## **St. Francis Church, Monks Hill** **Annual Report & Financial Statements and Statement of Public Benefits of the PCC for the year ended December 2025** **April 2026** Page 1 of 2025 Annual Report **St Francis Church, Monks Hill** ## **Agenda for Annual Parochial Church Meeting** ## **Opening Prayer** ## **Annual Meeting of Parishioners** ## **1. Election of Church Wardens** ## **2. Appointment of Assistant Wardens** ## **3. Thanks** ## **Annual General Meeting** ## **1. Apologies for absence** **2. Minutes of previous Annual Parochial Church Meeting** **3. Matters Arising** **4. Finance Report** **5. Church Wardens’ Report** **6. Maintenance Report** **7. Pastoral Care Report** **8. Deanery Synod Report** **9. Children’s Work Report** **10. Youth Work Report** **11. Safeguarding vulnerable children and adults report** **12. Churches Together Report** **13. Floating Shelter Report** **14. Overseas Mission Report** **15. Electoral Roll Report** **16. Community Work** **17. Food Stop Report** **18. Minister’s Report** **19. Election of PCC members – instruction to new PCC members, date of meeting 12[th] May** **20. Election of Sides people** **21. Election of CTSA Representatives** **22. Election of Deanery Synod Representative for 3 years** **23. Appointment of Independent Examiner** **24. Minister’s Address** **25. AOB (notified ahead)** **26. Closing Prayer & blessing** ## **Appendix 1 – Report to Charities Commission on Public Benefits Appendix 2 – Annual Accounts for 2025** Page 2 of 2025 Annual Report **Item 1:** Apologies for Absence: No apologies for absence were received. **Item 2:** Minutes of the Annual Parochial Church Meeting of St Francis Church, held on 6th April at 12 noon in the church. Minutes from APCM 28[th] April 2024 accepted with two minor changes: CSSA should be CTSA and Ola should be Olu. Minutes approved. **Item 3:** Matters arising - No matters arising. **Item 4:** Finance highlights were shared (see attached report for details). Legacy Funds received January 2024 – shared to Youth Work and Men’s Shed. Question: Governance costs clarification point 0223 of the finance reports –– these are expenses that Peter has paid to run the church and sometimes we put this in Sundry Expenses. Audits also come under that as well. Sarah will clarify. Question: Should the congregation know that our giving should be increased? Peter said that he will inform the congregation about this. He has asked members of the congregation to set up standing orders as this helps the church to make future plans. Question – why we don’t ask for donations every Sunday? It was decided at a previous PCC meeting that we would stop doing the collection. This will be reviewed. The card machine at the back should be pointed out to people again. We would need gift aid envelopes for this and cash donations. Grants and funds are being applied for during the church throughout the year for youth and community work. Donations are due to be received too. We have raised all the money we need for 2025 already. It was confirmed that our finances have been audited. Accounts were approved by those in attendance, and we also agreed to continue to use the same auditor. Thanks to Sarah for all that she does and for getting us VAT registered. We have passed this onto our bookings. **Item 5:** Church Warden’s Report - Wardens - Jimmy has come to the end of his term but we are allowed to extend it to a further year and use this future year to find someone to take over from him. Roger also reconfirmed for the next year, Richard and Geoffrey reconfirmed as Assistant Wardens, all were thanked for their service. No questions. **Item 6:** Maintenance Report - No questions. Thanks to the team for all their hard work. **Item 7:** Pastoral care report - no questions. Thanks to the team for all their hard work. **Item 8:** Deanery Synod report - no questions. Thanks to the team for all their hard work. **Item 9:** Children’s work report - no questions. Thanks to the team for all their hard work. **Item 10:** Youth work report - Thanks to Michael for all his hard work. Page 3 of 2025 Annual Report **Item 11:** Safeguarding report - no questions. Jimmy reiterated that Safeguarding is the responsibility of all of us. If you are worried or have any concerns about safeguarding, please talk to Jimmy or Peter or there are other numbers on the noticeboard. He said that the Diocese no longer have an out of hours team for emergencies, so they have asked people to phone 999 instead. He also highlighted Modern Day Slavery. Peter also added domestic abuse – if anyone discloses anything to you please do pass it on if safety is at risk. Michael recommended you watch ‘Adolescence’ on Netflix. Peter thanked Jimmy for all his hard work and training that he has done. **Item 12:** Churches together report - no questions - Thanks to Olu as she has stepped down now. Michelle has offered to be a CTSA Rep – carried unanimously. **Item 13:** Floating shelter - no questions **Item 14:** Overseas mission report - we need to find out given Dima’s death, if there is any specific way we can our support to Mahbuba in Tajikistan. **Item 15:** Electoral Roll - Full revision completed and the number on the roll is 73. **Item 16:** Community work report - no questions. Thanks to Sam, her family and the team for all their hard work. **Item 17:** Food stop report – no questions. Thanks to Michelle and the team for all their hard work. We have lots of new helpers and they wall work together very well. **Item 18:** Minister’s report - no questions **Item 19:** Election of PCC members – Date of next meeting 29th April 2025 Gay standing down from PCC. Alex’s term has come to an end. Thanks to both of them for their input. Nominations: Fola Oloniyo, Michael Jarrett, Geoffrey Okeke, Simon Allbut have been nominated and accepted to serve on the PCC. They will serve a three-year term. **Item 20:** Election of Sides people – Nominations of Geoff, Shaun, Richard, Roger, Jimmy and Penny - accepted **Item 21:** Election of CTSA representatives – Gayle and Michelle accepted. **Item 22:** Election of Deanery Synod Representative for 3 years– Stephanie and Carol remain our representatives for one more year. **Item 23:** Appointment of Independent Examiner - Agreed to continue with Verdant **Item 24:** Minister’s Address **Item 25:** AOB: None **Item 26:** Closing Prayer & blessing 23 people were in attendance and the meeting finished at 1.15pm Page 4 of 2025 Annual Report **Item 4: Finance Report** Financial Highlights for 2025 General Fund Surplus: £17,041.63 - **Overall expenditure** difference was £9,226.92 and a decreased by **£2,243.53** compared to 2024. - **Parish Quota:** Increased from **£26,000** in 2024 to **£27,000** in 2025. - Overall utility cost was in 2025 was £1,128.62, with a savings of £447.14 from 2024. - **Cleaning costs to** general fund was **£1,541.60** . - **Repairs, Equipment & Maintenance:** Total spending was **£8,151.25** , with major costs below: - Mixing desk – **£1,799** - Thomann Gmbh – **£3,736** - Fire alarm service – **£376.80** - **Overall income increased** by **£14,516.55** compared to 2024. - **Tax-Efficient giving increased** by **£5,523** compared 2024. Thanks to everyone for their generous giving. - **Cash collections d** ropped by **£459.25** . - **Gift Aid Tax Recovery** for 2024 and 2025 put together came to a total of **£15,900.08** - **Sum-up donations** decreased by **£945.49** compared to 2024. - **One-Time Large Donation:** The church received a **£6,785 donation in 2025** , which qualifies for Gift Aid. - **Overall hall rentals income** dropped by £1,062.51 compared to 2024. **Fund Balances (2025)** - **General Fund:** £53,256.57 - **Building Fund:** £0 - **Community Worker Fund:** £12,534.44 - **Food Stop Fund:** £24,275.83 - **Sharing Fund:** £2,256.65 - **Youth Worker Fund:** £13.030.94 **Donations to Missionaries & Charities** - **Spinnaker:** £1,050 - **Priscilla:** £1,000 - **Mahbuba:** £1,000 **The full set of Financial Accounts 2025 for the church are set out in Appendix 2 at the end of this Annual Report** Page 5 of 2025 Annual Report **Item 5: Churchwardens’ Report** I am pleased to present this report for the year 2025/2026. Roger Pearson and I attended the Archdeacons Visitation at S. John’s The Divine, Selsdon, in June 2025 to get legally sworn in as Churchwardens. Our thanks to Steve Thomas, Paul Waddell, Paul and Karen Harding, Geoffrey Okeke, Richard Uregha, Sarah Richards, Carol Edwards, Penny Goswell, Rachel Cummings, Simon Allbut, Chris Foster, Shaun Lightman, Anne Beinomugisha, Samantha Pearson (Community Outreach), Blake Pearson, Morgan Pearson, Michelle Wyatt, Michael Jarrett (Youth Lead), Ola (website)to mention but afew, who have once again acted as Super Sides persons and assistants over the years and covered for much of the time that we have been struggling with time commitments. We have in the main stuck to the system that we had set up last year. The list of volunteers who have taken on extra jobs to help out is long and I am certain to miss some out so my apologies to those that I have omitted in our thanks. Great thanks to all the clergy, lay readers who conducted services at St. Francis especially during Reverend Peter and Michelle Wyatt's sabbatical. A special thank you to the readers and intercessors, together with all the community outreach, youth groups, Sunday school, volunteers, for their tireless contributions and ensuring that parish activities, events and services run smoothly. We also have responsibility to ensure the inventory of Church belongings is up to date and accurate, and once again we have carried out an audit, and found everything to be satisfactory and also carrying out minor structural repairs where necessary. I can also report that the insurances for the church buildings and contents are up to date, utility bills are fully paid together with those for the church halls. Our CCLI Licence for music has also been paid and all the certifications. Finally, and most importantly, we can’t forget those who look after the church both inside and outside throughout the year, the music people, gardeners, the cleaners etc, etc. And those of you who contribute monetarily / donations to the well-being of our church, the intercessors and readers, the sound system operators. Many of you maybe unseen but your work does not go unnoticed. Our grateful thanks to you all. Wishing you all a blessed and fruitful year ahead Sincerely and warm regards Jimmy Wavamunno Church Warden. ## **Item 6: Fabric and Maintenance Report** This last year has been a busy for St Francis as a brand-new sound system has been installed alongside various different jobs. Page 6 of 2025 Annual Report ## **Installing the sound system** For the upgrade we had our mind set on moving from an analogue system to a new all-digital system to allow future proofing and an upgraded livestream for our online viewers. We started the project by taking the old sound desk and cabling out so that had room to start the upgrades. We started the upgrades with replacing the old sound desk to a new Allen and Heath QU24 and then we made various different changes to improve the tidiness of the set up like building a rack to store all of the amps and microphones and their receivers. ## **All other jobs:** New security lighting installed replacing the old lighting in nursery garden. The nursery staff have installed fencing and erected a shed so they can store the gear in. Repaired few chairs from the church that got broken. We had a fire alarm test during service need some improvements. Removal of the old tables and trolly from church and had major tidy up. In process of organising the removal of the church organ which is a long process this will then allow us to have chairs as the congregation is growing. Roger Pearson ## **Item 7: Pastoral Care Report** I thank God that I was able to visit few members, send emails to a few, ring a few, and send Christmas and Easter cards to members. I am glad that was able send messages to few members who had relocated. The response has been positive. I observed that a few started coming back to church with their families, some attended the prayer and healing service, to testify to the power of God to heal and to restore. Others testify the power of God, on healing of their ongoing illness. We have one on dialysis whom we have prayed for who celebrated his 90th birthday praise God. Also, we have one person with cancer of colon, and the cancer is receding. Another with palpitation of the heart, and their heartbeat is now gradually getting slower. We thank God also for one who has mental challenges and is who has now agreed to seek medical help. May his healing be permanent in Jesus. I also visited people in their home and hospice and prayed with them. I thank God for His healing power on me and family. I thank God for an old member who had now started to come to Church and experienced power of God to forgive and restore. We thank God for journey mercies and breakthroughs at work. Olu Akitoye ## **Item 8: Deanery Synod Report** There are four Deanery meetings each year, chaired by Father Prem the Area Dean. After the business meetings there are talks which are open to everyone. These meetings are intended to provide ways to share time together, to develop ideas and to support each other in all that we do. They include feedback notes from the most recent Diocesan Synod and General Synod meetings. At the last Deanery meeting, we had a fascinating talk on the Work of the Diocese of Southwark Racial Justice Committee _**,**_ by Weisi Dennis, Diocesan Racial Justice Development Officer. Steph Waddell Page 7 of 2025 Annual Report **Item 9: Children’s Work Coordinator’s Report (Splash and Bubbles)** We have 2 Sunday school groups for 11 and under. Splash is for school years 3 to 6. Bubbles is for children up to school year 2. We use the Urban Saints material ‘Energise’ to teach the children. In the 12 months since the last AGM as well as teaching around the church calendar (Christmas, lent, Easter etc) we have taught about Jesus’ parables, acting justly e.g., by looking at the Esther story, famous Bible characters and after we have finished our teaching on Easter, we are continuing looking at the nature of God e.g., creative, loving… Every Sunday we aim to have fun together, to pray together, to learn about our God and to be a friend of Jesus. Many thanks to the Sunday school team. We urgently need more Sunday school leaders and helpers so please pray about this and if you feel God prompting you, please talk to me! ## Michelle Wyatt ## **Item 10: Youth Work Report - Youth Action for Monks Hill** ## A Beacon of Hope and Transformation In the heart of Croydon, the Youth Action for Monks Hill project and St Francis youth ministry continue to be a lifeline for local children and young people, offering free, faith-rooted support in the middle of the cost-of-living crisis, youth disengagement and rising concern about knife crime. Through our four core strands: VIBE Youth Club, Monks Hill Football Academy, Food for Body and Soul, and 1-to-1 mentoring we’re providing welcome, safe spaces every week for friendship, mentoring, physical and emotional wellbeing, and spiritual growth. Numbers have steadied, somewhat strengthened with a committed core of young people and emerging young leaders who help shape programmes, welcome new members and model positive choices. Over the past year we have deepened this work with a range of extra opportunities. In August we took a 20+ young people to summer camp, giving young people time away from the estate to build confidence, explore faith and form deeper friendships. Our annual KICK football tournament again drew in players and families from across the area, showcasing the impact of the Monks Hill Football Academy and reinforcing football as a positive alternative to antisocial behaviour, with another tournament planned for this year. Young people have also taken part in our very own Connected Conference, music workshops and our young people are taking active roles in services (main, children and youth - the youth service was amazing and done by them) discovering gifts in worship, creativity and leadership and contributing visibly to the life of the church and community. We have also seen important progress in partnership and unity. We have developed a new relationship with the local primary school and strengthened our ongoing presence in the local secondary, offering in-school mentoring and a clear pathway into our wider activities. At the same time, St Francis is working more intentionally with neighbouring churches; together we are beginning to act as one body, sharing ideas, supporting each other’s events and laying strong foundations for future leaders. Underpinning all of this is a simple conviction that is regularly shared with the young people, volunteers and partners: the only way to have a better future is to invest in the children now. Every club night, cooking/football session, mentoring conversation and act of hospitality is part of that investment, and the impact is already visible in changed attitudes, healthier choices and deeper connections between families, schools, churches and the wider community. Looking ahead, we aim to build on this foundation with further mental-health and life-skills workshops, continued engagement with the wider church, continued camps and tournaments, and a broader volunteer base so that even more children and young people on and around our estate Page 8 of 2025 Annual Report an across CR2 can be reached and supported. Together, we’re proving that faith, endurance, dedication, and unity can change the world, one young person at a time. Michael Jarrett ## **Item 11: Safeguarding Vulnerable Children and Adults Report** The profile of safeguarding in churches is higher than ever before and for good reason. The Makin Safeguarding Report was published. It does not make comfortable reading, but the Church of England is committed to implementing the recommendations. At St. Francis safeguarding is taken very seriously and every concern or enquiry is listened to and assessed, even if the enquiry is not actually related to a safeguarding issue per se; the discussions and consciousness raising as to what safeguarding looks like is part of the process, as safeguarding is everyone’s business whether they have a role in church or not. Thankfully, those who seek to abuse children and vulnerable adults are in the minority, they do not exist in numbers, and they seek out churches and other organisations where safeguarding practice is weak. Their activities go on in secret and they are generally very skilful at gaining trust. It must be noted that, although public and general awareness is often focused on children, it is now more common to receive referrals to vulnerable adults. We are also minded of modern-day slavery, trafficking, glooming and domestic abuse. Whilst some people may question why their role requires Basic Awareness training and resist it, it is important to remember that most volunteers within the church potentially come into contact with children or vulnerable adults where there may be safeguarding concerns. The short online Basic Awareness training helps volunteers to recognise safeguarding situations and is also the steppingstone to Foundation and Leadership training, should the role require it. This year there were 11 people with DBS certificates, 12 relevant safeguarding trainings and renewals are up to date. Thanks especially to everyone who volunteers at St. Francis be it at our youth clubs, Sunday schools, events, cafes and community outreach groups to help us fulfil our vision to Show the Light and Love of Jesus and to keep everyone as safe as possible. I can confirm that the PCC has complied with its duty under Section 5 of the Church of England Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (duty to have regard to the House of Bishops’ guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults). Also safeguarding is an item on all the PCC and management meetings. Our parish participates in the annual safeguarding Sunday, up to date safeguarding notice boards, safeguarding dashboard, website and social media outlets are fully functional and update with relevant safeguarding information, procedure, policy and functions. Thanking you all for your tireless work to making St. Francis church a safe and welcoming place. Have a fruitful and blessed year ahead. Jimmy Wavamunno, Parish Safeguarding officer. ## **Item 12: Churches Together Selsdon and Addington (CTSA) Report** All the Churches Together united services this year were well attended and spirit lifting occasions. Good Friday with a Walk of Witness following the Cross through Selsdon, is always the biggest of Page 9 of 2025 Annual Report our events, along with services for the week of Prayer for Christian Unity (held at St Francis) and now also Pentecost. Lent courses offer the opportunity to mix and discuss with Christians from other denominations and this year is looking at the concept of Sanctuary in various ways. Seasonal family rambles offer the opportunity to walk, chat and share lunch together. ## On the Saturday before Christmas, we sing Christmas Carols for the community at Sainsbury’s. Gayle Costello ## **Item 13: Floating Shelter for the Homeless Report 2024/2025** As with previous years working together with Holly and co at Jubilee church we made sandwiches and delivered them with other items to Night watch every Wednesday evening in November and December and the first 6 weeks of 2026 as the church who previously did this could no longer do so. A big thank you to Stan, Val, Bill and Linda, Paul H and Karen in particular for helping with this. If you are able to help, especially with picking up and delivering the sandwiches please let me know. CCFS had its last AGM in 2025 where it was agreed to wind the charity up and give their outstanding money equally to Housing Justice Shelter (the new homeless shelter in Croydon) and Welcome Paths Croydon. Michelle Wyatt ## **Item 14: Overseas Mission Report** Currently we support two overseas Missions, and also Spinnaker locally: - 1. Mahbuba is ministering to children in Tajikistan, a west-Asian country relating to Russia. Sadly, we lost Dima in 2024. But her ministry seems to be highly successful – almost entirely towards children, who will of course be ‘tomorrow’s Church.’ In the UK they are part of Scripture Union. Like many missionaries they are not good communicators but are in closer touch with Margaret Mowll. 2. Spinnaker Trust is a Christian charity that supports primary schools in London and the Southeast by delivering Collective Worship, Religious Education (RE) lessons, and school clubs **.** Unfortunately, Emily Tate is no longer operating Spinnaker Croydon, but we have supported the wider ministry. 3.Via OMF we support Priscilla Ng, a UK-born Chinese lady missionary. She has been invited by several churches in China, also in university and college Christian Unions, to teach the Bible and Christian living among students. Our Missionary support therefore amounts to at least £3000/year. Some of our neighbouring churches wonder how we ‘spare’ such a sum – especially when we have been building _The Light House. But God knows more about our funding than we do!_ He has not let us down! David Huntley Page 10 of 2025 Annual Report **Item 15: Electoral Roll Report** We now have 80 members on the electoral roll. Gay Costello ## **Item 16: Community Work Report** Community activities over the last year have gone from strength to strength. the regular activities such as the lunch club have a very good core group, that return Pevery single week this is made-up with members of the community and members of Saint Francis church over the last 12 months this group has grown in strength with relationships forming with each other that mean they meet up outside of the group which in turn helps reduce isolation and build community strength. 1:00 to 1:00 work continues throughout the year at different points at different amounts as always this can cover everything from problems with the council benefit issues right through to housing or even domestic violence community 1:00 to 1:00 work is a huge part of what we do here at Saint Francis and it's great to see this grow in strength. The community garden project really growing strength last year and it was fantastic to see our plots go from just three small ones to even more, and with volunteer help we were able to produce fantastic produce that went into our food stop and cooked in our community lunches. We have been able to run different events throughout the year for families and children especially in the school holidays and of course a large community lunches our Christmas lunch was the highest attendance we had ever had for one of these events, I hope to see these continue great over the next year. Overall, I would say the last 12 months have been a tremendous success when it comes to the community side on Monks Hill may this continue to grow and stay as strong as ever in the coming months. Sam Pearson ## **The Men’s Shed** Over the last 12 months the Men’s Shed has served a fairly small number of people but that doesn't mean that it has been small in stature. The Men’s shed has grown to become a very close knit group of men that support each other and help support activities here at St Francis. We have built things for different activities including things for church services and we are looking forward to getting involved in a lot more community projects over the next 12 months. As always as mentioned, it is reliant on funding and as that that has been slim, we are always looking to expand that if anybody has any ideas, please feel free to contact me. Roger Pearson ## **Item 17: Food Stop Report** Food Stop runs every Friday morning but there is a lot more to it than that! Every Tuesday and Thursday evening fresh food are collected from Waitrose. Every other Wednesday ambient food is collected from Purley food hub, sorted and put in the shop or storage. Every Thursday morning food is delivered by the Felix Project to Field way, New Addington where Page 11 of 2025 Annual Report we collect it and bring it back to the Light House to sort. Finally, we then go shopping to buy whatever we haven’t got for the next day. A big thank you to everyone who helps with that. The Food Stop is more than a place where you can get a lot of food for £4. Usually, we have second-hand clothes and other items available. Once a month you can get a free haircut. Our local councillor and police also sometimes pop in. You can sometimes have a game of pool. There is always a free help yourself breakfast, tea and coffee. Sam is excellent at helping people with benefits advice. People get to know one another and support each other. It is a place where we seek to show God’s love to those around us. Members of the food stop have attended Alpha courses and sometimes come to church. If you have food, toiletries or domestic products that you will never use and are in date please donate them to us. If you have ‘more month than money’ please put your pride in your pocket and come along or ask Michelle, Peter, Sam or Roger for more information. A big thank you to the folk who help week in week out every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Michelle Wyatt **Item 18: Minister’s Report** The year 2025 was a challenging year for the church and for me, but we got through it and there were many blessings on the way, not least my and Michelle’s pilgrimage in Spain during our sabbatical. The services continued very well, and I appreciate everyone’s hard work and support throughout that time, especially our guest clergy. ## **Highlights** There were many highlights in 2025, including: - A successful Alpha course with members of the Food Stop - Continued success of our community work really making a difference in our community - Solid attendance at church - Connected Youth Conference and Youth Services - Youth camp at Satellites with Forestdale church - Wonderful vegetable garden thanks to Lorretta Moneira ## **Mission Action Planning** These are our vision areas and I include a highlight for each one. • Working together – thank you so much to everyone who took up extra duties during the sabbatical and kept the show on the road! It wasn’t always easy, but the church was able to offer a service every Sunday with the wonderful help of many guest clergy. - A Church full of people – we have retained recent members and welcomed some faces to church, keeping our numbers steady. - Finding healing – the Sunday night healing services came to a natural end, but we are excited that the young people continue to lead youth services where we offer healing ministry. Page 12 of 2025 Annual Report • Praising God –Thank you to Paul Waddell (and his guest musicians), and the Harding family for ably leading the musical side of worship, including Eliana on keys. Also thank you to Joel who fills in when he can. Also grateful to Richard and Ben on drums. We have been fortunate to have the services of Michael Sackey on occasions. We are in the process of training up more young people to play worship songs on a Sunday – watch this space! • Transforming lives in the community – this has maintained its impact with 40+ families attending the Food Stop every week, and the community lunch is flourishing with 25-30 attending. I always say we now have two “flocks” – the church and the community, and we try to support both in practical, spiritual, and emotional ways. I am pleased to say that a number from the Food Stop now attend church regularly, and some have attended an Alpha course. • We have also continued other projects – Men’s shed and a Vegetable Garden. The Men’s shed had a big impact on several individuals and have also made some wonderful props for our services. The Vegetable Garden was a joy to everyone who watched food grow before our eyes, for the second season. ## **Other Areas** ## Cadets I continue to do “padre’s hour” at 66 squadron Air Training Corps, Mitcham Rd, encouraging spiritual interest amongst the cadets, mostly online. We are grateful for their support at various events. ## Thanks Thank you to Jimmy and Roger our wardens; to all on the PCC, especially those stepping down this year; all who run the Kids Hour who work incredibly hard to teach our children (especially Michelle); to Michael, and the youth; prayers, readers and musicians; house group and pastoral leaders; sound and PA and not forgetting maintenance of the premises! I would also like to thank Olu, Paul and Steve our readers, and Penny and Sarah who keep admin and finance straight. Finally thank you to Carol for all her work behind the scenes and to Sam for all the lunches and events, and Roger for being proactive in maintaining our increasing facilities and all they do for our church and community; and to Jimmy for keeping the grass in trim. Peter Wyatt **Appendix 1: Public Benefits Report for 2025 to the Charity Commission ST FRANCIS CHURCH, MONKS HILL** We are a church and provide to the local community all the Christian services and events set out in the attached annual report which we believe are in themselves a public benefit in promoting a strong and healthy community on the Monks Hill estate where we are located. For the purpose of reporting on general public benefits to the charity commission we would specifically highlight the following items: - - Running a Food Stop which helps feed those in need and enables them to access relevant council services. - We provide youth services to the estate including a mentoring programme for young people, running a youth club, and providing with Kick London a regular programme of football for Page 13 of 2025 Annual Report children on the estate. We have also formed a band and given young people experience with playing the keyboard, brass instruments, drums, acoustic and electric bass guitar. We believe this provision of youth services by our church is of public benefit in helping young people and giving them positive things to do. We believe this Youth work is of public benefit. - Our premises are used for weekly community lunch which promote a sense of community and help combat loneliness. Both uses are of clear public benefit. - We host two sessions of Kumon after school classes. - Our premises can be (and are) hired by the public for parties and other special occasions and we believe such a use of our premises is of public benefit in promoting a strong sense of community feeling. - The Monks Hill Community Association carries out activities based at our church such as quizzes and craft events. Our premises are also used for big community events like a Fireworks party and a Christmas Event, and we believe these bigger community events are of public benefit in promoting a strong sense of community on Monks Hill. We opened in 2021 a new church hall cum community centre which provides far better facilities for community events and services to the Monks Hill community and so we expect the list of public benefits provided by the church to increase over time. We use our website and Facebook to promote the services we provide to Monks Hill to generate a strong sense of community on the Monks Hill estate. Page 14 of 2025 Annual Report **Appendix 2: Annual Accounts for 2025 Parochial Church Council of St Francis Church, Monks Hill Year Ended 31st December 2025** _Incumbent_ The Revd. Peter Wyatt Registered Charity Number: 1150124 _Bankers_ CAF Bank Church of England Deposit Fund 25 Kings Hill Avenue Queen Victoria Street West Malling London ME19 4JQ EC4N 4TR _Independent Examiner_ Chaweevan Williams ## _Contents_ Accounts Cover Page Page 1 Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) Page 2 Balance Sheet Page 3 Statement of Income Page 4 Statement of Payments Page 5 Statement of Movement of Funds Page 6 Report of the Independent Examiner Page 7 Agreed and signed on 2026 by Minister in Charge: Revd. Peter Wyatt Churchwardens: Jimmy Wavamunno ## **THIS IS PAGE 1 OF APPENDIX 2** Page 15 of 2025 Annual Report ST FRANCIS CHURCH ststement of Financial Activities For the period from 01 January 2025 to 31 December2025 lfrJ In￿mIr0 re￿r￿ trom WuntsryirKxxlle kkniti￿ £44,448ffi £1,673.49 £4e6.40 £9,03828 £1,W.78 £￿8.72 £17,038m m.61910 £46,1LJ4 £29,441. £9K4.fA £14,86951 £195978 £2,W £858.72 ,￿7.48 £95,N6. In(fjmir￿ r￿r￿froM d￿nb￿S￿l￿e5 in￿l￿)re5c￿ Tdalirm £H792.14 £gJJ30.87 £155,123.01 £14W93 10fgewatingfv￿ts tofpmbru￿un&ryl[vX￿e FuThJraiSing￿l￿uEIQf￿xth$ddth(fvO?$ts hmEstrnthmawnEnl0￿ts Q￿n&t￿ea(*iIts.es £12.921.1 £43,72459 £12R6319 £12P21.04 £13,WB4 7.78 £￿,11428 £3,tthm £4T4.32 £3,474 £6,754.18 £70. £￿,468.12 £68,159. £￿,468.12 TdalexFerdtwe £4&724th £81,72&67 £118,45126 £1416nJ5 irttsTrllexF¢rrtltwel resar¢estefc¢etrar6ftr £18,067M 1£1,395MI £16M1.75 ￿4,128A2) Trthrs.. beWifvnds.(xJt Cfl[￿L￿ ￿1￿￿￿ent&sets irBon r￿AlU8￿.0n.fr￿Ja$9e1S.(￿a￿'￿ nvMTr*rtinf £11067J5 (£1,395NI £16ffi71.75 1£4,128A2) Tdalhrd5trWlcn¥¥d £36214S4 £52,54196 £88,757￿) £9188632 Tda1hr £1,th1.9) £3232.16 £4￿.12 Ol￿-l￿m5SiL￿ &Rdief 0225.NÈn* ￿ EwJibJ lyL9.PAis￿ PAS flG.17 £271.15 Charltablo a¢tl¥ltles Totals £3,000.00 £474.32 £3,474.32 £6,T54.18 Govtrnaneè costs £70. Govèrnancè Costs Totals £70.00 Other regource3 used 0211.y￿￿￿thÉr￿ lw2.cttnmunty￿￿saary OL6.Yth E¥￿I￿re 0227.thmuntyE4vpJi .finarKe<h)InSaar8y £25,141AI £25,786A5 £1.119fi3 £6.843n3 £6b7120 £25,141R1 £25,786.45 £1,119.63 £6,&13.03 £6,511.%) £23,793. £26￿3.48 £6,￿7.37 £5,034.39 £6,5%).L Oth¢r rosourc•s used Totals £65,468.12 £65,46B.12 £68,159.05 Resources used &and totals £46,72459 - £91,726.67 - £138,451.26 £146,673.35 Page 19 of 2025 Annual Report ST FRIKIS CHLRCH Fund moven*nt sun￿ary Selectsd period: 01 January 2025 to 31 December 2025 1,184.Nl £1la8.19 £0.38 £1￿ 1,101 £11534.4 £47M.85 RA.R￿th￿.Fff￿51¥ £lW.fi) £18J7 £16trth.C4 £&214.51 £22ff6.34 ,7e622 £￿61A4 £4&724£9 £11030JI £4757 5W.G* £1C4wn Page 20 of 2025 Annual Report ## **PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST FRANCIS, SELSDON INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT** For the year ended 31 December 2025 ## **Independent examiner’s report to the PCC of St Francis Church** I report to the PCC on my examination of the Financial Statements of St Francis Church for the year ended 31[st] of December 2025. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the PCC you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of St Francis 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 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the PCC as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Chaweevan Williams FCCA Verdant Accountants Limited Chartered Certified Accountants 20-22 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU Date: ## **THIS IS PAGE 7 OF APPENDIX 2** Page 21 of 2025 Annual Report