The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Saviour Hanley Road Reports and Financial Statements 1 January - 31 December 2021
Diocese of London
Charity Registration 1185858 www.stsaviours.church
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Contents
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4 Legal and Administrative Information
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5 Report of the Parochial Church Council
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21 Independent Examiners Report to the Parochial Church Council
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23 Statement of Financial Activities
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24 Balance Sheet
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29 Notes to the Financial Statements
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Legal and Administrative Information
Charity Name: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastic Parish of St Saviour Hanley Road (“PCC”)
Charity Registration: 1185858
Principal Address:
St Saviour’s Church is situated on Hanley Road, London N4 3DQ. It is part of the Stepney area of the Diocese of London within the Church of England. The correspondence address is St Saviour’s Vicarage, Hanley Road, London N4 3DQ
The Governing Document: Parochial Church Council Powers Measure (1956) as amended and Church Representation Rules
Objectives:
The primary objective of St Saviour’s PCC is to be a church alive in God’s love to serve the city. St Saviour’s PCC has the responsibility of co-operating with the Incumbent, the Revd. Pete Hughes, in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church: pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It also has maintenance responsibilities for the church buildings of St Saviour’s.
The PCC’s main objective continued to be to grow the life and love of God and to see how St Saviour’s can best help and minister to the needs of our local community and beyond. To facilitate St Saviour’s evangelistic mission in the local area and beyond it is important that the fabric of the church is maintained and opportunities for development identified.
Members of the PCC:
The Revd. Pete Hughes Chair (Priest in charge)
Incumbent (Chair):
Church Leaders:
Matthew Seymour (Curate) Anna Seymour
Curates:
Rebecca Daynes Matt Tinsley
Licensed Lay Minister: Churchwardens:
Myna Jones Dennis Hylton Philippa Bailey
October 2019
Elected members:
Grace Haastrup Timothy Kenson Jemima Reynolds Anna Shkalla
October 2020
Christopher Brees Nathan Hosker Sam Rogers
April 2021
Stephen Squirrell (Deanery Synod Representative)
Aaron Rodewald
Treasurer: Secretary
Daniel Allwood
Bankers
NatWest 11 Upper Street London N1 0PQ
Independent Examiners
Knight Goodhead 7 Bournemouth Road Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh Hampshire SO53 3DA
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Report of the Parochial Church Council
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastic Parish of St Saviour Hanley Road (“PCC”) submits its report and the financial statements of the PCC for year ended 31 December 2021. The financial statements have been prepared in the format prescribed by the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charity (SORP2015 (FRS102)) and the Financial Reporting Standard 102. The legal and administrative information set out earlier in this document forms part of this report.
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1. Structure, Governance and Management
1.1 Trustees
The PCC is a corporate body established by the Church of England. The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation rules. All church attendees are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and to stand for election to the PCC. Members of the PCC are either ex officio or elected by the Annual Parish Meetings in accordance with the Church Representation Rules and are trained at the first meeting on how to participate.
1.2 Electoral Roll
The Electoral Roll that was compiled in April 2021 stood at 82.
The worshipping community and congregation of St Saviour’s also continued to grow steadily throughout 2021, even with the challenges of lock-downs due to Covid-19. The number of children attending has particularly increased, more than doubling compared to the previous year.
1.3 Risk Management
The PCC has a risk management strategy that comprises:
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An annual review of the risks that the PCC may face;
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The establishment of systems and procedures to mitigate those risks;
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The implementation of procedures designed to minimise any potential impact on the PCC should those risks materialise.
2. Activities & Strategies
The PCC has given due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. The PCC believes that by promoting the Christian faith it provides a benefit to the public by:
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Providing facilities for public worship, pastoral care and spiritual development, both for existing church members and for anyone who wishes to benefit from what the church offers; and
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Promoting Christian values, and service by members of the church in and to their communities, to the benefit of individuals and society as a whole.
3. PCC
The PCC has 10 elected members including 2 churchwardens, Incumbent and Chair, Pete Hughes, church leaders Matt and Anna Seymour, curates Bex Daynes and Matt Tinsley, and Licensed Lay Minister Myna Jones. Aaron Rodewald, treasurer and Daniel Allwood, Secretary also attend the PCC without voting rights.
The PCC met five times during the year with good attendance (average 90%). Committees met between meetings and reports of their findings were received by the PCC and discussed where necessary. Minutes and attendance are recorded at each PCC meeting. The PCC complies with the duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy discipline measure 2017 in relation to having due regard to the House of Bishops’ guidance on safeguarding children and adults.
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4. Parish Life and Ministry
4.1 Services
Sunday worship at St Saviour’s is central to our mission and ministry in Finsbury Park: to be alive in God’s love to serve the city. The challenges of Covid have been met with an incredible level of commitment to, and love for, God’s church, so that we finished 2021 in many ways more deeply rooted and unified as a community. It has been utterly incredible to see so many people pulling together across the church to make Sundays so special. A significant proportion of those who count themselves members of the St Saviour’s family serve on Sunday teams - preaching and leading, praying, reading, tech sound and visuals, welcome, kids and young people, worship. This is amazing and helps create a real sense of friendship, fun and faith in the room, hosting a space of encounter with the presence of God. Jesus says the church is one body and there is such a feeling of unity and togetherness at St Saviour’s which is evident through this serving in love culture. At the same time, Jesus calls each of us by name, and it is a phenomenal joy to be part of such a diverse group of individuals at St Saviour’s, reflecting the beauty of the God of all nations. Sunday worship at St Saviour’s in 2021 has been amazing!
In the winter term, we welcomed KXC who led their afternoon and evening services at the church whilst they renovated their new home in Kings Cross. Since the start of the partnership with KXC, we have been utterly blessed by their vision, faith, generosity, energy and love. Apart from the blessing of seeing the St Saviour’s site being used more, busy, bustling and buzzing with people, the spiritual blessing of St Saviour’s and KXC walking alongside each other for this time was beautiful because we shared more of our life together. We were so excited to welcome Tyler Staton, from Portland Church in the US, to preach in our ‘Jesus With’ series at this time, to see the hall coming into use for our kids and young people, and to know that the garden (and the firepit!) was being used to host events. We loved celebrating our second birthday since partnership began in September 2019 with a BBQ in the garden as well, beginning to catch vision for this truly amazing space we are called
to restore, renew and recreate as a hub of Kingdom energy and life in this part of town.
In 2021, we have experienced grace upon grace in countless, surprising ways, and we’re so excited to know that God will continue to form His church for the sake of the glory of Jesus into 2022. Come Holy Spirit. Amen!
4.2 Worship Team Report
In view of Jesus’ love, mercy and faithfulness, and the hope that we find in him, we respond in worship by offering our very lives to him (Romans 12). At our Sunday services and other gatherings, this takes communal and congregational form, particularly through music. Music is an incredible God-given gift that draws everyone together as we express our worship to Jesus through singing, instruments, movement and word. We find in scripture the promise that when we gather and sing his praises, he is present by his spirit, ministering amongst and through us (Psalm 22).
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At the start of 2021, we found ourselves still in the pandemic and lock-down. Our worship and tech team continued to work creatively to facilitate our corporate worship in a scattered context. We received a further grant from Cloudesley to help facilitate the technical side of this, which was immensely helpful. We are particularly grateful to Mark Diamond for overseeing this and our audio visual department in general. Over the coming months, we transitioned into meeting in person with restrictions while still offering online access. This was a shift and challenge for us, accommodating both contexts, but the team responded by learning and developing new skills. At the end of 2021, we had adapted to our services being both in person and online to a high standard.
With Covid restrictions easing, we have continued to encourage and develop new and upcoming musicians, tech team persons and worship leaders, while striving for excellence with what we have to offer in our corporate worship. Because worship is corporate, the team is constantly striving to always draw, pastor and encourage the congregation as a whole in worship that is Jesus focused.
In 2021, we began our termly Seek First worship and prayer nights, which the team has grown and adjusted well to offering. We’ve also worked hard to develop our production quality, transitioning to in-ear monitoring and click tracks.
A particular highlight was our Christmas worship events. For example, our Beer and Carols evening at a local pub, where over 100 people attended. This event was possible through the resources of the worship team and department. Furthermore, the Gospel Choir held its annual Christmas event where over 250 people from the community attended, possibly our biggest event of 2021. At these events we were able to promote our Christmas services and extend a warm invitation to all into the community of St Saviour’s, including our main carol services, where over 250 people attended from our parish and local community, as well as our Christmas family service that was held in conjunction with KXC (which had to be transitioned to entirely online at the last minute).
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4.3 Children’s and Youth Ministry Report
We’ve had an exciting year of growth in the Kids Church and found numbers growing, friendships deepening and new dimensions to our faith.
Lock-down
As we began 2021, we soon moved into lockdown. Unfortunately, we had to wait until April before we had an in-person Kids Church. But that did not stop us!
We were able to deliver craft parcels to our families on a weekly basis and build friendships through socially distanced doorstop conversations and walks. We also had weekly Zoom meetings before church with the kids and their families and sent out short videos of Bible stories told in fun ways.
During the lockdown the community around the kids and families was evident. The families have continued to build on their strong networks and encourage each other. A huge thank you goes to all the families for their continued friendship and support to each other – they have made the community of Kid’s Church what it is, and we are so grateful for them!
Kids on Sundays
It was so exciting to return to church after Easter and welcome the kids back. Their friendships were still firm, and we were all glad to be back in person! Since returning to church the kid’s work has grown, going from regular numbers of 12 people coming to Church to often pushing 20 and a total of 23 kids having regularly been part of Kid’s Church at St Saviour’s this year.
We also have been thankful for three of our Youth who have volunteered on kids each Sunday and been not only an invaluable help but also incredible role models to our kids.
However, this was not the total for Children this year with there being total of 12 under 3s. This year we were able to utilise the hall over the summer months as a crèche space with a live-stream into the Church.
Youth
This year we began Youth @ St Saviour’s. We met each Thursday evening playing football, eating pizza and catching up over the week. It has been a joy to create this space for our three young people who valued the input of their leaders and varying ability of football skills.
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A huge thank you to Chris Brees, Chrissy Bolton, Jeni Kenson, Pete Anderson and Robin Pullen for their dedication in setting up Youth!
Wednesdays
This year, Wednesdays became an exciting day in the life of the church as we opened up our doors and found new ways of being part of the incredible community we live in.
Sound Explorers
A huge thank you must be said to Harriet Carter, who has faithfully ran Sound Explorers this year, as often as Covid restrictions would allow. Harriet has brought skill and talent to create an incredible musical group for 0-3-year-olds and their parents, guardians and carers. The group is much loved by little ones who play along with musical instruments and glowing faces. The group is attended by children from the church and the wider community of Finsbury Park. This year we have continued to see the group grow, with parents and carers continuing to spread the word to friends, through WhatsApp groups and on social media.
It has been an absolute pleasure to get to know the families in this group and the community
that has evolved. At the end of 2021 another huge thank you must be said to Beth Allwood. Beth will be running Sound Explorers as we enter 2022, whilst Harriet welcomes in her new baby. We wish Harriet a wonderful time with her little ones, as we also celebrate Beth bringing her talent and experience to this role.
Tots & Dots
As the popularity of Sound Explorers has grown, we wanted to support the growing community. We began hosting a stay and play group, which offered parents and carers a time to chat, drink coffee and let their little ones play after Sound Explorers. Continuing Tots & Dots has been an immense privilege to host families and allow time for community to be built between the children as well as the parents and carers.
Dance
This year we also welcomed the wonderful Miss Chloe and Miss Rose who have started St Saviour’s Dance. On Wednesday afternoons Miss Chloe and Miss Rose have run a range of dance classes for 3-year-olds to 80-year-olds. It has been a wonderful time to welcome families to the church, with most families being outside of our usual church congregation. Miss Chloe
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and Miss Rose held a spectacular showcase just before Christmas, and it was wonderful to celebrate the community that has grown.
As we ended 2021, we wished Miss Rose a fond farewell as she pursued further studies, as we also welcomed in Miss Rachael to join our dance team in the new year.
The carol services were the highlight of the year, where we had a children’s party, kids’ choir singing in the service, and a visit from Santa! We also enjoyed blessing the children with gifts to take home from the service.
Sadly, we had to move our joint Christmas service with KXC online as Covid numbers soared, yet we were still able to enjoy ourselves.
ARK
Whilst a more comprehensive account of ARK’s incredible work is noted elsewhere in the report; the growth of kids work on a Wednesday cannot be mentioned without thanks to the ARK team. The ARK team have been incredible at welcoming in parents coming to Sound Explorers, Tots and Dots and Dance and we are so grateful for the life they bring to St Saviour’s.
Circle of Security
At the beginning of Spring, we had the joy of hosting Circle of Security in person. We welcomed seven families into the church. A huge thanks should go to Naomi Graham, CEO and Founder of Growing Hope, for coming each week to support the facilitating of the course. Circle of Security is a parenting course that is based on Attachment Theory, and promotes the building of secure relationships between parent and child, which in turn supports a space where children can confidently explore and navigate the world as they grow.
Family Fun Day
In August, we hosted our first Family Fun Day with KXC. It was a pleasure to invite families from KXC, Growing Hope, St Saviour’s and the wider community to join us in games, face painting, obstacle courses and lots of fun. This was a wonderful time to use our space and invite people to enjoy our garden. A huge thank you to the families who turned up and the team in KXC who worked with us to make such a wonderful day.
Christmas
It was wonderful to celebrate this Christmas with lots of activities for the children to enjoy.
A huge thank you should be noted to Anna Brown who helped decorate the children’s room and church for Christmas.
4.4 Pastoral Care and Hubs
Hubs have been even more vital in this pandemic season, providing community, fellowship and support to many. A massive thanks to all the Hub leaders past and present for all their hard work and love and care for all those in their Hubs.
We had 11 Hubs running both in person and online through 2021, with the majority of the congregation attending a Hub. Our Hubs covered themes of prayer, spiritual disciplines, suffering, foundations in faith and exploring racial justice, amongst others. Hubs were a particularly effective way of drawing people into the community, as a first point of access before even attending a Sunday service.
In early 2021, we ran the Alpha course online as a Hub, which had seven guests. This was a profound time of exploring the Christian faith together in the midst of lockdown and the difficulties of Covid. Another highlight was our fast for COP26 Hub, which tied in with our Creation Care series. This Hub spearheaded different ways to adjust our consumer habits to be more aware of the impact of our consumer habits on the environment, while the series explored our Christian ethic towards the care of the environment.
To accommodate these new and expanded Hubs, we’ve been working hard to develop new Hub Leaders within each Hub. The staff team has supported Hub Leaders through regular check-in, termly Hub Leader meetings and being available to leaders wherever needed.
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We’ve continued to refine and develop our pastoral care and safeguarding processes, ensuring every Hub leader has had safeguarding training and is aware of our pastoral care support structures if a crisis should arise. Rachael Higson is overseeing all the ongoing DBS checks needed. Clare Manuel is our Designated Safeguarding Officer.
St Saviour’s hosted 2 weddings and a large funeral over 2021. More weddings are booked at St Saviours for the year ahead, which is exciting!
4.5 Prayer
The Monday, Wednesday and Friday Morning Prayer which started in early Covid lockdowns has continued with a small but committed group of people with a heart for intercession, who lead and join these important times of prayer. Seek First, an informal hour of worship and prayer once a term began with 40 people joining for an evening of seeking God first for all we do as a church, exciting times!
4.6 Welcome Team
This growing team has had various vital roles throughout changing Covid restrictions. They provided vital support to enable St Saviour’s to re-open, ensuring the health and safety of services by checking people in, offering sanitiser and face masks, stewarding, disinfecting touch points etc. Once restrictions were lifted, it was a joy to start the pre-service cafe again with new coffee machines and freshly ground Blue Bear coffee. The team has joyfully welcomed and served refreshments as people came into church as well as after the service. A massive thanks to each of the amazing Welcome Team.
4.7 Fellowship Fund
This fund continues to support people in the congregation and people referred to us through the Hive Foodbank at St Marys Hornsey Rise. Amongst other things it has supported people in fuel poverty or struggling with other bills and helped equip single parent families moving
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into temporary accommodation. Huge thanks to those who have given so generously to the Fellowship Fund.
4.8 Mission
We’ve had another year of building strong foundations in mission, creating opportunities to serve, pray and research into the needs of the local community.
The year began with the partnership with KXC on the Foodbank, where between April 2020 and May 2021 around 1500+ deliveries have been made, including a personal phone call with each delivery. We have served 192 households with 3,000+ parcels being packed. This has been enabled by a total of 81 volunteers over the year and monetary donations and grants totalling just over £35,000.
| Local Duncombe School £1,000 Boxing Club £500 Hive Foodbank £1,000 SHP £1,000 Women’s Shelter £1,000 Prison Support(LCM) £500 Growing Hope £1,000 Total Local £6,000 Resourcing Church Planting £5,000 National/International Power the Fight £250 Tree of Life £250 Total Causes £500 Missional Work Jo Davey £1,000 Clare Golding £200 SEAN(Martin Hickey) £500 Tearfund £500 Total Global £2,200 |
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The below table sets out where our missional giving (at least 10% of our income) went this year, with several partnerships building to the point of being able to support them regularly as we move forwards into 2022.
Most of these donations came from relationships that were pre-existing within the congregation, or that were developed throughout the year. This coming year we’re keen to develop these relationships further, supporting mission through partnerships with The Hive Foodbank, Power the Fight, the Women’s Shelter, London City Mission, Arocha and Tree of Life.
In 2021 lots of progress was also made on our community social audit, initially led by Marcus Manuel, and then passed over to Chris Brees as of November. A primary stage of research has been completed and new missional projects, in-line with the needs identified within the research, will be emerging in 2022. Chris has also been working on creating a local ‘network’ of churches and other service providers to allow for better sharing of best-practice and coordination of services.
5. Buildings and Garden
There has been a huge amount of work to the buildings and church site in 2021, and a special thanks goes to the buildings team; Nick Johnson, Rich Spens, Aaron Rodewald, Dan Allwood and particularly Matt Cox who has worked so hard to bring life and transform the spaces for the church and community.
5.1 Garden
The transformation of the church garden in 2020 continued into 2021 with an amazing effort from volunteers from the congregation and community. A special thanks to Kailin Hsiung, Ellie Davies and Alan Davies who offered a huge amount of time and expertise to the project.
Planting on the site included four new silver birch trees at the front of the church and 30ft of mixed native hedge in the back garden. The planter
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boxes, which were moved to the back of the church, were planted up and crops harvested (including for a courgette cake enjoyed at a Sunday service). Hundreds of thistles have been removed from the back garden with a mammoth effort from the Sunday Garden Team and it is now ready to host events like the birthday BBQ we enjoyed at the end of the summer.
We were once again grateful to Telford Homes and Maylims for providing the manpower and digger to build a new path in the back garden which allows access to the hall, and ties the whole site together. Also thanks to Waitrose who gave us a £466 grant towards the garden community project.
5.2 Roofs
We are excited to be about to embark on the final stage of a complete re-roofing and insulating of the nave roof, making it safe, watertight and more energy-efficient for
generations to come. The church roof has been in a desperate state of disrepair and was identified in the Quinquennial report in 2019 as in need of urgent attention. Following the successful re-roofing of the north and south aisle roofs in 2021 work will commence in 2022 on the Nave roof. We are once again hugely grateful to Cloudesley who have given £60k towards the next phase of the project, as well as the National Churches Trust for £20k. Without these generous grant givers, we wouldn’t be able to undertake this project.
5.3 New Doors
Derek Spriggs designed, built and installed beautiful new double doors made of glass and oak, which now separate the church and foyer. The new doors connect the spaces together bringing light into the foyer and welcoming people into the building, and are a beautiful addition to the church. We are so grateful to Derek who offered his time and labour for free.
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5.4 Organ Room
Having received faculty to remove the dilapidated organ - a not uncomplicated task! - it was dismantled and shipped to organ builders in the Netherlands in March 2021, who are in the process of restoring it for use in a church there. We are hugely excited at the prospect of repurposing this space for use on Sundays kids ministries and midweek events.
In phase 1 of the build, we are installing a new glass and oak door into the room, with timber frame walls, lowering the floor to make it wheelchair/buggy accessible, providing water/ electricity services, and securing foundations for a future mezzanine space. We are grateful for Cloudesley’s support of this project with their £10,000 grant.
Special thanks once again go to Matt Cox for his time in conceptualising and planning the project and Derek Spriggs for giving his expertise and craftsmanship in making the doors.
5.5 Hall
Our vision for our Mission Hall is to transform the space so that it once again becomes a hub of energy and life at the heart of the church and local community.
The Hall was built in 1902 as a missional space that sat on the edge of the church site, enabling multiple points of connection between the life of the church and the wider community it was called to serve. At different points the hall has served as a theatre, gymnasium, school, and venue for celebrating life events in the community. We think this offers an inspiring blueprint for today: our heart is to be a gospelcentric church (St Saviour’s Church building) with porous edges (Mission Hall) to maximise flex and adaptability in a post-religious age.
ARK are a not-for-profit organisation who have worked with churches such as Kings Cross Church to help transform spaces for co-working, coffee bars, and artist and makers’ studios that support need in the community. ARK are well placed to offer the kind of transformative energy,
expertise, experience and excellence to unlock the potential of the Mission Hall. In 2021 ARK engaged our local community by opening up the front of the Hall as a café on Wednesdays and creating a small artist gallery-studio as an exhibition space with artists such as Nicola Green and Zoe Tigner-Haus. We are so grateful for the ARK team, Gavin Turnbull, Nick Johnson and Philippa Nash, and the countless amount of time and energy they have put into the hall over the year from grant writing, clearing the mountains of rubbish, transforming the front rooms, serving cups of coffee and welcoming in our community - we are truly grateful for their huge support.
6. Safeguarding report
At St Saviour’s, we recognise that we have a duty to ensure the safety of children and vulnerable adults* who come into contact with us. This includes recognising that there are those who are determined to harm and who deliberately seek out groups or organisations where they can meet children or other vulnerable people. The Church can attract these people.
Our approach to safeguarding is in line with the House of Bishops’ guidance, and we’re guided by the London Diocese Safeguarding Team. Clare Manuel is the Parish Safeguarding Officer and Rachel Higson is Safeguarding Administrator.
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They support the PCC and the Operations Manager to ensure the St Saviour’s is compliant with safeguarding standards and mainstreams a safeguarding culture in our day-to-day operations, and to whom any concerns about safeguarding issues are reported.
We undertake an annual audit against Diocese safeguarding standards, and the audit for 2021 made encouraging reading. Our safeguarding action plan for 2022 picks up on the few areas, where there’s some more work to be done including ensuring safeguarding is mainstreamed within the developing St Saviour’s Staff Handbook.
We recognise that it’s important that we’re not complacent, and that we ensure that we mainstream safeguarding in all our on-going church activities. A (good) challenge that we face is to ensure safeguarding is mainstreamed within all the new activities and initiatives that are developing in the life of the church.
* Defined by CoE as a person aged 18 or over whose ability to protect himself or herself from violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation is significantly impaired through physical or mental disability, illness, old age, emotional fragility, distress, or otherwise; and for that purpose, the reference to being impaired is to being temporarily or indefinitely impaired.
7. Financial Review
7.1 Financial Activity and Financial Position
The PCC’s main sources of funding are the free will offerings of church members and grants from third parties. The PCC is very grateful to the Richard Cloudesley Charity for funds committed during the year.
The Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet can be found on pages 23 and 24. The balance sheet shows total net assets of £219,560.
Included in total funds are amounts totalling £40,145 which are restricted. These monies have either been raised for, and their use restricted to, specific purposes or they comprise donations subject to donor-imposed conditions. Full details of these restricted funds can be found on page 30 together with an analysis of movements in the year.
7.2 Reserves Policy
The PCC has adopted a policy whereby the equivalent of 3 months’ worth of nondiscretionary committed expenditure is to be reserved. At 31 December 2022 the PCC had net free reserves of £108,956 as follows:
Total reserves: £219,560
Less: Unrestricted fixed assets: £5,000 Less: Restricted funds: £110,604 Free Reserves: £108,956
Free Reserves requirements: £45,000
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7.4 Grants
Cloudesley; £70k for Nave roof and garden room, £5k for Covid safety and online provision
We are so grateful for the continued assistance of Cloudesley. Without the help of this amazing Charity, we wouldn’t have been able to fix the leaking roof, or start work on our new garden room. We cannot express enough gratitude to Cloudesley for all of their generous support. We also received a grant to help us continue to broadcast our services, so all members of the church can still remain a part of the congregation no matter where we were with lockdowns or shielding the vulnerable, throughout Covid and beyond.
All Churches Trust £4,500 towards the Hall
St Saviour’s and ARK used the grant money to help transform the front two rooms of the Hall into the cafe and gallery space. This has got the Hall back into action for the first time in 30 years, and provided a space to invite the community into on Wednesdays, as well as aiding the use of the hall for our children and young people on Sundays.
Tesco, Bags of Help - £1000 for the garden Waitrose £466 for the Garden
We are very grateful for the support of Tesco and Waitrose towards our garden project. The grant money was used to buy the new hedge and trees which has helped make the space welcoming to all the families and members of the community who are enjoying the space throughout the year.
Telford Homes and Maylims help in kind for the path and skips
Telford Homes and Maylims continued their hugely generous support, by helping to build the path that now connects the church and hall. We are so grateful to all the team for their hard work, time and skills to help us continue the transformation of the site.
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8. Responsibilities of Trustees for the Financial Statements
The PCC is responsible for preparing the Annual Report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accepted Accounting Practice.
Charity law requires the PCC to prepare a statement of financial activities and balance sheet for each financial year, which gives a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the PCC and of its financial activities for that year and adequately distinguishes any material special trust or another restricted fund of the PCC. In preparing those financial statements, the PCC is required to:
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Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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State, whether the policies adopted, are by the appropriate SORP on Accounting by Charities and the Accounting Regulations and with applicable accounting standards, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
9. Approval
The report of the PCC was approved by the PCC on 25 April 2022 and signed on its behalf by:
The Revd Pete Hughes Chairman
Aaron Rodewald Treasurer
Matt Seymour Church Leader
- Prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the PCC will continue to operate.
The PCC is responsible for keeping adequate accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enables them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the Church Accounting Regulations 2006. The PCC is also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. The PCC is responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the charity and financial information included in the charity’s website.
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Independent Examiners Report
Independent Examiners Report
To The Trustees On The Unaudited Accounts Of The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Saviours Hanley Road.
I report to the trustees, being the members of the Parochial Church Council (“PCC”), on my examination of the accounts of St Saviours Hanley Road for the year ended 31 December 2021, which are set out on pages to 23 to 30.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the trustees of the Charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.
I report in respect of my examination of the trustee’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
Independent examiner’s statement
Since the charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, which is one of the listed bodies.
- the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
C J Goodhead FCA Knight Goodhead Ltd Chartered Accountants
7 Bournemouth Road Chandler’s Ford, Eastleigh Hampshire, SO53 3DA
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
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accounting records were not kept in respect of the Charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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the accounts do not accord with those records; or
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Statement of Financial Activity
For the year ended 31 December 2021
| Note | Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds TOTAL FUNDS Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds TOTAL FUNDS |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 2021 |
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| £ £ £ £ £ £ 148,475 35,730 184,204 119,380 8,919 128,299 500 101,966 102,466 26,667 107,386 134,053 4,071 - 4,071 504 - 504 26,568 - 26,568 20,777 - 20,777 25 - 25 85 - 85 - - - 31,262 - 31,262 500 - 500 13,352 3,359 16,711 |
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| INCOME FROM: | |||
| Voluntary Income | |||
| Grants | |||
| Church Activities | |||
| Church Rental Income | |||
| Other Income | |||
| Assets gifted from Kings Cross Church | |||
| Assets gifted from Tollington PCC | |||
| TOTAL INCOME | 2 | 180,139 137,696 317,834 212,026 119,664 331,690 |
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| 165,350 67,237 232,587 118,126 76,160 194,286 1,962 - 1,962 1,128 - 1,128 |
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| EXPENDITURE ON: | |||
| Charitable Activites | |||
| Governance Costs | |||
| TOTAL EXPENDITURE | 2 | 167,312 67,237 234,549 119,254 76,160 195,414 |
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| 12,826 70,459 83,285 92,772 43,504 136,276 - - - - - - |
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| NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) BEFOR TRANSFER OF FUNDS |
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| Gross transfer in funds | |||
| NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS | 12,826 70,459 83,285 92,772 43,504 136,276 |
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| 92,772 43,504 136,276 - - - |
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| Balances brought forward at 1 January 2021 | |||
| BALANCES CARRIED FORWARD AT 31 DECEMBER 2021 |
105,598 113,963 219,560 92,772 43,504 136,276 |
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Balance Sheet
| 2021 | 2020 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Note | £ | £ | |
| FIXED ASSETS | |||
| Buildings | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
| PA/AV Equipment | 5 | 1,432 | 2,346 |
| 6,432 | 7,346 | ||
| CASH IN THE BANK | |||
| Current Account | 5,867 | - | |
| Giving Account | 175,482 | - | |
| 181,349 | - | ||
| CURRENT ASSETS | |||
| Main Church Account | |||
| Other debtors | 12,464 | 124,304 | |
| Prepayments | 6 | 22,644 | 24,743 |
| Accounts Receviable | 6 | 0 | |
| 35,108 | 149,047 | ||
| LIABILITIES | |||
| Account Payable | 1,080 | 17,096 | |
| Accruals | 1,000 | 700 | |
| AgencyFees | 559 | 422 | |
| Deferred income | 450 | 1,900 | |
| Payroll Payable | 240 | - | |
| Creditors due within oneyear | 7 | (3,329) | (20,118) |
| NET CURRENT ASSETS | 213,128 | 128,929 | |
| NET ASSETS | 219,560 | 136,276 | |
| RESERVES | |||
| Excess/(deficit)to date | 83,285 | 136,276 | |
| StartingBalances | 136,276 | - | |
| 219,560 | 136,276 | ||
| FUNDS | |||
| Unrestricted | 105,598 | 92,772 | |
| Restricted | 113,963 | 43,504 | |
| 11 | 219,560 | 136,276 |
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ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis of preparation
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Church Accounting Regulations 2006 and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2015.
The PCC meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s).
Funds
General funds represent the funds of the PCC that are not subject to any restrictions regarding their use and are available for application on the general purposes of the PCC. Restricted funds are those donated for specific purposes.
Income
Church Activities Income
Income from church activites is recognised when the date of the event takes place.
Expenditure For the year ended 31 December 2021
Church activities
The diocesan Common Fund is accounted for when paid. Any Common Fund unpaid at 31 December is provided for in these accounts as an operational (though not a legal) liability and is shown as a creditor in the Balance Sheet.
Expenditure incurred in the operation of the church is classed as charitable activities.
Govrnernance costs is classed as what is needed to keep good governance of the PCC.
Fixed assets
Consecrated property and moveable church furnishings
Consecrated and beneficed property of any kind is excluded from the accounts by section 10 of the Charities Act 2011.
All expenditure incurred in the year on consecrated or beneficed buildings or on the repair of movable church furnishings acquired before 1 January 2003 is written off.
Voluntary income and capital sources
Donations and other income are recognised when received and an estimate of income tax recoverable is recognised when the related donations are recognised.
Rental Income
Rental income from the letting of church premises is recognised when the rental is due.
Other fixtures, fittings and office equipment
Only items of greater than £1,000 are capitalised. Church worship equipment comprises a number of electrical and other items connected with sound, vision and worship. They will be depreciated over three years from date of first use. Computer and office equipment and furnishings are depreciated over three years from date of first use.
Grants
Grants and donations are accounted for when paid over, or when awarded. Grants and legacies to the PCC are accounted for as soon as the PCC is notified of its legal entitlement, the amount due is quantifiable and its ultimate receipt by the PCC is probable.
Current assets
Amounts owing to the PCC at 31 December in respect of fees, rents or other income are shown as debtors less provision for amounts that may prove uncollectable.
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Income
| I | ncome | ncome |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | . Financial Statement | 2020 2021 |
| Unrestricted Restricted Total Unrestricted Restricted Total £ £ £ £ £ £ 684 - 684 1,318 - 1,318 26,991 6,982 33,973 25,214 288 25,502 4,398 24,250 28,648 2,143 5,535 7,678 5,582 1,600 7,182 1,689 - 1,689 101,798 1,851 103,649 81,913 3,072 84,985 9,022 1,047 10,069 7,102 24 7,127 |
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| D | onation | |
| Collections - GASDS | ||
| Gift Aid | ||
| One offgifts - Gift Aided | ||
A |
One off gifts - Not Gift ided Aided |
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| Plannedgiving- Gift Aided | ||
A |
Planned giving - Not Gift ided Aided |
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| Total Donation | 148,475 35,730 184,204 119,379 8,919 128,298 |
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| - 101,800 101,800 26,667 107,386 134,053 500 166 666 - - - |
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| G | rants | |
| Grants | ||
O |
Income from Other rganisations Organisations |
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| Total Grants | 500 101,966 102,466 26,667 107,386 134,053 |
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| 2 - 2 - - - 3,427 - 3,427 - - - 91 - 91 - - - 551 - 551 504 - 504 |
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| C | hurch Activities | |
| Cafe Sales | ||
| Dance Class Income | ||
| Funeral Fees | ||
| WeddingFees | ||
| Total Church Activities | 4,071 - 4,071 504 - 504 |
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| 11,368 - 11,368 1,577 - 1,577 15,200 - 15,200 19,200 - 19,200 |
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| R | ental | |
| Church Rental-Ad hoc | ||
| Church Rental-Regular | ||
| Total Rental | 26,568 - 26,568 20,777 - 20,777 |
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| 13 - 13 43 - 43 12 - 12 42 - 42 |
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| O | ther Income | |
| Bank interest | ||
| Sales ofproducts | ||
| Total Other Income | 25 - 25 85 - 85 |
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| s - - - 31,262 - 31,262 |
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| A C |
ssets gifted from Kings Cros hurch |
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C |
Assets gifted from Kings ross Church Cross Church |
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| Total Grants | - - - 31,262 - 31,262 |
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| Assetsgifted from | 500 - 500 13,352 3,359 16,711 |
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| A T |
ssetsgifted from Tollington ollington Tollington |
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| Total Grants | 500 - 500 13,352 3,359 16,711 |
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| Total Income | 180,139 137,696 317,835 212,026 119,664 331,690 |
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Expenses
| 2020 2021 |
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|---|---|
| Unrestricted Restricted Total Unrestricted Restricted Total £ £ £ £ £ £ 2,053 - 2,053 1,640 - 1,640 - 914 914 - 396 396 356 - 356 - - - 672 5,088 5,761 2,730 2,208 4,938 - - - 32 - 32 259 - 259 247 - 247 80 - 80 157 - 157 266 - 266 185 - 185 704 13 717 358 - 358 146 - 146 171 - 171 |
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| Worship | |
| Christmas | |
| Depreciation on PA/AV | |
| Festival services | |
| PA and AV | |
| Prayer | |
| Preachingand Teaching | |
| Sundays Content | |
| Sundays Morning | |
| Worship | |
| WorshipTeam | |
| Total Worship | 4,537 6,016 10,551 5,520 2,604 8,124 |
| 3,379 - 3,379 - - - 22 - 22 147 - 147 48 - 48 - - - 980 11 991 1,607 - 1,607 60 - 60 51 - 51 - - - 130 - 130 240 294 534 296 - 296 256 - 256 - - - |
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| Community | |
| Dance Expenses | |
| Dicipleship& Hubs | |
| Events | |
| Kids | |
| Mid-Week Kids | |
| LeadershipDevelopment | |
| Pastoral | |
| Youth | |
| Total Community | 4,985 305 5,290 2,231 - 2,231 |
| - - - - - - - - - - - - 8,790 2,419 11,209 2,332 3,722 6,053 |
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| Mission | |
| Alpha | |
| CAP | |
| Grants and GivingAway | |
| Total Mission | 8,790 2,419 11,209 2,332 3,722 6,053 |
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Expenses continued
| Expenses continued | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Operations | 834 - 834 - - - 15,887 19,747 35,634 41,870 59,790 101,660 6,013 - 6,013 4,498 - 4,498 1,134 - 1,134 266 - 266 126 - 126 43 - 43 331 - 331 328 - 328 4,162 3,309 7,471 3,408 - 3,408 6,701 - 6,701 6,519 - 6,519 1,335 - 1,335 1,411 - 1,411 87 - 87 936 - 936 |
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| Accommodation | |||
| Church Refurbishments | |||
| Cleaning | |||
| ClergyChild Care | |||
| Communication & Media | |||
| Finances | |||
| Garden Maintenance | |||
| Insurance | |||
| IT | |||
| Office Management | |||
| Office Supplies | 60 - 60 35 - 35 3,353 446 3,799 6,195 - 6,195 42 - 42 5 - 5 665 53 718 584 - 584 104 - 104 97 - 97 254 - 254 338 - 338 297 - 297 248 - 248 282 - 282 - - - 10,804 - 10,804 13,360 - 13,360 - - - - - - 24 - 24 15 - 15 - - - 53 - 53 |
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| Repairs and Maintinance | |||
| Shared Consumables | |||
| Shared Equipment | |||
| Staff Hospitality | |||
| Staff Well Being | |||
| Team Training | |||
| Tools and Equipment | |||
| Utilities | |||
| Travel | |||
| Vicar Discretion Fund | |||
| Volunteer Support | |||
| Total Operations | 52,495 23,555 76,050 80,209 59,790 139,999 |
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| - - - 1,463 - 1,463 14,835 - 14,835 8,485 - 8,485 59,075 5,000 64,075 524 - 524 - - - - - - - - - - - - 2,442 - 2,442 - - - 300 5,561 5,861 - - - 492 24,382 24,874 7,364 10,044 17,408 |
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| Staff | |||
| Admin | |||
| Childrens Pastor | |||
| Curate Costs | |||
| Finance manager | |||
| Ordinand Costs | |||
| Dance Admin | |||
| Finance Manager | |||
| Operations Manager | |||
| Total Staff | 77,144 34,943 112,087 17,835 10,044 27,879 |
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| 17,400 - 17,400 10,000 - 10,000 |
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| Common Fund | |||
| Total Common Fund | 17,400 - 17,400 10,000 - 10,000 |
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| 1,480 - 1,480 700 - 700 194 - 194 360 - 360 288 - 288 68 - 68 |
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| Governance | |||
| Accounting | |||
| Payroll | |||
| PCC Expenses | |||
| Total Governance | 1,962 - 1,962 1,128 - 1,128 |
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| - - - - |
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| Total OperatingExpenses | 167,312 67,237 234,549 119,254 76,160 195,414 |
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Notes
For the year ended 31 December 2021 3. STAFF COSTS
| 3. STAFF COSTS | |
|---|---|
| 2021 2020 |
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| £ £ 40,565 7,446 - 859 1,587 704 5,861 18,871 64,075 - |
|
| Wages and salaries(incl PAYE) | |
| Social securitycosts | |
| Pension costs | |
| Freelance Staff costs | |
| Curate costspaid to LDF + Housing | |
| 112,088 27,879 |
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| 2021 2020 |
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| Total amount of staff employed | 2 4 1.3 0.7 |
| FTE staff employed | |
| No staff member waspaid over £60,000 in 2021 |
4. Mission Grants
| 4. Mission Grants | ||
|---|---|---|
| Grant Recipient | Grant Amount | Purpose |
| Choices | 200 | |
| Congregation in Need | 2,419 | Fellowship Fund |
| Duncombe School | 1,000 | |
| Foodbank(St Mary’s HornseyRise) | 1,000 | |
| GrowingHope | 2,200 | |
| Interserve | 500 | |
| Local in Need | 209 | Christmas Hamper |
| London CityMission | 500 | |
| Operation Mobilisation | 200 | |
| Pentonville Prison | 1,000 | |
| Power the Fight | 250 | |
| Solace Womens Refugee | 1,000 | |
| Tearfund | 500 | |
| Tree of Live | 250 | |
| Total | 11,228 |
5. Fixed Assets
| 5. Fixed Assets | |
|---|---|
| Buildings PA/AV Equipment Total |
|
| £ £ £ 5,000 2,742 7,742 - - - - - - |
|
| Cost At 1January 2021 | |
| Additions during year | |
| Disposals during year | |
| At 31 December 2021 | 5,000 2,742 7,742 |
| - (396) (396) - (914) (914) - - - |
|
| Depreciation At 1January 2021 | |
| Charge for theyear | |
| Disposals during year | |
| At 31 December 2021 | - (1,310) (1,310) |
| 5,000 2,346 7,346 |
|
| Net Book Value At 1January 2021 | |
| At 31 December 2021 | 5,000 1,432 6,036 |
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6. Debtors
| 6. Debtors | |
|---|---|
| 2021 2020 |
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| Prepayments | 22,644 24,743 6,040 118,903 6,424 5,401 |
| Amounts owed from Kings Cross Church | |
| Other debtors | |
| Total | 35,108 149,047 |
| 7. Creditors (amounts falling due less than o | ne year) |
| 2021 2020 |
|
| Accounts Payable | 1,080 17,096 1,000 700 559 422 450 1,900 240 - |
| Accruals | |
| AgencyFees | |
| Deferred income | |
| Payroll Payable | |
| Total Current Liabilities | 3,329 20,118 |
8. Contingent Liabilities
There were no contingent liabilities at the end of 31st December 2021. (2020: None)
9. Related Party Transactions
During the year, the charity had rental income from Kings Cross Church where Pete Hughes is also a Trustee.
10. Restricted Funds
| 10. Restricted Funds | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donor Various Donors Cloudesley Cloudesley Various Donors Various Donors London Diocese Fund London Diocese Fund |
Purpose | Opening Balance Income Expenditure Closing Balance |
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| £ £ £ £ |
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| BuildingWorks | - | 126,045 | (16,887) | 109,158 | ||
| COVID - 19 | 2,346 | 5,000 | (6,003) | 1,343 | ||
| FeasabilityStudy | 3,359 | - | (3,359) | 0 | ||
| FellowshipFund | 5,197 | 185 | (2,712) | 2,670 | ||
| Garden Project | 2,646 | 1,466 | (3,320) | 792 | ||
| New WorshippingCommunities | 29,956 | - | (29,956) | 0 | ||
| Strategic MinistryFund | - | 5,000 | (5,000) | 0 | ||
| Total Restricted funds | 43,504 | 137,696 | (67,237) | 113,964 |
11. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BY FUND
| Funds Funds TOTAL FUNDS |
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|---|---|---|
| Fixed Assets | 5,000 1,432 6,432 103,925 112,532 216,457 |
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| Other Assets | ||
| Total Assets | 108,925 113,964 222,889 |
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| Current Liabilities | (3,329) - (3,329) |
|
| 105,598 113,964 219,560 |
12. Assets gifted in the year
St Saviours Church was previously part of The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Tollington (charity number 1130538). During 2018 a decision was made for the three churches covered by the PCC to become separate parishes. During 2021, assets totalling £500 (2020 £15,725) were transfered from Tollington to St Saviours.
13. Capital Commitments
There is a capital commitment to doing the Naïve Roof. The contract between St Saviours and Maguire Brothers has been signed for the sum of £114,379 exluding VAT.
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EXODUS
Parochial Church Council of St Saviours Hanley Rd Notes to the Financial Statements
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