2025-12-31-accounts

• vision : To be a growing and loving church family through

• which God transforms lives and builds community.

Charity Commission Trustees Annual Report for the year ending Dec 31[st] 2025 St Francis Church, West Bessacarr Registered Charity No 1169458

Aims and Purposes

St. Francis Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of cooperating with the incumbent, the Reverend Richard Heard, in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical.

The PCC is also specifically responsible for the maintenance of St Francis Church and Meeting Room and its operation both as a church and as a centre for community activity in Bessacarr.

Objectives and Activities

The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church and become part of our parish community at St Francis. At each meeting the PCC reviews how effective our recent activities have been. Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament. Our pastoral team works with those in the church community who have needs due to ill health, ageing, isolation, financial or other reasons.

The PCC also sees that part of its evangelistic role is to minister to the local community through a variety of activities based at our hall and café which provide a social and community benefit as well as the opportunity to discover, explore or grow in faith for those who are interested. The church hall and café

is centred on the shops in Nostell Place, West Bessacarr and so we reach local people as well as many of whom do not live in the ecclesiastical parish.

When planning our activities for the year the incumbent and the PCC bear in mind the Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. In particular we try to enable ordinary people to live out their faith as part of our parish community through:

Worship and prayer; learning about the Gospel and developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus.

Provision of pastoral care for people living in the parish Evangelistic and outreach work

In addition, we offer the use of the building, at a rate which is aimed to cover our costs, to any member of the local community regardless of race, religion or any other factor with the one proviso that only Christian worship takes place on the premises.

To facilitate this work it is important that we maintain the fabric of St Francis Church and Meeting Room.

Achievements and Performance

A: Worship and prayer

We offer a communion service at 10am each Sunday morning. Part way through the service the children go to a separate space for their group where with two leaders they usually explore the same themes as the adults but in a way that is accessible and fun for them. We have an 8.15am Book of Common Prayer service on the first Sunday of the month. On these first Sundays we do not have communion or a children’s group at the 10am service but have a different style of service accessible for all ages.

We have also added an additional service at 4pm on the third Sunday of each month in order to be accessible for those for cannot attend on Sunday morning

for health and other reasons. This communion service takes a different theme to the morning service and concludes with drinks and cakes.

A Pre-recorded online service is uploaded to YouTube each Sunday morning for those who are not able to attend in person.

The church continued to offer morning-prayer including Bible study every week day morning.

We also had several extended prayer and worship events to draw closer to God. The WhatsApp prayer group for urgent prayer continues to be well used. Growth Groups continued to meet online or in person.

All our services are open to the whole community and are advertised on our notice boards, website and social media. We also offer a number of seasonal guest services to help people celebrate the seasons and also to people outside the church community an easier way to connect.

B: Pastoral care

The pastoral oversight group, which consists of 3 key leaders plus all of the growth group leaders, is working well. There are monthly meeting as well as a close WhatsApp group in order to rapidly flag up any pastoral concerns. The group is always careful to share the minimal amount of information as is needed and they keep appropriate confidentiality. There is also a separate pastoral prayer group that meets fortnightly to pray for keep pastoral situations and needs as well as a WhatsApp prayer group. We also safely recruited and trained up people ready to pray for others on Sundays and Thursdays when chapel is open

Café Theo our community cafe continues to be very popular with both church members and the wider community. The cafe is a place where the isolated make connections, friendship is developed and those in need are signposted to help.

Fledglings continues to be a popular toddler group. It begins with singing time and a bible story and song. Then the children play with a vast array of toys

and activities giving them opportunity to learn to interact with others. Parents and carers as well as enjoying watching their little ones play get the chance to find support and encouragement from each other and the team. Part way through the play time there is drink and snack time for adults and children. The group finishes with more singing time and announcements about upcoming activities and a prayer. All major expenditure is by agreement with PCC.

Cosy Yarn meets on Monday mornings and is an open group for anyone who wants to come and knit, crochet and sew (or watch) and there is always rich conversation and much care and support for one another. On Wednesdays fortnightly So-Sew group meets where people engage in a variety of sewing projects receiving support and encouragement from the group leaders. This is also a time where people support one another in other ways as this community is developing and growing.

The work with older people also involves much pastoral care. There is a different activity each Monday afternoon. This draws in good numbers of people from the wider community as well as people from the church congregation. The team are always ready to offer a listening ear and offer support and help where needed. In August we ran a very popular holiday at home which gave much more time for relationships to develop and pastoral needs to be heard.

Here again overall financial control rests with PCC. There are always team members on hand if bereaved people want to talk through their experience of grief with someone outside of their immediate family.

Mothers’ Union is financially independent. It meets monthly and providing pastoral support, spiritual input and learning about a variety of topics. The group raises money for Mother Union Charities and puts on events for the wider community. Until the building work it also held a popular a monthly Soup Lunch in the café which will be resumed early in 2024.

The Fusion Youth Group runs each Tuesday between 6.15 and 7.45pm and is open to young people between year 6 and 13. There is free flowing activity (crafts, sports, games, chat), some time all together exploring issues of life and faith and mental well being. There is often a game or challenge to build

togetherness. Then more free flow activity and some positive feedback and a prayer at the end. Throughout the evening the team are available to listen and support the young people pastorally

Integrate - the families group meets monthly. This provides an opportunity for adults and children to develop relationships learn about the faith and receive support.

C: Deanery Synod

Three members of PCC sit on the Deanery Synod and bring issues from the wider church to the notice of PCC. Usually Synod meets 3 times a year. We explore a variety of topics this year including debt management, a sharing of outreach ideas and an update about the future of the diocese.

D: Mission and Evangelism

As part of our vision statement, we seek to be a church that grows, loves, builds community and brings transformation in Christ’s name. To this end our café, toddlers, community fun mornings, youth-work, older people’s work all seek to bring something of God’s love and care to those outside of our “regular congregation”. People from the congregations are encouraged to seek to make a positive, loving difference wherever they are and whatever they are doing.

At Christmas we provided over 60 food parcels for low income families at 3 local schools. We also provided smaller gift parcels to those outside the church community who had recently been bereaved or had experienced some significant difficulty that year as a way of practically demonstrating love and care for them.

A small team provided regular assemblies at both local schools and also received one of the schools to church for a special Christmas service.

Cafe Theo, Fledglings Toddlers, Cosy Yarn, So-Sew,Compendium games evening (which restarted this year after a break ), J.O.Y (Just Older Youngsters) & Fusion Youth and Integrate families group all seek to provide

practical help and support for the people who attend these groups, and they are also a way for people to find out about the faith if they wish and also find out where they can find out more.

Holiday at Home is a three day event aimed at older people that provides a variety of activities to enable people to have fun, build friendships and break down isolation. Gentle "thought for the day" short talks are also provided each day in order to help people to know how to begin to make connections.

The services in the building and online as well as special seasonal services, and weddings, baptisms and funerals always have an aim to help people to grow in faith and also designed to help those outside the faith to find reasons and practical ways to join the faith and get to know God for themselves’ when they are ready.

The Green Church group continued to look at ways of helping the church as an organisation and church members to become more environmentally aware looking at practical ways to reduce waste including plastic waste, recycle and reduce carbon emissions. This included looking at eco themes in some of our groups and in our worship. We are now seeking to do more redevelopments in the building, initially starting with air sourced heat pumps in order to move towards net zero

E: Relationships with other Churches

The church is part of a deanery and the incumbent is co-area dean and so is involved in meetings that are at least monthly and the church seeks to be engaged in supportive relationships with other Anglican churches through the deanery chapter. We advertised and took part in Passion for Doncaster (ecumenical) worship and mission activities at various locations in Doncaster

Volunteers

An organisation such as ours could not exist if it were not for the voluntary efforts of a considerable number of people. The PCC are grateful for all who make the church the lively and vibrant place it is.

Financial Review

Treasurer’s Report 2025

For ease of understanding figures below are approximates, commentary is given for principal expenditures only

Giving / Income

Formal giving in the year was above budgeted level at £ 99,805. A closer analysis shows giving through plate fell by 2%, envelopes rose by 11% whilst standing orders (bank transfer and PGS) grew by 1%, beating our budgeted target by 8%. Gift aid funding was up flat which was in line with budget expectations.

We continued to support the activity of a youth worker throughout the year with regular income / grants covering the costs. The Parish Giving Scheme (PGS) continues to be the predominant way of donating to the church accounting for 75.1% of our income compared to Plate at 3.0%, direct debit 10.46% and of course envelopes at 11.5%. The scheme continues to be the best way of donating to the church as it prompts people to regularly review their gifting and delivers the benefit of receiving gift aid almost immediately as opposed to waiting for an annual return. Once again I would like to make my request for as many people as possible to consider moving to donation via this scheme to guarantee our cash flow.

Activities

Hall Activity – rent rose during the year against 2024, and delivered £13,087 income (110% of budget) against a backdrop of losing Cubs / Scouts and Kixx, we managed to attract new users in the form of Numbertrain, Dansico and Boho as well as several parties. Dance On and Rugbytots continue to form the mainstay of our income. We still need to continue to seek new renters to drive income back to the pre covid levels of nearly £18,000.

Toddler activity – the group once again proved itself as a profitable outreach, and based on donations it delivered £1,271 (91% of budget).

Cafe Activity – Our cafe achieved sales of £56,251 up 14% on the previous year and ahead of budget. It remains one of our key outreach activities and thanks must go to Liz Smith, Jodie Picken and the myriad of volunteers who make it such a success.

General events – we held two church events during the year (Pentecost and Harvest), in addition we successfully ran a VE day celebration event, holiday at home in the summer, Christmas at home in December and a pre New Year party for the over 60’s. Combined costs for the events were covered by donations and grants, resulting in an overwhelming feeling of love and outreach for both community and church family.

We once again delivered bags of kindness during December at a cost of £1,243. The cost is understated due to the kindness of donations and under claims. Once again I would like to thank the generosity of people’s time and financial donations.

Funds

• Building Fund – grew during the year by £1,692, due to donations leaving the closing balance at £31,476.

• Flower fund – fell by £239 to £106.

• Toothill Altar fund had no transactions during the period.

• JOY fund fell during the year as funds were moved to our reserve account.

• Legacy fund – had no transactions during the period, and currently has no funds. Church members are encouraged to consider this as an option for their own wills.

• Finally, the General reserve was increased by £5,436 in an effort to restore funds that were depleted during the building project. Our funds are still low compared to our target of £30,000 and will continue to be a focus of our efforts in order to provide us with a stable financial basis to weather future unforeseen events.

Charity

In addition to our own funding we collected and distributed money to ten charities – A Rocha, Alzheimer’s Society, Shelter, Air Ambulance, CMS, MAF, Christian Aid, Leprosy Mission, Children's Society and Agape.

Conclusion

Our overall funds increased from a starting position of £71,145 to £80,340, an increase of £9,195 reflecting continued growth in giving and creative application for grant support. We fulfilled our commitment to the Diocese share, but still need to rebuild our general reserves. Finally we continue our expansion of faith and outreach into our community and note that the revitalised building continues to contribute greatly to our activities.

Once again I conclude that we remain in a strong position to continue our growth. My thanks extend to Liz Smith for her accurate recording of transactions and Michael Fenton for his support with the auditing of the figures.

Structure, governance and management

The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. At St Francis the membership of the PCC consists of the incumbent, the churchwardens and members elected by those members of the congregation who are on the electoral roll of the church. All those who attend our services and are part of our worshiping community are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC.

The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the parish including deciding how the funds of PCC are to be spent.

The full PCC met on nine occasions during the year with an average level of attendance.

Urgent business was dealt with by a Standing Committee consisting of the incumbent, any curate, Church Wardens’, PCC lay vice chair, PCC secretary and PCC treasurer which also acts as the agenda committee for PCC. This committee, except in an emergency, has a limited budget and reports all matters of relevance back to PCC for approval.

Administrative Information

St Francis Church is situated at Nostell Place, West Bessacarr, Doncaster.

It is part of the Diocese of Sheffield within the Church of England. The correspondence address is St Francis Parish Office, Nostell Place, Doncaster, DN4 7JA.

The PCC is a body corporate (PCC Powers Measure 1956, Church Representation Rules 2006) and has the Registered Number 1169458 with the Charity Commission.

PCC Members who have served from 1[st] Jan 2025 until the date this report was approved are:

Ex Officio members

Incumbent: Rev Richard Heard Chairman Curate: Rev. Elizabeth Gibson From July 2024 Rev. Cannon Lyn Wortley From April 2026 Wardens Mr Glyn Davies Until April 2026 Mr Philip Bennett Until April 2026 Mr Gerrard Mallender From April 2026 Mrs Cynthia Gaylor From April 2026 Elected members Mr Alastair Hall Deanery Synod From April 2025 Mr Phillip Jackson Treasurer Mrs Elisabeth Hallam From April 2024 Mrs Geraldine Kaill From April 2024 Mrs Pauline Archer Re-elected April 2026 Mrs Jodie Picken Re-elected April 2026 Mrs Liz Smith Re-elected April 2026 Mr Peter Goodman From April 2024 Mr Glyn Davies From April 2026 Mr Philip Bennett From April 2026 Mrs Chloe Akery From April 2026

Approved by the PCC on 13/04/26 and signed on their behalf by Rev Richard Heard (PCC Chairman)

sLfrancis Church St Francis Church West Bessacarr Registered Charity No 1169458 Annual Accounts Year Ending December 31st 2025

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Youth & Children's 0￿reach T(¥Jdler Income Integrate Incc*Tre Youlh Income Fv$ion Income 2025 1.271.17 302 24 1.338.88 236.03 2024 1.464.73 5(K).16 1.344.02 124 60 2025 942 93 545 01 2024 517.35 516.Q4 T¢)Id￿r E¥r•MIrtu Integrate EXp￿drtUre Youth Work Expenditure 852.06 428.70 3.148.J2 3.433.51 2.340.00 1.462.09 Change in Fw 808.32 1.971.42 Toothill Altar Fund 2025 2024 2025 2024 In¢ome Change in FuThJ

Funds 2025 N8me General General RBsewe Floweis 1slJaD 18,593.36 194.976.83 194.357.79 5,351.85 345 51 29.783.75 4.136.50 Ch3ry8 FuTrJ Adjustment 31st D￿rnter Type -1.000.00 18.312.40 Llnreslricted 5.436 00 10.787.85 Designated 0.00 106.06 Resir D.00 36.476.05 RestfKted -1.560.00 3.076.50 Reslfthd 0.00 0.￿ ReslrKtsd -2.878.00 7,924.86 ReslrKted 0.00 250.LX) ReStr￿ted 3,406.78 ReslrKted 80.340.52 619.04 175 fy) 6.692.30 5(KJ.(M) 414.43 o.fy) o.(x) o. 2.340.O) -239.43 6.692.30 500.00 J.O.Y. FuTrJ Le9acy Fwd Youlh & Chilthn's OutreaGh Toothill Aiiar Fw Transit Tol 9,992.54 250 00 2.591 89 6.880.88 6.￿99 71,145 40 212.373.33 2Q3.178.21 3.148_32 8.32 814 89 9.195.12 0.00 Accounts 2025 N3me Current Dtposrt Cash In Hand ICIHI Total 1st Ja PaAI Ift PawJ (h 49.702.76 211.964.61 203,178.21 21.342 64 408.72 100fKI 71,145.4D 212.373.33 203.178 21 31st De¢ember 58.489.16 21.751.36 100.00 80.340.52 8.786.40 408.72 9.195.12 Funds 2024 Nan Goneral Generdl RèseN8 Flawers 1$tJan 1rKxX￿ 32.151.27 162.180.50 150.63B.41 18.543.50 3.375.00 41.566.65 398.82 112_9) 65&SS 68.710.16 48.582.97 3.536.50 3.61x1.00 Adju$tmert 3181 Decm￿r Type -25.OfK).00 18.693 36 Unrestricted 25.0(M).00 5,351.B5 Deslgnated 345 51 Restricted 29.7B3 75 Restricted 4.136 50 Restricted O.(M) Re$trl¢ted 9.992 54 RÈstridgd 250 OD Restricted 2.591.89 Restricted 71.145 11.542.09 -38.191.65 -53.31 22.127.19 3.600.00 7.OC4).00 -3.000.00 0.00 4.000.00 0.00 0.00 J.O,Y. Fund Legacy Fund Youth & chi￿ren'S Outre%h Toothill Attar Fund Transit Total 12,021.12 250.LKI ,627.41 ,185.1 3,433.51 1.462.09 0.￿j 7,491.94 6.527.46 248,849.80 246.889.58 1.971.42 0.00 .48 1.950.22 Accounts 20 Name Current Deposit Cash In Hond ICIHI Total 1stJan Pawj In PaKI Chawe 48.231.48 248,360.86 246.889.58 20.778.70 563.94 175.(￿) 69.185.18 248.924.60 246.889.58 31st Dec8mtr 49,702.76 21.342.64 1(M).00 71,145.40 1.471.28 563.94 -75.00 1.￿0.22

INDIPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE PCC OF ST FRANCIS CHURCH, BESSACARR. DONCASTER. l ￿port on Ihe accoun',s of the Church lor the year ended 31° December 2025. Respeclive Responslbilitles of Trustetls and Examlner The Church's Irustees are responsible for the preparatton of Ihe financial stalements The Chu., ch's truslees conslders Ihal an audit Is not requ red for ih',s year under section 144{21 c, Ihe Chari:ies Act 2011 Ilhe 2011 Aai and Ihat an independenl examinalion ts needed It Is my responsilmlity lo-. • examine the Iinanoal slatements (urx1er Sed￿n 145 01 the 2011 Aai follow the procedures 13&d dowfj in the general dreCt￿n5 given by the CharTly Cornmission (urKler seclion 14<{Sj(bl cf t￿.¢ 2011 Acl), and slate whether particular matters ha¥e come to my atteftt￿. Basis of independent ¢xamlnerfs report My examin3lion was camed out In accordan￿ v4rth Ihe genernl Difections gNen by the Charity Commission An examination Includes a rev.'ew cl the accounLing records kepl by the charity and a companson of the accounts presenied Y￿1h those Tecords It also Includes considera:ion of any unusual Items or disdosures In the accounts and seekin9 exp'.ana:.ions from you as tfuslees concerning any such matters. The procedufcs undertaken do nol provide all Ihe evidence that viculd be required In aft audil. and consequently no ¢pinion IS given as lo whether the ounts wesent a 'Irue and fa1r view. and the (epon is limited lo thosc matt¢fS set out In Ihe s131emeni below Indopondcnt oxaminees statemenl In connection wilh my examination. no matter has come to my altenlii)n. which gives me reaS￿able cause lo believe inat In any matenal resFed the requirements to keep accountbng records in accordance ￿￿th se¢bon 130 of ihc 2011 A¢X. and to prepare accounls which accord with Ihe ac¢ounling records and Comply wth the accouniing requirements ol Ihe 2011 Acl have not been rnel. or 2 lo which, In my opinion allenlion Sh1￿k1 be dra￿￿ in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts to reached IAICHAEL DAVID FENTON BA IHons) FCA BFP PG DIP The O:d Vicafage Churth Street Baslow Bake*el', OE45 1RY 13 FEBRUARY 2028