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|~|Our|key aims can be divided|into four areas: Leadership,<br>Fabric, Worship<br>and|Community.|
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|||Leadership:|to Manage<br>parish affairs responsibly||
|||Fabric:|to care for St Mary's Church<br>as a place ofworship,|historic|
||||monument<br>and community<br>resource;||
||||to provide<br>a hospitable<br>welcome for worshippers|and visitors|
|||Worship:|to worship<br>reverently,<br>inclusively<br>and accessibly;||
||||to grow<br>in understanding<br>and experience||
|||Community:|to communicate<br>our ministry<br>and services effectively;||
||||to serve our local community;||
||||to offer support<br>beyond our parish boundary||



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|||CHARITY COMMISSION|CHARITY COMMISSION|CHARITY COMMISSION|Independent|Independent||examiner's|examiner's|report on the|report on the|report on the|
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|||FOR ENGLAND||AND V/ALES||||accounts|||||
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|Report to.the||trustees/||PCC OFSt Mary|Cheshunt||||||||
|members|of||||||||||||
|On accounts||for the year||31December|2023||||Charity no||1134781||
||||ended||||||(ifany)||||
||Setout||on pages|IVto XV|||||||||
|||||I report to the trustees||on my examination|||ofthe accounts ofthe above||||
|||||charity ("the Trust" )for||the year|ended 31/12/ 2023.||||||
|Responsibilities||and basis||As the charity's trustees,||you are|responsible||for the preparation<br>ofthe||||
|of report||||accounts<br>in accordance||with the|requirements<br>ofthe|||Charities Act 2011|||
|||||("the Act").|||||||||
|||||I report<br>in respect of my examination||||ofthe|Trust's accounts carried out||||
|||||under section|145ofthe 2011Act and in carrying out|||||my examination,||I|
|||||have followed|all the applicable||Directions<br>given by the||||Charity Commission||
|||||under section|145(5)(b)|ofthe Act.|||||||





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||||||Note|Total|Unrestricted|Restricted|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|MONEY IN|||||||||
|Church|||||||||
|Cash collections|at regular||services|||4,087|4,087||
|Cash collections|charity|specific||||181||181|
|Donations||||||12,151|12,151||
|Gift Aid envelopes||||||390|390||
|HMRC gift aid reclaimed|||||||||
|Other Cash Collections||||||1,157|1,157||
|Planned<br>Giving|via Parish||Giving Scheme|||36,839|36,839||
|Planned<br>Giving|via Standing|||Order||3,130|3,130||
|Sumup/Easy<br>Fund Raising||||||569|569||
|Wedding<br>& funeral fees income||||||9,768|9,768||
|Church House|||||||||
|Church House Ground||Rent||||3,052|3,052||
|Curate's<br>House|||||||||
|4a Goffs Lane|rental income||||||||
|General|||||||||
|Fund raising||||||5,905|5,905||
|Fund raising<br>charity specific||||||257||257|
|Legacies|||||||||
|Other receipts||||||11,131|11,131||
|Banking|||||||||
|Barclays reward||||||44|44||
|Interest<br>& Dividend|||||10|512|512||
|Interest<br>& Dividend|||||10|1,127||1127|
|COLA Accounts|Interest||||11|7,554|7,554||
|Barclays Saver|Account Interest||||12|612|612||
|Total money in||||||98,299|96,901|1398|





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|MONEY OUT||||||||
|Church||||||||
|Church energy<br>&water||bills|||12,262|12,262||
|Church<br>maintenance/repairs||||13|27,602|27,602||
|Church<br>servicing||||14|4,977|4,977||
|Clergy expenses|||||4,113|4,113||
|Cost of organists|at regular||church services||2,305|2,305||
|Other costs to run regular|||church services||0|0||
|Parish Share||||15|41,995|41,995||
|Payments<br>to Charities||||16|407|407||
|Salaries, Wages,|Honoraria|||17|1,248|1,248||
|Wedding<br>& funeral|fee|payments||18|8,060|8,060||
|Banking||||||||
|Barclays Commission|||||448|448||
|Curates<br>House||||||||
|Curates<br>House expenses||||19|603|603||
|Portacabln||||||||
|Portacabin<br>energy|&water||bills||2,299|2,299||
|General||||||||
|Admin<br>&sundries||||20|1,062|1,062||
|Insurance||||21|5,116|5,116||
|Other payments||||22|4,793|5,267||
|Phone and Broadband|||||511|511||
|Photocopier|||||1,451|1,451||
|Total money out|||||119,251|119,725||
|DEFICIT|||||-20,785|-22,825|1,565|





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|MONEY IN|12|gOD1<br>6|2022|f023<br>8|Ifference 2022 &2023<br>f<br>4/|Ifference 2022 &2023<br>f<br>4/|
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|Church|||||||
|Planned<br>Giving vh Standing|Order|6,350|3,605|3,130|||
|Planned<br>Giving<br>vkr Parish Givkrg Scheme||29,759|36,403|36,839|-439||
|Cash collections<br>at ragWar seniices||4,316|4,487|4,087|||
|Cash collections<br>charity specific||546|808|181|-827|-78%|
|Donatkurs|||3,204|12,151|8,947|279%|
|Gift Aid envelopes||1,410|550|390|-160||
|tfiviRC gfit aid reclaimed||2,863|3,962||-3,962||
|Other cash cofisctlons||482|1,702|1,157|-545|-32%|
|SumUp/Easy<br>Fund Raising||2,658|2,404|569|-1,835||
|Wedding<br>&funeral fees income||13,863|10,720|9,768|-952||
|Church House|||||||
|Church Hiuse Ground<br>Rent||2,000|2,000|3,052|1,052|53%|
|Curate's House|||||||
|4a Gofl's Lane rental income|||||||
|General|||||||
|Fund raising||840|6,642|5,905|-737|-11%|
|Fund raising charity specific||546|374|257|-117|-31%|
|Grants|||||||
|Legacies||32,555|115,665||-115,665||
|Other receipts||2,332|5,942|11,131|5,189|87%|
|Banking|||||||
|Barchys Reward||28|59|44|-15|-25%|
|Interest 8 Dividend||536|1,912|512|-1,400|-73%|
|MONEY OUT|||||||
|Church|||||||
|Church energy 8 water bfils||6,448|8,685|12,262|5,577|83%|
|Church maintenance/repairs||1,437|8,364|27,602|19,238|230%|
|Church servicing||7,392|11,465|4,977|-6,488||
|Clergy expenses||3,321|4,871|4,113|-758||
|Cost oforganlsts at regular church service||1,875|2,230|2,305|75||
|Other costs to run regukrr church seniices||287|0|0|0||
|Parish Share||47,124|34,727|41,995|7,266|21%|
|Payments<br>to Charities||441||407|425|-51%|
|Sakrdes, Wages, Honor||685|1,248|1,248|0|0%|
|Wedding<br>&funeral fee payments||8,842|6,359|8,060|1,701|27%|
|Banking|||||||
|Barclays Gen &Fees Comnfssion||312|470|448|-22||
|Curates House|||||||
|Curates House expenses||348|1,301|603|-698|-54%|
|Portacabin|||||||
|Portacabin energy, water &other costs||1,092|3,323|2,299|-1,024|-31%|
|General|||||||
|Adnfn &sundries||846|892|1,062|170|19%|
|Insurance||4,700|4,885|5,116|231|5%|
|Other payments||4,183|1,295|4,793|3,498|270%|
|Phone &Broadband||1,736||511|-266|-34%|
|Photocopier||1,195|1,383|1,451|88|5%|





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|General||||1,110|79,781|111,073|31,183|1,000|
|Weddings<br>& Funeral Fees||||1,363|9,225|8,178|-1,910|500|
|Saver||||81 703|612|0|-29,735|52,580|
|Totals||||84,176|89,618|119,251|-462|54,080|
|COLA Unrestricted<br>Designated|||Funds||||||
|General||||9,489|456|0|964|10,909|
|Planned<br>Ma]or Maintenance||||21,100|920|0|-3,441|18,579|
|Legacy||||100 170|4479|0|0|104649|
|Tolsis||||130,760|5855|0|-2,477|134,138|
|COLA Restricted Income Funds|||||||||
|St Mary's<br>Perish|Centre|||25,072|1,127||680|26,880|
|Special Funds||||3,508|152||-120|3,540|
|Youth||||2,025|120||1,085|3,231|
|Belfry||||3,146|140||-110|3,176|
|Church Property||||1,775|111||1,375|3,261|
|Hand Bells||||0|12||350|362|
|Junior Church||||389|37||557|983|
|Tolafs||||35,916|1,699|0|3817|41,432|
|Diocesan Board of Finance|||||||||
|CBF Deposit Fund Restricted|||||||||
|156Churchgate|Sale Proceeds|||25,195|1 127|0|0|26,322|
|Totals||||25,195|1,127|0|0|26,322|
|CBFEndovmment<br>Funds|||||||||
|Fabric||||14,621|436|0|436|15,937|
|Chancel||||2 572|77|0|77|2 803|
|Toleis||||17,193|513|0|513|18,740|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||276,046|98,298|119251|1003|274712|





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|Burns Night|f394|
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|Table Top Sale (March)|E762.80|
|Bunny Fun|f352.42|
|Lottery Bonus Ball|E1245|
|Quiz Night|E205|
|Coffee Morning|E177.10|
|David Border Choir Concert|E87.50|
|Saturday<br>Coffee Morning|E300.20|
|Summer<br>Fayre|E1790.45|
|Auction|E290.50|
|Three Valleys Choir|E103|
|Autumn<br>Fayre|E1022.60|
|Bauble Party|E86.10|
|Tea with Santa|E76|
|Total receipts|E5,889|





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