S; Phlips Church is sknjated on Halffax Road, BirchenclrfFe. Huddetsfield.
St
Phtiip's is part of the UnTled Benef￿ of St Cuthbert, Birkby and St Philip the Apostle,
Bir¢hendrffe in the Deanery of HUdders[￿Id and the DirKe5e of Leeds within the
Church of England.
The Parlxhial Church Counctl (PCC) is a charity ex￿pted from registration with the
Charty Commission. (In 2013 St Philips PCC became a registered Charty - number
1150600)
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PCC members who have seNed Sin￿ the last APCM are.. -
Priest
Rev'd Joanne HustsvKk
Curate
Churchwardens
.. Rev'd Ruth Fort
Mrs Valerie Lord
Mr Peter Mallinson
From 2020
, from 2019
I from 2019
Treasurer
Mr Chris Jones
Deanery Synod
Representatives
Mrs Jane Carter
(dected in 2020 for a further 3
years)
{elected in 2019)
ected in 2020
. Mr Chris Jones
Mrs Val Lo
Mrs Sarah Jone5
Ms Wendy Jamieson
Mr Watter Pell
l Mrs Ann t)yson
i Mrs Denise Eaton
| Miss Karen Haigh
l Mrs Audrey Sh8
frDm 2018
from 2018
from 2018
from 2019
from 2019
from 2019- PCC Secretsry
from 2019 - c(kopted ex officto
mernber
from 2020
from 2020
re-ele￿ 2020 and has agreed
to continue as our Safeguarding
Ms Kathryn Sutdiffe
Mr Ajan Dyson
' Mrs Rachel Clegg
Structs￿. Governance and Management
MembeT5 of the PCC are erther ex officio or elected by the Annual Parochial Church
Meeting (APCMI in accordance wrth the Church Representation Rules. All church
attendees are en￿uraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stsnd for election to
the PCC.
ObieGtlves and Activities
The PCC of St Philip's has the responsibilty of co-operating with the Church
Wardens, Mrs Val Lord and Mr Peter Mallinson, and with the Incumbenl, Rev'd
Joanne Husiwth. in p￿rnOting in the ecdesiastical parish, the whole mission of the
Church. pastoral. evangdists¢. social and ecumenical. It also has maintenan
respcmsibilities for the thurch budding and St PhTiip's Community Centre.
Committees
The Standing Committee - This is the only commiitee required by law. It has the
power to transact the business of the PCC betsveen rts meetings subject to any
d1￿CtionS given by the PCC.

The PCC also OF*rates through the following subgroups which meet in add￿'On to
PCC meeting5:
F[Tran￿ Committee
Fundraising Group
Church Magazine Production Team
Communty Centre Management
Worship Planning Group
Church Attendance
Average numbers atterKling Sunday sefvtts (exdudirwJ aflemoon Baplisms):
I" January- 13 March
Adults:
28
Chlldren: O
4th October- 31st December (either in church or via zcK>m)
Adults. 21
Children=<1
Average Midweek attendance.. 8 (January 151_ March 16 2020)
8apt'sms: 1
Weddings. O
Funerals: 3 (1 in churth. 2 at HuddersfEld Crematorium>
Burial in St Philip s Churchyard 1
Internment of Ashes 2
Electoral Roll Inf0M￿tIOn
October
2020
Aprfl 2021
Number resident within the parish
Numter resMJent outsKle the parish
24
Total
70
70
Review of the Year to December 2020
The PCC has met 6 times during the year. wrth1 Extra Meeting as mentioned belt)W.
The PCC OFerates through a series of sub-committees {listed above) each of which
report back to full PCC meetsngs. In add.tbon to the finance arKI general business of
the PCC, the following topKs have been discussed:
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1. The Safeguarding P￿¢￿eS were kept up to date and the 'A Safer Church. Pol
was reviewed and adopted. and a notice is now on display in both Church and
the Communty Centre. which indudes all the relevant contsct details for anyone
who may need them. BTshop Jonathan is nuw the L&d Bishop for the National
Safeguarding Tearn.
2. From the stsrt of the Coronavirus Pandemic earfy tn the year a lot of the PCC
disujssions were to do with this and the impact tt was having on church.
Discussions induded what to do about worship and hcvi to communieate and
keep in touch with bolh members of the congregation who were sh￿dIng and
aiso with the wider community.
3. We fOll￿d the Govemment Advice and the Churth of England Guiddines at all
times when making decisions ab)ul both Church and the Communty Centre.
4. We began holding our Sunday serV￿S via zcKJfft but as and when the guidelines
allowed we held servtces in Church wrth all the relevant assessments camed
out first. also opened thurch for Private Prayer for 1 hour on a Sunday
aftemi)on when we could.
& In October V￿ held an extra PCC meeting to disujss St Philip's Church W￿lon-
this was facditated by Rev'd Ruth and was very productNe with lots of ideas
suggested. wh￿h are being worked through.
6. Our APCM was held via zoom in November, again folltywing the Church of
England guideFines.
F￿ancIal rnview
Totsl re￿ipts on ordinary unrestricted funds were £29,866 and are detailed in the
financial ststsments. In addition receipts on restricted Communty Centre funds
were £41,919
£30,245 was spent to provide the Chrisiyan ministy from St Philip's Church.
induding 50% of our contrtbutTron to the DiKesan Parish Share (DPS). which largely
provides the stipends and housing for the dergy. The sum that churches in the
Di￿e have to find is shared according to a forniula that tskes account of the Size
of wngregations and income received by PCCS. £17,783 was expended on running
the Communty Cerrtre.
The net result for the year was a de￿t of payments over receipts of £23.759.
A more detsiled review of the PCC'S finances is contained in the Treasurerfs report.
Reserves Pollcy
The balance of £11,W in the designated Fabric Fund, inctusive of the Unit
shareholding valuation. is held to help fund impn)vementslrepairs to the Church's
fabr￿ which may be necessary from time to time in the future.
The balance of £35.598 in the Communty Centre Fund ￿aleS to the 'sinking fund,
which is being held to fund future major repairs to the Community Centre. The PCC
has agreed that 10% of annual Community Centre In￿Me will be placed into this
fufjd in future years. This amount was also inflated in 2020. due to the unused
portion of a £25.000 grant from Kirklees to help us deal with the impacts of COVI[
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19. It 15 expected that much of this amount ￿14 be expended in 2021. £147 of the
overall amount is specifTrcally for use in maintainirKJ the Communty Defibrillator.
The balance of £2,051 in the Bart(M Bequest Fund is hdd to help fund both the
maintenance of the Church graveyardlgrounds and the 4uipment required for any
such maintenance.
2020 REPORTS
Treasu￿3 report Chris Jones
As with all aspects of our lives. tth individual and in lrfe of the Church. the
Coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact upon the finances OT the church.
From a 'tethntcal- point of view. the acLa)unts show a suwus of rec￿pts over payments of
£23.759. However this is misleading ffom a number of angles as15hall explain.
Looking at the General fund (which exdudes anything to do with the Communty Centre)
the year ended 31 Sf December 2020 saw a deficit of payrnents over receipts of £1,968.
H()wever. this mask a signfftant reducaion in the amount we were able to send to the
Diocese as our Parish Share. whdi rgjuced from £23,500 in 2019 to £16,250 in 2020
{against a share request of £32,262).
Pleasingly voluntary receipts (in effect F4anned gtving. cyjllections. donations along wtth
associated Grfi Ajd) only reduced by £1.100. The level of planned gsving only reduced
slighyy with many donors moving from envelopes to Standing Order. to ts)ver them not
being in church - whilst other5 have been sending cheques and cash on a wular basis.
This has really been most appreoated. Aso worthy of great thanksgiving has b&n the
level of one-off donations that have been made, both adhoc and in response to the
Christmas appeal.
Vvhere the pandemic has redly htt has been in the area of fundraising. where the
restrictions around meeting in person have had a significant impacL This has made the
efforts in carying out the online Chrsstma5 Raffle all the more impressive. It will be g￿at
when we can all meet together again: txjth in fellowship and also to help raise some
funds.
Prior to lcxkdown htiting, we were able to hcAd the pantomime run by the Clilfrtes whtch led
to £2,000 ￿Ing donated. again bwng split be￿een the church and the comrnunty centre.
The amount of hard work being pul in by Steph Potts and the whole Cliffites team in
creating such a ptDfessional production cannot be underests"mated,
As previously ststed we were unable to meet our Parish Share commttrnents in full. and
our payrnerrt £16,250 was only just over haf of our assessed amount The parish
share is the most importarrt payment the PCC makes. being our commrtment to the WKler
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church and without this the diocese would not be able to support its parishes through the
provision of Parish Priests and other resources.
Costs incuffed in running the church were reduced from £42,305 to £30.118, (£7,250 of
this reducti{￿ was in the shape of reduc&J Parish Share payments and a further £2.000
was due to costs related to the 2019 Amanda Owen evenings not teing repeated). Along
wlth parish share payments the main expenditure related to utilrti'es and insurance for the
church.
The PCC supported mission through a number of grants, the main beneficiaries being The
Huddersfield Mission. Project EcJJador, Children's, Society. along with others detaiW in
the accour7ts. As in previous years a number of other cdlections SFecffic211y for other
causes were facilitated through the PCC.
The financial position of the Community Centre has been signif&qntly distorted by receipt
rA a Corona Virus support grant of £25,000. Whilst this has ￿MOVed Pressu￿ relating to
reduced abilty to generate letting income. and ojvered additional COVID rdated costs,
it has also led to a signffKant surplus in 2020, albeit wrth expectaton that a defth w￿1
be incurred in 2021.
As such. Ihe Communty Cerrtre showed a surplus of just over £24,000 for the year.
Excluding the irnpact of the grar.t. income would have been £13.500 lTrwer than in 2019 at
£15.395. However Ihe absence of major works (in 2019 the floor Yrds refurbished boiler
repairs were required and remedi￿ elect￿al wo￿$ were carried out) and reduced
expenditure during the lockdown period {e.g. gas. dectnclty and deaning) saw
expenditure redu￿ by £17.500 to £17,783.
ilst income will remain lower than previousty seen, (￿S in 2021 are exKEcted to
increase largdy as a result of enhanced COVID deaning requirements, and as such a
def￿ is expected. albert one that the Grant re¢ewed in 2020 will be abEe to cover.
Reserves are held kni order to a$$￿t the PCC in meeting unexpected costs. It ￿marn$ a
0)n￿M that our General Reserve Fund only has a nominal amount within it However
gNen the ujrrent inability to make parish share payments in full, rt would not be
appropriate to start building this up at the current time. The Fabric Fund now stands at
£11,657. which should allow us to meet the ttjsts arising from the weather rdated damage
this winter, whilst the Communty Centre sinking fund stands at £35.598 (induding
£20,000 from the Corona-virus support grant).
Lch)king fotward, 2021 is likely to be a challenging year financially as we ernerge from the
impact of COVID 19 with the consequential impact on our ability to generate the funds to
cover all of our costs. In addition there remains the continuing disparity be*￿een our
income arKI the level of our Parish Share assessmen( whKh nrm stands at £32.262.
As the church is funded by its member5 (we have no other form of financial supp￿} it is
important that we resFond appTopnately. If we want to be a griming and foTward-looking
church, we have to remember thal we have to pay for it Whilst our primary f¢xus should
be on looking to see we can grow membership and faith, I would encourage everyone
to constder the Eevel of financial support that they can provide.
I should like to finish by thanking all those who have made my job as Treasurer easier
over the ￿$t year. In particular. the tw of counters for their help every Sunday morning,
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our churchwardens Val & Peter. along wtth Ken and Audrey for their stewardship of the
Communty Centre, Kim and Val for their work c)n "Digrtal" fUn￿raising activibes and
Chartes Ingle our Independent Examiner for his assistan￿ in producing these a￿Unts
and. last but by no means least, everyone wrthin the parish for your generous grving both
of money and time. wrthout whth the parish would not be able to function.
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Independent Examinerfs Report to the Parochial Church Council of
St Philip's Church. Birchencliffe
I report on the accounts of the St Philip's Church for the year ended
31st December 2020
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the r￿UIrements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act'}.
I report in respect of my examination of the Trusys ac¢xJunts carrted out under
section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination I have followed all
the appli(3ble Directions given by the Chartty Commission urK5er section 145(5)(b)
of the Act.
Independent examfnefs statement
I have completed my examination. I ￿nfirn that no material matte[5 have come to
my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in
any material respect:
1. The accounting records were not kept in respect of the TTUSt as required ty
section 130 of the Act: or
2. The accounts do not accord with those records.
I have rK) ￿ncernS and have c£ime across no other matters in connection with the
examination to which attention shoul& be drawn in this report in order to enable a
proper understanding of the a¢xounts to be reached.
Name:
Address".
Mrc F Ingle FCA
1 The Park
Park Lane
SON￿od
Halitax
Dale:
9th Febnbary 2021

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ending 31 st December 2020
F*J
RECBPTS
11922
.137
743
743
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52
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11
1U7
Sfdj
41.1
125
41
PAYMENTS
11
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17393
17.
1170
Y).11a
17.733
I7￿1
127
Ir61
17S
107
11gS
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125
2,051
134
1.717
41.813
17.rn
5.747
107
17
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41
2970
3.1
3210
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