Documents listed as links in the left-hand column open as PDFs in a new tab.
Safety-related Documents
| Safeguarding | Please follow the link onthe left to the dedicated safeguarding page. |
| Safe Working Reminders | A two-page annual reminder for our volunteers of the main Health & Safety and Safeguarding topics they need to know. |
| Risk Assessment Policy and Guidance | A one-page guide on how to do a risk assessment, plus a standard form and an Annex listing extant risk assessments that you might find useful when completing one for your activity. Click here for the form in Word (.docx) format for editing. (Opens a download-and-save box.) |
| Lone Working Guidance | Some common-sense advice on how to prepare for working alone in the church or the office, or when making home visits. |
| Health and Safety Policy | This is the full H&S Policy, which records items in greater detail and explains how we meet particular legislative requirements. It includes Risk Assessments of matters that are common across most of our activities. |
Miscellaneous Documents
| Complaints and Allegations | If you wish to complain about something, this one-page guide will tell you what to do. |
| Your Data and How We Look After It | St James Church Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice. |
| Disability Access Statement | A summary of our current provision for adults and children with disabilities. An Annex provides guidance for those preparing slides for our main projection screen in the church. |
| Social Media Policy | Here is an excerpt from the Parish Safeguarding Handbook which is our Social Media Policy. |
| Supporting Volunteers | This policy sets out what we need to do to look after all our volunteers, recruting them fairly and safely, making sure that they know what is expected of them, are trained appropriately and supported on an ongoing basis. |
| Registered Charity | This is a link to our entry in the Charity Commission’s register. Our Registered Charity number is 1130757. |
| Parish Profile | A snapshot of the church in 2018, prepared for the appointment of a new vicar. Please note that the figures are generally now out of date, and some of the activities described did not restart after Covid. |
2026 Annual Meeting Papers
The Annual Meeting was held on Sunday 19th April. The papers here are those that will be sent to the Charity Commission in due course.
| Accounts for 2025 | These are the accounts which have been sent to the Independent Examiner for auditing. While we are not expecting any changes, these are not yet the final version to be sent to the Charity Commission. |
| Independent Examiner’s Report | The Independent Examination of our accounts has been delayed due to the company we have used for many years to do this work being taken over, and the new company announcing that it had decided to stop doing independent examinations, with immediate effect. We have apponted new auditors but do not yet have a timescale for the completion of the examination. |
| Annual Report for 2025 | A summary account (17 pages) of what we did in 2025. The report is written to fulfil the requirements of the Charity Commission. It is also our one opportunity in the year to mention everything we do, in one place. |