Annual reports & accounts

Eight years of Trustees' Annual Reports — every page, plainly written.

The accounts of Great Barr Church Lands are filed with the Charity Commission each year and posted here as soon as they are signed off. We try to write them in plain English rather than accountants' English. The 2024 report runs to fourteen pages.

A still life of six annual report booklets fanned in a quiet diagonal on linen, navy ink covers with embossed cream labels.

Above · Six recent annual reports on the parish-room linen.

Eight years

Most recent first.

  • 2024

    Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts — year to 31 December 2024

    Income £83,458 · Expenditure £26,089 · 8 trustees · Independent examination by H&C Lichfield. Headline: roof appeal launched.

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  • 2023

    Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts — year to 31 December 2023

    Income £78,140 · Expenditure £23,100 · 6 trustees rising to 8 in May · East window 15-year review completed.

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  • 2022

    Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts — year to 31 December 2022

    Income £74,820 · Expenditure £21,300 · New sallies for the ringing chamber; first full post-Covid programme.

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  • 2021

    Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts — year to 31 December 2021

    Income £69,640 · Expenditure £15,600 · A quiet year of restoration-reserve replenishment after the Covid disruptions.

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  • 2020

    Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts — year to 31 December 2020

    Income £61,520 · Expenditure £12,400 · The Covid year. Restored services from May; the autumn Annual Naming took place in the open air.

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  • 2019

    Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts — year to 31 December 2019

    Income £71,380 · Expenditure £19,800 · Centenary-plus printing project completed; first full Burial Records phase delivered.

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  • 2018

    Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts — year to 31 December 2018

    Income £68,910 · Expenditure £18,200 · Mark Howell joined the board in July; new reserves policy adopted in October.

    Download PDF (1.2 MB)

Reports older than 2018 are held at the Staffordshire Record Office in Stafford and can be consulted by appointment; a small number are available from the parish office on request.

Numbers, openly counted

If you have a question about the accounts that this page does not answer, please write to the Treasurer.