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|MEETINGS OF THE PCC in 2023||
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|-28 March||
|-30April||
|-20June||
|-7September||
|-7 December||
|MEETINGS OF THE STANDING COMMITEE|IN 2023|
|-27 February||
|-22 May||
|-21August||
|-13November||



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|Itwas agreed that it was now safe to move back to Holy Communion<br>in both kinds.||
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|a variety ofdiscussions<br>relating to heritage, We received<br>a very positive letter from Historic Engand<br>resulting|from a|
|"secret shopper" visit to the church. We secured funding for a heritage consultant<br>and appointed<br>Heritage|Lincolnshire.|
|Discussions continued<br>relating tothe Phase 2 works including<br>consideration<br>ofan expert report from Adrian|Dempster|
|about the tower.||
|Julie Green was appointed<br>as Social Media Officer and her work has revolutionised<br>our communications.||
|There was significant<br>discussion ofthe variety ofservices held at SMDC due to the closure ofthe Cathedral.<br>These were: 2<br>April a service ofreadings<br>and music for passion tide with the cathedral<br>choir; a cathedral<br>evensong on 23 April; on 11May<br>a cathedral<br>Civic service to mark the Coronation;<br>a funeral on 23June; two Lord Mayor services on 3September<br>and 1||
|October; and the High Sheriff sjustice service on 29October. In addition, the Cathedral<br>used the church for|school visits on|
|five occasions in 2023.The PCC were delighted to receive a hand written card from the Dean thanking<br>us for all we had||
|done while the cathedral<br>was closed.||
|There was careful consideration<br>ofthe Minister Communities<br>project which<br>isto be extended to the City during 2024.The||
|PCC resolved to engage fully with this project and then to decide what is in the best interests ofthe mission|ofSt Mary de|
|Castro.||
|Another item discussed<br>was bell ringing which, under the leadership<br>of Lewis Benfield, had returned<br>with weekly practices||
|and regular visits by bands ofringers.<br>Due to the excellent reports from the Parish safeguarding<br>officer the PCC has compiled<br>with its duty<br>under|sector Softhe|
|Safeguarding<br>and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016.||



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|STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL AC<br>FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31DEC|TIVITIES<br>EMBER 2023||||||
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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||fund|funds|funds|funds|
|||Notes|E|E||E|
|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS<br>Donations<br>and legacies|FROM||36,734|8,030|44,764|72,032|
|Charitable<br>activities<br>Charitable<br>Activities|||4,641||4,641|5,833|
|Investment<br>income|||||||
|Total|||41,376|8,030|49,406|77,865|
|EXPENDITURE ON|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities<br>Charitable<br>Activities|||32,858|8,563|41,421|33,745|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)|||8,518|(533)|7,985|44,120|
|RECONCIUATION<br>OF FUNDS<br>Total funds brought<br>forward|||12,098|23,409|35,507|(8,613)|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|||20,616|22,876|43,492|35,507|





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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||fund|funds|funds|funds|
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|FIXED ASSETS||||||
|Tangible assets|12||19,126|19,126|20,072|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||
|Debtors<br>Cash at bank|13|1,964<br>23,001|1,000<br>8,380|2,964<br>31,381|1,671<br>18,335|
|||24,965|9,380|34,345|20,006|
|CREDITORS||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within one year||(4,349)|(5,630)|(9,979)|(4,571)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||20,616|3,750|24,366|15,435|
|TOTAL ASSETS LESSCURRENT LIABILITIES||20,616|22,876|43,492|35,507|
|NET ASSETS||20,616|22,876|43,492|35,507|
|FUNDS||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds<br>Restricted funds||||20,616<br>22,876|12,098<br>23,409|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||43,492|35,507|





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|DONATI|ONS<br>AND LEGACIES|||
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|Donations||17,748|47,931|
|Gift aid||4,359|7,981|
|Legacies||1,000||
|Grants||5,630|1,087|
|Planned|giving|13,013|12,052|
|Collections at services||3,014|2,981|
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||Heritage|lottery Fund||5,630||
||Leicester|Coff|||1,087|
|||||5,630|1,087|
|4.|INVESTMENT INCOME|||||
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||Deposit account interest|||1||
|5.|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS|||||
||||Direct|Support||
||||Costs (see|costs (see||
||||note 6)<br>f|note 7)<br>f|Totals<br>f|
||Charitable|Activities|36,737|4,684|41,421|
|6.|DIRECT COSTS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVmES|||||
|||||2023|2022|
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||Church running<br>expenses|||20,163|13,686|
||Church repairs and maintenance|||3,711|2,598|
||Insurance<br>Parish share<br>Stationery<br>and publications|||9,613<br>2,000<br>150|8,072<br>2,000<br>244|
||Organists<br>Interest payable and similar charges|||1,100|2,030<br>348|
|||||36,737|28,978|
|7.|SUPPORT|COSTS||||
|||||Governance||
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|||||activities|activities|
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|Bank charges|||||15|
|Other||||||
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|||||Charitable|Total|
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|Depreciation|of|tangible|fixed assets|1,846|1,786|
|Governance|costs|||||
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|||||Charitable|Total|
|||||Activities|activities|
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|Independent|examination||fees|2,838|2,966|
|INDEPENDENT||EXAMINERS' REMUNERATION||||
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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS||FROM||||
|Donations|and legacies||31,586|40,446|72,032|
|Charitable|activities|||||
|Charitable|Activities||5,833||5,833|
|Total|||37,419|40,446|77,865|
|EXPENDITURE ON||||||
|Charitable|activities|||||
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||COMPARATIVES<br>|FO|R|THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES|-continued|||
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||NET INCOME<br>Transfers between||funds||5,808<br>(2,710)|38,312<br>2,710|44,120|
||Net movement<br>in|funds|||3,098|41,022|44,120|
||RECONCILIATION|OF||FUNDS||||
||Total funds brought||forward||9,000|(17,613)|(8,613)|
||TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD||||12,098|23,409|35,507|
|12.|TANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS|||||||
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||At 1January 2023<br>Additions||||12,000<br>900|9,858|21,858<br>900|
||At 31December 2023||||12,900|9,858|22,758|
||DEPRECIATION|||||||
||At 1January 2023<br>Charge for year||||800<br>860|986<br>986|1,786<br>1,846|
||At 31December 2023||||1,660|1,972|3,632|
||NET BOOK VALUE|||||||
||At 31December 2023||||11,240|7,886|19,126|
||At 31December 2022||||11,200|8,872|20,072|
|13.|DEBTORS:AMOUNTS|||FALUNG DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR||||
|||||||2023|2022|
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||Other debtors|||||417|468|
||Prepayments<br>and accrued income|||||2,547|1,203|
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|14.|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS|FALLING|DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR||||
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|15.|MOVEMENT<br>IN|FUNDS||||||
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||General fund||||12,098|8,518|20,616|
||Restricted funds|||||||
||Security fund<br>Organ fund<br>Energy fund<br>Future projects <br>Bells Fund|fund|||8,872<br>11,200<br>1,087<br>2,250|(986)<br>40<br>(1,087)<br>500|7,886<br>11,240<br>2,250<br>500|
||Music/Choir<br>Fund|||||1,000|1,000|
||||||23,409|(533)|22,876|
||TOTAL FUNDS||||35,507|7,985|43,492|
||Net movement|in funds,|included|in the above are as follows:||||
||||||Incoming|Resources|Movement|
||||||resources<br>E|expended<br>E|in funds<br>f|
||Unrestricted<br>funds<br>Genera<br>I fund||||41,376|(32,858)|8,518|
||Restricted funds|||||||
||Security fund<br>Organ fund<br>Energy fund<br>Welcome fund||||900<br>5,630|(986)<br>(860)<br>(1,087)<br>(5,630)|(986)<br>40<br>(1,087)|
||Bells Fund||||500||500|
||Music/Choir<br>Fund||||1,000||1,000|
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||TOTAL FUNDS||||49,406|(41,421)|7,985|





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||||At 1.1.22|in funds|funds|31.12.22|
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|General fund|||9,000|5,808|(2,710)|12,098|
|Restricted funds|||||||
|Church Restoration|||(19,863)|17,153|2,710||
|Security fund|||2,250|8,872|(2,250)|8,872|
|Organ fund||||11,200||11,200|
|Energy fund||||1,087||1,087|
|Future projects fund|||||2,250|2,250|
||||(17,613)|38,312|2,710|23,409|
|TOTAL FUNDS|||(8,613)|44,120||35,507|
|Comparative|net movement|in funds, included|in the above are as follows:||||
|||||Incoming|Resources|Movement|
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|General fund||||37,419|(31,611)|5,808|
|Restricted funds|||||||
|Church Restoration||||17,501|(348)|17,153|
|Security fund||||9,858|(986)|8,872|
|Organ fund||||12,000|(800)|11,200|
|Energy fund||||1,087||1,087|
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|TOTAL FUNDS||||77,865|(33,745)|44,120|



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|FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3|1DECEMBER 2023|||
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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS||||
|Donations and legacies||||
|Donations<br>Gift aid<br>Legacies<br>Grants<br>Planned<br>giving<br>Collections at services||17,748<br>4,359<br>1,000<br>5,630<br>13,013<br>3,014|47,931<br>7,981<br>1,087<br>12,052<br>2,981|
|||44,764|72,032|
|Investment<br>income||||
|Deposit account interest||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||
|Church lettings<br>Other church activity||2,465<br>2,176|4,146<br>1,687|
|||4,641|5,833|
|Total incoming resources||49,406|77,865|
|EXPENDITURE||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||
|Church<br>running<br>expenses<br>Church repairs and maintenance<br>Insurance<br>Parish share<br>Stationery<br>and publications<br>Organists<br>Diocese Loan interest||20,163<br>3,711<br>9,613<br>2,000<br>150<br>1,100|13,686<br>2,598<br>8,072<br>2,000<br>244<br>2,030<br>348|
|||36,737|28,978|
|Support costs||||
|Finance||||
|Bank charges|||15|
|Other||||
|Organ<br>Fixtures and fittings||860<br>986|800<br>986|
|||1,846|1,786|
|Governance costs||||
|Independent<br>examination|fees|2,838|2,966|
|Total resources expended||41,421|33,745|
|Net income||7,985|44,120|



