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2022-12-31-accounts

St Andrew and St Peter, Blofield Annual Report And Financial Statements Of the Parochial Church Council FOT the yeaT ended 31 December 2022 Registered Charity No 1151641 Rector: The Revd Keviii Bi115011 Tlie Rectory Oakwood Blofield Nla3 4JG Banks: SaIitaiider UK plc Barclays Bank plc Independent examiner: Saiah Reynold5

PCC Annual Report of the Church of St Andrew and St Peter, Blofield For the year ended 31 December 2022

Background

The PCC has the responsibility of cooperating with the incumbent in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelical, social and ecumenical. It also has the maintenance responsibility for the Church building.

Objectives and Activities

The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church and to become part of our parish community at Blofield. The PCC maintains an overview of worship throughout the parish and makes suggestions on how our services can involve the many groups that live within our parish. Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament.

When planning our activities for the year, the incumbent and the PCC have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. We believe we provide a benefit to the public by:

To facilitate this work it is important that we maintain the fabric of the Church.

Membership

Members of the PCC are either ex-officio or elected by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting in accordance with the Church Representation Rules. During the year the following served as members of the PCC:

Incumbent: The Revd Kevin Billson
Wardens: Yvonne Mack (from April 2022 to April 2023)
Stephen Wales (from April 2022 to April 2023)
Deanery Synod
Representatives: Yvonne Mack (from May 2021 to May 2023)
Roy Allgood (from May 2021 to May 2023)
Hon. Secretary: Avril Tyrer (from May 2021 to May 2024)
Hon. Treasurer: Martin Tyrer (from May 2021 to May 2024)
Elected
Members:

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David Pilch (from April 2020 to April 2023)
Avril Tyrer (from May 2021 to May 2024)
Martin Tyrer (from May 2021 to May 2024)
David Pearce (from May 2021 to May 2024) (*See note 1)
Caroline Wales (from May 2022 to May 2025)
John Kelly (from May 2022 to May 2025)
Jenny Jenkins (from May 2022 to May 2025)

Committees

The PCC operates through a number of committees which meet between full meetings of the PCC:

During the year the PCC met on 6 occasions with an average attendance of 80.3%. Along with routine business they dealt with the following topics:

The Standing Committee met once during 2022 to discuss and agree our responses to the Church Buildings Commission Online Survey.

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Retired Clergy

We are grateful for the support given to our church community by the Revd Canon Judith Wilson (retired), Revd Canon Pat Atkinson (retired) and Revd Ron Ingamells (retired).

Ministry Team

The Ministry team consists of Revd Kevin Billson (Rector) and the only Stipendiary minster. Revd Sue Shillam, who is an assistant curate and whose training continues under the IME scheme, Revd Pat Atkinson, Revd Judith Wilson and the Revd Ron Ingamells, additionally Margaret Mallett is part of the team as a licensed reader.

Church Attendance

The electoral roll for 2022 was 100 (2021 was 98. The average attendance at the regular Sunday 11am service was 51 adults (2021 was 47) and 1 child (2021 was 2). The Easter Day service at 11am had an attendance of 84 (2021 was 52). The total number for the Christingle, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Services was 312 adults and 205 children (2021 was 180 adults and 45 children).

Review of the Year

The pattern of Church services has been:

Additional services are held at the Church festivals. On Ash Wednesday and Maundy Thursday, services were held for the combined benefice. On Good Friday, a service was held outside in front of the porch. At Christmas, we held a number of seasonal services, including the very popular ‘Christingle’ service.

We were pleased to welcome Blofield School for their Carol Service at Christmas.

There were 12 baptisms, 0 weddings, 11 funerals which took place in church and 3 at the crematorium plus 5 Interment of Ashes.

The Church is open every day from 9.30am until dusk for anyone who wishes to find a quiet place for prayer and contemplation, and for all who wish to enjoy our heritage, or to make a donation at the collection point for the Norwich Food Bank.

The West End Café, Open Doors and Play Church Baby & Toddler Group provide a welcoming place for anyone who wishes to call in for refreshments, a light lunch, or to meet or make new friends. From the end of November 2022 through to March 2023, the Church was also open on Thursdays as a local Community Hot-Spot to provide a warm environment and hot refreshments to support the local community during the cold winter months. This was supported by a grant from the Norfolk Community Foundation.

Throughout the year, the West End Café is also used to serve refreshments for a walking group, visitors, sociable events and fund raising for charities (such as Sunday afternoon concerts, Flower Festival, Summer Fete, Sponsored Cycle ride, Christmas craft fair, Lenten and Harvest lunches) and occasionally

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for funerals and weddings. In March, Blofield Church hosted a Big Breakfast event to raise funds for the DEC Ukraine Emergency Appeal. We are grateful to Yvonne Mack, the Hospitality Team and all those who regularly help to organise and facilitate these events.

Outreach continues amongst more senior members of the community with monthly lay-led services held at Manor Lodge and Manor House.

Finance Overview (Martin Tyrer)

This year, we were able to make a contribution of £35,708, our full allotted figure, towards our Parish Share allocation.

Thanks to the efforts of our Social Events Team, we held a number of fund-raising events in the year. These were well attended and supported and raised £7,080 in total. As with 2021, we were unable to hold our annual quiz event in January due to covid restrictions.

We also held events to raise monies for charities and appeals that totalled £9,489. Of particular importance was our Big Breakfast event on behalf of Ukraine. Almost £6,000 was raised on the day. Also, we received several cheques made payable directly to the DEC that totalled over £700. These, of course, are not recorded in the Church accounts.

Also, monies raised from weekly coffees on Sundays, West End Cafe, Toddlers and Open Doors made a significant contribution to funds of over £3,000.

We received a grant of £2,000 in November from the Norfolk Community Foundation to support the Warm Church Provision initiative. This enabled us to open the church for longer periods and to supply food and heating to the general public. Our total spend on this is not known at present, but the fund will more than cover the supplies and additional utility cost involved.

We had two repair bills this year totalling £2,559 in respect of external repairs. This was paid by transfer from our Fabric Fund, and we were able to reclaim the VAT amount.

Monies held in our restricted funds accounts decreased during the year by a total of £532.

Our endowment held by the CofE Deposit fund showed a decrease of £298 during the year from £4,219 to £3,921.

Monies held in our bank accounts increased by £186 to £5,725. This figure includes the £2,000 grant from the Norfolk Community Foundation, part of which we spent in 2022.

In the early part of 2022, we signed a new agreement for supplies of electricity and gas to cover the next three years. These were at very similar rates to our previous agreement. Therefore, the Church will be protected to a large extent from the sharp rise in prices that has emerged.

I would like to thank Jim Morley for his continuing advice and support. Jim continues to handle our Gift Aid applications as well as other items. Also, thanks to Sarah Reynolds for checking our accounts last year and this year.

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BLOFIELD CHURCH ACCOUNTS at 31 December 2022

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST. ANDREW & ST. PETER, BLOFIELD NOTES Y/E 31 DECEMBER 2022

1 PLANNED GIVING
Through Gift Aid 23981
Other envelopes 910
24891
2 GENERAL DONATIONS RECEIVED
General Fund
General donations 447
For coffee 240
Café, Play Church & Open Doors 2213
Home communion 31
Wall safe 223
3154
Restricted Funds
For Play Church 493
Fabric Fund 1167
3 GRANTS RECEIVED
Wi- Spire 100
Blofield Parish Council 10
Norfolk Churches Trust (cycle ride
2021) 551
Warm Church 2000
War Graves Commission 15
2676
RAISED FOR CHARITIES AND
4 APPEALS
Vidiyal Trust 660
Children’s Society 128
DEC Afghanistan Appeal 120
DEC Ukraine Appeal 7805
World Vision 116
Royal British Legion 225
Hand in Hand 435
9489
5 FEES RECEIVED
These are statutory fees due to the
PCC for weddings and funerals
with charges made by the PCC
6 FUND RAISING
Concert by John Farmer and Emma
Nuule 232

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St. Gregory's Orchestra
Mundesley Choir
Breakfast morning
Taverham Brass Band
Summer fete
Flower festival
Cycle ride
Jubilee tree appeal
Christmas Fair
7
INCOME FROM ENDOWMENTS
For churchyard maintenance.
The Brewster income is for the
upkeep of the lychgate with any
surplus for church repairs.
8
DONATIONS MADE
Church Mission Society
USPG
BADCOG
Norfolk Churches Trust
Norwich D A of Ringers
9
CHURCH RUNNING EXPENSES
Insurance
Gas
Electricity
Water
10
CHURCH & EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE
Organ tuning
Roof Alarm
Replacement fuse box
Boiler service
Flameskill
Sundries
From other funds
Flowers
11
BLOFIELD NEWS COSTS
Paper
External Printing
Copying		 374
394
130
640
1156
1397
641
160
1957
7081
275
275
50
70
10
680
3745
2990
896
151
7782
161
1266
930
0
150
0
2507
84
266
67
261
594

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12 COSTS OF REPAIRS
Gutter repair to the North elevation 2559
COSTS OF FUND-RAISING
13 EVENTS
Concert by John Farmer and Emma
Nuule 94
St. Gregory's Orchestra 130
Flower festival 237
Mundesley Choir 124
Taverham Brass Band 164
Miscellaneous 40
789
CHURCH ADMINISTRATION ALL
14 FUNDS
Copyright licences 433
Christmas Leaflets 123
Giving envelopes 96
Copying 421
Purchase of banners 41
Postage and stationery 211
Food, wine, coffee 188
Sundries 247
1760

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST ANDREW AND ST PETER, BLOFIELD STATEMENT OF FUNDS

2022 2021
£ £ £ £
CHAMBERLIN PRIZE FUND – Restricted Fund
Receipts
Bank interest 2 0
Payments
- -
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(Deficit) of receipts over payments 2 0
Deposit account at 1 January 2022 224 224
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Deposit account at 31 December 2022 226 224
FABRIC FUND – Restricted Fund
Receipts
Donations and Gift Aid 1562 322
-
Deposit interest 45 5 327
Payments
For the guttering repair -2558 -1974
-
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Excess (Deficit) of receipts over payments -953 -1647
Deposit account at 1 January 2022 2,790 4437
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Deposit account at 31 December 2022 1,839 2790
THE GEORGE FLOWERS TRUST – Restricted Fund
Receipts
Deposit interest 19 1
Payments
For flowers -83 -33
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(Deficit) of receipts over payments (64) (32)
Deposit account at 1 January 2022 1,692 1724
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Deposit account at 31 December 2022 1,628 1,692
BREWSTER LEGACY INCOME ACCOUNT – Restricted Fund
Receipts
Endowment income and deposit interest 114 100
Payments
- -
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Excess/ (Deficit) of receipts over payments 114 100
Deposit account at 1 January 2022 940 840
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Deposit account at 31 December 2022 1054 940
THE TODDLERS GROUP – Restricted Fund
Receipts
Donations and grant 1833 50
Interest 3
Payments
To Church General Fund -765
New toys etc. -566 -
Church tower rail -199
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(Deficit) of receipts over payments 307 50
Deposit account at 1 January 2022 250 200


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Deposit account at 31 December 2022

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST ANDREW AND ST PETER, BLOFIELD
STATEMENT OF FUNDS
2022 2021
£ £ £ £
BELL FUND – Restricted Fund
Receipts
Donations and deposit interest 16 157
Payments - -
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Excess of receipts over payments 16 157
1365 1208
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Deposit account at 31 December 2022
1381
 1365

DEVELOPMENT FUND – Designated Fund
Receipts
VAT grants and deposit interest 6 1
Payments
Contractor re kitchen and floor alterations - -
Contractor re church decoration - - - -
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(Deficit) of receipts over payments 6 1
Deposit account at 1 January 2022 650 649
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Deposit account at 31 December 2022 656 650
RENEWALS FUND – Designated Fund
Receipts
Transfers from the General Fund
Deposit interest 10 10 1 1
Payments
- -
-
 -
__ _
(Deficit) of receipts over payments 10 1
Deposit account at 1 January 2022 664 663
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Deposit account at 31 December 2022

 674 664

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST ANDREW AND ST PETER, BLOFIELD

ACCRUALS AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2022

Creditors Debtors
Crown Gas 668.9 Wi - Spire 100.00
Balance of Warm
Church 1800 Close Premium 301.88
Organ tuning 164.40 Insurance
Gift Aid 868.86
2633.30 1270.74

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST ANDREW AND ST PETER, BLOFIELD OUR ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of financial statements

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 and the current Statement of Recommended Practice and Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP 2005) using the Receipts & Payments basis which includes income as received and expenditure when irrevocably paid.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention except for investment assets, which are shown at market value. The financial statements include all transactions, assets and liabilities for which the PCC is responsible in law. They do not include the accounts of other Church groups that owe an affiliation to another body, nor those that are informal gatherings of Church members.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted or General Funds represent the funds of the PCC that are not subject to any special restrictions regarding their use and are available to the general purposes of the PCC.

Designated Funds are monies set aside by the PCC from the General Fund for a particular use, but the PCC have the right to change their decision on the use of them. They are generally invested in a separate deposit account.

Restricted Funds are amounts received for specific purposes and which cannot be applied by the PCC for any purpose other than that for which they were given. These are generally invested in a separate deposit account unless held for a short period only.

Endowment Funds are funds the capital of which must be retained either permanently or at the PCC’s discretion, the income derived from the endowment is to be used either as restricted or unrestricted income funds depending upon the purpose for which the endowment was established in the first place.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

The following assets are recognised and a monetary value given as part of the description in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities:

The following liabilities are recognised:

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