## **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|Statement confirming whether
Para 1.18|**Yes**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |||**N/A**| |
Policy on grant making

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

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:**
**Objectives:**
**Build relationships with families and grow**
**a new younger congregation**
**Develop new groups for children and**
**young people**
**Connect with individuals in the village**
**who are living alone or isolated from**
**others, impacted by food**
**poverty/disability/age**
**Become a visible ‘church’ by working in**
**partnership with local organisations for**
**the benefit of the wider community**
**Achievements:**
**Community Pantry**
**Forget me not Café**
**Toddlers Group**
**Anna Chaplaincy ministry in care homes**
**and visiting older people**| ## **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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Para 1.41|| |

Investment
performance
against objectives

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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
73 The Street
Brundall
Norfolk NR13 5EB| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**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||| |1
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20|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||| |||||| ||
|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| 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)**

D Hanson
Dave Hanson
PCC ChairIncumbent

14 March 2025||| |---|---|---| ||D Hanson|| ||Dave Hanson|| ||PCC ChairIncumbent|| |||| ||
14 March 2025|| **Date** The Yare Valley Churches Financial Activities January- December 2024 TOTAL JAN - DEC 2024 JAN- DEC 2023 IPYI Income 101 General Fund (Receipts) Donalions and legacies General Giving Interest Receivable MiscellaneoLts and Fundraising Income Other Primary Income PCC Fees Roc Totsl 101 General Fund IRec8lpts) 102 Buildings & Churchyard {IN Receipts) IN-01 Churchyard income IN-16 St Laurence Centre Room Hire Total IN-16 St Laurenca Cerrtr8 7,519.14 40.933.92 3,607.46 776.50 10,659.61 4,420.00 67,916.63 7.358.18 37.445.57 2.105.17 491.24 12,656.74 7,123.00 67,179.90 400,00 420.00 1,202.00 1,622.00 2,022.00 400.00 326.24 863.00 1,189.24 1,589.24 Total 102 Buildings & Churchyard (IN Recelpts) 103 Mission (OUT Receipts) OUT-12 Mission income OUT-17 Holiday club incoma OUT-2 Youth Cafe OUT4 Community Cafe OUT-6 Sports Ministry Income OUT-9 Toddler cafe Tolal 103 MEsslon (OUT Racelpts) 104 Parish & Partnerships (OF Receipis} OF-5 PCC Expenses {Receipls) Total 104 Partsh & Partnership6 (DF Recelpts) 105 Worship {UP Receipts) UP-1 Services income UP-8 Flower Team income Total 105 Worshlp IUP R8celpts) 106 Reslricted Fund (Receipts) All Saints Fund IPostwick} OUT-12 Community Pantry (Receipisl OUT-14 Anna Chaplaincy OUT-3 Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle Total 106 Restrfcted Fund {Re¢elpts) Total Income 385.70 188.14 183.50 269.30 55.50 5,218.79 180.16 751.35 6,658.60 6.134.82 6.708.e6 218.00 218.00 2,461.77 2,461.77 10.00 160.00 170.00 70.00 178.10 248.10 5,218.55 9,857.80 1,150.00 20.00 16,246.35 £93,281.64 £93,281.64 1,557.49 2,286.00 462.50 136.02 4.442.01 £82.579.62 TOTAL £82,579.62 Cash Basis Monday 3 February 2025 11:54 pm GMT+OO:00 1r& The Yare Valley Churches Financial Activities January - December 2024 TOTAL JAN - DEC 2024 JAN- DEC 2023 IP Expenditures 202 Buildings & Churchyard (IN Payments) IN 1 Churchyard maintanence IN 10 Rector's expenses Phone Costs Total IN 10 R8ctrJfs expense8 IN 13 Stationary and offic8 supplies IN 14 Photocopyinglprinting IN 15 General Training IN 16 St Laurgnca C8ntre expendlture IN 2 Insurances IN 3 Cleaning IN 4 Water IN 5 Electricity IN60il IN 7 Maintanence plans IN 8 Inspections IN 9 Training and support Payroll Expenses IN 19 Wages Total Payroll Expenses Tot￿ 202 Buildlngs & Churchyard (IN Payments) 203 Mission IOUT Payments) OUT 10 Publicity OUT 12 Mission OUT 17 Holiday club OUT 4 Community Cafe (Expenses) OUT 5 Resource Manager OUT 6 Sports Ministry Expenses OUT 9 Toddler ¢ale expenses Tolak 203 Mlsslon (OLTf Paymonty) 204 Parish & Partnerships (OF Payments} OF 1 8en8fic8 request OF 5 PCC expenses OF 6 iKnow database OF 8 Website Total 204 Parlsh & P&tn8tships IDF Pa￿ents) 205 Worship (UP Paymenlsl UP 1 SeNic8 OXP8ns8S UP 10 CCLI li￿nCeS UP 8 Flower Team UP 9 Musiclchoir Total 205 Worshlp {UP Payments) 1,798.90 84.80 182.38 267.18 1,956.72 101.88 152.30 128.30 106.96 30.00 934.26 5,252.27 1,566.79 316.09 3,424.56 -0.06 1,615.00 588.00 240.00 512.40 5,338.71 1,075.94 334.26 4,459.07 415.33 2,392.00 1,152.00 8,969.88 8,969.88 17,999.97 25,128.77 226.11 385.70 58.20 2,621.25 31.98 183.50 2,287.61 80.71 428.70 204.11 3,216.61 829126 43,232.00 2,249.95 38,682.00 4,277.96 690.00 616.00 130.00 46,097S5 43,779.96 564.60 739.37 103.84 290.73 702.28 208.90 149.99 1,351.90 1A07A1 Cash Basis Monday 3 February 2025 11:54 pm GMT+OO:00 The Yare Valley Churches Financial Activities January - December 2024 TOTAL JAN - DEC 2024 JAN- DEC 2023 IPYI 206 Restricted Fund (Payments) All Saint's Fund (Postwickl IN17 Reordering Expenditure Norman Richardson (grave flowers) Fund OF 9 Mission & Discipleship cxpenses OUT 14 Anna Chaplaincy OUT 3 Wheal¢hair Accessibla Vehicle OUT-12 Community Panlry (Payments) Tolal 206 Restrfcted Fund IPayments> Payroll Expenses Pension Wages Total Payroll Expengeg Total Exp8ndltyres NET OPERATING INCOME 920.00 1,535.50 60.00 197.33 1,655.46 1,238.04 2.568.06 8.174.39 1,600.50 69.00 408.82 1,639.43 1,538.10 5,255.85 16.93 9,397.35 9.414.28 £88.385.66 0.00 0.00 £78,733.09 £3,846.53 £3,846.&8 £6.895.98 £6,895.98 NET INCOMEI(EXPENDtTURE) Cash Basis Monday 3 February 2025 11:54 pm GMT+OO:00 The Yare Valley Churches Balance Sheet As of December 31. 2024 TOTAL AS OF DEC 31, 2024 AS OF DEC 31, 2023 IPYI Fixed Assel Tolal FLK8d Asset Cash at bank and in hand Cash on hand Sanlander Currenl {3961) The CBF Church of England Deposit Fund Total Cash at bank and in hand 0.00 27,850.25 71,389.37 £99,239.62 £99,t39.62 564.00 23,795.32 67,791.13 £92,150.45 £92,150.45 NET CURRENT ASSETS Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Current Liabilities Faes du8 to Norwich Dlocese Payroll Liabilities Nest pension Total Payroll Lf8bllHI88 Total Curront Llablllllo8 1,033.00 827.00 17.19 17.19 £1.050.19 £1.050.19 £98,189.43 £98,189.43 £98,189.43 £827.00 Total CrodMor8: amiits falllwJ due wllhln one year NET CURRENT ASSETS {LIABILITIES> TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES £827.00 £91,3fJ.45 £91 W3.45 £91￿23.45 TOTAL NET ASSETS {LIA8ILITIES) Charfty funds General Fund Reslricled Funds All Saints Fund IPostwid(I Anna Chaplaincy Church R8.Ord8ring and D8velopm8nl Church Vehicle Ilormerly WAV} Community Pantry Juliet Bloor Legacy Fund Mission & Discipleship Norman Richardson (grave flowers) Fund St Michaèl & All Angels Fund IBraydeston) Youth Mission support Totsl14e8trIc￿ Funds 26.919.77 28,095.75 17.284.11 1,118.98 20,442.24 5,710.03 8.256.79 8,335.22 5.937.19 671.00 1,517.00 1,997.10 71,269.e6 -6,895.98 6,895.98 £98.189.43 12,985.58 1,624.44 21,977.74 6.918.07 967.05 8,335.22 6,134.52 771.00 1,517.00 1,997.10 63,227.70 -3,846.53 3,846.53 £91,323.45 Retained Earnings SurplusllDelicitl Total Charity funds Cash Basis Monday 3 February 2025 11:55 pm GMT+OO:00 111 Yare Valley Churches - Notes to the 2024 accounts Financial Activities - overview Excess of re￿iptS over expenditure across all our funds is £6865.98. This is made up of a deficit on our General Fund of £1175.98 and an overall increase in the Restricted Funds of £8041.96. Details of the change over the year for each of our funds is set out on the sheet headed 'Yare Valley Churches funds movement 2024" Financial Activities- General Fund 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. Other Primary Income is Gift Aid recovered on 2023 income £10195.87 plus income from endowments held for us by the Diocese £463.74 Gift Aid receipts were down about £2000 from the previous year, because of reduced giving in 2023. Churchyard income is a grant from Postwick with Witton Parish Council for the upkeep of Postwick churchyard. We do not meet the criteria for Brundall Parish Council to make donations towards the upkeep of either Brundall or Braydeston churchyards. The endowrnent income referred to above includes £260.43 for the upkeep of Brundall churchyard. Toddler Café (OUT 9) receipts and expenditure are included in Community Café (OUT 4) for 2024. IN 5 Electricity". no grants towards these costs were re￿iVed in 2024. We received a 'winter pressures, grant of £350 from Broadland District Council for the warm spaces provision in our cafes for winter 2024125, this income is included in the Community Café receipts. Payroll Expenses are for our part-time Resources Manager. p.1 & 3 Mission OUT 12. Money was collected and paid out to Christian Aid {£26 for receipts taken on our card reader at the fund-raising coffee morning), the Bishop's Fund (retiring collection of £306.70 taken at the Rectorfs institution), and the Royal British Legion (£53). Benefice Request OF 1: the amount ￿qUeSted by the Diocese for 2024 was £57641 and the amount actually paid was £43232. An additional £240 was credited to us in respect of fees for funerals at a crematorium, bringing the total to £43472. This is equivalent to 75.420/0 of the amount requested by the Diocese. Balance Sheet- Restricted Funds All Saints Fund (Postwick): £7115.31 of the total is for restricted purposes at Postwick Church and £10168.80 is available for general purposes in connection with Poshvick Church. This fund benefitted from a legacy from the late Anne Walker, who left £3000 for the upkeep of the fabric of All Saints Church. Community Pantry: in addition to donations from the church family and the general public, this fund received three grants during 2024: £1500 from Broadland District Council, £3000 from a local charitable trust and £300 from Yare Valley Rotary Club. JiiiiJJiii Jjiill Jiji JJJJ113 <0 o o (J O °pJ THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Diocese of Norwich . Independent Examiners Certificate On acMunts for th• year0nd￿. I report to the t￿￿ on my examlnalion of the a(xounts ofthe above charity nhe Trusn for the year ended li i Iii loi As the charftys trustees, you are Tesponsible for the preparallon olthe accounts In a0￿rdar￿ with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 fthe Acr). I report in respe¢t of my 8¥am5￿tion of Ihe T￿￿r$0¢cOUltsCa14l8d out under sectiOFF 14Saf the 2011 Act and in ReguFatiM$ 2008 other than any requlrement that Ihe accounts give a'true and fair view whlch is not a matter considered as part of an independent ￿mInation. which attention should be dravm in this report in order to enable a proper understsnding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Date: 17 Mh¢tH 202 Name: Jiu IER Oct 2018 Relevant professional qualificalion(s) or b (rf any) Y4 4KI3 5N)w Onty completelf the examiner needsto hlthllght material rnatters of Con￿rn {see CC32. Independent examlnatlon of charlty accounts: dirertions and guldance for enmlners). brfef det￿ts of any itsms th4tthe wlshosto dlsdose IER Oct 2018