## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/01/21 Period start date To 31/12/22 Period end date** **Charity name: The Yare Valley Churches** ## **Charity registration number: 1138951** ## **Objectives and Activities** |||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governingdocument|Para 1.17|Parochial Church Council powers measure
(1956) and Church representation rules
Norwich Diocese regulated.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|All our activities are open to the public & are
designed to enhance the lives of those loving
within the community| |Statement confirming whether
the trustees have had regard
to the guidance issued by the
Charity
Commission on public benefit|
Para 1.18|**Yes**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |

Policy on grant making

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Para 1.38|**N/A**| |

Policy on social investment
including program related
investment
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Para 1.38|**N/A**| |

Contribution made by
volunteers
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Para 1.38|**Other than the chair who is paid**
**incumbent all other trustees are**
**volunteers**| Other ## **Achievements and Performance** |||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |


Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|




Para 1.20|**Our main objectives and achievements**
**are to**
**Grow disciples**
**Grow leaders**
**Grow new congregations**
**Grow connections within the community**
**Has Dementia Friendly Church**
**Community Status**
**Part of Anna Chaplaincy network**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |

Achievements against
objectives set

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Para 1.41


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Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set

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Investment
performance
against objectives

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Other

||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |||| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of theperiod|Para 1.21|| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |

The
charity’s
principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)
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Para 1.47|| |---|---|---| |

Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted
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A description of the principal
risks facing the charity

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Para 1.46|| Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |||| |---|---|---| |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25
|**Parochial Church Council powers measure**
**(1956) as amended and Church**
**representation rules Norwich Diocese**
**regulated**| |How is the charity
constituted?(e.g
unincorporated
association,CIO)|Para 1.25|**Committee of volunteers chaired by Yare**
**Valley Churches incumbent**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|**By nomination and seconding at APCM**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |

Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees
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The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works

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Relationship with any related
parties

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Para 1.51|| |
Other

||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** ||| |---|---| |Charityname|The Yare ValleyChurches| |Other name the charityuses|| |Registered charitynumber|113895| |Charity’s principal address|The Rectory
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|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any) **| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||| ||Gaye Hailstone|PCC Secretary||| ||
Patrick Beales|Church Warden &
LayChair||| ||Tom Morgan|Fabric Officer||| ||Elisabeth Morgan|Church Warden &
Synod Rep||| ||Victoria Gaskin|Church Warden||| ||
Gillian Groat|Finance Officer||| ||Keith Gerrard|Lay Reader/Synod
Rep||| |||||| ||Douglas Bain|Synod Rep||| ||Diana Buck|||| ||Su Allport|Synod Rep||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||
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|||| |||||| |||||| |Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved|Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved|Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved| |---|---|---| |**Director name**||| |||| Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets **Additional information (optional) Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** G Hailstone **Signature(s)** Gaye Hailstone **Full name(s)** Trustee & acting PCC Secretary **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** 12/07/23 ## The Yare Valley Churches ## Balance Sheet ## As of December 31, 2022 |||TOTAL|| |---|---|---|---| ||AS OF DEC 31, 2022||AS OF DEC 31, 2021 (PY)| |Fixed Asset|||| |**Total Fixed Asset**|||| |Cash at bank and in hand|||| |Cash on hand|1,473.12||| |Santander Current (3961)|22,013.84||23,511.61| |The CBF Church of England Deposit Fund|65,685.96||79,824.00| |**Total Cash at bank and in hand**|**£89,172.92**||**£103,335.61**| |Current Assets|||| |Undeposited Funds|0.00||0.00| |**Total Current Assets**|**£0.00**||**£0.00**| |NET CURRENT ASSETS|**£89,172.92**||**£103,335.61**| |Creditors: amounts falling due within one year|||| |Trade Creditors|||| |Creditors|0.00||0.00| |**Total Trade Creditors**|**£0.00**||**£0.00**| |Current Liabilities|||| |Fees due to Norwich Diocese|1,696.00||189.00| |Norwich Diocese|0.00||0.00| |Payroll Clearing|0.00||0.00| |Payroll Liabilities|||| |HMRC|0.00||0.00| |Pension|0.00||0.00| |**Total Payroll Liabilities**|**0.00**||**0.00**| |**Total Current Liabilities**|**£1,696.00**||**£189.00**| |**Total Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**|**£1,696.00**||**£189.00**| |NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)|**£87,476.92**||**£103,146.61**| |TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES|**£87,476.92**||**£103,146.61**| |TOTAL NET ASSETS (LIABILITIES)|**£87,476.92**||**£103,146.61**| |Charity funds|||| |General Fund|23,654.53||30,729.63| |Opening Balance Equity|0.00||0.00| |Restricted Funds|||| |All Saints Fund (Postwick)|13,028.57||20,739.12| |Anna Chaplaincy|1,570.76||1,925.13| |Church Re-Ordering|21,977.74||22,799.74| |Interns|6,134.52||5,712.77| |Juliet Bloor Legacy Fund|8,335.22||8,335.22| |Norman Richardson (grave flowers) Fund|840.00||945.00| |St Michael & All Angels Fund (Braydeston)|1,517.00||1,517.00| |Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle|8,421.48||8,445.90| |Youth Mission support|1,997.10||1,997.10| |**Total Restricted Funds**|**63,822.39**||**72,416.98**| Wednesday, 26 April 2023 04:20 pm GMT+01:00 1/2 ## The Yare Valley Churches ## Balance Sheet As of December 31, 2022 |||TOTAL|| |---|---|---|---| ||AS OF DEC 31, 2022||AS OF DEC 31, 2021 (PY)| |Retained Earnings|15,669.69||-7,166.45| |Surplus/(Deficit)|-15,669.69||7,166.45| |**Total Charity funds**|**£87,476.92**||**£103,146.61**| Wednesday, 26 April 2023 04:20 pm GMT+01:00 2/2 THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Diocese of Norwich Independent Examiners Certificate Report to the trustoesl membets of: On accounts forthe year ended: Charity no lif any): report to the trustees on my examination of the a(￿Unts of the ab()ve charity l.the Trusf) for the year ended Sl i il ILO&L Responsibilities and basis of report As th** ¢￿an￿'S +JL's+ees. you are Ei spop.sible for the preparation ofthe accounts in accordance with tiie resui+enenls ol Charities Act 2011 l.the Acr). I re?p Oit ip. respect of ny examina+ior. of the Trusys actrunts carr*d out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in ￿.TYIng Oiit rny exaniii ation. I have followed all the appluble Di￿tion.S -tven by the Charity Corr,missK)n under sertion 145(51{b} of the ACL Independfrnt examinèr's slatement ll. Delete [] if not apulicable. I have completed my examination. I ￿nfirn that no maten.al matter5 have come to my attelltton in connection with the examinEition (other thap, that dtscbse(I bebw ) wP.*ch gives me cause to believe that ip.. any material fespect . the accounting recoi-ds were not kept in accordance with secbon 130 of the ChaTithes Act,. or • the accounts did not ac(x)rd with the accounting records.. or •he 3S(yJUnK￿ did n?r com.ply the appl￿ble reauiremerts wnceming th• form and cop.lent of al.￿o￿nI￿a Out in C￿•..-,￿ IAcrxJunts and Reports} Regulations 20G8 other than ariy qilbrthmep.t ihal th• acthuats g:'ve a 'lDJe and fair. ￿leW whitr, is not a maiTer considered as part of an inaepeider4t eX4￿mina￿01?. I have no ccnceTr,s and nave come acTOSS no oth-r Matte￿￿ in ¢onnectian with the examination. to Ivhicii attention 4hoLild be drawn in this rep)rt in order to enable a proper understanding ot the accounts lo be reached. ' Please delete the words in the brackets if triey do not apply. Signwi.. Date". Name.. Oct 2018 Relevant professional qualificationlsl or tKJdy Irf any) Address.. Sgction B Dlsclosur• Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charty accounts: directions and guidance for examiners}. Glve here brief details of rior .14 Ck ty0￿3￿0￿ os any items that the examlner wishes to disclose Q. L.0. IER Oct 2018