2021-12-31-accounts - Sherford Church Of England Community Church

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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 01-01-2021 Period start date To 31-12-2021 Period end date

Charity name: Sherford Church of England Community Church

Charity registration number: 1175545

Objectives and Activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	To advance the Christian faith for the benefit of the public in Sherford and the surrounding areas in accordance with the statements of belief appearing in the schedule.
Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts.	Para 1.17 and 1.19	Throughout 2021 our weekly Sunday church services have remained our ‘flagship’ gatherings. Through these, residents of the town of Sherford are able to practise their Christian faith and explore the tenets of Christianity alongside others. During the months from 10thJanuary to 4th April, we held our services exclusively online on the Facebook Live platform. We chose this platform, rather than another like Zoom, in order to make our services as widely available to the general public as possible. Because of the positive reception to our online services, and because of some church and community members’ ongoing needs to shield or self-isolate, we continued live-streaming our services even when we began meeting in-person again from Easter Sunday onwards. As in the years since 2018, the wider public has particularly benefitted from our Sunday services on major calendar events, including Mothering Sunday, Easter Sunday, Father’s Day, Remembrance Sunday and Christmas. Our Act of Remembrance was well-received, especially by the many military families in our community. Our open-air Christmas carol service was also well-received by the wider population, and was our best-attended service since the beginning of our church. Following on from our popular online carol service in December 2020, we again invited church and local community members to record themselves singing along to a popular

Christmas Carol, and then produced a video combining all our performances together. This was played at a number of Christmas services, as well as being posted online for the community to enjoy. Alongside our Sunday services we have also run two regular evening groups, one for Christians wishing to explore their faith more deeply, and another for others wishing to explore the beliefs of the Christian faith for the first time. These have continued almost exclusively on Zoom since March 2020, with the exception of a few weeks meeting in the vicar’s garden in the late Summer. While we had to close our parent and toddler group during the Spring months, we endeavoured to stay connected with the many families who have benefited from the group. We did this primarily by offering craft resources for the toddlers to use at home, and by encouraging connection on our busy Facebook group. In the early Summer we were able to run a weekly outdoor toddler group in the local Sherford Country Park, which was much appreciated by the community. From September onwards we were able to move indoors again, in the brand new Sherford Community Hub building. We have also taken as part of our objective the goal of growing and strengthening the local community. Our most important contribution in 2021 was partnering with other local organisations to put on a family fun day on Sunday 5[th] September as part of the celebration of the second leg of the Tour of Britain cycle race beginning in Sherford on the morning of Monday 6[th] September. At this event we gave away hundreds of take-away cream teas, and collected donations towards a hardship fund for a network of churches we support in Northern India. During the Winter of 2021 members of the church and local community started offering food parcels through the Sherford Mutual Aid Group. The church was pleased to partner with the MAG, particularly by holding and distributing grant funding towards the project that was awared by Plymouth City Council. Just over half of the grant money was used to provide food boxes to families in need in the area, as well as storage facilities for dried goods that members of the community could take

		as and when needed. The rest of the grant money will be used in 2022 to cover further food parcels as needed. Rev. Tom Brassil (Mission Community Leader) has also played a key role in advocating for the community through his involvement in the Sherford Liaison Group (a group comprising local councillors and development officers, and representatives of the development consortium and the local community). To further this role he has also been involved in an initiative called Connecting Sherford, which brings together representatives of a diverse group of health and social care agencies (both those operating under Plymouth City Council and South Hams District Council remit). This group has effectively lobbied the development consortium to provide a temporary community building for Sherford, which wasfinallyinstalledinSummer 2021.
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	All Trustees are fully aware of the CIO’s role in providing public benefit across the whole geographical area of Sherford and beyond.

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	SORP reference
Policy on grant making	Para 1.38
Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38
Contribution made by volunteers	Para 1.38	A further note alongside the points raised above in relation to our goal of growing and strengthening the Sherford community: Members of the church have continued to partner with others in the community in administering the Sherford Mutual Aid Group, including handling grant funding awarded to the group from Plymouth City Council (see above).
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Achievements and Performance

	SORP reference
Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.	Para 1.20	Our main achievements during the year have largely been listed above: Our parent and toddler group has successfully maintained contact with many of its clients, as well as contacting new clients. We had a good uptake when we were able to re-open an outdoor group in Summer 2021. Our Sunday morning congregation has been growing as well, with a number of people beginning to join in regularly via our Facebook Live streams. Although Facebook’s metrics make this number difficult to quantify with certainty, our estimation is that at least 7 new people have joined us online, and a further 5 in- person. Financially our charity has continued growing in stability, with almost £20000 in regular giving from private donors connected to the charity showing a good deal of growth on last year’s figures, despite the financial difficulties many have faced in the pandemic. We have worked hard on communication with donors, volunteers and the general public over the year. We have been growing and maintaining a list of contacts for our regular email newsletters through the popular Mailchimp platform: we have 67 supporters to whom we send out a quarterly update, and 48 contacts who receive a weekly e-newsletter. We have established ourselves online, with our websitewww.sherfordchurch.netkept up- to-date regularly with details of our activities and volunteers. Further, we have been growing our online presence through our Instagram feed and a Facebook page, with two accompanying Facebook groups. The social media aspect is of particular importance in the early stages of the Sherford town, where people communicate almost exclusively via Facebook in the absence of any physical community newsletters or noticeboards. Our biggest achievements are those which are less easy to quantify, namely the relationships built and strengthened in the local community. In 2018 we established ourselves as a trusted group thatis seeking

the good of the community in Sherford, and we have built further on this through our community work in 2019, 2020 and 2021. As noted above, Rev. Tom Brassil has been representing and advocating for the community through a number of channels. One sign of the warmth with which the community regards us is that they have welcomed our offers to pray regularly around and for the town. We have now been doing our weekly prayer-walk around Sherford for over two years. During this time the prayer walk has helped a number of local residents feel cared for both relationally and spiritually, as well as enriching the lives of our volunteers. Another sign was that the community specifically requested that we put on an open-air carol service in December as part of a wider community Christmas event. Even when much of the event had to be cancelled because of COVID concerns, they remained keen for the church event to go ahead.

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41
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Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	At the end of the period we are in a favourable financial position, with net liquid assets of £39893 and £6196 in capital assets.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	The charity currently has no investment policy, preferring to hold its reserves in an accessible current account. As a charity we are committed to ensuring our reserves are

		at a level to cover our regular outgoings for at least three months.
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	£39893
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22	N/A
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24	N/A
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23	N/A

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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47	As noted above, the CIO’s principal sources of funding are volunteers considering themselves to be members of our church.
Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted	Para 1.46
A description of the principal risks facing the charity	Para 1.46
Other

Structure, Governance and Management

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Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)	Para 1.25	Charitable Incorporated Organisation Constitution (Foundation Model)
How is the charity constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO)	Para 1.25	Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Foundation Model)
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees	Para 1.25	2_ex-officio_by virtue of license granted by the Lord Bishop of Exeter 2 nominated by the Lord Bishop of Exeter 1 elected by trustees

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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees	Para 1.51	In line with the Church of England volunteer recruitment policy, all trustees must complete an enhanced DBS check and undertake enhanced (leadership level) safeguarding training. This is high-quality training administered by the Exeter Diocesan Safeguarding Team.
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51	Our charity operates under the umbrella of the Church of England, in the Diocese of Exeter. We receive oversight and support through the Diocese including optional training for our Trustees relevant to their respective roles, safeguarding advice through the Diocesan Safeguarding Team and other support as needed (including, where necessary, available help with running youth and children’s groups, making our charity Dementia Friendly, support with media and PR, and legal assistance through the Diocesan Registrar). Our chief contact within the Diocese is the Archdeacon of Plymouth, the Ven. Nick Shutt, who has been appointed to the office of Visitor, with roles as set out in our Constitution. As part of the Diocese of Exeter we are entitled to representation on the local Plymouth Deanery Synod. The licensed Trustees (Rev. Tom Brassil and Andrew Williams) sit on this Synod by virtue of their respective Bishop’s Licenses, and we currently have two further seats on the Synod, filled by two members of our church who, according to the legal structure of the CIO, are non-voting Members. The charity is set up to resemble a Church of England Parochial Church Council, with theMissionCommunityLeadertaking the

		role as_ex officio_chair of Trustees in the same way as a Vicar is chair of the PCC. We have two Trustees nominated by the Lord Bishop of Exeter to mirror the position of Churchwarden in a PCC, and we have the option of electing further Trustees, a process in which all Members of the CIO are entitled tovote.
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51	The charity works alongside other local organisations including Plymouth City Council, South Hams Council, Brixton Parish Council, the Sherford Consortium, the Sherford Community Land Trust, SPACE (South Devon Youth Work service) and Sherford Vale Primary School. All of these links are casual rather than formalised.
Other

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	Sherford Church of England Community Church
Other name the charity uses	Sherford Community Church
Registered charity number	1175545
Charity’s principal address	3 Vinery Lane Plymouth PL9 8DD

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
Rev. Thomas Brassil	Mission Community Leader (ex officio)		Lord Bishop of Exeter
Dr. Andrew Williams	Licensed Reader (ex officio)		Lord Bishop of Exeter
Dr. Clive Irving	Nominated Trustee		Lord Bishop of Exeter
Mrs. Lynne Bernardes	Nominated Trustee	01/01/2021-02/07/2021	Lord Bishop of Exeter
Mrs. Elaine O’Brien	Appointed Trustee, Secretary of Trustees
Mrs Elizabeth Blore-Preece	Appointed Trustee	15/12/2021-31/12/2021

– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved

Director name

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets held in this capacity

Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Visitor	Ven. Nick Shutt	St. Mark’s Church, 1 Sanctuary Close, Plymouth, PL2 1EN



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Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

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Declarations

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date
	Rev. Thomas James Brassil
	Chair of Trustees
	02/08/2022
	02/08/2022

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O)SHERFORD COMMIJNITV CWIJRCH srATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACllVtrIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 Fund5 TOTAL Funds 2021 2020 INCOMING RESOURCES Ino)mlng resources fmwn gerwdted fvnd5: Voluritary income Aotivities that generate fuTrJs Grdnts InveStmt incc 19,rn 19,739 14,724 5,000 19,739 23,739 19,724 IncomirKJ from dwritatle acbmty Other incoming resow Totsl incoming resoiirtys 1,620 21.359 1,620 25,359 193 19,917 RESOURCES EXPENDED Costs of generating fijnds Churth artivitie5 Charitable acbvrtie5 +vernance costs Total resources expeThled 9,764 2,128 240 12,132 9,764 4,264 240 14.268 4,629 2,136 120 6,749 2,136 Net incomingl(oirtgolng) resourees before transfers 9.227 11.091 13,168 6&7 Net movemert in fvnds 9,227 11.091 13,168 Total funds blfwd l January 2021 36,414 38,414 25,246 Totsl funds clfwd 31 Do(wnbar 2021

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