## **2025 Report and Accounts for the Parochial Church Council of St Peter’s Church, Gildersome**
## **Aims and purposes**
St Peter’s Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of cooperating with the incumbent, the Reverend Patrick Senior, in promoting the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. The PCC is also specifically responsible for the maintenance of the Church Centre complex of St Peter’s, Church Street, Gildersome.
## **Objectives and Activities**
The PCC is committed to the mission statement: **The local church serving the local community.** When planning our activities for this year, we have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the supplementary guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. To facilitate this work, it is important that we take the responsibility to maintain the fabric of the church of St Peter and the Church Centre complex.
## **Worship and prayer**
In addition to our regular Sunday Morning 9:30 worship service, family worship continues on the morning of the first Sunday each month with our Explore Together service. A fortnightly morning prayer service on a Wednesday provides a worshipful, intimate and reflective environment for prayer and we have a monthly praise service on a Sunday at 4pm. We have also introduced a Triple Service on the third Sunday of each month, allowing us to focus more on teaching and music. Andy Muckle, from St George’s Crypt, has been a guest speaker and the plan is to invite more guest speakers to this service. A new, monthly service was introduced before the Meeting Place meal, which is well attended. Our Tuesday afternoon service, for Primary age children and their families was renamed for the new school year and is now called Jamtastic. JAM (Jesus and Me) is our new ‘brand’ and Junior Church has also been renamed, The Jam Club, as well as our children’s area in church being the Jam Corner.
All are welcome to attend our regular services. At present there are 84 parishioners on the Church Electoral Roll, 14 of whom are not resident within the parish. Diana Correia da Silva was added during the year. We are very sad to have lost 5 faithful servants this year. Amanda Flenley moved with her family out of the area. Cynthia Rover, Patricia Hopkinson, Maureen Oddy and Barbara Cribbes have all gone to glory in the last few months, along with Maureen Buckley, who was no longer on the electoral roll due to being too ill to sign last time around.
The average weekly attendance, counted during October was 48 adults, but this number increases at festivals, especially at Christmas and Remembrance Sunday.
As well as our regular services, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of life. There were four baptisms during the year, no weddings and nine funerals. We also held a confirmation service.
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## **Deanery Synod**
Currently, 2 members of the PCC sit on the Diocesan Synod: Susan Smith and Shirley Morley.
## **Pastoral care**
Some members of our parish are unable to attend church due to sickness or lack of mobility. They are visited regularly by our Lay Pastoral Minister, Elizabeth Knight, who takes communion with them.
## **Volunteers**
We would like to thank all our regular volunteers who work so hard to make our church the lively and vibrant community it is. These include, but are not limited to: our warden, treasurer and secretary; our music group and Allan and Sara our organists; our Tots & Teas team, our Jamtastic Club leaders and helpers; the team at Meeting Place; Sandie at the Art Group; those who have run the coffee mornings and our team of cleaners and gardeners, who keep the place as tidy as possible. Special mention must go to Des Brooks who, although not a regular at St Peter’s, does interminable work in the churchyard and with small maintenance jobs.
We are extremely grateful for the army of helpers and volunteers who carry out a whole range of practical and spiritual tasks. Thank you, all of you – we could not carry out God’s work half so well without you.
## **Home and Overseas Mission**
The PCC has supported a number of different home and overseas charities throughout the year, including Christian Aid’s Myanmar appeal, Leeds DBF’s Sudan appeal, Leeds Autism Services and Mary’s Meals. We also held our annual Christingle Service raising funds for The Children’s Society, raising £187.13. This amount is showing as a liability on the report because the payment was made to them in January 2026.
## **Ecumenical relationships**
There is no formal Churches Together in Gildersome, although the church works with the Baptist Church on occasions such as the World Day of Prayer service, and Good Friday and Remembrance Sunday services.
## **Financial review**
Total receipts on unrestricted funds were £72,910 of which £46,561 was unrestricted voluntary donations, and a further £9,948 was from Gift Aid.
Giving through envelopes, standing orders and the Parish Giving Scheme increased by 4%; the amount recovered through Gift Aid increased by 7.9%. Total income decreased by 4.5% compared with last year.
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£63,808 was spent from unrestricted funds and a further £1,665 from restricted funds, to provide the Christian ministry from St. Peter’s Church, including full payment of the diocesan parish share of £40,385
During the year we actually spent less than we received, with a surplus of £8006 on unrestricted funds. The bank and deposit balances carried forward at 31 December 2025 on unrestricted funds totalled £19956
## **Reserves policy**
It is PCC policy to try to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds which equates to at least three months unrestricted payments. This is equivalent to £16,239, based on last year’s expenditure. It is held to smooth out fluctuations in cash flow and to meet emergencies. The cash balance of £19,956 held on unrestricted funds at the year end exceeds this target, however we have some capital expenditure in the pipeline, particularly repairing the roof (once again)
We hold restricted funds of £1,653 in the Children/Young People Fund and £50.00 restricted for helping young men find faith.
## **Structure, governance and management**
The Parochial Church Council is a corporate body established by the Church of England. The PCC operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure.
The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. At St. Peters the membership of the PCC consists of the clergy, churchwardens and Deanery Synod members (as ex-officio members) together with up to 12 members elected by those members of the congregation who are on the electoral roll of the church.
The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the parish including deciding on how the funds of the PCC are to be spent.
The full PCC met eight times during the year.
Additionally, the Standing Committee met once. No other PCC sub-committees currently exist.
## **Administrative information**
St Peter’s Church is situated in Church Street, Gildersome. It is part of the Diocese of Leeds within the Church of England. The correspondence address is 2A Church Street, Gildersome, Leeds, LS27 7AF. The PCC is a body corporate (PCC Powers Measure 1956, Church Representation Rules 2011). Registered charity number 1175182.
PCC members who have served at any time from 1 January 2025 until the date this report was approved are:
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## Ex Officio members:
- Vicar: The Reverend Patrick Senior – Chair
- Curate: The Reverend Denise Brogden
- Warden: Sue Panther
- Warden: Lorraine Lockwood until 18 May 2025
- Deanery Synod Representative: Shirley Morley
- Deanery Synod Representative: Susan Smith
## Elected members:
- Elizabeth Knight (from April 2022)
- Diana Bell (from April 2023)
- Susan Smith (from April 2023)
- Janet Clark (from 28 April 2024)
- Steve Smith until 12 November 2025
- Christine Lonsdale (from 28 April 2024)
- Sally Duxbury (from 28 April 2024)
- Linda Farnhill (from 28 April 2024)
- Lorraine Lockwood from 18 May 2025 to 12 November 2025
- Felicity Fahlstedt from 18 May 2025
Co-opted members:
- Rebecca Kelly (Safeguarding)
- Liz Pearce (Treasurer)
PCC Secretary (not a member of the PCC):
- Pat Pearson
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## **Receipts and Payments Account**
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Designated**
**funds**|**Restricte**
**d**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total**
**funds**|**Prior year**
**total funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts**|||||||
|Donations and legacies|56,509.07|-|50.00|-|56,559.0
7|57,827.74|
|Income from charitable activities|8,507.05|-|-|-|8,507.05|7,519.63|
|Other trading activities|7,381.50|-|-|-|7,381.50|10,515.00|
|Investments|513.32|-|-|-|513.32|571.70|
|Other income|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**Total Receipts**|**72,910.94**|**-**|**50.00**|**-**|**72,960.9**
**4**|**76,434.07**|
|**Payments**|||||||
|Raising funds|1,145.64|-|-|-|1,145.64|814.06|
|Expenditure on charitable activities|62,048.03|95.07|1,665.36|-|63,808.4
6|89,752.46|
|Other expenditure|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**Total Payments**|**63,193.67**|**95.07**|**1,665.36**|**-**|**64,954.1**
**0**|**90,566.52**|
||||||||
|**Excess of receipts over payments**
**before transfer**|**9,717.27**|**(95.07) **|**(1,615.36)**|**-**|**8,006.84 **|**(14,132.45**
**)**|
|**Transfers:**|||||||
|Gross transfers between funds - in|-|50.00|-|-|50.00|40,063.76|
|Gross transfers between funds - out|(50.00)|-|-|-|(50.00)|(40,063.76
)|
|Excess of receipts over payments
before other gains|9,667.27|(45.07)|(1,615.36)|-|8,006.84|(14,132.45
)|
|**Net movement in funds**|**9,667.27**|**(45.07) **|**(1,615.36)**|**-**|**8,006.84 **|**(14,132.45**
**)**|
**Reconciliation of funds**
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|**Excess of receipts over payments**
**at beginning of the year**|**9,684.45**|**9,684.45**|**650.10**|**3,318.96**|**-**|**13,653.5**
**1**|**27,785.96**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Excess of receipts over payments**
**for the year**|**19,351.72**||**605.03**|**1,703.60**|**-**|**21,660.3**
**5**|**13,653.51**|
|**Represented by**||||||||
|Unrestricted||||||||
|General fund|19,351.72||-|-|-|19,351.7
2|9,684.45|
|Designated||||||||
|Kitchen||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Maintenance Fund||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Mission And Outreach||-|605.03|-|-|605.03|650.10|
|Restricted||||||||
|Agency collection||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Children/Young People Fund||-|-|1,653.60|-|1,653.60|3,318.96|
|Creche Donation Fund||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Parish Development Fund||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Young Men's Faith Fund||-|-|50.00|-|50.00|-|
|**Balance Sheet (Summary)**||||||||
||||||**As at**||**As at**|
||||||**31/12/2025**|**31/12/2024**||
|**Fixed assets**||||||||
||||||**-**||**-**|
|**Current assets**||||||||
|Cash At Bank And In Hand|||||21,847.48||14,026.13|
||||||**21,847.48**||**14,026.13**|
|**Liabilities**||||||||
|Creditors: Amounts Falling Due In One|Year||||187.13||372.62|
||||||**187.13**||**372.62**|
|**Net current assets less current liabilities**|||||**21,660.35**||**13,653.51**|
|||||||||
|**Total assets less current liabilities**|||||**21,660.35**||**13,653.51**|
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## **Liabilities**
|**Total net assets less liabilities**
**Represented by**
**Unrestricted**
Unrestricted - General Funds
**Designated**
Designated - Mission And Outreach
**Restricted**
Restricted - Children/Young People Fund
Restricted - Young Men's Faith Fund
**Fund Totals**|**-**
**-**|
|---|---|
||**21,660.35**
**13,653.51**
19,351.72
9,684.45
605.03
650.10
1,653.60
3,318.96
50.00
-|
||**21,660.35**
**13,653.51**|
## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities (by code)**
|**Class and nominal code**|**General **|**Designated **|**Restricted **|**Endowment**|**Total**|**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Current Asset - Cash At Bank And In**|**Hand**||||||
|6501: Virgin Bank current account|-|-|-|-|-|134.67|
|6502: NatWest current account|11,063.27|(45.07)|(1,228.20)|-|9,790.00|2,137.84|
|6510: CCLA (CBF) deposit account|7,514.28|650.10|3,691.58|-|11,855.96|11,342.64|
|6590: Cash in hand|774.17|-|(572.65)|-|201.52|410.98|
|**Total**|**19,351.72**|**605.03**|**1,890.73**|**- **|**21,847.48 **|**14,026.13**|
|**Liability - Agency Accounts**|||||||
|6699: Agency collections|-|-|187.13|-|187.13|372.62|
|**Total**|**-**|**-**|**187.13**|**-**|**187.13**|**372.62**|
|**Net total assets**|**19,351.72**|**605.03**|**1,703.60**|**- **|**21,660.35 **|**13,653.51**|
|**Represented by**|||||||
|General (Unrestricted)|19,351.72|-|-|-|19,351.72|9,684.45|
|Designated - Mission and outreach|-|605.03|-|-|605.03|650.10|
|Restricted - Young|-|-|1,653.60|-|1,653.60|3,318.96|
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Restricted - Young men
- - 50.00 - 50.00 - **Total 19,351.72 605.03 1,703.60 - 21,660.35 13,653.51**
## **Fund movement summary**
**Fund Opening Incoming Outgoing Transfers Gains/Losses Journals Closing**
|**Mission and outreach**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Designated|650.10|-|95.07|50.00|-|-|605.03|
|**Sub-totals**|**650.10**|**-**|**95.07**|**50.00**|**-**|**-**|**605.03**|
|**Young men**||||||||
|Restricted|-|50.00|-|-|-|-|50.00|
|**Sub-totals**|**-**|**50.00**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**50.00**|
|**Young**||||||||
|Restricted|3,318.96|-|1,665.36|-|-|-|1,653.60|
|**Sub-totals**|**3,318.96**|**-**|**1,665.36**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,653.60**|
|**General**||||||||
|Unrestricted|9,684.45|72,910.94|63,193.67|(50.00)|-|-|19,351.72|
|**Sub-totals**|**9,684.45**|**72,910.94**|**63,193.67**|**(50.00)**|**-**|**-**|**19,351.72**|
|**Totals**|**13,653.51**|**72,960.94**|**64,954.10**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**21,660.35**|
## **Analysis of income and expenditure**
**Total**
**Restricte Unrestricted Designated d[Endowment][This year][Last year] INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM: Donations and legacies** - - - 0101 - Free Will Giving - Bank 9,997.40 9,997.40 16,137.04 - - - 0110 - Free Will Giving - Envelopes 1,317.00 1,317.00 1,854.00 0201 - Free Will Giving - Parish Giving - - - 29,498.4 Scheme 29,498.46 6[21,173.66]
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|0301 - Free Will Giving - loose
collections|plate|2,142.74|-|-|-|2,142.74|2,783.80|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|0550 - Donations||3,605.15|-|50.00|-|3,655.15|6,139.22|
|0601 - Gift Aid recovered||9,948.32|-|-|-|9,948.32|9,215.02|
|0801 - Grants||-|-|-|-|-|525.00|
|**Donations and legacies**|**Totals**|**56,509.07**|**-**|**50.00**|**-**|**56,559.0**
**7 **|**57,827.74**|
|**Income from charitable activities**||||||||
|0910 - Other funds generated||2,076.76|-|-|-|2,076.76|3,303.61|
|0912 - Coffee mornings||261.40|-|-|-|261.40|-|
|0917 - Scarecrow Festival||833.17|-|-|-|833.17|794.66|
|0918 - Coffee donations||821.47|-|-|-|821.47|472.45|
|0920 - Art Group||564.00|-|-|-|564.00|604.00|
|0921 - Wine Group||186.00|-|-|-|186.00|136.00|
|0922 - Meeting Place||-|-|-|-|-|90.00|
|0923 - Tots and Tea donations||228.25|-|-|-|228.25|136.91|
|1101 - Fees for weddings and
funerals||3,536.00|-|-|-|3,536.00|1,982.00|
|**Income from charitable activities**
**Totals**||**8,507.05**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**8,507.05**|**7,519.63**|
|**Other trading activities**||||||||
|1220 - Bookstall sales||293.00|-|-|-|293.00|90.00|
|1230 - Lettings - Church groups||125.00|-|-|-|125.00|-|
|1240 - Lettings - private bookings||6,963.50|-|-|-|6,963.50|10,425.00|
|**Other trading activities**|**Totals**|**7,381.50**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**7,381.50 **|**10,515.00**|
|**Investments**||||||||
|1020 - Bank interest||513.32|-|-|-|513.32|571.70|
|**Investments**|**Totals**|**513.32**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**513.32**|**571.70**|
|**Income and endowments Grand**
**totals**||**72,910.94**|**-**|**50.00**|**-**|**72,960.9**
**4 **|**76,434.07**|
|**EXPENDITURE ON:**||||||||
|**Raising funds**||||||||
|1720 - Costs of stewardship campaign||-|-|-|-|-|85.49|
|1730 - Costs of fetes & other events||1,145.64|-|-|-|1,145.64|728.57|
|**Raising funds**|**Totals**|**1,145.64**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,145.64**|**814.06**|
|**Expenditure on charitable activities**||||||||
|1801 - Giving - overseas mission||-|-|-|-|-|168.80|
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|1850 - Giving - home mission||33.30|-|-|-|33.30|154.65|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|1910 - Diocesan parish share||40,385.00|-|-|-|40,385.0
0|41,469.00|
|1923 - Support for Children's Activities||-|-|1,665.36|-|1,665.36|1,378.34|
|1924 - Support for Tots & Tea||-|-|-|-|-|6.40|
|2101 - Working expenses of
incumbent||487.64|-|-|-|487.64|717.82|
|2150 - Vicar's telephone||361.01|-|-|-|361.01|568.57|
|2170 - Training||-|-|-|-|-|205.00|
|2201 - Mission and evangelism costs||137.10|95.07|-|-|232.17|710.78|
|2301 - Insurance||2,694.49|-|-|-|2,694.49|2,636.72|
|2310 - Church office - telephone||587.37|-|-|-|587.37|650.89|
|2330 - Routine repairs and
maintenance||1,558.69|-|-|-|1,558.69|8,414.59|
|2331 - Cleaning||1,973.18|-|-|-|1,973.18|2,371.47|
|2340 - Upkeep of services||767.32|-|-|-|767.32|1,050.74|
|2350 - Upkeep of churchyard||390.90|-|-|-|390.90|1,002.00|
|2360 - Administration||186.75|-|-|-|186.75|330.21|
|2362 - Copier/printer costs||253.30|-|-|-|253.30|785.70|
|2363 - Bank charges||42.97|-|-|-|42.97|-|
|2380 - Independent examination/audit
fees||7.69|-|-|-|7.69|-|
|2401 - Church running - electric||2,892.20|-|-|-|2,892.20|3,119.40|
|2410 - Church running - gas||8,058.08|-|-|-|8,058.08|11,767.51|
|2420 - Church running - water||851.31|-|-|-|851.31|1,565.97|
|2510 - Bookstall costs||306.98|-|-|-|306.98|778.90|
|2701 - Major repairs to church
building||-|-|-|-|-|9,041.00|
|2720 - Decorating of church building||72.75|-|-|-|72.75|858.00|
|**Expenditure on charitable activities**
**Totals**||**62,048.03**|**95.07**|**1,665.36**|**-**|**63,808.4**
**6 **|**89,752.46**|
|**Expenditure Grand**|**totals**|**63,193.67**|**95.07**|**1,665.36**|**-**|**64,954.1**
**0 **|**90,566.52**|
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## **2025 Report and Accounts for the Parochial Church Council of St Peter’s Church, Gildersome**
## **Aims and purposes**
St Peter’s Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of cooperating with the incumbent, the Reverend Patrick Senior, in promoting the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. The PCC is also specifically responsible for the maintenance of the Church Centre complex of St Peter’s, Church Street, Gildersome.
## **Objectives and Activities**
The PCC is committed to the mission statement: **The local church serving the local community.** When planning our activities for this year, we have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the supplementary guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. To facilitate this work, it is important that we take the responsibility to maintain the fabric of the church of St Peter and the Church Centre complex.
## **Worship and prayer**
In addition to our regular Sunday Morning 9:30 worship service, family worship continues on the morning of the first Sunday each month with our Explore Together service. A fortnightly morning prayer service on a Wednesday provides a worshipful, intimate and reflective environment for prayer and we have a monthly praise service on a Sunday at 4pm. We have also introduced a Triple Service on the third Sunday of each month, allowing us to focus more on teaching and music. Andy Muckle, from St George’s Crypt, has been a guest speaker and the plan is to invite more guest speakers to this service. A new, monthly service was introduced before the Meeting Place meal, which is well attended. Our Tuesday afternoon service, for Primary age children and their families was renamed for the new school year and is now called Jamtastic. JAM (Jesus and Me) is our new ‘brand’ and Junior Church has also been renamed, The Jam Club, as well as our children’s area in church being the Jam Corner.
All are welcome to attend our regular services. At present there are 84 parishioners on the Church Electoral Roll, 14 of whom are not resident within the parish. Diana Correia da Silva was added during the year. We are very sad to have lost 5 faithful servants this year. Amanda Flenley moved with her family out of the area. Cynthia Rover, Patricia Hopkinson, Maureen Oddy and Barbara Cribbes have all gone to glory in the last few months, along with Maureen Buckley, who was no longer on the electoral roll due to being too ill to sign last time around.
The average weekly attendance, counted during October was 48 adults, but this number increases at festivals, especially at Christmas and Remembrance Sunday.
As well as our regular services, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of life. There were four baptisms during the year, no weddings and nine funerals. We also held a confirmation service.
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## **Deanery Synod**
Currently, 2 members of the PCC sit on the Diocesan Synod: Susan Smith and Shirley Morley.
## **Pastoral care**
Some members of our parish are unable to attend church due to sickness or lack of mobility. They are visited regularly by our Lay Pastoral Minister, Elizabeth Knight, who takes communion with them.
## **Volunteers**
We would like to thank all our regular volunteers who work so hard to make our church the lively and vibrant community it is. These include, but are not limited to: our warden, treasurer and secretary; our music group and Allan and Sara our organists; our Tots & Teas team, our Jamtastic Club leaders and helpers; the team at Meeting Place; Sandie at the Art Group; those who have run the coffee mornings and our team of cleaners and gardeners, who keep the place as tidy as possible. Special mention must go to Des Brooks who, although not a regular at St Peter’s, does interminable work in the churchyard and with small maintenance jobs.
We are extremely grateful for the army of helpers and volunteers who carry out a whole range of practical and spiritual tasks. Thank you, all of you – we could not carry out God’s work half so well without you.
## **Home and Overseas Mission**
The PCC has supported a number of different home and overseas charities throughout the year, including Christian Aid’s Myanmar appeal, Leeds DBF’s Sudan appeal, Leeds Autism Services and Mary’s Meals. We also held our annual Christingle Service raising funds for The Children’s Society, raising £187.13. This amount is showing as a liability on the report because the payment was made to them in January 2026.
## **Ecumenical relationships**
There is no formal Churches Together in Gildersome, although the church works with the Baptist Church on occasions such as the World Day of Prayer service, and Good Friday and Remembrance Sunday services.
## **Financial review**
Total receipts on unrestricted funds were £72,910 of which £46,561 was unrestricted voluntary donations, and a further £9,948 was from Gift Aid.
Giving through envelopes, standing orders and the Parish Giving Scheme increased by 4%; the amount recovered through Gift Aid increased by 7.9%. Total income decreased by 4.5% compared with last year.
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£63,808 was spent from unrestricted funds and a further £1,665 from restricted funds, to provide the Christian ministry from St. Peter’s Church, including full payment of the diocesan parish share of £40,385
During the year we actually spent less than we received, with a surplus of £8006 on unrestricted funds. The bank and deposit balances carried forward at 31 December 2025 on unrestricted funds totalled £19956
## **Reserves policy**
It is PCC policy to try to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds which equates to at least three months unrestricted payments. This is equivalent to £16,239, based on last year’s expenditure. It is held to smooth out fluctuations in cash flow and to meet emergencies. The cash balance of £19,956 held on unrestricted funds at the year end exceeds this target, however we have some capital expenditure in the pipeline, particularly repairing the roof (once again)
We hold restricted funds of £1,653 in the Children/Young People Fund and £50.00 restricted for helping young men find faith.
## **Structure, governance and management**
The Parochial Church Council is a corporate body established by the Church of England. The PCC operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure.
The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. At St. Peters the membership of the PCC consists of the clergy, churchwardens and Deanery Synod members (as ex-officio members) together with up to 12 members elected by those members of the congregation who are on the electoral roll of the church.
The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the parish including deciding on how the funds of the PCC are to be spent.
The full PCC met eight times during the year.
Additionally, the Standing Committee met once. No other PCC sub-committees currently exist.
## **Administrative information**
St Peter’s Church is situated in Church Street, Gildersome. It is part of the Diocese of Leeds within the Church of England. The correspondence address is 2A Church Street, Gildersome, Leeds, LS27 7AF. The PCC is a body corporate (PCC Powers Measure 1956, Church Representation Rules 2011). Registered charity number 1175182.
PCC members who have served at any time from 1 January 2025 until the date this report was approved are:
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## Ex Officio members:
- Vicar: The Reverend Patrick Senior – Chair
- Curate: The Reverend Denise Brogden
- Warden: Sue Panther
- Warden: Lorraine Lockwood until 18 May 2025
- Deanery Synod Representative: Shirley Morley
- Deanery Synod Representative: Susan Smith
## Elected members:
- Elizabeth Knight (from April 2022)
- Diana Bell (from April 2023)
- Susan Smith (from April 2023)
- Janet Clark (from 28 April 2024)
- Steve Smith until 12 November 2025
- Christine Lonsdale (from 28 April 2024)
- Sally Duxbury (from 28 April 2024)
- Linda Farnhill (from 28 April 2024)
- Lorraine Lockwood from 18 May 2025 to 12 November 2025
- Felicity Fahlstedt from 18 May 2025
Co-opted members:
- Rebecca Kelly (Safeguarding)
- Liz Pearce (Treasurer)
PCC Secretary (not a member of the PCC):
- Pat Pearson
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## **Receipts and Payments Account**
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Designated**
**funds**|**Restricte**
**d**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total**
**funds**|**Prior year**
**total funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts**|||||||
|Donations and legacies|56,509.07|-|50.00|-|56,559.0
7|57,827.74|
|Income from charitable activities|8,507.05|-|-|-|8,507.05|7,519.63|
|Other trading activities|7,381.50|-|-|-|7,381.50|10,515.00|
|Investments|513.32|-|-|-|513.32|571.70|
|Other income|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**Total Receipts**|**72,910.94**|**-**|**50.00**|**-**|**72,960.9**
**4**|**76,434.07**|
|**Payments**|||||||
|Raising funds|1,145.64|-|-|-|1,145.64|814.06|
|Expenditure on charitable activities|62,048.03|95.07|1,665.36|-|63,808.4
6|89,752.46|
|Other expenditure|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**Total Payments**|**63,193.67**|**95.07**|**1,665.36**|**-**|**64,954.1**
**0**|**90,566.52**|
||||||||
|**Excess of receipts over payments**
**before transfer**|**9,717.27**|**(95.07) **|**(1,615.36)**|**-**|**8,006.84 **|**(14,132.45**
**)**|
|**Transfers:**|||||||
|Gross transfers between funds - in|-|50.00|-|-|50.00|40,063.76|
|Gross transfers between funds - out|(50.00)|-|-|-|(50.00)|(40,063.76
)|
|Excess of receipts over payments
before other gains|9,667.27|(45.07)|(1,615.36)|-|8,006.84|(14,132.45
)|
|**Net movement in funds**|**9,667.27**|**(45.07) **|**(1,615.36)**|**-**|**8,006.84 **|**(14,132.45**
**)**|
**Reconciliation of funds**
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|**Excess of receipts over payments**
**at beginning of the year**|**9,684.45**|**9,684.45**|**650.10**|**3,318.96**|**-**|**13,653.5**
**1**|**27,785.96**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Excess of receipts over payments**
**for the year**|**19,351.72**||**605.03**|**1,703.60**|**-**|**21,660.3**
**5**|**13,653.51**|
|**Represented by**||||||||
|Unrestricted||||||||
|General fund|19,351.72||-|-|-|19,351.7
2|9,684.45|
|Designated||||||||
|Kitchen||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Maintenance Fund||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Mission And Outreach||-|605.03|-|-|605.03|650.10|
|Restricted||||||||
|Agency collection||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Children/Young People Fund||-|-|1,653.60|-|1,653.60|3,318.96|
|Creche Donation Fund||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Parish Development Fund||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Young Men's Faith Fund||-|-|50.00|-|50.00|-|
|**Balance Sheet (Summary)**||||||||
||||||**As at**||**As at**|
||||||**31/12/2025**|**31/12/2024**||
|**Fixed assets**||||||||
||||||**-**||**-**|
|**Current assets**||||||||
|Cash At Bank And In Hand|||||21,847.48||14,026.13|
||||||**21,847.48**||**14,026.13**|
|**Liabilities**||||||||
|Creditors: Amounts Falling Due In One|Year||||187.13||372.62|
||||||**187.13**||**372.62**|
|**Net current assets less current liabilities**|||||**21,660.35**||**13,653.51**|
|||||||||
|**Total assets less current liabilities**|||||**21,660.35**||**13,653.51**|
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## **Liabilities**
|**Total net assets less liabilities**
**Represented by**
**Unrestricted**
Unrestricted - General Funds
**Designated**
Designated - Mission And Outreach
**Restricted**
Restricted - Children/Young People Fund
Restricted - Young Men's Faith Fund
**Fund Totals**|**-**
**-**|
|---|---|
||**21,660.35**
**13,653.51**
19,351.72
9,684.45
605.03
650.10
1,653.60
3,318.96
50.00
-|
||**21,660.35**
**13,653.51**|
## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities (by code)**
|**Class and nominal code**|**General **|**Designated **|**Restricted **|**Endowment**|**Total**|**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Current Asset - Cash At Bank And In**|**Hand**||||||
|6501: Virgin Bank current account|-|-|-|-|-|134.67|
|6502: NatWest current account|11,063.27|(45.07)|(1,228.20)|-|9,790.00|2,137.84|
|6510: CCLA (CBF) deposit account|7,514.28|650.10|3,691.58|-|11,855.96|11,342.64|
|6590: Cash in hand|774.17|-|(572.65)|-|201.52|410.98|
|**Total**|**19,351.72**|**605.03**|**1,890.73**|**- **|**21,847.48 **|**14,026.13**|
|**Liability - Agency Accounts**|||||||
|6699: Agency collections|-|-|187.13|-|187.13|372.62|
|**Total**|**-**|**-**|**187.13**|**-**|**187.13**|**372.62**|
|**Net total assets**|**19,351.72**|**605.03**|**1,703.60**|**- **|**21,660.35 **|**13,653.51**|
|**Represented by**|||||||
|General (Unrestricted)|19,351.72|-|-|-|19,351.72|9,684.45|
|Designated - Mission and outreach|-|605.03|-|-|605.03|650.10|
|Restricted - Young|-|-|1,653.60|-|1,653.60|3,318.96|
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Restricted - Young men
- - 50.00 - 50.00 - **Total 19,351.72 605.03 1,703.60 - 21,660.35 13,653.51**
## **Fund movement summary**
**Fund Opening Incoming Outgoing Transfers Gains/Losses Journals Closing**
|**Mission and outreach**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Designated|650.10|-|95.07|50.00|-|-|605.03|
|**Sub-totals**|**650.10**|**-**|**95.07**|**50.00**|**-**|**-**|**605.03**|
|**Young men**||||||||
|Restricted|-|50.00|-|-|-|-|50.00|
|**Sub-totals**|**-**|**50.00**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**50.00**|
|**Young**||||||||
|Restricted|3,318.96|-|1,665.36|-|-|-|1,653.60|
|**Sub-totals**|**3,318.96**|**-**|**1,665.36**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,653.60**|
|**General**||||||||
|Unrestricted|9,684.45|72,910.94|63,193.67|(50.00)|-|-|19,351.72|
|**Sub-totals**|**9,684.45**|**72,910.94**|**63,193.67**|**(50.00)**|**-**|**-**|**19,351.72**|
|**Totals**|**13,653.51**|**72,960.94**|**64,954.10**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**21,660.35**|
## **Analysis of income and expenditure**
**Total**
**Restricte Unrestricted Designated d[Endowment][This year][Last year] INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM: Donations and legacies** - - - 0101 - Free Will Giving - Bank 9,997.40 9,997.40 16,137.04 - - - 0110 - Free Will Giving - Envelopes 1,317.00 1,317.00 1,854.00 0201 - Free Will Giving - Parish Giving - - - 29,498.4 Scheme 29,498.46 6[21,173.66]
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|0301 - Free Will Giving - loose
collections|plate|2,142.74|-|-|-|2,142.74|2,783.80|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|0550 - Donations||3,605.15|-|50.00|-|3,655.15|6,139.22|
|0601 - Gift Aid recovered||9,948.32|-|-|-|9,948.32|9,215.02|
|0801 - Grants||-|-|-|-|-|525.00|
|**Donations and legacies**|**Totals**|**56,509.07**|**-**|**50.00**|**-**|**56,559.0**
**7 **|**57,827.74**|
|**Income from charitable activities**||||||||
|0910 - Other funds generated||2,076.76|-|-|-|2,076.76|3,303.61|
|0912 - Coffee mornings||261.40|-|-|-|261.40|-|
|0917 - Scarecrow Festival||833.17|-|-|-|833.17|794.66|
|0918 - Coffee donations||821.47|-|-|-|821.47|472.45|
|0920 - Art Group||564.00|-|-|-|564.00|604.00|
|0921 - Wine Group||186.00|-|-|-|186.00|136.00|
|0922 - Meeting Place||-|-|-|-|-|90.00|
|0923 - Tots and Tea donations||228.25|-|-|-|228.25|136.91|
|1101 - Fees for weddings and
funerals||3,536.00|-|-|-|3,536.00|1,982.00|
|**Income from charitable activities**
**Totals**||**8,507.05**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**8,507.05**|**7,519.63**|
|**Other trading activities**||||||||
|1220 - Bookstall sales||293.00|-|-|-|293.00|90.00|
|1230 - Lettings - Church groups||125.00|-|-|-|125.00|-|
|1240 - Lettings - private bookings||6,963.50|-|-|-|6,963.50|10,425.00|
|**Other trading activities**|**Totals**|**7,381.50**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**7,381.50 **|**10,515.00**|
|**Investments**||||||||
|1020 - Bank interest||513.32|-|-|-|513.32|571.70|
|**Investments**|**Totals**|**513.32**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**513.32**|**571.70**|
|**Income and endowments Grand**
**totals**||**72,910.94**|**-**|**50.00**|**-**|**72,960.9**
**4 **|**76,434.07**|
|**EXPENDITURE ON:**||||||||
|**Raising funds**||||||||
|1720 - Costs of stewardship campaign||-|-|-|-|-|85.49|
|1730 - Costs of fetes & other events||1,145.64|-|-|-|1,145.64|728.57|
|**Raising funds**|**Totals**|**1,145.64**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,145.64**|**814.06**|
|**Expenditure on charitable activities**||||||||
|1801 - Giving - overseas mission||-|-|-|-|-|168.80|
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|1850 - Giving - home mission||33.30|-|-|-|33.30|154.65|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|1910 - Diocesan parish share||40,385.00|-|-|-|40,385.0
0|41,469.00|
|1923 - Support for Children's Activities||-|-|1,665.36|-|1,665.36|1,378.34|
|1924 - Support for Tots & Tea||-|-|-|-|-|6.40|
|2101 - Working expenses of
incumbent||487.64|-|-|-|487.64|717.82|
|2150 - Vicar's telephone||361.01|-|-|-|361.01|568.57|
|2170 - Training||-|-|-|-|-|205.00|
|2201 - Mission and evangelism costs||137.10|95.07|-|-|232.17|710.78|
|2301 - Insurance||2,694.49|-|-|-|2,694.49|2,636.72|
|2310 - Church office - telephone||587.37|-|-|-|587.37|650.89|
|2330 - Routine repairs and
maintenance||1,558.69|-|-|-|1,558.69|8,414.59|
|2331 - Cleaning||1,973.18|-|-|-|1,973.18|2,371.47|
|2340 - Upkeep of services||767.32|-|-|-|767.32|1,050.74|
|2350 - Upkeep of churchyard||390.90|-|-|-|390.90|1,002.00|
|2360 - Administration||186.75|-|-|-|186.75|330.21|
|2362 - Copier/printer costs||253.30|-|-|-|253.30|785.70|
|2363 - Bank charges||42.97|-|-|-|42.97|-|
|2380 - Independent examination/audit
fees||7.69|-|-|-|7.69|-|
|2401 - Church running - electric||2,892.20|-|-|-|2,892.20|3,119.40|
|2410 - Church running - gas||8,058.08|-|-|-|8,058.08|11,767.51|
|2420 - Church running - water||851.31|-|-|-|851.31|1,565.97|
|2510 - Bookstall costs||306.98|-|-|-|306.98|778.90|
|2701 - Major repairs to church
building||-|-|-|-|-|9,041.00|
|2720 - Decorating of church building||72.75|-|-|-|72.75|858.00|
|**Expenditure on charitable activities**
**Totals**||**62,048.03**|**95.07**|**1,665.36**|**-**|**63,808.4**
**6 **|**89,752.46**|
|**Expenditure Grand**|**totals**|**63,193.67**|**95.07**|**1,665.36**|**-**|**64,954.1**
**0 **|**90,566.52**|
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Inde
ndent Examlrterfs Re
My examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting Tecords kept by
the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes
consideration of any unusual items or di%105us in the accounts. and seekin8 explanations
form you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not
provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion 15
given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair vi< and the report is limited to
those matters set out in the statement beksw.
Independent examinerfs statement
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention..
l. Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any respect the requirements
To keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act,.
and
To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and compty
with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met,. or
2. To which. in my opinion. attention should be drawn in order to obtain a proper
understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Name:
Date=
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Address..
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