# **The Church of Scotland Uphall South Parish Church of Scotland**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS**
**Year Ended 31 December 2025**
**Congregation No: 020160**
**Charity No: SC024255**
**1**
## **Reference and Administrative Information**
Charity Name:
Uphall South Parish Church of Scotland
Charity Registration No:
Charity Registration No: SC024255 Congregation Reference No: 020160 Contact Address: 90 Woodville Court BROXBURN EH52 5LR
## **TRUSTEES**
## **Kirk Session**
Mr Jim Brotherston Mr Alex Brown Mr David Cameron Mrs Morag Cameron Mrs Nessie Cowe Ms. Margaret Denholm Mrs Liz Dick Mrs Margaret Forisky Mr Bob Johnston Mr William Kelly Mr James King Mr Tom McCallum Mr Gordon McKinnon Mr David McLeod Mrs Carol McLeod Mrs Norma Marr Rev Ian Maxwell ( Retired 30[th] June 2025) Mrs Joan Millar (Died 8[th] August 2025) Miss Janette Moran Miss Alison Muir ( Died 2[nd] April 2025) Mrs Christine Turnbull Rev William Watt (Appointed Interim Moderator 1[st] June 2025) Mrs Marion Wilson ( Resigned as active Elder 20[th] February 2025)
## **Principal Office Bearers**
Minister: Rev Ian Maxwell (Retired 30[th] June 2025) Interim Moderator Rev William Watt (Appointed 1[st] June 2025) Session Clerk: Mrs Morag Cameron Treasurer: Mrs Carol McLeod
**Independent Examiner 2** Mrs Arlene Levick 33 Wallace Mill Gardens Mid Calder EH53 0BE
## **Bankers**
Royal Bank of Scotland Edinburgh Corstorphine (K) Branch 239 St John’s Road Edinburgh EH12 7XA
## **Trustees Annual Report 3**
## **Year Ended 31 December 2025**
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
## **Governing Document**
The Church is administered in accordance with the terms of the Unitary Constitution.
## **Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees**
The Kirk Session members are the sole trustees and are the elders of the Church, chosen from those members who are considered to have the appropriate gifts and skills. The minister, who is a member of the Kirk Session, is elected by the congregation and inducted by the Presbytery.
## **Organisational Structure**
The Kirk Session, which meets ten times a year, is responsible under the Unitary Constitution for both spiritual and material affairs within the Church. It has oversight of three teams to which it can remit tasks as appropriate. Each team has a remit and a Convener with the Minister and Session Clerk as _ex officio_ members. The Unitary Constitution document was reviewed this year and adjusted to better meet the changing needs of the congregation and parish. There are now three teams: Focus Upward Team with the purpose of developing the worship life of the congregation; Focus Inward Team with the purpose of developing the pastoral care of the congregation and Focus Outward Team with the purpose of developing outreach and communication strategies within Uphall South parish and to the wider community. At the moment, as the groups are newly formed, the convenors are in the process of ensuring they have people to help them take their mission objective forward in the best way possible with the resources we have.
## **Objectives.**
The Church of Scotland is Trinitarian in doctrine, Reformed in tradition and Presbyterian in polity. It exists to glorify God and to work for the advancement of Christ’s Kingdom throughout the world. As a national Church, it acknowledges a distinctive call and duty to bring the ordinances of religion to the people of every parish of Scotland through a territorial ministry. It co-operates with other Churches in various ecumenical bodies in Scotland and beyond.
## **Activities**
## Focus Outward Group 2025
The Thrift shop continues to be supported by the community and relationships have built up with people who attend regularly. We still donate unsold items to other charity appeals. Clothing or items unsold are donated to Salvation Army, Bethany, local charity shop or to the ongoing appeal in church for items for refugees. We have not set dates for 2026 yet but hopefully will continue with this venture. The church prayer leaflet is delivered monthly to those people who are housebound or not on the email intimation list and not attending church thus maintain some contact. Cards are sent to people at appropriate times. Contact with the local Care Homes continues by supplying home baking for their coffee mornings, donating items for their summer fetes and helping with activities.
Six coffee mornings have been organised by Mrs Norma Marr and these are well supported by church folk and by the community.
The Light Club in Uphall Primary continues with ten children attending each week. The group are lively but engage and respond well to the Scripture Union material used. The staff are very welcoming and we appreciate the use of a lovely room each week.
## **Trustees Annual Report (cont.) 4 Year Ended 31 December 2025**
Services are being delivered regularly in the four local care homes and extra services have also been asked for and taken ie a Scottish singalong, a Remembrance service, two extra Christmas services. Activity afternoons have also taken place in Smile Centre when the team going in get more time to sit and chat with the residents and staff therefore building relationships. We have been asked to go and pray with residents and their relatives at challenging times for them and we regard this as a privilege. Home baking is taken in twice a month which the residents enjoy.
## **Focus Upward Group report 2025**
We organised and hosted a Praise and Prayer Service during Holy Week for all the local churches and took part in the other two Holy week services in our area. As always at Pentecost we sang outside the church and so witnessed to the folk passing by. Due to Uphall South Parish Church being vacant we have planned a few more services than we would normally when Pulpit supply was unavailable. The congregation were asked to submit their favourite hymns to be used during the services. People enjoyed hearing the background to the hymns and the personal reasons we were singing them. Thank you to the members of the congregation who were willing to help by leading prayers or reading the Bible passages.
## **Focus Inward Team** .
**Prayer** . We continue to produce a monthly prayer leaflet which is attached to the intimations and so emailed to sixty people. It is shared with members of the Broxburn and Uphall Council of Churches and also given to members in local Care Homes, posted out to members who now live further away and is displayed on a noticeboard in the church hall. In addition to all this it is hand delivered to members not on email and unable to attend church at the moment due to personal circumstances.
## **Sunday Services**
11am. Traditional Service in the sanctuary.
Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of the month on a quarterly basis and an informal Communion took place directly after the service in January, February, April and May.
The 11am services are now broadcast live on Youtube and also available afterwards. This has increased the number of people we reach weekly.
We held a special service of celebration to mark our minister Rev Dr Ian Maxwell’s retirement at the end of June and shared a time of peaceful fellowship at a lunch for the congregation afterwards.
Since Rev Dr Ian Maxwell retired we have had visiting ministers and Readers and have been extremely blessed by the services they have led.
A Watchnight Service was held on the 24[th] December led by Mr John McFadzean, a Reader with the Church of Scotland.
## **Other Community Activities**
In May a three day event was held to mark the 80[th] celebrations of VE Day and this attracted many members of the public. On the Sunday we concluded our celebration with a service and a community lunch at which we Enjoyed taking part in a Quiz and singing some songs popular 80 years ago.
We continue to have members serving in the Open Door drop-in café. One member of the congregation is on the BUSY Project management team and regularly leads activities organised for local young people in our church hall and in Broxburn Academy.
We contribute to SOYA in their work with young people who are coming out of care facilities, Help for Refugees, foster children Comfort Boxes and the Shoebox appeal.
## **Trustees Annual Report (cont.) 5 Year ended 31 December 2025**
With friends from other local churches, we host a monthly Thrift Shop which has attracted people from the community to browse the items for sale and enjoy the refreshments. Each month the money raised from the sale of refreshments is donated to local charities.
A team of four take services in the local Care homes monthly and have also taken extra services eg. Celebrate Scotland and Remembrance service. Some members visit the local Care homes on a regular basis taking with them home baking to share and to help with craft activities. Lap blankets and small handmade gifts are made for residents of the Care homes and some members made items for sale at one of the nursing homes’ annual summer fete. A church member is on the management group of the local Broxburn and Uphall Museum group. Uphall South Church is represented on the Broxburn and Uphall Council of Churches and so we are involved in organising, hosting and taking part in three Holy Week services and an Advent Service annually. Our members have the choice to take part in a Lent Bible Study run by this group too. The Remembrance Parade planning team Has members of this group too. The group continues to deliver Easter and Christmas cards to local shops, businesses and Care Homes in the area to thank them for the work they do in the community.
## **Achievements and Performance**
11am Traditional Service: Average attendance 40 Praise Band: Average attendance 8 Bible Study Group: Average attendance 10
## **Stewardship Report**
This has been a quiet year with no major repairs required. The main work has been externally with the manse gutters being cleaned and the trees at the rear being trimmed back. The church railings have been painted, surrounds tidied up and laurel bush cut back at the side of the hall. Floodlights at the front of the church have also been replaced with new energy-efficient LED lights. Hall occupancy has been fairly good with Girls Brigade, Boys Brigade and Country Dancers meeting weekly throughout the year and regular coffee mornings. There have been a number of short-term and one-off lets as well. It is worth noting that after a difficult year last year with our waste contractors there have been no problems whatsoever this year. David Cameron – Stewardship Convener
## **Church History Group**
The purpose of the group is to archive existing church rolls, information and photographs, and to record memories of the congregation. In addition, the group has been researching WW1 and WW2 military in the local area, including the part played by Uphall South. During 2025, the group updated their booklets on local war memorials: Uphall, Ecclesmachan Kirk and Ecclesmachan School. The latter led to research relating to Ecclesmachan Scout Troop and those ex scouts who served in WW1. A booklet was compiled and information sent to the national Scout Association so the Fallen could be included in the Scout Roll of Honour. A new booklet was compiled for the Dechmont Memorial Plaque and, in partnership with Dechmont Post Office, the proceeds of sales donated to Poppy Scotland
In May 2025, to commemorate V.E. Day, Uphall South hosted a three day event in the church with an exhibition of research and a thanksgiving service followed by a lunch, quiz and singing. A thanksgiving service was also held to commemorate VJ Day. Presentations were given at both services by the group and display
November was a busy month with the group participating in Armed Services Day in the local community centre. In addition, display boards, prepared with remembrance information, were displayed in Dechmont Post Office and the Open Door Café. We also participated in the event, “Flowers for the Fallen”, in Broxburn U.F. Church. At present the group is updating existing church history booklets.
## **Trustees Annual Report (cont.)**
## **Year ended 31 December 2025 6**
## **Focus Inward Report 2025**
Morag and David Cameron have led a bible study throughout the year. There are 10 members of the congregation meeting weekly. The bible study took place at Morag and David’s house at the end of the year, as the church hall was in use.
## **BUSY Project 2025**
Hannah Thresher, our Youth Worker since 2014, left at the end of January. She said, “ _I’m really grateful for the ways God has continued to hold doors open for us. It has felt such a good way to leave my work in school, to have initiated, developed and delivered the lunch club young leader training, and seen young people grab hold of it and run with it and make it very much their own_ .”
A leaving party was held at the end of the last Friday Youth Club in January, with many people from over her time at BUSY coming along to say goodbye. Hannah was commissioned to paint a picture for BUSY. This is being displayed in The Open Door. The BUSY Project is grateful to Hannah for her years of work with the Project and the enthusiasm and creativity she brought to the role, along with her ability to make connection with young people and share the gospel with them.
Volunteers kept Thursday drop-in and Friday Youth Club going throughout the year. Engage (our bible study group) ended in May. We had a sessional worker, Kieran, working at the Youth Club until April. This helped with our continuing high numbers. During the year, our average number at the Drop-in is 16 and at Friday Youth Club is 24.
In February 16 young people and 3 volunteers went to the weekend camp at Lendrick Muir. It was a great success, with everyone saying how much they had enjoyed it. This was the first year we joined Lesley Crawford at the Edinburgh Schools weekend.
BUSY volunteers were involved in three P7-S1 transition days at Broxburn Academy.
We advertised for a new Youth Worker. We initially interviewed in June, but were unable to appoint anyone, so re-advertised and Artem Kharchenko was interviewed in October, offered the job and then started in post on 2[nd] November. He works 20 hours a week for the Project.
## **Trustees Annual Report (cont.) Year ended 31 December 2025 7**
In September, SU Scotland offered Associate Trusts the opportunity to get funding from a special fund they have set aside for this purpose. We submitted, and were successful with, two applications, receiving £6,000 altogether. One was for a ‘Ministry Impact’ grant to strengthen our ministry by being able to fund more Youth Worker hours; and one was for an ‘Existing cost funding’ grant for updating resources for the Youth Club. Our Ministry Impact Grant is being matched by funding from Broxburn and Uphall Parish Church.
Artem has made a very encouraging start and has already built a new website. He has initiated improvements at Friday Youth Club and in our administration. A successful meeting was held with Miss Fowler at Broxburn Academy and in the New Year Artem will speak at 3 school assemblies and spend most of Wednesdays in school leading a lunchtime group, leadership lessons and a wellbeing group in the school.
A group of our senior young people left school and have moved on to University and college, but several of them have returned to visit us and to meet Artem.
Even though there were only two young people and volunteers who attended Magnitude Festival at Lendrick Muir in July, this was a valuable experience. We teamed up with Kings Church Edinburgh and Kings Church West Lothian to make this possible.
Communication with our young people was improved when we set up a’ BUSY News’ WhatsApp group. The young people can scan a QR code to join and receive BUSY news. Many of them have done this, both at the Friday Youth Club and the Thursday Drop-in. Weekly posts are made to tell them what is happening at BUSY. We did not run any Summer Buzz events this year, giving our volunteers a well-earned rest. We ran two trips, one in October to bowling at Deer Park and one to the Christmas Markets in December. Both trips were successful with many opportunities for deepening relationships.
In the new year we plan to set up a local ministry hub meeting to pray for work being done in local schools. This will be done with the help of Daisy Belton, the new West Lothian and Falkirk SU regional worker.
## **Trustees Annual Report (cont.) 8 Year ended 31 December 2025**
## **Financial Review**
The financial figures show a surplus for the year of £10,426 (2024 deficit – (£13,148)). The surplus will be added to reserves brought forward from 2024 of £30,890 and the balance of £41,316 will be carried forward. Offerings this year are up by £778 in FWO envelopes and Standing Orders, and up £672 in Open Plate, which is higher by £1,450 overall.
Income from Hall Lets is up by £494. Our present situation as we wait to find out if or when we join with Broxburn Uphall Church makes it difficult to agree to any long term Hall Lets but we have a group which used the hall for the last quarter of the year and are booked in for the first quarter of 2026.
In 2025 the church received a grant of £1,850 from Edinburgh and West Lothian Presbytery North Merchiston Fund which is being used to buy resources and fund events for local outreach. £1,151 of this remains to be spent in 2026.
We are still able to fulfil all our commitments.
## **Reserves Policy**
It is the trustees’ policy to hold reserves of six months’ expenditure. Based on the expenditure in these accounts, this amounts to approximately £25,322 (2024 - £30,341).
At the year end the Church held unrestricted funds of £39,958 (2024 - £30,313) of which £3,143 (£2024 - £2,918) had been designated for the Praise Band. The remaining balance is £36,816 (2024 - £27,396).
The strategy is to continue to maintain reserves through planned operating surpluses. Designated funds will be utilised as required in future.
## **Statement of Trustees Responsibilities**
The members of the Kirk Session must prepare financial statements which give sufficient detail to enable an appreciation of the transactions of the Church during the financial year. The members of the Kirk Session are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which, on request, must reflect the financial position of the Church at that time. This must be done to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities and Trustee (Scotland) Act 2005, the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended) and the Regulations Anent Congregational Finance approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 2007. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Church and must take reasonable steps for the prevention and/or detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf.
## **Mrs Morag Cameron**
**Session Clerk** Date: 19[th] March 2026
## **Uphall South Parish Church of Scotland 9 SC024255 Year ended 31 December 2025**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Uphall South Parish Church of Scotland**
I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2025 which are set out on pages 9 to 13.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended).
The charity trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s statement**
My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations (as amended), and
2. to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations (as amended) have not been met, or to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Mrs Arlene Levick 33 Wallace Mill Gardens Mid Calder EH53 0BE
24[th] March 2026
## **Uphall South Parish Church of Scotland 10 Year Ended 31 December 2025**
|||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Funds**|**Funds**|**Funds**|**Total**|**Total**|
||**Note**|**2025**|**2025**|**2025**|**2025**|**2024**|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Receipts**|||||||
|Donations|**3**|41,621|-|-|41,621|40,825|
|Legacies||8,000|-|-|8,000|423|
|Activities for Generating Funds||2,253|-|-|2,253|2,051|
|Hall Lets||2,470|-|-|2,470|1,976|
|Bank and Deposit Interest||363|3|-|366|429|
|Retiring Offerings|**6**|-|1,915|-|1,915|1,060|
|Investment Income||-|-|-|-|-|
|||______|______|______|______|______|
|||54,707|1,918|-|56,625|46,764|
|Rental of premises||-|-|-|-|-|
|Sale of assets||-|-|-|-|-|
|Sale of investments||-|-|-|-|-|
|Grants|**10**|-|1,850|-|1,850|500|
|Receipts from General Trustees||-|-|-|-|-|
|Other receipts|**8**|2,595|-|-|2,595|271|
|**Total Receipts**||57,302|3,768|______|61,070|47,535|
|||||-|||
|**Payments**|||||||
|Costs of generating funds|**4**|114|-||114|167|
|Charitable Activities|**5**|47,543|2,987||50,530|60,516|
|Governance costs||||-|-||
|||______|______|______|______|______|
|||47,657|2,987|-|50,644|60,683|
|Payments relating to assets and|||||||
|investment movements||-|-|-|-|-|
|Purchases of fixed assets||-|-|-|-|-|
|Purchases of investments||-|-|-|-|-|
|||______|______|______|______|______|
|**Total Payments**||47,657|2,987|-|50,644|60,683|
|**Excess of receipts over payments**||9,645|781|
-|10,426|(13,148)|
|**for the year before transfers**|||||||
|**Transfers**
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|**Excess of receipts over payments**||9,645|781|-|10,426|(13,148)|
|**for the year**
|||||||
**11**
## **Uphall South Parish Church of Scotland**
## **Statement of Balances**
## **At 31 December 2025**
|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Endowment**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**Bank & Deposit Balances**
Bank & Deposit balances
30,313
577
-
brought forward.
**Movement in year**
Excess receipts over payments
9,645
781
-
for the year
______
______
______
-
39,958
1,358
**Investments at market value - - -**
**Assets**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Gift Aid Receivable:
Gift aided donations
6,301
-
-
Small cash donations 569
**Liabilities**
Cost of expenses not yet billed - - -
Independent Examiner|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
30,890
10,426
______
41,316
**-**
**-**
6,301
569
-|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
44,038
(13,148)
______
30,890
5,798
1,125
-|
|---|---|---|
The accounts were approved by the Kirk Session on 16[th] March 2025. For and on behalf of the Kirk Session. Morag Cameron **Session Clerk** Carol Mcleod **Treasurer** 19[th] March 2026
## **Uphall South Parish Church of Scotland 12 Notes to the Accounts**
- **1 Trustee Remuneration and Related Party Transactions**
Travel and other expenses of £811 (2024 - £960) were reimbursed - to the minister £800 and to Rev Scott Marshall £11 during the year, and manse council tax of £1,615 (2024 - £2,489) was also paid. Other than those noted above no other trustees received remuneration.
|**2 **|**Movement in Funds**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**At 1 Jan**||||**At 31 Dec**|
|||**2025**|**Receipts**|**Payments**|**Transfers**|**2025**|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
||**Unrestricted funds**||||||
||Designated Praise||||||
||Band Fund|2,918|520|(295)|-|3,143|
|||||-|-||
||General Fund|27,396|56,782|(47,362)|-|36,816|
|||______|______|______|______|______|
|||30,314|57,302|(47,657)|-|39,959|
|||______|______|______|______|______|
||**Restricted Funds**||||||
||Flower Fund|326|3|(45)|-|284|
||North Merchiston Grant|0|1,850|(699)|-|1,151|
||Retiring Offerings||||||
||Fund|250|1,915|(2,243)|-|(78)|
|||______|______|______|______|______|
|||576|3,768|(2,987)|-|1,357|
|||______|______|______|______|______|
||**Endowment**||||||
||Funds|-|-|-|-|-|
|||______|______|______|______|______|
||**Total Funds**|30,890
|61,070
|(50,644)
|-
|41,316|
## Purposes of Designated Funds
Praise Band Fund: The Trustees have set aside funds for music for the band.
## Purposes of Restricted Funds
Flower Fund: This is a fund to provide flowers for display during services of worship. North Merchiston Fund Grant: This was given to be used for mission. Retiring Offerings Fund: This is a fund to be used for donations to specific charities.
**13**
## **Uphall South Parish Church of Scotland Notes to the accounts (cont)**
|**Unrestricted Restricted**
**Endowment**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**3**
**Analysis of Donations**
FWO scheme (non Gift Aid)
5,978
-
-
Gift Aid donations
25,228
-
-
Tax recovered on Gift Aid Donations 6,310
-
-
Tax recovered/non Gift Aid. 495 - -
Ordinary offerings (open plate)
2,075
-
-
Other offerings, donations etc. 1,535
-
-
______
______
______
41,621
-
-
**4**
**Analysis of Payments**
Investment Manager’s Fees
-
-
-
Offering Envelopes
114
-
-
______
______
______
114
-
-
______
______
______
**5 Charitable Activities**
Giving to Grow
24,512
-
-
Presbytery Dues
530
-
-
Minister’s Expenses
811
-
-
Pulpit Supply 2,100 - -
**11**Fabric Repairs and Maintenance
2,070
-
-
Council Tax
1,615
-
-
Heat and Light
5,357
-
-
Insurance
2,282
-
-
Church Office Expenses
-
- -
Organists/Praise Band
1,496
-
-
HMRC 544 - -
Outreach
1,200 -
-
Other Expenses (**Note 7)**
4,731
-
-
Sunday School and Praise Band
295
-
-
______
______
______
Balance from Investors Trust - - -
Flower Fund -45-
Retiring Offerings -2,243-
North Merchiston Grant -699-
______
______
______
47,543 2,987
**Governance Costs**
Independent Examiner’s Fees
-
-
-
**Other Payments**
Purchase of assets
-
-
-
|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
5,978
25,228
6,805
0
2,075
1,535
______
41,621
-
114
______
114
______
24,512
530
811
2,100
2,070
1,615
5,357
2,282
-
1,496
544
1,200
4,731
295
______
-
45
2,243
699
______
50,530
-
-|
|---|---|
**14**
## **Uphall South Parish Church of Scotland**
## **Notes to the accounts (cont.)**
## **5 Minister’s Stipend**
All Church of Scotland congregations contribute to the National Stipend Fund which bears the cost of all ministers’ stipends and employers’ contributions for national insurance, pension and housing and loan fund. Ministers’ stipends are paid in accordance with the national stipend scale which is related to years of service. For the year under review the minimum stipend was £32,433 and the maximum stipend, in the fifth and subsequent years, £39,856.
**6 Collections for Third Parties.** Bridge Project 126 Light Up Learning 285 Family Centres 739 Poppy Scotland 149 Christian Aid 616 **Total 1,915**
**7 Other Expenses** PAT Testing 234 Scotwaste 812 Housekeeping 67 CCLI 250 Gas Cover 1,080 Flowers for the Fallen 40 Fen Street Designs 120 Thank You Gift 47 Removal of Laurel 600 A1 Fire Safety 52 Computer Repair 275 Global Care 104 Minister’s Retirement Gift 1,050 **Total 4,731**
**8 Other Receipts** SSE Refund 30 Pulpit Supply Refund 1,500 Council Tax Refund 544 Openreach 1 Praise Band 520 **Total 2,595**
## **Uphall South Parish Church of Scotland 15**
## **Notes to the accounts (cont.)**
**9: Trustees Reimbursed** During the year 3 Trustees (2024-2) received reimbursement of expenses incurred totalling £2,576 (2024-£941).
Pendant 47 Computer Repair 275 Removal of laurel trees 600 VE Day catering 75 Toilet Rolls 31 Painting Railings and Gate 600 Buttons 19 FWO Envelopes 114 Kitchen Tap 170 Carpet Bowls 72 Curling Sets 420 Nativity Sets 68 Craft materials 45 Flowers for the Fallen 40 **Total 2,576**
## **10 Grant**
The grant of £1,850 was from the Presbytery of Edinburgh and West Lothian for Mission, North Merchiston Fund.
£75 was spent on catering for VE Day celebrations to which we welcomed a good number of local people. £68 was used to buy nativity sets for schools.
£64 went for craft materials for use in schools and Care Homes.
£72 was spent for and £420 for Curling Sets.
## **11 Fabric Repairs and Maintenance**
Manse Trees 1,200 Railings and ramp painted 700 Replacement Tap 170 **Total 2,070**
**12** One trustee, Christine Turnbull, is also a trustee for the Basics Trust.
## **APPENDIX**
## **FUNDS HELD ON BEHALF OF THE CONGREGATION BY THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND GENERAL TRUSTEES**
**2025 £ REVENUE ACCOUNT** Credit Balance at 31 December 220.03 **TEMPORARY ACCOUNT** Debit Balance at 31 December (1,512.00)