## **Friends of Deddington Church** 

Charitable Incorporated Organisation 

Charity registration number 1197482 

## **Annual Report 31 December 2024** 

Friends of Deddington Church was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in January 2022.  It is the successor to an informal unregistered organisation which supported the church for many years. 

The charity is a secular organisation whose sole purpose is to raise funds to assist in the preservation and maintenance of the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul (in the Diocese of Oxford), a historic Grade II* building, and its grounds, which have stood at the heart of the parish for nearly 800 years. 

The church provides the largest covered floor space available in the community. Apart from its role as an Anglican church, almost 50 different secular activities have been undertaken in the church in recent years, many of them multiple times, from monthly markets to concerts, plays, exhibitions, lectures and school activities, to highlight just a few. 

During the financial year, we raised £5,702 mainly through monthly subscriptions and Gift Aid recoveries, resulting in a year-end balance on account of £16,181 after our contributions to the ongoing maintenance and repairs of the church and its grounds. 

Last year we donated over £26,500 to the cost of the repair of the south porch roof and brickwork.  It now looks well cared for.  This year we donated £10,866 for repairs to the south porch soakaway and lead flashing on the main tower.  But importantly, we also contributed almost £3,500 to the team of volunteers which maintains the graveyards adjacent to the church, enabling them to purchase new equipment and a much needed new and improved secure shed to store this in. 

Already in 2025, we are in discussion with the church wardens regarding contributions towards further maintenance and repairs of the building recommended in the Quinquennial report, including improved drainage made more critical by the changes in climate and resultant record rainfall. 

There have been no changes in the charity trustees this year.  They are Lord Green of Deddington, Lesley Milroy, Catherine Desmond, Jill Cheeseman, Jennifer Childs, David Field, Colin Lambert and Caroline Condon. 

Registered address:  Weston House, Church Street, Deddington, OXON OX15 0TG 



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|SectionAReceipts||andpayments|||||||||||
||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**|Endowment<br>funds||Total funds||||Last year|
||||to|the nearest<br>£|to the nearest£|<br>to the nearest £|<br>to the nearest£||||to the nearest £||
|**A1Receiots**|||||||||||||
|Donations||||4,295||||4.295||||4,650|
|Gift Aid||||1407.||||1,407<br>.||||1,191<br>.|
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|_Sub total (Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|||<br>|5,702||||5,702||||6,841|
|A2Asset and investment sales,|||||||||||||
|(see table).|||||||||||||
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||_Sub total_|||.|||||||||
|_Total receipts_|||I|5,70211||**-1.,1_____**<br>**-1**I||<br>5,702||I|..I____<br>s_.84_1..I||
|A3Payments|||||||||||||
|Church maintenance and repairs<br>Printing, publicity and advertising||||14,303.||||1A,303<br>.||||26,599<br>853|
|Professional fees||||540.|||||540<br>.|||540<br>.|
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||_Sub total_|||14,843||||14,843||||27,792|
|A4Asset and investment|||||||||||||
|purchases, (see table)|||||||||||||
||_Sub total_|||.. .|||||||||
|_Total payments_|||I|14,843**I l_____..-ii**|||**-ii**|14.843||**ii..**___<br>2_1_,1_e2,..j|||
|_Netofreceiptsl(payments)_|||<br>-|**9,141**|||-|9,141|||-|21,951|
|ASTransfers between|funds|||-|||||.|||-|
|ASCash funds last year end||||25,322||||25,322||||47,273|
|_Cash fundsthis_|_year_|_end_||16,181||||16,181||||25,322|





|SectionBStatement|ofassetsandliabilitiesat|ofassetsandliabilitiesat|ofassetsandliabilitiesat|ofassetsandliabilitiesat|the endofthe|the endofthe|period|||
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||||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
||||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**|
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||||**_Total cash funds_**||**16,181**|||||
|||(agree balances with receipts||andpayments||||||
|||||account(s))||||||
||||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
||||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**|
||Details||||to**nearest£**||tonearest£||**to nearest£**|
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|**831nvestmentassets**||||||||||
||Details||||Fundtowhich<br>asset belongs|Cost(optional)|||Current value<br>{optional)|
|**84Assets retained for the**||||||||||
|**charity'sownuse**||||||||||
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||Details||||liabilltv relates||(ontionall||(optlonall|
|**85Liabilities**||||||||||
|Signed by one ortwotrustees on<br>behalfofall the trustees|||Signature||PrintName||||Dateof|





CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Friends of Deddington Church
On accounts for the year
ended
31 December 2024
Charity no
lif any)
1197482
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity I'the Trust") for the year ended 3111212024.
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Acl
2011 1.the Act")
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's a¢counts Carried out
under section 145 of Ihe 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 14515){bl of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have
come lo my attention
"} in connection with
Ihe examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect..
accounting records were not kept in aGcordanGe with section 130 of
the Act or
the aGGounts do not acGord with the accounting records
Independent
examiner's statement
I have no concerns and have corne across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Please delele the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
02
Name:
Mr J M Dovey
Relevant professional
qualificationlsl or body
lif any):
FCCA
Address:
Bloxham Mill, Barford Road
Bloxham, Banbury
Oxon OX15 4FF
IER
October 2018

Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32,
Independent examination of Gharity accounts.. directions and guidance for
examiners).
Give here brief details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018