REPORT FOR CHARITY COMMISSION
Aims and purposes
St Nicholas Allington Parochial Church Council (the PCC) has the responsibility of cooperating with our joint priest-in-charge in promoting the whole mission of the church – pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. The PCC is also responsible for maintaining the church building, halls and church grounds (but not the Rectory which is the responsibility of the Diocese).
Objectives and activities
Our central activities are providing a range of formal and informal worship, with and without communion. The church is committed to providing the Church of England 'occasional offices' of baptism, marriage and funerals. The church, and two church halls, are well used for a wide range of community activities.
Buildings
Our present church, consecrated in 1975, is a square building mainly, recently re-ordered by the replacement of pews with chairs. The church space is used for worship every Sunday and Wednesday and at other times as required. It is also used for PCC Meetings, a weekly prayer group, a monthly meeting of mums and babes and other groups, and for appropriate community activities. To one side is a church office and separate clergy vestry as well as recently installed toilet facilities, with disabled access and baby changing facilities. In addition, kitchen, and additional storage facilities have been installled in bespoke cupboards within the worship space.
The church is open on a daily basis for anyone wishing to find a time of quiet, and is also now used by community groups and available for hire.
There are two church halls in a building adjacent to the church that provide facilities to many local groups and businesses - these halls have a kitchen and toilet facilities, including a baby change and disabled toilets.
Both church and halls have disabled access.
Providing a Public Benefit
This is a heading required by the Charity Commission that recognises our responsibilities beyond the present church community in the following way;
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Mums and babes group once a month.
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After school clubs and assemblies in schools.
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Baptisms, weddings, funerals
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Guide and Scout organisations hold Parade Services in the church two or three times a year.
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A weekly community café.
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An occasional Sunday lunch group for those who would otherwise eat alone.
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Mothers’ Union.
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St Nicholas’ Fellowship.
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Residential Homes are visited and services conducted there.
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A wide range of social and fund-raising events held throughout the year that are open to the larger community. The Christmas Market draws many people into our buildings and is supported by a number of small local businesses.
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Each month 1,100 copies of Grapevine the Parish Magazine are distributed, including free copies offered outside school gates and in various locations around Allington.
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Carol singing takes place at Christmas time at the local shopping centre.
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The outside Notice Board advertising our services and events is always well presented
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In church, we have continued to make our services easy for visitors to follow using Power Point projection, enlarged texts, or printed out in short booklets. The church sound system helps all visitors, as well as the hearing-impaired.
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Our church halls offer valuable meeting places for a wide variety of community and commercial activities, including the numerous branches of the Guide and Scout organisations. The halls are booked frequently for private bookings by local residents.
It should be noted in this report of the significant challenges to the operation of the church during the course of the global COVID 19 pandemic. St Nicholas Church took the opportunity to develop a local hub organising shopping and prescription collections for those unable to leave their house. The church also worked with the local authority and utilised various grants to provide laptops for schools, kitchen equipment for families in need, starter packs for vulnerable single parent families moving from hostels and providing significant quantities of supplies for local foodbanks by coordinating donations from the community.
Other required information
The parish is legally known as the Parish of St Nicholas, Allington with St Peter, Maidstone. Roughly it stretches at its western edge from the Park and Ride, either side of the London Road, toward the town centre down to the river and Lockmeadow. The river end of the parish is the area which formerly came under the previous St Peter’s Church, no longer in use. The running of the parish comes under two Churchwardens and the Parochial Church Council or PCC. Ministry and worship comes under a Priest-in-Charge, a Curate and a Children's and Families Minister.
Administrative Information: St Nicholas Church is located in Poplar Grove, Allington, Maidstone. It is part of the Deanery of Maidstone and Diocese of Canterbury within the Church of England. The correspondence address is The Rectory, 35 Poplar Grove, Maidstone, ME16 0DE. Our bankers are Nat West plc, 3 High Street, Maidstone ME14 1XU.
Structure, Governance and Management: The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. All eligible church attendees are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC.
| RECEIPTS VoluntaryReceipts Regular Gtvmg Pledged giving Incometaxrecovered Collecbonsinchurch Notes Other voluntary receipb 3a Activities for generating funds 3b Receipts from Church activities 3c InterestonDeposits PAYMENTS Church activities Diocesan Parish Share Other Payments Surplus/(deficit) before transfers Transfers between funds 3d Surplus/(deficit) for year after transfers Cash Balances at01/01/20 CashBalances at 31/12/20 Statement ofAssetsandLiabilities Cash Funds Bank Current Account CBF Deposit Fund Bequest Account Cash Other Monetary Assets Gift Aid Tax recoverable Goodbox Ministry Halls lettings due Liabilities Deposits Ministry Pension payment Amounts collected for Charity Appeals |
2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 20 19 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General fund |
Designated funds |
RHtr1cted funds |
Total funds |
Total funds |
|||||
| 4763 1212 211 |
£ 9 5 3 |
£ |
£ |
4763 1212 211 |
£ 9 5 3 |
£ 48537 15939 5188 |
|||
| 6187 713 316 3306 15 |
7 7 4 1 6 |
468 11003 |
6187 760 316 4406 15 |
7 5 4 4 6 |
66243 49806 12293 56836 154 |
||||
| 10539 | 4 | 0 |
11471 | 11686 | 5 | 185332 | |||
| 6513 4921 |
£ 7 0 |
£ £ 10811 |
6513 6002 |
£ 7 1 |
£ 63999 126476 |
||||
| 11434 | 7 | 10811 | 12515 | 8 | 190475 | ||||
| -895 | 3 | 0 660 |
-829 | 3 | -5143 | ||||
| -518 | 7 | 4180 |
1007 | ||||||
| -1414 | 0 | 4180 | 1667 | -829 | 3 | -5143 | |||
| 6077 | 8 | 22963 2829 |
8657 | 0 | |||||
| 4663 | 8 | 27143 |
4496 | 7827 | 7 | ||||
| 2020 | 2019 | ||||||||
| General fund |
Designated funds |
Restricted funds |
Total funds |
Total funds |
|||||
| 1823 2834 6 |
1 7 0 |
11581 15562 |
4496 |
1823 1158 4840 6 |
1 1 5 0 |
26680 11532 48298 60 |
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| 4663 | 8 | 27143 | 4496 | 7827 | 7 | 86570 | |||
| 306 9 |
7 2 4 |
306 9 |
7 2 4 |
3401 53 2995 |
|||||
| 316 | 3 | 316 | 3 | 6449 |
|||||
| 9 | 2 | 100 234 |
10 9 10 23 |
0 2 7 4 |
1644 |
||||
| 0 | 0 |
234 |
23 |
4 | 1644 |
| 2.ThemovementIndesignatedandrestrictedfundsdurtng theyear were: IBalance b/f Receipts Payments Transfers Designated: Building fund Bequest fund (unrestricted) Wages Sunday Lunch Club Mens Breakfast Fairtrade Fellowship Tuesday Cafe Re-Ordering Church Covid 19 Grants Halls Deposit Special charity appeals 0 22963 229631 0 729 25 102 330 0 0 0 0 1643 28291 5000 -820 01 01 41801 5075 1572 140 918 16 75 133 100 497 230 1050 820 5000 5331 27 100 238 1807 160 114111 108111 10011 Balance~~I~~ 5000 22143 27143 3503 -49 41 44 430 497 0 -304 100 234 4496 |
2.ThemovementIndesignatedandrestrictedfundsdurtng theyear were: IBalance b/f Receipts Payments Transfers Designated: Building fund Bequest fund (unrestricted) Wages Sunday Lunch Club Mens Breakfast Fairtrade Fellowship Tuesday Cafe Re-Ordering Church Covid 19 Grants Halls Deposit Special charity appeals 0 22963 229631 0 729 25 102 330 0 0 0 0 1643 28291 5000 -820 01 01 41801 5075 1572 140 918 16 75 133 100 497 230 1050 820 5000 5331 27 100 238 1807 160 114111 108111 10011 Balance~~I~~ 5000 22143 27143 3503 -49 41 44 430 497 0 -304 100 234 4496 |
2.ThemovementIndesignatedandrestrictedfundsdurtng theyear were: IBalance b/f Receipts Payments Transfers Designated: Building fund Bequest fund (unrestricted) Wages Sunday Lunch Club Mens Breakfast Fairtrade Fellowship Tuesday Cafe Re-Ordering Church Covid 19 Grants Halls Deposit Special charity appeals 0 22963 229631 0 729 25 102 330 0 0 0 0 1643 28291 5000 -820 01 01 41801 5075 1572 140 918 16 75 133 100 497 230 1050 820 5000 5331 27 100 238 1807 160 114111 108111 10011 Balance~~I~~ 5000 22143 27143 3503 -49 41 44 430 497 0 -304 100 234 4496 |
|---|---|---|
| 229631 01 01 41801 27143 |
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| 0 729 25 102 330 0 0 0 0 1643 5075 1572 140 918 16 75 133 100 497 230 1050 820 5000 5331 27 100 238 1807 160 3503 -49 41 44 430 497 0 -304 100 234 |
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| 28291 114111 108111 10011 4496 |
| 3.ReceiptsandPaymentsanalysis a.Othervoluntaryreceipts Donations Bequests Charitable Donations Re-Ordering Church 2018 Re-ordering Grant Furlough b.Activitiesforgeneratingfunds Parish Magazine - adverts&sales Fund Raising c.ReceiptsfromChurchactivites Fees Halls Income Youth Work Sunday Lunch Club Mens Breakfast Fairtrade Fellowship Tuesday cafe Covid 19 St Andews Wages Sundries |
2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General fund |
Designated funds |
Restricted funds |
Total funds |
Total funds |
|
| 2754 4383 |
238 230 |
2754 238 230 4383 |
1272 10920 1644 14660 21310 |
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| 7137 | 0 |
468 | 7605 | 49806 | |
| 1615 1549 |
1615 1549 |
3647 8646 |
|||
| 3164 | 0 | 3164 | 12293 | ||
| 2032 25509 5327 193 |
100 140 16 75 100 497 5000 5075 |
2032 25609 0 140 16 75 100 497 10327 5075 193 |
1438 51967 132 1279 89 413 380 0 0 0 1138 |
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| 33061 | 11003 | 44064 | 56836 | ||
| 3.ReceiptsandPaymentsanalysisctd d.Churchactivities- payments Charitable payments Overseas Christian Relief and Development Home Mission Clergy expenses Church running expenses Halls running expenses Salaries, wages and honoraria Administration expenses Printing Magazine Youth Work Fundraising Church Reordering Sunday Lunch Club Mens Breakfast Fairtrade Fellowship Covid 19 Sundries |
2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General fund |
Designated funds |
Restricted funds |
Total funds |
Total funds |
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| 300 400 300 |
537 400 870 |
837 800 1170 |
1198 941 400 |
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| 1000 1312 4446 16281 16612 3425 954 180 166 4613 220 |
1807 1572 1050 918 133 5331 |
2807 1312 4446 16281 18184 3425 954 180 166 1050 918 0 133 0 9944 220 |
2539 2033 22731 24426 17398 2618 3180 352 246 48977 868 64 311 50 682 |
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| 49210 | 0 | 10811 |
60021 | 126475 |