The Cburch of Scotland
FLEMINGTON-HALLSIDE PARISH CHURCH
OF SCOTLAND
RECEIFfs AND PAYMENfs AccouNrs
Report Jind Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 Ikcember 2024
COngreEati￿ No: 160847
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FlemingtoEFHallside Church
RccciFts A￿1 Paymcllts Accounts 2024
Refereace And Admini8trnlive Inforn￿tiOn
Charity Namc:
Fleming1(￿.HaI1s7dc Parish Church or
Scotland
SC(¥KJ638
Charity Regithtson Numlxr.
Congregation Reference No:
160847
con￿ Address:
FlanIn￿HaljSi<k Clurch of Scodand
38 Lightburn Ro
(i1&8gow
G72 8UE
Trnste¢s
Kirk"

Reccipts A￿j PaynKnts Accounts 2024
Princi
l ()ffict-bearer
Inde
L'ndi'nl Examiner
BADkers
Royal Bank of Scolland,
88 Main Streef
RutherRI¢o
G73 2JA

Flemington-HaJlsidc CThuT¢h
Athl Paym¢nts Accounts 2024
Trustees. ADDual Report - Year ended 31 Deeember 2024
Structure, Governance and Management
Governing Document
The Church is thiri￿ under the of the Unilary CO￿￿titirtio
RecruitMeDt and Appointmul of Trnslees
Memttrs of the Kirk Session are the charity truste￿ The KI￿ s￿l0n nKrynbers are the
elders of church and arc clM)scn from those mcmirr5 of the church WIM) are
considered to have the a14)ropriate gilLs and skills. The minister. who is a member of the
Kirk sessio￿ is elected by the congregation aTrl by Prosbyw.
Ory*nisational S¢Thelure
The Kirk sessio￿ which in 2024. h&8 met ei8ht tim4 meets in ￿TSOn threver FK)ssible
and is resp)nsible for the spiritual temporal affairs within the churclL
Objectives and Activities
The Church of Scotland is Trinitsrian in doctri￿. RefomKd in IT￿litiOn and Pr&8byterian
in Liovernan¢e. li exists to glorify and to work for the ￿vanceMent of Christ's
Kingdom througknut the world. As a national Churc14 it acknowlfylges a distinctive call
to bring the ordinances of ￿ligIOn to th¢ pKople in every parish of Scotland. li co-
Op￿tateS with other Churches in various e¢umenical 1K￿leS in SLMJIlw￿ and bcyond.
Flemington-Hall8ide Ptirish Church of Scot18Tr1 holth weekly worship seroices at I l a.m.
on Sunday mornin￿. The Church alyA) works with Churches of various dcnominations
within Cambuslang. Within the Church tIKre meets a Dumlxr of chU￿h organisalions
including a Sunday SchLX)l. a Guild. a Boys, Brig￿le - s￿Y in this pst year the Girls,
Brigade Stop￿ meeting after celebTating l(M) ye￿3 of service" in addilion In the
Church's PTemise5 being used for Church's weekly Frfayer meeting and Community
Cafe. The Church hall is also by a Romani8n Church twi￿ a week, &$ well as a
Fx)Iling ststion when requirol an out of core group. and parent and t(xl(ller gTOUP.
The foundation of the Chur¢h's lifc continues to k wrekly Swjday morning worship.
Continued efforts are to keep these servicu faithfid. innovalive and engaging. The
Church children's ministy has continued to seek to meet the needs of th¢ young pcople
on Sunday mornings despite numlKT5 red￿Ing. The Church Contin￿ to IK used for
occ&sional f￿￿ra]s. weddings. iwtisms aThl b1￿ingS.

Re£eiNs And Payments Accounts 2024
Achievements and Perforniance
The overall statem￿1 of our Circum￿ through 2024 remai￿ &$ it b&s F*en since
022
Attendance a￿1 Incon￿ contin￿ to well IKIOW pr¢-FOndemic levels. In the la￿ year
the atsno* of g￿lUa1 decline aFryKars to bave takcn IK)Id making any attempts to
'move forw8rd' feel futile. (kn the knis that we are going b&k to where we were in
2019. the situation w&8ents few sigus of ways forwanL The change I￿]ed to
become the church that our parish requires is more than we can FThntly muster. A
prayerful seeking after [￿P)n$t to this sitiwlion shoukl be an on-going prayer
focus for all.
A partiodar of CO￿ern for the Icthip of the church Ills been the &Timony in
the Kirk S¢&sRoTh In a effort to th this on-goin8 wob]em the KiTk s￿l0n
conl¥ted the orwisation called 'Plxe for Hope, to fxilitate reconciliation within
the e]d￿￿MInIster and plan a joint a￿1 unifioj way forward. "This proc￿ was lead by
two facililalors over a seri&s ol ￿￿etIngS througknut 2024. Initially the￿ was a series of
meetin8s wI￿e all the elders intcrview•l in groups of three by PfH. the minister
was interviewed individually by PIH. ThrougTrM)Ut the remainder of 2024 the whole
le&lership group met with PtH over seveTa] montlLS to sttk to re￿1ve our i&sues. By
Novemkn 2024 some elders raised CO￿ that ptH was not kning out. the way they
had hot*1 aod PfH then￿1VeS ultima*ly frlt it was w￿1￿]Ve to continue the
Positiv&8 do very mwh exist - The GUI￿ to meet aThl ￿ an active fellowship:
'Meat & 2 Veg cOntin￿S kn feed the pKM)r in our community during the oTrgoing cctst-of.
living crisis in Christ's name" the srlKK)Is work Contin￿ to ￿ welcomed and enjoyed by
the l(Kal childrn). The fact that we met our present annual 'Giving to GroW financial
commilments to '] 21, is t￿tIm￿Y to the Con￿a￿on'5 financial ￿n￿nitment to their
Saviour aThJ to their Con￿1(￿L Moreover. ending this fis￿ year with a SUTplus of
£4.589 make5 it clear aTC 'cutt¥ng our cloth. within our means. The Sunday School,
after.service tea aThJ coffee, Prayer meeti￿ the monthly FIerning￿ HotLSe CaTe
Home resident's service along wtth the B.B. CoMp￿nY all o)ntinue. Our fundamentsl
objectiv¢s and ¥hievements remain: cnsure the gospel is trt&hed. the sacraments
offered. the fUne￿S of loved ones and wle in the prish alike. 8re carried out in a
gFa￿.fiIId manw and a fellowship ￿￿￿1￿Ul￿g to pray of a growing congr¢￿ion.
Throu8TrK*￿ the year the Junior Church SuThJay ScTrKKII work contin￿d in the morniTJg
during Sunday servic¢ despite Dumbu5 TtyJucing- Messy Church had an FAster event
where 71h ￿)Ple aneDded with t￿p]e IKing mostly DOn&chuTch t**(L A two-day
summer holiday club with 55+ children (with la*A Scriptwe Union Holiday Club
material) was also held in AugusL There are lilerally t￿ many ￿0p]e to thank
individually but I simply say a Trig thank you. to all who were involved in these events -
that they trK>k place iNlicates the comnllttnent of IIKW involvd to tnake the gosucl real
in this community. One-offs and week by wrek events $￿ak to the Teality of P￿pIc,5
faith and their wisb to sbare IL

FlemingtoTrHallsidc Church
Receipts And Payments A¢￿Unts 2024
FiDaDeial Review
The principal source of is wrekly offerin8s which have de£re&￿ from £739
weekly to £711. We Contin￿ lo ew>ur4e the we of stsnding Order& as a means of
enabling regular givi￿ a￿1 aly) in a way which easily fxililat¢s the Claiming bxk of
Gift Aid. Tr numkn of ￿0[AC giving trir offering by order is 35.
The main sourc£ of fillMlrn￿A￿g is from the christi￿ Fayre ￿l¢b raised a marvellous
total of £2446 . Although this w&$ down £194 from l&st year. it w&s still a 80(xi resulL
DuTing the year we were very grateful to receive a legxy of £].(￿. Hall Tents trought in
£7.3(M).
Total fthic expeThIitU￿ for thc year low, totalling £3871. The main items being
general rqAirs and maintenance at the of £950. Rentokil £1170 and Cburch gutters
cleaned £6(X).
Our Community Café h&s remai￿ Ol￿n throug1m)￿ the year, and all1￿h would benefit
from a rise in C￿￿OMer nurntw is still by faithful regulaT5. The main PUTrK>se
of the Café is to deC￿Th relatiothips with the congregknon aAMI local community. 'lkne
Café made a much welcx)tne donation of £2.(MX) to the chuT¢h in 2024. This figure is
inclth in the donatio￿$ kntsl in Note 3.
Overall we hwl a surplus of £4589 for 2024. Fortun*ly manw to ￿Y the
Ministries & Mi&sion figure of £IO.(MN) was outthmling end of 2023 on top
of our Giving to Grow pyments the year with oUtsts￿ing liabilities.
Although this is The￿ the coming year ￿11 be challenging as our offerings have
decTeasd 8nd the Giving kn Grow figwe we require to ￿Y is £33.012.
The bala￿¢ of the Youth as at 31 Dttemlxr 2024 w&s £14063.
Reserves Poli&
It is the TnL8tees' ry)licy to hold Te￿Ty¢S of approximately three to six months.
cxpenditure i￿1￿1ng desi￿ fiu¥Js. At the yeor end the Church held unresthcied
Funds of £45367 in of any unex[*¢t￿ fabric eX￿￿lture. Restricted funds of a
ombined balance of £16211 are also l￿d for the s￿CIfi￿1 in Th)te I we I l.

Flemington-H￿1sjde Church
ReAxipts Pa￿ents Accounts 2024
Trustees, ADDual Report (CODtd.)
Yur ended 31 De¢ember 2024
ststement of Tn￿tee$, Responsibilities
'rhe memkKrs of Kirk Session must financial sta*m￿ts whid) give sufficienl
detail to enable an appreciatton of the transxtiotts of the Church during the financial
yG4r. The memFth5 of the Kirk Se&sion are restM)tL8ible for keeping pro￿ accounting
rcconls whicTr4 on requesL m￿st reflect the financial ￿sItiOn of the Church at thal time.
This rn￿$t be di)ne to ensure finwial stateM￿ts comply with the Charittt and
Trustee Invest1n￿l {Scotland) Act 2(M)5. the Cbarttia8 A¢￿Unts (Scotland) Regulatior
2006 (as amended) and the Regulations Anent Congregational Finance approved by the
G¢nernl Assembly of the Church of Swiiand in 2016. They are alg) reS￿)nsIble for
safeguarding the &%%cts of Church a￿1 must tsk¢ reasonable steps for the prevention
an￿Or det￿tion of fra￿1 a￿* other iTreguJarities.
Apwoved by the Tn￿ee8 arml signed on their behalf.
Trustee

Flemingkn.Halbidc Church
Receipts ATr1 Pa)￿lts Accounts 2024
Flemington-Hallside Parish Chureb
Report of the IndepeDdeDt Examiner
IDdtpettdMt Examin*i Report to thr TrostefA of FkmiDgloD-Hallside Parnh
Church
I rqK)rt on th¢ accounts of th¢ clwity for the year eDda 31 De¢ernL￿r 2024 which 8Te set
out on pages 9-13.
Respe¢tive responjibilitiu of trutees and ¢xamittr
The charity's tnLStees are res￿ible for the prewion of the accounts in accordance
with th¢ tern￿ of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2(K)5 and the
Chariiiei ALcounts (Scot18nd) Regulations 21K>6 (as amended).
The charity trU￿eeS coThsider that tk a￿111 requirement of Regulation I Iy I ) {d) of thc
Accounts Regulation diKs not apply. It 1% my res￿)nsIbIlIty to examine the accounts &8
Uired under section 44(1) (c) of the Act aThl to slale whether t￿rtIcular matters have
come to my atteDtion.
Bajis of Indep¢nde•t ex#miDer's ststement
My Cxamination is Ciwricd out in accordaD¢¢ with Rtyulation 11 of the Charities
Accounts {Scotland) Regulations 2(K)6 (&s amended). An examination includes a review
ol.the a(xounting records kept by the chariiy atKI a comparison of the xcounts p[C￿l£d
with th￿￿ reco￿$. It al￿ includcs considerntion of any unusua] items or disclosures in
the accounL8 and seeks explanations from the trILStee5 concerning any s￿h matters. The
pr(Kedures undertaken do not provide ail the ev1dl￿￿ that would r￿Ul[ed in an audiL
and consequ¢nt]y I do not cxpress an audit opinion on the view given by tk accounts.
Independe*l ex*miner'8 st*temeDt
In the cc)UTse of my examinatior4 no mat*r h8s u)me to my attention
which giv￿ me re&wnable ca￿e to believe that in any Materi￿ resFrtt the
requiTcinents'.
tr) kLfP accounting recor(Ls in ￿conta￿e with Section 44 (1) (a) of the 2CK)5 Act
and Regulation 4 of the 21X)6 Accounts Regulations (as ameTrJ¢d). and
io prepare &counts vthich ￿)rd with the accounting records and comply with
Re8ulation 9 of 21XKp Accounts Regulations {as arnendtyl) havc not been TneL
nr
2. to whicK in my Opinio￿ atlention should k drawn in order to enable a proper
understanding of the accounts to re￿be(L

FLEMING
N.HAUSIDE PARISH
tsandPa
ents Account
Y￿r ended 31 Deeemb¢r 2
58428
1575
sr242
3281
,538
124
847
1699 64296 65061
53
71596
120
67￿7
57403
-5379
4589 13031
yur
-5379
4589
13038

FLEMINGTON.
CHURCH
Statement of B*la•c
At 31 Deeember 2024
Note
35399
21YA) 56919 43951
Mov¢••t l* )Hr.
-srff4
4519 13038
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Glft Aid Rth¥i¥
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4r2
458
34364
44523
353
45367
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475
15
7334
io
215x1
719)6
671KY7
61578
li

71
25861
11755
27336
4650
Z155
7195
635
635
750
750
105
330
IfA
25181
25181
1647
15
15
3tii
5115
57ZI
34T2
436
436
713
919
919
112
197
432
12

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