## Annual report 1[st] September 2020 to 31[st] August 2021
We started the new year by welcoming our new minister Revd. David Miller and his wife Liz. Although delighted to be able to do this it was very strange as we could not meet in person due to the Covid restrictions.
The Circuit held services on Sunday mornings, Bible studies and prayer groups during the week which the members of Central were able to join on Zoom. Details of these were emailed to members and could also be found on the website which was kept up to date by David Rogerson. Service sheets for each of the Sunday morning services were distributed by class leaders to each of their members who could not join access the internet. Gillian Goodman posted encouraging messages daily on the Facebook page which she manages for us.
Sunday morning services at Central were able to resume in October 2020 following all the Government Covid guidelines but had to cease from the beginning of January till April when the ‘in person’ services were able to start again. Our thanks go to the team of stewards who dealt with all the problems which arose.
None of our usual midweek meetings took place with the exception of Wednesday Fellowship which had a few meetings in the Summer of 2021 and two outings to Bude and Dartmoor.
A family fun day in August 2021 was organised by Val Carpenter and Esther Pinder at Coronation Park. This was a great success and further fun days were planned to be held in the Church Hall.
During this year the Dingley Hall was used by the Churches Together in Launceston Love Your Neighbour scheme in conjunction with Fareshare to buy and distribute food to families in need. This was organised by Mike and Val Carpenter who were aided by other willing helpers.
The overnight shelter was well used during this year and our thanks goes to Mike Carpenter for all his diligence.
Property matters were dealt with as they arose and our thanks go to David Allen and Eric Rowland for their hard work.
Church members continued to be very generous in their giving but, not unsurprisingly, our outgoings exceeded our income by £13,200.
In conclusion, a very strange year but held together admirably by the leadership of our minister Revd. David Miller in the power of God.
## **CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS**
## **THE METHODIST CHURCH**
## **STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS**
## **Launceston Central Methodist Church**
FOR THE YEAR ENDED
31 Au ust 2021 g
|31 August 2021|||
|---|---|---|
|**Circuit**
**Launceston Area Methodist**|**Circuit no**|**43070**|
|**Registered Charity - Charity Registration number**|||
|||1126217|
If not a registered charity **Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Gift Aid number**
(The HMRC number is equivalent to a registered charity number in terms of evidence of charitable status and may be used to give to donors or grant funders wishing to see evidence of the organisation's charitable status. Methodist charities in England and Wales that are not registered charities are excepted from registration under Statutory Instrument 2655 of 2007)
Minister:
Rev. David Miller Church Stewards:
|Mrs Kathryn Broad||Mr Trevor Barriball|
|---|---|---|
|Mrs Catherine Slocombe||Mr Andrew Baker|
|Mrs Marion Allen||Mrs Irene Stanbury|
|Mr Neville Helme||Mrs Patricia White|
|Mr Christopher Gaunt|||
||Treasurer:||
||Mrs Janet Dorothy Rogerson||
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## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2021**
## **Launceston Central Methodist Church**
||**SECTION A**|||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Totals this**
**year**|**Totals this**
**year**|**Totals last**
**year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**|
|a2|Offerings andTax recovered|||75,461||75,461||93,656|
|a3|Bank and CFB interest and
Investment income|||170||170||899|
|a4|Lettings|||1,716||1,716||7,590|
|a5|Other receipts|||17,111||17,111||18,433|
|a6|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|||**94,458**||**94,458 **|**(a7)**|**120,578**|
||**SECTION B**|**SECTION B**|**SECTION B**|||)|)|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|b1|**PAYMENTS**|||||||||
|b2|CircuitAssessment orShare|||65,550||||64,172||
|b3|Donations|||4,730||||2,540||
|b4|Repairs andMaintenance|||3,504||||7,380||
|b5|Utilities (Insurances, water
charges,heating& lighting)|||15,253||||16,551||
|b6||||||||||
|b7|Otherpayments|||18,592||||16,332||
|b8|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**|||**107,629**||**107,629 **|**(b9)**|**106,975**||
|||||||||||
||**SECTION C**|||||||||
|c1|**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR**
**(a6-b8)**|||(13,171)||**(13,171)**||13,603||
|||||||||||
|c2|Total funds brought forward from
last year|||91,751|19,774|**111,525 **|**(c6)**|97,921||
|||||||**98,354**||||
|c3|**(c1+c2)**
**Sub total**|||78,580|19,774|**98,354**||**111,525**||
|||||||||||
|c4|Transfers and adjustments|||(23,000)|23,000||**(c8)**|||
|||||||||||
|c5|**TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR**
**(c3+c4)**|||**55,580**|**42,774**|**98,354 **|**(c7)**|**111,525**|**(c6)**|
||**SECTION D**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|d|**FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS**
**(these amounts are not to be included in total receipts/payments figures above)**|||||
|d1|Balance broughtforwardfrom last year|||||
|d2|Offerings/Gifts- receivedforexternalorganisations|||||
|d3|Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations|||||
|d4|**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID** (d1+d2-d3)|||||
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## **SUMMARY OF CHURCH ACCOUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS REPORTING TO THE CHURCH COUNCIL**
**SECTION E Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**
Summary of the Church accounts for the year ended 31 August 2021 and Internal Organisations reporting to the Church Council/Church Meeting. Note that the funds of an Internal Organisation would normally be Restricted funds unless it could be clearly shown that they could be used for any Methodist purpose. This section must be completed to arrive at the gross income and expenditure totals of the District. If gross income exceeds the Accruals threshold, then the Accruals method of accounting AND A DIFFERENT FORM must be used to report the accounts (see Methodist website). Please refer to the guidance notes regarding transfers between the District and connected District Organisations.
|Receipts|||Payments||Net Receipts/
Payments|||Adjustments||Openingbalances|**(e11)**
**(c6)**|Closingbalances||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|324|||272||52|||||4404||4,455||
|4,011|||4,300||(289)|||||2080||1,790||
|100|||385||(285)|||||298||13||
|0|||87||(87)|||||224||137||
|0|||120||(120)|||||1292||1,172||
|59|||59|||||||415||415||
|0|||0|||||||79||79||
|||||||||||||-||
|||||||||||||-||
|4,493|||5,223||(730)|||-||8792||8,062|**(e12)**|
|**94,458 **|**(a7)**||**107,629 **||**(13,171)**|||**-**|**(c8)**|||**98,354**|**(c7)**|
|**98,951**|||**112,852**||**(13,901)**|||**-**|||**(x)**|**106,415**|**(y)**|
|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||||||||||||||
## **SECTION F**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
||**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2021**
BankCurrent Account
Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)
Cash in hand
Bank Deposit Account
**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**
**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**
Central FinanceBoard
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
Other funds|**OPENING**
**BALANCES**
6,451
105,074
**111,525**
(c6)
**8,792**
(e11)
**120,316**
(x)|**CLOSING**
**BALANCES**||
|f1|Cash in hand||||
|f2|BankCurrent Account||7,660||
|f3|Bank Deposit Account||||
|f4|Central FinanceBoard||90,693||
|f5|Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes||||
|f6|Other funds||||
|f7|**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**||**98,354**|(c7)|
|f8|Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)||**8,062**|(e12)|
|f9|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**||**106,415**|(y)|
||||||
||**SECTION G**
**OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES**
Other Assets
Investments (includeEndowments)TMCP
Loan(s)-showamountoutstanding atyearend
Land &Buildings (seenotesreInsurancevalue)
Other Liabilities|At
31 August 2020
163,459
5,670,480|At
31 August 2021
191,557
5,676,114||
|g1|Investments (includeEndowments)TMCP|163,459|191,557||
|g2|Land &Buildings (seenotesreInsurancevalue)|5,670,480|5,676,114||
|g3|Other Assets||||
|g4|Loan(s)-showamountoutstanding atyearend||||
|g5|Other Liabilities||||
f4 Include only Funds held at the Central Finance Board
f5 Include only Funds held at Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
g1 Include any other investments (not the cash element of TMCP trusts accounts this is included in line f5
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Name of Church
Launceston Central Methodist Church
Independent Examiner's Statement
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to
my attention in connection with the examination
which give me cause to believe that in. any material respect:
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the
Act- or
the accounts do not acrd with the accounting records.
I have no COnrnS and have come across no other matters in connection with the
examination which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
I havelh*Hd' obtained independent verification of all investrnents with the
Trustees for Melhodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts. bank balances and
funds al the Central Finance Board Methodist Church which are individually
in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balance sheet date.
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