Grateful thanks to all treasurers who are working through the completion of your 2019 accounts in the current climate.  Hopefully, many of you will already have completed your accounts in anticipation of presenting them to your APCMs.  The chair of your PCC should have already received guidance on how to hold these meetings so please liaise with them.

I would urge Treasurers to still complete their Return of Parish Finances on line, even if they have yet to be independently examined or signed off by the PCC.  Please do not formally ‘Submit to Diocese’ until you have had the accounts examined/audited.  If you require help in completing the forms on-line, please contact Mary Kemp: mary.kemp@derby.anglican.org

If paperwork hasn’t yet gone to your independent examiner, then you will have to delay this step until you can safely do so following government guidelines on social distancing.  Now that parishes have until the end of October to hold their APCMs the pressure to complete by the earlier deadline is somewhat relaxed.

Those parishes which have already had their accounts independently examined/audited as necessary are encouraged to ‘Submit their Accounts to the Diocese’ by 15 June 2020 and then ask the Chair of the PCC how to proceed for approval at the earliest opportunity.  They can be amended if necessary, post APCMs.