St Mary Redcliffe A Year at Redcliffe Magazine 2022

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Governance Safeguarding report As always, the role of Safeguarding Officer remains important and potentially even more so in these uncharted times caused by Covid 19 and its aftermath and more recently with the anxieties about the safety of our world in the light of the war in Ukraine. Our church community remains grateful for the continued support of the many volunteers, who have been supporting activities coordinated by Becky James, Andrew Kirk and David Cousins. ask all members of the church community to stay vigilant and be aware of potential risks to children, young people and vulnerable adults. And if there are any worries then please do not hesitate to contact myself or Dan or Kat. I look forward to carrying on with this role to the best of my ability and thank people for their continued support of this very important area of work. Esther Keller Parish Safeguarding Officer We are grateful that face to face activities have resumed and our safeguarding procedures remain strong and unchanged. Anybody working with children, young people and vulnerable adults must go through our safeguarding vetting procedure. We have carried out in excess of 20 such checks over the past year. We have used the Parish Safeguarding Dashboard to monitor our Safeguarding Policies and Procedures. Safeguarding Training remains to be done online for the foreseeable future and sessions are organised through the diocese. New recruits/volunteers will be signposted to the relevant training and ongoing and refresher training will also be signposted to relevant staff and volunteers. Our policies and procedures can be found on our website www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk - we 22
Governance Finance report This will necessarily be a short report since, at the time of writing, the financial statements for the year ending 31 December are not to hand. Based, however, on the management accounts for the year, we can say that it looks as if we shall end up with a deficit of something less than £50,000, which is in line with our budgeted expectation. It is particularly good to report that despite the closure of the church for a good part of the year, and therefore much-reduced income from visitors and other sources such as weddings and performances, and the loss of open-plate collections, income has held up very well, thanks largely to the generosity of the congregation and others who support our work from further afield. But visitors are back, the shop is open, and goods are now available and selling well on line. We have also saved money from carrying staff vacancies, though that is coming to an end. Our balance sheet remains strong, and our reserves are more than sufficient to cover us in the event of a major turn-down. Formally, this means that we can, hand on heart, state that we are a “going concern”. We are grateful, as always, to the Church Lands Charity for their support, particularly of our staff and fabric costs, and also to the Temple Ecclesiastical Charity. We are also very pleased to say that the trustees of the Redcliffe Parish Charity have undertaken to give us the greater part of their annual income, some £6,000 a year, to support the work of our outreach team in the parish. During the year we received a most generous legacy, in the form of the proceeds from the sale of a flat here in Bristol previously owned by the late Alberdina Tiemens, a Dutch woman who came to Bristol every year and worshipped at SMR. We hope to use some of this money to fund, for a period, two new posts to develop our events programme and our volunteer capacity, with the aim of increasing our income. We are also pleased to say that we have a new treasurer, which will enable the wardens to lay down this burden so reluctantly assumed. A warm welcome, therefore, to Samuel Williams, who has also joined the PCC. No less encouraging is the appointment of Maria Holcombe as our in-house finance officer, to do the bookkeeping work hitherto done by an outside firm of accountants, and – to judge from a few weeks’ experience – to do a great deal more besides. We are very hopeful that these two, building on the work done by Elizabeth during 2020, will further transform the management of SMR’s finances. Richard Wallace Senior Churchwarden Belinda Phillipson Junior Churchwarden 23
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