‘to follow Jesus in every way’ ## **Annual Report for 2020/21** Published for our Annual Meeting, 23[rd] May 2021, covering the 7 months of Oct 2020 to April 2021. ## Church Family News ## **Hello & Goodbye** In this shorter period dominated by Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions, there have been relatively few comings and goings. We formally welcomed Euna Kim and Janet Scott as new church members in January, and we’ve welcomed others now regularly worshipping with us. For some people our online services have been a helpful way to ‘check us out’ – our doors are now open in this way, wherever people live, and whenever they want to. We also welcome Wendy Burnhams, who was on ministry placement with us for the two months leading up to Easter, ahead of her ordination later this year. We were helped by her leading and preaching, and she says she gained much valuable experience in being in quite a different church context to that in Alton. Sadly taken from us during this period were long standing Christ Church members and friends Muriel Galley, Martin Banister, and Liz Williams. We have prayed for all those mourning their loss, and rejoice that we’ll be reunited in the heavenly age to come. ## **Electoral Roll and Membership** As of 10 May 2021, there were **120** Parishioners on the **Church Electoral Roll** , **65** of whom are not resident within the parish. 2 have been added to the Roll and 2 removed during the relevant period. We now have **123** adults on our separate **Church Membership list** , 3 have joined the membership and 3 came off. Of this number **100** are affiliated as ‘Ecumenical’ members, with the others having a variety of denominational affiliations. Before lockdown we had another 60 or so adults and 50 children regularly worshipping with us. _Gill Godfrey, Church Administrator and Electoral Officer_ 1 ## Minister’s Review I frequently think of the book titled “101 Things they don’t teach you in theological college”. Full of good advice … except on now to lead people and organisations (and yourself) through a Pandemic. Thankfully across the worldwide church many have risen to the challenge, as people tend to do in a crisis. People who study crises warn us that the harder time might still be ahead of us, as we move from emergency Response to Recovery. In part this will come because we have the permission to react normally again, not needing to put a brave face on things. The Children of Israel had various crises, which are scattered through the Old Testament histories. We looked at one of those during the last year: the increasingly cruel treatment as slaves of Pharaoh. How they longed to be elsewhere … and then God, through Moses, told of them of a new land, that would be permanently theirs. Their ‘promised land’. And, after the dramas and anguish of the plagues, while all of Egypt were mourning for their first-borns, they escaped Egypt and headed to their promised land, ‘flowing with milk and honey’. What is our promised land ahead, I wonder? “A time flowing with hugs, and with open gyms and cinemas”? The Children of Israel left their lockdown, “and they all lived happily ever after”. As if. Within days, they were complaining to God as they travelled through difficult desert terrain, and had the temerity to suggest they’d be better off back under Pharaoh. They even took to making a god to worship while Moses was consulting with Almighty God just a mile or two away. Their disobedience cost them a lost generation: all their adults who saw Egypt died before they reached the promised land. As we emerge from lockdown, where will God be? Where will we be with God? As we recover from the trials of 2020-21, let us not repeat the same mistakes others have made … In the review that follows, I’m grateful for all those who’ve kept their faith in God, despite the trials. It remains a wonderful privilege to minister at Christ Church, because of the faithfulness, friendship and support of so many. ## **Prayer Life** No church, ministry or individual Christian can flourish without the “hidden life of prayer”, which brings us to trust and know God more fully. We’ve continued to meet in small groups for prayer over Zoom several times each week – and we’ve found it’s the one sort of gathering where the Covid restrictions, and the limitations of Zoom, don’t make much difference. ## **Mission and Outreach** Some of our usual November and December activities – particularly the Christmas specials for Luncheon Club and the Matinee 123 group – couldn’t happen. Instead, some of the usual team members made up Christmas gift bags which we delivered to the regulars. Other activities changed shape: the Light Party went online with London St URC; our first ‘Zoom’ Christingle went very well; the Carol Service was joined by more people than usual (see below); and our Nativity went outside for three weekends in our new Shed. 2 The ‘Blue Christmas’ service was closest to being a normal event, happening in the building, and live-streamed. We also printed and delivered parish Christmas cards to most houses in the parish. One thing we couldn’t have done in a normal year is act as the collection and packing hub for Besom Basingstoke’s annual Christmas Hampers. For a month the Shaftesbury Room was filled with donated food and Christmas treats, while volunteers from many Basingstoke churches wrapped and packed the hampers, and then delivered them. What a practical expression of God’s love … like with the way we’ve used our building over many years to use our cupboards to store gifts and boxes that got turned into ‘Mustard Seed Shoeboxes’. Both examples show what a precious asset our building is. We will in future be more aware of the way it can be an enabler for various kinds of mission, even if that reduces our rental income. Similarly, our outreach around Easter changed shape and went outdoors, but also centred on our shed, now re-purposed as Jesus’ Tomb. This became part of several different ‘trails’: one for Great Binfields school on Maundy Thursday; one for any local families on Good Friday, and a small but important update to the tomb on Easter Day itself. We also had a ‘Muddy Church’ trail on Palm Sunday. Thanks to all who got involved, and particularly this year to Keith and Liz Lang who imagined and led the building and decoration of the shed, and Ayliffe Taylor who helped us reimagine Messy Church in our outdoor ‘Muddy Church’ sessions and trails. Finally, Liz and I have enjoyed running an online Youth Alpha session with a small group. ## **Teaching** During this period our small groups have studied the Bible in many different ways. In our services we’ve worked our way through Bible books (Habakkuk, 1 Thessalonians), and as well as considered themes (Heaven, Racial Justice, Depression). Our parents of younger children came together to create a new ‘Family Fun @4’ time on Sunday afternoons on Zoom, looking at many different prominent Old Testament characters, as well as praying and praising God together. ## **Worship Services** We started this period with ‘hybrid’ services, with people joining in from home via our YouTube channel or in the building (masked, and with distance between household ‘bubbles’). We continued the style that mixed the best of more contemporary and traditional styles, now always with our ‘Gallery’, as well as many songs and hymns specially recorded in our homes and edited together. We now have about 80 lyric videos in our collection! During these 7 months, we had over 6,000 ‘views’ on YouTube. The most-viewed services this period were the Carol Service, Remembrance Sunday’s “Waiting with Confidence”, and the service where we focussed on depression, “When darkness seems my closest friend”. Our Christmas Carol Service had to be online-only for many practical reasons – but it resulted in probably double the number attending than we could fit in the building, even without restrictions. It meant, too, that we could use a greater variety of musical style, and so we included more contemporary _and_ more traditional carols. After Christmas, came severe ‘Lockdown 3’. Along with the majority of churches we opted to go online-only again until the Covid infection rate reduced significantly again. Thankfully this happened just in time for Easter Day, when forty of us gathered in person again. Our joy was made 3 complete when after the hybrid service finished, we moved to the car park and in the warm sun reprised several of the songs and hymns, this time able to sing properly. ‘Thine be the glory risen conquering Son’ never sounded and felt so good! None of this would have been possible without hours of work by our new ‘streaming video’ team, (David Blake, Andrew Price, Keith McLeod, Gareth Rowlands) our many recording musicians, led by Sarah Roughley, Rebecca Pain, Peter Chiverton, Herb Payne and Marianne Sales, our video editors (Howard Roughley, Herb Payne, Jonathan Pain, Aidan Nickerson, Katie Nickerson), and those who have learned how to record readings or prayers at home. In fact, more people, not fewer, have contributed to our services during pandemic than before. Thanks to you all! We continued to make our services available on CD for two of our congregation who can’t access the internet. ## **Socials** Unsurprisingly, there’s not much to report during this period dominated by Lockdown 3. But we’ve retained our after-service coffee time and Tuesday craft group on Zoom. And some are enjoying the chance to chat in the church grounds after services, which is explicitly allowed in the Covid regulations. ## **Ecumenical Life** Christ Church remains formally part of the Baptist, Church of England, Methodist and United Reformed Church denominations. We’ve had visible expression of this by inviting some preachers from those denominations to join our local team. Our ecumenical work as part of OneChurch Basingstoke grows stronger. Myself and others from CCC have helped lead and host further town-wide services on Zoom. Even more local church leaders have continued meeting most weeks for support and prayer. A small group of these leaders have been joining webinars to learn from other Christian ‘unity groups’ in larger cities, who are coming together under the banner ‘Movement for Recovery’. Up and down the country the Holy Spirit appears to be prompting churches and Christian charities to join forces and offer help to mayors and local authorities, to help “build back better”. In some places the unity groups are now trusted enough to be commissioned (and paid) by those authorities to run a variety of social programmes. We’ve no idea what that might look like in Basingstoke yet, but OneChurch already has excellent Council links that we should be able to build further on. ## **Pastoral Care** Josephine Childs continues as our Pastoral Coordinator, and has recently been assisted by Linda Banfield. Our formal pastoral care team of 10 have been in touch with a good number of church members, mostly by phone call this year. (We only have one male on the team: we could do with more …) Much more support is given and received than this, of course, and I’m grateful for all that happens in and through the friendships in home groups and beyond. ## **Regular Groups** This short period has been dominated by lockdown, and these groups and activities have continued online: 4 - Home Groups – 10 different groups, weekly or fortnightly, largely on Zoom - Coffee, chat and craft group – weekly on Zoom - Open the Book at various local schools – provided as YouTube videos Only **Sparklers** has been able to operate in person, as group leader Tonya Butler explains: We were able to keep running in person by reducing numbers, bringing in social distancing, mask wearing, cleaning with disinfectant, having three days between sessions to reduce risk of infections through contact with toys and changing the way we provide snack time with only one member of the team dishing up whilst parents wash the children's hands and sit them socially distanced with food taken to them. In November we were allowing 12 parents to book on using the booking in system on ChurchSuite making sure we had all contact information for track and trace... In January we had to change this due to new government guidelines and lockdown... Myself and only one member of the team came in on a Monday morning and ran an invite only hour session for 3 parents that needed extra support. Parents were sat down with lots of space between and only a few toys put out for the children to play with, there was no snack time available and we did not charge for these sessions... On a Thursday we ran a zoom session, but once the virus numbers had come down, we ran the Thursday session the same as the Monday session. As the virus numbers came down further, we raised the number to 5 parents... In March once the schools returned, we were able to have the team back, all had been vaccinated, but still with restricted numbers. Overall, we think we’ve supported about 50 parents and their children during this time. ## **Safeguarding** Liz Lang continues as our Safeguarding Officer, and Alex Bain as our DBS Officer, both liaising with our chosen professional officers at the Diocese of Winchester. During this period the Church Council has complied with the duty to have ‘due regard’ to the House of Bishops’ Safeguarding Policy and Practice Guidance. As part of this the Church Council now has Safeguarding as a standing on its agenda, and on 27 April 2021 we agreed an addendum to our Safeguarding Policy that deals with Online Working, covering email, video conferencing, and social media. We have also asked most of our leaders, and all on the Church Council and those working with children, to complete basic online safeguarding training. We have established a new recording system to track what training church members have completed. ## **Data Protection** Gill Godfrey continues as our Data Protection Officer. The Church Council reviewed our Data Protection Policy, and on 17 Nov 2020 we added a section to reflect live streaming and video recordings. As a result we now have notices up that informs congregation members that we film our services, but aim never to show people except those who come to the lectern to contribute. Our live-streaming team members can blur out the image, or cut to a still image, or mute the stream entirely, if need be. We can also remove sections of a service from the YouTube recording if we realise after the fact that someone or something should not be publicly available. 5 ## **Thanks** We are an active church, and its only possible because lots of us get stuck into its different ministries. So, thank you for your involvement even in this restricted period. Particular thanks to those who have been leading or coordinating activities and groups, including Alex Bain, Denise Bain, Linda Banfield, Shirah Blackwood, David Blake, Becky Cassini, Martha Clark, Josephine Childs, Maggie & Peter Chiverton, Anne Daw, Kate Dean, Brian Foster, Katie & Jim Garner, Gill Godfrey, David Josey, Doris Kay, Aidan & Katie Nickerson, Keith Lang, Liz Lang, Jan Markey, Amy Mills, Patience Ndaga, Jonathan & Rebecca Pain, Herb & Marg Payne, Howard & Sarah Roughley, Rebecca Pain, Marianne Sales, Sue Strawson, Ayliffe Taylor, Liz Williams, Val Whitbread, Jo Weineck, Jean Wilde, and Andrew Young. Thanks too to our wonderful new Church Wardens Liz Foster and Olu Ojo-Oratokhai and staff team Liz Lang, Gill Godfrey, Tonya Butler, Brian Walker & Hayley Bedford, who in their different ways all contribute so much to our life and ministry. But most of all, “thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:57). _Jonathan Clark_ ## Mission Partnerships It with thankfulness that we have been able to maintain our donations and support through prayer despite the challenges of the last year and our Mission Partners have continued to maintain their Christian witness at home and abroad during the pandemic. The Mission Partnership are glad that we have all been upheld through prayer and God’s grace. For more information regarding our Mission Partners please refer to the link person below, the magazine and the noticeboard in the welcome area. **CCC Mission Partners List** (last updated 25.3.2021): |**Partner**|**Type**|**Link**|**Next Review**| |---|---|---|---| |URC Youth and CommunityCafé|Local support + Mission|Liz Foster|2021| |Street Pastors|Local support|Eddie Izzard|2022| |Town Chaplaincy|Local support|Eddie Izzard|2022| |Junction 5|Local support|Helen Price|2020| |Flavel Church|UK Mission|Liz Foster|2021| |SMILE Uganda|Overseas Support + Mission|Denise Bain|2022| |CathyBartram / Wycliffe|Overseas Mission|Jonathan Clark|2023| |Angoon / Compassion|Overseas support|Jemima Lowe|2023| |EAB|Overseas Support + Mission|Jean North|2023| ## **Previous Partners** , for information: |**Previous Partners**, for information:||| |---|---|---| |**Partner**|**Type**|**Until**| |Duncalfes / Mission Aviation Fellowship|Overseas Mission|Ceased 2019| |House Of Hope,India|Overseas Education|Ceased 2020| 6 **The Youth and Community Café at the URC** , under COVID guidelines, closed in March 2020. It adapted to the pandemic by providing meals on wheels to be delivered to those isolating and/or in need of support. The café team has also been working with the Community Food Link to take food donated by their partner supermarkets to make and provide food for the Community Food Table. This table operates outside the URC church daily from 12-1pm. The Community Food Table is seen as an outreach project not only supplying food for those in need but words of encouragement/ help to those passing the church. During the spring term a similar Youth Cafe table has been trialled, operating again daily 3-4 pm. This table is seen as an outreach project aimed at school and college pupils. **Smile Uganda:** continue to provide a variety of evangelism and outreach support programmes for the people in Kampala. They had a particularly hard time during the elections when riots and street violence made it so unsafe that Alex, Bennie and the family had to find refuge in the north of the country where it was safer for them. The local team kept the work going conscious at all times of balancing safety and witness. As soon as it was safe for them the family returned to continue their work taking God’s word and practical help to those in need. Smile Uganda is suffering from a fluctuating income and appreciate all that we can do for them to reach out in love to help those in need. **Street Pastors and Chaplaincy:** reach out and witness to the people in Basingstoke. Street pastors providing a life-line for many who emerge after a night on the town in need of friendly support and kindness. The Chaplaincy is a Christian presence in the town witnessing and supporting workers and visitors during the day. During the restrictions of the pandemic work has continued from home to set up plans for the lifting of lockdown. David Grant is now Coordinator of Basingstoke Street Pastors and has mentioned the following points for prayerful consideration: that more volunteers will come forward. for prayer partners for the different teams as they start their walk - for volunteer to take on the role of street pastors to relieve the teams - for prayer supporters - for financial support **Cathy Bartram and the Wycliffe Bible College Translators:** thy is a recently-added mission partner. She is on the teaching staff at Moorlands College in Dorset, training the next generation of linguists to translate the Bible into new "heart languages" for small people/groups around the world. In normal years she also spends some time abroad helping locals develop suitable alphabets and writing systems, as the Bible will often be the first time the language needs to be written down. Please keep praying for Cathy delivering lessons on line and for the major African conference in 2022. **Flavel Church in Dartmouth:** Deborah and Karl Stone continue the work of spreading the word of the Lord and reaching out to the community in Dartmouth. Their mission to revitalise the church in the centre of the town continues through the weekly services, children’s outreach, the Dartmouth Pantry and the Flavour Coffee Lounge. The lounge provides a safe place to meet and extends a warm welcome to all and has opened where possible during 2020. The pantry has continued throughout the pandemic providing food for those in need. These practical witnesses for the love of Jesus in Dartmouth have helped to connect with the local community and to demonstrate God's love. The children's work has grown during the lockdown even on Zoom and now 18 children regularly join Word Warriors, which is the children's Zoom worship before the main Sunday Gathering. It is hoped, going forward, to continue in person and via Zoom. Karl and Deborah 7 continue to work hard for the Lord and their efforts in the name of Jesus continue to bear fruit in the lives of those they touch. Please continue to pray for them and the church in Dartmouth. **Junction 5:** J5 has continued to support people with debt management and have reported good links with a women's refuge with five clients. The team ask for continued prayers for their advisors and clients. They also ask for prayers for one or two more people to be led to train as advisers (as one of the previous three being trained has had to move onto other work post lockdown). They also have a senior advisor on court case training at present so please pray for that advisor too. **EAB** : John and Liz North are working in the NE of Brazil in a semi-arid region where the Covid pandemic is rampant. The EAB evangelises, plants churches and trains leaders. It runs the Green Pastures Nature Reserve & Christian Conference Centre which seeks to shine as an environmental light amidst much destruction. EAB carries on with its work of community development drilling wells, constructing toilet/shower units, distributing goats, constructing chicken coups, setting up market gardens, establishing bee keeping and equipping women to create income through bread baking and cookery. EAB is grateful for all that can be done to help them help the poor help themselves. **Child Sponsorship:** We continue to sponsor Angoon in Thailand and he has written to us to tell us of his school and learning about Jesus. One of our young people has written to tell Angoon a little about us here in Christ Church and we are looking to keep this exchange going as it will encourage our young people to think of others and hopefully give them some real connection with this partnership. Please continue to pray for young people everywhere. Thank you all again for your support and prayers for this very important outreach. _MP Group: Denise Bain, Liz Foster, Eddie Izzard, Jean North, Jonathan Clark_ ## Buildings & Facilities Facilities have been quieter this year due to the current restrictions, resulting in less use of the building for services and by hirers. In order to enable the church to support and increase access from the wider community and improve its environmental sustainability, an application was made for an award from Bid S106 developers contribution to enable upgrades to be made to the building. Our thanks go to David Josey for all his work in organising quotes and submitting documentation to the council. We were successful in securing £42,548 towards specific identified projects: - replacing all lighting in the building with modern low wattage devices (excluded worship area) - upgrading areas of the car park to permeable block paving to address current deficiencies especially with drainage - new portable hearing loop Our thanks go to Tim Winkle and Olu Ojo-Oratokhal who obtained revised quotes, awarded contracts and oversaw the projects for lighting and car park respectively. There is still a small amount of funding left which we are looking towards the replacement of the bench. 8 Other main works include: - Drain clearance and essential maintenance to sump pump - Fire Safety equipment inspection - Annual door and shutter maintenance - Painting of communal areas As we move forward, we continue to explore further funding opportunities as well as the need to consider costs for other essential building and maintenance works. These include: - repair / replace velux windows in Wesley Hall - changing place toilet - re-configuration of rooms in Wesley Hall - repair to fire escape door and stairs Wesley Hall - replacement of main light switch panels in main worship area We would like to mention Brian Walker, Christ Church’s caretaker whose work goes unnoticed most of the time but is key to the upkeep of the building and grounds. The decision was made to furlough Hayley Bedford, our cleaner until restrictions and usage of the building increased. _Liz Lang_ ## **Lettings** In my summary for October, we were anticipating a return by some of our regular groups, with many more expecting to be fully up and running by January 2021. We know now that COVID-19 had other ideas and we found ourselves in another lengthy lockdown. Willowdene Club ceased completely during January and February, resuming normal service in early March as schools reopened and they have remained our only regular source of rental income. In November we hosted two music exam sessions, and just recently the church became one of the two Chineham venues for local elections. We have received very positive feedback from Electoral Services and we hope that they will want to make the church building a permanent home, along with the village hall. I am in touch with all our regular hirers, some of whom will be resuming their activities this coming week or plan to after half term. In total over the whole Pandemic there have been around 35 cancelled ad-hoc events such as AGMs, training sessions, weddings, blood donor sessions as well as birthday parties and other family social events. One would imagine there must be many people out there who will be eager to celebrate milestone occasions that have gone uncelebrated so perhaps we should expect a barrage of enquiries after 21 June! _Gill Godfrey_ ## Administrative Information Christ Church is located in Chineham, Basingstoke. It is part of the Diocese of Winchester within the Church of England. The correspondence address is Christ Church, Reading Road, Chineham, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 8LT. The Church Council is a charity registered with the UK Charity Commission, number 1142640. 9 ## **Objectives and Activities** The Church Council of Christ Church has the responsibility of co-operating with the incumbent in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. The PCC (formally, a subset of the Church Council) is also specifically responsible for the maintenance of the Christ Church building complex on Reading Road, Chineham, RG24 8LT. The Church Council is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church and to become part of our church community. The Council maintains an overview of worship in the parish where we aim to put our faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament. When planning our activities for the year, we have considered the Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the supplementary guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. In particular, we try to enable ordinary people to live out their faith as part of our parish community through: - Worship and prayer; learning about the Gospel; and developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus. (See earlier sections for details.) - Provision of pastoral care for people of all ages living in the parish. (Including many of our regular groups.) - Support community life by provision of community centre space for local groups to use. (In particular we continue to be pleased to host before- and after-school childcare run by the local Willowdene business.) - Missionary and outreach work – by giving prayer and financial support. To facilitate this work it is important that we maintain the buildings and facilities of Christ Church and the Church Centre complex. (See earlier sections for details.) ## **Structure, Governance and Management** The method of appointment of Church Council members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. All church attendees are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the Church Council. Church Council members who served between 4 October 2020 and 23 May 2021 were: |Title/Role|Name|Dates (if different)| |---|---|---| |Denominational Ministers
(ex officio)|Jonathan Clark (Chair, Anglican)
Valerie Fisher (Methodist)
Kay Blackwell (URC)|| |Church Wardens
(ex officio)|Liz Foster
Olu Oju-Oratokhai|| |Treasurer|Anne Daw|| 10 |Ordinary Members|Katie Garner
Patience Ndaga
Jim Garner
Andrew Young
Herb Payne|| |---|---|---| |Deanery Synod
Representatives
(PCC ex officio)|Jonathan Pain
Rebecca Pain|| |Denominational
Representatives|Marianne Sales (Methodist)|| The Lead Minister and two members of the Council also sit on the Deanery Synod. This provides the PCC with an important link between the ecclesiastical parish and the wider structures of the Church of England. The Lead Minister, Methodist Minister and Methodist representative are members of the management team of the local Circuit and Connexion. The Lead Minister and URC Minister are also voting members of the local Wessex Synod. ## **Financial Review** The annual accounts for 2020 have been approved by the Church Council and have been independently examined by Christine Holland. **The full details of the finances for 2020 can be found in the separate 2020 Financial Report** , including thanks to the team, and details of our tithing to our mission partners. **Common Mission Fund** : Each month we give a general mission contribution to each of the four denominations that constitute Christ Church. The amount of giving is set yearly by the Church Council, and we aim to give generously to each, more than covering their costs in providing ministry through Christ Church. **Reserves Policy** : We “aim to hold sufficient reserves to guard against unforeseen emergencies — three months running costs (including staff salaries and building maintenance) — and review this at least every 2 years.” The Council maintains a wider set of **Financial Principles and Practices** in our “How We Work” document. _Anne Daw & Jonathan Clark_ 11 ## Looking Ahead During the coming year I want to work with the new Church Council and Leadership team to: - Simply getting back to **being together again** is going to be a big challenge. It’s clear that between us we have very different reactions to the end of lockdown, and like any family with very different instincts, we will need to generous and understanding. We all know online versions of ‘being together’ are literally thin 2D to the rich 3D of what we should be enjoying. For all of us it will mean getting out of comfort zones, making a fresh undertaking to gather together with God and his people each week. - **Work out the best pattern of gatherings for worship and discipleship for the next year** . The one thing we know isn’t possible is simply to return to exactly the same pattern of services from 2019. Some of the key questions are: - what’s the best mix of days of the week and times for families, shift workers, retired? - `o` which should be streamed or recorded? - when will our musicians and techies be ready for live music again? - how do we best cater for children and families? The Sunday 4pm time has been good, but we need our children to be with the rest of the church family in worship, at least some of the time. - are there ways we can be more inclusive for those with physical disabilities, neurodiversity etc.? - How do we provide **support and company for older people** in our wider community, not just our church family? What else might our planned Mission Audit reveal, alongside other churches in **OneChurch Basingstoke** ? - How could we adapt our building to incorporate a **Changing Places Toilet** , if our second attempt at securing funding pays off? - What are our **staffing** needs into 2022 and beyond? As we do this, we will continue to follow Jesus by praying, learning, worshipping, supporting, being green, having church family time together, and spreading his good news beyond the church walls and our YouTube channel. _Jonathan Clark_ 12 Report of the Independent Examiner to the Christ Church Chineham Ecumenical Church Council - Charity No. 1142640 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity I'the Trust'l for the year ended 31 December 2020. which are set on pages l and 2, and page5 4 to 7. Responsibilities and Basis of the Report As the charity's trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 20111-the Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14Sl5llb) of the Act. Independent Examinerfs Ststement I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connertion with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charitie5 Act; or the account5 did not accord with the accounting records,. or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities {Accounts and Report5) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be dr3wn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Christine Holland CPFA 9 Ellerton Close Theale Reading RG7 SQN Christine Ho112nd CPFA Date: 11 a