## **ST MARY'S CHURCH – WYKE** ANNUAL REPORT and FINANCIAL STATEMENTS of the PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL for the year ended 31 December 2020 Vicar: Rev. Lucy Wormsley 6 Vicarage Close Wyke Bradford BD12 8QW Bank: Barclays Bank PLC Independent Examiner: Mrs J Wilkinson ACCA 11 Birch Grove Batley WF17 0RG ## **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of St Mary's Church, Wyke, Parochial Church Council.** I report on the accounts of the church for the year ended 31 December 2020 which are set out on pages 8 to 10. ## **Respective responsibilities of the Trustees and Examiner** The church’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The church's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to - examine the accounts (under section 145 of the 2011 Act); - To follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners (under section 145 (5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and - To state whether particular matters have come to my attention. ## **Basis of Independent Examiner's Statement** My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the 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 you as 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 Statement** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: 1. which give me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements - to keep accounting records in accordance with s.130 of the 2011 Act; and - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met; or; 2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Jacqueline Wilkinson, ACCA Signed.................................................... 11 Birch Grove Batley Date....................................................... WF17 0RG 1 ## **2020 Report and Accounts for the Parochial Church Council of** ## **St. Mary’s, Wyke, Bradford.** ## **Aim and purposes** St. Mary’s Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of co-operating with the incumbent, in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. The Revd. Lucy Wormsley is the incumbent and Vicar of Wyke. The PCC is also specifically responsible for the maintenance of the church and hall of St. Mary’s, Wyke. The Revd. Margaret Lyons is Honorary Curate, with Sylvia Percival and Susan Naughton as licensed Readers to the parish. ## **Objectives and activities.** The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church, including Messy Church, our “Fresh Expressions” project, and to become part of our parish community at St. Marys. The PCC maintains an overview of worship, giving priority to all ages worshipping together every Sunday morning. Our worship services and weekday groups seek to put faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament. As a registered charity, when planning our activities, we take note of the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and the advancement of religion. We try to enable people to live out their faith as part of our parish community through: - Worship, prayer, learning about the gospel and developing knowledge and trust in Jesus. - Provision of pastoral care for everyone in our congregation and for people living in the parish. - Missionary and outreach work. To facilitate all this work, it is important that we maintain the fabric of St Mary’s church and hall. ## **Achievements and performance** ## **Worship and prayer** Our Sunday worship comprises one Church Family service at 10.30am, including two communion services each month, however, this year we have had to offer a number of online only services from the Vicarage and from the church at various points throughout the year and when the church has been closed, Communion services have been abstained from, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Laying on of Hands and Anointing is usually offered from time to time throughout the Church year, although this has been abstained from due to the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020. When the service is not specifically “All Age” in style, the Sunday School & Junior Church groups meet in the church hall, to deliver age-appropriate teaching. Again, the children’s provisions have been sporadic and online only throughout this year due to the pandemic in 2020. Seasonal services are provided for Lent, Holy Week & Easter and for Advent & Christmas. We also hold monthly All-Age Special Services to encourage whole family participation. We also hold a Nativity themed service & a Christingle service just before Christmas. We did our best to offer similar services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and take away “worship at home” packs where this was provided online at seasonal times. Messy Church is run monthly on the third Saturday and caters for families with no church background or families from other churches where there is no equivalent provision. This only occurred once in person this year in January, due to COVID-19 pandemic. 2 In 2020 our electoral roll comprised 61 members, 43 of whom are residents and 18 non-residents. The average number attending on Sundays is 25 adults (2019: 43) and 0 under 16yrs. The numbers for average attendance for this year are difficult to report, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the average shown above, we had an addition of those joining us via the Facebook livestream. We had up to 45 households joining us each week between March and July and 25 households between July and Dec once we reopened for public worship. These numbers increase at the seasonal times of Easter, Harvest and Christmas. We have celebrated 1 baptism, 0 weddings and held 2 funerals in the church during 2020. ## **Deanery Synod** Two PCC members are able to be elected members of the Outer Bradford Deanery Synod, however, we only had one person elected to this position at the APCM in 2020. We did not have any deanery synod meetings during 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rev. Vaughan Pollard stood down as Area dean at the end of this year. Bernard Lewis continues as our elected deanery representative and was the lay chair of the synod during 2020. Alongside our attachment to the Outer Bradford Deanery, we are connected to the Bradford Episcopal Area Forum. To this, members of all four Deaneries in the Bradford Episcopal Area, along with members of every parish congregation, are invited to share together collaboratively and supportively of one another. During 2020 these meetings were held on zoom, where over 100 people attend each time from across the episcopal area. Dealing with the impacts of the pandemic and how the church can evolve positively from it, supporting those in need in our communities were some of the topics looked at during these meetings. ## **The Church and Church Hall** The church is open to the community on specific occasions for private prayer and other activities. We welcome our local schools into church and visit at school throughout the year. We both provide and host services for other organisations such as _Teddy Tots & Toddlers_ and _Wyke Children’s Centre_ . During 2020, this hasn’t been possible in the same way, but our vicar has provided occasional assemblies and services for schools via zoom and video and toddler group worship/input via Facebook. The church hall is widely used throughout the week and at weekends by groups paying rent. These groups include the Monday Club for the elderly, Teddy Tots & Toddlers for Under 3s and their parents/carers, Scouts, Cubs and Beavers and other activity groups. These groups have not been able to use our facilities during most of 2020 due to the closure during the pandemic, but when we have been able to open for them, we have seen a range of new or temporary user groups, which were welcomed. ## **Pastoral care** A group of pastoral carers looks out for each and every member of the congregation. Home visits to those who are housebound or ill and Home Communion is available to them, where requested. We have a group who meet weekly to pray for the Parish and church members, there is a prayer chain to support those where specific needs are raised. We have continued to provide pastoral care via phone calls from the pastoral care team this year, however visits to homes haven’t been possible due to restrictions from the pandemic. We have increased our provision of church service booklets to those who are housebound, so they can join in with services from home. This is something we hope to continue after the pandemic as well. 3 Sylvia and Lucy have continued to provide prayers each week for the parish, either from home individually or together in church where it has been possible. ## **Mission and evangelism** We tithe 10% of our voluntary receipts (planned giving etc.), usually divided equally between 3 Christian Charities. This year our local donation was to the mission and ministry of the Diocese of Leeds (given towards our Parish share contribution, as a one-off request due to the pandemic). The remainder was given between a national charity (the _Church Homeless Trust_ , working towards ending the cycle of homelessness) and two international charities ( _Open Doors_ , for whom we are a Partner Church, which supports persecuted Christians in over 60 countries and the Mary & Martha Trust). Please see the Financial Review and Statements for further details of this. We have also given this year, through our collection boxes and offerings from the Christingle Service, £623.80 to the Children’s Society for their work with vulnerable children around England and Wales. This was done separately to our church accounts and some was given directly to the Children’s society via their online giving methods. ## **Ecumenical relationships** We play an active role in the Wyke Council of Churches comprising six local churches, which operates a Trussell Trust Food Bank for Wyke and surrounding areas. The churches in Wyke provide well attended joint services twice a year, monthly prayer meetings, ministers’ prayer breakfasts as well as a joint Lent Course, Carols for the Community and other events throughout the year. We ran a lent course which was initially attended by those from other churches, however, it was suspended as lockdown began due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ministers have met a few times via zoom to keep in touch and provided a Christmas carol service together, but joint services and Wyke Council of Churches meetings were suspended from March onwards, due to the pandemic. The Foodbank closed at the start of the pandemic due to premises, space and volunteer vulnerability. Following a number of enquiries to the church for support, Lucy began to provide delivery for local parcels, provided by Bradford Central Foodbank (who covered our foodbank postcode areas while we were closed). This was 3 days a week for the first 5 months of the pandemic and in September Lucy stepped in as interim manager at the Foodbank, in order to get it re-opened and running in line with its charity commission mission statement. We then appointed a new permanent volunteer manager in December, Dawn Stobart, to begin her role in the new year. ## **Safeguarding** We follow the Diocesan Policy and statement for safeguarding at St. Mary’s Church. Evelyn Haigh continues as our Parish Safeguarding Officer. We have done an update of our DBS checks for all PCC members and those working directly with children, young people and vulnerable adults. We had intended to host a C1 training session during this year, however this did not go ahead due to the COVID-19 pandemic and so we will endeavour to do this during the next year. We have also begun working towards updating our lone-worker policy. 4 ## **Financial Review** ## **Unrestricted General Funds:** The quoted figures for 2020 can all be identified on the Financial Statements. Where appropriate, the equivalent figures for 2019 are shown in brackets in order to show the effect on our finances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Total receipts were £47,165 (£55424) of which £32,457 (£32,948) was voluntary donations, mainly planned giving of £23.009 (£22898) which has held up well due to the loyalty of those church members who plan their Giving. We claimed £6,192 (£6,566) from Gift Aid and received Donations of £1700 (nil). Receipts from Fund Raising of £1,405 (£3,383) and Church Activities of £13,303 (£17,343) are cumulatively down on the previous year by £7,018, due to the pandemic. Total payments were £51,040 (£55,420), largely comprising the Diocesan parish share contribution of £31,700 (£29280). This includes a one-off payment of £2,000 requested by the Diocese from all parishes, due to the effect of the pandemic on their finances, which was taken from the budgeted ‘tithe allocation’ of 10% of Total Receipts. Consequently, Missionary giving and donations total £2500, being 5.3% of Total Receipts. Spending on Church activities was £16,611 (£22,109), considerably less than the previous year due to the church and church hall not being available during most of the pandemic. This helped towards offsetting the fall in receipts and so the Deficit was kept to £3,876, having budgeted to break even. General Fund reserves have reduced to £12,185 (£16,061) and represent approximately two months of budgeted expenditure in normal times (see ‘Reserves Policy’ below). ## **Designated & Restricted Funds:** The pandemic has not had any effect on these funds. Receipts of £1,632 less payments of £6,548 resulted in a reduction of £4,916 in funds to £7,274 as detailed and explained in Note 5 of the Financial Statements. Total funds held at Barclays Bank have reduced to £19,459 (£28,252). ## **Reserves Policy** The request from the Diocese (see above), along with their advice on what constitutes a prudent Reserves Policy, caused the PCC to debate our policy. There was agreement that, in these unprecedented times, reserves representing around **two months** of the General Fund budgeted annual expenditure should be enough to cover fluctuations in cash flow and to meet emergencies. 5 ## **Volunteers** We would like to thank every person who works hard to make our church what it is. This year has been a difficult one in terms of working together as a team at church. That said, we are so grateful for all the support and care we have seen amongst the congregation. From helping with opening the church in a COVID safe way, or helping to lead/preach/read/pray/lead music at our services to those serving on PCC and those calling up friends from church, to add to and aid our church’s pastoral care support throughout these challenging times. ## **Structure, governance and management** The Parochial Church Council is a corporate body established by the Church of England. The PCC operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure and is a Registered Charity. The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. At St Mary's the membership of the PCC consists of the incumbent (our vicar), churchwardens, Honorary Curate, Readers and members elected by those members of the congregation who are on the electoral roll of the church. All regular members of the congregation are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC. The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the parish, including deciding on how the funds of the PCC are to be spent. During the year, the PCC met 8 times with an average level of attendance of 70%. In addition, we have a Standing Committee and a Projects Committee which are responsible to the PCC, with minutes of their decisions being received by the PCC and discussed as necessary. The main areas of focus for the PCC this year have been: - COVID-19 pandemic updates for churches and community centres/halls - Church Worship & provisions throughout the year - Financial reports monthly (via email where meetings weren’t held) - Building concerns and issues – including the fallen bell & outside lighting updates ## **Fabric** We have limited the level of workers entering the building due to COVID-19 and only gone ahead with work as absolutely necessary for safety and protection of the building and churchyard. We have managed to update the external lighting round the far side of the church hall and had a couple of internal lighting issues seen to. We have sadly had one of our church bells fall from its hanging during the lockdown and so we have had a full inspection carried out on all the bells and have begun to look into undergoing a full renovation of them for safety purposes. We had a complaint about the state of the graveyard in general, but more specifically highlighting the safety of one grave in particular. This has been looked into in collaboration with the Archdeacon and made safe and we continue to maintain the graveyard area, continuing the good work done with the community back in 2015. 6 ## **Administrative Information** St Mary's church is situated in Green Lane, Wyke. It is now part of the Diocese of Leeds within the Church of England. The correspondence address is 6 Vicarage Close, Wyke, Bradford, BD12 8QW. Registered Charity number 1153194. PCC members who have served at any time from 1 January 2020 until the date this report was approved are: ## **Ex Officio members:** Incumbent: The Revd. Lucy Wormsley (Chair) Wardens: Mr Bernard Lewis (Vice chairman), Deanery Synod rep. Mrs Margaret Roper, Deanery Synod rep. (up to Oct) & PCC Secretary (up to Oct) Licensed clergy: The Revd. Margaret Lyons Readers **:** Mrs Susan Naughton Mrs Sylvia Percival ## **Elected members:** Mrs Evelyn Haigh (PCC Secretary from Oct) Mrs Gillian McQueen Mrs Christine Haley Mrs Dawn Moody Mr Maurice Hodges Mr John Roberts (Treasurer) Mrs Gillian Watson Approved by the PCC on 23[rd] February 2021 and signed on their behalf by Rev. Lucy Wormsley (Vicar, incumbent and PCC chair) Signed........................................................... Date................................................... 01/03/2021 7 PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF 5T MARY'S CHLIRCH. WYKE. 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The Church Clock Fund reprt5ènts donaticn5 fcf relurbishmtnt Ind rÈp•ir of the churth tlotK wh*h be used for that purpos*. All 4v•ll•bl• funds wer• fully e¥p•nd•d In 2020. The Church Fabric Fund represents donation5 from Gilt Day appeals and individualsthat can onty be used for the mainten•nce and refurbishment of the general fabric of th¢ ¢hurch building and external Iiihting. The Church Grounds & Graveyard Fund represents donations, fund raisin8 and Gift Oay appeals which can only ￿ used for the malntenènce of the church grounds at)d qraveyard. The Church Worship Fund represents proceeds frorn dividends and investments which may only be used to aid worship. The Youth Club Fund repre5ent5 ¥ronts and fiJnd rai5in¥ forthe NnTrin4 of a community Youth aub. The Parlsh Weekend Fund represents funds r•lwd Sn support of pwlous p•iish weekends and c•n on￿{ be used for• simihrpurpose. TNLComFund-Youth Capacity Project Is a qrant from the'National Lottery Community Fund, denved from histoncal un£laimed bank depgsits. It5 purpose Is to prorTlOte helping young people. particularty th05e from BAME I6rTt15h. A51an and Minorrty Ethnicl backgrounds. tc find ernployment. Projects based on St Mary'5 Church Hall and the Oelph Hill Comrnunity Centre have been set up underthe auspices of the PCC to further these aims. The projert wos completed in February 2020. all •v•il•blefvnds hawng been fvlly expended. The Chibdrens and Youn6 Peoples Fund was created as a restricted fund In 2014 as a result of incorporatsng Sunday School fvnds into these Financial Statements. All Income and expenditure relating to children and young people actwr(ies are channeled through th￿fUThd. Desi¥nated Fund5 lurbrestrictedl.. The Church Bells Fund has been created by the PCC in 2020to hold donations and Rrants. etc. whith will be required to rep•wthe btlls. The Weddin8 Fees Fund has been created by the PCC in 2020to hold fees paid in advance for a weddin¢ planned for 2021. io