## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **01 01 2021 31 12 2021 From To** ## 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 Registered charity number (if any)** 1149546 **Charity's principal address** The New Rectory, 3, Old Church Road St Nicholas with St Barnabas, Weston-super-Mare Uphill Weston-Super-Mare **Postcode BS23 4UH** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**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| ||Lynn Pack|Churchwarden||Elected at APCM| ||Annabel Loring|Treasurer||Elected at APCM| ||Pauline Farley|DeanerySynod||Elected at APCM| ||David Pack|||Elected at APCM| ||JefferyRealff|||Elected at APCM| ||Frances Pelengaris|||Elected at APCM| ||Edna Hunter|||Elected at APCM| ||Marjorie Belcher||01/01/2020 – 22/02/2021|Elected at APCM| ||Malcolm Reid||01/01/2020 – 25/04/2021|Elected at APCM| ||Cheryl Costigan||25/04/2021 – 31/12/2021|Elected at APCM| ||Elaine Dedicoat||25/04/2021 – 31/12/2021|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** PCC St Nicholas with St Barnabas WsM 2021 Trustees Annual Report Page 1 of 9 ## **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 **
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**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** Parochial Church Council Powers Measure (1956) as amended and Type of governing document Church Representation Rules that came into force on 02/01/1957 (eg. trust deed, constitution) Parochial Church Council How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Elected by Annual Parochial Church Meeting and Annual Vestry Meeting (eg. appointed by, elected by) (for Churchwardens). Ex-officio and seconded trustees appointed in accordance with ecclesiastical law. - (eg. trust, association, company) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; The lay person previously appointed to oversee the ongoing work of Safeguarding has continued in post. All PCC members and key figures, such as musicians, are required to complete the Church of England’s Basic Awareness and Foundation Courses on Safeguarding. The Parish maintains its policies in regard to Data Privacy (GDPR), Health and Safety, Conflict of Interest, Safeguarding, Legacies, and Financial Reserves. During the closure and re-opening of our Churches during the Covid-19 pandemic the Parochial Church Council has given due consideration to Government and Church of England guidance, and completed and then complied with the requisite risk assessments. - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. PCC St Nicholas with St Barnabas WsM 2021 Trustees Annual Report Page 2 of 9 |**Section C**|**Objectives and activities**| |---|---| |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**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)**|| ||Promoting in the Ecclesiastical Parish the whole mission of the church.| ||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. One piece of
evidence for this is that we have been offering pastoral care to a local
resident who is not part of the worshipping community.
Our intention is to be inclusive. We see ourselves as open to accepting
non-Church members to be part of our worshipping community and our
social activities, which provide support for people who are often on their
own, such as our Luncheon Club or quiz evenings.
Due to ongoing COVID19 and lockdown restrictions at certain times of
the year, we have still had to do some services by zoom, but this has
enabled us 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. Since
measures were relaxed, we have maintained zoom alongside our in-
person services so that all can take part whether they want to attend
Church physically or not. This gives us a wider reach still and meets the
needs of the housebound or those who are not yet integrated into our
Parish life.
The local Pre-School has used St Nicholas’ Church Hall mornings and
afternoons on five days a week, when allowable by lockdown rules. The
Rector is involved in its governance and management, so there are
strong links.| PCC St Nicholas with St Barnabas WsM 2021 Trustees Annual Report Page 3 of 9 ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 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 You **may choose** to include members giving freely of their time to lead and support its activities and further statements, where initiatives. The expertise of PCC members provides effective governance relevant, about: and oversight whilst ensuring that the buildings are maintained in a satisfactory condition. - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; 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 community events. - contribution made by volunteers. PCC St Nicholas with St Barnabas WsM 2021 Trustees Annual Report Page 4 of 9 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 and now regularly. This building can be
hired, as can St Nicholas Church Hall when not being used by
PreSchool.
There is goodwill towards the Church generally. The Wednesday morning
service has a loyal following of mostly older people.
Our events are beginning to pick up now that the rules surrounding
COVID19 have been relaxed. We run several events for the benefit of
the community and 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. In the last 6 months we have
begun Messy Church, which enables families to come along for fun and a
meal and to take part in as much or as little as they want.
We are able to offer the usual life event services of normal Church life –
baptisms, weddings and funerals.
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, Samaritans, Citizens Advice. The
hall is normally used by a pre-school for 10 sessions each week and St
Barnabas hopes soon to host more community groups in addition to
those meeting currently - a craft group, table tennis, and a monthly
Luncheon Club. Some of these are longstanding commitments enabling
the building of relationships with people over the years
Church members have been generous with their money as well as their
time. The Church has been able to pay its own way. The Parish
continues to monitor the buildings and repair and improve them where
finance allows. The Parish is aware of some improvements that are still
needed and is working on these issues.
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.| |---|---| PCC St Nicholas with St Barnabas WsM 2021 Trustees Annual Report Page 5 of 9 ## **Section E Financial review** We aim to pay our Parish Share in full in January in order to attract a **Brief statement of the** more favourable discount. The PCC maintains a general reserve **charity’s policy on reserves** 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. **Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** - Over 75% of the PCC’s income comes from its members directly and the - You **may choose** to include tax recovered on Gift Aid. We had one £500 legacy in 2021. The - additional information, where balance mostly comes from letting the church hall to St Nicholas Church - relevant about: Pre-School (operates independently of the church), some regular - the charity’s principal community lettings, parochial fees and interest. sources of funds (including any fundraising); We, like most churches, were challenged by the loss of income due to - how expenditure has Covid, but we have been blessed by our relatively high number of regular givers using standing orders or envelopes, so the situation is not as bad - supported the key objectives as it could have been. Although our income has been reducing steadily - of the charity; over the last few years, mainly due to regular givers moving away or - investment policy and dying, our reserves at the end of the year have been within our reserves objectives including any policy. ethical investment policy adopted. A lot of our expenditure is the same, irrespective of the number of people in the congregation, and we are also faced with rising fuel bills from April 22 onwards. However, we have been blessed with a number of new people joining us through 2021, and our numbers have remained stable going into 2022. With new initiatives starting in 2022, we remain cautiously optimistic about the state of our finances going forward, although we now realise that in the future we will be more dependent on grants to improve our buildings. ## **Section F Other optional information** (This section left blank) PCC St Nicholas with St Barnabas WsM 2021 Trustees Annual Report Page 6 of 9 **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** 19 May 2022 PCC St Nicholas with St Barnabas WsM 2021 Trustees Annual Report Page 7 of 9 19 ## St Nicholas with St Barnabas Weston-super-Mare's Receipts & Payments Account _for the year ended 31 December 2021_ |**Receipts**
Donations and Legacies:
Planned giving
Collections, donations & other giving
Income tax recovered
Legacies
Other Trading activities
Magazine/Bookstall sales/Hall Lettings etc
Annual Fete/events
Receipts from Investments:
Interest & dividends
Receipts from Charitable activities:
Parochial fees
Other Receipts
Other|General
fund
£|Designated
fund
£|Restricted
fund
£|**2021**
**£**|_2020_
_£_| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||| ||33,152|-|-|**33,152**|_34,367_| ||12,504|-|-|**12,504**|_16,093_| ||9,824|-|-|**9,824**|_13,508_| ||500|-|-|**500**|_-_| ||||||| ||15,016|-|-|**15,016**|_14,673_| ||368|-|-|**368**|_-_| ||||||| ||1,405|1|-|**1,406**|_1,668_| ||||||| ||1,454|-|-|**1,454**|_438_| ||||||| ||333|-|-|**333**|_2,044_| ||||||| |**Total Receipts**|**74,556**
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**74,557**||||_82,791_| |**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|||||| ||(8,950)|-|-|**(8,950)**|_(9,945)_| ||-|-|-|**-**|_-_| ||(45,923)|-|-|**(45,923)**|_(51,026)_| ||(1,230)|-|-|**(1,230)**|_(1,308)_| ||(7,297)|(1,573)|-|**(8,870)**|_(9,789)_| ||(4,411)|(1,613)|-|**(6,024)**|_(6,101)_| ||(46)|-|-|**(46)**|_-_| ||(1,866)|(7,101)|-|**(8,967)**|_(9,640)_| ||(100)|-|-|**(100)**|_(100)_| ||(1,373)|-|-|**(1,373)**|_(1,275)_| ||||||| ||(903)|-|-|**(903)**|_(11,441)_| ||-|-|-|**-**|_(180)_| ||||||| |**Total payments**|**(72,099)**
**(10,287)**
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**(82,386)**||||_(100,805)_| ||||||| |**Surplus/(Deficit) of Receipts over paymen**
**2,457**
**(10,286)**
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**(7,829)**|||||_(18,014)_| |_Transfers between funds_|||||| ||(10,571)|10,571|-|**-**|_-_| ||||||| |_Cash at bank and in hand at 1 Jan_|(8,114)|285|-|**(7,829)**|_(18,014)_| ||74,189|1,002|-|**75,191**|_93,205_| ||||||| |_Cash at bank and in hand at 31 Dec_|66,075|1,287|-|**67,362**|_75,191_| PCC St Nicholas with St Barnabas WsM 2021 Trustees Annual Report Page 8 of 9 ## **Independent Examiner’s Certificate** for the PCC Accounts Report to the trustees of: St. Nicholas with St. Barnabas, Weston-super-Mare **Parochial Church Council** On accounts for the year ended: 31[st] December 2021 Charity Number (if applicable): 1149546 **Set out on pages** ) **Respective responsibilities of** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The **trustees and examiner** 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. PCC St Nicholas with St Barnabas WsM 2021 Trustees Annual Report Page 9 of 9