SEEK, SERVE AND SHARE OUR LORD TOGETHER Annual Report and Financial Statements of the Parochial Church Council Year ending 31[st] December 2022 ## **Vicar’s Report** At the end of 2021 a seemingly small and insignificant event took place. A couple from El Salvador came to the carol service. As people welcomed and cha?ed to them it became clear they were asylum seekers. Their visit planted a seed - how might St Dunstan’s support this young ChrisFan couple? Early in 2022, this seed began to grow when Rachel and I bumped (looking back, more of a God-given nudge) into Sara Nathan, local resident and co-founder of ‘Homes for Refugees’. Sara asked if St Dunstan’s would be willing to host a drop-in for Asylum Seekers. So, on Thursday 24[th] February 2022 (the same day Russia invaded Ukraine) the EASE drop-in was born. Looking back, it is easy to see God’s hand at work through EASE. Not only have we as a church had the opportunity to meet, support and be blessed by asylum-seekers from a variety of countries, we have also had the bonus of geUng to know and work alongside some amazing people from our local community. EASE has brought us into contact with a large number of remarkable people including a young Afghan couple, Sohrab and Maryam. They openly shared with the church their moving story of why they had to leave their home and their harrowing journey to England. Sohrab and Maryam have become very much part of the church family and were bapFsed just before Christmas. EASE conFnues to do good work, bringing church and local community together. For some of us, it has also raised some difficult quesFons regarding the treatment of asylum seekers. We conFnue to Page 2 pray for our government as they seek compassionate and fair ways to treat asylum seekers, hopefully in the kind of ways we would like to be treated, if we found ourselves in their predicament. If one seemingly small event had a profound effect on St Dunstan’s, so did a much larger and obviously significant moment. On Thursday 8[th] September 2022, a_er a 70 year reign, Queen Elizabeth II died and entered glory. Earlier in the year, Lesley Moszoro and team had helped St Dunstan’s celebrate the Queen’s PlaFnum Jubilee with a community tea and tree -planFng in the church garden. The tributes for the Queen that came from all around the world shared a number of themes in common. They spoke of Her Majesty’s faithful service, loving respect for others and quiet but deeply held ChrisFan faith. In a year when the UK’s 10 and 11 Downing Street seemed to be fi?ed with revolving doors, Queen Elizabeth II’s example of constancy and servant-leadership shone. Other significant moments for St Dunstan’s included a joyous confirmaFon service, with 13 candidates ranging from 12 to 40 years old, led by the new Bishop of Willesden, Bishop Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy . As a church family, we conFnue to feel the loss of Edith Purvis and John Aldridge. Our thoughts and prayers remain with Charlo?e and David and family, as well as Graham and Clive. We pray that even in the midst of grief, God will fill us with the hope He offers us through the death and resurrecFon of his Son. I can only briefly menFon the numerous Alpha and confirmaFon courses held, the home groups and new youth group, the growing numbers of children and young families at St Dunstan’s and the conFnued search for a children and families’ worker, as well as the BBQ’s and Christmas Fair with surely the hardest working Santa in West London (Thanks Nigel). Annual Report 2022 Page 3 On behalf of the church can I publicly thank our wardens, James and Carl, PCC secretary Helena Maitland, our treasurer (and much more), Alison Wood, our administrator Jacqui, our ordinand Martha and of course our beloved PCC for their service and encouragement over the last year. I hope you enjoy reading the rest of the report and find yourself thanking God for all He has done and conFnues to do at St Dunstan’s. (Rev Jon Westall) Page 4 ## _**Worship Services**_ Our main services on Sunday are **: 9 am** - traditional, liturgy led, communion service with choir and Sunday Club. **10.45 am** - with worship group, Sunday Club and monthly communion. - **Festivals and summer holidays** All age service at 10 am. On **Wednesdays** we hold a short said communion service ## _**Home Groups**_ Bible study, prayer and fellowship at the home of the **Riddioughs** on **Monday evenings** and the **Morgans** on **Thursday evenings.** Over 2022, we looked at, amongst other things, the books of Amos, Mark and Acts and grappled with the subject of unanswered prayer. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## _**New Wine**_ A number of St Dunstan families spent a week in August camping in Peterborough for a wonderful celebration of God’s work in our lives. Please speak to the Riddioughs, the Perrymans or the Pennells for more information about joining us at New Wine in 2023. ## _**Kidzone**_ Short, after-school church service on **Mondays** for primary school children and their parents. It’s continued to grow with new families arriving into Acton. **Thank you** to **Kathleen Chapple** who has retired after • 15 years of service. and to **Ros Yates** and **Atlanta Henry** • for stepping in. • ## _**Sunday Club**_ This continues to grow and we continue our search for a children’s worker after Sam’s departure. We have reverted back to 3 age groups at the 10.45 am service and there is one group at the 9 am service. **Thank you** to **Esther** _**Youth work**_ **Brow** n and **Rosanna Hill** • Sunday evenings for taking up the reigns and pitch-and-putt after Sam’s departure. sessions with Jon, Thanks also to **Rachel** Martha and Miranda. **Westall** and **Ros Yates** • Youth Alpha course. and to everyone who has • Youth confirmation volunteered. - Youth confirmation course. Annual Report 2022 Page 5 ## _**Drop-in**_ Every Thursday, we open our doors to provide space for a drop-in for asylum seekers & refugees run by Ealing & Acton Support Enterprise (EASE), a group of volunteers from the local community and our church. Each week, up to 40 visitors receive hot food, living supplies, English lessons and support. This is wholly volunteer led - so please consider how you could support this venture. For more information, stories and inspiration, see https:// twitter.com/EASEealing ## _**Building hire**_ - We are blessed to be able to hire out our building to a number of organisations such as the Christian Mission Church and the Hammersmith Dog and Puppy Club and for one-off events and parties. We thank **Jacqui** for all her work in managing the building hire. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## _**Stewardship**_ We thank Nyuk Lau for taking over the role of Stewardship Secretary. As her report overleaf emphasises, we thank everyone not only for giving monetarily but also in the provision of time, talents, possessions and prayers. Opportunities to get involved include: - Cooking meals for anyone in need – from new parents to the recently bereaved. - Giving lifts to those who can’t make it to church independently. - Assisting Sunday Club leaders and helping with the children and young people. - Operating the audio visual system. - The pastoral team’s work – prayer and practical help for anyone in need. - Helping with mid-week church activities. - Involvement with our **Green Team -** to make our church community more sustainable. **AND MANY MORE!** Page 6 ## **Stewardship Report 2022 – Nyuk Lau** _Malachi 3:10_ _“Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.”_ Many thanks to everyone at St Dunstan’s - for your generous support, not only monetary but also your time and talents gifted to the church. Your generosity has a huge impact in changing lives and allows us to accomplish the mission we have serving our Lord together. In 2022, the total giving income amounted to £82,152 (an increase from 2021 £80,676). The breakdown is summarised in the table below. 60 regular givers are responsible for 78% of the year’s total giving income - £64,014. We appreciate that 41 of 60 regular givers are giving via the **Parish Giving Scheme (PGS)** . It is an efficient way of giving and improves cash flow for the Church. If you are a tax payer, and not yet giving via PGS, we encourage you to think about signing up as the Church receives gift aid automatically through PGS every month, instead of claiming for it at the end of the tax year. Please ask Alison Wood, Jacqui Roberts or Nyuk Lau, if you want to find out more about PGS, or indeed the different ways you may give to the Church. Flyers are available at the back of the Church. **Gift aid** - For those who may not be familiar with ‘gift aid’, all it means is that if you are a tax payer, for every £1 you donate to the Church, we receive 25p on top from HMRC. Annual Report 2022 Page 7 As the table shows, gift aid amounts to 18% of total income which is sizeable. Let’s take advantage of this tax relief. Please note that this analysis of donations made in the year does not include the legacy left by Valerie which is treated separately elsewhere. |**Types of Giving**|**Amount**
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**Givers**| |---|---|---|---| |Parish Giving Scheme|£46,752|57%|41| |Stewardship Scheme|£1,440|2%|1| |Other regular giving|£7,090|9%|11| |Envelope – regular giving|£8,732|11%|7| |**Sub total – regular giving**|**£64,014**|**78%**|**60**| |One-off donations|£1,815|2%|| |Plate collection|£1,202|1%|| |**Total Giving (before gift aid)**|**£67,031**|**82%**|| |Gift aid from PGS and Stewardship
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(claimed annually)*|£3,498|4%|| |**Total Giving**|**£82,152**|**100%**|| * Other eligible donations for Gift Aid are claimed annually in April, at the end of the tax year. Page 8 ## _**Alpha**_ We ran 2 Alpha groups for 16 people where we enjoyed a m e a l a n d d i s c u s s e d questions such as ‘Is there more to life than this?’ (Week 1), ‘Who is Jesus?’ (Week 2), ’How can I be filled with the Holy Spirit?’ and ‘Why and how should I tell others?’ ## _**Little Acorns**_ The Little Acorns Toddler group on Friday mornings continues to be popular though numbers were slightly down from pre-pandemic. It runs from 9.45 to 11.15 am during term time with toys, snacks, stories and songs. We thank our many helpers for their energy and enthusiasm. ## _**Community Tea**_ **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## _**Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter**_ Due to Covid restrictions, guests during the winter of 21/22 were welcomed to a hotel. We helped with meal delivery to hotels rather than hosting at church. Our usual involvement started up again in the 22/23 winter season. Our monthly, Monday Community Tea restarted in the latter part of the year. Rather than serving sandwiches and cake, we now provide a light lunch. ## _**Schools Work**_ Our involvement with TLG (Transforming Life for Good) mentoring scheme has now come to an end but we are still involved with local schools, particularly East Acton Primary, with whom we ran a Christmas schools visit. ## _**Supporting charities**_ We support 5 charities: - ALMA in Mozambique - The Pain Exchange - A Rocha - The Clare family in Uganda - Hope for Kids in Guatemala Annual Report 2022 Page 9 The last part of the report sets out the formal financial and fabric reports, a report on the Ealing Deanery Synod of which we are part, and how the church management has been structured over the year. Page 10 ## **Seek, serve and share our Lord together** Parish of St Dunstan with St Thomas, East Acton Friars Place Lane, London W3 7AW Diocese of London, Willesden area, Ealing Deanery, parish 2218 Charity no: 1177614 Incumbent: Rev’d Jon Westall Administrator: Jacqui Roberts Child Protection Officer: Chantelle Adams ## **Parochial Church Council** The PCC comprises the Clergy, Churchwardens, Representatives of the Deanery Synod and up to 12 elected plus up to 2 co-opted members of the congregation. The job of the PCC is to co-operate with the vicar in promoting the mission of the Church in the parish. Those who have served on the PCC since January 2022 are: - ex-officio: Jon Westall (Vicar and Chair), Sue Bolton (Deanery Synod representative), Camilla Slade Viles (Deanery Synod representative), James Riddiough (church warden) and Carlyon Viles (church warden). - elected: Peter Blagg, Roger Bowerman, Paul Bretherton, Deborah Everington, Julie Gordon (to April 2022), Martin Haenlein, Helena Maitland (PCC secretary), Lesley Moszoro, Eva Nabeta (from April 2022) Jacqueline Perryman, Alison Wood (treasurer). The PCC met 6 times in 2022. The Standing and Finance committee, which met 6 times in 2022, comprises the Vicar and the PCC chair, Jon Westall, church wardens Carlyon Viles and James Riddiough, secretary Helena Maitland, treasurer Alison Wood and Sue Bolton. This committee carries out PCC business, as directed by the PCC, in between its meetings. Annual Report 2022 Page 11 ## **Electoral Roll** The Electoral Roll stands at 134 with 2 persons removed and 12 added. (Mark Moszoro) ## **Fabric (the church buildings)** The PCC is very grateful for all those who help to keep the Church fabric in good order. This includes those who have freely given up their time to clean the church after Sunday services, on ‘Love St Dunstan’s Days’ or before and after special occasions. Many people have also helped tend the garden, through mowing the lawn, weeding the borders, clearing the path etc. This work makes the Church so welcoming and evidences our love for one another and our care for our surroundings. Whilst it is not right to pick out people, I’d like to thank Lesley, Mark Moszoro and Matthew for bringing their enthusiasm and expertise to these tasks. In the course of 2022, Jacqui organised and coordinated the annual maintenance of the heating and the electrics, the lightning conductor, the gutters, and the AV equipment, as well as arranging the gas certification and the annual inspection of the organ blower. We have also had to have repairs to the damaged fire doors and other locks, as well as some of the electrical fittings in the kitchen. Larger scale repairs involved several jobs of work on the heating system. We are actively considering options for replacing the boiler and the heating system, but are aware that this will cost a large amount of money, so we will continue to explore and evaluate the best way forward. We also had the carpet in the Goldsmiths’ Room cleaned and the hall floor polished, and storage for the Vicar’s Vestry has been planned (it was installed in early 2023). Outside, we have had some trees removed and pruned. The aforementioned Mark Moszoro spent hours repairing the fence to the North of the Church and clearing the nettles and weeds from that area. Jon has been encouraging us to continue this work throughout Lent 2023. We are grateful that we have been blessed with such a beautiful and functional building and look forward to continuing to develop it in the coming year. (The Churchwardens) Page 12 ## **Deanery Synod Report** The Ealing Deanery Synod brings together representatives from all the 33 churches in the Deanery and the meetings are open to any church member. Our PCC representatives on the Deanery Synod are Sue Bolton and Camilla Slade Viles. After 2 years of meeting over Zoom, it was a pleasure to be able to finally meet in person later on in the year. Synod meetings are a wonderful opportunity to worship and learn from other churches in Ealing Deanery. Besides sharing case studies of good practice from the Deanery, and including formal processes such as voting on issues related to the wider Church of England, the Synod also distributes the Mission Fund in the summer of each year and 2022 was no different. The Deanery Synod met 4 times in 2022, the first meeting in January held over Zoom. One of the topics was how we can build Compassionate Communities and our own Alison Wood spoke about the role Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter (ECWNS) has to play. Alison is chair of the trustees. The other organisations we heard from were Christians Against Poverty (CAP) which works to help people out of debt and Besom. Besom is a bridge between those who want to give money, time, skills, or things to those in need. The next meeting in July was held in person at St Mary’s Hanwell. Business matters such as approval of accounts, election of school governors and Synod representatives were dealt with followed by a presentation about Pathways which is one of London’s largest providers of almshouse accommodation for over 55s. It also make grants directly to churches and to the Ealing Deanery Mission Fund, and two of our grant applications were approved during the meeting (Garden Club and Muddy Church, and Asylum Seeker drop-in). We then met in September at St Martin’s West Acton and continued the theme of Compassionate Communities. We had a presentation from the Ealing Soup Kitchen and Ealing Food Bank which is the fourth busiest food bank in the UK and the busiest in London. We also heard from South Ealing Community Food Cupboard which was recently set up at St Mary’s Ealing in response to the vast quantities of food which is sent to landfill. Supermarket food that is approaching its use by date is collected by charities such as the Felix Project, FareShare and City Harvest and then distributed to organisations who can make use of the food. November’s meeting took us to St John’s Southall with Area Dean Rev David Neno attending. St John’s run a monthly ‘rewilding’ worship. It’s a new expression of worship held outdoors in a nature reserve. Revd Mark Poulson, who is leader of the ’Transforming Southall and Hounslow Mission Area’, based at St John's, spoke about ‘Transforming Mission: What place now for the Church in 21st Century London?’. He took Revelations 7 “a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and Annual Report 2022 Page 13 language” as his theme to encourage us to bring our multiple cultures, languages and differences together to seek the welfare of our home city. We are grateful to be able to connect with our church family across the Diocese and to receive encouragement, ideas and inspiration from our church family across Ealing. We would also encourage any of you who have an interest in education to consider standing as a governor for one of the Church schools within the Diocese. Vacancies continually arise and for more information, see https://ldbs.co.uk/governor-vacancies/ (Sue Bolton, Camilla Slade Viles). ## **Sidespeople** Our grateful thanks to those who served as Sidespeople during 2022 including Peter Blagg, Sue Bolton, Roger Bowerman, Paul Bretherton, Nyuk Lau, David Morgans, Sharon Morgans, Lesley Moszoro, Eva Nabeta, James Riddiough, Jacqui Roberts, Adam Shaw, Paula Shaw and Carlyon Slade Viles. ## **Safeguarding** St Dunstan’s church has due regard to House of Bishops' guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Our Safeguarding Officer during 2022 was Chantelle Adams, and our Children’s Advocate was Esther Brown. Chantelle stepped down at the end of 2022 and we wish to thank her for carrying out this role for so many years. We welcome John Everington as our new Safeguarding Officer from January 2023. ## **Finances – Overview Regular income and expenditure** In 2022, we had a surplus of £23,000. This was mainly because we could not manage to find a new Children’s worker after Sam Bailey left, even though we had budgeted for the salary. This money will be carried forward, so that we know we have funds ready as soon as we find a suitable candidate. Energy price rises did not affect us much in 2022, as we still had contracts at lower prices. The increase will show in 2023. ## **Capital and projects** Valerie’s generous legacy of £134,000 has more than doubled the funds we have available for capital projects. This means we can plan ahead to renew the church heating in 2023, and make other improvements to the building, as well as looking at more mission and outreach to our community. Page 14 ## **Glossary** Fabric the physical church building and contents. Incumbent the priest responsible for the Parish. (Vicar) Parish the area in which the Church of England has given St Dunstan’s responsibility. 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