## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 January 2023 31 December 2023 **From** 5B **To** ## 3BSection A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Parish Clerk’s Land Charity **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 269715 PCLC **Charity's principal address** St Mary’s Church High Street Ware 6B **Postcode** 7B **SG12 9EF** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Ysmena Pentelow|Incumbent||| ||Roger Hawkins|Churchwarden||| ||TimothyCrowther|Churchwarden|Until April 30th2023|| ||Matthew Whitbourn|Churchwarden||| ||Susan Austin|Churchwarden|From April 30th2023|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **April 2009** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 2B **Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## 0B **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Trust Deed Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Vicar & Churchwardens of Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary Ware Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** - 1) Defraying the cost of providing in the ecclesiastical parish of Ware, the services formerly provided by the Parish Clerk. - 2) If & so far as income of the charity is not required in any year for application in the manner aforesaid, the trustees shall apply the same for furthering the religious and other charitable work of the Church of England in the said ecclesiastical parish. **April 2009** **TAR** 2 Supporting various administrative, liturgical and pastoral activities within the ecclesiastical parish of Ware. Outreach work at schools. The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **April 2009** **TAR** 3 4B Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** During 2023 The PCLC paid for repairs and the upkeep of the Curate’s house. Donations were made to 2 charities Samaritans and Rethink mental health and 2 local schools St Mary’s VC junior school Ware and St Catherine’s VC school Ware. Money was also given to the PCC to help fund the redecoration of the whole church building. The parish administrator is paid by the PCLC **April 2009** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** We believe it to be part of the trustees duty to maintain the real value of this trust. ## **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); The charity’s principle source of funding is investment income. All invested funds are in the hands of CCLA. We receive quarterly reports and review the investments regularly. - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## 1B **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Roger Hawkins **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Churchwarden **etc) Date** **April 2009** **TAR** 5 **Charity Name No (if any) The Parish Clerk's Land Charity 269715 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1/1/2023 12/31/2023 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** ||**Unrestricted**
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**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |Dividends Fixed Interest|**1,027**||**-**||**-**||**1,027**||**1,297**| |Investment Fund|**19,426**||**-**||**-**||**19,426**||**19,319**| |CBF deposit interest|**58**||**-**||**-**||**58**||**10**| |PropertyFund|**10,209**||**-**||**-**||**10,209**||**10,209**| |Other interest|**1,777**||**15**||||**1,792**||**99**| |other income curates house rent|**-**||||||||**3,487**| |Fundraisingaccount subscriptions|||**3,506**||||**3,506**||**3,234**| |**_Sub total_**|**32,497**||**3,521**||||**36,018**||**37,655**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**etc.**|||||**1,504**||**1,504**||**1,504**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|**32,497**||**3,521**||**1,504**||**37,522**||**39,159**| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Verger/Administrator Salaries|**3,800**||**-**||**-**||**3,800**||**3,300**| |Independent Examination fees|||||||||| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |Repairs & Maintenance curates house|**3,110**||**-**||**-**||**3,110**||**2,633**| |Donation to St Mary's|**46,200**||||**-**||**46,200**||**21,500**| |Outreach charity donations|**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**1,000**| |Bank charges /cheque fees|**71**||**83**||**-**||**154**||**184**| |!00 Club winners+ miscellaneous|||**1,045**||**-**||**1,045**||**1,130**| |**_Sub total_ **|**54,181**||**1,128**||**-**||**55,309**||**29,747**| |**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||| |**purchases, etc.**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Total payments_ **|**54,181**||**1,128**||||**55,309**||**29,747**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|**- 21,684**||**2,393**||**1,504**||**- 17,787**||**9,412**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**105,350**||**2,274**||**1,504 ## **||**109,128**||**99,797**| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**83,666**||**4,667**||**1,504**||**91,341**||**109,129**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
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Print Name
Roger Hawkins
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**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**1,504**| ||||**-**| ||||**1,504**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
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**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**710,678**| ||||**47,634**| ||||**192,129**| ||||**2,345**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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