## **Holy Trinity Church, Hildersham Annual Report of the Parochial Church Council for the year ended 31 December 2021** 

## **Administrative information** 

Holy Trinity Church in Hildersham is part of the Diocese of Ely within the Church of England.  The correspondence address is Pear Tree Cottage, High Street, Hildersham, Cambs, CB21 6BU. 

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Holy Trinity, Hildersham, is a Registered Charity, number 1153435. 

As a registered charity the PCC has a responsibility to provide a service for the public benefit. Public benefit is about knowing: 

- what the charity is set up to achieve – the ‘charity’s purpose’ 

- how the charity’s purpose is beneficial – the ‘benefit aspect’ 

- how the charity’s purpose benefits the public or a sufficient section of the public – the ‘public aspect’ of the public benefit 

- how the trustees will carry out the charity’s purpose for the public benefit - ‘furthering’ the charity’s purpose for the public benefits 

The Trustees consider that, in the conduct of their business, they have complied with the duty set out in Section 4 of the Charities Acct 2006 to have due regard to guidance on public benefit published by the Charities Commission. 

## **Structure, governance and management** 

The governing documents of the charity are: 

The Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956 (as amended) The Church Representation Rules 2020 

These documents set out the arrangements for the appointment of PCC members (the Trustees) and for operation of the charity. 

All Church attendees are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC. Holy Trinity, Hildersham PCC has the responsibility of cooperating with the Rector in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical.  It also has maintenance responsibilities for the Church building, churchyard and surrounding areas bounded by Holy Trinity, Hildersham. 

PCC Members who have served from the Annual Church Meeting on 21[st] April 2021 until the Annual Church Meeting in April 2022 were: 



_Rector_ : Revd. Iain McColl _Wardens_ : _Vacant Treasurer:_ Mr Mervyn Wingfield _Elected representatives of the laity_ : Mrs Rosalinde Gray Mrs Kate Huntsman Ms Anne-Marie Melloy Mrs Kirsten Newble Mrs Amanda Palmer 

_Minutes Secretary Vacant Independent Examiner of the Financial Statement:_ Mr David Newble 

## **Church attendance** 

There are 34 parishioners on the Church Electoral Roll, 8 of whom are not resident within the parish. This year has been unusual once again due to various Covid restrictions. During 2021 the attendance at services that could be in-person varied from a minimum of 12 to a maximum of 107 at the outdoor Remembrance Sunday service. Members of the Hildersham congregation also joined the range of online services offered by the ministry team during the year and travelled to combined group services in other churches within the Benefice when these were possible. 

## **Review of the year** 

## **The Ministry Team** 

Revd. Iain McColl is the Rector of the Granta Vale Benefice. He is supported by the Ministry Team which includes: Revd. Kathy Bishop (Associate Priest), Mr Alistair Collen and Mr Stephen Wheeler (Licensed Lay Ministers, LLM) Kristi Stewart Elliot (first as a LLM in training and then, following her licensing in October, as a LLM) and Authorised Lay Ministers Mr Keith Day (Music & Worship Leading) and Mrs Rosemary Mead (Pastoral Care). Additionally, we warmly supported the new parish nurse Kim Cox; Sam Graham as our youth worker (until August)  and ordinands on attachment Jeanine Kennedy and Hannah Threlfall. 

## **Serve the community** 

A wide selection of non-perishable food items given at the Harvest Festival service was donated to REACH foodbank in Haverhill. Two teatimes were held during the periods 



where Covid restrictions were eased, serving teas to residents from Hildersham, Linton and the Abingtons in the church allowing plenty of room for spacing. The first was during lovely weather in the Summer and a second was held during Advent where the Children’s Church Council sold their handmade recycled Christmas decorations in aid of Reach in Haverhill. The children had a wonderful time making their decorations at the Creative Church Day held earlier in December where they made good use of pine cones and branches from the churchyard and recycled materials. 

## **Parish Nurse Plus** 

We welcomed Kim Cox to the role of Parish Nurse in March 2021. Initially Covid restrictions meant that many of Kim’s contacts were made by telephone or “Zoom”, this situation thankfully relaxed during the year enabling face to face meetings to resume. The pandemic has brought an increasing number of new patients with a new range of problems for the Parish Nurse to assist. 

As restrictions eased the Community Café in Balsham and other gatherings in the villages slowly resumed. Kim found that these provided an ideal opportunity to meet many more people than can be managed by individual visits, thus extending the reach of the project to make a difference to as many people as possible. 

The Parish Nurse is employed by Hildersham PCC with the service overseen by the Parish Nurse Management Group (PNMG) under the Chairmanship of Revd Iain McColl. We thank the PNMG  members; Genevieve Dalton, Keith Day, James Morrow, Suan Rowland and Cazzy Walshe for their time and tireless commitment to the project. 

## **Develop a healthy church and leaders** 

This year began with another lockdown with online services before the church was able to gradually emerge from the Covid restrictions to offer a range of in-person and online services to enable people to access services in the way they felt most comfortable. The range of Sunday services offered at Holy Trinity included Holy Communion, United Morning Prayer and Evensong. The Tuesday evening Silent Space followed by Compline continued weekly, either in Hildersham or online this year, providing an opportunity to offer prayers for the church, local community and other matters of concern. Additionally, a weekly ‘Time of Prayer’ online service was held at 10:30am across the Benefice. When the risk was considered too great for large numbers to meet indoors, the church moved worship to the churchyard. Hence the larger gatherings for the main events of the year such as Remembrance Day and the Christmas Carol Service were once again held outside. 



The House Group continued to meet for Bible study throughout the year, mostly online. This is an ecumenical group engaging with Christians across the community, whether they attend Hildersham Church or worship elsewhere. A Lent course also took place online. 

The Children’s Church Council (CCC) met monthly and is thriving despite the lock down that started the year. Despite this start it managed to mostly meet in person this year, helped by holding some meetings in the churchyard and Old School Wood. It has a membership of ten local children aged between 7 and 14. As church outreach at Easter, Easter biscuits and cards made by members of the CCC were delivered to Hildersham villagers. Sustainability is also a very important part of CCC principles, this year visible when the children used their gardening skills in the churchyard to help the church gain a bronze award for conservation from the Cambridge Wildlife Trust. 

The Granta Vale Churches Choir has members representing every parish within our benefice.  Members were delighted when restrictions eased in September enabling the choir to sing again in church. Practices resumed in Hildersham church in October under the skilled direction of Keith Day enabling the choir to make a contribution at services around the benefice on a regular basis again. Sadly, in December, the choir suffered a devastating loss in the death of Cathy Myer. The choir members considered it a privilege to sing at her funeral. Sadly, it was not possible to hold our traditional Nine Lessons and Carols service in Hildersham church this year, however the choir supported the congregational singing around the juniper at the Carol service in the churchyard, raising the spirits of all present. 

Keith also continued to keep music alive in our churches throughout lockdowns via his wonderful ‘Musical Reflection’ section in the newsletter. Amanda Palmer contributed to the monthly village magazine with church news and updates. 

After Covid guidance meant taking the church library books out of circulation for so long, it was a delight when the library could return to open access in the church. This enabled these books to be borrowed or browsed freely again. 

## **Re-imagining the church building** 

Church events during the year were again hit hard by the pandemic and were missed by all. It was possible to hold Summer and Advent teas in church and these were well attended. We look forward to resuming more events for the whole community as the Covid situation becomes safer. 



This year the churchyard started a makeover aided by the Children’s Church Council and a team of green fingered parishioners to ensure that it was also welcoming for wildlife to the benefit of us all. Mown footpaths through wild flower meadows added to the traditional pebble path routes around the churchyard to provide an alternative perspective to visitors. 

## **Building team** 

Despite the covid situation the church has again been cared for by a committed group of parishioners. The usual annual checks have been made, these include the checking of fire extinguishers, PAT testing, gutter clearance, alarm service, boiler maintenance and so on. The Smart Water has been re-applied to the church as it was due for renewal. Additionally, the lighting and wiring in the pulpit has been replaced and a few detached flints have also been replaced.  Keith Day has continued to care for the organ to ensure that it remains in good order. 

## **Financial review** 

This has again been a different year because of the pandemic, although slightly more normal. Overall our funds were reduced by nearly £5,300, but we still have nearly £75,000 in reserves, so it has not been too much of a struggle financially. 

The differences from last year are: 

(1) A few collections totaling £469 were taken in the church, but this is far from normal. 

(2) The Parish Nurse funds were reduced by about £1,800, leaving about £34,000 to fund the continuation of the service now that a new nurse is in post. 

(3) Other restricted funds reserves were reduced by about £1,000. There are some problems with getting other parishes to contribute to the shared Ministry Costs fund. Unrestricted and designated funds had a deficit of £2,500. 

The PCC would like to thank everyone involved in supporting the church’s finances during the year, thus ensuring that we remain on a stable financial footing. 

## **Thank you** 

The PCC would like to take this opportunity to thank all who gave so generously of their time to make the church welcoming and hospitable during another strange year. Thanks to those who kept the church building in a safe and welcoming state through cleaning, tending the churchyard, flower arranging, maintaining both the organ and 



building and making sure in so many ways that life in church could remain safe and return to something closer to normal as soon as possible, Thanks to these friends the church was a pleasure to visit, whatever the state of the pandemic. 

The PCC also wishes to thank the team of key-holders who open and close the church daily, whatever the weather, it is greatly appreciated. Their contribution is invisible to most, but it is noted and highly valued. Finally the PCC thanks all the parishioners for their continued support of the Church this year, we look forward to a more normal year to come. 

PCC March 2022 



Hildersham 
  PCC 
  Accounts 
  2019 

01/02/22 

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||||||**Charity Name**|||||||||||||**No**||**(if any)**|||||||
|||||||**HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HILDERSHAM**<br>**Receipts and payments**<br>**Period start date**|||||||||**1153435**<br>**accounts**<br>**Period end date**||||||||||||
|||||||**For the period from**|||||||||**To**||||||||||||
|||||||||||**01/01/21**||||||||||**31/12/21**|||||||
|||||||**Unrestricted funds**||||**Restricted funds**||||**Designated**<br>**funds**||||||**Total funds**|||||**Last year (2020)**||
|||||||**to the nearest**|**£**|||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**||||||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**||
|||**A1 Voluntary Income/ Receipts - TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES**|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||Tax efficient planned giving|||||**8,972**|||**4,049**||||||**-**|||||**13,021**||||**13,701**||
|||Other planned giving|||||**-**|||**600**||||||**-**|||||**600**||||**600**||
|||Collections at services|||||**489**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**489**||||**678**||
||All|other giving and voluntary receipts, including Special Appeals (recurring and one-off)|||||**1,036**|||**2,827**||||||**-**|||||**3,863**||||**3,735**||
|||Gift Aid recovered|||||**2,607**|||**1,271**||||||**-**|||||**3,878**||||**4,681**||
|||Legacies received (capital value)|||||**-**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||
|||Grants (include recurring and one-off)|||||**-**|||**6,633**||||||**-**|||||**6,633**||||**5,200**||
|||Gross income from fundraising activities|||||**80**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**80**||||**306**||
|||Dividends, interest, income from property etc.|||||**720**|||**2,619**||||||**-**|||||**3,339**||||**3,144**||
|||Statutory fees retained by the PCC (weddings, funerals etc)|||||**1,023**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**1,023**||||**258**||
|||Gross income from trading (e.g. hall lettings, magazine, bookstall). NOT fundraising.|||||**400**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**400**||||**-**||
|||Any other income/ receipts not already listed|||||**-**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||
|||7 Churches Ministry Costs|||||**-**|||**13,285**||||||**-**|||||**13,285**||||**13,180**||
|||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||||**15,326**||||**31,285**||||||**-**|||||**46,610**||||**45,483**||
|||**_Total receipts_**||||**15,326**||||**31,285**||||||**-**|||||**46,610**||||**45,483**||
|||**A3 Payments -TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**|||||||||||||||||||**-**||||||
|||Fund-raising activites (costs and payments)|||||**-**|||**284**||||||**-**|||||**284**||||**233**||
|||Mission giving and donations|||||**50**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**50**||||**556**||
|||Diocesan parish share contribution||||**10,643**||||**-**||||||**-**|||||**10,643**||||**10,376**||
|||Salaries, wages and honoraria|||||**-**|||**12,491**||||||**-**|||||**12,491**||||**13,301**||
|||Clergy and staff expenses|||||**-**|||**14,843**||||||**-**|||||**14,843**||||**14,454**||
|||Church expenses: Mission and evangelism costs|||||**-**|||**439**||||||**-**|||||**439**||||**3,183**||
|||Church running expenses|||||**281**|||**4,659**||||||**220**|||||**5,160**||||**3,549**||
|||Church utility bills|||||**1,326**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**1,326**||||**511**||
|||Churchyard Maintenance and Gardening|||||**-**|||**628**||||||**-**|||||**628**||||**1,880**||
|||Cost of trading|||||**-**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||
|||Repairs and enhancements to church buildings|||||**-**|||**679**||||||**-**|||||**679**||||**-**||
|||Church Insurance and Security Systems|||||**3,871**|||**16**||||||**-**|||||**3,887**||||**1,760**||
|||New building work to the church, church hall, clergy housing or other PCC property|||||**-**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||
|||7 Churches Ministry Costs|||||**1,451**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**1,451**||||**1,416**||
|||Other expenditure|||||**-**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**_Sub total_**||||**17,622**||||**34,040**||||||**220**|||||**51,881**||||**51,219**||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||**_Total payments_**||||**17,622**||||**34,040**||||||**220**|||||**51,881**||||**51,219**||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||||**-**|**2,296**|||**-                    2,755**||||**-**||**220**||||**-**|**5,270**||||**-                  5,737**||
|||**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||**-**|||**-**||||||**-**|||||**-**||||||
|||**A6 Cash funds last year end (2020)**||||**29,134**||||**49,401**|||||**1,067**||||||**79,602**||||||
|||**_Cash funds this year end (2021)_**||||**26,838**||||**46,646**||||||**848**|||||**74,332**||||||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||**Categories**||||**Unrestricted funds**||||**Restricted funds**||||**Designated**<br>**funds**||||||**FUNDS AT**<br>**31.12.2021**|||||**FUNDS AT**<br>**31.12.2020**||
|||**B1 CASH FUNDS**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to**|**nearest**|**£**||||**to nearest £**|||||**to nearest £**||
|||Petty Cash|||||**-**|||**-**|||||||||||**-**||||**-**||
|||Barclays Community ACC|1|||**25,830**||||**19,018**||||||**848**|||||**45,695**||||**48,366**||
|||Barclays Community ACC|2|||||||**2,765**|||||||||||**2,765**||||**1,992**||
|||Barclays Savings ACC|1|||||||**15,117**|||||||||||**15,117**||||**18,494**||
|||Country Fayre Account|||||**1,008**||||||||||||||**1,008**||||**1,008**||
|||CBF Deposit Account||||||||**3,467**|||||||||||**3,467**||||**3,465**||
|||CBF Repair Fund Account||||||||**6,279**|||||||||||**6,279**||||**6,276**||
|||**Total Funds**||||**26,838**||||**46,646**||||||**848**|||||**74,332**||||**79,602**||



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Hildersham 
  PCC 
  Accounts 
  2019 

01/02/22 

||||||||**B2A Other monetary assets**|**B2A Other monetary assets**||||**Details**|**Details**|||**Opening Balance**<br>**1.1.2021**<br>**to nearest £**|**Opening Balance**<br>**1.1.2021**<br>**to nearest £**|**Opening Balance**<br>**1.1.2021**<br>**to nearest £**|**Opening Balance**<br>**1.1.2021**<br>**to nearest £**||||**Restricted**<br>**income**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**income**<br>**to nearest £**|||||**Restricted**<br>**expenditure**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**expenditure**<br>**to nearest £**|||||**Closing Balance**<br>**31.12.2021**<br>**to nearest £**|**Closing Balance**<br>**31.12.2021**<br>**to nearest £**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||||||||**GENERAL REPAIR FUNDS RESTRICTED**|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||General Repair Reserve|||||||||**8,463**||||||**978**||||||**679**|||||**8,762**|||
|||||||||||||Sexton's Trust||||||**1,290**||||||**260**|||||||**-**||||**1,550**|||
|||||||||||||Rector's Trust||||||**1,290**||||||**315**||||||**1,201**||||||**404**||
|||||||||||||Sub Total:|||||**11,043**|||||||**1,553**||||||**1,880**|||||**10,716**|||
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||||||||**B2B Other monetary assets**|||||**Details**||||**Opening Balance**<br>**1.1.2021**|||||||**Restricted**<br>**income**||||||**Restricted**<br>**expenditure**||||||**Closing Balance**<br>**31.12.2021**|||
|||||||||||||||||**to nearest £**|||||||**to nearest £**||||||**to nearest £**||||||**to nearest £**|||
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|||||||||**SKINNER**||**BEQUEST RESTRICTED**|||||||||**194**|||||**593**||||||**340**||||||**447**||
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||**GOODWIN TRUST RESTRICTED**|||||||||||**18**|||||**1,446**||||||**842**||||||**622**||
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||**COMMUNITY EVENTS FUND RESTRICTED**||||||||||||**205**|||||**50**|||||||**-**|||||**255**||
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|||||||||**PARISH NURSE RESTRICTED**|||||||||**36,080**||||||**13,957**|||||||**15,725**|||||**34,311**|||
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||||||||**7 CHURCHES MINISTRY COSTS RESTRICTED**|||||||||||**1,861**|||||**13,685**|||||||**15,252**||||||**294**||
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|||||||**HOLY TRINITY HILDERSHAM MINISTRY COSTS APPORTIONMENT UNRESTRICTED**|||||**£0.00**|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|||||||||**TOTAL RESTRICTED FUNDS**|||||||||**49,401**||||||**31,285**|||||||**34,040**|||||**46,646**|||
||||||||**UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND AND DESIGNATED FUNDS**||||||||||**30,201**||||||~~_31,285_~~<br>**15,326**|||||||~~_34,040_~~<br>**17,841**|||||**27,686**|||
|||||||||**GRAND TOTAL OF FUNDS**||||||||||||||~~_UN Income_~~||||||~~_un Exp_~~|||||||**74,332**|||
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||||||||**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**|||||**Details**||||**Fund Value 1.1.2021**|||||||**Current value**<br>**31.12.2021**||||||**Gain/Loss**|||||||||
|||||||||**HILDERSHAM GOODWIN TRUST**|||||||||**42,347**||||||**48,405**|||||||**6,058**||||||||
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|||||||||**CHURCHYARD MAINTENANCE FUND**|||||||||**20,441**||||||**23,365**|||||||**2,924**||||||||
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||||||||||||**TOTAL GAIN IN YEAR**|||||||||||||||||||**8,982**||||||||
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|**Signed**||**by**|**one**|**or**|**two**|**trustees on behalf of all the trustees                                   Signatures**|||||||||Print Name||||||||||||||Date of approval|||||||||
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL
PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, HILDERSHAM
On accounts for the year
ended
31" De￿mber 2021
Charity no
{if any)
1153435
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination ofthe accounts ofthe above
charity {"the Trust.) for the year ended 31 December 2021.
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act
2011 {"the Act,).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145{5}Ib) of the Act.
I have compleled my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
cause to believe that in, any material respect..
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
theAdor
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Independent
examiner's statement
Date:
11 April 2022
Name:
David Newble
Relevant professional
qualificationls) or body
lif any):
ACA
Address:
Little Chilfords, Back Road
Linlon, UK
CB214LF
IER
Octobgr 2018