Chairfs Annual Re
rt 2022
Church- We began 2022 with all services being covered by a priest and
thankfully in church. Face coverings were still required to be worn and we
were not, as yet, using the common cup. It was decided in June 2022 that the
wearing of face coverings would no longer be necessary, and we would
commence usin8 the common cup again for those who wished to, but people
would still stand and not kneel around the alter rail, this continues to date.
Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and all our Easter serrfices were blessed, with
Rev Michelle celebrating our Triduum which she and us thoroughly enjoyed,
we had an attendance of 58 people, slightly done on last year. On All Souls Day
we again had a service at which all names were projected onto a screen and
read out three times over a period of an hour and a half thus meaning people
could drop in at any time over that period. At Christmas we held our Crib and
Christingle service at 3.30pm on Christmas Eve led by Linda Dott and Aneta
Bradley, and as always was a great success. Our Midnight Mass serdice was
held at 11.30pm with more attendin8 than expected, our attendance was 29
people which was more than last year. The Christmas Day service was a group
service held at Stranton.
Our total worshipping community during 2022 was 54, and our usual Sunday
Attendance was 41 adults and 2 children.
There are 58 people on our Electoral role.
Throughout 2022 we had a total of 12 Baptisms. 3 Marriages and 28 Funerals.
Confirmation was received in January 2022 that we could proceed with the
faculty for a new heating system to be installed in St Aidans but this was
delayed in processing by the diocese, for which they apologised. The new
system was eventually installed in October 2022 and has definitely warmed the
church to everyones delight, unfortunately it is also very expensive due to the
increase in energy costs.
St Columbas continues with its regular Thursday morning service with a priest
in attendance. The Hall is also hired on a regular basis by a Mother and Toddler
group on a Monday. Sewing Bees on a Tuesday. a Meditation Group on a
Tuesday and Wednesday night and a home schooling group on a Friday, with
partles occasionally belng booked, and COH also now rent their office space
there too.
The former vicarage was to be put up for aurtion in February 2022 and a fence
was been erected between the church and the former vicarage by the diocese.
This has now been sold and is currently being refurbished to be used as a
family home.
Deanery Synod is attended by Brian Hays and Linda Dott and the PCC get
regular updates on matters discussed.
An online directory was to be established for those parishes who have
registered as an inclusive church and we therefore sent a donation for our
inclusion on the direttory.
The Kitchen- The year began with our guests only being allowed into church
to pick up food parcels and have a hot drink when sufficient volunteers were
available. An appeal for volunteers was to be advertised on social media. On
24 February 2022 we commenced providing hot meals to our guests, as take
away only, but they were very grateful, and we continue to do this to date. By
June 2022 we were picking up food from Tesco. Aldi and Greggs, and donations
were bein8 received from Fareshare, Morrells, Sainsburys, Morrisons and the
Nasir Mosque on a regular basis.
We continue to get generous donations of food and money from many
different sources.
Our warehouse manager continues to run the warehouse effectively and
eff iciently taking into account health and safety and the rising cost of energy
throughout the year and we thank her for her hard work.
Hartle
ool Central Grou
The Group council includes 6 members of our PCC
(and the same number from the other two parishes) who attend the meetings
and we try to meet every couple of months. We discuss all group workings
including services, clergy arrangements, links with Communities of Hope and
the advertising for a new priest.
Interre
num- We began the year with the announcement that Rev Norman
Shave would be retiring at the end of June 2022, his last working day would be
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19 June with a joint service at Stranton and his last service at St Aidan's would
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be 29 May. This then left us with two fulltime priests Rev Michelle and Rev
Clive who were themselves looking for their own parishes. and a couple of
retired priests and visiting priests (rf available). All sep4ices were being covered
by these priests and Kathrine Batty took on the unenviable task of doing the
rot3 for all services in all three parishes in the group.
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On 8 September 2022 two priests were interviewed for potential
appointment to the group and it was agreed to offer Rev John Bell the post as
priest to All Saints Stranton and St Luke's, with the understanding he was also
part of the Central Hartlepool Group and would be required to take services at
St Aidans and St Columbas. Rev John was licensed on 13 November 2022.
In December 2022 Rev Michelle left for her own parish near Blackburn and Rev
Clive is now to leave at the end of April 2023 for his own parish at Withern5ea,
near Hull.
St Aidan and St Columbas have now been advised by Archdeacon Rick Simpson
that we are now top of the list to advertise for a priest for our parish and we
can proceed with submission of our parish profile which we are at present
updating.
Communities of Ho
At the beginning of the year COH started with only
Aneta Bradley as project lead with Emma Cain helping on a part time basis, and
it was not possible to advertise the other two post {families and evangelist) for
another couple of months. However, despite lack of staff COH were still
running Sid's Cafe, Mother and Toddlers group and Sewing Bees from St
Matthew's, helping out at St Aidan's Kitchen on a Thursday morning and
running a Cafe in St Aidans church on a Friday morning and Forest Church at St
Aidans School on the last Sunday of the month. all these with the help of other
volunteers. At the beginning of June 2022 Hayley Liversidge was appointed as
families worker and as Rev Norman was retiring Janice Tarn would become
Aneta's line manager. Despite the fact that the COH staff had Covid the
summer camp still ran thanks to David and Angela Craig and was a great
Success. In September COH took on a Soup run which was operated from
Avenue Road.
COH moved their office from St MattheS Hall to St Columbas in September
2022.
Unfortunately, in February 2023, All Saints Stranton who are the legal
employers of COH took the unilateral decision to dismiss Aneta Bradley. This
left COH with no Project Lead, and this led to there being no Steering Group
and St Aidans PCC making the decision to have no further involvement in the
management of COH for the Central Hartlepool Group. Rev John has taken on
the responsibility for COH.
Helen Rochester
Chair of PCC. St Aidan and St Columba
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12 April 2023
## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HARTLEPOOL ST AIDAN AND ST COLUMBA CHARITY NUMBER 1185257 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
|Note
**INCOMING RESOURCES**
Voluntary Income
2a
Activities for generating funds
2b
Income from investments
2c
Church Activities
2d
Other incoming resources
2e
**TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES**
**RESOURCES EXPENDED**
Cost of generation voluntary income
3b
Fund raising trading costs
3c
Church activities
3a
Governance Costs
4
Other Expenses
5
**TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**
**NET INCOMING RESOURCES BEFORE**
**OTHER RECOGNIZED GAINS AND**
**LOSSES**
Gains on investment assets:
on disposal
on revaluation
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
BALANCES B/FWD 1 JANUARY
Movement between funds
BALANCES C/FWD 31 DECEMBER|Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Trust
funds
2022
2021
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
35422
16822
0
52244
54305
915
117
0
1032
985
150
64
929
1143
223
7750
0
0
7750
5782
882
22586
0
23468
7088|
|---|---|
||45119
39589
929
85637
68383|
||0
0
0
0
20
0
0
0
0
0
125886
292
0
126178
46870
8255
5218
0
13473
11283
514
4198
0
4712
26416|
||134655
9708
0
144363
84589|
||-89536
29881
929
-58726
-16206
0
0
0
0
0|
||0
0
0
0
0
-89536
29881
929
-58726
78191
101635
70847
250673
66030
-66030|
||54685
65486
71776
191947|
## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HARTLEPOOL ST AIDAN AND ST COLUMBA CHARITY NUMBER 1185257 BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
|Note
**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible
6a
Investment
6b
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Stock
Debtors
7
Prepayments
Cash at bank and in hand
**LIABILITIES**
Creditors
8
**NET CURRENT ASSETS/LIABILITIES**
Total assets less current liabilities
**TOTAL NET ASSETS**
**PARISH FUNDS**
Unrestricted
10
Restricted
10
Trust funds
10|Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Trust
funds
2022
2021
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
15337
0
0
15337
18404
0
0
71776
71776
70847|
|---|---|
||15337
0
71776
87113
89251|
||0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3672
0
0
3672
3467
35676
65486
0
101162
165821|
||39348
65486
0
104834
169288|
||0
0
0
0
7866|
|||
|||
|||
||54685
65486
71776
191947
250673|
||54685
65486
71776
191947
250673
54685
54685
78191
65486
65486
101635
71776
71776
70847|
||54685
65486
71776
191947
250673|
## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HARTLEPOOL ST AIDAN AND ST COLUMBA CHARITY NUMBER 1185257 NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
|2 (a) Voluntary income
Planned Giving
Gift Aid Donations
Tax recovered
Other
Collections
Grants
New Build kitchen donations
Donations
Bequests
2 (b) Activities for generating funds
Annual Fair
200 club
harvest
Christmas appeal
2 ( c) Income from investments
Interest
2 (d) Income from church activities
Fees
Rent
2 (e) Other incoming resources
Thursday kitchen
Sundry Income
Charity Income
Insurance Claim
2 (f) sequestration
**Total incoming resources**|Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Trust
funds
2022
2021
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
16851
16851
20394
6824
564
7388
6533
5462
5462
6464
3430
3430
4348
1608
16215
17823
12400
0
0
0
0
747
43
790
4166
500
500
0|
|---|---|
||35422
16822
0
52244
54305|
||0
0
0
0
117
117
85
915
915
900|
||915
117
1032
985|
||150
64
929
1143
223|
||2883
2883
3812
4867
4867
1970|
||7750
0
0
7750
5782|
||22071
22071
6287
882
373
1255
801
142
142
0
0
0|
||882
22586
0
23468
7088|
||0|
||45119
39589
929
85637
68383|
## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HARTLEPOOL ST AIDAN AND ST COLUMBA CHARITY NUMBER 1185257 NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
|Unrestricted|Restricted|Trust|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|funds|funds|funds|2022|2021|
||Unrestricted
Restricted
Trust
|
|---|---|
|**3. RESOURCES EXPENDED**
**3 (a) Church Activities**
**Charitable giving**
Christian Aid
Hospice
Children's Society
Other
Ministry: Diocesan parish share
Other ministry costs
New Heating System
Church running and maintenance
Depreciation
Printing and stationery
3(b) Generation of voluntary income
Cost of lottery licence
Trading expenditure
3 ( c) Fund raising costs
concert/coffee morning
annual fair
4 (a) STAFF COSTS
Wages and salaries|funds
funds
funds
2022
2021
142
142
0
0
0
0
0
0
579|
||0
142
0
142
579
27295
27295
26500
515
515
818
73494
73494
0
20411
150
20561
14201
3067
3067
3067
841
841
1705|
||125623
292
0
125915
46870|
||0
0
0
0
20
0
0|
||0
0
0
0
20|
||0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0|
||0
0
0
0
0
8255
5218
0
13473
11283|
During the year the PCC employed a parish administrator (part time). No payments were large enough to attract social security costs.
As the Parish Administrator, Mrs Kathrine Batty, who is a member of the PCC, was paid £5590 (2021; £5220) during the year.
As the warehouse manager Ms Clare Barker who was paid £5218 (2021:£4348)
No other payments or expenses were paid to other PCC members or persons closely connected to them or related parties The parish contributed to expenses for Revd Norman Shave and Revd Michelle Delves as part of group arrangements
## 5. OTHER COSTS
|Professional fees
Sundry Expenses
Thursday kitchen|0
360
514
87
601
601
4111
4111
25455|
|---|---|
||514
4198
0
4712
26416|
## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HARTLEPOOL ST AIDAN AND ST COLUMBA CHARITY NUMBER 1185257 NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
|6. FIXED ASSETS
(a) Tangible
(b) Investments
7. DEBTORS
Invoices issued
**8. LIABILITIES**
Sundry creditors|Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Trust
funds
2022
2021
15337
0
0
15337
18404|
|---|---|
||0
0
71776
71776
70847|
||15337
0
71776
87113
89251|
|||
||0
0
0
0
0|
|||
||0
0
0
0
7866|
## **9. FUNDS**
The restricted funds comprise the organ fund and parish hall fund. The endowment funds are the Bolton Trust (to be used for general purposes) the Bulmer Trust (to be used at the absolute discretion of the vicar and Church Wardens) the PCC trust (to be used for ecclesiastical purposes within the parish) and the Wilkinson Trust (to be used for general purposes).
||**Parish Hall**
**Fund**|**Organ**
**Fund**|**Bolton**
**Trust**|**Bulmer**
**Trust**|**PCC**
**Trust**|**Wilkinson**
**Trust**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Fund Movements|||||||
|Balance at 1 January2022|48963|31721|7415|33911|26530|2991|
|resources expended|48997||||||
|Interest received|34|30|97|445|348|39|
|Balance at 31 December 2022|0|31751|7512|34356|26878|3030|
|**10. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS**
byfund|**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Trust**
**funds**|**TOTAL**
**2022**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Tangible Fixed Assets|15337|||15337|
|Investment Fixed Assets|||71776|71776|
|Current Assets|39348|65486||104834|
|Current Liabilities|0|0||0|
|TOTAL|54685|65486|71776|191947|
||||||
**Ecclesiastical Parish of Hartlepool St Aidan and St. Columba, Parochial Church Council Year to 31 December 2020 Charity Number 1185257**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 December 2022**
Note 1 – Accounting Policies
## 1a) Basis of Preparation
These accounts have been prepared to meet the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 together with the Charities (accounts and reports) regulations 2008 and statements of recommended practice on accounting and reporting by Charities. They have been prepared on an accruals basis. The statements include all transactions, assets and liabilities for which the PCC is responsible. The accounts do not include the activities of the Trust Funds held for the benefit of the PCC by the Diocese of Durham except insofar as income has been received from those funds
## 1b) Fixed Assets
Fixed assets are depreciated over a period generally 10 years estimated to reflect the useful economic life of the asset. The only asset being depreciated is the kitchen in St. Aidans Church.
All other assets are charged to the accounts in the period payment is made.
## 1c) Debtors
Amounts receivable are stated at the value expected to be realised.
## 1d) Liabilities, Provisions, Deferred Income and Capital Grants
Full estimates are made of income received in advance and liabilities incurred and provisions are made in accordance with relevant financial reporting standards
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Number 1185257
I St Aidan and St. Colurnba
I report to the Trustees of Ecclesiastical Parish of Hartlepool St Aidan and St. Columba, for the year
end 31 December 202Z
espective responslbilitles of trurtees and examiner
The charity trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charltvs trustees
consider that an audit is not required for thi5 year under section 144 of ihe Charities Act 2011 and
that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
Examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Art 2011,
To follow the procedures laid down in the general direction given by the Charity Commission (under
section 14515llbl of the Charities Act 2011 and
To state whether particular matters have come to my attention
Basls of Independent examlnws statement
My examination was carried out in accordance wlth the general directions given by the Charit.
Commission. An examinètion includes a review of the accountin8 records kept by the charity and
comparison of the accounts presented wrth those records. It also includes consideration of any
unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from the trustee5 concernin8
any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be
required in an audit and consequently no opinion is 8iven as to whether the accovnts present a "true
and fairt view and the port is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
In connertion with my examination. no matter has come to my attention:
Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that In, any material respect. the following
requirements have not been met
al To keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act 2011
bl To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the
accountin8 requirements of the Charities Act and to account for Statutory Fee5 corrertly
2. To whtch, in my opinion. attention should be dravm in order to enable a proper
understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed
Date l ? 1+1
Name: David S. Bums ACA
30 Snowdrop Road. Hartlepool