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2023-12-31-accounts

Annual Report

Aims and Purposes

St. Andrew’s Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of cooperating with the incumbent, the Reverend Jonathan Brown, in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It is responsible for maintaining St Andrew’s Church in Garratt Lane and the Parish Hall in Waynflete Street.

Objectives and Activities

The PCC is committed to helping people discover and live out the Gospel as part of our parish community.

This is achieved through worship and prayer, both in its traditional forms and in Fresh Expressions, pastoral care, including around life events marked by the baptism of infants, marriages and funerals, and through hosting a variety of community enterprises in the church and hall.

Achievements and Performance

The PCC offers a range of services during the week and over the course of the year. The principal Sunday service is the Parish Communion, with a midweek service of Holy Communion. Special services are held on Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day, and around Christmas. Fresh Expression services include the monthly Allsortz in the church, quarterly Forest Church on Wimbledon Common and Beer and Carols at Christmas.

During the year we celebrated 29 baptisms and three marriages, published the banns of marriage of 17 couples and held one funeral.

The PCC continued to host the Home Community Café in the church. Home is a place of hospitality for the local community. It runs a pay-forward scheme, collaborates with the Earlsfield Foodbank by providing breakfast while guests wait for their food, runs social-prescription events, a children’s after-school club, a project for mothers needing additional support, seated exercise for the over 60s, a support group for those in temporary accommodation and a bereavement group, is a Café of Sanctuary, supporting local asylum seekers, and provides free school meals via HAF projects in the borough. The Café was recognised at the Wandsworth Civic Awards, and won two awards at the Wandsworth Women’s Enterprise Hub.

The PCC also continued to host the Earlsfield Foodbank, which provides a helping hand to those facing food poverty, restoring dignity with confidentiality and offering support without judgement. It serves over 100 households a week.

The PCC also provides a home for Chelsea Hall School for children with learning needs, Jiva Health Yoga, the Southwest Songbirds community choir.

Financial Review

Total receipts for 2023 were £150,865 up from £101,319 in 2022. The church has benefited from a oneoff legacy receipt of £33,000 which has enabled the general fund to move from a deficit of £15,564 in 2022 to a surplus of £26,693 for 2023.

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The finance working group continues to operate collectively to perform the duties of a treasurer, with a focus on strategic improvements such as planning to use an accountancy software package to improve the issuing of invoices and automatically produce the annual accounts.

The rental of the church hall to the Chelsea Hall School remains our primary income source with us receiving £54,939 in 2023.

Only £124 of Gift Aid was reclaimed in 2023, down from £8,405 in 2022, as the refund claim for years 2021, 2022 and 2023 have not yet been submitted. These will be claimed in 2024 which remains within the HMRC refund window of 4 years.

The Home Community Café’s contribution towards the church’s running costs of £15,133, up from £3,200 in 2022, constitutes the largest increase in revenue from our church partnerships and we owe Meg and her team a huge thank you for all of their hard work and significant financial support. The Foodbank have also generously offered to contribute towards costs of hosting their operations on a Thursday. These additional contributions from our community partners have seen overall receipts from Church tenants rise to £20,428 for 2023 (2022 £5,575).

With the improved cash position of the church, payments have resumed to the Parish Support Fund with an initial payment of £10,000 being made with plans to resume regular payments via direct debit for 2024.

Payments in 2023 totalled £118,607 with the main driver of increase were utility bills increasing 20% yearon-year. The net result of the year was an excess of receipts over payments of £32,258. With continued focus on the finances and a catching up of the utility bill invoices and Gift Aid, it is expected that the church finances will remain in surplus for 2024 whilst still meeting its Parish Support Fund pledges.

Reserves Policy

St. Andrew’s restricted funds currently stand at £24,462 and designated finds at £18,600 – unchanged from 2022. The church has paid £10,000 on an outstanding loan to the Glebe House Trust used to purchase the new chairs as part of the narthex re-ordering project and installation of the café in 2017. The remaining loan balance of £13,600 will be paid off in 2024.

Volunteers

It would prove impossible to recognise each individual who has contributed to the work of St Andrew’s in the past year. The value of their contribution is very considerable. We are grateful to them all.

Structure, governance and management

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 in person four times in 2023.

The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. At St. Andrew’s the membership of the PCC consists of the incumbent, pioneer priest, churchwardens, and members elected by those members of the congregation who are on the electoral roll of the church. All those who attend our services / members of the congregation are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and stand for election to the PCC.

Safeguarding

The PCC has complied with the duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (duty to have regard to House of Bishops’ guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults).

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Administrative information

St. Andrew’s Church is situated in Earlsfield in south-west London. It is part of the Diocese of Southwark within the Church of England.

PCC members in 2023 were: Rev Jonathan Brown (Chair), Benet Northcote (Churchwarden), Alex Fry (Churchwarden), Nigel Turner (Churchwarden), Rev Johnny Sertin (Pioneer Priest), Lisa Davies, Rachel MacKinlay, Hannah Markusse, Gabi Oliver, Natasha Rawdon-Rego and Nicki Saker. Alex Chamberlen, Meg Fry and Viv Snell (Reader) were deanery synod representatives.

During the course of 2023, Alex Chamberlen and Benet Northcote stood down, and Lisa Davies and Natasha Rawdon-Rego were elected.

Revd Jonathan Brown, Chair

Financial Statements for 2023 and Independent Examiner’s Report

Please see separate documents.

Annual Fabric Report

Quinquennial Inspection

In 2023 we had our Quinquennial inspection, undertaken by our attending Architect Russel Hanslip. This consists of a thorough condition report of the Church’s fabric internally and externally and a report produced. Observations are accompanied by suggested actions and a level of ‘urgency’ A-C. This time, the ‘A’ rated items externally are mainly related to the removal of the ivy from the Parish Office walls and roof, and a handful of gutter and minor roofing related items. There are plans in place to design a package of work focusing on the repair / remediation of all items from the urgent list externally, in order to request quotes for this work for PCC approval ahead of work going ahead during the warm dryer months of summer 2024.

Improvements

We are in the process of exploring avenues to gain grant funding for a detailed energy assessment of the church and its various buildings. This will form an important part of any subsequent larger grant application towards upgrades to the methods we use to heat and light our buildings. Sustainability remains an area that we are both passionate about and work continues to find viable ways of making significant improvements to the Church’s carbon footprint. There are some very big and potentially costly hurdles here, but with the right attitude and commitment we hope to make St. Andrew’s an example of how even the most challenging buildings can effectively move away from a reliance on fossil fuels.

The Home Café received a grant from the Screwfix foundation earlier this year to go towards the maintenance of the Café space. As part of this work, the toilets were redecorated and the Narthex / Cafe floors sanded and re-finished giving the highest traffic areas of the church a fantastic visual lift! Thank you Meg for arranging all of this!

Routine essential maintenance activities carried out by contractors

Our boilers broke down a few times this year, but on both occasions the response from the manufacturer was swift to repair them. Both visits were free of charge as the current boiler is still under warranty.

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The Warden team would like to thank everyone who has supported St Andrew’s this year in looking after our beautiful building!

Alex Fry and Nigel Turner, Churchwardens

Electoral Roll Report

On 14 April 2024 there were 87 people on the Electoral Roll, 14 more than last year.

Jonathan Brown

Report on the Proceedings of the Deanery Synod

This was the first year of the 2023-6 Cycle, and the Deanery Synod met three times.

We welcomed Wendy Stephens, Chaplain to Wandsworth Prison, to our June meeting. She talked about the work of Prison Chaplaincy, and the Wandsworth Prison Welfare Trust. Support from parishes is invaluable, and especially during Prisons Week in October.

In November we heard from Dorian Leatham, Co-Chair of the Wandsworth Cost of Living Commission (with Revd Ian Tattum) about their work gathering evidence and listening to the local community in relation to Housing, Food, Energy and Transport. Roehampton was identified as a ‘food desert’. Their recommendations to address the Cost of Living Crisis were in the process of being submitted to Wandsworth Council.

In February Rabbi Adrian Schell of Wimbledon Synagogue and Revd Dr Nathan Eddy Co-Director of National Council of Christian and Jews spoke together very movingly in the light of the events of October 7[th ] in Israel. The listening exercise enabled Deanery Synod to listen to the experience of Rabbi Adrian and the local Jewish community, both on the day and subsequently.

Jonathan Brown

Activity Reports

Fresh Expressions

In the last year fresh expressions has continued to enjoy a full calendar year of activities. We have trodden familiar ground together enjoying the long running rhythms of Allsortz, Forest Church and seasonal celebrations like Beer and Carols. As well as exploring some new terrain trialling new things like Kitchen Tables.

We continue to find deep joy sharing these spaces with families in the Earlsfield community and are thankful for the path we travel together and the relationships that continue to grow as we journey together.

Allsortz

Allsortz continues to do its thing on the first Sunday of the month and we love it! The flow of our gatherings is now so well known by the families who faithfully attend that the communal ownership of the space has continued to deepen over the last year.

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The relationships with these families have also continued to grow as we have developed some of the other fresh expressions spaces together over the course of the year.

A highlight of the recent months was the spring picnic we had during the Easter holidays in Garratt Park and this is encouraging us to explore more ways we can stay connected and share life together in the inbetween spaces between gatherings.

Forest Church

This year was the first year we did all four of the Forest Church gatherings! It was great to experience the full flow of the Forest Church year for the first time across the different seasons. We continue to gather on Wimbledon Common and a familiar group of Allsortz families regularly join us.

Even though Forest Church only happens four times a year we have found that returning seasonally gives the gathering a feeling of pilgrimage. Families look forward to returning to the place where they began a season to reflect on the journey they have been on and celebrate the gifts it has brought as it draws to a close, and then anticipate the beginning of a new season and setting out to see what it has to bring.

A highlight since our last report was getting to celebrate the winter solstice together for the first time in December. Observing the darkest time of the year together provided a special opportunity to remember that God can also be found in the darkness - which we experienced in a very real way on the day because the gathering did in fact finish in the dark! We listened to a story about why we celebrate the winter solstice and what the invitation of the season could be for us. We wrote our names on little sticks that we buried in the ground together with a wish or prayer we had for the coming year. We remembered that even though this time of year feels cold and dark, under the ground there is lots of life, and the earth is busy preparing to be ready to spring forth and flourish in the spring and summer. We left our sticks in the ground with the hope that what we wrote on them will also grow and come to life in the months ahead. We made a mandala from natural materials we found around us to celebrate the season we are in and acknowledge the gifts it has for us even in the winter time. And as the natural light faded with the setting of the sun, we lit a candle and paused to mark that from then onwards the light is returning!

Kitchen Tables

Last year we talked about offering a regular gathering for adults to connect around friendship, faith and sharing life together.

On the 13th of September 2023 we officially launched Kitchen Tables!

Over cheese and wine we shared our vision for Kitchen Tables and asked everyone in the room what they hoped the space could be for them. There were some common themes and people were really longing for a space to share the ups and downs of life and find a sense of belonging in a community of people where we could explore topics of faith and spirituality together.

Since the launch we have gathered on the first Wednesday of the month in someone’s home. The evenings are structured around a theme that we explore together, and there’s always space for personal reflection, time to be creative and respond to what we have explored and an opportunity to share our reflections with each other.

The time we have shared together over the past few months has been enriching and we have loved hosting the spaces and are really enjoying building deeper relationships and sharing life together with our Allsortz families in a new way. We are looking forward to journeying further with this group this coming year.

Seasonal Events

On Saturday 16th December 2023 our annual Beer and Carols event happened in the church garden. It was once again a lovely event filled with community spirit. 450 adults and children attended and it was so special to see the community garden filled with so many local people. Lots of children dressed up and took part in the nativity performance and it was great to see a child who once took part in the nativity now leading us in song on the piano!

Hannah and Sam Markusse and the Fresh Expressions Team

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Safeguarding

The last year has been a time of focus on safeguarding within the Church of England – two reports have been published recently:

1) Wilkinson Review (November 2023)

Barrister Sarah Wilkinson was asked to carry out an independent review of the Archbishops’ Council decision to disband the Independent Safeguarding Board. Although recommendations focused on the National Church Institute, their themes resonate across safeguarding.

i) Trauma training. ii) Risk assessment. iii) Scrutiny gap. iv) Governance.

2) The Jay Report (February 2024)

In her report, The Future of Church Safeguarding, Professor Alexis Jay CBE, makes a series of recommendations to establish full independence of safeguarding operations and scrutiny in the Church of England.

It seems a good thing to have focus on this important area. The Southwark diocese have sent out a questionnaire for completion by PCC members and clergy who wish to share their views, and this will be forwarded on.

I am shortly standing down as Safeguarding Officer. I will share with clergy, PCC members and relevant volunteers their individual statuses and required actions once more before I finish – do please come to me with any queries that arise.

Jo Beattie, Parish Safeguarding Officer

Music Report

It has been a joy to take up the post of music director this year at St Andrew’s. Our community demonstrates a vivid interest in our church’s musical life – as witness the enthusiastic hymn-singing as well as the embrace of varied settings for the Communion responses during Epiphany and Lent, and a new setting this Easter season for the Gospel acclamation. Because I come from the US, the required background check has been a lengthier and more complex process than usual – two countries to be vetted by instead of one – and is still ongoing. Once those checks are complete, we’ll be able to move back toward an expanded musical presence at Sunday services, including additional instrumentalists and voices and experimenting with ways of reviving the St Andrew’s Singers. I’m glad to report that several parishioners have already expressed interest in contributing music – and of course we’ll always welcome others joining us!

Alex Kirstukas, Director of Music

Community Garden

2023 was another productive and enjoyable gardening year at St Andrew’s, thanks to the great group of volunteers who are joining our fortnightly gardening sessions. We now have eight active volunteers on the books, and many more are reading the reports of the gardening sessions sent out by email after each session. We also had some extra help, such as from Lucilia, a member of the congregation, who volunteered to take waste to the skip. New volunteers bring new, additional sets of skills – and Miranda,

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who has joined our group this year, has brought experience and fresh ideas with regard to using offers from other agencies for the benefit of the garden. We (i.e. she) has organised manure from Wimbledon Stables for the veg plot and, prompted by her, I have applied for free bulbs from the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association’s ‘Bulbs for London’ initiative. As it turned out, there were no free bulbs this year but we have a new awareness of potential opportunities. Further, we are continuing to cooperate with Meg and her colleagues from Home Café, who are helping to control the rubbish in the garden, while we maintain the veg plot for them. Gardening at St Andrew’s is about the people as much as about the plants. We are encouraged by the positive feedback by neighbours and visitors of the garden which proves that the garden is appreciated by the local community. It is certainly well (and sometimes intensively) used by different groups, mainly in respectful ways.

Following the renovation of various beds and borders in previous years, in 2023 our activities mainly served the maintenance of the public garden and the (non-public) North Garden. In the public garden, the dry borders have filled out beautifully, as have the hedges bounding the garden. In the North Garden, we have weeded the gravel border (a bigger job than it sounds) and extended the vegetable plot and herb bed for the Home Café’s use by amalgamating the various green waste areas. This has enabled us to repurpose the old compost crates as additional herb and flower beds. We have grown herbs (e.g. basil, chives, mint, parsley, sage, thyme), salad leaves, courgette and a variety of flowers, some edible. The development of the veg plot and herb bed is a continuing project for 2024.

We have also turned our attention to the last remaining ‘wild’ area in the garden, at the back of the church, behind the shed and accessible from the public garden (but not public). It is overgrown by bindweed and mainly used by a fox, to judge by the amount of rubbish which had accumulated there. We have cleared the rubbish and are battling against the bind weed, which we prefer to try in a non-chemical way as we have done in other parts of the garden. I envisage the establishment of a small woodland garden there, mainly for wildlife – the birds and the bees as well as the fox. We have also cut the ivy which had overgrown the church wall there, discovering (literally) a window and letting more sun into the new Parish Office. The ivy on the roof is continuing to grow happily despite the cutting of the stems and will need to be removed by other means.

Another ongoing project is the management of the green waste of the garden, in a sustainable way. All herbaceous waste is composted in the compost bins in the North Garden, and then used on the veg plot and other beds. The woody waste – which abounds due to the number of shrubs in the garden – is collected in the shed area and taken away by the Man & Van once a year. However, together with Jonathan we are thinking about the purchase of a shredder, which would allow us to turn most of the woody waste into mulch for the shrubby borders.

Silke Strickrodt, Head Gardener

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The Community Garden, North Garden and gardeners

Earlsfield Foodbank

[The Foodbank continues to operate but a specific report was not received.]

Home Community Café

Now fully into its 6th year, Home Cafe continues to be a busy and exciting community hub. We have seen a lot happen this last year, with a continuation of established projects and the introduction of new offerings. We are currently have 19 separate initiatives running out of Home Cafe that seek to serve the community in a variety of ways. Some of them are...

We expanded these projects over the winter months, as we opened the cafe up as a warm space for those struggling to heat their homes. We saw roughly 100 people attending weekly to access free food and drink, use our services, join in with one of lunch clubs or simply just to come and sit in a warm, welcoming environment.

All our projects seek to address issues being faced by those in our community, promote inclusion and reduce isolation and ultimately be a safe space that helps move people from simply surviving, to a place where they can start thriving.

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Here are some of our highlights from the last year:

We have worked hard to establish new partnerships and strengthen existing ones, including; Homestart Wandsworth, Bounce Theatre, Wandsworth Welcomes Refugees, Age Uk Wandsworth, Caras, Just Shelter, Paradise Co-operative, Kimber Skate Park, Wandsworth Council and the Earlsfield Foodbank.

The community meal continues to flourish and is a lovely monthly collaboration between the church and the cafe, we now regularly see over 50 people attend these evenings. These are on the third Wednesday of each month, please do come along to the next one!

The collaboration with The Earlsfield Foodbank has continued to grow. Home Cafe closes to the wider public on Thursdays to help host the Foodbank morning and offers a free breakfast to each guest. We are now sadly seeing numbers rise to the highest levels yet and are regularly giving away 90-100 breakfast a week.

Our Vicar Jonathan volunteers with us at Foodbank, not only to help serve breakfasts but to offer prayer and spiritual support to guests. This has been a wonderful and very needed offering for those who are often at their lowest and they have all really benefited from Jonathan’s support, prayer and bacon sandwiches!

Our work as a Cafe of Sanctuary continues to grow. We are excited that we will shortly launch a project for local women seeking asylum in our borough. Rooted at Home will be a year long program supporting women in temporary accommodation via a program of volunteering, befriending and well-being. We are thrilled not only to be able to offer welcome to these women and come alongside them, but to also invite them to participate in the running of the cafe and providing training that may help them as they seek to build a life here in the UK.

As ever, Home Cafe continues to be a busy and exciting space to be in! It is populated by a diverse mix of people, is full of laughter and the food continues to be not only the tastiest on the high-street but also the best value for money. Community, friendship, and hospitality is always at the core of everything we do. We are excited for what the next year will hold and are so grateful for the support that St Andrew’s continues to offer us. If you’d like to get involved in any part of what we do, from befriending to volunteering, please do get in touch at contact@homecommunitycafe.co.uk or come and see us during the week.

Meg Fry, Director, Home Community Café

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One of our amazing SEN volunteers from Beyond Autism. Parisi is one of their Sixth Form students who has been doing work experience with us for over a year now.

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Our Mad Hatters Tea Party, which we host with Age UK and Wandsworth Community Transport. This year 70 over 65’s attended for a wonderful afternoon of music, comedy and a fabulous afternoon tea!

Our monthly community meal, where we welcome people in our community to come and share a meal together and get to know each other!

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Some of the wonderful women who come and volunteer for us via our Cafe of Sanctuary work. These women are all seeking asylum in the UK and are currently housed in temporary accommodation. We are so grateful to them for the support they give us volunteering at the cafe.

At the Wandsworth Civic Awards, getting to meet the new Mayor!

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Jonathan Brown

Churches Together in Earlsfield

Churches Together has not met regularly during the past year. However, we were pleased to join with Earlsfield Baptist Church to hold a joint service on Good Friday, this year at EBC.

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023

To the Parochial Church Council of St Andrew's Church Earlsfield

This report on the accounts of the PCC for the year ended 31 December 2023, which are set out on pages 2 to 4, is in respect of an examination carried out under the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 ('the Regulations) and the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').

Respective responsibilities of the trustees and Independent Examiner

As members of the PCC you are responsibte for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Act and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

Basis of independent examiner's report

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. That examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the PCC and a comparison of the accounts with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disdosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the PCC concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.

Independent examiner's statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material 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 which comply with the requirements of the 2011 Act, as also contained in the Regulations, have not been met; or

(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn, in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Stella Bright MAAT, FMATT Stella Bright Ltd Earlsfield Business Centre 9 Lydden Road London SW18 4LT

9th August 2024

ST ANDREW'S CHURCH EARLSFIELD

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES (in Pounds Sterling) at 31 December 2023

Monetary assets
Bank current account
Debtor (Chelsea Group).
Total assets
Liabilities
Glebe House loan
Total liabilities
Net Assets / (Liabilites)
Represented by:-
Funds
General Funds
Outside Giving Fund
Building Fund
Community Development Fund
Zimbabwe Project Fund
Companions in Mission Fund
Organ Fund
Payments for the Poor
Frontal
Narthax Project
Live Streaming Fund		 Unrestricted
Designated
Restricted
Total
Total
Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
Total
Total
Total
2023
2022
15,543
18,600
24,462
58,605
51,098
24,750
24,750
40,293
18,600
24,462
83,355
51,098
(13,600)
0
0
(13,600)
(23,600)
(13,600)
0
0
(13,600)
(23,600)
26,693
18,600
24,462
69,755
27,498
26,693
0
0
26,693
(15,564)
0
0
0
0
0
0
18,600
0
18,600
18,600
0
0
5,968
5,968
5,968
0
0
100
100
100
0
0
394
394
394
0
0
14,300
14,300
14,300
0
0
522
522
522
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
678
678
678
0
0
2,500
2,500
2,500
26,693
18,600
24,462
69,755
27,498

Approved by the Parochial Church Council on and signed on its behalf by:-

Incumbent St Andrew's Church Earlsfield

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St Andrew's Church, Earlsfield 2023 Accounts (in Pounds Sterling)

General (Unrestricted) Fund Receipts & Payments Account

Receipts
Voluntary income
Stewardship (Bank)
Stewardship (Envelopes)
Collections (cash)
Collections (electronic)
Tax recovered on Gift Aid
One-off donations
Donations from legacies
Receipts from church tenants
Home Community Café
Earlsfield Foodbank
Songbirds
Other hires e.g. elections, Brownies
Receipts from church activities
Fees & weddings and funerals
Receipts from community centre activities
Chelsea Group
Yoga
Other
Insurance payout for church building damage
Glebe House receipt for Parish Support Fund
Total Receipts
Payments
Church running costs
Parish Support Fund
Working expenses of incumbent
Working expenses of Pioneer Priest
Bank charges
Administrator
Gardener
Organist
Church office - telephone
Admin - computer supplies & support
Admin - printing & photocopying
Church maintenance
Payment to Glebe House for chairs loan
Upkeep of services
Church running - legal & professional
Church running - insurance
Church running - gas
Church running - electric
Church running - water
Community Centre running costs
Building maintenance
Hall running - gas
Hall running - electricity
Hall running - water
Hall running - insurance
Total Payments
Excess of Receipts over Payments
Reduced liability to Glebe House
Receipt from outside giving fund
Receipt from frontal fund
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December		 2023
18,506
0
3,969
3,536
124
5,505
33,000
64,639
15,133
3,825
800
670
20,428
859
859
54,750
189
54,939
0
10,000
10,000
150,865
10,000
1,854
929
172
8,307
3,454
3,693
772
1,345
922
1,808
10,000
3,084
2,235
3,154
16,228
12,244
213
80,413
0
9,201
23,160
1,128
4,705
38,194
118,607
32,258
10,000
0
0
42,258
(15,564)
26,693		 2022
20,060
294
653
0
8,405
6,502
0
35,914
3,200
675
750
950
5,575
96
96
52,932
1,971
54,903
4,831
0
4,831
101,319
0
3,059
0
0
8,196
4,150
3,246
352
325
204
6,535
0
108
1,352
6,096
12,033
8,273
152
54,082
363
3,841
16,008
5,721
1,326
27,259
81,342
19,978
0
11,819
546
32,343
(47,907)
(15,564)

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St Andrew's Church, Earlsfield 2023 Accounts (in Pounds Sterling)

Designated and Restricted Fund Receipts and Payments

Outside Giving Fund (Designated)
Receipts
Payments
Payment to general fund
Excess of Payments over Receipts
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Church Building Fund (Designated)
Receipts
Payments
Excess of Payments over Receipts
Balance as at 1st January
Transfer from boiler fund
Balance as at 31st December
Community Development Fund (Restricted)
Receipts
Grants
Giving
Payments
Excess of Payments over Receipts
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Zimbabwe Project Fund (Restricted)
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Companions in Mission Fund (Restricted)
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Organ Fund (Restricted)
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Payments for the Poor (Restricted)
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Frontal (Restricted)
Receipts
Payments
Payment to general fund
Excess of Payments over Receipts
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Narthax project (Restricted)
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Live Streaming Fund (Restricted)
Receipts
Grants - Nind Trust and Diocese
Payments
Excess of Receipts over Payments
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December		 2023
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
18,600
0
18,600
0
0
0
0
5,968
5,968
100
100
394
394
14,300
14,300
522
522
0
0
0
0
0
678
678
0
0
0
2,500
2,500		 2022
0
11,819
11,819
11,819
0
0
0
0
18,600
0
18,600
0
0
0
0
5,968
5,968
100
100
394
394
14,300
14,300
522
522
0
546
546
546
0
678
678
0
0
0
2,500
2,500

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023

To the Parochial Church Council of St Andrew's Church Earlsfield

This report on the accounts of the PCC for the year ended 31 December 2023, which are set out on pages 2 to 4, is in respect of an examination carried out under the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 ('the Regulations) and the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').

Respective responsibilities of the trustees and Independent Examiner

As members of the PCC you are responsibte for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Act and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

Basis of independent examiner's report

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. That examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the PCC and a comparison of the accounts with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disdosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the PCC concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.

Independent examiner's statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material 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 which comply with the requirements of the 2011 Act, as also contained in the Regulations, have not been met; or

(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn, in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Stella Bright MAAT, FMATT Stella Bright Ltd Earlsfield Business Centre 9 Lydden Road London SW18 4LT

9th August 2024

ST ANDREW'S CHURCH EARLSFIELD

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES (in Pounds Sterling) at 31 December 2023

Monetary assets
Bank current account
Debtor (Chelsea Group).
Total assets
Liabilities
Glebe House loan
Total liabilities
Net Assets / (Liabilites)
Represented by:-
Funds
General Funds
Outside Giving Fund
Building Fund
Community Development Fund
Zimbabwe Project Fund
Companions in Mission Fund
Organ Fund
Payments for the Poor
Frontal
Narthax Project
Live Streaming Fund		 Unrestricted
Designated
Restricted
Total
Total
Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
Total
Total
Total
2023
2022
15,543
18,600
24,462
58,605
51,098
24,750
24,750
40,293
18,600
24,462
83,355
51,098
(13,600)
0
0
(13,600)
(23,600)
(13,600)
0
0
(13,600)
(23,600)
26,693
18,600
24,462
69,755
27,498
26,693
0
0
26,693
(15,564)
0
0
0
0
0
0
18,600
0
18,600
18,600
0
0
5,968
5,968
5,968
0
0
100
100
100
0
0
394
394
394
0
0
14,300
14,300
14,300
0
0
522
522
522
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
678
678
678
0
0
2,500
2,500
2,500
26,693
18,600
24,462
69,755
27,498

Approved by the Parochial Church Council on and signed on its behalf by:-

Incumbent St Andrew's Church Earlsfield

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St Andrew's Church, Earlsfield 2023 Accounts (in Pounds Sterling)

General (Unrestricted) Fund Receipts & Payments Account

Receipts
Voluntary income
Stewardship (Bank)
Stewardship (Envelopes)
Collections (cash)
Collections (electronic)
Tax recovered on Gift Aid
One-off donations
Donations from legacies
Receipts from church tenants
Home Community Café
Earlsfield Foodbank
Songbirds
Other hires e.g. elections, Brownies
Receipts from church activities
Fees & weddings and funerals
Receipts from community centre activities
Chelsea Group
Yoga
Other
Insurance payout for church building damage
Glebe House receipt for Parish Support Fund
Total Receipts
Payments
Church running costs
Parish Support Fund
Working expenses of incumbent
Working expenses of Pioneer Priest
Bank charges
Administrator
Gardener
Organist
Church office - telephone
Admin - computer supplies & support
Admin - printing & photocopying
Church maintenance
Payment to Glebe House for chairs loan
Upkeep of services
Church running - legal & professional
Church running - insurance
Church running - gas
Church running - electric
Church running - water
Community Centre running costs
Building maintenance
Hall running - gas
Hall running - electricity
Hall running - water
Hall running - insurance
Total Payments
Excess of Receipts over Payments
Reduced liability to Glebe House
Receipt from outside giving fund
Receipt from frontal fund
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December		 2023
18,506
0
3,969
3,536
124
5,505
33,000
64,639
15,133
3,825
800
670
20,428
859
859
54,750
189
54,939
0
10,000
10,000
150,865
10,000
1,854
929
172
8,307
3,454
3,693
772
1,345
922
1,808
10,000
3,084
2,235
3,154
16,228
12,244
213
80,413
0
9,201
23,160
1,128
4,705
38,194
118,607
32,258
10,000
0
0
42,258
(15,564)
26,693		 2022
20,060
294
653
0
8,405
6,502
0
35,914
3,200
675
750
950
5,575
96
96
52,932
1,971
54,903
4,831
0
4,831
101,319
0
3,059
0
0
8,196
4,150
3,246
352
325
204
6,535
0
108
1,352
6,096
12,033
8,273
152
54,082
363
3,841
16,008
5,721
1,326
27,259
81,342
19,978
0
11,819
546
32,343
(47,907)
(15,564)

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St Andrew's Church, Earlsfield 2023 Accounts (in Pounds Sterling)

Designated and Restricted Fund Receipts and Payments

Outside Giving Fund (Designated)
Receipts
Payments
Payment to general fund
Excess of Payments over Receipts
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Church Building Fund (Designated)
Receipts
Payments
Excess of Payments over Receipts
Balance as at 1st January
Transfer from boiler fund
Balance as at 31st December
Community Development Fund (Restricted)
Receipts
Grants
Giving
Payments
Excess of Payments over Receipts
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Zimbabwe Project Fund (Restricted)
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Companions in Mission Fund (Restricted)
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Organ Fund (Restricted)
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Payments for the Poor (Restricted)
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Frontal (Restricted)
Receipts
Payments
Payment to general fund
Excess of Payments over Receipts
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Narthax project (Restricted)
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December
Live Streaming Fund (Restricted)
Receipts
Grants - Nind Trust and Diocese
Payments
Excess of Receipts over Payments
Balance as at 1st January
Balance as at 31st December		 2023
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
18,600
0
18,600
0
0
0
0
5,968
5,968
100
100
394
394
14,300
14,300
522
522
0
0
0
0
0
678
678
0
0
0
2,500
2,500		 2022
0
11,819
11,819
11,819
0
0
0
0
18,600
0
18,600
0
0
0
0
5,968
5,968
100
100
394
394
14,300
14,300
522
522
0
546
546
546
0
678
678
0
0
0
2,500
2,500

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