2020-12-31-accounts - The Parochial Church Council Of The Eccelsiastical Parish Of East Greenwich

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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 1 January 2020 Period start date to 31 December 2020 Period end date

Charity name: Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of East Greenwich

Charity registration number: 1175274

Objectives and Activities

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SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 Promoting in the Parish the whole
purposes of the charity mission of the Church pastoral,
as set out in its evangelistic, social and ecumenical .
governing document
Para 1.17 and •
Summary of the main Regular public worship open to
1.19
activities in relation to all.
those purposes for the •
The provision of sacred space
public benefit, in
for personal prayer and
particular, the activities,
contemplation.
projects or services •
Pastoral work, including visiting
identified in the
the sick and the bereaved.
accounts.
•
Teaching of Christianity through
sermons, courses and small
groups
•
Taking of religious assemblies in
schools.
•
The provision of a youth club
with a Christian ethos.
•
Promotion of Christianity
through the staging of events
and meetings, and the
distribution of literature.
•
Promoting the whole mission of
the Church through provision of
activities for senior citizens,
parents and toddlers and other
special need groups.
•
Supporting other charities in the
UK and overseas
Statement confirming Para 1.18 The Trustees
whether the trustees
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
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Charity Commission on public benefit

Achievements and Performance

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SORP reference
Summary of the main All 3 Churches’ activities were
achievements of the severely restricted by COVID and the
charity, identifying the attendant restrictions on human
Para 1.20
difference the charity’s activity. Both Christ Church and St
work has made to the Georges continued to put out online
circumstances of its services on Sundays via Facebook and
beneficiaries and any YouTube and all 3 of our Churches
wider benefits to society continued study and discipleship
as a whole. Groups online.
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Financial Review

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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 The reserve in the Parish has grown
financial position at the
end of the period
Statement explaining Para 1.22 Reserves Policy requires reserves of 3
the policy for holding months bills covering the whole Parish
reserves stating why are held within the Churches. The
they are held reserves held considerable exceed
this.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 £240K
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22
reserves
Details of fund materially Para 1.24 St George’s Church needs significant
in deficit repairs over the next 10 years. There
is not sufficient money held to do this
work. Sub committees continue to
look at options for achieving this.
Explanation of any Para 1.23
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
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Structure, Governance and Management

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Description of charity’s The Charity is governed by its PCC
trusts: (Parochial Church Council)
Type of governing Para 1.25 The Parochial Church Council (Powers)
document Measures 1956 as amended and the
(trust deed, royal Church Representation
charter) Rules (contained in Schedule 3 to the
Synodical Government Measures 1969
as amended)
How is the charity Para 1.25 Unincorporated association
constituted?
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(e.g unincorporated association, CIO) Trustee selection Para 1.25 Trustees are elected by the Members methods including of the Parish. They serve for 3 years details of any and vacancies are filled annually at constitutional provisions the APCM meeting e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of East Greenwich Other name the charity Parish of E Greenwich uses Registered charity 1175274 number Charity’s principal Parish of E Greenwich address C/ The Forum Trafalgar Road SE10 9EQ

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
Rev Margaret Chair Ex officio
1
Cave
Rev John Philpot Ex officio
2
Howard
3 Jane Petrie April 20 Ex officio
Dominic September 19
4
Hubbuck
Esther Reader Ex officio
5
Whittlesea Read
6 Tim Cave Reader/Deanery Ex officio
7 Julie Mason Reader Ex officio
8 Sussan Ibiama Churchwarden
9 David Thomson PCC
10 Janet Clipsham Churchwarden
11 Helen Frith Churchwarden
12 Gav Desir PCC
13 Kerry Mehmi PCC
14 Folarin Akinbami From April 2018 PCC
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15 Patrick Kekula From April 2018 PCC
16 Tracey Milsom From April 2018 PCC
Michael Churchwarden
17
Crawford
18 Judith Eastaugh Deanery/Treasurer PCC
19 Pansy Graham Deanery
20 Olaitan Kupoluyi PCC
21 Tendai Ndanga PCC
22 Courtney Plank PCC
23 Sydney Smith Deanery
Simon Stephens PCC
24
Mannassiev
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Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year N/A

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets NONE held in this capacity

Treasurer’s Report 2020

2020 has been a tricky year. Income at both Christ Church and St George’s fell, but at Christ Church it was due to a timing a difference in the collection of gift aid and there was no real fall in giving. At St Georges there was a reduction in giving and in income from lettings which was compensated for in a rise in planned giving and a reduction in expenditure. Reserves include a sum of about £48k which is about to be spent. Taking this into account reserves have held steady during this difficult time. All three Churches are in a good position to emerge from the financial difficulties of 2020.

REPORTS FROM THE CHURCHES OF THE PARISH

Christ Church 2020

2020 was a very different year in the life of Christ Church. The first 10 weeks of the 2020 saw a successful Alpha course taking place with people coming to faith and joining the church family. However, from lockdown on 17[th] March, the church has been mostly online. Overall, the church community has continued to thrive and grow through online services, Zoom Children & Young People’s work and Zoom Connect groups. However, there are a number of activities that just haven’t been possible such as some of our youth work, in person Connect groups and, of course, our main Sunday morning worship in the church building.

A particularly important aspect of our ministry in 2020 was around racial justice; in response to the Black Lives Matter protests, we set up a small steering group which led to us issuing a statement, setting up a Padlet wall and a Facebook group, holding a Service of Lamentations in July and hosting a session with Ben Lindsay in October on his book, ‘We Need to Talk about Race’.

Visibility

Christ Church has focussed on high level visibility during lockdown through regular website updates and being active on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. In particular, the website ‘Covid-19’ page was set up in the first week of lockdown and together with social media and A Church Near You has been regularly updated as restrictions have changed. There has also been a focus on regular contact with all the members of the church family through hard copy mailings as well as electronic ‘Mailchimp’ messages.

Sadly, many of our usual events such as Marathon Sunday and the Trafalgar Day service in East Greenwich Pleasaunce were unable to take place along with other community events such as hustings, one off and regular Thursday lunchtime concerts. In addition, we were unable to have social events such as the International Evening at Harvest.

Growing Our Spiritual Lives Together As we entered lockdown, our Connect Groups immediately converted to meeting via Zoom – the six different Connect Groups which usually meet in homes or at the church midweek to Connect with God and connect with one another – have had to become online but have managed to continue and thrive. A new group arose out of the Alpha course that took place in January and February before lockdown. The hard copy mailings have had a particular focus on encouraging everyone to remain connected during lockdown and to encourage people in prayer. The worship band led by Jim has done an amazing job providing worship videos for our online services which have been really appreciated by everyone in the church family.

Children and Young People Children and Young People’s work has continued during lockdown largely via Zoom. The Sunday CYP work has continued in three different groups on Zoom once a fortnight: Sparrows, Junior Church and Sunday Huddle. We have tried different formats for our youth work during the week but have not arrived at anything that has worked long term. We are delighted that Christ Church has seen continued biological growth and that we have welcomed lots of new babies to our church family during lockdown.

We continued with Praise & Play by broadcasting it every week from March to September but have now paused it. Similarly, we broadcast Messy Church several times before pausing. Sadly, the Easter Journey was cancelled. However, the Christmas Journey was offered to schools in video format with one scene being recorded in Christ Church with Christ Church actors.

Loving Service to the Community The East Greenwich Legal Advice Clinic has been busy in lockdown but has not been meeting in real life continuing by operation on the telephone and online. The level of demand remains high, and we are fortunate to have help from volunteers from inside and outside the church community with Tim Cave as clinic coordinator .

Christ Church has continued to be a welcome centre for the Greenwich Food Bank with venue coordinator, Stephen Wallace throughout 2020 apart from the first lockdown – it is one of the activities that is exempt from lockdown. The Greenwich Winter Night Shelter closed 10 days early in March 2020 because of

Covid-19. However, the winter season 2020/21 has seen Greenwich Winter Night Shelter unable to operate because of Covid limitations.

Care for Creation

We were very pleased that Christ Church received the Eco Church Silver Award in November 2019. We have continued to focus on Care for Creation in 2020 and held another sermon series in Lent 2020 on Care for Creation to continue our commitment to environmental justice. During lockdown, we have continued to work hard to make our church garden a haven of peace for people and wildlife.

Margaret Cave, Vicar and Team Rector Sussan Ibiama, Michael Crawford, Churchwardens

St George’s Westcombe Park

St George's report 2020

This has been a year like no other: we started 2020 hearing about the spread of the Corona virus but also knowing that this was the year that our Minister, Rev. Tim Yeager was to retire and the church was about to move into an interregnum. We were delighted to be awarded the Eco Church Silver in February, but March brought lockdown and we began to put plans into place for continuing the life of the church in this difficult time following our 5 point mission action plan.

Bible study continued but via zoom with studies on Judith and Esther along with our final social lectures finishing with a very interesting talk by Tim on his work as a minister in downtown Chicago.

The plan ensured that support was given to members of our congregation who needed it through a network and this included phone calls to members, shopping for those members who were shielding and a hot meal delivered to the sick. When the church building had to be closed our services moved across to YouTube and went out live at 11am. These were followed by a zoom coffee chat where we could speak with each other offering help and support. Julie also ran a children's junior church.

As lockdown started to ease much work was done in the church making sure that it was safe for members to return following all safety measures. Three baptisms took place during this time Jamil and his baby sister Nikki, followed a week later with an adult baptism of Kim Valentine. A new in person, “spoken word” worship service was introduced at 9.30am and our live YouTube service continued at 11am as many of our congregation were still shielding.

Tim's final leaving service took place on 30th August and though we were very restricted as who we could invite due to limited numbers, representatives from all the groups that Tim had worked with during his time at St George's were present at the service either in person or via video link. Gifts were given to Tim and Caroline which included a specially commissioned stole representing his work here and a commissioned glass bowl with a map of the parish incorporated within it.

As we went into the interregnum our 9.30 am service was supported by the parish team led by the Rev Margaret Cave and our 11am service continued live on YouTube but was also put out on Facebook. The new format of the 11 am service included a piece called “St Georges and me” where a member of the congregation was interviewed by either Paul or Tracey. Sceptics has continued and is now led by Rev Dr John Philpott Howard and a very interesting bible study took place in the autumn led by the Rev Barbara Moss titled conversations with God based on the book of Genesis.

Our year finished with various Christmas services held either on Facebook or in church. A great deal of work has been done behind the scenes to support online virtual services and live services in church and thanks go out to everyone who has helped and contributed.

Helen Frith Churchwarden

Holy Trinity

This year for Holy Trinity has looked very different from the year we had imagined, as - in a now familiar story - we wrestled with what church looks like in

the midst of a pandemic. Following my appointment in January, I found myself moving to the Peninsula in the first week of the March lockdown, starting my role in April and seeking to work out what it might look like to gather community in an almost entirely online space.

Spring was focused on making connections in the local community, getting to know key people and re-establishing the Agapai group, currently known as HT Wednesdays. For much of the spring and summer, meetings took place on Zoom, with some face-to-face meetings inside and outside, as regulations and weather allowed. It was encouraging to read the book ‘How to Pray’ together as part of this, and to join in worship together, finding a space of fellowship in the middle of the week. Later in the autumn we ran Alpha on Zoom in that slot, led by Dom Hubbuck and me, which involved many stimulating discussions.

Our Instagram and Facebook pages have been getting good engagement, especially in relation to two series of video and visual content; one on prayer and one for Advent.

From the spring onwards we collected food and dry goods for Peninsula schools, grateful thanks go to many local residents who donated - and did a fundraising drive at Christmas, raising around £1000 for local vulnerable school families.

We took part in the Thrive wellbeing festival organised by Upper and Lower Riverside, hosting a meet-and-greet slot, a couple of meditations - in person and online - and an online cook-along.

For families, we published our parish-wide online Praise and Play to our HT Facebook pages, as well as several online Messy Church events. We’d been hoping to do in-person events in the run-up to Christmas but these were sadly cancelled as the new variant accelerated in pace. Schools-wise, I was able to take several assemblies at St Mary Magdalene School, predominately in the Secondary Phase, and it’s been great to get to know students and staff there.

The Prayer Space was open on and off during the year, as restrictions allowed - with plans to develop its use further in 2021, both from a faith and a community standpoint.

My thanks go to all in the Parish and beyond who have been so welcoming and supportive this year, with a special thank you to Louise Knight for all her great work managing Holy Trinity’s finances.

Revd Jane Petrie, Ordained Minister for Greenwich Peninsula

Parish of E Greenwich Statement of A&L as at 31 Dec 2019

Independent examiner’s report to the members of Parochial Church Council of the Parish of East Greenwich

I report to the members on my examination of the accounts of the Parochial Church Council of East Greenwich Parish (PCC) for the year ended 31 December 2020.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The members of the PCC are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of independent examiner’s statement

I report in respect of my examination of the PCC’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

An examination includes:

A review of the accounting records kept by the PCC and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records.
It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the 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 is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent examiner's statement

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

The accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
The accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
The accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I 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.

I have not identified any areas for improvement in this year’s examination.

Signed: Adeola Boateng

Name: Adeola Boateng CPFA

Professional body: The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Membership number: 00105114

Address:66 Caldy Road, Belvedere, DA17 6JS

Date: 7[th] March 2021

Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) JP Eastaugh

Full name(s) Judith Eastaugh

Position (eg Treasurer/Secretary Secretary, Chair, etc)

Date 23 March 2021

Combined A&L

Statement Of Assets & Liabilities as at 31 December	2019
Assets	Christ Church	Holy Trinity
	£	£
Bank - Current accounts	82,986.34	10,324.00
Bank - Deposit accounts
Deposits held by SDBE	19,342.43
Amount due	4.02
Total assets	###	###
Liabilities	Christ Church	Holy Trinity
	£	£
Liability to benefciaries of trusts/restricted funds	19,324.43
Restricted funds held within overall cash and bank	50,961.75
Amounts owed
Total liabilities	70,286.18	-
Parish Surplus
General funds held	32,018.61	10,324.00
Total Liabilities and General Funds	### 0	### 0

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St George's Parish Total
£ £ £
61,453.22 43,454.93 198,218.49
10,033.30 10,033.30
13,042.50 32,384.93
43.76 - 43.76 4.02
71,530.28 56,453.67 ###
St Georges Parish Total
£ £ £
13,042.50 32,366.93
7,753.19 23,326.43 82,041.37
7,753.19 36,368.93 ###
63,777.09 20,084.74 126,204.44
71,530.28 56,453.67 ###
0 0 0
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Parish of East Greenwich

Parish Return 2020

Consolidated P&L

	Christ Church	Christ Church	StG	StG	HT	HT		PARISH
RECEIPTS	Unrestricted	Restricted	Unrestricted	Restricted	Unrestricted	Restricted		Unrestricted
Tax ef Planned Giving	33103		15,971.00		2,520.00			450
Other Planned Giving			0
COLLECTIONS	11506.35		3,000.45
All other Giving	286.5		3,506.63		1105			12
Gift Aid	0		3,584.00		538
Legacies
Grants
Activities for generating Funds
Investment Income
			10.50
Church Activities
stat fees retained by PCC	311		45.00					3827
Trading: lettings etc	1590.96		34,105.11
Other
everything else
TOTAL RECEIPTS	46797.81		60,222.69		4163		0	4289
unrestricted	46797.81		60,222.69		4163			4289
restricted					0
total	46797.81		60,222.69		4163			4289

RESOURCES EXPENDED

COST OF GENERATING FUNDS cost of fundraising

CHURCH ACTIVITIES
mission, giving, donations	13,714.63	13,332.69	524		4363
Diocesan Parish Share	26497	24,000.00	2500		0
salaries, wages, honoraria	6739.07	3,500.04			3558
Clergy and Staf Expenses		0.00			200
CHURCH EXPENSES
Mission
Church running exs	4162.93	1,109.82	689		152
Church utility bills	438.21	12,574.04			0
cost of trading/photocopier	663.63
Major Cap Ex
major repairs to church buildlngs		0.00
major repairs to Halls/other property
new building works
other payments not listed	1,140.00				2862
TOTAL Payments	53355.47	54516.59	3713	0	11135
unrestricted	53355.47	54516.59	3713		11135
resstricted			0
TOTAL Payments	53355.47	54516.59	3713		11135

PARISH COMBINED COMBINED Restricted Unrestricted Restricted

52,044.00 14,506.80 4,910.13 4,122.00

10.50 0.00 0.00 4,183.00 35,696.07

115,472.50 115,472.50 0.00 115,472.50

31,934.32 52,997.00 13,797.11 200.00

6,113.75 13,012.25 663.63

4,002.00

122,720.06 122,720.06 0.00 122,720.06