ANNUAL REPORT AIND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 31 December 2024 The Parochial Church Council of St Michael and All Angels, Farnsfield Table of Contents Trustees Report Receipts and Payments Account Statement of Assets and Liabilities 4-6. Notes to the Financial Statements Independent Examiner, s Report /iii PRAYING I SOWING I SERVING | GROWING 2024 Report and Accounts for the Parochial Church Council of St Michael and All Angels, Farnsfield. Aims and purposes St Michael and All Angels Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of cooperating with the incumbent, the Reverend Chris Pearse, in promoting the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. Objectives and Activities In line with our Growing Disciples Plan and our ' l O-in-l O, Vision (to see 'lO% of thepeople in Farusfield living as devotedfollowers ofJesu,s within JO years ') the PCC is committed to enabling as many people as possible to engage with our church, find encouragement and support, become part of our worshipping communities, and grow in their faith and discipleship to Jesus. The PCC maintains an overview of worship and mission throughout the parish and makes suggestions on how our services and ministries might best connect with the diverse community in which we are placed. Our gathered worship enables us to put faith into practice through prayer and Scripture, music and sacrainent and equips us to go out and share the Good News of Jesus with our community. We continue to work in line with our Diocesan Vision 'Living Hope: Growing Disciples of Compassion, Confidence, & Courage, and the 7 Areas of Focus, and have identified 'Deepening Prayer, and 'Growing Leaders, as two areas we would love to grow in particularly in the time ahead. When planning our activities for the year, we have consideration for the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the supplementary guidance on charities for the advancement of religion through: Worship and prayer. learning about the gospel; developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus. Provision of pastoral care for people living in the parish Mission and outreach work. To facilitate this work, it is important that we are good stewards of the financial and material resources that we have. ACHIEVEMENTS AND DEVELOPMENTS Worshi Pra er & Disci leshi The PCC is keen to offer a range of services and opportunities for prayer and worship during the week and over the course of the year that connect with our SP ￿1C￿6[￿lS FJmsfidA PRAYING SOWIPJQ I SERVIMO I OROWIMQ local community and equip us all to go deeper in our faith and discipleship to Jesus. We have identified some key markerslvalues for our life together as a church: 'Praying, Sowing, Serving, Growing, and continue to work to embed these. Our regular service pattern (established in September 2021 } of two Sunday moming services (9.15am & 10.30am) has continued throughout 2024. These two services are intentionally different in style and aim to connect with different groups of people within our community. It has been great to see both of these services flourish over this past year and to see many new people finding a home at St Michael's alongside our longstanding members, and we now have regularly over l 00 people (adults & children) attending each week. To keep a sense of togetherness we have enjoyed the occasional shared service too and our shared coffee times between the services each week are always a good time to get to know one another. Our 9.15am service has maintained its regular service pattern with Holy Communion services on the l.. & 3rd Sundays of the month and Morning Praise th services on the 2. & 4 Sundays. The organist and choir's regular involvement in leading our sung worship has been hugely appreciated and greatly enhances our services. The 10.30am service is more informal in style and with children and young people's provision each week has been very popular with families. We are now seeing over 30 children attending most Sundays and have three age groups for children and young people meeting each week (1-4s, 4-9s, 10-13s) and an amazing team of staff and volunteers who serve in various ways. We enjoyed special services at Easter, Hatvest, Remembrance and Christmas, and special 'Remembering Service, for those who have lost loved ones in recent years and we have continued to enjoy hosting the end of tenn services for St Michael's School. Tuesday Moming Prayer on Zoom, Tuesday Prayer Group, and Bible Chat have continued weekly, providing encouragement and spiritual nourishment to those attending, and the Midweek Communion service (which began in September 2023) has continued to meet monthly on Wednesday mornings. This service continues to be hosted by our Visiting Team and provides a good opportunity for another group of people to join in with the worship life of our church and find friendship and fellowship. We have continued to upload Sunday talks and readings to our website which remains a good way to stay connected with those unable to attend services. SP ￿1C￿6[￿lS FJmsfidA PRAYING SOWIPJQ I SERVIMO I OROWIMQ Our dedicated team of Licensed Lay Ministers, Clergy, and Musicians continue to do a great job leading our worship and preaching week by week, and we are rateful to the man amazin volunteers and team members who serve across a variety of areas to enable our worship life to flourish. Throughout this year, as part of our commitment to 'Deepening Prayer, (and with the help of Rowan, our intem) we have begun to meet around once a month for 'Worship & Prayer Nights,. These gatherings have been really encouraging and important as we've come together to seek God, s presence and guidance for our lives, world, and church, and we are keen to keep this pattern going in the year ahead. Another exciting development for 2024 has been the Tuesday Youth Group which our Youth Minister Grace Aldridge launched in May 2024. This has been a real success, and by the end of the year we already had 15 young people attending regularly and enjoying growing in faith and friendship together. Both Grace and Andy worked hard together to ensure there was a good transition between year 6 and year 7, and it's been great to see the fruit of this over the second half of the year, with many Year 7, s continuing their engagement with church and faith either on Sunday Mornings, Tuesday Evenings, or at Connect. Connect our After-school Church continues to be well supported and has continued to meet weekly through terni time. Numbers have been good throughout the year (with around 30-40 children coming each week). We continue to have a dedicated team of helpers (and special thanks to Alan Stanley and Margaret Coulston who, after being involved from the very start, have now stepped back from volunteering). We've continued to welcome visitors from other churches around the diocese and it's been wonderful to see a number of other 'Connect' type services emerging in other locations. It's been particularly encouraging this year to see a number of year 7's retuming to Connect and a number of the parents joining our new year Alpha Courses. We've also enjoyed some exciting 'Connect Specials, throughout 2024 including a Good Friday Trail, a Summer Picnic, a Light Paty, and a Nativity Trail. These have all been great fun and well attended have enabled us to share the message of God, s love with yet more children and families within our local community. As well as our regular services, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of the journey through life. Through baptism we thank God for the gift of life; in marriage, public vows are exchanged with God's blessing; through funeral services friends and family express their grief and give thanks for the life that is now complete in this world, and commend the SP ￿1C￿6[￿lS FJmsfidA PRAYING SOWIPJQ I SERVIMO I OROWIMQ person into God's keeping. In 2024 we had 7 baptisms and 2 Iveddings. We also had 8 funerals in church and 6 burial of ashes services in the churchyard. At the end of 2024 there were 96 parishioners on the church electoral roll. 9 names were added during the year and 3 were removed (either through death or because they moved away from the parish). Pastoral Care There continues to be a good network of inforn]al support within our church and village community, and our St Michael's Visiting Team continued to operate through 2024. This team exists to offer spiritual and pastoral care to those who are housebound, bereaved, or in need of support in our village and church community. Home communion is available for those who would appreciate it, or simply a visit, chat, or prayer. The Ark Coffee Morning continued to meet on Friday mornings throughout 2024 and continues to provide a welcoming place for people across our village to come and enjoy time together. Alongside this we trialled in 2024 a new Homegroup setup, with a separate group for men and women meeting on alternate Monday evenings. This worked well for a while but struggled to sustain momentum and more thought will be given going forwards to this provision. We have also had the occasional 'Friendship and Fun, gathering (including a Shrove Tuesday 'Beetle Drive,) which have enabled people from across our congregations to meet, chat and enjoy time together. Mission and Evan elism As a PCC and Leadership Team we continue to work with the diocese team on our GrowiF7g Disciples Plan which helps to shape our missional direction as a church. The plan is renewed regularly as we work towards our overarching vision and seek God on the next steps together. In 2024 we trialled a summer temi Alpha Course which went well, but with fewer attending due to the time of year, we have reverted back to the Spring term for 2025. This course enables people, whatever their background, to explore the big questions of life and faith together and go deeper in their understanding and commitment. Helping those in need is a core part of our Christian faith and witness and we seek to support our local community and those further afield in a number ol ways. SP ￿1C￿6[￿lS FJmsfidA PRAYING SOWIPJQ I SERVIMO I OROWIMQ Our St Michael's Choir continues to provide a great opportunity to invite members of our village into our church and enjoy singing together and the choir concert in May 2024 was another huge success. Our Tuesday Toddler group 'Shining Stars, has continued throughout 2024 enabling those with babies and toddlers to connect and build relationships with each other and with the church. St Michael's also remains heavily involved in the Foodbank effort across the village with a number of church members on the Foodbank team, and the Farnsfield Refugee Outreach Group (now officially under the church PCC) has also continued its important work of helping re￿geeS in the local area to settle in. As a church we continue to support other Christian organisations and in 2024 it was a joy to be able to give financially to our 'Missional Giving Partners,. These include our CMS (Church Mission Society) Mission Partners, Rosie & Stu Bayford (who are based in North-Eastem Brazil), the Trussell Trust, Betel, and the Emmaus Project in Newark. The aim with these 'Mission Partners, is that alongside offering financial support we can develop meaningful relationships with them and offer prayerful and practical help too. Alongside this, the Charity Shop team choose a number of other charities and initiatives to give to each year as well, and in 2024 charities such as Southwell Reach (Learning Disability Support), The Samaritans (Mansfield Branch), Alzheimer's Society and Nottinghalnshire Hospice were supported financially. Hel in to Resource Other Churches This past year has also seen us looking beyond our own parish and beginning to offer resource and support to other local churches. We continue to be committed to our Cluster churches (Kirklington, Maplebeck and Winkburn) and have had the occasional Cluster service through the year. 2024 also saw the launch of our new Young Worshipper Workshops where we aim to equip young people ( l 0-18s) both from our own church and other churches locally to grow in their musical giftings and their understanding of sung worship. This has had a great start and is something we're keen to build on going fonvards. In 2025 there will be more opportLmities for us to continue to look beyond our own parish too with St Michael's being at the heart of the new Flourish Pilot (which Grace is helping to lead in the Minster School) and the new Rural Renewal Pilot, by which groups of rural parisheslbenefices will be ' linked, together informally to support mission, ministry and growth. SP ￿1C￿6[￿lS FJmsfidA PRAYING SOWIPJQ I SERVIMO I OROWIMQ Staffin & Volunteers We have a vibrant and growing staff team at St Michael's which meets regularly together to pray and to plan for mission and ministry together. Throughout 2024 Andy Proffitt has continued his brilliant work as our Children and Families Minister. As well as overseeing the children, s groups (O- l Os) at our l 0.30am Sunday selvice, leading the running of Connect, and leading our Tuesday morning toddler group ' Shining Stars,, Andy continues to build on our strong connections with the school and has also been working hard in the background as our 'Deputy Lead Recruiter, to help ensure that Safeguarding and DBS requirements are being kept up to date. Grace Alridge has now been with us for 18 months as our Youth Minister (with Contemporary Worship support) and continues to bring a great deal to our church and team. It, s been wonderful to see new ministries emerging (such as the l 0-13s group on Sundays, Tuesday Youth, and Youth Band) and to see so many young people growing in their faith. Grace, s role has been supported initially through the diocese by some SDF 4 fl￿ding (Strategic Development Fund), and we will need to work together going forwards to ensure the financial stability of this important role longer terni. Angela Main finished her work with us as our Operational Assistant at the end of August 2024. We are very thankful to Angela for all her dedication and hard work in the role and are pleased that she is able to her continue to be involved in other ways. A new 'Parish Assistant, role is Cu￿entlY being developed and we hope to find someone to fill this position in the near ￿ture. Lyndsay Townsend has joined our staff team as our Charity Shop Manager and has had a brilliant start in this role, using her passion, enthusiasm, and expertise from her previous experience to further develop the work and team there. It's been a joy too to welcome Rowan Aldridge as an intern with us. Rowan has got really stuck in and has given his time and energy to helping us in a variety of areas including Prayer & Worship, homegroups, and preaching. Charlie Matthews has continued in his role as our church organist, and we very much appreciate his contribution to our worship at St Michael's week by week. Alison Slinger continues to offer accounting support to the church Treasurer and PCC and we remain hugely thankful for her invaluable support and input. Whilst not employed, Trine Pearse continues to be an essential member of our core team offering her gifts and passions to help our mission to thrive - and we SP ￿1C￿6[￿lS FJmsfidA PRAYING SOWIPJQ I SERVIMO I OROWIMQ are of course blessed to have a fantastic Church Warden in Geoff Illingworth, a dedicated PSO in Kim Smith, and a very committed PCC. Alongside this we of course remain reliant upon our many dedicated volunteers for our mission and ministy to flourish as a church. It's a huge team effort and we are hu rateful to all those who ive of their time mone and skills to su ort the work here in so man different wa Chari Sho Inspiration Charity Shop has gone from strength to strength in 2024 and continues to be a real blessing to both the village at large and to the church, raising invaluable funds in support of our ministry as a church, and providing a welcoming meeting point in the village. At the request of the Charity Shop Committee a new Charity Shop Manager (Lyndsay Townsend) was employed in June 2024 and has had a fantastic start in her new role. We continue to be very thankful to all those who volunteer their time and energy there and particular thanks go to Christine McGregor, Janet Boothroyd, and other members of the Shop Management Committee, for all the dedication and effort they put in. Deane & Diocesan S nod J udith Alcock and lan Boothroyd are both serving as our Deanery Synod representatives. Ian Boothroyd, in his role on General Synod Rep, also sits on Diocesan Synod, along with Chris & Trine Pearse. This, along with Clergy Chapter and other points of contact with the diocesan team, ensure a strong link is maintained between the parish and the wider work of our Deanery & Diocese. Financial Review The incojne from unrestricted planned giving increased by 40% to £42,510. This is very welcome news and follows on a significant year on year increase since 2021. Grant income of £18,515 is detailed in the notes to the accounts. The income from the Inspiration charity shop has continued to increase. The net proceeds in 2024 were £66,127. (£51,985 in 2023.) £128,375 was spent from unrestricted funds to provide the Christian ministy from St Michael and All Angels Church, including the contribution to the diocesan parish share that largely covers the stipends and housing costs for the clergy, alongside diocese support and training of new lay and ordained ministers. The net result for the year was an excess of receipts over payments of £5,658 on unrestricted funds. SP ￿1C￿6[￿lS FJmsfidA PRAYING SOWIPJQ I SERVIMO I OROWIMQ Adding bank and deposit balances brought fonvard at the beginning of the year, the balances carried forward at 31 "' December on unrestricted funds totalled £149,181. The restricted funds of £65,534 are detailed in the accounts. Reserves Polic It is a good PCC policy to try to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds that equates to at least three months, payments which in 2024 was £37,490. The cash balance of £104,181 held in unrestricted general funds at the year end more than covers this requirement. The PCC has set aside £45,000 in respect of the trading costs of the charity shop which is carried as a designated fvnd. This was considered prudent as the charity shop lease rentals are £20,000 per annum with a three year break clause. Structure overnance and mana ement The Parochial Church Council is a corporate body established by the Church of England. The PCC operates under the Parochial Church Council Powers Measure. The method of appointment of PCC members is set out in the Church Representation Rules. At St Michael and All Angels, the membership of the PCC consists of the incumbent (our vicar), churchwardens, and members elected by those members of the congregation who are on the electoral roll of the church. The PCC members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concem and importance to the parish, including deciding how the funds of the PCC are to be spent in line with our mission and ministry objectives. Administrative information St Michael and All Angels Church is situated in Famsfield, Nottinghamshire. It is part of the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham within the Church of England. The PCC is a body corporate (PCC Powers Measure 1956, Church Representation Rules 2011) and a charity registered with the Charity Commission with number 1192128. SP ￿1C￿6[￿lS FJmsfidA PRAYING SOWIPJQ I SERVIMO I OROWIMQ PCC members who have served at any time from l January 2024 until the date this report was approved are. Ex officio members: Incumbent.. Reverend Christopher Pearse (Chair) Warden: Geoffrey Illingworth Warden: Vacant Elecled Dennery Synod Represenlalives (and &¥ officio members of Ihe PCC).. Ian Boothroyd (also the Reader s representative) Judith Alcock Elecled members PCC.. Corinne Moore (to 2025) lan Grityiths (to 2025) Sophia Irving (to 2026) Alexandra Illingworth (to 2026} Robert Main (to 2027) Victoria Greaves (to 2027) Co-opted members.. None Officers Appoinled by Ihe PCC.. Angela Main (PCC Secretary) - until August 2024 Judith Alcock (Treasurer) - to November 2024, then Assistant Treasurer Alison Slinger {Accountant/Planned Giving Secretary - Treasurerfrom Novembcr 2024.) lan Griffiths (Vice Chair) Eve Griffiths (Electoral Roll Officer) Kim Smith (Parish Safeguarding Officer) Approved by the PCC on: and signed on their behalf b3 (Rev Chris Pearse) iioi SP ￿1C￿6[￿lS FJmsfidA PRAYING SOWIPJQ I SERVIMO I OROWIMQ - O f4 * * r4 P- - ri •4 0 f4 * f4 •J tr4 ) Cb - - ¢ r4 rl sls!I I I I I £r u O r4*0 o o o ij <<< In QD Q * p4 .o- oc o?0 000 OCOCO?0￿ o? ?0 oc* oe - V) J ty Thj - OOcryOC J tyj tyj os ¢) ots Vi¥hV><< JJo_r£o¥ Za￿[£< IndepeDdent Eiaminer's Report lo the PCC of St Michael and All Angels Chureh. F&rn8fJeld. I rerK)rt on th¢ a￿Unts of the church for the year ended 31 December 2024. ReS￿lIVe Rcsponsibilities of TrUs￿¢S and Examiner: The church's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The church's trustees consid¢r that an audit is not r¢quired for this y¢ar under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: Examine the accounts (under section 145 of the 2011 Ath); To follow th¢ procedures laid down in the General Direction5 given by the Charity Commissioners {undeT section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act); and To State whether particular matters bave come to my attention. Basis of IDdependent ExamSner's report My examination was catried out in accordance with the generdl Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts p￿sented with those Tecords. It also includes Considcration of any unusual items or disclosur¢s in thc accounts, and sccking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the ¢vid¢nc¢ that would be required in an audit and ￿nSeqUentlY no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view, and the report is limited to those matte[3 s¢t out in the statement below. Independent examiner's statsmcnt In connection with my examination, no matt¢r h&8 come to my attention: which gives me reasonable caus¢ ￿ believe that in any material respect of th¢ requirements To k¢¢p accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act. and To prepare accounts which accord with th¢ accounting records and comply with the accounting r¢quirements of the 2011 Act have not be¢n m¢t' or 2. to which. in my opinion, attention should be drawm in order to enable a pmper und¢rstanding of the accounts to be r¢achcd. Rev John Cole FCA I l Long M¢adow Farnsfield Notts NG22 8DR