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2021-12-31-accounts

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF RUGBY ’ SAINT ANDREW S PARISH CHURCH

REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021

O God,

make the door of this house wide enough to receive all who need human love and fellowship, narrow enough to shut out all envy, pride and strife. Make its threshold smooth enough to be no stumbling block to children, nor to straying feet, but rugged and strong enough to turn back the tempter's power.

O God, make the door of this house the gateway to your eternal kingdom. Amen.

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Aims and Purposes

St Andrew’s Parish 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 Coventry Diocesan mission priorities are: worshipping God, making new disciples and transforming communities.

The five Anglican marks of mission are:

  1. To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom

  2. To teach, baptise and nurture new believers

  3. To respond to human need by loving service

  4. To seek to transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and to pursue peace and reconciliation

  5. To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth

Objectives and Activities

The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to encounter God the Holy Trinity through a range of activities, events and services. The PCC maintains an overview of both the worship of the church and its wider life, such as its arts and cultural programme and its café.

When planning activities for the year, the incumbent and the PCC has considered the Commission’s guidance on public benefit and the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. St Andrew’s exists to serve the people of the ecclesiastical parish in which we are set, providing them with opportunities to:

We also support people to live out their faith as part of our parish community through the additional three Anglican marks of mission (see above 3-5). This includes:

To facilitate this work, it is essential that we maintain the fabric of the Church of St Andrew’s, Rugby

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Review of the Year and other Activities

Overview

Like the rest of the world, we were hoping that 2021 would be the year in which we returned to normality after the disruption of the Covid 19 pandemic; in practice, like the rest of the world, we learned that it was instead to be the year in which we re-defined our understanding of normality. The shape of our worship, ministry and mission at St Andrew’s shifted several times in response both to guidance from government and church and to our own assessment of the local infection rate and risk – I am very grateful to our staff, volunteers, congregations, and the wider community alike for their positive response to changes, even when at times little notice could be given!

The reports below give a picture of much that happened across the various spheres of our work. In addition, some other key events deserving mention were:

Perhaps most significantly, St Andrew’s was invited early in the year by the Diocese of Coventry to become one of six Mission Hub Churches , fostering and facilitating a new diocesan vision for ministry, mission and church growth. After careful consideration the PCC embraced this opportunity with enthusiasm and on the 26[th] May passed this resolution: ‘This PCC is pleased to accept the invitation to become a Mission Hub Church. Conscious that this is a vocation, a recognition of our current ministry and mission, and an invitation and challenge to share it more widely, we look forward to journeying and growing spiritually with the other nominated Mission Hub Churches in the diocese. We pray for God’s blessing on all that we will do together’. An Associate Minister will be appointed during 2022 to facilitate

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our Mission Hub work and we are excited by the opportunities offered by this exciting new phase in the church’s life

The reports below describe some of the new ways in which we have begun to work, demonstrating the remarkable flexibility, resilience and commitment of those who contribute to the life of our parish. Like so many churches across the world, we have continued to develop and hone new skills and new ways of using our building and resources. Despite the loss and isolation experienced by so many, we thank God both for one another and for the sustaining and inspiring gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Confines of space of course mean that not every event, achievement or person can be mentioned, but each contribution made to our common life is valued highly. The PCC would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Coventry Diocesan Mission Fund for its contribution to our work with children and young people, both for the Children and Family post and the Junior Choir post; the Rugby Benevolent Fund for generously supporting our Events Manager post; and the Saltley Trust for its support of our Children and Families work.

The Revd Canon Edmund Newey, Rector

Kindle in our hearts, O God,

the flame of love which never ceases,

that it may burn in us, giving light to others.

May we shine for ever in your temple,

set on fire with your eternal light,

even your Son Jesus Christ, our Saviour and our Redeemer

Amen.

Children and Families

During the spring we enjoyed tent church with Godly Play in the church garden for the second year running with Revd Pam and Revd Edmund joining us outside to offer Holy Communion. Some younger members took their first Holy Communion during this time. Stephen Robinson kindly made some beautiful wooden Holy Communion play sets so that younger children could mimic what was happening at the front. These are now included in pew bags along with other resources to help children to connect with different parts of the service. On our return to the church building the children’s area was re-imagined as a mini church play area and now contains Godly Play resources which have been very well received by the few little ones that have attended.

Our WhatsApp ‘bee community’ group continued to be a good way to reach out to families during the early part of the year but as people started to venture out more frequently it became a little less popular as a form of communication.

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Muddy Church continued to meet at May Blossom Farm when restrictions allowed. We held individual family trails Easter Sunday and Monday and kept a bonfire representing the new fire of Easter alight all day. Members of the Mothers’ Union kindly made us some knitted easter chicks to give to the children. We returned together as a whole group on Pentecost which was a very exciting celebration. For harvest festival we picked apples from the orchard at the farm and made an apple pie each to take home. During the summer we ran a fundraising campaign to twin the toilet and the tap at Muddy Church. We offered a prayer walk resource and informative interview with Noni Khumalo about her experience of walking for water as a child which you can find on the Muddy Church page of our website. We enjoyed a successful and joyous bonfire party with many people offering to help on arrival which was most welcomed by myself and Hannah Priest. We held a nativity trail day again this year following the star around the field and warming up by the fire before getting ready to visit baby Jesus. We also produced a video for those that could not attend in person.

The Saltley Trust-funded project ended with us being used as a good example of a successful project with the desired result of sharing learning with the wider church. Our proposal to write a Muddy Church Grove booklet was accepted with an intention to publish September 2022.

We were asked by the diocese to produce a video for the all-age slot of their summer series. Godly Play Children’s Church returned in the vestry at the beginning of August with a small regular group of children attending. There was still some reluctance due to differing reasons from some of our previous families to return to the church building but some new families also arrived.

I became a Parent Champion for Barnardo’s in September and helped at a young parent’s group and an outdoor toddler group at Claremont Children’s Centre. Barnardo’s in return came to help during our two garden play days in June and July and had much needed supportive conversations with some of the parents. I attended a group at Barnardo’s on Christmas Eve and was able to offer the nativity story and introduce them to Christingles.

June’s Chatterbox Tunes held two garden sessions during the summer holidays and returned inside later in the year to run a block of signs, singing and sensory sessions for babies.

Unfortunately, we had to cancel our fully booked Christingle services at short notice as we deemed the Covid transmission risk too high, so we gave out 200 Christingles in a bag to those that had booked and community walking past church, which was wonderful outreach. Thank you to John Daymond for helping me to prepare the Christingle bags. We reused our online Christingle service from last year.

We were unsuccessful in re-starting our St. Andrew’s Youth Family group for young people, but Magz Parmenter continued to work on the SAYF website and Instagram.

I have stayed in touch with St. Andrew’s Benn school and continued to send in videos, but sadly we were unable to restart our leading worship group or any after school group at Northlands.

Our Baptism ministry supported by Revd Pam Gould, Revd Edmund and a team of volunteers was thankfully revived in the summer. Thanks to all that have helped us to offer a friendly welcome to the families and who continue to make beautiful baptism scarves, which the families really appreciate.

A big THANK YOU to all who support and pray for our children, family and youth ministry here at St. Andrew’s, not forgetting the people who have helped set up tents and make outdoor worship and garden play days possible during difficult times.

Wendy Coleman, Children and Families Minister

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Fabric Report

1 Oil Tank Fencing PCC approved replacement of the fencing two years ago. There is
strong concern of theft with the increasing cost of oil. It was agreed
for Hash to get an updated quote and await recommendations from
theQuinquennial Inspection.
2 Grave Vault The DAC has indicated that the faculty will be approved for work on
the grave vault.
3 Livestreaming Noise Boys have installed all of the equipment
4 Toilets Ted reported that the recent ‘deep clean’ of the toilets was not
effective, due to a poor operative. This has been repeated
5 Organ Maintenance The organ humidifier and blower maintenance visit has been
completed and a water softener fitted to reduce limescale build-up in
thehumidifier.
6 Bells John Goddard presented a proposal for maintenance work on the
church bells, which had been circulated before the meeting. The total
cost would be £2,067.60 (at 2020 prices) - £1,033.80 with a 50% grant
from the Coventry Diocesan Guild of Church
Bell Ringers. St. Andrew's bellringers funds will finance the new ropes
required. PCC approved the work, subject to no
dramatic increase in the updated costs - John to update.
NOTE: VAT may not be payable on maintenance of church assets –
Gaynorto advise.
7 Quinquennial
Inspection		 The inspection is due this year. PCC approved a quotation of £1,100
from the architects Acanthus Clews for this.
8 Guttering John Goddard reported that a lump of lead had fallen from the
guttering, and that more may follow. This issue should be assessed by
theQuinquennial Inspection.
9 Lighting The LED strip light by the organ has been permanently on. This is
beingrectified.
10 The Pod The Pod has been sold and removed
11 Café The café walls were painted on 12th/13th January. Edmund thanked
Joyce and John Daymond for their help on this. Ron Smith and Rob
Anningaregetting quotes to replace the kitchen worktops.
12 Fuses John Goddard reported issues identifying the correct fuse for
replacement of an electric socket – a fuse identification document is
needed. This had caused possible problems with the audio equipment
due to the possibility of interrupting its electricity supply and
subsequent loss of settings (Ted will ask Noise Boys for advice on
this).
13 Card payments St. Andrew’s now has a SumUp reader for card payments - this can
produce receipts.
14 Hash hademailedthat workonthe oilburner hadbeencompleted.
15 Edmund thanked Ted for overseeing the deep clean of the toilets – this
shouldbedone every 3months.
16 The café staff meet with Joyce on 22nd November to agree the scope
of the work required in the kitchen. Terry Byrne will advise on the
type ofpaint to apply.
17 Kitchen Limited work is needed in the kitchen. Joyce will discuss the
requirements with interestedparties,inc.RonandJan.

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18 Downpipes Rainwater channels and hoppers are to be inspected and cleaned. The
internal rainwater channels are a problem and remedial work should
belookedat.
19 Boiler Room Steps A new light is needed on the steps down to the boiler room, requiring
a contractor.
20 Video Live-
Streaming		 The Faculty application was granted and Ted Old has made a cabinet
on wheels for the new live-streaming equipment, so that it can be
moved round church as required.
21 The oldprayer desk has beensold.
22 The kitchen was upgraded in 2011. Additional works are required to
continue to meet hygiene standards: new work surfaces; new waste
bins;renew water heater. Quote(s) are being sought.
23 Rugby Borough Council had installed CCTV and new signage in Trinity
Gardens, without consulting St. Andrew's, who own the site. This has
subsequentlybeen removed.
24 The ESOS energy survey report must be studied fully at a future PCC
meeting.
25 Bike Repair Stand There are no records of how and where this was to be installed.
Whenconfirmed Ted has agreedto applyforafacultyforthis.
26 Repairs The boiler oil leak has been fixed. The tower clock is under repair
(expected 2weeks).

Hash Mistry, Chair of Fabric Group

Hospitality

Friday morning, 9-45am and waiting patiently for the cafe to open, a group of six ladies who have travelled from diverse places in Rugby to meet up for coffee, teacakes and of course chat in the quiet surroundings of St Andrews. The cafe is once again open to do what it does well.

Following the covid guidelines at that time of masks, table service, spacing and track and trace the small group of cafe volunteers had reopened the cafe and allowed St Andrews to open its doors to the town once more.

Initially opening on Fridays and Saturdays, numbers slowly increased as people became more aware and Brooke School returning on Mondays and Tuesdays increased that awareness as did the town market returning on Fridays and the Tuesday concert.

Added to the Friday team of volunteers has been a member of the pastoral team, a friendly face and a willing listener to the many issues of visitors.

There have been problems and many thanks to the volunteers for stepping in, often at very short notice to cover an absent Brooke School when the school faced covid issues.

Sadly, Gerald Newth leaves the leadership and membership of the volunteers as he and his wife move out of Rugby. Gerald was a very steady hand at the helm and our thanks to him for his years of leadership and commitment.

The cafe is once again playing an active and important part in the life of the Church, not only in raising funds, providing hospitality to all the groups using the Church but also allowing the door to be open. Very many thanks are due to the small group of people who volunteer to make this happen.

Ron Smith

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Eco Church

Your Eco Church Group hoped 2021 would bring some new hope and actions on our Eco Journey, it has with some continuing constraints on what could and could not be achieved.

The start of 2021 saw the continued application of various restrictions imposed by HM Government for the control of the Coronavirus Pandemic and these continued to restrict our activities, Despite the planning already made for the previously postponed A Rocha Midlands Regional Conference, the second date of January had to be further delayed and at that time we planned to hold it in May. However as the initial months went by and after careful consideration by A Rocha, the DEG and ourselves, we for the third time decided to again postpone the event

We were unable to meet but did continue the various recycling initiatives of ink cartridges and crisp packets and added to these milk and carbonated drink bottle plastic tops and they have proved successful, with the crisp packet scheme alone providing over £150 cumulatively to Church funds. Following the excellently supported Harvest appeal for Rugby Foodbank we continued to seek donations for them which you have generously supported.

With the gradual easement of restrictions we were able in August to re-launch the Sustainable Saturday Markets and from 6 stalls attending then and with interest growing both the numbers and diversity of stalls attending continued to increase with 16 in November and December, the markets were well attended and achieved pre-pandemic levels of support. We welcomed back the Repair Cafe in September which quickly became re-established and kept the repairers busy whilst satisfying those bringing items for repair. As previously the Sustainable Saturday Markets continue to be held on the first Saturday monthly, with the Repair Cafe being held on the third Saturday monthly.

The group had previously been donated a bird box from Coventry Diocese and four bat boxes from Warwickshire Bat Group, following discussion with the Warwickshire Bat Group at the November Sustainable Saturday Market they advised on suitable locations for the bat boxes and with much appreciated help from the external team of Rugby District Council the bird and bat boxes were fixed in locations in December.

The 26th United Nations Climate Conference of The Parties - COP26 - was held in Glasgow from 1st to 12th November 2021 and was marked with a Quiet Prayer Event in the Lady Chapel on the morning of 30 October for which an Eco Prayer Resource was compiled entitled - Eco Prayers A Selection for God's Creation and Care of the Environment - as an ecumenical document which will be updated and revised.

Meetings re-commenced in November 2021 following their suspension following the meeting held on 5 March 2020, and the first attended by Edmund since he joined St Andrews on 10 July 2020 - the small group continues to be John, Joyce, Wendy, Rosemary, Rex, Marion, Edmund, Carol and Tulsi (our Youth Advocate).

We continue to work and progress our Eco mission within our congregation and the wider community and thank you all for your support.

John Daymond, chair of Eco group

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The Mothers’ Union

2021 was a fruitful year for the St Andrews MU group.

A bit of history- there had been a flourishing Branch here for many years, but more recently for various reasons the members had decided to make their links less formal.

Of course, MU Wednesday afternoon Holy Communions continued, as did the fellowship and friendship of the members, and others who had joined them. So it was decided that 2021 would be the year that the group re- established its link with the wider organization. The opportunity for this to be formalised came on 29[th] November, when we hosted a Diocesan Advent Service. We were joined by over 100 members from around the Diocese, and also by members of the St Andrew’s Community Singers, who helped make this a very special occasion.

So we are going forward into 2022 feeling very positive about the future growth of the group, relieved that we are now able to meet in person, yet thankful that through the wonder that is Zoom we have been able to maintain contact with one another, and even to enhance friendships and links through that challenging time.

We would of course love to welcome new members, or anyone interested in finding out more about who we are and what MU is about. Do join us on any second Wednesday in church at 2.15 for Communion , followed of course by a cup of tea and a chat – we would love to see you. female or male, parent or single, all are welcome.

The Reverend Pam Gould

Pastoral Care

First of all, many thanks to our pastoral care group for all that they have done over the past year. 2022 has been another challenging year for the group due to Covid and government restrictions for some of the year, which has meant that we have not been able to deliver Home Communions in our usual care homes across the parish. That being said, the pastoral care group has completed some brilliant pastoral care by keeping in touch with those on our pastoral list by telephoning them on a regular basis. This has been really important to those who have been shielding or unable to venture out much—if at all.

We have only met once this year in person but the group keep the Rector and myself up to date with any changes in people’s circumstances and report visits to us on a regular basis. We hope to move back to business as usual over the coming months.

Joyce Woodings, Pastoral Care co-ordinator.

Safeguarding

We do regard Safeguarding as paramount at St Andrew’s Church. There have been no Safeguarding concerns raised over the past year as our usual church activities have been curtailed by Covid restrictions. However, some of our PCC and congregation have used their time at home to complete online Safeguarding training with Coventry Diocese—so many thanks to all those who have undertaken the training.

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As we start to return to normal, I will be undertaking an audit of those who may need to refresh their training. The Church of England has recently updated all of their guidance on Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment training. An audit has now been completed and reported to PCC. Several actions now need to be taken to ensure that we are completely up to date. Safeguarding training has moved to a national portal and is online for anyone within church to access and I would encourage all those who have any role in church to undertake the Basic training. Those with other responsibilities will be contacted by the Safeguarding Lead over the next few weeks, so that all those who need to have undertaken the relevant training for their role.

Joyce, Parish Safeguarding Lead.

The Big Table Gospel

This group has met weekly throughout the lockdown and we are now alternating between online meetings and being back in church. We discuss the Gospel reading for the forthcoming Sunday and usually find this makes us extra interested in hearing what the sermon is about! We have had special series of meetings during Lent (when Revd Peter Privett led a series of discussions based on works of art) and Advent, when we reflected on the writings of Evelyn Underhill. New members are always welcome to our meetings on Thursdays and Fridays at 10am. Contact John on shoparound1938@gmail.com

John Howes

Thirteen Bells Book Club

This meets online once a fortnight on a Wednesday morning. The group has been going for a year and a half, and aims to read about 50 pages of a book per week. We have recently read a book by a local author and have moved on to a graphic novel. This is a small group of about six or seven people, so new members are always welcome. shoparound1938@gmail.com

John Howes

Cultural and Community Events

Café Writers

This is a group for all those who love books and writing. Some are published authors whilst others are writing stories or memoir for the first time. The group began in St Andrew's Cafe and, after a period online and meeting in gardens, has now returned to its home. It meets every other Friday and welcomes new members. It currently has about 35 writers on the membership list. The group is hoping to publish its second anthology later in the year. www.rugbycafewriters.com

John Howes

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Church Music

After what seemed to many of us an eternity nearly normal choral services resumed in September 2021, with the full choir in place in the reconfigured chancel, allowing a safe space between all of the singers. In the morning services, the usual wide range of music was presented for the introits and communion anthems, along with a number of sung evensongs. For the congregation there was, at last, the opportunity to sing hymns, albeit behind masks – not great for lifting the roof in one’s favourite tune!

The Advent Carol service took place at the end of November and featured several pieces new to the choir including a vigorous setting of ‘Nova! Nova!’ by Bob Chilcott. Services in December proceeded as usual despite the Director of Music being conspicuously absent after the first week of the month – apparently his excuse for not being at the organ or conducting involved a failed attempt to fly down two steps, resulting in a fractured hip. Various plan Bs were brought into play (with particular thanks due to Des Jones, Phil Johnson and Matt Sandy) and all services right up to the beginning of January went ahead as planned..

Dr Richard Dunster-Sigtermans: Director of Music

St Andrew’s Young Choristers

Young choristers continued to sing throughout the covid shut downs and disturbances with 7 girls logging on every Wednesday afternoon. Unfortunately, once we opened up, many of the choristers had got used to joining in virtually and weren’t able to actually come in to town to sing in “real life” because parents weren’t around to transport them.

I have been running a small after school singing group at St Andrew’s Benn in the hope of recruiting from there gradually but so far, no takers. I was hoping to do the same at Northlands this term but that fell through at the last minute. I have promised SABenn that I’ll go back in the summer term to do another stint as an afterschool group again.

We have been meeting as a very small group of 3 or 4 choristers since September with Emilia and Arthur being the main members. They have both started to attend Eucharist as part of the main choir – learning at least one of the anthems and the hymns during our Wednesday practice. Arthur has now progressed to coming to adult choir practice on Thursdays and is hoping to be allowed to start to sing evensongs soon.

Since January I have been visiting the local primary schools with choir leaflets and also been in touch with local music teachers. This has led to the arrival of 5 new girls into the choir who are beginning to develop into a nice group. I am also planning to visit some of the schools in person and run some recruiting assemblies with RDS just before the Easter holidays (I break up a week earlier than Warwickshire schools)

Rachel Cliffe

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St Andrew’s Community Singers

– July 2020 April 2021

We had a new adventure during Lockdown: The opportunity to have a go at making recordings for our Virtual Choir. Up to 20 members joined in and we met once a month on Zoom to listen to our efforts...

Many thanks to Peter Lock and John Howes for making this possible. We also put together an Easter card which had contributions of poems and pictures from members. Many thanks to Susanna and Marilyn for this – it was a lovely way to keep in touch with everyone

- May July 2021

Another new venture - Rehearsals in the garden. These worked really well, especially when rain wasn’t threatened...we often had people walking by and I think they enjoyed it too. Each week the keyboard, the sound system and chairs had to be taken out of church and put away again afterwards

We finished with a ‘performance’ and refreshments on a lovely Summer evening – thanks to many helpers for these enjoyable occasions...including Tracey Daulman who came to play for us at our performance because our accompanist Brenda was unfortunately in hospital

August 2021

We were able to plan for singing inside church again – subject to Covid restrictions –ie with wide spacing between the singers etc

We decided our first rehearsal would be on Monday 20 September

Sunday 5 September Sadly Brenda died suddenly– it was a shock as she’d been out and about recently. Brenda was a founder member - our much valued and skilful accompanist. We were very honoured to sing for her funeral on Monday 27 September.

September 20 – December 23

It was a real blessing for us that Margaret Tuite was happy to become our accompanist - lovely to welcome her at our first rehearsal. We had over 50 members signed up - with more than 35 coming regularly, We took part in 5 events:

St Edmund’s Church, Thurlaston for their Patronal Festival

St Botolph’s Church, Newbold for Women in Fellowship’s Advent/Christmas Carol Service St Andrew’s Church for The Mother’s Union Diocesan Service

St Andrew’s Church for The Tree of Light Remembrance Service

St Anne’s Church, Wappenbury for the joint Carol Service with St John’s

– January April 2022

We began with a Social Evening on 31 January - during which we were delighted when Edmund came to meet us all

Rehearsals are continuing weekly until 4 April –

preparing for the following Events:

St Andrew’s Church: we will be the Core group at Second Saturday Songs on 9 April

St Peter and St John’s Church: Giving a lunch time concert on 7 May St Andrew’s Church: taking part in the Eco Day on 28 May

Choir numbers: 55 on the register...we have had to say goodbye to a few, but we are so pleased to have welcomed new members....we hope we are a friendly group (with no auditions) and we sing various types of music: sacred, secular, unison, 2, 3 or 4 part songs and rounds

Donations: We are glad to be able to give Donations to St Andrew’s church and we are very grateful to be able to rehearse here.

Angela Youngman Stewart

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Bell Ringing

The year started as 2020 ended, with the country in lockdown, no church services and ringing prohibited. We continued Monday practices online in RingingRoom, using zoom to see and speak to each other until the restrictions were lifted enough to allow ‘in-person’ practices to resume in July.

Prior to that we were able to ring a 5-minute bell for services once they restarted on Palm Sunday, and toll the tenor on 10[th] April for the death of the Duke of Edinburgh and for his funeral on the 17[th] . Thanks to John and Mark for arranging that, and for repairing the flagpole.

We had to wait for a further lifting of COVID restrictions in England to start ringing multiple bells for services on May 23rd, initially with 5 nominated ringers in the West tower. Service ringing has continued since then. We restarted practices in the West tower on July 19[th] following a further lifting of COVID restrictions, with individual bands ascending the tower while any extra ringers waited in the church, and (initially) a zoom meeting set up so we could chat with others not able to attend in person. Practices in the NE tower restarted on 16 August. All attendees have been doing LF tests and wearing masks to try to prevent an outbreak within our band.

To try to improve ventilation, we are opening the trap door to the clock chamber in the West tower, along with the window and either the door to the stair (rather noisy!) or the door into the clock weight case. In the NE tower an extractor fan has been installed in a (removable) cover for the centre of the trapdoor which used to give access to the light fitting for the clergy vestry, this generates a draught with the ringing chamber door fastened open.

The tower clean was not able to take place this year, although both ringing chambers have been hoovered several times and Chris and I cleaned the bell chamber in the West tower in early May.

Our annual outing was cancelled again this year, but the annual dinner was able to go ahead, giving Edmund his first chance to meet most of the band in person since becoming Rector of Rugby.

Ringing was arranged for a golden wedding anniversary in June and for a wedding in August. A quarterpeal was rung in the West tower on the eve of the COP26 summit in October.

We had one handbell practice ringing Christmas Carols, which established that we would need several more to reach a good standard and have not visited any of the care homes this year. A ringers’ tree was entered to the Christmas tree festival: thank you Laurie for doing that.

Thanks to all the ringers for your support over the last year, and for (mostly) timely responses to what felt at times like an almost continuous stream of emails about things we would normally discuss much more informally in person. Also, thanks to Edmund for his support.

Ringing contacts: Christine Homer 01788 536566 John Goddard 01788 334256

Christine Homer

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Financial Review

Financial Review and Outlook from the Financial Group.

The year 2021 followed a similar pattern to 2020 in that pandemic restrictions were in place for much of the time, This limited the use of resources such as the cafe and events and had further detrimental impact on our income as can be seen from the annual accounts.

A Stewardship campaign was launched in September and has had a positive effect on income from the congregation. It is intended to widen the scope of Stewardship to encompass the town in general and later beyond.

It is hugely important to encourage everyone who is a UK tax payer to ensure they use Gift Aid so that we can recover the tax that the donor has already paid on that money. Anyone wanting more information on this should speak to Ivan Finbow, Des Jones or myself.

As previously the PCC decided to honour its commitment to pay the Parish Share.

With the continued uncertainty around the pandemic we expect restrictions in some form to remain for some time and our finances must be husbanded most carefully.

The financial discipline necessary during these challenging times is resulting in several good practice procedures being introduced and will be carried into the future to ensure that St Andrew’s is best able to fulfil God’s work.

Ian Sheppard

Reserves Policy

The Council consider that the reserves held at the end of the year were adequate for the church’s needs over the next twelve months. Whilst the unrestricted fund is in deficit there are adequate funds held on deposit by designated funds to cover this and provide sufficient working capital. The majority of the restricted and endowment funds assets are also held on deposit, which can be realised at short notice.

At present, as mentioned above, the church still has a small deficit on unrestricted general funds. It is the intention of the PCC to move to a situation where some unrestricted general funds can be held in reserve to cover future expected general running costs, with the rest of the funds held being either designated or restricted for specific purposes. The PCC aims to hold the equivalent of six months running costs (currently £82,000) which includes staffing costs, bearing in mind our responsibility as employers.

Treasurer’s Commentary on the accounts

2021 continued to be a difficult year in all aspects due to the restrictions in place the continuation of the pandemic. Our total giving recovered slightly to £151,591 our expenditure was controlled and showed a reduction on previous year of £56,356. However, this didn’t avoid an excess expenditure of some £36,470. This was offset by a revaluation of assets leaving a residual deficit of £22,919.

On the General Fund there was an excess of expenditure over income in the year of £28,101. Our income being reduced due to Covid restrictions. Additionally, it was agreed that salaries would continue to be paid with the church taking advantage of the Government’s Furlough scheme to place

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two members of staff on that scheme. PCC also agreed that, notwithstanding all else, Parish Share should be paid in full (£74,175) which was done.

As can be seen from the Movement of Funds, particularly on Designated and Restricted Funds, substantial activity occurred to continue the work of the Church and to ensure salaries could be paid to key workers.

As can be seen from the Balance Sheet the total assets held by the Church at the end of December was £334,386 a decrease of £22,919.

Recovery is largely contingent upon restrictions being lifted in relation to the pandemic and some ‘normality’ returning. However, other avenues need to be explored.

Des Jones

Structure, Governance and Management

The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrew Rugby was formed when the Rugby Team Ministry was dissolved on 4th July 2013.

The method of appointment of Parochial Church Council members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. At St Andrew’s Church the membership of the PCC consists of the incumbent, the churchwardens, Readers and other clergy (if co-opted) and members of the congregation elected from the electoral roll. All those who attend our services or who live in the parish are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and vote for PCC members and Churchwardens.

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; PCC members are also trustees of the charity. New members receive information about their duties as a charity trustee.

The PCC met ten times in the year. Given its wide responsibilities the PCC has a number of committees which deal with a particular aspect of church life; these includes the Standing Committee, the Finance Committee and the Fabric Group, the last two being combined during the course of 2021 in an experimental Strategy, Finance and Fabric Committee. These committees report back to the PCC on a regular basis and inform the decision-making process of the PCC.

Ensuring the Christian governance of our Church School, St Andrew Benn Primary School is an additional responsibility of the PCC with the Diocesan Board of Education and the PCC appoints Foundation Governors to the Board.

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Administrative Information

St Andrew’s Church is situated in the town centre or Rugby, Warwickshire. It is part of the Diocese of Coventry within the Church of England. The Correspondence address is St Andrew’s Church, Church Street, Rugby, CV21 3PT. The PCC is a body corporate (PCC Powers Measure 1996, Church Representation Rules 2011) and a registered charity, number 1160223. The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrew Rugby was registered with the Charity Commission in March 2014.

PCC Members are elected for three years. The members listed below are those who have served at any time from the 1st January 2021 until the approval of the financial statements on [TBC].

Ex officio members:

o Wardens: Joyce Woodings (also Deanery Synod representative) and Hash Mistry

Elected members:

Deanery Synod representatives (term of office 2020-2023)

Co-opted Members:

Members approved by APCM October 2020

Committee and Group Chairs

Chair of Standing Committee, The Rev’d Canon Edmund Newey Chair of Finance Committee, Ian Sheppard Chair of Fabric Committee, Hash Mistry

Convenor of the Community Outreach Group, Rex Pogson

Convenor of the Children and Families Group, The Rev’d Edmund Newey Convenor of the Eco-Group, John Daymond Convenor of the Pastoral Group, Joyce Woodings

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Approved by the PCC on the 5[th] May 2022

Signed ………………………………………….

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