## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/01/23 Period start date To 31/12/24 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
governing document|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**
**as 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


|| Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set Para 1.41 Investment performance against objectives Para 1.41 Other ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are 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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Para 1.46|| |

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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Para 1.51|| |||| |---|---|---| |

The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works

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Para 1.51|| |

Relationship with any related
parties

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Para 1.51|| |
Other

||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Yare Valley Churches| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|113895| |Charity’s principal address|The Rectory
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Brundall
Norfolk NR13 5EB| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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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 &
Lay Chair||| ||Tom Morgan|Fabric Officer||| ||Elisabeth Morgan|Church Warden &
Synod Rep||| ||Victoria Gaskin|Church Warden||| ||Gillian Groat|Finance Officer||| ||Keith Gerrard|Lay Reader/Synod
Rep||| ||Ann Brownlee|PCC member||| ||Douglas Bain|Synod Rep||| ||

Rosie Bickers|PCC member||| ||

June Carding|PCC member||| |||||| ||

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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**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**||| |---|---|---| ||G Hailstone|| ||

Gaye Hailstone|| ||

Trustee & acting PCC Secretary|| **Date** 12/07/24 Yare Valley Churches Notes to the 2023 accounts Financial Activities – overview - p.3 Net income over expenditure is £3846.53. This is made up of an increase in our General Fund of £4441.22 and the overall reduction in the Restricted Funds of £594.69. The details of the change over the year for each of our funds is set out on the sheet headed “Yare Valley Churches funds movement 2023”. Financial Activities – General Fund - p.1 General Giving includes collections at services and through the Goodbox card reader, giving for general purposes by envelope and regular giving for general purposes by payments direct to the bank. - p.1 Other Primary Income is Gift Aid recovered on 2022 income £12200.10 plus income from endowments held for us by the Diocese £456.64. - p.1 Churchyard income is a grant from Postwick with Witton Parish Council for the upkeep of Postwick churchyard. - p.2 IN 5 Electricity: this figure is the cost of electricity bills paid in 2023 reduced by the value of grants received. These were £3000 from the Diocese in January for winter 2022/23 and £1460 from the Diocese in December for winter 2023/24, which were Energy Grants from central church funds for all our parish buildings, and £610.50 which was part of a Warm Spaces grant from Brundall Parish Council. A further £229 of the Warm Spaces grant was for the cost of a new microwave for hot snacks in the St Laurence Centre and the provision of free hot drinks at our cafes. - p.2 IN 6 Oil & IN 7 Maintenance plans. Our costs for these were reduced by donations made in respect of specific costs. - p.2 Payroll Expenses is net of a Sports Ministry Grant from the Diocese of £4973.73 to fund the employment costs of our Sports Minister, until Tom moved to his new post last March. Our Resources Manager is currently our only employee. - p.1 & 3 Mission OUT 12. Money was collected and paid out to the Children’s Society for Christingle 2022 (£87) and the Royal British Legion (£76.50). £20 donated by a parishioner for the Bishop’s appeal for Gaza is also recorded under this heading. Donations to the Community Pantry are now shown in a new Restricted Fund. - p.2 Benefice Request OF 1: the amount requested by the Diocese for 2023 was £54893 and the amount actually paid was £38682. An additional £390 was credited to us in respect of fees for funerals at a crematorium, bringing the total to £39072. This is equivalent to 71.2% of the amount requested by the Diocese. Balance Sheet – Restricted Funds - All Saints Fund (Postwick): £3204.06 is for restricted purposes at Postwick Church and £9781.50 is available for general purposes in connection with Postwick Church. - Community Pantry is a new Restricted Fund to clearly record and ring-fence all donations and grants made for this activity. . THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Diocese of Norwich Independent Examiners Certificate Report to the trusteesl mombers ofr. IMC CH¥JLcHGS LÉVI￿& K lorL3 On a¢¢ounts for th• year ended: Charity no (rf any): 113£qS 1 I reF)Ort to the trustees on my examination of the accounts ofthe above Ghanty {Ihe Trusy) for the year ended 31 l ill l¢.13 Rosponsibilities and basls of report As the charity's bustees. you are responsible for the prepara.on of the actounts in ac•))rdan￿ wilh the requirements of the Chartbes Act 2011 (Ihe Acri. I report in respect of my examinatton of the TDJsfs acc£MJnts ￿ttled out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I have folk)wed all the applicable Directions gwen by the Charity CommissN)n under section 145{5)(bl ofthe A( Independent examinert statem ]]. Delete [] if notapplicable. I have completed my examination. l (x)nfim that no material ff￿tte[s have ujme to my attention in connection vth the examin*"on ") which grves me cause to believe that in, any matefial respecL . the a¢¢ounting records We￿ not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Chaiilies Act; or • the ac£ounts did not accord with the a(yxJunts'ng records: or . the accounts did not o)mpty wth the appIl￿ble requirements conceming the fom and content of accounts set out in the Charittes {A¢￿unts and ReFQrts} Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accxjunts give a 'true and taif vw which 15 not a matter considered as part of ar¢ independent examination. I have no COn￿mS and have across ￿ other matter5 in ￿nneCtiOn with the examination to whiGh attention should be dra4vn in this report in onkr to enable a proper underslanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the woffjls in the brnckets rftt￿Y do not appfy. Signed: QoGtIL ) L IER Oct 2018 Relevant professional qualffication(sl or tM)dy (rf any) Address: Sfr¢tion B Dis¢losur• Only complete if the examiner need5 to highlight material wnatters of concem (see CC32. Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidan￿ for examiners). Give here brief detsils of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose IER Oct 2018