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2020-12-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period start date Period end date
**From ** 01 01 2020 To 31
12		 2020

Section A Reference and administration details

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF Charity name THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST NICHOLAS WITH ST BARNABAS, WESTON-SUPER-MARE Other names charity is known by St Nicholas with St Barnabas, Weston-super-Mare Registered charity number (if any) 1149546 Charity's principal address The New Rectory, 3, Old Church Road Uphill Weston-Super-Mare Postcode BS23 4UH

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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16		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
year		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee(if any)
Rev’d Mark Keith
Madeley		 Rector Bishop of Bath & Wells
Michael Perrin Chair/
PCC Secretary		 Elected at APCM
James Loring Churchwarden/
DeanerySynod		 Elected at APCM
Annabel Loring Treasurer Elected at APCM
Pauline Farley DeanerySynod Elected at APCM
Malcolm Reid Elected at APCM
David Pack Elected at APCM
Lynn Pack Elected at APCM
JefferyRealff Elected at APCM
Arthur Jarratt 01/01/2020 – 11/10/2020 Elected at APCM
Marjorie Belcher 01/01/2020 – 22/02/2021 Elected at APCM
Frances Pelengaris 11/10/2020 – 31/12/2020 Elected at APCM
Edna Hunter 11/10/2020 – 31/12/2020 Elected at APCM

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser
Name
Address
Independent Examiner Robin Leveridge 18 The Boundaries, Lympsham, Weston-super-Mare,
Somerset, BS24 0DF
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
Parochial Church Council Powers Measure (1956) as amended and
Church Representation Rules that came into force on 02/01/1957
How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Parochial Church Council
Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
Elected by Annual Parochial Church Meeting and Annual Vestry Meeting
(for Churchwardens). Ex-officio and seconded trustees appointed in
accordance with ecclesiastical law.


Parochial Church Council Powers Measure (1956) as amended and
Church Representation Rules that came into force on 02/01/1957

Parochial Church Council

Elected by Annual Parochial Church Meeting and Annual Vestry Meeting
(for Churchwardens). Ex-officio and seconded trustees appointed in
accordance with ecclesiastical law.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include The lay person previously appointed to oversee the ongoing work of additional information, where Safeguarding has continued in post. relevant, about: All PCC members are required to complete the Church of England’s basic  policies and procedures level e-learning course on Safeguarding. adopted for the induction and The Parish maintains its policies in regard to Data Privacy (GDPR), Health training of trustees; and Safety, Conflict of Interest, Safeguarding, Legacies, and Financial Reserves.  the charity’s organisational structure and any wider During the closure and re-opening of our Churches during the Covid-19 network with which the charity pandemic the Parochial Church Council has given due consideration to works; Government and Church of England guidance, and completed and then  relationship with any related complied with the requisite risk assessments. parties;  trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Promoting in the Ecclesiastical Parish the whole mission of the church.

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

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Summary of the main
activities undertaken for the
public benefit in relation to
these objects (include within
this section the statutory
declaration that trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit)		 The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to
worship at our churches that they may become part of our parish
community at St Nicholas with St Barnabas, Weston-super-Mare.
The PCC maintains an overview of worship throughout the parish and
supports the Rector in discussing suggestions on how our services can
involve the many people that live within our parish. Our services and
worship put faith into practice through prayer, scripture, music and holy
communion.
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.
We provide pastoral care for people living in the parish. We have
appointed a lay person as a pastoral worker. She is a volunteer. We
need to be seen in the community and be seen to serve it.
Our intention is to be inclusive. We see ourselves as open to accepting
non-Church members to be part of our worshipping community.
Due to COVID19 and lockdown restrictions we have had to do most
services by zoom, but this has enabled to reach out beyond our usual
members as we upload everything to Facebook and the Church website.
This has enabled more people from the community to join us in a non
threatening way.
The local Pre-School has used St Nicholas’ Church Hall mornings and
afternoons on five days a week, when allowable by lockdown rules.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Youmay chooseto include
further statements, where
relevant, about:
policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related
investment;
contribution made by
volunteers.		 We tithe our Parish Income to make donations to five Mission Societies
as part of our ongoing support with periodic reviews.
We also contribute from time to time to local initiatives.
The PCC is able to deliver a wide range of activities thanks to church
members giving freely of their time to lead and support its activities and
initiatives. The expertise of PCC members provides effective governance
and oversight whilst ensuring that the buildings are maintained in a
satisfactory condition.
The PCC continues to review annually all of the policies that are required
by law and extra ones appropriate to our situation.
We have a team of volunteers who are there to look after people and are
available to the wider community if requested.
We have begun the process of seeking someone to serve the local
community from St Barnabas and enable the Church to be open much
more for communityevents.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main
achievements of the charity
during the year		 The parish of St Nicholas with St Barnabas broadly covers the following
districts within Weston-super-Mare: Uphill, Coronation and Oldmixon
estates with a population of over 6,000. These three distinct
communities are delineated by a trunk road and/or railways lines.
The estates have significantly high levels of social deprivation making it
one of the top 20 parishes in the Diocese of Bath & Wells on a composite
measure of multiple factors of deprivation.
St Barnabas has been available to the local community when allowable
under lockdown restrictions.
There is goodwill towards the Church generally. The Wednesday morning
service has a loyal following of mostly older people.
COVID19 has not enabled to run many events for the benefit of the
community, though it is always our aim to do so from both buildings. We
are constantly considering what other options might draw families and
young people into a relationship with Jesus. Recent PCC meetings have
had extensive discussion on this matter.
We have been unable to offer the usual life event services of normal
Church life – baptisms and weddings – due to COVID19, but we have
continued to offer funerals as required, and in accordance with the law.
We have actively engaged with our regular people to provide the
teaching and encouragement needed for each of our members to grow in
their faith. Teaching from the Bible is a key feature of this parish through
sermon series and meeting in homes for study, prayer and support. We
have done this through web links and by post for those who are unable to
access the web.
Our church members are involved in a number of church and community
initiatives including: Street Pastors, Somewhere To Go (homeless
charity), Samaritans, Citizens Advice. The hall is normally used by a
pre-school for 10 sessions each week and St Barnabas hopes soon to
host community groups, a craft group, table tennis and U3A. The latter
two have been in existence for some time as building users but struggled
to meet this year.
Church members have been generous with their money as well as their
time. The Church has been able to pay its own way. It should also be
noted that there has been significant building work to our buildings in
2020 as we sought to bring everything up to date and ensure accessibility
to all.
The active church membership is about 60 and this is slightly down on
the previous year. The reduction is largely due to the death of several
longstanding members and others moving away from the town.
We recognise the importance of Jesus’ commission in Matthew 28 to go
and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and we are certain that this
will result in both spiritual and numerical growth in our membership.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially in deficit

We aim to pay our Parish Share in full in January in order to attract a more favourable discount. The PCC maintains a general reserve equivalent to 3 months’ regular expenditure excluding Parish Share, plus one month’s notice for employees. In addition, we set aside £10,000 for unanticipated building work.

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Further financial review details (Optional information)

Section F Other optional information

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Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Mark Keith Madeley (Reverend) George Michael Perrin Position Chairman PCC Secretary (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date 25 April 2021

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St Nicholas with St Barnabas Weston-super-Mare's Receipts & Payments Account

for the year ended 31 December 2020

Receipts
Donations and Legacies:
Planned giving
Collections, donations & other giving
Income tax recovered
Legacies
Other Trading activities
Magazine/Bookstall sales/Hall Lettings etc
Receipts from Investments:
Interest & dividends
Receipts from Charitable activities:
Parochial fees
Other Receipts
Other		 General
fund
£		 Designated
fund
£		 Restricted
fund
£		 2020
£		 2019
£
34,367 - - 34,367 42,139
16,093 - - 16,093 23,258
13,508 - - 13,508 16,384
- - - - 4,136
14,673 - - 14,673 14,947
1,664 4 - 1,668 1,977
438 - - 438 2,500
547 1,497 - 2,044 1,569
Total Receipts 81,290
1,501
-
82,791		 106,910
Payments
Charitable activities:
Donations/Grants to charities
Mission & Evangelism
Parish Share
Clergy expenses
Church running expenses
Cost of raising funds
Support costs
Administration costs (inc. staff costs)
Governance Costs
Other
Major expenditure
Repairs to church buildings
Repairs to other property
(9,945) - - (9,945) (12,915)
- - - - (1,108)
(51,026) - - (51,026) (47,037)
(1,269) (39) - (1,308) (1,570)
(8,685) (1,104) - (9,789) (8,515)
(4,942) (1,159) - (6,101) (9,558)
- - - - (391)
(2,424) (7,216) - (9,640) (20,012)
(100) - - (100) (100)
(1,275) - - (1,275) (1,765)
(11,441) - - (11,441) (37,123)
(180) - - (180) (17,679)
Total payments (91,287) (9,518)
- (100,805)		 (157,773)
Surplus/(Deficit) of Receipts over payments (9,997) (8,017)
-
(18,014)		 (50,863)
Transfers between funds -
(7,967) 7,967 - (0)
Cash at bank and in hand at 1 Jan (17,964) (50) - (18,014) (50,863)
92,193 1,012 - 93,205 144,068
Cash at bank and in hand at 31 Dec 74,229 962 - 75,191 93,205

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Independent Examiner’s Certificate for the PCC Accounts

Report to the trustees of: St. Nicholas with St. Barnabas, Weston-super-MareParochial Church Council St. Nicholas with St. Barnabas, Weston-super-MareParochial Church Council St. Nicholas with St. Barnabas, Weston-super-MareParochial Church Council St. Nicholas with St. Barnabas, Weston-super-MareParochial Church Council St. Nicholas with St. Barnabas, Weston-super-MareParochial Church Council
On accounts for the year ended: 31stDecember 2020 Charity Number (if applicable): 1149546
Set out on pages )
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
144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent
examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:

examine the accounts under section 145		 of the Charities Act,

to follow the procedures		 laid down in the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and

to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent
My examination was carried		 out in accordance with general Directions given by the
examiner’s statement
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 trustees concerning any such matters. The
procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an
audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a
‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement
below.
Independent examiner's
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives
statement
me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect,

accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities
Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which
attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to
be reached.

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