## **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; - Mums and babes group once a month. - After school clubs and assemblies in schools. - Baptisms, weddings, funerals - Guide and Scout organisations hold Parade Services in the church two or three times a year. - A weekly community café. - An occasional Sunday lunch group for those who would otherwise eat alone. - Mothers’ Union. - St Nicholas’ Fellowship. - Residential Homes are visited and services conducted there. - 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. - 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. - Carol singing takes place at Christmas time at the local shopping centre. - The outside Notice Board advertising our services and events is always well presented - 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. - 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**
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**PAYMENTS**
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**CashBalances at 31/12/20**
**Statement ofAssetsandLiabilities**
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Amounts collected for Charity Appeals||**2020**|**2020**|**2020**|||||**20 19**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**General**
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Mens Breakfast
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Sundries|**2020**|**2020**|**2020**|**2020**|**2019**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**General**
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Youth Work
Fundraising
Church Reordering
Sunday Lunch Club
Mens Breakfast
Fairtrade
Fellowship
Covid 19
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