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: - providing resources and facilities for public worship, pastoral care and spiritual, moral and intellectual development, both for its members and for anyone who wishes to benefit from what the Church offers. - promoting Christian values, and service by members of the Parish to the community, to the benefit of individuals and society as a whole. 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:_**||| _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 2 |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)| - Note 1: The PCC membership of David Pearce will lapse on 25 April 2023 as he has not attended the minimum number of PCC meetings required since he was elected in May 2021. ## **Committees** The PCC operates through a number of committees which meet between full meetings of the PCC: - **Standing Committee** – This is the only committee required by law. It has the power to transact the business of the PCC between meetings, subject to directions given by the Council. - **Pastoral Care Committee** – Although this is no longer a formal team, there are many church members and visitors at our services who receive pastoral visits and care from members of the laity. In addition, this is complemented by the Anna Chaplaincy Spiritual Care activities and initiatives led by Revd Sue Shillam in her role as Anna Chaplain in the Blofield Benefice. - **Fabric Committee** – Considers all aspects relating to the fabric and maintenance of the church and undertake remedial repair work or replacements not requiring faculty. 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 Archdeacon’s Visitation - The Covenant for Clergy Care and Wellbeing - Various children’s activities held at the church - The purchase of a portable font by the benefice - A new location for ashes interment - Celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee - Arrangements in church in response to the death of the Queen - Urgent work highlighted in the Quinquennial Report - Communion services and sharing in the common cup - Purchasing of a contactless card reader machine to facilitate electronic giving - Implementation of the Diocesan Vision locally - Consideration of the Parish Giving Scheme The Standing Committee met once during 2022 to discuss and agree our responses to the Church Buildings Commission Online Survey. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 3 ## **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: - Each Sunday at 11.00 am, alternating between Holy Communion and Morning Worship services. - Each Tuesday at 9.00 am, Benefice Morning Prayers are held via ZOOM. - Each Wednesday at 9.30 am, there is a Benefice Service alternating between Holy Communion and Morning Worship services. 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 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 4 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. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 5 Page 6 ## BLOFIELD CHURCH ACCOUNTS at 31 December 2022 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 7 175 I167 49J 1979 5Tr 22) 123 a4£5 KCf* ?4 Js?t* Is 6517 IU7 591 1974 1211 631 ?* 1710 67176 421 It lilJw•Ary2D21 55JJ IKIJ5 1719J Page 8 ## **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| _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 9 |St. Gregory's Orchestra
Mundesley Choir
Breakfast morning
Taverham Brass Band
Summer fete
Flower festival
Cycle ride
Jubilee tree appeal
Christmas Fair
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INCOME FROM ENDOWMENTS
For churchyard maintenance.
The Brewster income is for the
upkeep of the lychgate with any
surplus for church repairs.
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DONATIONS MADE
Church Mission Society
USPG
BADCOG
Norfolk Churches Trust
Norwich D A of Ringers
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CHURCH RUNNING EXPENSES
Insurance
Gas
Electricity
Water
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CHURCH & EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE
Organ tuning
Roof Alarm
Replacement fuse box
Boiler service
Flameskill
Sundries
From other funds
Flowers
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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| _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 10 |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|| _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 11 •TATEIIEMT OF AlaET8 AMD LWLMES AT Jt De¢EM￿R 20J TOYA C•th In Iw 72S 6.723 5.4 CeFC￿E 4219 4219 5.101 $72S 17.YA 18,SJ4 Ffc R T>Yv.T Page 12 ## **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**|||||| ||-|||-|| |||**_____**|||**_____**| |**(Deficit) of receipts over payments**||**2**|||0| |Deposit account at 1 January 2022||224|||224| |||_____|||_____| |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||| |-|||||| |__________||___________|||| |**Excess (Deficit) of receipts over payments**||-953|||-1647| |Deposit account at 1 January 2022||2,790|||4437| |||__________|||_______| |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| |||________|||_______| |**(Deficit) of receipts over payments**||**(64**)|||(32)| |Deposit account at 1 January 2022||1,692|||1724| |||________|||_______| |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**|||||| |||-|||-| |||_______|||________| |**Excess/ (Deficit) of receipts over payments**||**114**|||100| |Deposit account at 1 January 2022||940|||840| |||_______|||_______| |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|||| |||_______|||________| _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 13 |**(Deficit) of receipts over payments**||**307**||**50**| |---|---|---|---|---| |Deposit account at 1 January 2022||250||200| |
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557||250| |**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**||-||-| |||______||______| |**Excess of receipts over payments**||**16**||157| |||1365||1208| |||_______||______| |Deposit account at 31 December 2022
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**DEVELOPMENT FUND – Designated Fund**||||| |**Receipts**||||| |VAT grants and deposit interest||6||1| |P**ayments**||||| |Contractor re kitchen and floor alterations|-||-|| |Contractor re church decoration|-|-|-|-| |||__________||_________| |**(Deficit) of receipts over payments**||**6**||1| |Deposit account at 1 January 2022||650||649| |||**___________**||**_________**| |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**||||| ||-|-||| ||-
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||674||664| _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 14 ## **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| _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 15 **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 but not necessarily valued in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities: • Movable church furnishings held by the churchwardens on special trust for the PCC and which require a faculty for disposal. - Land and buildings held on behalf of the PCC (none in 2022). - Other fixtures, fittings and office equipment where the PCC is free to dispose of such assets without faculty. - Investments held beneficially by the PCC. The following assets are recognised and a monetary value given as part of the description in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities: - Amounts owing from the Inland Revenue where a formal claim has been made and by way of note when the claim has yet to be submitted. - Any other amounts owing to the PCC. - Legacies where formal notification of entitlement and amount has been received at the end of the year by the PCC. - Closing bank balances as shown in the receipts and payments account. The following liabilities are recognised: - Any arrears of Diocesan Parish Share. - • Creditors for goods or services. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 16 THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Diocese of Norwich Independent Examiners Certificate IKE e)n 14515llbl ol the ACL Indop•nd•nt •x•mlnefs statom•nt 41. Delefe []itnoteppI￿8b1e. I have completgd my exarninab"on. I confirni that no maten.al matter8 have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that dwbsed belLM I wh￿h gives rne cause to belwe that in, any material ￿9F*cl.. • the accounb'ng records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Chanties Act.. or * the accounts did not accord wth the acwunting fecord5', or * the accounts did not compty wrth the applK8ble requirements conceming the fom) aThJ rxJnt8nt ol acLounts set out in the Charit18s (Accounts anil Reports) RagUlat￿n$ 2008 other than any requirement that the a¢counts give a'truè aThJ fair view whth Ya not & matter ¢onsthr8d as of an ind8p8ndent examinatyon. I hava no concems and have com8 across no other matters in connection with the examin8tv)n to whi¢h attent￿n should be drawn in this report in orderto enabk8 a propor undetstanding of th8 accounts to be reached. "Ple8sg d>￿ NtYd8 in the bTrd(&tsrflhey do notwly. SIJn￿.. Date.. 23 Name.. IER ort 2018 Page 17 Rdev•rt br*Jy tom￿tte Ilihe ex•mlneF oeedsio h*thlWrn•ter141 m•iieis of toncem CC32, Ihdepethnt oyamknaiion olcharityaccou•ts'. guidaDcef0re¥am￿erSl. fji¥R ih•t i IER Oa20 Page 18