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2021-12-31-accounts

St Vigor with All Saints, Fulbourn

www.fulbournandthewilbrahams.org

Working together to be a Christian Community of Worship, Welcome and Care

Deanery of Fordham and Quy, Diocese of Ely Parochial Church Council Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2021

Parochial Church Council 2021

The following served as members of the PCC: Incumbent: The Revd Alice Goodman Licensed Lay Minister: Steve Mashford Churchwardens: David Gant, Andrew Tristram. Treasurer: Andrew Tristram PCC Secretary: Sally Hames Representative on the Deanery Synod: Steve Mashford Elected members: David Gant, Sally Hames, Jordan Savage, David Sheppard (6 months), Anne Swaysland, Anita Whitehead

BACKGROUND

The purpose of the Report is to paint a picture of the life and activities of our village church here in Fulbourn in 2021 and to note the condition of the church building and the state of the church’s finances. Over the course of this year, the church’s life was, as in 2020, affected by the covid-19 pandemic.

The Parochial Church Council has the responsibility of co-operating with the Rector in promoting the whole mission of the Anglican Church within the Parish of Fulbourn, encompassing all pastoral, missional, social and ecumenical aspects of the work of the Church. St Vigor with All Saints, Fulbourn, is part of a plurality with St Nicholas, Great Wilbraham, St John the Evangelist, Little Wilbraham and St George’s, Six Mile Bottom. The PCC has maintenance responsibilities for the church building and churchyard area.

Members of the PCC are either ex officio or are elected by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) in accordance with the Church Representation Rules. The PCC meets at least 4 times a year but also operates through a number of groups or committees, which meet as required during the year, often as a result of issues raised at PCC meetings. These include the Standing Committee.

Outreach and pastoral care

our Parish Centre, ‘Twelve’, offering a place to sit, a hot drink and a listening ear, with new careful Health and Safety precautions. We are again providing a photocopying service, selling cards, gifts and second-hand books. Our former Parish Assistant, Rob Hawkins, set up a plastic free initiative called Twelve Green Bottles. This has been a huge success, supplying refills of a wide variety of cleaning products, reusable cleaning pads, bamboo toothbrushes and the like. ‘Twelve’ is also our parish office and the headquarters of ‘The Mill’. In 2021 Tim Wood, the civil partner of our Parish Assistant, Yin-An Chen took on the job of managing Twelve on a voluntary basis with great success.

The work of the Church continues to be led by our Rector, the Revd Alice Goodman who, since her arrival in 2011, has worked faithfully to cover the duties required by the four churches across the benefice. Steve Mashford continues as our L.L.M. helping with the running of the services, leading ‘Come and Join,’ and Bible studies, and being a vital member of this PCC and our Deanery Synod Rep. Our Parish Assistant, Natalie Lealand, left for pastures new in the spring of the year. However, we were joined in July by Yin-An Chen, who had just completed his training for ordination at Westcott

House. But we would achieve very little without our wonderful volunteers. So many in Fulbourn, not all regular church-goers, help the church not just financially but by giving practical help, giving up their time for others in one way or another; for example, our many Twelve volunteers, Richard Doe who has found his métier helping with Baby Dragons, those who have organised and been a part of the serving team, who deliver copies of The Mill, serve on the PCC, clean the church, wind the clock, mow the grass, grow and arrange the flowers, bring and serve refreshments and make music. The PCC would like to say a huge THANK YOU to all of you, without whom there would be very little to talk about in this Report!

During the year we benefited from the presence of ordinands on placement and attachment. At Pentecost, Graham Dunn and Funmilayo Vaughan left to be ordained. In August we were joined by Nell Whiscombe and in the autumn by James Butler, Mike Edwards and Lucie Spiers: two from Westcott, one from Ridley and one in the part-time pathway at Ripon College Cuddesdon. Our ordinands have variously assisted at Baby Dragons and at the pastoral offices, have read the lesson, led intercessions and taught Sunday School on a regular rota. James has sung in the choir and

joined the bell ringers. Nell has preached twice. As a parish we are highly valued by the Diocesan Director of Ordinands and our local theological colleges. Being a training parish has been a valued part of our identity since at least 1835.

In September we were joined by Chris Totney, thanks to a grant from the Wright’s Clock Land CIO, as Director of church and community music. The same grant enabled us to hire four singers to make up the core of a church choir. Although Chris has had to be on leave from his job since the end of November, both the community choir and the church choir have continued in his absence under the interim leadership of Sian Hornby, Krishnan RamPrasad, Ben Wingfield and Peter Foggitt. There are six children joining the choir every week. Our congregations have been growing in number and in the number of families attending. We are not quite back to where we were when David Sheppard was Director of Music and organist and Michael Carr was Choirmaster,

but we have that vision to inspire us. We are hugely grateful to Martin Herrick, Tim Vaughan-Lane, Mary Kendall and David Sheppard who have, in so many ways and such a long period, created and fed a love of good church music here at St Vigor’s.

Our First Sunday band has been joined this year by William Boyd on guitar and bass.

The Rector circulated a benefice-wide weekly group email with news, prayer requests, reflections on scripture and attachments, including the Weekly Sheet and Sunday School activities to do at home. There were 4 baptisms, 5 weddings and 11 funerals in 2021. Morning Prayer was said from Common Worship Daily Prayer at 8.30 a.m. either in church or, when that was not allowed, via zoom.

Holy Week 2021 was on a smaller scale but in person, beginning with a proper Palm Sunday service with procession and reading of the Passion gospel. There was a service of Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday evening and the making of the Easter Garden by our Sunday School and other Fulbourn children on Holy Saturday. On Easter Day there was an in-person Eucharist with egg hunt. On Whit Sunday we gathered for a benefice

Pentecost service at St George’s as restrictions had eased. The school year began in September with the Blessing of the Backpacks. Andy Tindall baked the harvest loaf again this year. The flower arrangers made St Vigor’s beautiful with varied and exquisite arrangements of flowers and leaves, vegetables and fruit, nuts and grains. This year All Souls’ was observed at St Vigor’s with a choral service on the evening

of 7[th ] November. Both the choir and the community choir sang at our Remembrance Sunday service. Advent began, as is our custom, with the Gift Service, coordinated by Jo Gant with the help of Yin-An Chen and Tim Wood who assembled and delivered the Christmas hampers. Our ordinands led an Advent prayer group, and Christmas was almost as it had been before Covid with Lessons and Carols, carols in the pub, a crib service and midnight mass and the service on Christmas morning.

This was the year when our much loved assistant curate, Miles, grew his wings and after a final burst of song from the tower flew off to Wales to be Team Vicar in the rectorial benefice of Aberavon. That’s Port Talbot to you. Miles brought joy, compassion, learning, holiness, friendship and laughter to this parish and the benefice. He says he will not forget us. We won’t forget him.

Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults

As a benefice we have a policy showing we are committed to valuing, listening to and respecting children, young people and vulnerable adults. This includes safe recruitment, supervision, training and DBS checks where applicable. This policy is available in Twelve and each church. Our Safeguarding officer is Mary Kendall.

Electoral Roll

In accordance with Church of England procedures, the Electoral Roll is reconstituted every year. There were 116 people on the Electoral Roll.

Church Finances

The church finances for 2021 are detailed in the PCC Accounts at the end of the main Report.

Andrew Tristram (Treasurer)

Fabric and Churchyard

This was a year in which plans made in 2020 were successfully undertaken. As planned in 2020 the project to remove kerbstones from 73 graves (while leaving their headstones in place) was successfully carried out. A team from Overstream House cleared ivy from these graves prior to the main contractors, Bakers of Danbury, coming on site. The ivy clearance revealed that 31 of these 73 graves also had concrete slabs (known as “landings”) covering the area between the kerbs. Bakers agreed to extend the contract to also remove these slabs. Two skip loads of stone and concrete were taken away. Kerbstones with inscriptions were left in the churchyard, stacked against the walls. The bare areas were covered with topsoil and seeded with a grass/wildflower mixture.

A survey of all the churchyard trees by Eastern Tree Surgery (Mike Downs) recommended extensive works. This included the removal of several trees, (notably the large red cedar to the South-West of the porch), the removal of dead wood and ivy from many trees, and the raising of crowns. The PCC agreed to all these recommendations, plus some additional tasks, and the work was carried out in December.

These two projects enhanced the value of the churchyard as an oasis in the centre of the village, and considerably simplified maintenance. This makes it easier for Michael Carr, in his ninety-third year, to continue his wonderful work keeping the churchyard beautiful.

The CCTV cameras in the West tower swift boxes were again in action, seeing 2 pairs of birds rear young. For the first time swifts were seen prospecting the South tower boxes, hopefully they may nest there in 2022.

The replacement of the church heating system, prepared in 2020, was carried out in February 2022. A 65kw “Dunphy” system was installed – relatively undisruptive and unobtrusive. “ChurchEcoMiser” clay core heaters were placed at knee level on the walls, giving output by both radiation and convection. The philosophy being not to let the temperature of the building fall below about 10[0] C, raising the air temperature to 18[O] C when the church is in use. There are three separately controlled heating zones

As a consequence of putting in the new heaters, the curtain behind the high altar was removed, the bookcase donated by Joseph Chaplin was adapted to size, and notice boards will be moved from the Nave west wall to the porch.

Preparation for placing PV Solar panels on the roof continued. Initial applications were for the S aisle and the S transept roofs. Panels on the aisle, laid parallel and just above the existing roof, would have had some, minor, visual effect –visible when first coming up the drive, going out of sight on approaching the porch. Fulbourn Parish Council objected to this and S Cambs. planners rejected the application. The S transept panels, invisible from the ground, were accepted. We then investigated the viability of panels on the N transept, significantly more shaded that the S, definitely a second best to using the S aisle. Video recordings from the tower suggested the annual output from the N transept might be about ¾ of that from the S transept. Detailed computer modelling (thank you Andrew & Guy Tristram) confirmed this. A faculty was obtained for panels on the S & N Transepts and the work should take place in May 2022.

St Vigor’s and Climate Change

The Church of England believes that responding to climate change is an essential part of its responsibility to safeguard God's creation.

The main way in which St Vigor’s contributes negatively to climate change is in heating the building. Our new heating system (see Fabric report) uses electricity, this being much better than burning gas or oil directly. However currently about 45% of the UK’s electricity comes from burning gas – which produces CO2, leading to climate change. The new heating system uses a bit more than twice the electricity per hour of the old system (@65kW compared to @28kW). To heat a large, draughty, stone building requires a lot of energy. So, although we now have a system capable of heating the building adequately, we need to be careful in how we use it. In the long term we can expect less and less of our electricity to come from burning gas, but in the meantime – the greatest climate saving device is the off-switch.

On the positive side, St Vigor’s is about to install PV Solar panels on the church (see Fabric report). Most of the electricity from solar panels is produced in the summer months when the energy used by the church is low. The winter months, when St Vigor’s uses a lot of electricity for heating the building, give relatively little output from solar panels. So the great majority of the carbon free electricity from St Vigor’s panels will be exported to other users, rather than being used in the church. Currently the price paid for exported electricity, produced by the solar operator, is far lower than that paid by the consumer. That may change, the longer term pricing of energy in all forms is rising. St Vigor’s is not doing this for economic gain; this is what we see as a social, moral duty.

David Gant

Parish Assistant

The Parish Assistant’s job is comprised of three roles: administrative work, pastoral work and children’s work. The current PA is Yin-An Chen, who came to the benefice in July 2021. Yin-An divides his time between Fulbourn and The Wilbrahams. Although Covid-related restrictions have been gradually lifted since Yin-An’s arrival, not all ministries in Fulbourn have been resumed. Yin-An runs the toddlers’ group, Baby Dragons, on Tuesday mornings at the Townley Hall – this involves welcoming and chatting with parents and carers, playing with the childre n and leading in the singing of songs. On Sundays Yin-An regularly leads Sunday School, which is aimed at both younger and

older children – the former enjoy storytelling and fun activities, while the latter focus on storytelling, a short bible-reading and reflection. In terms of administrative tasks, Yin-An prepares the weekly sheet for the benefice, creates publicity materials for events, responds to general emails, and manages the Facebook pages.

Yin-An’s partner, Tim Wood, was appointed in October 2021 as part-time Volunteer Manager of Twelve and YinAn assists him as required, helping to organise the volunteers, keeping Twelve running effectively on a day to day basis for the benefit of both volunteers and guests and ordering stock for the Twelve Green Bottles plastic-free initiative.

Yin-An

Deanery Synod

Due to covid and our Rural Dean leaving the area there was only one meeting last year. It was on the theme of Living in Love and Faith and was attended via zoom. One of the key things that came from these discussions was that together our Church communities are called to LOVE:

Listen attentively and only

Open your heart and mind without judgementalism Value everyone’s vulnerability and perspective Express concern and empathy

Steve Mashford

Bell Ringers

We have started to ring regularly again both for practice and for Sunday service with all of the bells following a year of reduced ringing. We’ve also been able to ring for a few weddings and funerals throughout the year and near the end of the year we welcomed a few learners into the tower who are already making great progress. The bells continue to be in good working order.

Ian Baxter

St Vigor's Church, Fulbourn PCC Accounts 2021

INCOME Total 2021
Total 2020		 Notes
PlannedgivingGA -general £18,128.34
£20,256.79		 (i)
PlannedgivingGA -parish assistant £7,280.00 £7,346.09 ""
PlannedgivingGA - restoration £60.00
£120.00		 ""
PlannedgivingGA - Twelve £3,600.00 £3,600.00 ""
Plannedgivingnon-GA ""
Collections at services GA £248.00 ""
Collections at services non-GA £3,074.69 £2,039.77 ""
Other GA donations - music £1,000.00 ""
Other GA donations - flowers ""
Other GA donations - churchyard £100.00 ""
Other GA donations - fabric ""
Other GA donations - roof ""
Other GA donations £1,000.00 £200.00 ""
Other GA donations - agency ""
Other non-GA donations - music £350.00 ""
Other non-GA donations - flowers ""
Other non-GA donations - churchyard £10,569.62
£100.00		 ""
Other non-GA donations - fabric £11,014.16 ""
Other non-GA donations - roof ""
Other non-GA donations £10,371.61
£9,426.10		 ""
Other non-GA donations - agency ""
Tax recovered onplannedgiving £8,286.04 £7,996.95 ""
Tax recovered on othergiving £371.89 ""
Legacies (i)
Recurring grants
Non-recurring grants £1,000.00
Concerts £100.00
Sponsored cycle ride
Fetes
Other events
Plant sale £465.60
Other sales
Friends of St. Vigor's
Bank interest £2.35
£7.81
Other investment interest
PCC fees £4,714.00 £3,117.00
Children's events £583.15
£485.34
Communitylunches £32.00
Breakfasts
Harvest supper
Other charitable events
Marriage course
Church lettings
Other incomingresources £0.66
£7.31
Tax recovered onpayments(VAT) £275.14
Other Parishes' Share £769.76
£2,989.28
Contra income £7,603.86 £1,008.00
Mill subscriptions & sales £3,318.20 £5,527.65
Mill adverts £6,689.18 £6,192.00
Twelve sales £1,863.65 £3,204.24
HMRC VAT recovery £518.10
£1,538.31
Twelve non-recurring grants £10,000.00
Agencycollections - Diocese £2,684.00 £2,404.00
Agencycollections - charities £516.66
Agencycollections - other £122.00
£1,280.33
Investment transfer £25,000.00
PCC Bank transfer £113,000.00 £104,000.00
TOTAL(excludingtransfers) £102,870.03
£92,689.60

St Vigor's Church, Fulbourn PCC Accounts 2021

EXPENDITURE Total 2021
Total 2020		 Notes
Cost ofgeneratingvoluntaryincome
Plant costs
Cycle ride costs
Fete costs
Diocesan ministryshare £42,704.32 £42,827.36
Diocesan work - other
Salaries staff £13,277.29 £17,021.36
Visitingclergy /musician expenses £80.00
Charitablegiving £90.00
£90.00
Ministryexpenses £195.59
£1,523.05
Clergyexpenses £204.60
£1,538.16
Training /education
Worshipmaterials £401.32
£391.60
Subscriptions
Insurance £3,512.52 £3,414.80
Routine maintenance £1,158.74 £1,650.96
Churchyard expenses £10,569.62
Organ & Piano repairs £390.00
£108.00
Church Utilities £1,372.95 £2,265.95
Administration £104.97
£65.00
Website £308.00
£233.00
Governance costs
Fabric/Restoration £3,173.64 £7,661.72
Major repairs
Roof repairs
Event costs - Children's £781.22
£600.00
Event costs - Communitylunch
Event costs - Breakfasts
Event costs - Harvest supper
Event costs - Marriage course
Event costs - Music £250.00
Event costs - other adult
Other expenditure £291.40
£708.60
Bank charges £268.00
£206.00
Contra expenditure £913.70
£1,008.00
Music - contra £7,351.40
Mill -printing £9,255.00 £6,746.40
Mill - other £627.70
£754.09
Twelve stationery £75.82
£119.50
Twelvephotocopier £1,085.63 £1,021.50
Twelve other equipment £17.00
Twelve rent £9,000.00 £9,000.00
Twelve utilities £708.91
£1,105.91
Twelve stock £483.51
£1,602.76
HMRC VATpayment £28.19
£166.83
Agency payments - Diocese £2,900.00 £2,296.00
Agency payments - charities £446.36
Agency payments - other £407.93
Investment transfer
PCC Bank transfer £113,000.00 £104,000.00
TOTAL(excludingtransfers) £111,930.40 £104,631.48
TOTAL Loss £9,060.37 £11,941.88 (ii)

St Vigor's Church, Fulbourn PCC Accounts 2021

~~C ost Centres~~
Parish Assistant Salaries £ 13,277.29
Less targetedgiving £
7,280.00
Less Gift Aid £
1,820.00
Net cost £ 4,177.29
Twelve costs £ 11,382.06
Less Mill 'rent' £
1,200.00
Less Twelve income £
2,381.75
Less SCDCgrant
Less targetedgiving £
3,600.00
Less Gift Aid £
900.00
Net cost £ 3,300.31
Shared Mission Expenses ~~£~~
~~400.19~~
Plus website hosting ~~£~~
~~308.00~~
Less reclaimed from Diocese £
110.40
£
597.79
PA + Twelve + Expenses net costs £ 8,075.39
GW Share(18%) £ 1,453.57
LW Share(12%) £
969.05
Mill Income £ 10,007.38
less Mill rent £
1,200.00
less Mill costs £
9,882.70
lessprint cost correction £
-
Profit £(1,075.32) (iii)
~~N otes~~
(i)The dropin income from all forms ofgivingfrom 2019 is still about £10,000.
(ii)The actual loss after accruals was about £14,000.
(iii)The Mill broke even after allowingfor accruals.

St. Vigor's Church, Fulbourn Summary of Fund Movements 2021

2021
INCOMING
Brought forward Income Fund transfer Loss Transfers
TOTAL
from 2020 2021 IN IN
Organ & Music 2350 0 2350
Parish Assistant 0 9110 4167 13277
Twelve 7409 6944 1200 15553
Mill 6271 10007 16279
Restoration 288 11089 11377
Flower 247 0 247
Churchyard 3680 10695 14375
General 15175 55025 70200
TOTAL 35419 102870 138289
OUTGOINGS
Expenditure Fund transfer Loss Transfers
Carried forward
2021 OUT OUT
Organ & Music 7741 -5391
Parish Assistant 13277 0
Twelve 11382 4171
Mill 9883 1200 5196
Restoration 3174 8204
Flower 0 247
Churchyard 10570 3805
General 55904 4167 10129
TOTAL 111930 26359
Bank Accounts Balance Receipts Payments Transfers(in) Balance
end of 2020 end of 2021
Coop 3232 1000 0 -3000 1232
Deposit 28420 89322 0 -98000 19742
General 2777 2475 90557 89500 4196
Twelve 989 10073 21374 11500 1189
Total 35419 102870 111930 0 26358
CCLA Accounts
Brought forward Interest Transfer Transfer Carried forward
from 2020 in out
Bell Ringing Support 1,003 1 1,003
Organ & Music 1,044 7 1,050
Reserve 53,847 28 53,875
Mill Reserve 3,484 2 3,485
TOTAL 84,064 37 - - 59,414

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