# **St Mellitus Church Hanwell** **2021 Annual Report & Accounts** **11.30am Sunday 1 May 2022** 2022 ## **Contents:** Page(s) - 4 Vestry, APCM & PCC Meeting 2022 Agendas 5-6 St Mellitus in 2021 / Vicar’s Report - 7-8 Vestry, APCM & PCC Meeting minutes – 23 May 2021 & 12 July 2021 9-12 Annual Report: - Church Membership / Electoral Roll - PCC Annual Report - Safeguarding - Fabric & Goods Report - 13-17 Financial Report & Statements 2021 18 Deanery Synod report 2021 4 ## **Agenda for the Meeting of Parishioners (Vestry meeting)** Sunday 1 May 2022 1. Opening Prayer 2. Minutes of the previous Vestry Meeting held on Sunday 23 May 2021. 3. Matter arising 4. Election of two Church Wardens ## **Agenda for the Annual Parochial Church Meeting** Sunday 1 May 2022 1. Apologies for absence 2. Minutes from the previous APCM held on Sunday 23 May 2021 3. Matters arising from the minutes 4. Receive report on electoral roll 5. Receive annual report on the proceedings of the PCC 6. Receive financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2021 & appointment of independent examiner 7. Receive annual fabric report 8. Receive report on the deanery synod 9. Elections to the PCC 10. Vicar’s Report 11. Any other business - 12.Closing prayer ## **Agenda for PCC meeting** Sunday 1 May 2022 after the APCM 1. Appointment of the following: - Lay vice-chair - PCC Secretary - Treasurer - Electoral Roll officer - Standing committee - Safeguarding Officer - Children’s Champion 2. Formal Adoption of Safeguarding Policy 5 ## **St Mellitus in 2021:** ## Dear friends, Welcome to our 2021 APCM and annual report. Contained within this booklet are our financial reports, accounts for the year, and a summary of the work of the PCC. However, underlying all of this is a wonderful story of what God has been doing in our church over the course of the year. We began 2021 in a lockdown, which lasted until March, yet despite the disruption and challenges, as we have begun to rebuild and recover, we have seen our church family growing, and beautiful stories of healing and restoration. God’s love and faithfulness has continued to carry us, and his Spirit continued to inspire and empower us. As we reflect back on 2021, I want to highlight some of the things that have been going on in our church family, but I do so conscious that they’re only the tip of the iceberg as it were. For all that is to come, we say ‘thank you’, for all that is yet to be, we say ‘yes’! ## **Gathering Together: In-Person & Online:** Community is at the very heart of who we are at St Mellitus. In the early part of the year when we were unable to meet in-person we met online with services on YouTube, Zoom Coffee times, and a weekly online life group. Since resuming worship in the church building in March, we have now transitioned to live -streaming our services, enabling those unable to join us in the building to take part on our worship, with the service available on catch up afterwards. Life groups have now resumed, providing an opportunity to be encouraged in faith. Despite the challenges, we’ve seen the church family continue to grow. With people finding faith, coming back to faith, and getting to know others in a deeper way. ## **Mission Giving:** This year, we were able to give over £16.5k to support those in need both overseas and locally. This means that as a church we are part of something far bigger than ourselves. We are part of ministries in the Kigeme Diocese in Rwanda and the RedTribe Project in Kenya, as well as local projects such as Ealing Street Pastors who are now based at St Mellitus once a month, Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter, and Ealing Soup Kitchen. We also took special collections for the work of Tearfund supporting those in need in Afghanistan and those suffering the impacts of climate change. ## **Meet and Make:** After a break because of the pandemic, Meet and Make, our day-time weekly craft group for adults restarted this year. This provided a valuable place for conversation and social interaction after the isolation of lockdown. We also began an evening Meet and Make After Hours for those who weren’t able to attend during the day as well as putting on a Christmas Meet and Make. ## **Serving those in Need:** Our partnership with Ealing Foodbank continues to be key to who we are as a church. In the early part of the year, we gave over a sizeable amount of the church building to Ealing Foodbank for food storage, with the church continuing to be an overflow storage space for food during the week. Since April, St Mellitus hosts the Foodbank twice a week on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. Members of the 6 church family along with many from the local community give up time to volunteer and give practical support in the way of donations. This work is now supplemented by the provision of debt advice with St Mellitus hosting CAP and Crosslight debt services on Wednesdays. We also rekindled our work with the Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter, seeking to serve the homeless in our community by providing meals for those in local hostels. This year, we have become increasingly aware of the impact of climate change on our planet and the world’s poorest people and have formed an EcoChurch team to help us think through how to respond as a church. ## **Children’s, Families & Youth-Work:** Our children’s, families and youth work has continued to flourish this year despite the challenges. Whether online or in person, it’s not an exaggeration to say that we’ve had contact with thousands of children and young people from across our community. We continue to partner with St Paul’s and St John’s on our kids and youth-work and this has helped us to host one-off events such as an outdoor Easter trail, a Sumer Holiday Club and a Light Party. Our Sunday morning kids groups at St Mellitus resumed, alongside a new our monthly all-age service, and young people across Ealing met at St Mellitus weekly on Sunday afternoons throughout the year. Tinies and Tots resumed in the Autumn and alongside this we now have a weekly group for parents of new babies called ‘Baby and Me’. We’ve built connection with St Mark’s primary school, with year 1 classes coming in for a church tour and opportunities to go into the school to talk about Christianity. As you can see, despite the challenges of the pandemic, God has very much been at work in and through us. So finally, as the leader of this church family, I want to say huge thank you to you all for all that you contribute to the life of St Mellitus. Many of you give so generously of your time, gifts and money to serve the church and wider community. As ever, it’s a privilege to serve you as and I look forward to seeing all the Lord does as we continue to journey together in the years to come. With my love and grateful thanks, ## **Rev’d Stu Plumb | Associate Vicar** 7 ## **Minutes of Vestry & APCM Meetings** Held on Sunday 23 May 2021 at 11:30 am, at St Mellitus Church ## **Vestry Meeting** ## **1.** _**Minutes of the previous Vestry Meeting (“meeting of Parishioners”) held on Monday 12 October 2020.**_ The minutes of the previous Vestry Meeting held on Monday 12 October were adopted as a true and accurate record of the meeting. This was: Proposed by Janet Fletcher and Seconded by Pansy Gabriel and voted unanimously. ## _**2. Election of two Church Wardens**_ Rhodri Harvey stepped down as church warden after six years of service. On behalf of the church Stu thanked him for his service and gave him a gift from the church family. Steve Weaver and Gifty Coleman were appointed to serve as Church Wardens. Proposed by Rhodri Harvey and seconded by Fran Percival. Gifty Coleman was proposed by Margaret Jones and seconded by Hazel Prentice. ## **Annual Parochial Church Meeting** ## _**1. Opening prayer**_ Stu Plumb opened the meeting in prayer. ## **2.** _**Apologies for absence**_ Apologies for absence were received and recorded from Hazel Prentice, Mena Hatchman, Alison Hood, Anna Weaver, Verne Lawrence, Yvonne White, and Werner Schutz. ## _**3. Minutes from the previous APCM held on Monday 12 October 2020**_ The minutes of the previous APCM on Monday 12 October 2020 were accepted with the following correction: Typo in vicar’s report should read: ‘24 hours of non-stop prayer.’ This was proposed by Roy Harvey; seconded by Martin Percival and voted unanimously. ## _**4. Matters arising from the minutes of the previous APCM**_ _These were discussed later in the meeting during the vicar’s report._ ## _**5. Receiving the report on new electoral roll**_ This year the electoral roll stands at 75 which & saw 1 new addition (12 in parish, 63 outside) ## _**6. Receiving the annual report on the proceedings of the PCC**_ The Annual Report on the proceedings of the PCC were received with no amendments. ## _**7. Receive financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2020 & appointment of independent examiner**_ Rhodri Harvey gave an overview of the Annual Finance report as written in the 2020 APCM booklet: The Annual Financial Report was formally accepted by the meeting. This was proposed by Rhodri Harvey and seconded by Steve Weaver and voted unanimously. David Conacher was reappointed as the independent examiner of our accounts; proposed by Rhodri Harvey, seconded by Steve Weaver and voted unanimously. ## _**8. Receive annual fabric report**_ The meeting received the annual fabric report. ## _**9. Receive report on the Deanery Synod**_ Janet Fletcher has represented St Mellitus on the Deanery Synod. The meeting received the report on the proceedings of Deanery Synod in 2020 8 ## _**10.Elections to the PCC**_ There was one resignation from the PCC in 2021: Abby Jones (Elected 2019, Resigned April 2021) There were 2 members required to relinquish their roles on the PCC this year: Chris Prendergast (Elected 2018, retired APCM 2021) Pansy Gabriel (Elected 2018, retired APCM 2021) Stu expressed his gratitude to all those who had served on the PCC The following two people were newly elected to the PCC: Helen Wilson (Elected 2021, retires APCM 2024). Also appointed as PCC secretary. Proposed by Pansy Gabriel. Seconded by Sharon Prendergast. Conrad Franklin (Elected 2021, retires APCM 2024) Proposed by Chris Prendergast. Seconded by Steve Weaver ## **11.** _**Vicar’s Report**_ _Stu gave the vicar’s report as written in the 2020 APCM booklet, thanking the church family for its generosity and support as we seek to rebuild and move forward together._ ## _**12.Questions and Any Other Business**_ _There were no questions_ ## _**13.The meeting closed in prayer**_ ## **PCC Roles & Adoption of Safeguarding Policy** As part of PCC meeting held on 12 July 2021 ## _**1. Appointment of the following:**_  Lay vice-chair: Steve Weaver  PCC Secretary: Helen Wilson  Treasurer: Dawn Daniel  Electoral Roll officer: Simon Richardson  Standing committee: Mark Melluish, Stu Plumb, Gifty Coleman, and Steve Weaver  Safeguarding Officer: Natalie Glasby  Children’s Champion: Martin Williams ## _**2. Adoption of Safeguarding Policy**_ The St Mellitus / Church of England safeguarding policy and statement were acknowledged and accepted by the PCC 9 **Annual Report and Financial Statements of the St Mellitus with St Mark Parochial Church Council** ## **For the year ended 31 December 2021** **Priest in Charge: Rev Mark Melluish** St Paul’s West Ealing Ridley Ave W13 **Bankers:** Charities Aid Foundation CAF Bank Limited 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ **Independent Examiner:** Mr David Conacher London W13 10 ## **Electoral Roll Report 2021** ## **Church attendance as of 31 December 2021:** This year the electoral roll stands at 78 - an addition of 3 from 2020. 15 live in the parish, 63 live outside the parish. ## **Annual Report 2021** ## **Background:** Since the vacancy created in November 2013, St Mellitus PCC has the responsibility of co-operating with the Priest in Charge, Rev Mark Melluish, in promoting in the ecclesiastical Parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It has the maintenance responsibilities for the parish church of St Mellitus, which is a grade II listed building, and the church hall. It is sited on the corner of the Uxbridge Road and Church Road, Hanwell, London W7 3BA. ## **PCC Membership:** PCC members are either ex officio or elected by the Annual Parochial Church meeting in accordance with the church representation rules, currently a three-year term. The following have served during the year: Chair: Rev Stu Plumb Lay Vice-chair: Mr Steve Weaver Church wardens: Ms Gifty Coleman & Mr Steve Weaver Treasurer: Ms Dawn Daniel Secretary: Ms Helen Wilson **Deanery Synod:** Ms Janet Fletcher (elected 2020, Retires APCM 2023) ## **PCC Members:** Rev Mark Melluish (Priest-in Charge – Ex-Officio) Rev Stu Plumb (Associate Vicar – Ex Officio) Steve Weaver (Church Warden - Elected 2021) Gifty Coleman (Church Warden - Elected 2019) Ian Wilson (Elected 2019, retires APCM 2022) Martin Williams (Elected 2019, retires APCM 2022) Werner Schutz (Elected 2020, retires APCM 2023) Leonard Williams (Elected 2020, retires APCM 2023) Mena Hatchman (Elected 2020, retires APCM 2023) Alison Hood (Elected 2020, retires APCM 2023) Martin Percival (Elected 2020, retires APCM 2023) Conrad Franklin (Elected 2021, retires APCM 2024) Helen Wilson (Elected 2021, retires APCM 2024) Dawn Daniel (Elected 2021 – Ex-Officio – Treasurer) ## **Officers of PCC, elected at the first meeting after the APCM in July 2021:** Lay Vice-chair – Mr Steve Weaver PCC Secretary – Ms Helen Wilson PCC Treasurer – Ms Dawn Daniel Electoral roll officer – Mr Simon Richardson Safeguarding Officer – Ms Natalie Glasby The following will have served three years on PCC and retire at the 2022 APCM: Marin Williams & Ian Wilson ## **PCC Attendance: 1 January to 31 December 2021** The PCC met 6 times with an attendance level of 80%. **Governance & Finance:** 11 The financial state of the church accounts is reviewed at each PCC meeting, with a budget set in November for the following year and carefully monitored throughout the year. St Mellitus paid a common fund contribution in 2021 of £45,000-an increase of 5% on 2020. Dawn Daniel took on the role of treasurer in July 2021. We have received substantial payments back from Gift Aid recovery. At least 10% of the Church’s income each year is allocated to Mission Giving. In 2021, we gave away £9k (£2.5k from prior years' mission allocations). A further £7.5k of donations from the 2021 mission allocation were made at the start of 2022. Our mission giving benefitting the work of Besom, Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter, Ealing Foodbank, Ealing Soup Kitchen, Ealing Street Pastors, Hennie and Becca Marais and RedTribe in Kenya, Kigeme Diocese in Rwanda, Open Doors and Tearfund. We continue to repay a £60k London Diocesan Fund loan taken in May 2020 to fund the building project. Following regular monthly repayments the outstanding loan amount (liability) is 41k at the end of the year.This is repayable over 5 years with an interest rate of 2% above the base level ## **Achievements and Performance:** Reverend Mark Melluish has continued as our priest in charge with Reverend Stu Plumb as our Associate Vicar and chair of the PCC. The Reverend Jeremy Hyde is licensed as an Assistant Curate and Margaret Hyde as a Licensed Lay Minister. Lucy Plumb is employed as a part-time children’s and family pastor. We also employ a part-time cleaner and book-keeper. We continue to benefit enormously from our partnership with St Paul’s, Ealing, and the St Paul’s family of churches. The PCC oversaw the completion of the work on a new kitchen and toilets alongside maintenance work on the church garden, repair of the heating systems, remedial work on the electrical system following the 5-year inspection, the removal of asbestos from the organ loft, and some exterior decoration. The 5- year quinquennial inspection identified no major issues with the building and stated that the building was generally being well cared for and maintained. The PCC formed a new buildings group to oversee the maintenance of the building and develop a building maintenance plan. As the church continues to recover from the impact coronavirus lockdowns, the PCC have embarked upon the development of a 5-year strategy for the development of the church’s mission and ministry. This year, the PCC oversaw the restarting of ministries which had been passed due to the pandemic, carrying out risk assessments and providing support to ensure that they could do so as safely as possible. This included Meet and Make-a weekly craft group for adults and Mother’s Union meetings. The PCC continues to manage use of the building by external groups such as Ealing Foodbank, CAP, Crosslight, and Street Pastors, working with them to serve those in need in our community. Unfortunately, after a long association with St Mellitus, the 1[st] Hanwell Brownies closed this year following the pandemic. We have continued to invest in our children’s & families work through the employment of a children’s and family pastor. Working within government guidelines this enabled the pioneering of a support group for new parents. When permitted, we managed to restart in-person groups whilst working to social distancing guidelines with Tinies & Tots, our toddler group resuming in October. With so much work amongst children and young people, safeguarding is a key consideration and responsibility for the PCC and is reviewed at each meeting. The PCC continues to manage and seek to maximise our resources to release finance for mission and ministry. This year has continued to be challenging, with the national lockdowns and meaning that church rental was still reduced on pre-pandemic levels. The St Mellitus church hall continues to be leased to Ealing Foodbank acting as their central storage facility. This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the church building has acted as an extension storage area for the Foodbank and is now used two mornings a week for Foodbank clients. ## **Safeguarding:** The PCC considers the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults to be of utmost importance and safeguarding features on the agenda of every PCC meeting, with one meeting focused upon reviewing the safeguarding policy. The Council has complied with the duty to have due regard to House of Bishops' guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 12 ## **Fabric and Goods Report 2021** ## **Kitchen and Building Project:** The building project to create a new commercial grade kitchen, 6 new unisex toilets, a shower, and a laundry room was completed and signed off in February. ## **Front Garden:** Plans are still in place for a project to remove sections of the railings and renovate the garden in order to open it up for the local community. This is an Ealing Council funded project, and we have had to be patient. However, regular meetings about the project restarted this year, with new consultants appointed to see the project through. The trees and bushes within the garden have been professionally pruned back. If anyone in the church family would like to be regularly involved with gardening, it would be much appreciated. ## **Back garden:** The Japanese knot weed has been continued to be treated, it is now thought that this has been eliminated. ## **External work:** Gutters have been cleaned, and some repair work to the roof has been carried out to stop leaks. ## **External Windows:** Unfortunately, over the course of the year we have had a number of windows, on occasions, smashed on the Church Road side of the church. These have been reglazed. ## **Church Doors:** The external church doors have been sanded and revarnished. ## **Heating System Repair:** The heating system malfunctioned in October, which resulted in the installation of a new heating pump. ## **Small repairs/ongoing inspections:** Wi-fi within the church was upgraded in order to facilitate the live streaming of services, this included the installation of ethernet cable through the vestry into the main body of the church. Regular inspections were made on our fire extinguishers, boilers, lightning conductor and pest control measures ## **Asbestos Removal:** A small amount of asbestos was removed from the organ loft to facilitate the repair of the heating system. ## **External Drains:** The external drains were inspected by CCTV which identified a number of issues yet to be resolved. ## **Insurance:** Buildings and contents insurance has been taken out for the church. ## **Future Work:** Our quinquennial (5 yearly inspection of the building) took place in 2021 with no major issues identified and the church generally found to be in good condition and well looked after. The 5-year electrical inspection took place and identified a number of issues, which have been remedied. 13 ## **Annual Financial Report:** ## **St Mellitus Church** ## **End of Year Financial Statements** **Year ending 31 December 2021** 14 ## **Financial review** The income and expenditure for the year is presented on the following pages and is shown for the calendar year 2021. The accounts are prepared on a receipts and payments basis. The continued generosity of church members enabled the PCC to meet its normal commitments for running and maintaining the Church and its activities. Our total income for 2021 is £158k. An increase of £26k compared to last year. The majority of income comes from planned giving, a total of 80k. And we were able to claim back Gift Aid of £18k in the financial year. It is encouraging to see the overall increasing trend in planned giving on last year, a £5k increase. Although income from collections and other giving fell by over £6k, from £8.4k in 2020 to £1.7k in 2021. Other voluntary receipts income of £33k includes: £25k DCMS listed place of worship grant (VAT rebate related to the building project), £3k from St Paul's Church Ealing, £3k individual donation and £2.3k from Ealing Foodbank. Activities for generating funds of £22.5k includes: £6.3k church hire and £16.2k hall hire. Receipts from church activities includes income from children's groups, meet & make and fees. This income has increased by 72% from last year but this was from a relatively low base due to previous Covid-19 restrictions. Overall expenditure has decreased from £270k last year to £112k in 2021. A £158k decrease. This is due to £157k expenditure on the building project in 2020. Installing a new kitchen area and toilet facilities in the church to improve the functionality of the building to better serve our local communities. We continue to repay a £60k London Diocesan Fund loan taken in May 2020 to fund the building project. Following regular monthly repayments the outstanding loan amount (liability) is 41k at the end of the year. As a church, we make a contribution to the Diocese of London for the salary and housing costs of a vicar, for training and supporting curates in the Diocese, and to the national church. Our common fund contribution for 2021 was £45k, an increase of 5% on last year. We tithe the income that we receive and so we give away 10% of our income to support mission partners each year. In 2021, we gave away £9k (£2.5k from prior years' mission allocations. A further £7.5k of donations from the 2021 mission allocation were made at the start of 2022. Our mission giving benefitting the work of Besom, Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter, Ealing Foodbank, Ealing Soup Kitchen, Ealing Street Pastors, Hennie and Becca Marais and RedTribe in Kenya, Kigeme Diocese in Rwanda, Open Doors and Tearfund. Our 2021 Christmas collection raised funds for Tearfund's Christmas Appeal supporting those most affected around the world by the climate crisis. All costs and budgets are carefully managed and monitored through the year. 2021 resulted in a net income of £45.8k; with funds of £1.9k brought forward from 2020 this gives a total fund balance of £47.7k. ## **Reserves Policy** It is the policy of this Church to hold three months essential running costs in reserve (£30k). This policy will be reviewed annually. 15 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALE5 Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Indepenrlent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of St Mellitus with St Marf(, Hanwell Parochial Church Counal On accounts for the year *nd¢d 31 December, 2021 Charlty no Ilf anyl 1180084 Set out on pages Balance Sheet {Det8iledl page 1 & Statement of Financial Activitiès page 1 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above chaiity {Ihe Trusf) for the year ended 3111J2021 ResponsibtlÉtie$ and basis of report As the chaTrVs trustees, you are res￿nSIble for the prepar*ion of the accounts in accordance ¥Mth the requirements of the Charitses Act 2011 (kne Acri. I report in respect of my ex8mination of the Tnjsys accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the appliCa￿e Direcbon5 gNen by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(bl of the Art. Independent I have ￿Mpleted my examination. I confifrn that no material matters have examine￿5 statement ￿me to my attention in connection wrth the examination which gNeS ma cause to believe that in, any material respect.. the a￿OUnting re￿rdS W￿e not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Charit￿ Act.. or the ac￿Unts did not accord with the acuunting records,. or the aca)unts dKI not comply with the applÈ¢able requirements conceming the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities {Accounls and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the a¢￿Unts gNe a Yrue and fairf view whith is not a matter cons>defed as part of an independent examinatson. I have no ¢oncem5 and have come across no other matters in connection with the eXamIr￿10n to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enth a proper ur*Jerslanding of the 8¢¢0unts to be reached. 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In March the Synod heard stories of the importance of chaplaincy work during the pandemic. In July, the Synod heard and approved mission bids from 22 churches. The funding for this comes from the Ealing Deanery Mission Fund, a historic pot of money set aside for Christian mission in the deanery managed by the charity Pathways. At the October meeting, governors were elected for the Twyford trust schools, elections took place for the Diocesan Synod, and the Rev'd Christopher Ramsey gave a presentation on the London Diocese 2030 vision. The overall vision being ‘Confident Disciples’, ‘Compassionate Communities’ and ‘Creative Growth’. The three priorities of the vision are to become younger, safer and strive for racial justice ## **Janet Fletcher is the St Mellitus Deanery Synod Rep** 19 St Mellitus Church Church Road, Hanwell, London. W7 3BA 020 3067 0035 office@stmellitushanwell.com stmellitushanwell.com Registered Charity No. 1180084 21