Overview

The Parish of Postlebury spent a total of £82,127 in 2025 on maintaining its five churches, providing services and spiritual support for parishioners, and administering the parish. Within this, just over £14,552 was spent on building repairs largely funded from restricted funds donated for that purpose. Our parish share – the contribution to the cost of the priest-in-charge, the Diocese of Bath and Wells and Frome Deanery – was £31,968. Without the work of many volunteers, overheads would be considerably higher.

Outside of the cost of repairing the buildings, the parish made a small surplus of £3,032 on its running costs because of late payment of two significant bills in the last quarter of the year. However, a substantial legacy to one of the churches improved the balances in the restricted funds by £102,600. The restricted funds are held for each of the five churches and can only be used for the benefit of that church,  not for the running costs of the parish.  More detail can be seen in the annual report which includes the annual accounts (below).

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.