## **CHURCH FINANCES 2025**
Accounts for 2025 show a deficit of £8,535 in the income and payments account. This includes £49,355 of repairs and refurbishment financed by VAT reclaim of £10,373 and drawdown of reserves by £40,000. This repair figure includes a deduction of £19,800 from grants and donations kindly given.
The deficit is partly because of our gas supplier catching up with their billing from 2024, and also general increase in costs and Parish Offer.
The available reserves are now down to about £55, 000.
Bongate rent was £750 a month until September when our tenant moved out. The balance was restored to £7,309 by the year end, and although minor repairs are required, we expect to relet fairly soon.
There has been no reordering and the fund has a slightly increased balance of £6,067.
## **Lord Hothfield**
**Appleby PCC Income and Expenditure 2025**
|**Year 2024**
**INCOME**
**Voluntary giving**
£27,531.76 Net Covenants
£6,553.19 Tax Recovered
Loose Collections
£4,825.40 Collections
-£4,825.40 Less paid to charities
£4,508.72 Fundraising/gifts
£2,309.80 Collecting boxes
£1,597.51 PAYA
**Other Income**
£380.02 Accumulated Interest
£2,812.66 Parochial Fees
£2,808.84 Dividends/Interest
£750.00 Healthy healing
£46.51 Copy
£10.00 Newsletter
£6,399.96 Oakbeck
Reserves
Vat refund
£55,708.97
Hon Treas.|**Year 2025**
£25,754.63
£5,378.26
incl
£31,132.89
£2,294.19
-£2,294.19
£0.00
£4,234.89
£2,832.58
£1,989.77
£337.83
£5,281.16
£2,275.89
£0.00
£463.29
£2.00
£6,399.96
£14,760.13
£40,000.00
£10,373.88
£105,324.14
Lord Hothfield|**Year 2024**
**EXPENDITURE**
**Ministry**
£2,400.00 Vicar's & N.S.M.'s Exp
**Church services**
£3,945.77 General
£1,500.00 Organist
£0.00 Cleaning
£2,983.49 Heating, lighting
**Church Buildings**
£24,508.93 Repairs/refurb
£5,643.80 Insurance
**Other Expenditure**
£989.42 Copy
Newsletter
£668.02 Oakbeck ins
£107.75 Bank charges
**Diosese**
£35,000.00 Parish offer
£77,747.18
**-£22,038.21**
**deficit**
£55,708.97
Auditor
T.Taylor|**Year 2025**
£3,471.90
£7,162.16
£0.00
£10,387.85
£49,355.36
£5,709.09
£955.86
£687.15
£80.56
£36,050.00
£113,859.93
**-£8,535.79**
£105,324.14|
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## **Independent Examiner’s Report To the PCC of Appleby with Murton**
I report on the accounts for the year to 31[st] Dec 2025 which are set out in the Annual Report and Financial Statements.
## **Respective responsibilities of the Trustees and Independent Examiner.**
The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to
(a) examine the accounts under section 145 of the Act;
(b) follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and
(c) state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of Independent Examiner’s Statement**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission.
An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from the management committee concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in a full audit and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.
## **Independent Examiner’s Statement**
In connection with my examination, no matters have come to my attention:
1. which give me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
(a) to keep accounting records in accordance with s.130 of the 2011 Act;
and
(b) to prepare accounts which accord with these accounting records have not been met; or
2. To which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Trevor Taylor Redlands Bank farm Bolton Appleby-in-Westmorland CA16 6AH