Overview

The Parish of Postlebury spent a total of £77,750 in 2024 on maintaining its five churches, providing services and spiritual support for parishioners, and administering the parish. Within this, just over £16,110 (compared to £73,434 in 2023) 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 £30,347. Without the work of many volunteers, overheads would be considerably higher.

Outside of the cost of repairing the buildings, the parish made a small deficit of £7,236 on its running costs. However, a substantial legacy to one of the churches improved the balances in the restricted funds by £88,809. 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.