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2022-12-31-accounts

Parochial Church Council of St Andrew Stoke Newington

Annual Report and Accounts year ended 31 December 2022

Legal and Administrative Information for the year ended 31 December 2022

PCC Name: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrew, Stoke Newington Other Operating Names: St Andrew’s N16 St Andrew, Bethune Road Status: The church is a constituent parish of the Anglican Diocese of London. Operating and 106 Bethune Road Correspondence Address: London N16 5DU Chair: Rev'd Charis Enga Churchwarden(s): Ivan Jones (elected in October 2021) Elected members PCC John Fletcher (Treasurer and Deanery Synod rep) Ivan James Keisha Nembhard Renee Nembhard-Andrade (co-opted in October 2021) Charity Registration 1169368 Bankers: HSBC Bank plc National Westminster Bank Plc CCLA Investment Management Ltd Independent Examiner Data Developments

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Annual Report of the PCC For the year ended 31 December 2022

The Parochial Church Council (the "PCC") of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrew, Stoke Newington presents its report together with the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021.

Parochial Church Council Objectives

The PCC has the responsibility of co-operating with the Priest-in-Charge, The Rev'd Charis Enga, in:

Membership

Members of the PCC are either ex-officio or elected by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting in accordance with the Church Representation Rules 2006.

Governance

The PCC is a corporate body established by the Church of England. It is constituted and governed by the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956 (as amended) and the Church Representation Rules 2006.

Public Benefit

The Trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission. St Andrew’s benefits the public by way of regular worship that is open to all, the provision of sacred space for personal prayer and contemplation, pastoral work, teaching Christianity through sermons, courses and small groups, and promoting the whole mission of the church through its assistance to older people, parents and children, and others in the parish.

St Andrew’s encourages community use of the premises and continues to welcome Hackney walking tours who come to enjoy the magnificent murals and stained glass within the church. St Andrew's provides visitors to the church with a free leaflet which introduces them to the stained glass and murals. A more detailed guide is also available should visitors require more information. The cost of both these publications was met by the National Lottery Heritage Fund in 2015. A Children’s Guide was created and produced in 2018 as a result of the National Lottery Heritage Fund support in 2018. St Andrew's also engages with the wider community by way of the new website standrewsn16.org which launched in 2019, "A Church Near You" website, a public Facebook page and Church Twitter and Instagram profiles, which together provide up-todate information about the church and opening times.

The church building is open on Sundays with ‘Open Church’ when anyone can come to enjoy the space, peace, beauty and heritage. A chalkboard pavement sign, along with regularly updated adverts on the external railings publicising upcoming events and opening times, continue to increase the number of passers-by who drop-in and raise the visibility of the church in the local area.

Activities

This has been a year of tender shoots growing and we’ve seen new growth in the number of children and families, in the new faces at new forms of worship and in us reaching out in new community work.

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Despite all this growth, we’ve also faced hardship and we had a hard start to the year when our beloved Church Warden, who was like our church mother, Naomi Lee, died in February. This sent shock waves through the community at the sudden death of someone so young. But it also brought us together to be even more determined to grow her church family to whom she was so dedicated. Despite the adversity, many good things happened and signs of growth and new shoots in spiritual depth, growing fellowship, new community connections, new worshippers and growing confidence in emerging leaders.

Worship

While the morning services were still small in number at the beginning of 2022, by the spring we began to see even more new faces and families joining us. We saw a large growth in new families through our new monthly worshipping community ‘All Age Church’ which had been started through the work of community organising – we had a core team of leaders who were new to church and brought together through 121s and a group organising meetings. We saw many new families attend and come to our new worship and grew our number of church families. We had social and community time as well as worship which included a fun summer party and outings to the cinema and Christmas Santa trip.

We also used community organising techniques to begin a new evening mid-week service Seeking Stillness which started through 121s and a team beginning it and planning it together for a time of prayer, bible reading and silence. And then this led to deepening discipleship through re-organising this service to also include optional Sunday Gospel discussions at the end of each evening.

We had a lovely Church Pilgrimage to St Albans where some our of church children joined in the St Albans procession and children’s worship and we were thrilled to have local parishioners from St Bartholomew’s join us too.

As the year went by we began to see the numbers beginning to increase in the morning service and many new faces joining. This was due to Community events, better communications, more 121s locally, more provision for children and families to worship and developing discipleship. We had 3 baptisms and 4 admitting to Holy Communion in the Autumn.

We also enjoyed starting our new monthly First Sunday All Age Eucharists and had our first Church Lunch in over 2 years at our patronal service when it was decided that it would be reinstated monthly from start of 2023.

Also during the autumn we saw 3 new emerging leaders begin Wagstaff training with Centre for Community and Theology. And at Christmas we enjoyed a fuller Christmas Carol service with more community people including testimonies from our new Community Gardening project for which we had received funding and will be launching in 2023.

Finally the Christmas season was concluded with a new interactive storytelling worship event which was enjoyed by all.

Electoral Roll

In 2022 the electoral roll increased to 33 even though we had several deaths and moving away of regular congregation members (2021: 28).

Community

We continued in 2022 to build upon our commitment to work in the community and make connections with our neighbours to work for justice and peace and create community in our local area.

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We began the year with focusing on our involvement with Citizens UK and brought lots of local people together to represent St Andrews at a delegates assembly and mayoral assembly. We were proud to have St Andrew’s represented by Renee Andrade as our spokesperson and leader of the meeting.

We built upon many local connections hosting concerts and charity events in church, meeting new local residents and supporting the elderly locally with visits from Connaught Opera, St Peter’s house residents, St Anne’s Care Home and Morris and Sea Shanty Choir. We helped raise over £900 for the emergency heating repairs for the care home. These were also intergenerational events which included visits from the new church-based nursery Bright Futures.

We had lots of interfaith and inter-communal connections, particularly with our Charedi neighbours which included Revd Charis having 121s with local rabbis and community leaders, and our new gardening project ‘Growing Together’ led by our Church-based Organiser Keisha and local community gardener David King who offered the church children and local children a raised bed in the Sandford Court Estate growing area.

We also loved hosting lots of local families and school children at our Pop-up Café and being part of the Holmleigh School Jumble Trail where we donated lots of home-made cakes and raised £65 for the school.

We have enjoyed hosting our halls for local community groups such as Labour Party meetings and being a space where local people can gather together.

We continued to be a key member of the grass-roots group Stamford Hill Unites and successfully were granted £2500 by Hackney Council Voluntary Service to put on a community celebration and so we worked with many local people to put on a very successful

Allens Gardens Community Event in September. This second annual event was even better than the previous year with many more community groups represented including with two resident associations, two growing community groups, a nature reserve group, an elderly exercise group, local musicians, local Caribbean food distributers, local disabled cycling group, local primary school, the church-based nursery, and local council healthwatch group and many community people. Keisha, our church-based community worker had carried out so many 121s (over 100) during the summer that we saw a huge turn out from the local Charedi families who in turn invited their friends.

Feedback included from the Community Event included: Anonymous local resident (Male, Adult): “ This is the best integrated event between different local communities that I’ve ever seen in this area. Charedi, noncharedi, people of all different faiths and backgrounds. It was very surprising.”

Anonymous Charedi local resident (Male, Adult): “ This event makes me think of my upbringing in this area, with us not being allowed to mix with other communities. Today is a pleasure to watch all the children playing together; this is how I wish to see this park all the time, the feeling that we can interact with each other and not be afraid of it.”

The large increase in community engagement alongside the strategic work to integrate and create pathways for people to engage in new forms of worship has meant that St Andrews in 2022 became more visible in the community, it dramatically raised its profile locally and saw a large increase in attendance at all forms of worship.

Other good news for the parish was that Organisation and administration was helped by recruiting a freelance admin assistant for the parish and Petra helped with this. We were very thankful for the financial assistance for this support from the Archdeacon’s Discretionary fund. And also thankful for sharing Petra with St Thomas’ Clapton Common and therefore share experience and work more closely with our neighbouring parish.

Building and Fabric

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The PCC takes seriously its responsibility to ensure the church building is a safe environment and in this regard uses health and safety specialists, Precision Safety, to carry out annual safety inspections of the church.

Broken windows in the downstairs halls were replaced like-for-like in May 2022 by Leading Lights of London ltd. Following the electrical inspection at the end of 2021, there were urgent repairs to carried out to the electrical fuse board in the main church.

Financial Review

The total receipts for the year ended 31 December 2022 were £52,643 (2021: £38,981). The total payments for the year ended 31 December 2021 were £37,087 (2021: £28,631). The income from the nursery enabled an increase in payments for Common Fund in 2022 by over 100% to £10,000. Further to this, £11,000 London Diocese Area Loan was repaid.

Reserves Policy

It is PCC policy to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds (if possible) and enough funds in the general fund bank account in order to meet immediate liabilities and manage cash flow. At present this level is thought to be a figure of £8,000.

Diocesan Commitment to St Andrew’s

The Diocese of London recognises the missional importance of this parish and is fully committed to supporting its future. This is shown through the resources the Diocese is investing in St Andrew's, including providing a permanent Priest-in-Charge, through devoting diocesan-level resource and skills, and also with financial assistance through accepting minimal payments towards Common Fund for the Diocese and by grants and long-term interest-free loans.

Statement of PCC Members’ Responsibilities

The PCC members are responsible for preparing the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.

Charity law and Church regulations require the PCC members to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the PCC and of its income and expenditure for the financial year.

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In doing so, the PCC members are required to:

The PCC members are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the PCC to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 and the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the PCC and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The financial statements were approved by the Parochial Church Council on and signed on its behalf by

Rev'd Charis Enga Date:21 May 2023 Priest-in-Charge of St Andrew, Stoke Newington and Chair of the Parochial Church Council

Independent Examiner’s report

Accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2022

Respective responsibilities of the Trustees and the examiner

The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts and they consider that an audit is not required for the year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:

Examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act

to follow the procedures laid down in the general directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and

to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of the Independent Examiner’s statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with the general directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with these records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required for an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

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Independent examiner’s statement

In connection with my examination, no material matter has come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

Accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act, or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I 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.

Date: 17[th] May 2023

Signed:

Stephen Hendy

Statement of Financial Activities

Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment
Total
Prior year
funds
funds
funds
funds
total funds
Income and endowments from:
Donations and legacies
Income from charitable activities
Other trading activities
Investments
Other income
Total income
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
Expenditure on charitable activities
Other expenditure
Total expenditure
Gains / losses on investment assets
Net income / (expenditure) resources before
transfer
Transfers
Gross transfers between funds - in
Gross transfers between funds - out
Other recognised gains / losses
Gains on revaluation, fixed assets, charity's own use
Net movement in funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
18,342
2,500

20,842
12,169
118


118
406
31,502
42

31,545
26,405
137


137
1




50,100
2,542

52,643
38,982




76
36,197
600

36,797
28,553
290


290
36,487
600

37,087
28,630




13,613
1,942

15,555
10,351




5




(5)




13,613
1,942

15,555
10,351
(2,420)
9,201

6,780
(3,571)
11,192
11,144

22,336
6,780

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Represented by

Unrestricted
General fund 11,192 11,192 (2,420)
Restricted
Agency collection
Nursery Deposit
Restoration Fund 8,601 8,601 9,201
Stamford Hill Unites 2,542 2,542

Balance sheet

Total funds
Prior year funds
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand
Liabilities
Creditors: Amounts falling due in one year
Net current assets less current liabilities
Total assets less current liabilities
Liabilities
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year
Total net assets less liabilities
Represented by
Unrestricted
General fund
Restricted
Nursery Deposit
Restoration Fund
Stamford Hill Unites
Agency collection
Funds of the church
38,836
34,675
38,836
34,675
6,000
17,394
6,000
17,394
32,836
17,280
32,836
17,280
10,500
10,500
10,500
10,500
22,336
6,780
11,192
(2,420)


8,601
9,201
2,542


22,336
6,780

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Statement of assets and liabilities

General Designated
Restricted Endowment
This year
Last year
Current assets - Cash at bank and in hand
Nat West Bank current account -
Nat West Bank deposit account -
HSBC Deposit Account -
CCLA (CBF) deposit account -
Cash in hand -
Totals
Liabilities - Agency accounts
Agency collections -
Totals
Liabilities - Creditors: Amounts falling due
after more than one year
Nursery Deposit -
Totals
Liabilities - Creditors: Amounts falling due in
one year
Loans received -
Totals
Grand total
15,813

2,542

18,356
14,764


8,601

8,601
9,201
0



0
10,500
347

10,500

10,847
209
1,031



1,031
17,192

21,644

38,836
34,675





394





394


10,500

10,500
10,500


10,500

10,500
10,500
6,000



6,000
17,000
6,000



6,000
17,000
11,192

11,144

22,336
6,780

Fund movement by type

Opening
Incoming
Outgoing
Transfers Gains/losses
Closing
Nursery - Nursery Deposit
Restricted
Sub-total for Nursery
Restoratin - Restoration Fund
Restricted
Sub-total for Restoratin
SHUFund - Stamford Hill Unites
Restricted
Sub-total for SHUFund
General - General fund
Unrestricted
Sub-total for General
Grand total











9,201

600


8,601
9,201

600


8,601

2,542



2,542

2,542



2,542
(2,420)
50,100
36,487


11,192
(2,420)
50,100
36,487


11,192
6,780
52,643
37,087


22,336

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Analysis of income and expenditure

Total
Unrestricted Designated
Restricted
Endowment
This year
Last year
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS
Donations and legacies
Gift Aid - Bank






PGS Giving
5,822



5,822
5,814
Gift Aid - Envelopes






Other planned giving






Loose plate collections
5,501



5,501
3,221
Regular gift days






Giving through church boxes






One-off Gift Aid gifts
4



4

Gifts of quoted securities






Donations appeals etc
628



628
828
Sumup Donations
138



138

Tax recoverable on Gift Aid






Tax recovered on PGS giving
1,455



1,455
1,304
Legacies






Recurring grants





500
Non-recurring one-off grants
4,641

2,500

7,141
500
Other funds generated
150



150

Total
18,342

2,500

20,842
12,169
Income from charitable activities
Fees for weddings and funerals
118



118
406
Bookstall sales to promote objectives






Total
118



118
406
Other trading activities
Fundraising
69

42

112
5
Bookstall sales - fund raising






Church hall lettings - Nursery
31,363



31,363
26,250
Church hall lettings - fund raising
70



70
150
Magazine income - advertising






Parish magazine sales






Total
31,502

42

31,545
26,405
Investments
Dividends






Bank and building society interest
137



137
1
Rent from lands or buildings






Total
137



137
1
Other income
Insurance claims






Surplus - sales of fixed assets






Total





Total
Unrestricted Designated
Restricted
Endowment
This year
Last year
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS
Donations and legacies
Gift Aid - Bank






PGS Giving
5,822



5,822
5,814
Gift Aid - Envelopes






Other planned giving






Loose plate collections
5,501



5,501
3,221
Regular gift days






Giving through church boxes






One-off Gift Aid gifts
4



4

Gifts of quoted securities






Donations appeals etc
628



628
828
Sumup Donations
138



138

Tax recoverable on Gift Aid






Tax recovered on PGS giving
1,455



1,455
1,304
Legacies






Recurring grants





500
Non-recurring one-off grants
4,641

2,500

7,141
500
Other funds generated
150



150

Total
18,342

2,500

20,842
12,169
Income from charitable activities
Fees for weddings and funerals
118



118
406
Bookstall sales to promote objectives






Total
118



118
406
Other trading activities
Fundraising
69

42

112
5
Bookstall sales - fund raising






Church hall lettings - Nursery
31,363



31,363
26,250
Church hall lettings - fund raising
70



70
150
Magazine income - advertising






Parish magazine sales






Total
31,502

42

31,545
26,405
Investments
Dividends






Bank and building society interest
137



137
1
Rent from lands or buildings






Total
137



137
1
Other income
Insurance claims






Surplus - sales of fixed assets






Total





18,342

2,500

20,842
12,169
118



118
406





118



118
406
69

42

112
5






31,363



31,363
26,250
70



70
150











31,502

42

31,545
26,405






137



137
1





137



137
1
















INCOME TOTAL 50,100

2,542

52,643
38,982

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EXPENDITURE

EXPENDITURE
Raising funds
Fees paid to fund raisers
Costs of applying for grants
Costs of stewardship campaign 76
Costs of fetes & other events
Investment management costs
Total 76
Expenditure on charitable activities
Giving to missionary societies
Giving - relief and development
agencies
Home mission 1,014 1,014
Secular charities
Common Fund 10,240 10,240 5,000
Assistant staff costs 300 300
Salary of parish administrator 705 705
Working expenses of incumbent
Council tax
Parsonage house expenses
Water rates - vicarage
Parsonage - water
Vicar's telephone
Education
Community Work 1,795 1,795 203
Parish Training and Mission 335 335
Church running - insurance 5,200 5,200 5,497
Church office - telephone
Organ / piano tuning
Organist Fee 2,940 2,940 1,970
Church maintenance 1,596 600 2,196 4,151
Cleaning
Upkeep of services 377 377 242
Upkeep of churchyard
Administration 150 150 1,755
Bookkeeping Fees 2,499 2,499 2,374
Visiting speakers / locums 50 50 200
Church running - electric
Church running - gas 267
Church running - water 173 173 29
Precision Safety 5,640 5,640 2,181
Premisies- Electricity 1,285 1,285 752
Premisies - Gas 1,643 1,643 1,986
Magazine expenses
Bookstall costs
Hall running - oil
Hall running - electricity
Hall running - gas
Hall running - insurance
Hall running - maintenance
Hall running - telephone
Hall running - water
Hall running - heating and lighting
Governance costs examination/audit 250 250 1,940
fee
Church major repairs - structure
Church major repairs - installation
Church major repairs - Fees
Church interior and exterior
decorating
Hall + major repairs - structure
Hall + major repairs - installation

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Hall + interior and exterior decorating
Other PCC property upkeep
New building parsonage house
New building house for curate
New building Church
New building Hall
Total
Other expenditure
Statutory Fee payment
Total



































36,197

600

36,797
28,553
290



290
290



290
EXPENDITURE TOTAL 36,487

600

37,087
28,630
GRAND TOTAL 13,613

1,942

15,555
10,351

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