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2024-12-31-accounts

PCC of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham

Charity number 1169954

A company limited by guarantee number

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2024

PCC of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2024

Contents Page
Trustees' report 2 to 19
Examiner's report 20
Statement of financial activities 21
Balance sheet 22
Notes to the accounts 23 to 31

Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

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PCC of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham

Trustees' report for the year ended 31 December 2024

Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors

The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: Name Position Dates The Reverend Christopher Chorlton Incumbent The Reverend Ben Care Associate Vicar Clare Leighton Pioneer Minister and Treasurer The Reverend Emma Wilkinson Curate Resigned 1 January 2024 Michelle Moyle Churchwarden & Development Worker Ann Brown Churchwarden & PCC Treasurer Resigned at 28 April 2024 Alistair Bavington Churchwarden and Reader Resigned at 28 April 2024 Jeffrey Barrett Churchwarden Deceased 6 March 2024 Kafayat Adegoke Resigned 24 January 2024 Joanna Allan Churches Together representative Heather Grinter Churches Together representative Zarine Billam PCC Secretary Margaret Burnley Jenny Griffin Neil McEwan Electoral Roll Susan Mitchell PCC Lay Chair Child Protection, DBS & Vulnerable Adults officer Other positions of responsibility: Angela Chorlton Reader & Development Worker

Charity number

1169954 Registered in England and Wales

Registered and principal address

Parish Office 63 Saint Paul's Road Manningham Bradford BD8 7LS

Church addresses

St Barnabas Church, Ashwell Road, Bradford BD9 4AU St Martin’s Church, Haworth Road, Bradford BD9 6LL St Paul’s Church, Church Street, Manningham, Bradford BD8 7LS St Philip’s Church, Thorn Street, Bradford BD8 9QW

Bankers

Barclays Bank plc, 10 Market Street, Bradford BD1 1EG CCLA Investment Management Limited, PO Box 12892, Dunmow, Essex CM6 9DL

Independent examiner

Rhys North ACA West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

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Structure, governance and management

The charity is governed by the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure (1956) as amended and Church Representation Rules that came into force 2 January 1957 as amended on 21 June 2018.

Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees

The method of appointment of trustees is set out in the Church Representation Rules.

All members of the congregation are given the opportunity to register on the Church Electoral Roll and to stand for election to the PCC at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting.

PCC members (trustees) are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the life and action of the church, including deciding on how the funds of the PCC are to be spent. There are three Parish Ministry Teams, responsible to the PCC, that focus on a particular aspect to see work progresses:

Objectives and activities

The charity's objects

Promoting the whole mission of the Church.

The charity's main activities

Girlington, Heaton & Manningham Parochial Church Council (PCC) works with the incumbent to promote the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It is also specifically responsible for the maintenance of the church buildings and their grounds.

The PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our churches and to become part of the Church Family. Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament. To facilitate this work, it is important that we maintain the fabric of the Church buildings.

The PCC is part of the Diocese of Leeds, within the Church of England and it is a member of the Inner Bradford Deanery. It is also known under the following titles:

Public benefit statement

When planning our Church activities, the PCC is mindful of the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. We try to enable ordinary people to live out the Christian faith as part of our parish community through:

Please visit our Parish website: https://bradfordwest.church

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Achievements and performance

Welcome

There are not many places as interesting to work in as the Parish of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham. This young and vibrant city has almost all the various walks of life across our whole planet represented – and probably nowhere as intensely as in our Parish. There is almost always a daily surprise for those of us who minister and work here – most of them are good ones! This report gives much detail of all the hard work that has been put in. Most importantly it stands as a legal document and a testament of thanks to so many people who make all our work possible.

Rev Chris Chorlton

Parish Lenses

As a church we don’t use a Mission Statement or a Vision Statement. It isn’t because we don’t do Mission nor have a vision. Instead it is because we have a Parish Lens test – like a litmus test for each of our projects, services, meetings and partnerships. When we get our eyesight tested there is a ‘sweet spot’ when the optician has got the focus just right. That is what we are always looking for in our work.

Our three tests are Including, Proclaiming and Investing . What are they?

Proclaiming is making sure what we do is as Christians with some Good News to share. We are not social services, nor a school, nor the NHS. Those organisations do their jobs without needing to be proclaiming God’s love for his world and the saving power of Jesus in people’s lives today. Each of our projects and meetings need this!

We are a Parish in the Church of England so we must also be a place that is Including – we don’t exist as a club for ourselves – we are for the benefit of all the members of our Parish. Whether Christian or Muslim, rich or poor, addicted or clean, broken or whole.

Our plan is to be here for the long term – so our 3[rd] Lens is that we are always Investing . We want to work with Children because we long to inspire the next generation. Our relationships with the community need to be solid because we are an incarnational organisation. We are here to stay!

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Worship Services

Sunday Services

We have continued with faithful worship on Sunday mornings. We have an established pattern of Sermons and Children’s work on the first and third Sundays of the month.

We’ve had a number of series including ‘From the Cross’ looking at what it means to be formed by all that took place on the cross. We had a series on Al Massira following on from our training. This was to equip the church in how we can talk about faith to our Muslim neighbours. These services continue to be livestreamed with a faithful few watching online and others catching up in the week.

The second Sunday of the month is still Breakfast Church which continues to attract good numbers from our Friday Café. This year we mainly followed a series on the 10 Commandments. On a busy day we don’t really have enough space for everyone to sit and eat together. A good problem to have!

Fifth Sundays of the month were at one time ‘Youth Led’ and at other times in a ‘different and experimental’ style. We hope to keep these few Sundays per year as space and place to try new things together in worship. Chris Chorlton

Wednesday Fellowship – St Barnabas Church

Our 10.30am Communion service continues with our dependable congregation. It is a traditional service with liturgy, hymns and a short sermon. After the service we spend time in fellowship with tea and coffee and regular birthday celebrations. In 2024 we celebrated our 160[th] anniversary which was a joyful reminder of God’s faithfulness to us. We had a brass band and a hymn sing as well as a commemorative booklet to sing from! Chris Chorlton

Bubble Church

It has been a growing desire for many to see worship services resume at St. Martin’s, Heaton – so in January 2024 ‘Bubble Church’ was launched….a very new type of service, for families of young children. We met every Sunday in 2024 with a committed group of volunteers from the church and community….and we can now call our community volunteers members of our church! The service is short, fast paced and bursting with the gospel, simple liturgy (confession), worship, movement, craft and of course, quality puppeteering! We then share hot food afterwards. It has brought into church many new local families over the year and we can see how those who come regularly have grown in their faith and walk with Jesus. We are working hard on advertising and praying for a few more families to join us – please pray with us for this and please come along for a visit if you haven’t already! os pe

Angela Chorlton

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Youth and Children

Christenings and Creche

In 2024 we celebrated 4 Christenings in our Sunday services. (Welcome Favour, Mercy, Amaara and Aziel!) There were a number of pregnancies last year and at one point we had 10 children under 1 either born or just about to be! We had a great time celebrating God’s gift of life to these families as well as to the family of God. This meant that we needed to urgently create a creche space for families to feel they could still access worship with their young ones.

Sunday School

Sunday school takes place on the 1[st] and 3[rd] Sundays of each month. On average a group of 7 children meet to learn more about Jesus in a fun way. We read the Bible, enjoy crafts and playing games. In particular:

Learnt about Advent and enjoyed opening an Advent calendar. This was a new but exciting concept for some children.

We enjoyed the Interactive Nativity in December. Taking part and dressing up was very exciting and a fun way to learn more about Jesus' birth.

To start this new year we are looking at the Ten Commandments.

Helga joined the teaching team in October which were grateful for.

For our children's provision to run smoothly we do still need more adults to come on board. If after prayerful consideration you feel God is calling you to work with our children then please speak to me.

We are so blessed with the number of children in our Church family and helping them to know Jesus better is a real blessing too.

Susan Mitchell

Sunday Youth

1[st] and 3[rd] Sundays – There has been more change in the leadership of our youth during the year than is ideal. Currently Claire and Alastair are sharing the planning and teaching of Sunday mornings, but we are grateful for the help of Heather and Bev so that we always have two leaders present on Sundays. We have a good number of young people in total but usually get 5-8 present on any given Sunday.

There is an intention to have a monthly evening meal with the older youth who currently stay in church for the full service. This has happened once in the late autumn but is not yet happening regularly.

Alastair Bavington

U:nite Youth

Every month we try to take our secondary age children to Unite – a multi church youth group that rotates around all our many churches. We have activities and some food as well as some time learning about God. In 2024 we went on a trip to Yorkshire Camps as well as hosting Unite here in St Paul’s. This year Unite also launched a new “Going Deeper” for older children to talk about faith around a meal.

Chris Chorlton

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Schools Engagement

There are many schools in our Parish. We have good relationships with about 10 of the primary schools. Every two weeks members of the team give regular assemblies in our two Church Schools. At Easter and Christmas we take many more assemblies and regularly share the Christian message with as many as 3,500 pupils over the festive seasons. We have far more requests for visits to the church than we have capacity for so often have to refuse. This is such an important work so if anyone can help it would be much appreciated.

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Teams

In 2024 we tried to make new teams in our Parish. The reason was because we had a very few people doing most of the jobs. We also had a lot of people who were new in the previous 12 months. This meant that we didn’t have a good way to keep tabs on each other pastorally. The plan is that these teams will become the way we care for each other. Each team needs a ‘thermostat’ as well as a ‘radiator’ – so we will be looking into putting people into teams who can check the spiritual and communal ‘temperature’ as well as actually getting the ‘work’ done. We want Pastoral care in our groups to be like the thermostat. Measuring how we are and if we’re ‘warm enough’– and then they ‘pull’ in the heat or turn it off when needed.

Currently they are: Youth Team Breakfast Church Team Worship Team Pastoral Team Prayer Team Welcome Team Coffee Team Children’s Team Social Team Tech Team Maintenance Team

We still haven’t thought of a name for these teams – nor have we found a good way to communicate safely.

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Teams continued

Our Vision team decided last year this is what a pastoral visit is...... Asking “What's God been up to?” – “What is hard?” – and spending time in Prayer. Can our Parish teams start doing that?

Coffee Team

We have been a small team of people meeting each week, to prepare and clear away tea and coffee time.

We are thankful for a small addition to this team recently and have really enjoyed serving church in this way – but it would be amazing to have more people come and join us.

We can promise a warm welcome, cool apron and full training with our new coffee percolator. (for which we are also thankful)

Sue Leighton

Prayer Team

Prayer is an essential part of Christian life, and to all we do at GHM. It's a part of Church life that we can all get involved in, a case of 'I can't help with that project but I can pray'. Prayer is essential.

So, if we can all do it, why do we have a prayer team? Well, we're here to ensure someone is always available after every service to pray with anyone who asks. During that time you can give as much or as little information as you like. If you ask for prayer but say 'I can't tell you why' - you won't be the first to do so! Its not me that needs to know, and our Lord God already does!

It is a privilege to be able to pray for each other, and something we do not take lightly.

The other task of the prayer team is to facilitate the prayer meeting at 9.30 on Sunday mornings. This basically means someone is asked to oversee it, making sure we finish on time. All are welcome to join, we would just ask if you arrive after we have started, join quietly and leave greetings until afterwards.

If you would like to join the team, please speak to Angela, we'll be happy to have you.

Zarine Billam

Worship Team

With the launch of new Parish teams, we were able to re-launch and re-energise the faithful few existing worship group members. We now have a brilliant mixed group of 15 people who are interested in worshiping together and leading the Sunday service with live sung worship.

We have a mix of instruments and voices from drums to keyboard and a healthy heart to raise the temperature of our collective worship. Watch this space for more to come.

We meet on a Sunday after the morning service for rehearsal – please let us know if you would like to join us.

Clare Leighton

Maintenance Team

This is one of the new teams that has started this year. There are about 8 members in the team with a good range of skills. Various tasks have been done including some gardening/tidying around St Pauls, a welding job on the iron gate at St Pauls and some indoor lighting and PA jobs. The group functions mainly as a taskorientated WhatsApp group and has not yet met as a fellowship group

Alastair Bavington

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Teams continued

Tech Team

Keeping us up to date with the latest technology is not always easy. We livestream our services, we have a website, Google Workspace, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X and numerous laptops, logins and projectors around the Parish. Anyone who wants to take on a bit of responsibility in this area is very welcome!

Discipleship

Bible and Brunch

We began the year with a new Discipleship initiative – Bible and Brunch on the first Saturday of the month. We have breakfast and read the Bible together. Throughout the year attendance was up and down but good relationships were made and we valued spending time as the people of God with the word of God. Each time we tried to use the same questions to keep the theology at a simple level while deepening our relationships with each other and God. We finished the year with a Christmas Video which was popular!

Chris Chorlton

Study Buddies

Study Buddies is a new discipleship group that was launched in October 2024, as a direct result of Bubble Church – we wanted to disciple a small group of parents who were coming along to Bubble Church with their families but were also eager to explore faith for themselves. We meet on Wednesday mornings, while their children are at school or nursery, and take the opportunity to explore what it means to be a Christian. We have worked through the ‘321’ course, which is a good introduction for those new to/exploring faith for the first time. It has been a real privilege to journey with these ladies as they discover more and more what Jesus has done for them and the difference he can make in their lives.

Angela Chorlton

Kintsugi Hope Wellbeing Group

A small group of women embarked on piloting a Kintsugi Hope Wellbeing Course in our parish this year. We were four Muslim and two Christian women and each week we talked together in confidence in a safe space.

During each session we had 2-3 brief videos to focus our discussion. We didn’t need much to get us talking! We looked at wellbeing topics such as honesty, anxiety, depression, shame, forgiveness, resilience. We were able to share deeply and honestly, to find encouragement and support without judgement and to pray together. We often touched on our different cultural experiences, meanings and impact and there was both empathy and laughter. We had a lighter and enjoyable activity at the end of each session.

Kintsugi is a Japanese technique for repairing broken pottery with seams of gold. The gold joins repairs the brokenness in a way that makes the pot more beautiful and more unique instead of hiding the scars. We are like those pots! At the end of the 6 weeks we enjoyed an outing together to Grassington - thank you to Mary and Michael for lunch.

Denise Poole & Michelle Moyle

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Love Girlington

Love Girlington began in the spring of 2024 as a name given to our continuation of previous outreach initiatives to the people of Girlington.

We continued prayer-walking and informal engagement with the people we met; furthermore during Ramadan we took leaflets door-to-door in the vicinity of St. Philip's church to promote Pehari-language videos about the prophet Younus (Jonah); then we determined to begin worship services on a Thursday evening, both to support the prayer-walking and to provide a place to which enquirers could be invited.

A great deal of practical work was required to prepare St. Philip's church hall to be fit to receive guests at the worship services – thanks to all who took part in a lot of very thorough deep cleaning.

The Thursday evening services began very promisingly in May with about a dozen participants. Under Ben’s leadership we were all encouraged to take an active part and agreed that the services would not be a reason to discontinue the prayer-walking, quite the opposite: the focus was firmly on how we could be a blessing to the people of Girlington.

The activities continued for a while but when Ben went off sick the absence of Ben's leadership and vision began to dwindle to just a couple of people. (They would cease altogether in early 2025.) The Thursday evening services became a Bible-study for about half a dozen people at any time. There was still the desire to reach the people of Girlington with the blessings of the Gospel, but we still lack leadership and capacity. Certainly the Bible studies were greatly appreciated by those who took part, embodying the traditional St. Philip's values of deep care, love and support for each other.

Nigel Bull and Jide Bamiro

Farsi Discipleship

In November we re-launched Farsi Discipleship. We were able to meet a couple of times before Christmas to work out which day and time was best for the group. We enjoyed worshiping together in Farsi and English, reading the Bible together and having a discussion and then having time to pray together. We have been able to enjoy some amazing Persian food cooked by volunteers from the group. It has been good to share food together as we all get to know each other. We hope this group will grow in 2025.

Michelle Moyle

Partnerships Composting – Hyatt

Highlights for 2024: it has been an exciting year starting Hayat compost. We have been encouraged by working with GHM parish and the excitement and support they've shown. It has been good to think about how a community compost project can help be a bridge to people getting involved in church and hearing about Jesus. Opening the gates to the public for the first time and getting a handful of regulars and a number of schools on board has been great.

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Cecil Green Arts

A CIC with three directors: Harry, Katie and Usma (Art therapist)

Cecil Green Arts’ mission is to place celebratory, inclusive and high-quality outdoor arts at the centre of every community within Bradford District and beyond. They aim to inspire and co-create within diverse communities, listening to and responding to their needs, providing people with opportunities and a voice. We use our creative engagement as a means to foster and enhance wellbeing; tackle inequality; contribute to place making and social inclusion; and promote the need for environmental change – thinking globally and impacting locally.

2024 Activities based in St Philip’s Church included:

Shadow puppetry and puppet creation workshops (6 weeks) Community workshops late spring/early summer Lantern parade in November Ilkley Festival rehearsals and participation Circus skills workshops Artist engagement - testing puppets Partnership with Friends of West Park

Craft Group – St Philip’s

Craft group has continued to meet every Tuesday afternoon at St Philips. The group aims to provide a creative and supportive space in which there is a mutual flow of friendship, learning and crafting.

Highlights have included learning how to weave on some simple inkle loom which we had made for us; visiting Bradford Industrial museum to learn from some experienced spinners and weavers; some members attending a local WI and subsequently encouraging and supporting a group member to give an Asian cooking demonstration at two Bradford WI’s; being commissioned to embroider and appliqué another tablecloth for 50 Things To Do Before You’re Five based in St Edmund’s Children’s Nursery next to St Philip’s; making bunting for the new local pocket park’s opening event a collage session with a collage artist

Tessa Wainwright

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Greener Girlington

Greener Girlington, which exists to look after and develop small but precious green spaces in Girlington, including St Philip's churchyard, has continued to work with local residents and partners to maintain the churchyard, the patch of land opposite church and the new pocket park next to Britannia Care Home.

Jide, Nigel and Alistair have joined local families in planting, gardening and litter picking in the above spaces. Funding from JU:MP enabled us to acquire three new planters and a bench for the corner junction which used to be a fly tipping spot. The gardening club at Girlington Primary school along with residents and church members helped fill and plant up the planters with spring bulbs and perennials.

JU:MP funding has also meant we could buy some gardening tools. These are kept and used at St Philips and has meant that we have begun a good working relationship with Hayat Compost.

Tessa Wainwright

Mothers Union

In 2024, we were able to meet every month except November, when bitterly cold and snowy weather made it impossible to hold a meeting, and enjoyed our usual varied programme. Our year began with the annual reflective Wave of Prayer service where, in particular, we prayed for MU Members in our link dioceses of Ogbomoso and Etche in Nigeria, Kibungo in Rwanda, Hanuato’o in the Solomon Islands and Lesotho. After a short Holy Communion service before speaker meetings, we learned about the MU in Sudan , a Bronte love story , Stained glass and the Labyrinth at Royds Hall Farm. In September, the ‘Splinters’ Ukulele Band entertained MU members from the Hellifield Branch as well as us. Thanks to a generous grant from the Rands Trustees , we were able to subsidise two coach trips to Llandudno and Holmfirth . The discounted rate was appreciated by friends in the community as well as MU members. In August, as an experiment, the annual Fish and Chip Supper was held in the village hall with takeaways arranged by Eileen and preparation by Christine, Denise, Cathy and members of the Henry family. Over 30 people attended. In December, 32 members and friends attended our Christmas Lunch at Bradford West Golf Club this year. As well as the delicious meal, we enjoyed a quiz, a game of OGNIB, carols accompanied by Ian Baxter and a free raffle provided by members of the committee. Some of us also spent a happy afternoon watching the Year 4 Nativity play at St Barnabas’ School

In addition…during the year we held three Coffee Mornings for Sudan, the St. Barnabas’ Headteacher’s Discretionary Fund and Martin House Hospice, raising a fantastic total of £773.62 altogether. For Mothering Sunday and at Harvest time , we distributed plants to people at the Wednesday Holy Communion Service and to friends in the community, particularly those who are now housebound and can no longer attend church and MU meetings. At the Harvest Service the congregation was invited to donate produce or cash for the local food banks . At Heaton Gala MU sold cakes, books and CDs as well as running the Tombola. Knitting for the Premature and Neo Natal Unit at BRI also continued throughout the year.

A few MU members continued to clean the church every month and tend the church garden. Although their efforts are much appreciated, they would welcome more helpers.

We still have 17 members but, sadly, this year we lost our member, Doreen Holdsworth, her husband Michael and Mary Fisher’s husband David. We also lost our Speaker finder, Jean Cowling, when she moved to be nearer her son.

Thanks go to our Committee: Ann, Cathy, Christine, Dianne, Eileen, Margaret and Mary for their dedication to MU. For the time being they are making sure we can continue to meet and plan an interesting programme for 2025 without a Branch Leader and Treasurer. We welcome new members and friends, so please get in touch.

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Seated Aerobics

This year is our 20[th] year as a class run by Coleen.

We feel it is good to get together and it is an outreach for our church in the village.

Many thanks for the use of the village hall.

Eileen Gunn

Community Events and Re:Store together

One of the things we love here in our Parish is a food celebration, and over the course of 2024 we have had some brilliant opportunities to open the doors and invite our wider community to come and mark the occasion with us. These events have often been the culmination of a wider project involving our weekday community spaces and community.

The highlights over this past year have been inviting our local community for fun filled open days across the parish.

In each community, fun was had by all with donkeys, bouncy castle, blend your own smoothie bikes, face painting, music, food, games and even the odd beach and paddling opportunity.

Manningham on Sea - Heaton Hub Fun Day - Heaton Gala

Community celebrations arising from a longer project

Book launch – Roots & Routes: To celebrate the launch of our recipe book with stories of how people came to be in Bradford and food memories along the way, we threw a food party, and all tried different food. The Bishop came to celebrate with us and even a film crew to film an advert for the telly!

Outside the building worship gatherings with the opportunity to join with other churches across our city

Easter Sunrise service: Early Easter morning gathering on Heaton Hill. We worshiped, rolled some eggs and then retreated to the village hall for a hearty breakfast.

Pentecost in City Park: Churches from across the city all met on Pentecost Sunday at city park to publicly celebrate Pentecost. We filled the whole space and enjoyed live worship, entertainment, a great sense of church community together.

Celebrating faith and festivals with our wider midweek community

Christmas celebrations with Re:Store: In the weeks before Christmas, we journeyed advent with our midweek groups, pausing for some moments of reflection and quiet, taking the opportunity to think about what Christmas means to each of us and the Church. We also took the opportunity to sing some great carols and share new and old songs alike with each other.

Christmas Day Dinners: On Christmas day after the service a group of us stayed behind and celebrated a Christmas feast with some of our wider community friends who would have had nothing or no one special to share Christmas day with. It was brilliant to gather together as a group and be able to invite others to come and share relationship and tasty food on a day that can often feel hard and lonely.

We had a rather larger birthday celebration too!

160[th] Anniversary St Barnabas Church: On a warm sunny day in May, the bunting and pretty table clothes came out. As did the City of Bradford Brass band to entertain us. There were cream tea’s and cake a plenty followed by a thanksgiving service where we sang a selection of our favourite hymns.

Clare Leighton

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Fabric

Parish Resource Team

Our meetings this year have covered a wide range of issues around the parish. We made many small decisions each meeting but some of the more significant ones were.

Contracts

With Utilities prices changing regularly we spent some time looking at improving the rates we were getting for our gas and electricity. We tried to set up a system to read the meters better so we were billed correctly. Our buildings are not suitable for Smart Meters – so across the parish there are now 11 meters that need reading monthly

Heating

We improved the heating in St Martin’s Hall

Roofing

Rain is a constant issue. We sorted out a few roof issues over the year.

Bank Accounts

These continue to take up a lot of maintenance. We finally managed to move all the Parish payments to be from one account only which helps with administration.

Finance software

In 2024 we finally got the whole parish working on one piece of web based software – this means that all claims, invoices, receipts and Gift Aid are dealt with in a far easier way

Legalities

It is not always clear what we are covered for in terms of insurance and copyright issues. As well as risk assessments etc. We do our best to ensure that we comply with the latest regulations.

Fabric report - St Barnabas

The organ broke down a few times this year – it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep in good working order. A few volunteers who had been keeping the garden tidy over the years stepped down – thanks to all who have kept the area beautiful for so long! A concerned neighbour asked us to inspect a large tree which was found to be in need of felling – council and diocese permission was applied for. A leak in the roof above the vestry door caused us trouble all year. We had a Quinquennial inspection during this year.

Fabric report - St Martin’s

St Martin’s also had a leaky roof – again a regular issue. The heating for the sanctuary was regularly causing issues. Eventually it was found that we had such a high flue that moisture was dripping back into the system which caused the safety cut out to turn everything off after half an hour of heating.

Fabric report - St Philips

St Philips buildings have been used mainly for four things: the sanctuary for Cecil Green Arts; the hall for Thursday prayer and for Tessa’s craft group on Tuesday afternoons; and the back yard and storeroom for the Hayat community compost project. The Sanctuary heating system remains unreliable and is currently not working. We have still not managed to get an inspection and certificate of electrical safety on the church’s electrical wiring as requested by our insurers.

The main building structure is in generally good order with nothing more than normal maintenance needed for the roof, gutters, windows and doors. Some slates have had to be fixed following wind damage in a winter storm. The garden is maintained by volunteers. We had a Quinquennial inspection during this year.

Fabric report - St Paul’s

The main change at St Paul’s has been the removal of the front pews – thanks to the team who pulled them out and hoisted them to the loft space. Security on the site has been an issue – we have started locking the gates to the grounds which is a shame but there has been an increase in anti social behaviour and drug use.

A long standing issue of waste disposal was finally dealt with by getting a contract with Biffa to dispose of waste privately. This has made our lives far easier!

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Fabric continued

Springroyd Terrace sale

After many decades of failed efforts to be allowed to sell the old St Philips Curates house, we have finally managed to sell this property. It was a considerable burden on the parish due to difficult tenants, letting agents and dry rot [with Environmental Health threatening litigation and fines!]. It cost a lot to fix the building, but it made a reasonable sale price and the surplus monies have been kept in the parish – we had feared the Diocese would take these

Chris Chorlton and Alastair Bavington

Church Wardens

During 2024 we have continued meeting at St Paul’s for our Sunday morning ‘gathered’ service. The service is also livestreamed on YouTube. The Wednesday morning service at St Barnabas continues to be popular with a number of people joining on the phone. 2024 has seen the launch of Bubble Church at St Martins every Sunday afternoon. We have had no major repairs to our buildings this year. We have had a few heating issues and small roof leaks. The exciting development for 2024 has been the creation of a ‘Maintenance Team’ who have been busy fixing things, cutting back branches and even doing some welding!

Michelle Moyle

St Barnabas Village Hall

We have increased our regular usage – we have had the Council Youth Group and Seated Aerobics as usual as well as adding Shalom Pentecostal Church on Sundays as well as youth groups on other days of the week. Our committee meetings consisted of management discussions, gardener recommendations and financial accountability. Many thanks to Peter and Margaret Burnley who work so hard to keep this a community resource!

Chris Chorlton

Re:Store Overview

“We hope this will help unite the community work – we are praying for the restoration of our communities, our friends, we are a “storehouse” and re-storing place for resource, prayer and hope. Restoration is for all of us, and we think the name speaks of the potential in each of our communities.”

This sentence was written three years ago while we were working to describe what our community work was about and what name we should be known as. It feels like we have done some significant work in this time and having decided on Re:Store as a name for our community work, we are now standing in the place of becoming an additional charity working alongside the work of the wider GHM parish.

Our desire is that Re:Store is recognised as the outward facing work of the Parish. That through social action, practical presence, and engagement our vision to see the Parish transformed and restored to God's original design through acts of justice, love and compassion will emerge.

We want to see people flourish through helping develop capacity and skills, relieving the needs of those who are socially excluded and assisting people in integrating with and enhancing education.

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024

Re:Store continued

Our doors have been open, and we have worked to make our space as accessible, welcoming and safe through the week as we are able. We have been able to offer support, advice and practical assistance where we can and signpost for more appropriate organisations where needed.

We have had much to celebrate this past year including the addition to the paid staff team with the creation of a further community worker role and some generous grants to allow us to continue and develop our existing work. We welcomed more volunteers to the team and across the board have developed deeper relationships with each other, we have become more community!

The struggles have also been present, we have lost lives to addiction and the toughness of everyday life.

The cost of living and making ends meet has gotten harder, access to services have felt harder. Housing and secure accommodation is always a big question. How we sustain our own core costs and are able to develop work whilst trying to do the most we can with the resource we have

We have seen an average of 50 shoppers a week coming for the pantry. Therefore helping 2,598 people make their £5 stretch a whole lot further.

We have given out over 4,000 hot meals and more than a swimming pool worth of hot chocolate!!!

Seen 900 people come do chair exercise over the year, welcomed enthusiastic new readers to the library, been able to start a children and family focus one day a week. Learnt new skills, tried new things, cried and laughed together. Believed that as we journey life together – we may all be Re:Store that little bit more.

My real, great wish would be to report that warm spaces and pantries aren’t needed this time next year.

Thank you, team, for all you have contributed and continue to contribute, we would be nothing without your care and attention. Here is a look back at some of our work over 2024.

In April we launched our Roots & Routes recipe and story book. The book had been produced through all our community spaces across Re:Store and features a range of people from our projects. The launch day was a fantastic celebration of all the cooking and story telling that had been part of the project. Many people brought food to share and took part in cooking demonstrations, food tasting and listening to stories. The event even featured in a Rajah Spices – Bradford More Flavoured advert. The day was a great example of all the different cultures and people that come to Re:Store.

Over the summer we hosted a cream tea event at St Paul’s and St Martin’s. It was a lovely opportunity to gather a smaller number of people to enjoy some sones and catch up over the summer. Both events were well attended with a mix of people from across projects attending.

While some of our work is carried out across Girlington, Heaton and Manningham much of our project work is shaped to meet the needs of the communities where we are, coming under the names Heaton Hub, The Sharakat Project and Friday Drop-in Café.

Clare Leighton

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024

Re:Store: The Sharakat Project

It has had a busy year bringing people together through a range of activities. Our numbers have grown and our group is becoming more diverse. It is one of the only places in Manningham where the whole community are welcome to meet together, this is often commented on by health professionals, community wardens and other visitors to the group. It is a real space of building understanding of the other as friendships are built through our activities. There have been a few highlights across the year, our Roots & Routes book launch, Manningham-onSea community fun day and our trip to Yorkshire Lavender

Monday Café and panty continue to be a popular place in the community with a mix of Muslim, Christian and Sikh people attending. The majority of the people attending are women, however we have seen a growing number of men attending across the year. Many people come for tea/coffee toast and a chat, alongside this we have craft activities and often a discussion activity available. Every two months a volunteer form the group cooks for us, we have enjoyed lots of pakoras this year. We have celebrated Eid, Christmas and Easter together with people bringing food to share. These occasions are looked forward to by people at the group who don’t always find celebrations and life easy at home.

Seated exercise continues to be one of our most popular activities, with numbers sometimes getting up to 36 people we can struggle to fit everyone in. Even though the exercise involves a chair it can still be quite challenging for all ages. The majority of people who take part are between 40 and 65 with a smaller number of older women taking part.

Over the year we have tried to engage the group in discussions around a range of topics. These have included dementia, with a visit from The Memory Tree, wisdom in aging/what do our faiths say about aging, what is fasting in different faiths. These conversations have helped to deepen friendships and led to trying out the Kintsugi Hope Wellbeing course with a small group of people from the project. It was our first time running the course so it was very much a test to see how it would go. The course worked well and we are keen to run it again with a slightly bigger group in 2025.

Manningham on Sea

In June we held our annual fun day, Manningham-on-Sea, complete with donkey rides, giant sandpit, food, inflatables, games and face painting. We had a lovely sunny day! Many of our Monday attendees came and brought their children and grandchildren to enjoy the event, it is a good opportunity to meet the families of people that attend our projects. Manningham-on-Sea is a highlight of the summer for many in our community who don’t often leave Bradford.

Our day trips are always popular with people waiting all year for the next trip. This year we took a full coach to McArthur Glen shopping outlet followed by an afternoon at Yorkshire Lavender. We enjoyed a look around the shops and then a walk around the beautiful lavender field followed by a sit in the sun taking in the views.

We look forward to launching an English class in 2025, creating space for a smaller group to get to know each other while practising conversational English.

Michelle Moyle

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024

Re:Store: Heaton Hub

We have been encouraged that in 2024 Heaton hub continued to be a place of gathering, equipping and resourcing for local people. It remains one of the few places in Heaton where people can come together, without cost, for support and friendship. One highlight was our Community Fun Day in May which brought together all of our users as well as many partners who also use the building, (such as Bradford Council Youth Services, Brownies and Guides and the local Wardens and Councillor)

The Library service continues to serve the area well, especially through the ‘Summer Reading Challenge’ activity days, World Book Day, Mental Health Day, Story and Rhyme times, regular school visits and as a space to access laptops, Wi-Fi and be signposted to other services. We consistently opened three days a week and our volunteers are a diverse mix of those from the church and the community.

Thursday Community Pantry and Café has also continued to help reduce social exclusion and support for those in need of low cost food and friendship. We have built up our crafts and board games and have been able to invite guest speakers (such as ‘The Memory Tree’ session, an Alzheimer’s support group). We are pleased to have built more of a connection with our local supported housing schemes (for the elderly and those with learning difficulties) and this has added a lovely new dimension to Thursdays. We see a wonderful diversity of ages, faiths and ethnicities – all actively offering care and support to each other.

As Thursdays grew in number in 2024 we decided to move our under 5 provision to a new session on Mondays called ‘Stay and Play.’ We have made contact with over 30 local families since September and we regularly see about 12 families each week for structured play, crafts, stories and songs. Parents and carers (including a few dads!) are growing in their understanding of how to provide for their pre-school children through play. We have seen many children grow in skills and confidence to start nursery in the school next door, where we have strong links. Four volunteers run this session and are on hand for support, advice and a listening ear.

We are thankful for new volunteers joining us this year and we look forward to seeing how things will grow and develop in 2025, as funding and volunteers allow!

Angela Chorlton

Friday Drop In Café

The challenge from last year was to ask us how the slowing down has gone?

Our desire for a Friday has very much been to slow it all down, to breath out - to feed hungry people yes but also to slow down this process and reset to start to realise the power of sharing a meal together developing safe relationships.

So! How has it gone? ..... I am really pleased to say this has gone very well. We no longer give out takeaway food but welcome people by name to come be in a safe place, to eat a meal and leave full of food, conversation and relationship.

We can have an average of 50 guests each Friday coming for lunch with an additional 20+ coming for the pantry shop.

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024

Friday Drop In Café continued

We have welcomed some into the wider GHM church community and are experiencing a crossover of people “coming for the food – but staying for the community and worship”.

We have added to the volunteer team and had the opportunity to celebrate Church festivals in particular with those who would like to.

Overall this year has been full of joy, sadness, grief, frustration, laughter and lament, all of which are life essential and it has been a privilege to stand with the team as we faced the easy and the hard together over 2024.

Here’s to the next year and all that it will bring.

Clare Leighton

Safeguarding

The Parish of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham promote a 'Safer Church' which is outlined in the House of Bishops Safeguarding Policy.

On the safe guarding dashboard we have completed 64% of the requirements which is an increase of 2% on last year.

As Parish safeguarding officer I am given the opportunity to bring any matters arising to each PCC meeting.

The safeguarding policy was reviewed in March 2025 and passed by the PCC.

Over the past 12 months 7 DBS' have been applied for.

As PSO I have completed training on safer recruitment and people management, leadership safe guarding training and along with PCC members the awareness of domestic abuse training.

Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and I would like to thank you all for your support in this.

Susan Mitchell

Financial review

The net expenditure for the year was £22,356, including net expenditure of £13,903 on unrestricted funds, net expenditure of £9,449 on restricted funds and net income of £996 on endowment funds, after transfers.

Reserves policy

The charity's free reserves, excluding fixed assets, at the year end were £153,467.

Our churches' financial sustainability is reliant on the voluntary giving and efforts of a small number of members. The PCC therefore aims to maintain general reserves at a level which ensures that six months of core activity, excluding the diocese share, could continue during a period of unforeseen difficulty. For the current year this is estimated to be £50,000. This reserves policy is reviewed annually.

The PCC recognises that its reserves at 31 December 2024 exceeded its target level of reserves. The PCC has benefited from the sale proceeds of Spring Royd in 2024. Given this the PCC designated some of these funds for Re:Store activities (see Note 15 of the accounts) and will be reviewing its financial plans further in 2025 as it considers its recurrent financial position alongside the desire to provide for increased investment in parish mission. Linked to this the PCC is planning to review its reserves policy in light of this process.

Approved by the board of trustees on 17/6/2025

Susan Mitchell (Trustee)

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Independent examiner's report to the trustees of PCC of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charitable company for the year ended 31 December 2024, which are set out on pages 21 to 31.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees of the charitable company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the charitable company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Rhys North ACA

25/6/2025

West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

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Statement of Financial Activities

(including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 December 2024

Notes
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
Income from:
Donations and legacies
(2)
66,023
Charitable activities
(3)
16,905
Other trading activities
(4)
19,865
Investments
(5)
7,656
Other
(6)
40,000
Total income
150,449
Expenditure on:
Work of the church
(7)
167,781
Mission and charitable giving
(8)
4,053
Total expenditure
171,834
Net gains/(losses) on investments
-
Net income / (expenditure)
(21,385)
Transfers between funds
7,482
Net movement in funds
(13,903)
Fund balances brought forward
167,370
Fund balances carried forward
(10)
153,467		 2024
2024
Restricted Endowment
funds
funds
£
£
53,304
-
215
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
53,519
-
55,486
-
-
-
55,486
-
-
996
(1,967)
996
(7,482)
-
(9,449)
996
76,775
23,821
67,326
24,817		 2024
Total
funds
£
119,327
17,120
19,865
7,656
40,000
203,968
223,267
4,053
227,320
996
(22,356)
-
(22,356)
267,966
245,610		 2023
Total
funds
£
116,879
14,772
24,099
4,593
165
160,508
184,375
5,025
189,400
2,475
(26,417)
-
(26,417)
294,383
267,966

All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.

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Balance sheet

as at 31 December 2024
2024
Unrestricted
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
(11)
-
Investments
(12)
-
Total fixed assets
-
Current assets
Debtors and prepayments
(13)
2,321
Cash at bank
159,334
Total current assets
161,655
Current liabilities:
amounts falling due within one year
Creditors and accruals
(14)
8,188
Total current liabilities
8,188
Net current assets / (liabilities)
153,467
Net assets
153,467
Funds
Unrestricted funds
General unrestricted funds
119,229
Designated funds
(15)
34,238
Unrestricted funds
153,467
Restricted funds
-
Endowment funds
(16)
-
Total funds
153,467		 2024
2024
Restricted
Endowment
£
£
-
-
-
24,817
-
24,817
-
-
67,326
-
67,326
-
-
-
-
-
67,326
-
67,326
24,817
-
-
-
-
-
-
67,326
-
-
24,817
67,326
24,817		 2024
Total
£
-
24,817
24,817
2,321
226,660
228,981
8,188
8,188
220,793
245,610
119,229
34,238
153,467
67,326
24,817
245,610		 2023
Total
£
90,000
23,821
113,821
3,960
162,726
166,686
12,541
12,541
154,145
267,966
167,370
-
167,370
76,775
23,821
267,966

The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 17/6/2025

Susan Mitchell (Trustee)

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PCC of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham Notes to the accounts

for the year ended 31 December 2024

1 Accounting policies

Basis of accounting

These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) and with the Charities Act 2011.

The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102. There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year. No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.

Going concern

The trustees are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the charity becomes entitled to the resources, if it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Grants and donations

Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.

Where grants are related to performance and specific deliverables, they are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.

Investments

Investments are stated at market value at the balance sheet date. The SOFA includes the net gains and losses arising on revaluations and disposals throughout the year.

Expenditure and liabilities

Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out the resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.

Taxation

As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.

Tangible fixed assets

In accordance with s10(2)(a) and (c) of the Charities Act 2011, consecrated and beneficed property is not included in the accounts.

Movable church furnishings held by the Vicar and Churchwardens on special trust for the PCC and which require a faculty for disposal are inalienable property, listed in the Church's inventory which can be inspected at any reasonable time.

Freehold land and buildings are held in trust either by the PCC or by Leeds Diocese Board of Finance as custodian trustee. Valuation of freehold land and buildings is either market rate or the historical valuation where a market value is not readily determinable. The currently estimated residual value of the properties is not less than their carrying value, and their remaining useful life exceeds 50 years. Any depreciation charge is deemed immaterial. An impairment review is carried out a each year end. Tangible fixed assets costing more than £5,000 are capitalised and included at cost including any incidental expenses of acquisition. Gifted assets are shown at the value to the charity on receipt. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost on a straight line basis over their expected useful economic lives as follows: Freehold land and buildings: nil Fixtures, fittings and equipment: over 4 years

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Notes to the accounts

for the year ended 31 December 2024

1 Accounting policies continued

Pensions

The charity operates a defined contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. The costs of contributions are recognised in the year they are payable.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.

Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes.

Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.

Endowment funds represent those assets which must be held permanently by the charity, principally investments. Income arising on the endowment funds can be used in accordance with the objects of the charity and is included as unrestricted income unless restrictions have been imposed by the donor. Any capital gains or losses arising on the investments form part of the fund. Investment management charges and legal advice relating to the fund are charged against the fund.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.

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Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2024

2 Donations and legacies
Gift aided planned giving
Other planned giving
Weekly collections
Other donations
Tax receivable by gift aid
Grants
3 Charitable activities income
Service fees
Events
Community Pantry
4 Other trading activities
Hall lettings
5 Investments
Dividends and interest
6 Other
Other
Profit/(Loss) on disposal of property		 2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
27,504
4,555
11,545
11,078
11,341
-
66,023
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
1,292
6,120
9,493
16,905
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
19,865
19,865
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
7,656
7,656
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
40,000
40,000		 2024
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
1,490
-
51,814
53,304
2024
Restricted
funds
£
-
165
50
215
2024
Restricted
funds
£
-
2024
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
2024
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-		 2024
Total
funds
£
27,504
4,555
11,545
12,568
11,341
51,814
119,327
2024
Total
funds
£
1,292
6,285
9,543
17,120
2024
Total
funds
£
19,865
19,865
2024
Total
funds
£
7,656
7,656
2024
Total
funds
£
-
40,000
40,000		 2023
Total
funds
£
30,745
4,706
7,905
3,748
10,651
59,124
116,879
2023
Total
funds
£
905
2,931
10,936
14,772
2023
Total
funds
£
24,099
24,099
2023
Total
funds
£
4,593
4,593
2023
Total
funds
£
165
-
165

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Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2024

7 Work of the church

Parish share
Staff costs (see Note 9 for analysis)
Clergy expenses
GHM worship services
Heating, lighting and water
Insurance
Cleaning
Parish mission
Training
Work with children
Fixtures, fittings and equipment
Building and maintenance
Security alarms and CCTV
Springroyd costs
Church grounds
Depreciation
Independent examination
Office and administration
8 Mission and charitable giving
Church Missionary Society - Jennings
Ukraine - Torrens
Church Association of Sudan and South Sudan
BEACON - Asylum and Refugee Seekers
9 Staff costs and numbers
Gross salaries
Social security costs
Employment allowance
Pensions
Payroll fees		 2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
67,812
15,294
2,916
8,004
32,080
11,109
5,554
6,244
20
-
516
4,997
72
6,326
1,753
-
1,584
3,500
167,781
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
1,013
1,013
1,013
1,013
4,053		 2024
Restricted
funds
£
-
22,893
-
-
-
-
-
24,353
-
88
331
7,821
-
-
-
-
-
-
55,486
2024
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-		 2024
Total
cost
£
67,812
38,187
2,916
8,004
32,080
11,109
5,554
30,597
20
88
847
12,818
72
6,326
1,753
-
1,584
3,500
223,267
2024
Total
cost
£
1,013
1,013
1,013
1,013
4,053
2024
£
37,056
1,976
(1,976)
644
487
38,187		 2023
Total
cost
£
37,000
16,961
2,495
5,791
32,074
11,627
5,577
34,785
290
1,155
107
5,766
72
17,451
1,879
7,730
1,584
2,031
184,375
2023
Total
cost
£
1,675
1,675
-
1,675
5,025
2023
£
16,427
830
(830)
246
288
16,961

The average number of employees during the year was 2.3, being an average of 1.3 full time equivalent (2023: 1.2, 0.6 FTE). There were no employees with emoluments above £60,000.

Defined contribution pension scheme 2024 2023
£ £
Costs of the scheme to the charity for the year 644 246

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Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2024

10 Restricted funds
Community Action:
SDF - Operations and Mission
Restore - Salary
Restore - Food Provision
Restore - Groundworks
BDMC - Chair Exercise
Restore - Local Friendship
Restore - Charles & Elsie Sykes
Restore - Rands Monday
Restore - Rands Thursday
Restore - Warm Spaces
Inn Churches
Youth and Children
Youth Provision
Restore - Community Chest
Restore - Drop In BDCSA
Restore - Drop In Rands
Restore - Book Celebration
BMDC - Library
Restore - Places of Welcome
Restore - Food Provision
Restore - Friday Drop In
GMH:
Building works
St Barnabus Church:
Projects
Tapestry
St Paul's Church:
Building works
Restore - VCS Alliance
Restore - Lottery Awards for
All Place of Welcome
Restore - Mind the Gap
Place of Welcome
New arrivals & international
discipleship
Restore - Scurrah
Wainwright Friday Drop In		 Balance b/f
£
-
3,256
-
-
840
-
1,600
-
-
-
-
2,128
639
8,601
323
-
4,514
-
-
-
462
-
-
1,280
4,478
641
30,895
4,944
2,700
9,474
76,775		 Incoming
£
14,550
3,350
2,000
5,000
2,500
480
-
908
3,000
2,000
2,000
3,306
-
-
1,140
2,470
-
300
3,000
5,000
165
300
2,000
-
-
50
-
-
-
-
53,519		 Outgoing
£
13,182
6,606
2,000
1,560
840
150
731
908
-
-
-
1,174
513
88
104
1,406
3,514
300
2,300
4,000
627
300
-
-
3,101
691
6,077
3,570
-
1,744
55,486		 Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(2,260)
-
-
-
(522)
(1,000)
-
(700)
(1,000)
-
-
(2,000)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(7,482)		 Balance c/f
£
1,368
-
-
3,440
2,500
330
869
-
3,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
126
8,513
1,359
542
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,280
1,377
-
24,818
1,374
2,700
7,730
67,326

Fund name Purpose of restriction

Community Action:

SDF - Operations and Mission

Restore - Salary Restore - Food Provision

Restore - Groundworks

Restore - VCS Alliance

National Church Commissioners funding managed through Leeds Diocese under the Resource Church agreement. To cover salary costs of mission apprentice and operations manager posts.

Grant funding for the two community development workers. Grant funding and individual giving for the purpose of supporting the work of Restore food provision. Grant from Tesco Groundworks to support the Friday drop in meals and pantry provision. Grant from VCS Alliance to provide chair exercise classes.

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PCC of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2024

10 Restricted funds continued Fund name Purpose of restriction Community Action: BDMC - Chair Exercise Grant from Bradford Council to provide chair exercise classes. Restore - Lottery Awards for National Lottery Awards for All grant to explore small scale Restore All Place of Welcome development work with a view to securing larger funding pots. Restore - Local Friendship Grant to run training and information sessions on being more dementia accessible and the purchase of resources. Restore - Charles & Elsie Sykes Grant funding from the Charles and Elsie Sykes Foundation for the purpose of supporting the general work of Restore. Restore - Rands Monday Grant from Rands Alm Houses to support the work of Restore St Pauls on a Monday. Restore - Rands Thursday Grant from Rands Alm Houses to support the work of Restore St Pauls on a Thursday. Restore - Warm Spaces Bradford Council grant towards heating and hosting warm space sessions at St Pauls and St Martins. Inn Churches Grant funding and individual giving for the purpose of supporting a temporary winter night shelter. Youth and Children Grant funding for youth work across the Parish. New arrivals & international Donations given for the purpose of supporting new arrivals and international discipleship discipleship across the Parish. Youth Provision Health Partnership grant to support youth work activities on a Monday evening from St Pauls run by the local authority. Restore - Scurrah To run a free Friday community meal provision from St Pauls. Wainwright Friday Drop In Restore - Community Chest Bradford Council Community Chest grant to go towards a community fun day at St Martins. Restore - Drop In BDCSA Grant from Bradford Anglican Council for Social Aid towards the running of meal provision from St Pauls. Restore - Drop In Rands Grant from Rands Alm Houses to support the work of Restore St Pauls Drop in Meal. Restore - Mind the Gap Heritage Grant to create a recipe book celebrating food memories and Place of Welcome where people have come from and their journeys to Bradford. Restore - Book Celebration Bradford Council Community Chest grant to go towards a community celebration day for the Roots to Routes recipe Book event. BMDC - Library Bradford Council grant towards running the Library at St Martins. Restore - Places of Welcome Grant funding and individual giving for the purpose of supporting the general work of Restore. Restore - Food Provision Grant funding and individual giving for the purpose of supporting food provision across the Parish. Restore - Friday Drop In To run a free Friday community meal provision from St Pauls. GMH: Building works Donations and legacies for the maintenance and development of all Parish buildings, as agreed with the Charity Commission in 2023. St Barnabus Church: Projects Donations towards building projects at St Barnabas church. Tapestry Monies to maintain and transport the St Barnabas tapestry. St Paul's Church: Building works For the refurbishment of the hall and kitchen.

A transfers are for a contribution to overhead costs and rent contributions.

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PCC of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2024

11
**12 **		 Tangible assets
Cost
At 1 January 2024
Additions
Disposals
At 31 December 2024
Depreciation
At 1 January 2024
Charge for year
At 31 December 2024
Net book value
At 31 December 2024
At 31 December 2023
Fixed assets investments
Balance b/f
Additions/(Disposals)
Gain / (loss) on revaluation
Income generated
Total		 2024
Accumulation
£
16,022
-
818
-
16,840		 £
38,798
-
-
38,798
38,798
-
38,798
-
-
2024
Listed
investments
£
7,799
-
178
216
7,977
Fixtures,
fittings &		 £
90,000
-
(90,000)
-
-
-
-
-
90,000
2024
Total
£
23,821
-
996
216
24,817
Land and
Buildings		 Total
£
128,798
-
(90,000)
38,798
38,798
-
38,798
-
90,000
2023
Total
£
21,346
-
2,475
213
23,821

Six endowments are invested in the CCLA CBF Investment Fund with Leeds Diocesan Board of Finance as custodian trustee. Three of the endowments are Income Shares, yielding dividend payments to the PCC. The other three are Accumulation Shares which will not yield income until 2048; the PCC drew capital from them in 1988 and is required to leave them untouched for 60 years whilst the capital value is restored.

Trust Fund 172 Manningham - Parkinson, valued at 31 December 2024 as £347, is held by the Diocese of Leeds for specific building maintenance at the former St Luke's Church, Victor Road; a purpose which the PCC cannot fulfil. The investment is not included in these accounts.

13 Debtors and prepayments
Debtors
Gift Aid tax recoverable
Other debtors
14 Creditors and accruals
Creditors
Accruals		 2024
£
200
-
2,121
2,321
2024
£
-
8,188
8,188		 2023
£
2,550
906
504
3,960
2023
£
580
11,961
12,541

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PCC of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 December 2024

15 Designated funds
Re:Store
Fund name
Re:Store
16 Endowment funds
Investments		 Balance b/f
Incoming
£
-
-
-
-
Reason for designation
Balance b/f
Incoming
£
£
23,821
996
23,821
996
To support the general work of		 Outgoing
£
2,718
2,718
Outgoing
£
-
-
Restore		 Transfers
£
36,956
36,956
Transfers
£
-
-		 Balance c/f
£
34,238
34,238
Balance c/f
£
24,817
24,817

17 Related party transactions

Donations from trustees and related parties

The total aggregate value of unconditional donations to the charity from the trustees or related parties was £14,252 (2023: £17,892).

Trustee expenses

No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.

Trustee remuneration and benefits

Details of remuneration and benefits
Michelle Moyle
Gross pay
Pensions		 2024
£
15,952
291
16,534		 2023
£
15,062
246
15,308

Reason for remuneration

The trustee was employed in the role of a community development worker.

Legal authority for the payment

The legal authority for the payment is via a provision within the charity's governing document.

No other trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.

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PCC of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham

Statement of Financial Activities including comparatives for all funds (including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 December 2024

2024
2023
Unrestricted Unrestricted
funds
funds
£
£
Income
Donations and legacies
66,023
57,275
Charitable activities
16,905
14,207
Other trading activities
19,865
24,099
Investments
7,656
4,593
Other
40,000
165
Total income
150,449
100,339
Expenditure
Work of the church
167,781
115,268
Mission and charitable giving
4,053
5,025
Total expenditure
171,834
120,293
Net gains/(losses) on investments
-
-
Net income / (expenditure)
(21,385)
(19,954)
Transfers between funds
7,482
15,080
Net movement in funds
(13,903)
(4,874)
Fund balances brought forward
167,370
172,244
Fund balances carried forward
153,467
167,370		 2024
Restricted
funds
£
53,304
215
-
-
-
53,519
55,486
-
55,486
-
(1,967)
(7,482)
(9,449)
76,775
67,326		 2023
Restricted
funds
£
59,604
565
-
-
-
60,169
69,107
-
69,107
-
(8,938)
(15,080)
(24,018)
100,793
76,775		 2024
Endowment
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
996
996
-
996
23,821
24,817		 2023
Endowment
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,475
2,475
-
2,475
21,346
23,821		 2024
Total
funds
£
119,327
17,120
19,865
7,656
40,000
203,968
223,267
4,053
227,320
996
(22,356)
-
(22,356)
267,966
245,610		 2023
Total
funds
£
116,879
14,772
24,099
4,593
165
160,508
184,375
5,025
189,400
2,475
(26,417)
-
(26,417)
294,383
267,966

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