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|||||Unrestricted||||||
|||||Funds||||||
||||Unrestricted|Designated||||||
||||Funds|Fund||||Total|Total|
||||General|Tangible||Restricted|Endowment|Funds|Funds|
||||Fund|Fixed|Assets|Funds|Funds|2022|2021|
|||Mote|6|6||6|6|6||
|Income and Endowments|from:|||||||||
|Voluntary<br>Income|||303,099|||43,715||346,814|202,220|
|ActiviTies for generating|Funds|3|24,166|||||24.166|14,434|
|Church<br>Activities|||9,969|||115||10,084|5,241|
|investment<br>Income|||688||||-120|568|69|
|Total|||337,922|||43,830|-120|381,632|221,954|
|Expenditure<br>on:||||||||||
|Church Activities||6|345,708||28,250|9,294||383,252|223,546|
||||345,708||28,250|9,294||383,252|223,545|
|Net Gain/(Loss)<br>on Investments|||||||||285|
|Net Incomel(Expenditure)|||(7,786)||(28,250)|34,536|(120)|(1,620)|(1,297)|
|Transfers<br>between<br>Funds|||(80)|||80||||
|Nei movement<br>in Funds|||(7,866)||(28,250)|34,616|(120)|(1,620)|(1.297)|
|Reconciliation<br>of Funds||||||||||
|Funds brought<br>forward|||19,083||367,250|54,219|3,292|443,844|445,141|
|Funds carried forward<br>at31"December 2022|||11,217||339,000|88,835|3,172|442,224|443,844|





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|Fixed Assets||||||||||||
|Tangible||||||13|||339,000||367,250|
|Investments||||||14|||2,066||2,248|
|Current Assets|||||||||341,066||369,498|
|Debtors||||||15|11,135|||8,462||
|Cash at Bank and|||in Hand||||99,068|||72,297||
||||||||110,203|||80,759||
|Current<br>Liabilities||||||||||||
|Creditors<br>and Accrued Charges||||||17|9,045|||6,4'13||
||||||||9,045|||6,413||
|Net Current Assets|||||||||101,158||74,346|
|Net Assets|||||||||442,224||443,844|
|Reserves||||||||||||
|Endowment|Funds|||||19|||3,172||3,292|
|Restricted|Funds|||||20|||88,835||54,219|
|Unrestricted|Funds|||||||||||
|General|Fund||||||11,217|||19,083||
|Tangible|Fixed|Assets Fund|||||339,000||350,217|367,250|386,333|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||||Funds|Fund|||Total|Total|
|||||General|Tangible|Restricted|Endowment|Funds|Funds|
|||||Fund|Fixed Assets|Funds|Funds|2022|2021|
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|2|Donations<br>and Legacies|||||||||
||Congregation<br>Giving<br>Standing<br>Orders|||54,105||||54,105|51,565|
||Weekly Envelopes<br>Giber Gift Aided Donations|||7,556<br>20,054||||7,556<br>20 054|3,079<br>25420|
||Total Gift Aided Giving<br>Other Cash Collections|||81,715<br>733||||81,715<br>733|80,064<br>1,919|
||Donations<br>via CAF|||2,000||||2,000|3,475|
||Donations<br>Organ Recitals|||1,193||||1,193|772|
|||||85,641||||85,641|85,230|
||Other Donations|||13,118||||13,118|4,272|
||Donations<br>for Outward|Giving||613||||,613|1,510|
||Gift Aid receivable|||23,056||||23,056|22,425|
||Donations<br>via Pyramid|||3,187||||3,187|3,260|
||Community<br>Giving<br>Friends ofSt Paul's||||||||28,615|
||Dorothy Porter Trust|||165,850||||165,850|11,191|
||Pastoral Assistant<br>Fund||||||||14,000|
||Other Trusts and Grants|||11,634||||11,634|4,274|
||Govt Job Retention<br>Scheme||||||||931|
||Other Govt Covid Funding|||||||||
||Donations<br>to Restricted|Funds||||43,715||43,715|22,386|
||VAT Recoveries||||||||3,126|
|||||303,099||43,715||346,814|202,220|
|3|Charitable<br>Activities|||||||||
||May Market|||||||||
||Autumn<br>Market|||||||||
||Hiring Charges|||12,543||||12,543|6,448|
||Christmas<br>Tree Festival|||9,645||||9,645|6,550|
||Christmas<br>Charities<br>Market|||||||||
||Antique<br>Fairs|||1,978||||1,978|1,436|
||Other Fundraising<br>Events|||||||||
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||||Funds||Fund|||||Total|Total|
||||General||Tangible||Restricted||Endowment|Funds|Funds|
||||Fund||Fixed|Assets|Funds||Funds|2022|2021|
|||Note|6||6||||6|6|f|
|4|Church Activities|||||||||||
||Lunchtime<br>Concerts<br>Sales Income:|||7,315||||||7,315|7,847|
||Votive Candles|||541||||||541|465|
||"Spire" Magazine|||838||||||838|690|
||Guide Books|||||||||||
||Cards etc|||||||||83|741|
||Catering<br>Income'|||||||||||
||Saturday Teas|||712||||||712||
||Sunday Coffee|||45||||||45||
||Tuesday<br>Lunches||||||||||7,585|
||General Parish Catering|||285||||||285|74|
||Saturday<br>Coffee|(Outreach)||||||115||115|239|
||Miscellaneous<br>Income|||150||||||150||
||Insurance<br>Claims|||||||||||
|||||9,969||||115||10,084|5,247|
|5|Investment<br>income|||688|||||-120|568|69|
|6|Church Activities Costs|||||||||||
||Salaries and Fees|||50,183||||||50.183|43,708|
||Office Costs|||55,406||28,250||5,941||89,597|63,972|
||Other Costs|||70,061||||3,353||73,414|67,399|
||Independent<br>Examiners Free|||1,800||||||1,800|7,500|
||Special Projects|10||168,258||||||168,258|47,627|
||Outreach|11||||||||||
|||||345,708|28,250||9,294|||383,252|223,546|
|7|Salaries and Fees|||||||||||
||Wages, salaries and fees|||49,393||||||49,393|42,377|
||Pension<br>Contributions|||790||||||790|737|
|||||50,183||||||50,183|43,108|
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||The average<br>number|ofStaff employed|by the|Parochial|Church|Council|during|the||||
||financial year was:||||||||No|No||
||Total|||||||||4||
||Remuneration<br>ofOfffcials|||||||||||





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Funds||||||
||||Unrestricted|Designated||||||
||||Funds|Fund||||Total|Total|
||||General|Tangible||Restricted|Endowment|Funds|Funds|
||||Fund|Fixed|Assets|Funds|Funds|2022|2021|
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||Office Costs|||||||||
||Gas, Electricity and Water||16,067|||||16,067|8,052|
||Insurance||7,326|||||7,326|6,445|
||Janitorial<br>Materials||636|||||636|614|
||Office Expenditure||4,437|||||4,437|4,047|
||Bank Service Charges||1,307|||||1,307|655|
||General<br>Repairs||2,567|||5,941||8,508|3,654|
||Computer<br>Costs||3,843|||||3,843|1,387|
||Alarm System Costs||6,498|||||6,498|2,908|
||Depredation<br>ofTangible Assets||||28,250|||28,250|28,250|
||Advertising<br>and Promotional|Costs|237|||||237|220|
||Telephone||307|||||307|326|
||Clergy Expenses||5,440|||||5,440|3,433|
||Accountancy<br>Fees||3,957|||||3,957|3,013|
||Professional<br>Fees||1,674|||||1,674||
||Fundraising<br>Costs||25|||||25|248|
||Broadband<br>and Hosting||1,085|||||1,085|,660|
||||55,406||28,250|5,941||89,597|63,912|
||Other Expenditure|||||||||
||Education Costs||||||||736|
||Miscellaneous<br>Costs||380|||||380|173|
||Music Costs||376|||||376|618|
||Organ and Piano Tuning||1,553|||||1,553|1,176|
||Concert Costs||1,471|||||1,471||
||Diocesan Parish Share||48,760|||||48,760|56,447|
||Diocesan Fees for Services||1,804|||||1,804|1,378|
||Sacristy Costs||768|||||,768|1,288|
||Catering Costs||124|||||124|605|
||Antique<br>Fair Costs||476|||||476||
||Licensing Costs||753|||||753|903|
||Donations||13,596|||||13,596|3,324|
||Restricted<br>project costs|||||3,353||3,353||
||Homeless<br>Support Scheme||||||||750|
||Vouchers|||||||||
||||70,061|||3,353||73,414|67,399|
|10|Special Projects|||||||||
||Roof repair||||||||5,040|
||Pinnacle<br>repair||148,657|||||148,657||
||New Vestments||||||||4,331|
||Organ Blower Move||||||||4,448|
||Regimental<br>Colours Bracket|Repair|||||||542|
||Work in Vicarage Garden||||||||2,706|
||Lighting<br>Improvements||||||||16,074|
||Computer<br>and Wefi Improvements||||||||3,055|
||Architect's fees for Projects||19,601|||||19,601|11,431|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Funds|||||
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|||||Funds|Fund|||Total|Total|
|||||General|Tangible|Restricted|Endowment|Funds|Funds|
|||||Fund|Fixed Assets|Funds|Funds|2022|2021|
|||||E|E|F|E|E||
|11|Outreach<br>Donations|||||||||
||1 Collections taken at||Tuesday|||||||
||Concerts|||||||||
||2 Retiring<br>Collections||for specific|||||||
||purposes:|||||||||
||Lent Services —Bunyan<br>Meeting|||||||||
||The Bishop's Harvest Appeal|||||||||
||3Funds raised|by the|Outreach|||||||
||Committee|||||||||
||Memo —Pastoral Work within the|||||||||
||Parish|||||||||
||Christian<br>Aid DEC||Appeal|||||||
||College of|Ihe Transfiguration||||||||
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|Comparatives<br>for the Sta|tement of Fi|nancial Activities|||||
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||||Unrestricted||||
|||Unrestricted|Funds||||
|||Funds|Designated|||Total|
|||General|Fund|Restricted|Endowment|Funds|
|||Fund<br>f|Legacy Fund<br>f|Funds<br>f|Funds<br>f|2021<br>f|
|Income and Endowments|from:||||||
|Voluntary<br>Income||164,002||38,218||202,220|
|Activities for Generating|Funds|14,434||||14,434|
|Church Activities||5,002||239||5,241|
|Investment<br>Income||12|||57|69|
|Total||183,450||38,457|57|221,964|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Church Activities||183,450|28,250|20,496||223,546|
|||183,450|28,250|20,496||223,546|
|Net Gain/(Loss)<br>on Investments|||||285|285|
|Net Incomel(Expenditure)||8,650|(28,250)|17,961|342|(1,297)|
|Transfer between<br>Funds|||||||
|Net movement<br>in Funds||8,650|(28,250)|17,961|342|(1,297)|
|Reconciliation<br>of Funds|||||||
|Funds broughi<br>forward||10,433|395,500|36,258|2,950|445,141|
|Funds carried forward||19,083|367,250|54,219|3,292|443,844|





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|Tangible Fixed Assets||||
|---|---|---|---|
|||Movable||
|||Church||
|||Furnishings|Total|
|||f|f|
|Cost or Valuation|At 1a January 2022 and 31a December 2022|565,000|565,000|
|Depreciation|At 1a January 2022|197,750|197,750|
||Charge for Ihe Year|28,250|28,250|
||At 31a December 2022|226,000|226,000|
|Net Book Value|At 31a December 2022|339,000|339,000|
||At 31a December 2021|367,500|367,500|



||transitional<br>provisions,<br>under which the|valua|tion<br>as at 1a January 201|5is applied<br>t|o assets|extant at t|hat date.||
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||||||Total|Funds|Total|Funds|
||||||2022||2021||
|14|Investments||||||||
||Endowment<br>Fund||||||||
||Investment<br>at Fair Value|||||2,066||2,248|
||Investments<br>consist offunds invested|in the CBFChurch of England||Investment|||||
||Fund. The holding at 31a Dacember2022||was 96shares which cosi|f100.|||||
|15|Debtors||||||||
||Debtors|||||11,135||8,527|
||Gift Aid recoverable|||||||1,935|
|||||||11,135||8,482|
|18|Deposits, Bank and Cash Balances||||||||
||CBFDeposit Fund|||||29,019||33,618|
||Bank Accounts||||||||
||Current Account|||||28,423||29,173|
||Sir Alexander<br>Leith Fund|||||3,274||3,231|
||Outreach<br>Committee<br>Account|||||4,423||4,514|
||Bells Appeal Account|||||33,929||1,761|
||Cash<br>m Hand||||||||
|||||||99,068||72,297|
|17|Creditors: (falling due within one year)||||||||
||General<br>Creditors and Accruals|||||9,045||6,413|





|The Parochial<br>Church<br>Council of the Ecclesiastica! <br>(Registered<br>Charity<br>Number 1134614)<br>Notes to the Financial Statements<br>Year ended 31"December 2022<br>Balance<br>1"January<br>Incoming|The Parochial<br>Church<br>Council of the Ecclesiastica! <br>(Registered<br>Charity<br>Number 1134614)<br>Notes to the Financial Statements<br>Year ended 31"December 2022<br>Balance<br>1"January<br>Incoming|The Parochial<br>Church<br>Council of the Ecclesiastica! <br>(Registered<br>Charity<br>Number 1134614)<br>Notes to the Financial Statements<br>Year ended 31"December 2022<br>Balance<br>1"January<br>Incoming|The Parochial<br>Church<br>Council of the Ecclesiastica! <br>(Registered<br>Charity<br>Number 1134614)<br>Notes to the Financial Statements<br>Year ended 31"December 2022<br>Balance<br>1"January<br>Incoming|The Parochial<br>Church<br>Council of the Ecclesiastica! <br>(Registered<br>Charity<br>Number 1134614)<br>Notes to the Financial Statements<br>Year ended 31"December 2022<br>Balance<br>1"January<br>Incoming|The Parochial<br>Church<br>Council of the Ecclesiastica! <br>(Registered<br>Charity<br>Number 1134614)<br>Notes to the Financial Statements<br>Year ended 31"December 2022<br>Balance<br>1"January<br>Incoming|The Parochial<br>Church<br>Council of the Ecclesiastica! <br>(Registered<br>Charity<br>Number 1134614)<br>Notes to the Financial Statements<br>Year ended 31"December 2022<br>Balance<br>1"January<br>Incoming|Parish of St Paul, Bedford<br>IItin,<br>I<br>Change<br>Balance<br>Outgoing<br>Transfers<br>during<br>Year<br>31"December|Parish of St Paul, Bedford<br>IItin,<br>I<br>Change<br>Balance<br>Outgoing<br>Transfers<br>during<br>Year<br>31"December|Parish of St Paul, Bedford<br>IItin,<br>I<br>Change<br>Balance<br>Outgoing<br>Transfers<br>during<br>Year<br>31"December|Parish of St Paul, Bedford<br>IItin,<br>I<br>Change<br>Balance<br>Outgoing<br>Transfers<br>during<br>Year<br>31"December|Parish of St Paul, Bedford<br>IItin,<br>I<br>Change<br>Balance<br>Outgoing<br>Transfers<br>during<br>Year<br>31"December|Parish of St Paul, Bedford<br>IItin,<br>I<br>Change<br>Balance<br>Outgoing<br>Transfers<br>during<br>Year<br>31"December|Parish of St Paul, Bedford<br>IItin,<br>I<br>Change<br>Balance<br>Outgoing<br>Transfers<br>during<br>Year<br>31"December|Parish of St Paul, Bedford<br>IItin,<br>I<br>Change<br>Balance<br>Outgoing<br>Transfers<br>during<br>Year<br>31"December|Parish of St Paul, Bedford<br>IItin,<br>I<br>Change<br>Balance<br>Outgoing<br>Transfers<br>during<br>Year<br>31"December|Parish of St Paul, Bedford<br>IItin,<br>I<br>Change<br>Balance<br>Outgoing<br>Transfers<br>during<br>Year<br>31"December|
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|18|Endowment<br>Funds||||||||||||||||
||Chancel<br>Fund||||||||||||||||
||Original<br>Endowment|||100||||||||||||100|
||Unrealised<br>Capital Gain<br>Accumulated<br>Income|||2,148<br>1,044|(182)<br>62||||||||(182)<br>62|||1,966<br>1,106|
|||||3,292|(120)||||||||(120)|||3,172|
|19|Restricted Funds||||||||||||||||
||Bell Ringers<br>Fund|||1,548||||||||||||1,548|
||Building Repairs Fund<br>Choir Robes Fund|||3,071<br>187||||||||||||3,071<br>187|
||Choral Scholarship<br>Clergy Robes Fund|Fund||10,433||||||||||||10,433|
||Clock Fund|||2,896||||||||||||2,896|
||Drama days Fund||||||||||||||||
||Education<br>Fund|||86||||||80|80|||||86|
||Fabric Projects Fund<br>Fellowship<br>Lunches<br>Fund|||659<br>960||||||550|||(550)|||109<br>960|
||Flower Fund|||229||||||||||||229|
||Homeless<br>Support Fund<br>Music Fund|||3,070<br>4,370||||||||||||3,070<br>4,370|
||New Chairs|||148||||||||||||148|
||Organ Scholar Fund<br>Mission fund —Father Luke<br>Peter and Paul Statues Fund|||2,527<br>875|4,000|||||2,523|||1,477|||2,527<br>1,477<br>875|
||Servers Robes Fund|||2,090||||||||||||2,090|
||Special Mission<br>Fund<br>Staging Fund<br>BellTower|||4,000<br>2,670|39,715|||||5,786|||33,929|||4,000<br>2,670<br>33,929|
||TowerAppeal|||13,888||||||155|||(155)|||13,733|
||Outreach<br>Fund - restricted||||||||||||||||
||element|||512||115||||200||||||427|
|||||54,219|43|830||||9,294|80||34,616|||88,835|
||Unrestricted<br>Funds||||||||||||||||
|0|General Fund|||19,083|337,922||||345,708||(80)||(7,866)|||11,217|
||Designated<br>Fund —Tangible||||||||||||||||
||Fixed Assets|||367,250||||28,250.00||||(28,250.00)|||339,000||
|||||386,333|337,922||||373,958||(80)|(36,116)|||350,217||
|||||443,844|381,632||||383,252|||(1,620)|||442,224||
|1|Summary<br>ofAssets by Fund||||||||||||||||
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||||||Funds||||||||||||
||||||Designated||||||||||||
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||||Funds||Tangible|||||Restricted||Endowment||Total|Funds||
||||General<br>Fund||Fixed|||Assets||Funds||Funds||2022|||
||||E||8|||||E||E||E|||
||Tangible<br>Fixed Assets|||||||339,000|||||||339,000||
||Investment<br>Fixed Assets<br>Current Assets|||20,262|||||||88,835||2,066<br>1,106||2,066<br>110,203||
||Liabilities|||(9,045)||||||||||||(9,045)|
|||||11,217||||339,000|||88,835||3,172||442,224||
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