Parish of Postlebury

PARISH FUNDING

The Parish of Postlebury spent a total of £95,931 in 2020 on maintaining its five churches, providing services and spiritual support for parishioners, and administering the parish.  Within this, nearly £40,000 was spent on building repairs largely funded from restricted funds donated for that purpose.  Just over £24,000 was our parish share;  the contribution to the cost of the priest-in-charge, the Diocese of Bath and Wells and Frome Deanery.   Without the work of many volunteers, overheads would be considerably higher.

Outside of the cost of repairing the buildings, the parish made a small financial loss on its running costs.  More detail can be seen in the annual report which includes the annual accounts  here

Our income in normal years comes from our congregation at services, fees for weddings and funerals, fundraising and donations from visitors and friends, plus income from the relatively modest restricted funds invested which we hold for each church.  During the pandemic local residents as well as regular churchgoers kindly provided additional donations to bridge the gap caused by the closure of the churches.

Most of our regular fundraising activities have been paused for at least a year.  So church teas, the Nunney Open Gardens, the Nunney Street Fayre, and Frome Cheese Show did not happen in 2020 and are either not happening or are much smaller events in 2021.  There were almost no weddings in 2020 and many have now been deferred to 2022 because of the uncertainty over restrictions.  No public funding was available to us in 2020.

Along with many other community-based charities, the Parish has been relying on an ageing group of volunteers who do everything from administration, serving in church, cleaning, gardening and building maintenance, playing music, baking and selling teas.  We employ three part-time admin staff working a total of three days a week.  The pool of volunteers is diminishing.

To continue doing what people want us to do in our communities we need ongoing support.

Small regular donations enable us to do just that.  If you can help us please donate here.