2020-12-31-accounts

Parish of Uffculme

Parochial Church Council Annual Report For the year ended 31st December 2020

Loving God, discovering Jesus, serving the community

www.stmarysuffculme.org.uk www.squarecorner.org.uk

Parish of Uffculme. Deanery of Tiverton & Cullompton, Diocese of Exeter Bank: CAF Bank Ltd; Independent Examiner: Marie Johns, Batchelor & Co Charity Commission No 11469401

Parochial Church Council 2020

The Parish is part of the Culm Valley Mission Community with St Mary’s Willand, St Mary’s Kentisbeare and All Saints Blackborough. The Parochial Church Council has maintenance responsibilities for St Mary’s Uffculme, Square Corner and St Stephen’s Ashill. Covid-19 affected PCC meetings in 2020, with the last pre-covid meeting in January, although the Standing Committee remained active. Zoom enabled a resumption, with meetings in August, October and December. We realise that this is unsatisfactory for those members who cannot use Zoom, and we look forward to restarting face to face meetings as soon as possible. The Annual Parochial Church Meeting was postponed from April till October.

The following served as members of the PCC:

Mission Community Leader/Rector of Uffculme: Revd Simon Talbot Curate: Revd Gudrun Thomas Associate Minister: Revd Michelle Parton Churchwardens: Tony Kidd, Richard Rutty Deanery Synod Representatives: David Hollis (to October), Tony Kidd, Phil Mumby (from October), Richard Rutty (to October)

Elected members:

Stephanie Burtchaell, Jenny Miller, Alison Milne, Matthew Nichols, Mary Quick, Martin Rock-Evans (Safeguarding Officer), Lucy Statton (to October)

Supporting roles:

Treasurer: Tony Jackson Electoral Roll Officer: Alison Milne PCC Secretary: Tony Kidd

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

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Rector’s Report

It will be no surprise that a report for 2020 will be significantly different to normal! From the middle of March, 2020 became a year of innovation, embracing digital opportunities and adapting to the various changes in rules relating to meeting people and the use of church buildings.

Rather than ask all our usual contributors to write about groups that were only able to meet for three months we have decided to shorten the report. That being said I would still like to highlight the many good things we have been able to do as a church family and to thank those who have helped us to keep going as we have adjusted to the situation we have lived through.

Church Services

Following the shock news that we would not be able to meet as a church family during March 2020 we decided to produce a service sheet that could be used for a personal time of worship with the invitation to read the sheet at the time you would normally worship. The service sheet was emailed to approximately 60 people with a further 20 or so people receiving a hand delivered paper copy of the service.

The service sheet proved to be a good basis to start from and three weeks later was complemented by our first attempt at filming a service for Easter Sunday. This service was filmed, edited and posted on YouTube for people to watch. It was clear from this that having a filmed service was very much appreciated by the members of our congregation, but that it was unsustainable to film and edit this each

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week (it took roughly 2 full days of work to produce a 45 minute service). This led to the decision to embrace the Zoom format of the service we have maintained. The Zoom format was chosen as it enables people to join the service via the internet on a wide range of computers, tablets and smart phones as well as the option of joining via a landline telephone for those without the necessary technology. The feedback from this has been very positive. It has been lovely to be able to worship with others in our Mission Community, to be able to see that we are worshipping together, involve a number of people in the service to maintain the sense of us being a community as well as offer the chance to talk to people at the end of the service. Whilst the technology limits the quality of the music, the nature of the service being live helps to maintain a sense of togetherness and fellowship as we meet.

Across the Mission Community approximately 60 households joined us each week during lockdown periods for this service, representing around 100 people worshipping together via Zoom. This includes a number from Uffculme Baptist Church and Crossways Chapel (URC) who I am delighted have joined us. Alongside the Zoom service there are of course a good number of people who prefer to use the service sheets for their own personal time of worship. It has been my desire to provide options that help people to worship our Lord in a way that serves them as much as possible.

As we understood the ability of the technology on offer we were able to record the service to share with those unable to join us at 11am. One of the drawbacks of worshipping on Zoom is that those who are on the periphery of the church, or have had no previous contact with St Mary’s are less likely to watch the service than if it is streamed on Facebook or YouTube. To help take advantage of this missional

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opportunity a recording of the service has been put on Facebook each week.

As Government restrictions allowed we adapted the set up of the pews in St Mary’s building to enable socially distanced “in person” worship to recommence. We had approximately 25 people each week take up this opportunity on Sunday as well as 8-10 for our Wednesday morning service. St Stephen’s Ashill and All Saints’ Bradfield have remained closed for regular services since March.

Outreach in the Community

As the restrictions hit, all of our normal groups had to stop in their usual form. This led to moving as many as possible online either through Zoom or by uploading films to YouTube or Facebook.

Much of this work was undertaken by Claire Nichols in her two roles as “Children, Schools and Youth Development Worker” and “Square Corner Manager”. Claire quickly adapted to the new situation and moved both “Bears and Prayers” and “Bible Story Club” online making films each week. These films proved popular for some time and were very much appreciated by those who watched them, both locally and some further afield. Later in the year the viewing of these films declined and the decision was made to reduce the regularity of making them before stopping them towards the end of the year.

Alongside this Claire and Gudrun, supported by others in the benefice, also started a Zoom based Parent and Toddler group called “Little Lambs”. This was again appreciated by those who attended, but again towards the end of the year demand for the session dropped and the decision was made to stop it.

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Social media provided the opportunity to also engage with our community in a different way, on the Square Corner Facebook page positive photos to “Brighten your day” have been posted and very much enjoyed. In Advent photos of a group of Wandering Wise Men helped to engage with people on our church Facebook page. These initiatives not only help to raise spirits but also raises the profile of our social media pages that in turn helps to build a larger platform for helping people to see other events, services and outreach material we produce.

Whilst social media provided a number of opportunities we were also keen to help engage with people and encourage them to be out and about in the village when they are able. This led to various displays around the village including the Community Arts Trail in October, displays in Square Corner windows including a special one around Halloween (that we had hoped would also be a larger event but the regulations at the time prevented this).

During advent our wonderful Christmas Tree display in church and “Journey to Bethlehem” walking advent trail with characters placed around the village also provided opportunities for people to engage with the Christmas story. The characters for the trail took a huge amount of time and skill to produce so thanks to Sue Leach (a member of our Willand congregation) for her help in developing them and Claire for painting them. The Christmas tree display was also a significant project with Sue Kidd and Alison Milne leading a team of people to help raise money for them, order, collect, decorate, oversee opening and clear them away. It was fantastic that a large amount of food was donated to support CHAT through this display, with thanks to Anne Trevelyan from Crossways Chapel for

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taking the lead with CHAT. Huge thanks to Sue, Alison and all those involved in supporting this, both with time, financially or by coming to look at the display.

During the restrictions we have also endeavoured to do what we can to support those who are struggling as a result of the pandemic. In conversation with the Parish Council leaflets with helpful phone numbers and a simple suggestion to help people to be good neighbours were produced and delivered throughout Uffculme. Whilst safeguarding and GDPR (data protection) rules made it hard for us to formally run a scheme to help people a number of individuals in our congregation have been able to support the community efforts.

As we have looked to support people we have done all we can to keep the church building open as much as possible for private prayer and as a space to sit and be quiet which has been appreciated by many in our community. In this connection, we have also been very grateful through the year to our team of flower arrangers, who have put great efforts into maintaining lovely flower displays in the church, sometimes in the porch, as much as possible.

Significant markers and Thanks

As always I would also like to thank our churchwardens, ministry team and whole church family for all you have done. Tony and Richard have been a great support over this difficult period. Rev Gudrun Thomas, Claire Nichols, Rev Michelle Parton, Rev Paul Hockey, Rev Paul Snell, Rev Stephen Little, Rev Alan Dodds and Chris Russell have all been wonderfully helpful, patient and

accommodating as we have written services each week, learnt how to

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provide worship on Zoom and worked within the social distancing restrictions when we have been able to be in church, so thank you very much indeed. I would also like to thank Tony Jackson for all his work as PCC treasurer.

A particular thanks should be extended to Tony Kidd as he comes to the end of his time as churchwarden. Tony’s support over the last 6 years has been hugely appreciated by me and the congregation as a whole. Tony’s wisdom, thoughtfulness, and willingness to go the extra mile have been demonstrated time and time again. I am very pleased that Tony has agreed to stay on the PCC, but want to record my huge appreciation for all he has done as churchwarden.

As I have already mentioned in this report Claire’s ministry both as our Schools and Family Worker and Square Corner Manager have been completely changed since March. During this time Claire has been wonderfully adaptable, embracing the challenges ministering online presents. Claire’s ministry continues to be greatly valued by those she works with and I would like to add my thanks and gratitude for all she has done over the last year too.

This has also been a significant year for Rev Gudrun Thomas our curate. Having successfully completed her first year of ministry Gudrun was ordained as a priest in September. This is a significant marker in her ministry enabling her to conduct a wider range of services as she continues her training with us. Despite the restrictions Gudrun has continued to flourish in her ministry and has been a real blessing to our church family supporting people pastorally as well as through the services and events she has been able to lead. I am sure this will only continue over the coming year and look forward to

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seeing how the Lord will continue to use her in his service in the future.

As we celebrate Gudrun’s priesting, we also heard that Sarah RockEvans has been accepted to train for ordination from September 2021. Whilst it is with great sadness that this will probably mean we will see a lot less of her in St Mary’s as she trains, it is clearly an exciting time for her and the family as they follow the Lord’s call to serve him in this way. Sarah is clearly a very gifted lady so I am sure she will be a great blessing to whatever church she is led to be part of in their future.

Vision for the future

As we think about the many activities that have needed to stop, and the opportunities that we have discovered over the last year I am very keen that we take some time to discern how God is calling us to minister and live out our call to share the good news of the Lord Jesus with those in our community in the future.

To help this the PCCs of each of the parishes in our Mission Community have all decided to join together in reviewing our outreach ministry. This will be a big exercise to prayerfully work together to see how we can support and encourage each other as well as thinking practically about which groups to restart or if there are any new ways to reach out to people. We had hoped to begin this process in November, but the second lockdown put paid to this plan. We are now waiting for a time we can gather people together again so that we can share thoughts and ideas. Tony Jackson, our PCC treasurer, has kindly offered his services in leading this exercise. Tony has professional experience leading companies and organisations in

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this kind of review and planning process so we are very blessed to have his offer of help.

As we look forward to the future I hope that we will all be looking to play our part in engaging with our missional call to share the gospel message with our friends, family and neighbours. The way we go about it might change, but we never retire from being people who are called to be part of God’s mission in our community.

To God be the glory!

As we reflect back on the last year, I hope you can see some of the many ways we can give thanks to God for His blessing, even though it might have been a challenging and difficult year in many other ways. I also hope that as we come out of a time of unprecedented restriction we will be people who are able to share the love of God, the confidence He gives us in our eternal future, and the hope and peace that gives us in our everyday lives.

Rev Simon Talbot (Rector)

Facts and figures

During 2020 there were 3 weddings at St Mary’s, plus 1 at Bradfield Chapel. There were 5 funerals in St Mary’s and 2 at St Stephen’s, and 6 funerals at the crematorium only. There was also 1 baptism, at St Stephen’s.

Electoral Roll Report for 2020 for Uffculme Parish

84 (2019 79) , with 14 living outside the parish.

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Treasurer’s Report

Total receipts on the General (unrestricted) Fund were £67,360. This included a £10,000 UK government Covid-19 support grant used to sustain the Square Corner facility and community outreach work of its manager throughout the year. Payments from the General (unrestricted) Fund totalled £56,572, giving a surplus of £10,788.

It is encouraging to note that Income from Planned Giving increased by 9.4% over the figure for 2019. This increase is so welcome as regular Planned Giving provides a significant degree of stability to our income. Nearly 32% of our General (unrestricted) Fund income arises from Planned Giving and when the benefit of reclaimed Gift Aid tax is added this figure rises to 40%. However, collections and donations were significantly less than in 2019 (2019 £8,035, 2020 £6966) because of the restricted attendance at church due to Covid-19.

We urge you to consider how you might support our mission in either regular giving or one-off donations, The Parish Giving Scheme, now covering 82% of our planned giving, provides a useful method of giving and has the benefit of allowing us to reclaim gift aid monthly.

During 2020 the overhaul of the heating system was completed. The final costs of this project, less VAT we were able to reclaim, were approximately £11,300, which was funded from the Fabric Fund. It was anticipated that repairs to the church clock would be undertaken during 2020. However, this project has been delayed of the Covid-19 pandemic and will now be deferred to 2021. We are grateful to Uffculme Parish Council for a grant of £400 allocated to the clock repair.

In our mission we have once again supported three main causes – Karen Action Group, CHAT, and the work of the Thika Diocese in Kenya (linked to the diocese of Exeter).

The PCC has resolved to keep a General (unrestricted) Fund reserve of at least £25,000. At £52,972 our General Fund balance comfortably exceeds this. Significant areas of expenditure relating to the fabric of our buildings are provided by the Fabric Fund restricted reserve.

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It is our policy to invest surplus funds with the CCLA, CBF Church of England Deposit Fund and their investment funds.

As in previous years, Marie Johns of Batchelor & Co in Cullompton has examined our accounts with her usual efficiency, for which we thank her. Tony Jackson (Treasurer)

Churchwardens’ Fabric Report

There is not much of consequence to report under this heading for 2020, given covid-19 restrictions. The renovation of the boiler and heating system was completed in the early part of the year, although monitoring of the boiler pressure continued through 2020.

Frustratingly, the church clock remained stopped through 2020, as we waited for our horological engineer, faced with a lengthy backlog due to covid-19, to undertake a major overhaul. We were very grateful to Uffculme Parish Council for a grant of £400 towards the cost of this overhaul.

Towards the end of the year, we started considering the work for St Mary’s recommended via the 2018 Quinquennial Inspection. This will be a priority in 2021. Investigations are also beginning on the best way forward for repairing the chimney at St Stephen’s.

We also considered ways to enhance the churchyard environment, following a grant of almost £2000 via the Co-op Community Fund. When lockdown permitted, we held a successful churchyard clean-up morning, and significant tree maintenance work is scheduled for 2021. We also hope to develop an informal seating area, provide information boards, develop wild planting areas, and possibly replace existing benches.

Regular servicing of various kinds – lightning conductor, PAT testing, mains electrics inspection (for St Mary’s and Square Corner, with St Stephen’s due for 2021), boiler maintenance (for Square Corner and St Stephen’s), fire extinguishers – was undertaken during 2020.

Tony Kidd/Richard Rutty (Churchwardens)

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CREATE (Centre for Rural Training and Excellence)

2020 will certainly be a year that I remember for a very long time! Throughout the year, amid all the change, it is wonderful to be able to see what God has continued to do through CREATE in our village, Mission Community and further afield.

In January we restarted Bears and Prayers, Bible Storyclub and Afterschool café and made plans for Good Friday Explorers. These groups were much loved by the children and families we served, providing a great way of sharing something of the love of God. Particular thanks for the support of Sue Apps and Helen Steele who ran the Uffculme primary group.

In March as Lockdown restrictions stopped face-to-face children’s groups we made the move to online working. I am very grateful for the technical help provided by Matthew and Ruth Nichols who helped me create a film studio in our living room, a youtube channel “Create From Home With St Mary’s Church” and helped me to learn far more than I ever thought possible about video editing, zoom, social media and reaching out in a new way. Over the course of eight months we uploaded 58 videos to our channel creating new content each week for Bears and Prayers, Diddy Disciples, Bible Storyclub, Bible Story Walks, Teddy Horsley Bible Stories, Preschool Easter, Harvest and Christmas services, plus an online version of Good Friday Explorers. Using social media these videos were shared widely and reached a huge number of families as well as helping to keep links with the families locally.

Over the summer it became clear that children’s work was going to look very different for at least the next six months. Having spent time in prayer and reflection Rev Gudrun and I decided to plan for Covid safe events that would be online or outdoors from September to

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Christmas. The first of these began as a trial in the summer - a new online toddler group “Little Lambs”. Supported by story books from Uffculme library, with a social media advertising and a new facebook page we ran during the autumn term. It was great to have Clair Tancock, Rev Gudrun and Sarah Rock-Evans as part of the team which provided a way for families to interact with each other safely.

The autumn term saw the launch of Uffculme Arts Trail which helped to unite the village in creating art on the theme “Explore” to display in their windows or front gardens. There was a lot of positive feedback and learning which we used later in the year. Square Corner was transformed into a beacon of light and hope for Halloween just as the Prime Minister announced another Lockdown. The timing was incredible and the messages of love really resonated with people. We were astonished by the comments in the wider community as well as from families who had come out trick-or-treating.

We knew that Christmas would look very different in 2020 so we ran two parallel projects: a social media story online and an outdoor nativity trail. The Wandering Wisemen journeyed from Advent Sunday to Epiphany looking for the new Messiah, having quite a few adventures on the way and bringing joy and playfulness to our Facebook feeds. They were so loved that people were genuinely sad when this came to an end. Journey to Bethlehem our nativity trail really engaged the local community as well as providing an opportunity to share the Good News of Jesus’ birth in a creative way. The day before the second Lockdown saw Sue Leach and I design huge wooden nativity characters and cut them out of donated plywood. She did an amazing job and I am so grateful for her help and enthusiasm. Each character was hosted by a different organisation which included Bridwell's Orangery, The Ostler, URC, Baptist Church, St Mary's and Kingwood. At each site there were two laminated

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sheets which explained more about that part of the trail and gave a short Bible reading which linked to the character. There was also a QR code link at each location which took you to some super resources from Muddy Church. We moved the characters back to St Mary's on Christmas Eve to form the crib scene.

We finished the year with two zoom Christingle services, Rev Gudrun worked hard to create bags of resources for families to create their own Christingles at home during the service. Along with volunteers she made 300 kits to give away in each village! I think a particular highlight was recording the song “Show me the way to Shine for Jesus” amid much laughter, thanks to Paul Snell, Alan Dodds and Paul Hockey for their musical and tech expertise and a particular thank you to Rev Gudrun for her encouragement, support and enthusiasm this year.

Looking back we have taken risks in 2020, explored new opportunities and creative ways to reach out to our communities, but what an adventure it has been! My prayer would be that we have the courage to continue to try new things and be open to where Jesus might be leading us. Claire Nichols (CREATE Support Worker)

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Square Corner

• To enable us grow in faith, help grow communities and to be more effective in serving, supporting and engaging people in the local community;

• To be a generous gift to the local community;

• To create a sustainable building which is fit for purpose for the next 40 years;

• To leave a Christian legacy for future generations.

Having begun the year hosting a wide variety of groups and with a new tenant in the meeting room we were beginning to explore different ways of using the building. As March arrived and forced us to close our doors we have had time and space to think about how we want to use Square Corner in the years ahead, it has helped us to develop our online provision. We have redeveloped the Square Corner website and invested in an online bookings system called Hallmaster which will be launched in 2021. Over the course of the year there has been a lot of government guidance to read and put in place, to make the building covid secure, many thanks to Tony Lane for his advice and help with this. I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank Theresa Maunder for all her hard work keeping the building spotless, she is an integral part of the team.

Just prior to the first Lockdown, when we decided to create a window display in March with the word HOPE, we hadn’t realised how relevant that word would be to us all! The feedback from that image made us realise how visible the shopfront is and over the course of the year we developed a range of displays which engaged the community and started conversations. Prompted by a local family in the early weeks of Lockdown we took on the #brightenyourdayUffculme tag and created a community collaborative positive photo a day on the Square Corner Facebook page. There was a plan to have a display of the photos later in the year, due to continuing restrictions we hope to do this in 2021 instead!

Claire Nichols (Square Corner/Community Mission Development Manager)

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Wednesday evening home group, Nut Tree Barn-or Zoom!

[Many groups found it difficult to meet in 2020, but we’re pleased to include this report from a home group that did keep going].

2020 began quite normally for our group, looking at the Bible Society Lyfe series, and in January we welcomed Lesley Salter back after her 3 month trip to Palestine with the Eccumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI).

During Lent we followed a Bible study on the film Chocolat which had themes around the wisdom and acceptance of change. It was refreshing, interesting and along the way we enjoyed some delicious hot chocolate! We managed to complete the study just before the first Covid-19 lockdown in March and after Easter we started meeting online using Zoom. Our simple meetings, with just a short reflection and time to pray were a source of nourishment to the group in the uncertainty of that season.

The majority of the group continued meeting via Zoom through the Spring and into summer…and the rest of the year! We had a brief opportunity for a few of us to meet indoors in the early autumn which was great for those who did not use Zoom. We followed a variety of material including the 24-7 Pray Course, a study by Tom Wright on Romans, and a booklet produced by LICC called The One About looking at a range of testimonies from Christians in the UK. We finished the year with a four-part advent study called Unsettled Advent, focussing on the story of Elizabeth and Zechariah and written during the pandemic and our own time of being unsettled.

As many reflections on 2020 will note, it was a year like no other. But despite the incredible challenge and change it brought we noted time and again that God still met with us and nurtured us through this group. The opportunity to meet and discuss faith and share our lives with others from a variety of backgrounds perspectives in a safe and open environment continues to be a blessing. We are grateful for God’s leading, grateful for one another and grateful for technology!

If you would like to come along to our group occasionally or regularly please contact Sarah Rock-Evans on 01884 840776.

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Safeguarding Report

Safeguarding in lockdown has thankfully been very quiet; however some safeguarding training has lapsed and some reviews of displayed information in building have not happened.

With no recruitment in the last year I have not completed any new disclosures since the last PCC Safeguarding Report early in 2020. As disclosures are renewed every five years, a number of roles have people who will require their disclosure to be renewed during 2021.

For the same reason – no recruitment – there has also not been any new safeguarding training required this year. However, as safeguarding training should be renewed every three years, several of our volunteers are now out-of-date and will need to renew their safeguarding training in 2021.

Towards the end of 2020, the Exeter Diocese rolled out a new Online Parish Safeguarding Dashboard to all parishes and we signed up to the dashboard in October 2020. The online tool has been designed to display a clear and simple dashboard showing the compliance state for the numerous church safeguarding requirements. The website will allow the church safeguarding officer, vicar, curate, churchwardens and other authorised users to see the current status of compliance at a glance. The dashboard has highlighted a number of areas that require attention: these will be progressed in the next few months.

Contacts

Should you need to contact the diocese safeguarding team or DBS coordinators directly, please try the group email address: [e-mail]. Alternatively, thirtyone:eight are

commissioned by the diocese to provide support and their advice line is on 0845 120 4550: mention that we are part of the Exeter diocese.

Martin Rock-Evans is the safeguarding officer for the Uffculme Parish - all DBS requests and queries should go to him in the first instance.

Safeguarding is on the agenda of each PCC meeting, complying with safeguarding guidance. Martin Rock-Evans (Safeguarding Officer)

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Health and Safety Report

In short there are no significant issues to be addressed. I have not received any serious accident reports and the first aid kits have been kept under review. The pandemic has meant that Square Corner, St Mary’s and St Stephen’s have been subject to significant changes in terms of use and making all three buildings 'COVID' safe where use has been allowed. I am pleased to report that Revd Simon, Revd Gudrun and Claire Nichols together with the churchwardens and their team have implemented a range of controls as the situation has changed.

My general observations are that the controls we have in place regarding fire and building access are being observed, and remain adequate for the risk posed. The 'Risk Management Report' from our insurers has raised a number of relatively minor issues which do not require urgent redress or any further action at present.

The H&S Policy, Statement and Fire Risk Assessment are all due for review in 2021 but are currently up to date. The risk assessments for St Marys & Square Corner are up to date and in force. Checks for the fire alarms, emergency lighting and extinguishers are up to date thanks to Claire. The Square Corner risk assessment has been augmented with a Legionnaires Disease Assessment which has also been completed.

Tony Lane (Health & Safety Officer)

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Loving God, discovering Jesus, serving the community

The Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Uffculme

with St Stephen’s Ashill and All Saints’ Bradfield

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PARISH OF sr MARYS. UFFCULME Receipts and Payments Account Year Ended 31 December 20ZO (Register Charity No. 1146940) Note Unrthcted Restricted Funds Funds Totsl 2019 Recelpts Planned GNin8 Collettions Special 6t￿￿8 Donations Tax Recovere(I CREATE Church Fundraising Interest & Dividends Spotlight Magazine Churchyard Rents Grants Church Fees Inet} Square Comer Community Lunthes Church Hire Sundries NET Mobile Mast Uffculme Bellringers 21437 2784 21437 2784 195 4798 1205 3237 6006 2007 3782 5568 4182 5568 2186 2186 31x1 6659 235 9321 9621 6659 235 9978 6475 225 4500 2344 6887 449 2713 16982 2713 16982 2￿ 2￿ 67(￿• 67¢XJ 6700 387 Totsl Re￿ipts 67360 11914 79274 75432 Payments Common Fund aergy Expenses Maintenance Insurance Upkeep of Service5 Heat & knght Square Corner Spotlight Magazine Music CREATE Church Tithe Uffculme Belltingers Prin¢ post, Stationery Independent Examiner Community Lvnches Bank Charges Sundries 25772 789 1049 5919 25772 789 12408 29977 835 26536 5811 355 2567 10776 6775 628 11359 5919 11621 5660 11621 5660 921 8412 3464 921 8412 3447 26 26 285 421 60 164 164 Totsl pawnènts 56572 21320 77892 96929 Accumulated fvnd blfwd 01.0120 Trasfer betsveen funds (Deficitllsurplus 54690 44558 99248 120575 2698 1,382 10788 -9,406 -21,3? 7 Attumulated Fund tlfwd at 31.12.20 65478 35152 l(X)328 99248

PARISH OF sr MARY5, UFFCULME Statement of Assets and Llabilities As At 31 December 2020 (Registered Chartty No. 1146940) M*MiÈS Hekl: Bank Current Accourt5 & Cash COIF Deposit Funds CAF DepositAccoutrt 95.029 3.164 103,327 Permanent Endowmentslsee nrte 6) CBF Inveszment Atnd114184 units) C8F Invesrmelrt Fund1371.18 untsl M & G DividÈTrd Irscome FuDd19220 units) M & G Charifufid11223 unltsl 290.016 4.625 16,787 319.017 Represented by. Pkne BoieiJ20 Reoipts Transfer Bal @ 31.12.20 Unre5trkted Generalfund 49470 40432 52972 General Fund Susperse DÈ5ignated Churth M￿l0￿ Fund 2698 4269 1269 square Comer Ashill 3152 16981 11621 8512 1520 446 Uffculrne 3ellrln8ers Restricted 967 967 Fabric 30188 9391 11359 28220 Music 7626 330 921 7035 CREATE 7703 2186 1477 Communtty lunches Special Giving St Stephen's A5hill Churth Flower Fund li 164 -117 90 735 735 117 117 S￿￿T0￿1 99249 81971 77893 103327 Pemiaoent Endowments Bal @ i.L2 th¥¥e In VakEe 1£) al @ 31.12.20 Isee note 61 E Brice Endowment 271283 18.T43 290016 T Brice Endowment 32940 i)>iyj 29tKIi s￿￿T￿l 304223 14,794 319017 Total 403472 422344

Notes: I. CREATE Income Shares & donations Tax recovered Programme Income" nterest 710 367 li 2186 £llTr) contribution towards Youth Worker from Kenti5beare PCC 2. Bank interest Fabric Fund Music Fund CREATE Fund General Fund 8990 330 3C 9629 3. Square Corner Intome Hire of rooms Coffee morning5 Tax recovered UK Gov't SUPFK)rt grant ()onations 4123 382 225 2251 16981 4. Grants Uffculme Parish Council 5. Special/Mission £lvlng Karen Action Group CHAT Thika Diocese 4LKI 6. General Fund Suspense A sum of £2,698 was paid to Uffculme PCC in error by a third party on 30th Dec 2020. Repayment ofthis sum to the third partycould not be made before the end ofthe the financial year ended 31st Dec 2020. A repayment will be made in Jan 2021 and the General Fund Suspense cleared. 7. Endowment Funds The endowment funds represent capttsl invested arising from bequests. We are not allowed to Use this capital but can spend the interest that ari5e5 from it. 8. Reserves Policy The PCC has agreed a reserves policy whith identffies a need for a reserve of £25.(KM) for use in the event of the Church losing one or more of its key donors. seeing a drop in individual levels of givin8 or the consequential capital expense due to property repair or renewal. If you would like to See a full copy of this policy. please contact one of the Churchwardens. Independent Examiner......... Chairnian of the PCC....... Treasurer.....

Independent examiner's report to the membersltrustees of St Mary's Church, Uffculme Parochial Church Council I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020. Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity'5 trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144{21 of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Acl., lo follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)Ib) of the 2011 Acl.. and to slate whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basis of independent examinerfs report My examination was carried out in accordance wtth the general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review ofthe 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 you as trustees conceming any such matters. The prO￿dureS undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequenlly no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view, and the report is limited to those matters sel out in the statement below. Independent examiner's statement In connection with tny examination, no matter has come to my attention.. 111 which gives me reasonable cause to believe Ihat in any material respect the requirements.. to keep accounting records in accordance with wbon 130 of the 2011 Act" and to prepare accounts which accord wilh the accounting records and comp5y with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met., or 12} lo which, in my opinion. attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Marie Johns FCCA Batchelor& Company Chadton House, Cullompton, Devon EX151AE 22nd February 2021

Independent examTnerfs report to the membersltrustees of St Mary's Church, Uffculme Parochial Church Council I rekyjrt on the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020. Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 14412) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to- examine the accounts urKler section 145 of the 2011 Acl: to follow the prO￿dureS taid down in the general Direckn"ons gNen by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)Ib} of the 2011 I￿1.. and to State whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basis of independent examinefs report My examinab.on was carried OLEt in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Cornmission. An examination includes a review of the acco¢JntiThJ records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. 11 also indudes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the ac£ounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees conceming any such matters. The pro￿ureS undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequenuy no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair wew. arKI the report is limited to those matters set out in the slalement below. Independent examinerfs statement In wNnection with my examination. no Matter has (x)me to my attention: {11 which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the ￿qUireMents-. to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Acl,. and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met: or 12} to which, in my opinion. attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper underslanding of the accounts to be reached. Marie Johns FCCA Batchelor & Company Chadton House, Cullomplon. Devon EX151AE 22nd February 2021