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Report and Accounts for year ending 31[st] December 2024

Aim and purposes

The Parochial Church Council of All Saints’ Friern Barnet (the “PCC” or “we”) co-operates with the clergy based in the parish, in promoting public worship, teaching, evangelism and pastoral work in the ecclesiastical parish of All Saints’ Friern Barnet (also known as All Saints’ N20), and in supporting other charities in the UK and overseas. The PCC is also responsible for the maintenance and operation of All Saints’ church hall.

Objectives and activities

The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church and to become part of our parish community at All Saints’. Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament.

When planning its activities for the year the PCC and the incumbent considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. The PCC tries to enable people to live out their faith as part of our parish community through:

All of this can be summarised by the PCC considering, in everything it does, the core tenets of its Mission Action Plan:

To facilitate and support this work it is important that the PCC maintains the fabric of All

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Saints’ Church and the church hall.

Achievements and performance

Vacancy

The most important event this year was The Revd Kim stepping down after 2½ years as our priest in charge on 2[nd] May. Her husband had been appointed vicar of a church in Watford, and she and her family had decided to live in the vicarage there; in addition, it was clear that the running of the joint benefice between All Saints’ and St John the Apostle, Whetstone was a significant strain and was not functioning well. The joint Benefice was therefore split into two as before, with Revd Kim remaining as St John’s priest in charge. At the same time, we said goodbye to the Revd Ruth Copping as our assistant curate – she remained with St John’s and the Revd Harry Lamb remained with All Saints’, continuing as our Associate Priest. We are grateful for the service of The Revds Kim and Ruth while they were with us.

We are especially grateful for the time, leadership and energy of Fr Harry, who has led us through a second vacancy with his care, love and prayers, leading most of our services in that time, and of Debi Rush and Linda Folan as our representatives in the process. We are delighted that this process culminated in the selection of The Revd Gospel Iwuoha to be our new priest-in-charge, and subject to formalities, he will be formally licensed in the New Year. Fr Gospel was already living in the vicarage as the tenant of the diocese while it was not needed by Revd Kim, and so preached to us for the first time at our Christmas Day service. Fr Gospel has, pending licensing, continued to lead services in 2025 alongside Fr Harry.

Worship and prayer

Until the beginning of May, our main Sunday service continued at 9.30am to allow Revd Kim to attend both All Saints’ and St John’s, N20 each week. Following her departure, the PCC decided to revert to holding our main Sunday service at 10am, which seems to suit All Saints’ and its congregation better.

Throughout the year we have largely maintained the following pattern of services:

We are grateful for the work of our Director of Music, Dr Douglas Knight, and our choir in delivering Choral Evensongs and Choral Masses throughout the year, but were sad when Douglas announced his resignation from the position as All Saints’ Director of Music with effect from 31[st] October 2024. Many thanks to Douglas for everything he has done for us over the previous 5 years.

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Junior church, under the leadership of Sarah Rice, has gone from strength to strength and we thank Sarah for her continued leadership of this important aspect of our worship and mission.

Throughout the year, the regular weekday Eucharist has continued with a small but loyal congregation, and we continued throughout the year to broadcast morning and evening prayer daily to a small but very loyal congregation. This has become a regular part of our spiritual life, continuing throughout the year.

We hold regular online Morning and Evening Prayers on weekdays at 8.30am and 5.30pm as follows:-

The parish is looking forward to working with Fr Gospel and Fr Harry in 2025.

Deanery Synod

The Barnet Deanery Synod meets twice during the year, in February and July, and provides the PCC with an important link between the parish and the wider structures of the church. Amongst the topics discussed was the proposed re-organisation of parishes in Colindale to meet altered need and “Love Matters” The Archbishops’ Commission Report on Families and Households.

Children and Young People

As mentioned, on Sundays during term time a Junior Church is run in the Church Hall parallel to the main service, with the children joining us for Communion.

During term time we run “Little Saints”, a playgroup in the hall, open to the wider community, and which is usually busy and great fun.

Other organisations also run events for children in our hall, ranging from Kumon maths to a weekly nursery, singing and language and sport lessons.

Pastoral care

The Wednesday morning Coffee, Cake and Cleaning Club in church, which brings

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together priests, cleaners, flower arrangers and gardeners, as well as those wanting a cup of coffee and a chat, has continued throughout the year. We are grateful to all those who attend for their work cleaning the church and maintaining the garden.

Mission, outreach and evangelism

The PCC distributes a weekly newsletter by email - at the end of the year there were over 190 recipients. The PCC maintain a website, a “Church Near You” page, a Facebook page followed at the end of the year by 389 people and a Twitter feed.

Throughout the year we have collected for the foodbank at St Barnabas’s Church in North Finchley.

Friends of All Saints’ Together

We have during the vacancy created a new organisation within All Saints’, the Friends of All Saints’ Together or “FAST”. FAST’s aims are to engage with those who see All Saints’ as “their” church, support its continued existence but for whatever reason do not attend church regularly, and where possible to raise money from them. This year FAST had a successful launch tea, contributed refreshments at organ recitals, held a talk on the history and architecture of the Church, and sold All Saints’ Christmas cards with designs from our resident artist, Jenny Geddes. in addition to providing support for social and fundraising events. We are grateful to Dianne Esmond and Drew and Deborah Rush for their leadership of FAST.

Safeguarding

The PCC confirms that it has complied with the duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (duty to have regard to House of Bishops’ guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults).

Financial review

2023 was a poor year financially but this year has been much more successful, buoyed by an increase in donations following the true nature of our financial position becoming clear at the beginning of the year, one or two exceptional payments, and the success of our hall.

Voluntary giving on unrestricted funds was £35,711 (2023: £28,641) but £32, 517 was also raised on restricted (2023: £0) particularly for a newly established fund to renew our hall toilets and FAST. Income from our hall rose to £92,502 (2023: £76,095). Fundraising had a successful year, particularly leading three events, Mardi Gras, Ceilidh and

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Christmas Fair. The gross amount raised before expenses was £10,448 (2023: £6,534) with the profit from the Christmas Fair of £3,767 being allocated to the hall toilet fund. All this meant that our unrestricted income in the year was £167,633 (2023: £136, 303) with restricted funds raised totalling £36,284 (2023: £115).

As for expenditure, realising the position we were in, we reduced our Common Fund payment – which we pay to the diocese to cover the cost of clergy, the cost of clergy housing and the cost of clergy training – to £36,00 (2023: £40,000). This year we will attempt to pay £40,000 again. That helped reduced our expenditure to £144,126 (2023: £149,608).

This meant we achieved a surplus on unrestricted funds of £23,507 (2023: (£13.305)).

This is an exceptional result for the reasons stated. Going forward we need to attempt to maintain this good financial performance, and use any surplus over the level of reserves we are advised to keep to assist with necessary church repairs, increasing our Common Fund payments and perhaps also improving our outward giving, which has only been in kind this year through foodbank donations.

As a postscript, in March 2025, after the accounts for 2024 had been produced and examined, we received from our energy suppliers an electricity bill which charged us £12.935 (££12,255 in respect of the hall and £670 in respect of the church) for the last five months of 2024. This does not wipe out the significant turnaround in our accounts in 2024, but will significantly impact on our ability to continue to improve this year.

Reserves

At the end of 2023, our reserves dropped to £16,934, which was 11% of our expenditure for the year. At the start of 2024, the PCC decided to attempt to increase our reserves to £40,000 over the next two years. Thanks to this exceptional year, we have achieved that in one year, with our reserves now standing at £40,441.

Volunteers

The PCC would like to thank all the many parishioners who volunteer to work so hard to make All Saints’ the lively and vibrant community it is, whether they be churchwardens, our welcoming team, PCC members, choristers, servers, lesson readers, cleaners, gardeners, flower arrangers, bell-ringers, those helping to run the halls, those helping in our fundraising and to organise social events, and those who work with children and young people. T heir contribution is invaluable, and All Saints’ could not function without them.

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Administration, structure, governance and management

All Saints’ Church is situated at 122 Oakleigh Road North, London N20 9EX. It is part of the Diocese of London within the Church of England.

The Parochial Church Council is a corporate body established by the Church of England. The PCC operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure. The PCC is a Registered Charity under number 1139920.

The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. At All Saints’ the membership of the PCC consists of the incumbent (our priest-incharge), the other priests of the parish, churchwardens, and members of the PCC or Deanery Synod elected by those members of the congregation who are on the electoral roll of the church. All those who attend our services are encouraged to register on the electoral roll and stand for election to the PCC.

The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the parish, including decisions on how the funds of the PCC are to be spent.

The full PCC met four times during the year, as well as an away day to prepare for the revision of our Mission Action Plan. Until the APCM, there was also a standing committee to deal with urgent business which met three times, and after that two new sub-committees were formed to deal with urgent business, one focusing on worship and one focusing on buildings.

The PCC enjoys the support of a parish administrator, who was Jenny do Carmo until July and since September has been Stephanie Caeiro da Rosa and thanks both for their work, particularly in running the hiring of the hall, a significant part of the PCC’s income. The PCC is also grateful for the hard work, dedication and loyalty over many years of our hall manager, Lynne Day.

PCC members who have served at any time during the year ending 31[st] December 2024 are:

Ex Officio members:

Incumbent:

Associate Priest:

The Revd Kim Quak-Winslow (until 5[th] May 2024) The Revd Harry Lamb

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Assistant Curate: The Revd Ruth Copping (until 5[th] May 2024) Churchwardens: Clive Richardson Debi Rush Deanery Synod David Lane (also PCC treasurer) and Representatives: Nick Healy

Elected members:

Karen Charles Patricia Masters Jane Corkhill Julian Olver Dianne Esmond Yvonne Olver Linda Folan Sarah Rice (from 28[th] April 2024) James Kent-Winsley Annette Ross

PCC Secretary

Jennifer do Carmo (until 18[th] July 2024)) Subsequently vacant.

Approved by the PCC on 18[th] March 2025 and signed on its behalf by The Revd Harry Lamb (Chair)

The Revd Harry Lamb (Chair)

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Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2024 of the Parochial Church Council of All Saints’ Friern Barnet

Statement of Financial Activities

Receipts and Payments Accounts

Receipts and Payments Accounts
2024
2024
2024
Unrestricted Restricted
Total
Note
funds
funds
Funds		 2023
2023
2023
Unrestricted Restricted
Total
funds
funds
Funds
3a
46,482
32,517
78,999
3b
6,681
3,767
10,448
3c
18,576 -
18,576
3d
95,894 -
95,894
167,633
36,284 203,917
4a
71,098 -
71,098
4b
69,116
2,594
71,710
4c
3,912
585
4,497
144,126
3,179 147,305
23,507
33,105
56,612
16,934
115,565132,499
40,441
148,670 189,111		 33,570 -
33,570
6,422
112
6,534
17,148 -
17,148
79,163 -
79,163
136,303
112
136,415
79,504
8,608
88,112
67,754
942
68,696
2,350 -
2,350
149,608
9,550
159,158
(13,305)
(9,438)
(22,743)
30,239
125,003
155,242
16,934
115,565
132,499

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Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2024 of the Parochial Church Council of All Saints’ Friern Barnet

Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31st December 2024

2024
2024
2024
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
funds
funds
Funds		 2023
2023
2023
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
funds
funds
Funds
40,441
148,670
189,111		 16,934
115,565
132,499
1,198
18
1,216
2,789
-
2,789		 2,822
-
2,822
2,301
-
2,301
3,987
18
4,005
-
300,000
300,000		 5,123
-
5,123
-
300,000
300,000
1,040,000
-
1,040,000		 1,040,000
-
1,040,000
-
-
-		 270
-
270
-
-
-		 270
-
270

Approved by the Parochial Church Council on 18[th] March 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

The Revd Harry Lamb (chair)

The attached notes form part of these accounts

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Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2024 of the Parochial Church Council of All Saints’ Friern Barnet

Notes to the Financial Statements

NOTE 1: Basis of Preparation

The financial statements of the PCC have been prepared in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 using the Receipts and Payments basis.

NOTE 2: The Movements on the Restricted Funds during the Year

Movements on the restricted funds were:

Balance Receipts Payments Balance
b/fwd c/fwd
Heating and Lighting Fund 111,115 - - 111,115
Hall Repairs 4,242 - 2,594 1,648
Hall Toilets - 34,498 - 34,498
Friends of All Saints Together - 1,696 585 1,111
Organ Repair Fund 208 90 - 298
Totals 115,565 36,284 3,179 148,670

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Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2024 of the Parochial Church Council of All Saints’ Friern Barnet

Notes to the Financial Statements continued

NOTE 3: Detailed Breakdown of Income

2024
2024
2024
Unrestricted Restricted
Total
funds
funds
2024
3a: Voluntary Income
Voluntary giving
35,711
32,380
68,091
Gift aid received
8,566
137
8,703
VAT reclaim under Listed Places of
Worship scheme
2,205
-
2,205
Voluntary Income totals
46,482
32,517 78,999
3b: Activities for generating funds
Fundraising and events
6,681
3,767
10,448
3c: Investment income
Rental income from Temple Avenue
16,350
-
16,350
Bank Interest Received
2,226
-
2,226
Investment Income Totals
18,576
-
18,576
3d: Income from church and Hall activities
Fees received for services
2,186
-
2,186
Miscellaneous income from Church
activities
1,206
-
1,206
Total for Church activities
3,392
-
3,392
Hall Lettings
68,390 -
68,390
Hall Bar
12,362 -
12,362
Other Hall activities
8,201 -
8,201
St John's Contribution to costs of
administrator
3,549 -
3,549
Grant towards costs of hall heating
-
-
Total for Hall Activities
92,502
-92,502
Total Income from Church and Hall
activities
95,894
-
95,894
Total Income
167,633
36,284
203,917		 2023
2023
2023
Unrestricted Restricted
Total
funds
funds
2024
28,641
- 28,641
4,929
-
4,929
- -
-
33,570
- 33,570
6,422
112
6,534
15,750
- 15,750
1,398 -
1,398
17,148 - 17,148
2,341
-
2,341
727
-
727
3,068-
3,068
54,492
-54,492
9,693
-
9,693
1,537
-
1,537
5,373
-
5,373
5,000-
5,000
76,095
-76,095
79,163
-
79,163
136,303
112
136,415

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Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2024 of the Parochial Church Council of All Saints’ Friern Barnet

Notes to the Financial Statements continued

NOTE 4: Detailed Breakdown of Expenditure

2024
2024
2024
Unrestricted Restricted
Total
funds
funds
Funds		 2023
2023
2023
Unrestricted Restricted
Total
funds
funds
Funds
- -
-
36,000
-
36,000
406 - 406
17,690 -
17,690
8,723 - 8,723
5,679 - 5,679
575 - 575
2,025 - 2,025		 -
112
112
40,000
-
40,000
2,125
-
2,125
18,516
-
18,516
9,403
-
9,403
5,354
8,496
13,850
2,089
-
2,089
2,017
-
2,017
71,098
-
71,098
5,921
- 5,921
21,052
-
21,052
7,913
2,594
10,507
1,921
- 1,921
32,309
-
32,309		 79,504
8,608 88,112
3,901
-
3,901
23,580
-
23,580
2,728
942
3,670
1,834
-
1,834
35,711
-
35,711
69,116
2,594
71,710
3,912
585 4,497		 67,754
942
68,696
2,350
-
2,350
144,126
3,179
147,305		 149,608
9,550159,158

NOTE 5: Related Party Transactions

Income from voluntary giving includes £10,648 received from members of the PCC (2023: £7,250). No payments (other than normal expenses) were made to members of the PCC (2023: £0).

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the members of the Parochial Church Council of All Saints’ Friern Barnet

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2023, which are set out on pages 8 to 12.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

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