**CHARITY REG NO: 232344**
**ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BEVERLEY ST MARY CHURCH ESTATE**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BEVERLEY ST MARY CHURCH ESTATE**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES for the year ended 31 December 2025**
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2025.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Charity Name:**
Ecclesiastical Parish of Beverley St Mary Church Estate
The charity is also known by its working names, ‘Church Estate Charity’ and ‘St Mary’s Churchwardens’.
**Registered Charity number:** 232344
## **Principal address:**
C/o 60 Riplingham Road Kirk Ella Hull East Yorkshire HU10 7TR
## **Charity Trustees**
The following people have been the trustees managing the charity throughout the period from 1 January 2025 to the current date:
Mr Christopher LD Munday Mrs Jill Edmond Mr Ian Kenneth Jackson from 18 May 2025 Mr Nigel Whiting from 18 May 2025
## **Charity Treasurer**
Mr Chris Munday
## **Clerk to the Wardens**
Mrs Anne Mansfield
## **Independent examiner**
Mr Patrick Scargill FCCA ACA Sowerby FRS LLP Beckside Court Annie Reed Road Beverley East Yorkshire HU17 0LF
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## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BEVERLEY ST MARY CHURCH ESTATE**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025**
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charity’s governing document is a Chancery Decree dated 7 January 1633.
## **How the charity is constituted**
The charity is an unincorporated charity.
## **Trustees (who are also the churchwardens)**
Trustees are officially officers of the Archbishop of York.
New trustees are elected by parishioners at annual parish meetings.
Charity trustees are required to retire from office after six years, however in practice trustees usually stand down after three years of office.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objects**
The charity's objects are:
- 1 In or towards the repair and maintenance of the fabric, utensils and habiliments of the church and for adorning the same as occasion shall require;
- 2 In or towards payment of wages and salaries to the sexton and common servants of the church; and
- 3 Provision of bread and wine for the communion.
## **Activities, Achievements and Performance**
The Wardens have worked hard to support Becky in the many a varied aspects of the life of St Mary’s in the last year.
We are indebted to Chris Munday who acts as treasurer to the Wardens. We are grateful his expertise, advice and commitment to us and the roll. We also thank Chris and his team of helpers, John Hood, Chris Makepeace and Sallie Blake, for counting the cash taken as offerings and donations.
The Wardens Fund continues to cover the costs of bread and wine for communion and the insurance for the church building.
## **Public Benefit**
The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit, and are mindful of this guidance in planning the charity’s activities.
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## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BEVERLEY ST MARY CHURCH ESTATE**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025**
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Reserves Policy**
At 31 December 2024, cash reserves in the form of bank balances were £22,900, (2023: £23,563).
The trustees’ policy on cash reserves is to ensure that they remain positive at all times. Expenditure will only take place if there are sufficient cash reserves to support that expenditure.
In addition to the cash reserves, investments with a market value of £1,452,008 (2023: £1,416,730) provide a healthy level of income for the charity, to enable it to fulfil its regular commitments to the church and also to provide additional financial help for specific and well-chosen projects.
## **Funds Policy**
The trustees consider all funds held by the charity to be ‘unrestricted’ funds.
If restricted funds were held, they would only be expended in the manner for which the funds were given. Once received, the trustees would take steps to use any restricted funds expediently for the specified purpose.
## **Sources of funding**
The charity’s sources of funding are predominantly from the income generated by its investments.
## **DECLARATION**
This trustees’ report has been approved by the trustees and is signed on their behalf:
Trustee: **Jill Edmond** Date: 26th April 2026
Trustee: **Allan Ball**
Date: 26th April 2026
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## **REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BEVERLEY ST MARY CHURCH ESTATE (CHARITY NO. 232344)**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Beverley St Mary Church Estate (‘the Charity’) for the year ended 31 December 2025 set out on pages 5 to 7.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the Charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 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 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that, in any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in respect of the Charity as required by Section 130 of the Act;
or
- the accounts do not accord with those accounting records.
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.
Patrick Scargill FCCA ACA Sowerby FRS LLP Beckside Court Annie Reed Road Beverley East Yorkshire HU17 0LF
Date: 26th April 2026
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## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BEVERLEY ST MARY CHURCH ESTATE**
## **CHARITY NO. 232344**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
_**All funds are considered by the trustees to be ‘unrestricted’ throughout both 2025 and 2024**_
|**Receipts**
Charitable donations
Dividends from investments
Interest on investment deposit account
**Total receipts**
**Payments**
Church insurance
Church cleaning
Communion bread and wine
Accountancy
Wifi
Meeting and other expenses
Contribution to development costs
Contribution to Church Tower electrical bill
**Total Payments**
**Surplus/(deficit) for the year**
(Loss)/gains on investment disposals
Net surplus for the year
Accumulated fund brought forward
**Accumulated fund carried forward**|**2025**
**£**
1,195
38,542
11
**39,748**
20,031
5,278
911
390
1,117
216
9,317
-
**37,260**
**2,488**
(58,553)
(56,065)
1,474,908
**1,418,843**
|**2024**
**£**
805
37,483
13|
|---|---|---|
|||**38,301**
19,419
7,109
825
360
-
216
5,721
5,314
**38,964**
**(663)**
35,278
34,615
1,440,293|
|||**1,474,908**|
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## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BEVERLEY ST MARY CHURCH ESTATE**
## **CHARITY NO. 232344**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
## **AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2025**
_**All funds are considered by the trustees to be ‘unrestricted’ for both 2025 and 2024**_
|**Investment Assets:**
**Charities Official Investment Fund (at market value)**
- Income shares
- Accumulation shares
**M&G ‘Charifund’ Income Units (at market value)**
**Charities Official Deposit Fund**
**Total investment assets**
**Bank & cash Funds**
Bank balances
**Total bank & cash funds**
**Total assets**
**Accumulated fund**|**2025**
**£**
1,237,578
115,272
40,338
267
**1,393,455**
25,388
**25,388**
**1,418,843**
**1,418,843**
|**2024**
**£**
1,299,797
117,564
34,380
267|
|---|---|---|
|||**1,452,008**|
|||22,900|
|||**22,900**|
|||**1,474,908**|
|||**1,474,908**|
The notes form part of these financial statements.
These financial statements have been approved by the trustees and are signed on their behalf:
Trustee: **Jill Edmond** Trustee: **Allan Ball** Date: 26th April 2026 Date: 26th April 2026
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## **ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BEVERLEY ST MARY CHURCH ESTATE**
## **NOTES TO THE FINAVCIAL STATEMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025**
## **ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis.
## **Receipts**
Receipts consist of investment income and a small amount of donations.
## **Payments**
Payments consist of amounts expended in relation to the charity’s work in furtherance of its objects.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds are funds whose manner of expenditure is subject to conditions set out by the donor.
Throughout the year to 31 December 2025, and for the previous year, the trustees consider that there were no restricted funds.
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