hope that this will help to reduce the level of vandalism / anti-social behaviour.
We’ve started to look at replacing the main noticeboard (at the bottom of the church path); we’ve made some good progress on this, but now need a small amount of input from someone with graphic design experience. We’re also looking for a new Health & Safety officer – please let Jim know if you are aware of any potential volunteers for either of these areas.
In the past couple of months, we’ve acquired a new church ladder – which is a huge step up on our old ladder. The new ladder will have a number of benefits, including producing significant cost savings on changing light bulbs. A very small change (but with important benefits) has been the installation of a mailbox outside the Barber Rooms – which means that the church became eligible for our first-ever postcode! Our official postcode is SN7 8AD.
Just before Christmas, we had our regular electrical inspection – we knew that quite a lot of remedial work was required and we were not too surprised when our electrics were judged to be “unsatisfactory”. We have yet to receive detailed cost estimates for the work, but we know that we will have to address these issues within the next 12-18 months.
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Before the pandemic, we had some very early discussions on potential ideas for reordering and, with the help of the diocese, we had identified a few churches that had recently completed similar projects. We had arranged for PCC members to visit these churches, but that had to be postponed; we’re hoping to rearrange the visits to two or three churches within the next few months.
Thank you to everyone on the Fabric Group for all their work over the past year – we are extremely grateful for all that you do to look after our wonderful buildings.
Coach Lane Cemetery – Wendy Tynan
Restrictions due to Covid has made maintenance more difficult and spasmodic; in that it has only been possible to remove leaves and fallen wood once fortnightly cramming each one of our four brown bins to full capacity, wreaths have been piling up, the edges of the gravel path becoming over grown. Support from our contracted grass cutter has necessarily been disappointing with other commitments taking priority, but parishioners tending family graves have volunteered time and mowers to keep the grass paths cut and graves easily accessible throughout.
The old cast iron gates, valued between £5-£6,000, and in danger of deterioration, were removed by Nick Gordon, who had them blasted, treated and finally repainted. The final fitting of the gates and refitting of the vertical bolts will take place after the repair of the stonework of the top one third of one of the supporting pillars, to be rebuilt by Andy Radcliffe. This repair was contracted last year, but unlikely to be done until late Spring.
The walls of this corner of the cemetery are cause for grave concern due to the outward pressure of the soil piled against and behind the large ash growing there. A breach occurred in the boundary wall of the adjoining cottage, made safe by Mark Jackson until it could be rebuilt. After discussion with Jim McGuire the owner of the cottage very kindly arranged for his contractor to do the work at no cost to us. Cracks are appearing in the wall facing outwards into the road. Removal of the soil is a top priority and scheduled for the end of March. Soil from this corner will be used to raise the ground level of graves where tombstones are toppling because of topsoil removal in earlier years. Jim has arranged for grass seed to be incorporated in the mix to regreen the area.
One third of the hedge plants in the back hedge have been cut back. The remaining two thirds will be cut back successively in years two and three. The aim is to thicken the hedge base which has become leggy. New plants will be put in if required.
Linda Ritchie has been renumbering cremation plots for ease of identification of both the old and new graves. She tirelessly updates and records location of cremations and burials in the cemetery as these occur.
I wish to record my warmest thanks to all those who have helped in so many ways over the past year.
Deanery of the Vale of the White Horse – Peter Foot
For the first time in at least two decades, the Deanery was not able to meet its Parish Share commitment in full. Thankfully, St Mary’s and All Saints’ churches were able to fund their obligation in 2021 but many smaller churches in the deanery have found the combination of an ageing population, Covid and other complications to have really cut into church income. The Diocese has responded by not increasing the amounts to be collected for 2023 and has assured churches that no penalties will be applied to
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congregations which, for no fault of their own, fall short by the end of the accounting period. In the meantime, the deanery has offered to help benefices with difficulties by assisting parishes to reach the best distribution of parish share within a benefice. This has been very fruitful to date.
Sometimes, it can seem that Parish Share dominates the work of the Deanery. However, our Deanery has taken on tasks that, certainly for the smaller churches, are best handled centrally. Two examples will illustrate this. Faringdon Learning Trust provides education across the Vale at primary and secondary levels. In order to raise the profile of Christian education, especially at secondary level, the deanery is actively engaged in getting Trust to employ a schools worker/Chaplain as part of the everyday working life of the schools. To that end, our Area Dean, the Revd Jason StJohn Nicolle is both a Foundation Governor and active RE teacher at Watchfield School (itself a non-CE school). This provides a service which individual incumbents are not able to provide and which facilitates the arrival in the medium term of a new post that is funded entirely outside church resources but which is vital for our churches all the better to minister to the teenage population our area. Secondly, the Deanery is working to encourage all churches to follow the Eco Church initiative - thinking carefully about how each church can help the environment by a variety of measures - should we floodlight our buildings at night, for example? - which build up a sequence of Bronze, Silver and Gold awards. It may be some way off, but it would be great to have all of our 27 churches, including St Mary’s and All Saints’, with Gold plaques affixed to their entrances!
Each Wednesday, at 7.30am, Deanery Prayers are said. These cover, in turn, each of the benefices in the Vale: as a minimum, each incumbent, warden, treasurer, PCC Secretary and deanery rep is prayed for by name. In addition, themes reflecting deanery needs, the relationships with the Dorchester Area and the Diocese, for our Bishops and Archdeacon, together with wider issues in the Church of England and Anglican Communion. If you would like to receive that weekly prayer guidance, please contact p.foot47@gmail.com We know many people who use the list as part of their own devotions but who find an early Wednesday start rather too intrusive!
For any further clarification, please do not hesitate to ask your Synod Reps: Margaret Starr, John Seedell and Peter Foot: we would be delighted to help.
Safeguarding – Helen Wilson
We continue our work at All Saints’ to do our utmost to ensure that our church is a safe place for all.
Helen Wilson continues to be the church safeguarding officer, with responsibility for children, and Isobel Weller continues as the church safeguarding officer, with responsibility for vulnerable adults. Alison Scott has taken on the role of Church Administrator and is now the Safeguarding Recruiter/Verifier. Together with the safeguarding officers, Alison maintains and monitors all the safeguarding records, as well as undertaking the associated administration. The induction into these roles has not been insignificant and we thank Alison for all her work on this.
Our new Children and Families Leader, Josey Speller, oversees the different children’s groups and will, together with Helen, ensure that the safer recruitment procedures are carried out for all new volunteers.
We are now using the Safeguarding Dashboard, which has been provided by the diocese. This is an excellent online audit tool which clarifies the steps required to work towards the safest possible environment, and gives links to the latest documentation. This also produces an action plan, which is shared with the PCC at intervals.
Regular safeguarding meetings continue to be held at least quarterly with all four of the above and our vicar, Steve.
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Julie McGowan is the Children’s Advocate. Safeguarding is a fixed item on the agenda for each PCC meeting.
Church Warden Review of the Year 2021 – Linda Ritchie
My fellow churchwarden, Jim McGowan, stepped down as church warden at the APCM in June 2021 after serving for four years. He has kindly continued to chair the Fabric Committee and continues to make a huge contribution in many aspects of church life. Thank you, Jim.
A team of assistant wardens joined a rota to cover verging at 10:30 services once every six weeks from the beginning of September and this lightened the church warden’s role considerably. Thank you to Chris and Hannah Rutt, Elaine and Graham Cox, Mark and Helen Jackson, Jim McGowan, Julia Burn, John Seedell, Katie Foot and Jeni Summerfield. Thank you too to those who continue to verge for the early communion service: Beryl Cooper, Wendy Tynan, Jeff Wilson and Chris and Joyce Horley. I’m grateful to Julia Doolan who took on verging for a couple of weddings held in the autumn and then agreed to verge for some funerals, too.
My fellow churchwarden, Jim McGowan, stepped down as church warden at the APCM in June 2021 after serving for four years. He has kindly continued to chair the Fabric Committee and continues to make a huge contribution in many aspects of church life. Thank you, Jim.
We were sorry to say farewell to curate, Paul Walker, his wife Sheree and Charlotte, Harriet and Alice but excited for them as he moved to being Vicar of All Saints’ Dedworth in July. We also said goodbye to others who moved to a new area including Bob Mackintosh, Robert and Tracey Morrison, Bob Plumptre and Gloria Zentler-Munro. Sadly, Roger Cox, Janet Gaines, Peggy Lambert and Kathleen Richards died during the year. However, we have been pleased to welcome about thirty people who have come back to church or moved into the area and have joined us.
We were delighted to welcome Josey Speller as our full-time children’s and families’ leader (partly funded by the Diocese of Oxford’s Development Fund). Junior Saints’ for junior-age children restarted in September and many children followed a Nativity Trail round the local shops that Josey organised.
Sunday services continued to be suspended early in the year because of the pandemic and resumed, once vaccines became readily available, with one service each week from 11 April. From 5 September, a Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion service was held each Sunday at 9am and a more informal Morning Worship service at 10.30 (with an all-age service on the first Sunday of the month, Holy Communion on the second and fourth Sundays and Morning Prayer on the third). COVID safety measures were followed including using hand gel, mask-wearing and social distancing. Some of these were relaxed in the autumn but reintroduced with the advent of the Omicron variant. We held a torchlit Carol Service on 19 December, 3 services on Christmas Day but no service on Christmas Eve. As expected, numbers attending were lower than in ‘normal’ years. We have also continued to produce a weekly recorded service of worship, prayer and teaching (made available via Facebook and YouTube (accessed from our website) as well as an audio-only version available by phone).
We continued to meet for prayer (mostly via Zoom but sometimes in person) at the monthly prayer meeting, at home groups and on Friday mornings. The Vicar continued to send out a weekly email to keep more than 200 people up to date. In October, our administrator, Margaret Townsend, moved on to another job and was replaced by Alison Scott.
Gradually, ringing bells, arranging flowers, singing in church with vocalists and instruments and activities for children were reintroduced. The teenage group, FROG, met on Zoom in the first half of the year but were unable to meet from September because of the lack of leaders. The Barber rooms were used a little in the
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second half of the year. Caroline, with help from Jeni and Geoff, has kept the church clean and in the autumn Sam Masters joined us to clean the Barber Rooms. We have been unable to host social events apart from coffee after church in October and November and a delicious Cornish pasty lunch during a Sanctuary Day in October.
Rooflights above the North aisle were replaced and two final CCTV cameras were fitted on the front of the building after an extended but ultimately successful application for a faculty. Thanks again, Jim.
I am very grateful for the support of Steve, the PCC and so many members of All Saints who contribute so generously to our life together. May we continue to serve and encourage one another, welcoming all and may our Lord Jesus be honoured, loved and exalted.
ACTIVITIES
Children and Families Leader Report – Josey Speller
Since I began in October 2021, I have received a fantastic welcome to All Saints. Thank you for making Chris and I feel at home in the church.
Little All Sorts
This is All Saints group for babies and their parents and carers. It has not restarted since it had to stop when the pandemic hit. They meet on Monday mornings during term time for play, craft, refreshments and a bible story.
We have been working towards this group restarting after Easter. With great help from Wendy Bellamy, there are outlines of sessions for two years. Previous leaders have met on Zoom to reminisce about the group and look forward to beginning again, however not all the previous leaders are able to commit as before.
In preparation of restarting a few of the leaders met to tidy and sort the cupboard. All the forms and publicity will be updated so that we are ready to begin at the start of May.
I’m delighted that we have new leaders willing to join the team, however there is always space for more. Hearing stories from before the pandemic, it’s clear to see how much the leaders enjoyed their time as much as the children and parents. If you can help once a month, please do speak to me.
Junior Saints
The children attend Junior Saints in the Barber rooms during morning services, offering bible teaching and activities for primary school aged children. We have a great team of leaders with Joanne, Jo, Helen and Immy. We also have a young person doing their Duke of Edinburgh volunteering with us which has enabled us to offer another age group some Sunday mornings. I wish to thank Rita who after 5 years of leading has had to step down to support her son with sporting commitments.
We can usually expect 2-6 children most weeks, however numbers do vary. Currently the majority of the children are 4-7 year olds. The older children are less keen to come to a group with younger ones in, so where possible we’re trying to offer different activities for any older children who may come. This is a challenge when numbers are inconsistent but I’m hoping that once more families are aware there is an older group, numbers will be more regular.
We also enjoy welcoming children of baptism families or those visiting families in Faringdon. In previous years Junior Saints would break for a week at half term, however I have been that we continue because
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often this is when children might come to visit grandparents and it’s great that we have something to offer them.
As a leadership team we have made the decision to change the resources that we use. We were using Energize from Urban Saints but have just changed to get a subscription with Roots. Roots feels the right resource for us at the moment because they offer teaching materials for all ages that follow the lectionary and they are also more adaptable to the different age groups. Our subscription also has the added bonus of offering ideas for all age worship.
If you would like to talk about becoming a leader with the children, please do speak to me
FROG
Fully Rely On God (FROG) is our group for Young people in the church. Prior to the pandemic they met on Sunday evenings in the Upper Asset and Barber rooms. During the first wave of the pandemic the leaders were able to meet with the young people on Zoom, however they’ve not met since the summer holidays.
Wonderfully, there are several young people who are interested in confirmation so FROG will be restarting at the end of March. We’ll run a confirmation course, but it will be open to all young people of secondary school age.
Although FROG is slightly older than my ‘children and families’ remit, I’m keen to help get the group up and running again and I know how much joy it can bring working with young people and helping them to explore their faith.
We have a new leader Alun joining the team and I’m grateful for all that Peter, Andrew and Kate have done to get the group up and running again. I’m excited to be a part of the team. We do have a real need for more leaders with this group, again – the more leaders the less need there is for people to commit to every week.
Schools and other activities
Due to the rise of omicron Christmas was not quite as we hoped it would be and events such as Messy Nativity and Babs of Bethlehem had to be cancelled. However, I was able to organise a nativity trail around the town. 23 shops and cafes were willing to have a little nativity figure in their window for families to find and work out the Christmas message. Although I only had four or five entries submitted, when I went around to thank the shops they suggested that a lot more families were taking part.
It was great to be able to welcome Year 4 from Faringdon Junior School to the church before Christmas. The three classes came and were told about the nativity story, how the church celebrates Christmas and think about what gifts (talents) the children have to offer back to God. The morning went really well and we’re hoping to do something similar just before Easter.
It has also been great to work with Steve and Helen in preparing the All Age services. Attendance of families can be varied but it’s so important that we offer opportunities for families of all ages and the whole church to worship together.
Finally, I wish to thank Steve, and the wider church, for all the prayer and encouragement you give to the children and families in All Saints.
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Church Prayer Meeting – Steve Bellamy
Zoom has proved to be a great help to our maintaining the monthly Church Prayer Meeting on the first Wednesday evening of each month at 8pm. It has often meant that we have had higher numbers that attended in person in church pre-COVID, often gathering between 25 and 30 of us to pray. The format of the evening is that someone leads a short reflection on a Bible passage, then we are expertly allocated to prayer groups by Linda Ritchie for 12 or 13 minutes as we use some suggestions for prayer circulated in my weekly church email. We then come back ‘together’ in order to have our closing prayers using a short liturgy shared on screen. I am very grateful to those who have joined me in leading on occasion including Barbara Mapley, Helen Wilson, Paul Winchester, Paul Walker, Chris Etherton, Peter Foot and Graham Weller. Everyone is welcome and it’s really not essential that you are confident to pray out loud.
Prayers on Friday 7.40am – 8.30am - Helen and Mark Jackson
This group has been going for nearly 40 years. It has been taking place via zoom since the beginning of lockdown and will probably remain this way as it is easier for most people. New people have started attending this year and we are always open to new people joining. We are usually a group of 10 regular people. Please contact Helen Jackson for the zoom link information if you would like to join in. We start by praying into a passage of scripture that is shared and then pray over a variety of subjects and situations as the Spirit leads.
Prayer Chain 2021 - Jeni Summerfield, Barbara Mapley, Ruth Seedell
This is a much valued aspect of our prayer life at All Saints’ with the three strands of the prayer chain continuing to work to uphold those in need before the Lord.
If you wish to make a prayer request you can speak to any of the clergy or one of the three of us. We are all happy to receive an email which is then forwarded to the three prayer chains. If however the request is extremely urgent you may make contact by phone to any one of us.
Home Groups Monday Group – Bridget Adams
Our Monday Homegroup continued to meet fortnightly during term time. We began 2021 meeting via zoom, doing Bishop Steven Croft’s four course series on Philippians. We then looked at some of Penelope Wilcock’s More Stand-Alone Bible Studies - choosing themes of Perseverance, Renewal and Hope.
In the Autumn our meetings were based around discussing the previous Sunday service/sermon. Some were via zoom and some in person in Fernham.
It was a delight to celebrate meeting again in person when possible and we have enjoyed cake and fizz and a summer social meal outside.
In December we shared Christmas drinks and nibbles and were pleased to welcome some new members to join us.
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Tuesday Home Group – Peter Foot
Our year has been conducted entirely via Zoom and it has generally suited this group well, at least for the time being. However, we are very conscious that this meeting method does leave out two members from regular contact and we want to redress that in future.
Our studies have been various and (mostly) invigorating. We began the period under review with Acts 1328, using the Cover-to-Cover Bible study guide and illustrating aspects where possible with Raphael’s Sistine Chapel tapestries (courtesy of the V&A). Galatians was studied using the relevant Cover-to-Cover guide and that was less successful as the text and questions tended to drive us away from the text, rather than bring us closer to it. We then looked at Isaiah 1-29 through Howard Peskett’s lens of ’trusting God in troubled times’. We will take up Isaiah 30-65 later in 2022. Over the summer, we then each chose a Psalm or two for the group to explore - a particularly vivid and valuable few weeks for us all. Since the beginning of the year, we devoted 5 weeks to the Living in Love and Faith course; Lent 2022 sees the group tracking Living His Story by Hannah Steele.
We are flexible as to the future and very ready to participate in any sermon-series related studies in the future. We thank God for the fellowship across the group.
Wednesday Home Group – Steve Bellamy
We are very grateful to Geoff and Muriel Loosemore, who relinquished leadership of the group during 2021, but continue to attend. While there were times in the middle of the year when we didn’t meet, we met by Zoom to study Philippians using Bishop Steven’s book and also did the ‘Wisdom House’ course by Rob Parsons. Moving into 2022 the group has completed the Living in Love and Faith Course and has recently welcomed 3 new members, so that our full complement is now 12.
Thursday Evening Home Group – Graham and Isobel Weller
We have been meeting on zoom generally on a fortnightly basis. The group has consisted of about ten members, with some members taking time out as needed over the last year. Over the year we have studied Bishop Steven’s course on Philippians, the Character Course by Roger Bretherton and the Old Testament prophet Joel. We are currently making our way through the Living in Love and Faith course. Although we led the majority of the sessions, we were very encouraged that other members of the group led occasional meetings.
Home Group – Helen and Mark Jackson
We are a newly formed home group in January 2022. There are 12 official members and we meet face to face in the home of Helen and Mark Jackson in the town centre. We are currently studying the Anglican book ‘Living in Love and Faith’ and we meet fortnightly on a Wednesday evening from 7.30-9pm. So far so good!
All Saints’ Singers – Karen Brusch
What a difference a year makes - this time last year, we were still humming behind our masks. The pause in live music has introduced us to quite a number of new songs, and that is very healthy for a worshipping community; still raising our praises through well known hymns and songs, but also reconnecting to Jesus our Lord through the words of new ones.
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Over the last year, we have introduced the All Saints singers (& musicians) back in to our before and after experience of structured worship, and more recently of course we have been able, finally, to join in congregational singing. It may still be with masks on, but it is so good for the soul to sing out in praise.
Now the fun comes for All Saints Singers - to learn to lead the congregation in some of the new songs we have learnt over the past near 2 years. We have really been enjoying rehearsing together, getting to know each other more (conscious that I am the newbie here). Week by week, singing songs that help us explore the character of God as we mature as people of faith. And we must give thanks to Chris Raybone, who has mastered the art of balancing our singing and playing.
We are now back to weekly rehearsals, and taking some time to ensure what we sing before and after the service, and in communion, matches the lectionary readings. We always welcome feedback of course; one of the new songs we have started to sing recently "Beneath the cross of Jesus" was as a result of several people commenting on how beautiful the tune was.
I am always on the lookout for musicians, so if you would like to join us, please let me know - I have the technology to transpose music so any instrument is welcome. We meet Tuesday evenings for rehearsal 5pm.
Please continue to pray for us as we lead worship.
Faringdon bellringers’ - Clare Knock, tower captain
COVID has again affected our ability to ring this year. We were unable to ring for a while due to restrictions. Then as restrictions eased, we were able to ring for services and weddings. As in the previous year the lack of ventilation in the tower limited the ringing we could do, and so it was a while longer before we began practices and we are still limiting them to an hour and wear masks to mitigate the risks.
Since October we have been running silent practices, supported by Peter Hunt and Andrew Slater, on a Thursday evening teaching two new ringers and improving the handling of existing ringers. Unfortunately one of the new ringers has had to drop out, but Lisa Mullings has now reached a high enough standard to come along to our main practices on Monday evenings.
Our youngest ringer, Daniel Watson, has attended various youth events organised by the Oxfordshire Guild of bellringers and rung several quarter peals.
Jon Chamberlain has continued to write pieces each month for the Advertiser to advertise our ringing. In February Andrew Slater ran an open day for home schooled children, introducing the students to the church bells, hand bells and Tony Crabtree, a Shrivenham ringer, brought over his miniring (a miniature tower ring that can be collapsed down into a car for transport).
At Christmas we were able to meet in the church to hold our annual Christmas social gathering of food and mulled wine.
Thank you to Caroline Phillips for running the service ringing on a Sunday and Kay Chamberlain for organising ringing for the weddings.
All Saints’ Flower Guild - Jeni Summerfield
There was a little more Flower Guild activity during 2021 than in the previous year, but we definitely weren’t back to normal service!
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During the earlier part of 2021 we had silk flowers in place but once restrictions began to ease we returned to using fresh flowers beginning at harvest with a wedding! Fresh flowers were maintained throughout the remainder of the year with another wedding at the end of October and we did our usual Advent wreath and Christmas decorations for the Carol Service.
We are now fewer in number but are still maintaining what I hope is a high standard of workmanship with the reduced team and we look forward to getting back to our routine at Easter and the many weddings and services of blessing that are happening in All Saints’ during 2022.
We would love to welcome new members, so if anyone is interested in joining us please get in touch and come and see what we do and try it out!
Friendship Directory - Margaret Starr
The Friendship Directory lists the names, telephone numbers and emails of church members. It is for all who wish to belong. It was updated in November and will next be updated after Easter.
Churches Together in Faringdon – Jeni Summerfield
Due to the continuing pandemic, few CTiF activities took place.
The AGM in October was held in All Saints’ church as the Quaker Meeting Room was considered too small for safety.
At the meeting all the committee members agreed to stay in post for the following year.
It was proposed that we sang carols in the Marketplace on the Saturdays leading up to Christmas and this was organised by members of the Catholic, Baptist and United Churches.
We hope to resume our usual activities this Easter with the sunrise service on Folly Hill followed by breakfast.
Mustard Seed – Katie Foot
We remember with love Mairead Boyce, such a key member of the Mustard Seed team since its inception until her death in January 2022, and Barbara Bailey who died in September 2021 and had been a volunteer in the shop for many years.
Yet again, the shop was obliged to close for the lockdown which began on Boxing Day 2020, but Karen Vogt kindly continued with her excellent service of personal orders/deliveries. We were able to reopen after Easter, and to sell a reasonable number of Easter eggs in advance by advertising through the church newsletters. We also managed to have a market stall during Fair Trade Fortnight on Saturday 6 March which Karen and Sjoerd ran and from which we also sold some Easter eggs. We also had a stall at Faringdon’s Big Green Day in September, again run by Karen.
Christmas sales went fairly well in 2021, including Christmas postage stamps. Karen’s Christmas Hamper orders hit another record high. For the second year running, we were pleased to arrange hampers for the retired clergy of the Vale of White Horse Deanery as it was not possible to arrange the usual lunch or tea for them. These were extremely well received.
We have continued only to open from 9am to 1pm Monday to Saturday, with those volunteers who felt sufficiently confident returning gradually to the rota, usually after they had received their second
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vaccination. This seems to have worked pretty well, although takings have been lower this year than after the first lockdown. We managed to stay open on some afternoons during Advent as well.
We remain deeply grateful to Malcolm and Val Swift for the very important contribution that Seekers’ Light offers to making The Mustard Seed the successful Christian witness it is in Faringdon. Val comes over virtually every week to check the cards and Malcolm is always at the end of the phone for queries and orders of books. Sales have been boosted by arranging bulk orders of lectionaries in 2020 and 2021 for the Vale of White Horse Deanery (Church of England), as well as the new-style Marriage Registers which came into effect in May 2021 and which each benefice had to have.
We are also extremely grateful to Lois Chell for keeping the books in order and arranging for the accounts to be audited by Alder Demain Akers free of charge.
From our charity account, we have been very glad to be able to support Faringdon Foodbank with a number of donations during the year.
The repairs to the flat roof at the rear of the shop are finally due to be carried out during March/ April 2022. This is good news as it is now in a very poor state indeed though fortunately not affecting the storage area. The front of the building will also be repainted.
We remain very grateful for the support from members of the All Saints congregation, both as volunteers and customers – long may that continue!
Faringdon Family Centre - Jeni Summerfield
Faringdon Family Centre is the title of a CTiF charity with a committee made up of representatives from all the churches. It operates the local Food Bank in partnership with the Town Council and with volunteers from within and outside of the churches.
Following the Covid lock downs when the foodbank had been run by Sally Thurston the Town Clerk and her staff, the CTiF team took back the management of the Food Bank in September 2021.
We have since been incredibly busy as many more people are struggling with bills given the increase in the cost of living and the drop in financial support for those on benefits.
We are able to function through the generosity of church members, the public, local schools, Rotary and other organisations who donate food and money, and we are grateful to the staff and customers at our local Waitrose who have a new donation scheme which gives us a weekly top up of necessary items.
We were seriously affected by the death of our Chairperson Mairead Boyce whose unstinting efforts and drive made so many things happen through CTiF and the Family Centre. She has left a great legacy for us to continue.
If you would like to know more about our work please get in touch with Jeni Summerfield for more information.
Earth & Faith - Pam de Wit
EARTH & FAITH, now in its 9[th] year, offers a Christian focus in the church and town of Faringdon for developing our understanding and care of the environment. We are a channel of information and ideas, and a witness of Christian concern for environmental issues.
ACTIVITIES
Because of the Covid pandemic the E&F group held all its meetings by Zoom during this year.
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In place of our usual Plant Stall at a Saturday Market, we organised an Enormous Plant Giveaway during the last weekend in April 2021, when 21 houses around Faringdon offered plants of all kinds to take away free. We reckoned around 2,000 donated plants changed hands in a few hours on the Saturday morning.
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In May we helped to design and record an online service for Christian Aid Week, on the theme of climate injustice.
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Since May, with the endorsement and support of the Town Council, and reaching out to the town as well as our church congregations, we have been running a Tree Planting Project: ‘Faringdon Branches Out’. The aim has been to encourage people to buy and plant trees in their gardens and community spaces from November 2021, to coincide with the COP26 global Climate Change conference in Glasgow.
Some tree planting has now been done, and some is being planned for March 2022, after which we shall put together a report on the outcomes of the whole project.
We are grateful to CTiF for their encouragement,
and to local ministers and church leaders for their support, and to Faringdon Town Council for their endorsement and
help with publicity and printing costs.
Thanks also to the ecumenical co-ordinating group
who plan and organise our events:
Pam de Wit (All Saints’) Sjoerd Vogt (Blessed Hugh) Jenny Braithwaite (Society of Friends) Julia Burn (All Saints’) Dave Headey (United Church) Libby Smedley (Baptist Church)
We remember with gratitude Mairead Boyce, who was part of this group on behalf of Blessed Hugh Church during most of the past year.
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Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021
Statement of financial activities
| 2020 £ 133,284 4,327 8,110 145,721 89 14,530 68,885 95,672 200 179,375 (33,654) 15,423 (18,232) - - - - (18,232) 785,399 767,167 |
Notes INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS Voluntary Income 2a Activities for generating funds Income from Investments 2b Church Activities 2c TOTAL INCOME EXPENDITURE Raising Funds 3a Church Activities - Missionary and Charitable Giving 3b - Diocesan Parish Share (£70112, less refunds) - Other activities 3c Governance Costs 3d TOTAL EXPENDITURE 11 (on revaluation) NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) TRANSFERS BETWEEN FUNDS - Tfr 1 (details if required) - Tfr 2 (details if required) NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS NET GAINS ON INVESTMENT ASSETS Total funds brought forward 1 January Total funds carried forward 31 December Other income NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) BEFORE INVESTMENT GAINS/(LOSSES) |
General funds £ 118,703 - 976 8,965 - |
General funds £ 118,703 - 976 8,965 - |
Designated funds £ - - - - - |
Restricted funds £ 12,961 - 3,381 - - |
Endowment funds £ - - - - - |
Total £ 131,664 4,357 8,965 - |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128,644 | 16,342 | 144,986 | |||||
| 68 11,548 68,885 33,858 200 |
- - - - t ore 11 after |
68 14,360 68,885 44,526 200 |
|||||
| - - - 2,812 - - Parish share paid in full. Nex year's share is £70,112 bef refunds (No increase). £694 1% reduction for DD |
- - - t ore 11 after |
||||||
| - | 10,668 - |
||||||
| 114,559 | - | 13,480 | - | 128,038 | |||
| 14,085 | 2,862 | 16,948 | |||||
| 14,085 - |
1,506 1,506 - |
12,120 14,982 - |
18,155 18,155 - - - - |
31,780 48,728 - - - - |
|||
| 14,085 509,643 |
1,506 10,526 |
14,982 120,089 |
18,155 126,909 |
48,728 767,167 |
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| 523,729 | 12,031 | 135,071 | 145,064 | 815,896 |
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Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021
| y Balance sheet as at 31 December 2021 |
y Balance sheet as at 31 December 2021 |
y Balance sheet as at 31 December 2021 |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Notes General funds Designated funds £ £ £ Fixed assets 486,760 Tangible fixed assets 7 481,320 - 209,056 Investment assets 8 - 12,031 695,816 Total fixed assets 481,320 12,031 Current assets 0 Stock - - 0 Debtors (tax recoverable) 9 2,518 - 67,286 Short term deposits 19,324 4,065 Cash in hand and at bank 20,567 - 71,351 Total current assets 42,409 - Liabilities(Creditors): amounts falling due within one year 0 Interest Free Loans 0 - 0 Barber Rooms costs 10 0 - 71,351 Net current assets 42,409 0 Liabilities(Creditors): amounts falling due after one year 0 Interest Free Loans 0 - 767,167 523,729 12,031 Funds of the church Unrestricted funds 509,643 General fund 523,729 - 10,526 Designated fund 12 - 12,031 520,169 523,729 12,031 120,089 Restricted funds 11 - - 126,909 Endowment fund 11 - - 767,167 Total funds of the church 523,729 12,031 - - |
Designated funds £ - 12,031 |
Restricted funds £ - 83,182 |
Endowment funds £ - 145,064 |
Total £ 481,320 240,277 |
| 12,031 | 83,182 | 145,064 | 721,597 | |
| - - - |
- - 51,620 269 |
- - - |
- 2,518 70,944 20,836 |
|
| - | 51,889 | - | 94,298 | |
| - - |
- - |
0 0 |
||
| 0 | 51,889 | 0 | 94,298 | |
| - | - | 0 | ||
| 12,031 | 135,071 | 145,064 | 815,896 | |
| - 12,031 |
- - |
- - |
523,729 12,031 |
|
| 12,031 | - | - | 535,760 | |
| - - |
135,071 - |
- 145,064 |
135,071 145,064 |
|
| 12,031 | 135,071 | 145,064 | 815,896 | |
| - | - | - | - |
Approved by the Parochial Church Council on 16 March 2022 and signed on its behalf by:
Rev Dr Steve Bellamy Chair, PCC
Dr David Wilson Treasurer
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Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021
Notes to the accounts
| 2020 Total funds 2 INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS £ 2a Voluntary Income Planned Giving: 80,830 Tax - efficient planned giving (excl. tax) 21,423 Tax recovered/recoverable 16,070 Other planned giving (bankers order and payroll) 1,483 Collections of loose cash at services Legacies Children & Families Leader Contributions from ODBF 900 Grants Received towards activities Youth Work Related Donations Mission Fund Donations 100 Little All Sorts Donations 1,200 Delta Cross Ministries Donations 6,052 Other donations (Gift Aided) 3,844 Other donations (Non Gift Aided) 1,383 Furlough payments from HMRC Wall Safe/Cask etc. 133,284 Activities for generating funds Fetes, Bazaars, Other fund-raising events 2b Investment Income 313 Deposit accounts (CBF, CAF, Virgin) 4,014 CBF Investment Account Dividends 4,327 2c Incoming resources from charitable activities 6,318 Fees - weddings, funerals etc 722 Church magazine 1,070 Room Hire 8,110 Other incoming resources(If required ) 3 EXPENDITURE 3a Raising Funds 89 Stewardship Campaign. Gift Aid Envelopes etc. 3b Missionary and Charitable Giving (see note 6) 11,340 Overseas Mission, Relief & Aid 1,945 Home Missions 1,245 Secular Charities 14,530 3c Church Activities 464 Ministry: Clergy Expenses 14,619 Children & Families Leader 504 Other Staff & Expenses 3,463 Church Cleaning 4,370 Heat Light & Water 371 Telephone & Wi-Fi 5,152 Insurance 2,880 Repairs & Maintenance: Organ & Bells 32,203 3,921 Cost of church services 755 Upkeep of Churchyard 214 Magazines Expenses 898 Training, Mission & Education 5,440 Depreciation charge for year (Barber Rooms etc.) 12,438 Other expense items (£100 Petty Cash written off) 7,982 Admin, Printing, Stationery, Bank Charges 95,672 3d Governance Costs 200 Audit fees, legal advice, PCC meetings 4 STAFF COSTS 10,205 Wages & Salaries 2 Average no. of employees Church Development Curate Costs Other (mainly Quinquennial work) |
Unrestricted £ 67,518 19,653 18,029 3,103 - - - - - - - 6,812 1,804 1,784 |
Designated £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Restricted £ 5,000 1,443 - - - 3,730 - - - 169 - 770 1,849 - - 2021 |
Endowment £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds £ 72,518 21,096 18,029 3,103 - 3,730 - - - 169 - 7,582 3,653 1,784 - |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118,703 | - | 12,961 | - | 131,664 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | |||||
| 10 966 |
- - |
26 3,355 |
- - |
36 4,321 |
|
| 976 | 3,381 | 4,357 | |||
| 7,970 995 |
- - - |
- - - |
- - - |
7,970 995 |
|
| 8,965 | - | 8,965 | |||
| - | - | - | - | ||
| - | - | - | - | ||
| 68 | - | - | - | 68 | |
| 8,175 2,855 518 |
- - - |
- - 2,812 |
- - - |
8,175 2,855 3,330 |
|
| 11,548 | 2,812 | 14,360 | |||
| 1,459 (3,000) 3,480 470 3,451 2,428 391 5,278 - 1,806 523 1,807 1,398 - 1,216 5,440 100 7,611 |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
- - 3,730 - - - - - 688 6,250 - - - - - - |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
1,459 (3,000) 7,210 470 3,451 2,428 391 5,278 688 8,056 523 1,807 1,398 - 1,216 5,440 100 7,611 |
|
| 33,858 | - | 10,668 | - | 44,526 | |
| 200 | - | - | - | 200 | |
| 10,599 3 |
During the year the PCC employed a cleaner and an administrator (and for part of the year a 2nd cleaner). Both these posts are part time and salary payments were not large enough to attract Social Security costs (NI) or to qualify either of them for auto enrolment in a Pension Scheme (although the administrator can opt-in) From October, the PCC also employed a full time Children & Families leader. There were no P11D employee benefits paid to any staff in this, or previous, years
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Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021 Notes to the accounts
5 Trustee remuneration and expenses - related parties
No members of the PCC received any remuneration for their work on the PCC. The clergy,who are ex officio members do receive a stipend but are not remunerated for their service on the PCC. No PCC members claimed expenses although they would be entitled to claim travel costs for attending meetings.
6 Grants made - grants were made to the following institutions:
| Christian Aid 840.00 Wycliffe Bible Translators 225.00 INF (Pokhara Hospital) 1345.00 Scripture Union 225.00 The Children's Society 972.00 Tear Fund 840.00 Bankuet (Food Banks) 1750.00 Resource 300.00 WATSAN 670.00 2020 TOTAL 14530.00 No grants were made to individuals. 7 Tangible fixed assets (all unrestricted) Cost or valuation At 1 January 2021 Additions/Disposals Revaluations Disposals At 31 December 2021 Depreciation At 1 January 2021 Charge for year Disposals At 31 December 2021 Net book value At 1 January 2021 At 31 December 2021 8 Investment assets Fixed asset investments Carrying (market) value on 1 January 2021 Add additions at cost/value Less disposals at carrying value Net gain/(loss) on revaluation Market Value - 31st December 2021 9 Debtors and prepayments(no amounts were due in m Accrued income - tax refund due 10 Creditors and accruals(no amounts were due in more Accruals 11 Endowment and restricted funds Endowment funds £ Craven/Rawlings/John Wright (Inv A/C) 19,647 Haines/Spinage (Inv A/C) 3,125 Celia Walker Fund (Inv A/C) 104,137 126,909 Restricted funds £ Chamberlain (Organ Fund) (Invest) 56,729 Chamberlain (Organ Fund) (Deposit) 260 Celia Walker Fund (Deposit) 17,611 Celia Walker Fund (Invest) 11,529 Bell Ringers Fund (Deposit) 4,336 Fabric Fund (Quinquennial grants etc.) 8,392 Little All Sorts fund 100 Accrual for tax refund 0 Mission Fund (Deposit) 16,753 Boffin (Bells, clock, chimes) (Inv) 3,364 Boffin (Bells, clock, chimes) (Deposit) 1,017 120,089 12 Designated Funds £ Coach Lane Investment Fund 10,526 Fund balances b/f |
CMS CTIAAF Subs Interserve The Bible Society Simeon's Trustees Torch Trust Faringdon Food Bank Sanctuary Hosting £ £ 500,000 2,200 - - - - - Freehold land & buildings Fixtures fittings & equipment |
CMS CTIAAF Subs Interserve The Bible Society Simeon's Trustees Torch Trust Faringdon Food Bank Sanctuary Hosting £ £ 500,000 2,200 - - - - - Freehold land & buildings Fixtures fittings & equipment |
TOTAL £ - - - - Other |
3360.00 200.00 1120.00 840.00 225.00 110.00 100.00 1237.50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14359.50 | ||||
| Total £ 502,200 - - - |
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| 500,000 | 2,200 | - | 502,200 | |
| 15,000 5,000 - |
440 440 - |
- - - |
15,440 5,440 - |
|
| 20,000 | 880 | - | 20,880 | |
| 485,000 | 1,760 | - | 486,760 | |
| 480,000 | 1,320 | - | 481,320 | |
| ore than one year) than one year) £ £ - - - - - - Incoming resources Resources expended |
£ 209,056 - (559) 31,780 240,277 2021 2020 £ £ 2,518 0 Amounts falling due within one year |
£ 209,056 - (559) 31,780 |
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| 240,277 | ||||
| 2021 2020 £ £ 0 0 Amounts falling due within one year |
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| 0 | 0 | |||
| £ 2,811 447 14,897 Gains and losses |
£ 22,458 3,572 119,034 Fund balances c/f |
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| - | - | 18,155 | 145,064 | |
| £ 0 559.48 3,365 2 4 169 - 9 1 |
£ 559.32 538 - 150 - - |
£ 9,882.84 0.00 0.00 1,649.22 (0.00) 0.00 (0.00) 0.00 0.00 587.59 (0.00) |
£ 66,052.10 281.16 20,975.77 13,177.83 4,187.76 8,396.45 269.40 0.00 16,761.39 3,952.03 1,017.32 |
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| 4,110 | 1,247 | 12,120 | 135,071.21 | |
| £ - |
£ - |
£ 1,506 |
£ 12,031 |
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