## **Church of the Good Shepherd** ## **Shoreham Beach** ## **ANNUAL REPORT** ## **AND** ## **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS** ## **OF THE** ## **PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL** ## **For the year ended 31st December 2025** Church of the Good Shepherd, Kings Walk, Shoreham by Sea ## **Associate Vicar: Revd Jane Bartlett** **Independent Examiner:** Peter Jarman FCCA, Unit 6 Riverside Business Centre, Brighton Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex BN43 6RE **Bankers:** Barclays Bank PLC, Brighton 1 ## **Administrative Information** ## **THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF THE CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, SHOREHAM BEACH** Charity Commission for England and Wales Charity number: 1213732 During the year the following served as members of the Parochial Church Council [PCC] _Vicar:_ The Reverend Dominic Fenton (from 13[th] March 2025) _Associate Vicar:_ The Reverend Jane Bartlett _Readers:_ Sally Excell Derek Hansen _Churchwardens:_ Nix Cuthell Kay Haffenden _Hon Treasurer:_ Chris Diebel _Hon Secretary_ Jo Edwards _Representatives on_ Gian Tonduer _the Deanery Synod_ Jo Edwards 2 ## _Elected Members:_ |Hilary Jolly||2024|3 year| |---|---|---|---| |Jenny Stride||2025|3 year| |Amy Coke||2025|3 year| |Lesley Ward||2023|3 year| |Gian Tondeur||2025|3 year| |David Worrall||2023|3 year| |Louise
Durrant||2023|3 year| |Dominic
Elton||2025|3 year| |Catherine
Mann||2024|3 year| |Jo Edwards||2023|3 year| |Catherine
Collingwood||2025|3 year| |Ex-ofcio and
co-opted
members|||| |Revd Dominic
Fenton|Vicar|n/a|n/a| |Revd Jane
Bartlet|Associate
Vicar|n/a|n/a| |Kay
Hafenden|Church
Warden|2024|1 year| |Nix Cuthell|Church
Warden|2024|1 year| |Sally Excell|Lay Reader|n/a|n/a| |Chris Diebel|Treasurer|2025|1 year| ||||| 3 ## _Structure, governance and management_ Membership of the PCC is determined under the Church Representation Rules and consists of certain ex-officio members (the incumbent, assistant curate, lay readers licensed to officiate in the church), the churchwardens and members of the Deanery, Diocesan or General Synods and up to 12 members of the church who are elected at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM). Members are warmly encouraged to stand for election to the PCC and we try to ensure a balance of skills and experience where possible. ## _Objectives and activities_ The primary objective of the Good Shepherd PCC is the promotion of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the doctrines and practices of the Church of England. The PCC has the responsibility of co-operating with the Vicar in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. The full PCC met five times in 2025. Some urgent matters were decided by email. ## **Achievement and Performance** ## **Review of the Year 2025 – Revd Jane Bartlett, Associate Vicar** Reflecting on 2025, it’s encouraging to witness how our little church on the beach has thrived as a local hub of faith and community. This year, our collective spirit has shone brightly through the service and generosity of so many. While it’s impossible to thank everyone individually, the dedication of our wardens, Kay Haffenden and Nix Cuthell, deserves special mention. They are always there when needed, responsive and efficient in all that they do. Chris Diebel took on the role of treasurer and has done an excellent job navigating us through the challenges of a very tight budget. The PCC, too, has been integral in steering our governance, tackling decisions with wisdom and ensuring meetings concluded in good spirits and, happily, never later than 9pm! Our worship flourished thanks to the choir and musicians, whose hymns—both traditional and contemporary—enlivened our services. Volunteers across the board, from sacristans, welcomers, readers, and intercessors, each added their valuable contribution. We are grateful to our retired clergy and readers who enrich our worship in many ways. It has been 4 a pleasure to welcome Fr Dominic Fenton into our midst and all the gifts and experience he brings. Both he and his partner Dennis quickly became warmly embraced by the church community. Children’s ministry volunteers have worked tirelessly, growing our Sunday school and welcoming increasing numbers of children—an encouraging sign of new life. Their dedication extended into the school holidays, running craft and games afternoons that were packed with families. Amy Coke became an Authorised Lay Minister in Youth Work, with the promise of a future youth club to be developed. Our fundraising team, led by Jill Charlish, brought the church alive with events such as the Christmas Fayre, which not only raised a remarkable £3,095.26 but also drew together the wider community in festive celebration. Their creativity extended to quilt exhibitions and musical evenings, as well as an abundance of homemade cake! We have also been enthusiastic fundraisers for the six charities we support as our mission partners, alongside praying for them week by week. The flower team, led by Linda Caffyn, adorned our church with beauty, while the church cleaners and gardeners kept it in good order. For this, special thanks must go to Liz Beeston. Week by week, coffee is offered after the Sunday services, providing space for connection. So too does the new ‘Friends’ group and the longstanding craft group. The Saturday morning meditation group always finishes with a breakfast of homemade bread. The St Francis Fund reached out to those experiencing financial hardship, embodying our faith in action. Technology has played its part in fostering inclusivity, with Adam Tinworth and Martin Devereux faithfully livestreaming our 10am service each week, so that those who can’t get to church can join us. Creative expressions of faith have flourished, with Revd Jess Aidley bringing Bible art to our weekly newsletter, and Adam Tinworth shaping the Shoreline magazine into a vital monthly read for parishioners. The visitor’s book has become a testament to gratitude, filled with messages from those who find solace in the church’s doors being open every day—a simple offering that embodies our commitment to welcome all. Our healing team, prayer chain, and intercessors have provided spiritual support at moments of need, forming the backbone of our church’s pastoral care and embodying the power of prayer. Each of these contributions, whether seen or unseen, strengthens our church, binding us together in faith and fellowship, turning water into wine. 5 ## **A month-by-month summary of the year** We typically offered between five to six church regular services each week and celebrated all the major Christian festivals. Here are some month-by-month significant moments and highlights from our year together: ## **January** - We began the New Year with a labyrinth walk welcoming about 50 people. - The fundraisers hosted an exhibition of Chris Diebel’s beautiful quilts. This was well attended and raised £1617.05 for church funds. - Chris Diebel took over as our church treasurer, and we thanked Barry Ward, or former treasurer, for his many years of service. - ‘Friends’ was launched, an afternoon tea and friendship group (replacing the fellowship lunches). This is run by Joy Daintree and meets in a local home. ## **February** - We ran a busy February half-term family fun afternoon in the hall with crafts and games. - Catherine Mann took over the role of safeguarding officer, following former safeguarding officer David Edey moving away from the parish. ## **March** - Fr Dominic Fenton was licensed as our new benefice vicar by Bishop Martin on 13[th] March at St Mary de Haura. It was a joy to welcome him and his partner Dennis to the benefice. - We hosted Lent groups across the benefice studying ‘Cries for a Lost Homeland’ by Guli Francis-Dehqani. - Our electoral roll officer Jenny Stride undertook a complete revision of our electoral roll, as is required every six years. ## **April** - We celebrated Holy Week with a full schedule of services, from Palm Sunday, through to Easter Sunday, including the Sunrise Communion on the beach. We welcomed about 150 people to church on Easter Sunday across the two services. ## **May** - We hosted a Big Brekkie and nautical themed concert (with Lancing Brass Band the Wellington Wailers) as part of our Christian Aid fundraising. Our efforts this year, along with the red envelopes, raised £2665.34 - Our house boxes for the Children’s Society raised £600. 6 - To celebrate the artistic talent in the church, we began to exhibit community art in the side chapel on the east wall, curated by Angie Tritton. - We experimented with a labyrinth cut into the church grass for ‘No Mow May’ as part of our Eco Church commitments. - Revd Jane took a group from the benefice to Chichester Cathedral to have afternoon tea and attend the Christian Aid evensong service. - Both Judy Short and Amy Coke were commissioned as Authorised Lay Ministers at Chichester Cathedral. Judy’s elective was in worship and liturgy, and Amy’s elective was in youth work. - We hosted another popular half-term family craft afternoon, this time making parade gear for the Beach Dreams Festival. - News came that the preschool Pebbles, which had rented our church hall over many years, would close at the end of the summer term because of a fall in the birthrate numbers. We were very saddened by the closure, which also presented a drop in church income from the hall lettings. ## **June** - We enjoyed our packed summer fayre with barbecue and plenty of fun. It raised £2422.97 for church funds and brought the community together. - The church was invited to sell vegan cakes at the Beach Dreams Festival, raising £327.50 for church funds, and offered a church presence at the event. ## **July** - As part of our Sea Sunday celebrations, we hosted for the first time an outdoor ‘Blessing of the Sea’ service at the Pollinator Café. We brought together different local groups who care for the sea and those who go out to sea. Music was provided by the Durrant family, the sun shone and it proved to be popular. ## **August** - We hosted a summer family fun afternoon in the hall with crafts and games. - Low tide presented the opportunity to host a morning beach labyrinth walk. ## **September** - Fr Dominic and Revd Jane hosted a four-week confirmation group for the benefice, focusing on a book by Rowan Williams ‘Being Christian.’ - Our Pet Blessing Service took place, with tea and homemade cakes to follow sold in aid of the St Francis Fund. We had a talk by the Shoreham Dogs Trust about their work this year. - As part of our Creationtide celebrations we had a talk in church by The Sussex Dolphin Project, and Revd Jess produced dolphin related prayer resources. We welcomed Bishop Nicholas Holtam to preach on climate and nature. He is the former Church of England lead bishop on the environment. 7 - A fun dog walk, between our churches, raised money for new dog bins in the benefice. ## **October** - We enjoyed a harvest festival service followed by a community lunch of butternut soup and fruit crumble. - The fundraising team hosted ‘Catalina’, an evening of blues, grooves and jazz standards at the church. There was dancing in the aisles! The event raised £810.70 for church funds. - We hosted a well-attended October half-term family fun afternoon. - We welcomed Archdeacon Martin who presided and preached at the 10am service. - Four members of our congregation were confirmed by Bishop Ruth at St Peter’s West Blatchington, and many members of the Good Shepherd went along to support them. ## **November** - We began the month with our annual All Souls Memorial Healing Service. - Three Advent groups ran across the benefice studying ‘Listening to the Music of the Soul’ by Bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani. - Our authorised lay minister for youth Amy Coke moved forward exciting plans to launch a new monthly youth club, The Dock. - The Posada started its Advent journey around the parish. - The church hosted a Bungalow Town historic illustrated talk about ‘The Great Storms’ of past years. - The Christmas Fayre was another great fundraising occasion and festive community gathering raising £3095.26. - We ended the month with an Advent labyrinth walk, with live piano accompaniment by Penny Loosemore. ## **December** - We partnered up with Swiss Gardens Pub to offer an outdoor Christingle by their lakeside. It proved to be good outreach to those who might not come to church. - All our Christmas services were well attended, especially the carol service. For the second year Midnight Mass was again at the earlier time of 9pm and saw an improvement in attendance. We encouraged the congregation to invite a friend to the carol service, and it was full, with mulled wine to follow in the hall. ## **Church Membership and Attendance** The numbers on the electoral roll as of 31st December 2025 were 134. Thanks go to Jenny Stride for looking after our electoral roll. 8 The numbers attending the 10am Parish Communion ranged between 60 to 80 people each week. Numbers attending the 8am Holy Communion on Sunday are between 10 to 16 people. Tuesday morning Holy Communion averages around 12 to 14 people. The Sunrise Communion on the beach had 59 people and Easter Parish Communion had 90. Our Christmas services had 100 at the Crib service, and 108 at the carol service, 62 at Bethlehem Midnight Mass and 52 on the Christmas Day Communion. Saturday morning meditation had a regular weekly group of between 12 to 18 people, some joining online, others in church. The monthly Taizé for Healing had around 18 to 28 people. The numbers of children attending has gradually improved over the year, with as many as 14 joining us on a Sunday. ## **Fabric** Damp in the choir cupboard was repaired and the cupboard refurbished. There were also smaller maintenance repairs throughout the year. Much exploratory work was done in the hope of replacing our mullion windows with double glazing and new frames. The frames have deteriorated. Grants are being sought and contractors identified. We are grateful to the wardens and John Haffenden for their dedicated work. ## **Finance** This year was a recovery year after the major expenses of the previous year. We ended the year with a small surplus of about £3,000. We ensured that our six mission partners all received a minimum of £1000 and our total mission giving exceeded £8,300. The largest expenditure of the PCC was the sum of £50,860 paid to the Diocese to cover ministry costs. Thanks go to our amazing fund-raising team and the generosity of time and donations by members of our congregation. The PCC would like to thank everyone for their efforts. ## **Reserve Policy** The PCC recommend that sufficient funds be retained in reserve to provide. - The estimated essential expenditure that is required for the maintenance of the Church and the Hall over the next three years. 9 - Sufficient funds to meet the additional overhead costs that will arise to meet the ministry overheads. - To ensure that, in the event of an excess of expenditure over income, we remain able to continue increasing our full parish management costs. - An adequate reserve for the general working capital. ## **J Bartlett** ## **Date 27[th] March 2026** 10 Church of the Good Shepherd Flnanaal Accounts 2025 The Parochlal Church Councll of the Eccleslastlcal Par15h of The Church ol the Good Shepherd, Shoreham Beach Name of PCC Member responsible for treasury functions Ihr6 Llebelccytrna*Jr*r2025@ynail.O￿j Notes to the Annual Financial Report (pagel) 3 Analysts of total re¢elved IFuTh AIIF Funds Planned I￿1￿1￿￿1. tsx relundsl Planned 8fv1Th8 Ino tsx refvn(tsl One￿ff and adhoc donadons Special appea Glft Ald recovered 31495. 523 354 1D.510.Tr) 4856.oj lo￿ 20.375 4AS8 11589.£ IQ637 Legac Grants DOn￿on5 and Ke4aEI4s Fee5forweddln¥ &fun*tals Ca•r￿ble KH¥ldeJ Proceedsofeventswlth t￿dIri￿￿￿s Concertlntome 7,812 7*12 7.4LII SmJll Item5 sakn Icoffeelc•ndles/Blble stu(ty notes etcl ftoomlhall hlrlngfe4s Maiailnelbookstall Incorn• ot￿Ttr￿dIn1IcEtvI￿•s 8ank& CBF depDStt Inthr¢st C8F Inyestment fvnd dfvldtnd 18,lYJ ts6 29,1 A313 1821 LetMn8of Inv4stm•ht propety InveJtm•ms 4821 other re¢elpt5 Toiil re￿I¥•d on •llfvthli 97.865 97Jts 114212 Notes to the Annual Financial Report IPage2) Anatysis of totsl pald: unreSt￿cEed Total Totul General. ￿￿$rIatEd FuTrJ5 All Fu￿5 l Funds Fund 2024 )stoffundts&ingathVits￿leVents tsther?ppea￿ expenses Costof rai5i•zfvnds Charitablegrant5 and donath)ns (note21 Parlsh shèreto Chi¢hè5ter D￿￿eSe 64Y4 6￿5. S¥larvdsand honorarla incl Nl 4250. Cler8ydndotherpeople'se¥pen5es ndayschooVChildren'5 work Costs ofehurch service5 15BLOO. ISB 676 PrIn￿n8 & photO¢OWn8 Church utilknes bllls 471. 47 1638 2212. 2278. OtherreguLgrchurch runnlngcosts Church Mèlnteftan￿ & red￿￿ration Churchyard upkeep New bulldingwork 18591. Examinerf5 and otherfinanclal fees chIrftsb￿ costs 71591 7L 87￿7 C05tof evellts wlth tradlrfsales Costsof concerts Hall malntenance& redetoration Church Hall utilthEs 31 51 $89 2.850 5,724 1,933 222 4,629 4.059 5,n4 1.933 Church hall runnlngcostsiotherl M888zinelbwkstallc05ts othertradinicosts caraie Exp 7?62 207 8,047 7,223 6.107 4617. 4617 TrAthn8tts#s 23A24 23A24 30376 Total pald onallfurAs 95,015 95m5 117.703 Notes to Il¥e Annual Financial Report (Page3) Staternent of funds lJ•2025. Total •f ¥l•nd04Yedfvrrtts Total of allnstrfct•dlunds Generèlfvn4 27,104 97*65 95.OUI ZYJ54 Totsl 01411 unr4#rfrt•dfur4s ,104 .Tot•lfvn £27,W4 £97W £tyJ54 Statement of Assets and Liabilities (Page 4) G•n•r*l D•*iteJ, Rest￿ ￿lFundS Funf£% Fund 2025 AIIFunds 202 Fund tsahkcurtèThrattount 14 12 Pccthntd￿￿k baljnce 54 IQ104 D10Ee58n￿5efte& Fee$re￿￿ed TpT•l&•nk•Thdd¢pw5t QCCtyJf IZ.954 12.954 10.iod Weddingfee5rrotyet re*Fved Local AuthoFMygrantfor¢hurchyard GIftAwJ reco4trèble Oebws Inve>Therta5setsatwstlnotsii 170 I?.OOD IT￿00 Total assets 29.954 27.194 Tot•1 li•bllNI Summary of Financial Receipts and Payments (Page5) Tot Genpral Fund Deslgnated Rgstrlrrrd, Fvnd5 Fu All Fund AIIFti￿&S 2024 15 IncornE endowmert5fron DtsnatiotEs and legac￿$ Ch¥ritrble athvltFes 68,8[￿ | 465, 83,20S Othertrgding?L*￿￿e5 Inve5trnents 26,681 | 26h81 29,180 I821 1.913 OtherrecÉlpts Totsl recelwd IJ4.2J2 E¥ppndtture on.. 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