## **ANNUAL TRUSTEES REPORT FOR THE SQUARE METHODIST CHURCH**
September 2020 - August 2021
**Name of Church:** The Square Methodist Church, Dunstable
**Address:** Ashton Square, High St South, Dunstable LU6 3SN
## **Correspondence address:** as above
## **Name of person to whom correspondence should be addressed:**
Rev Nina Johnson
## **Names of those who have served as managing trustees in the year (Church Council):**
Rev Nina Johnson **[Minister]**
## **[Church stewards]**
Marie Dawkins Juliet Foster Lisa Foster Susan Bunu
Steve Cantellow **[Treasurer]** Vacant post **[Pastoral committee secretary]** Council Rota **[Council secretary]**
## **[Council members elected by the AGM]**
Sharon Andrew Bridget Calvert Pearl Mathieson Jackie Cantellow Sharon Andrew Barrie Wells Jenny Smith Pearl Mathieson Stephen Parkinson
## **[representatives from areas of church life]**
Ian Ellis [Property team] Carole Pratt [S Club] Stephen Turner [Musical Director] Janet Robinson [Safeguarding Officer] Ivor Mitchelmore [Worship Leader] Wendy Armiger [Worship Leader] Terry Sissons [Circuit Steward]
## **Structure**
The Square is part of the South Bedfordshire Methodist Circuit. The decision making body is the Church Council but all members are involved in the running of the church and setting its strategy at the General Church Meeting.
## **Aims and Mission**
## Our church mission statement:
_We are a town centre church aiming to radiate God’s love, as revealed in Jesus Christ, for the local community and the wider world. We seek to help people in their search for God through our worship, prayer and action._
## **Review of the year** (September 2020 – August 2021)
The beginning of the year continued to be a challenging time for churches as we adapted to providing a safe worship space, as the country began to emerge from the pandemic and then went back into limited lockdowns. Lockdown required us to close the building and cease all activities that required face-to-face meetings. Contact with the church community initially continued using other means; telephone, email and the introduction of a weekly letter from the minister. A Sunday morning fellowship group was established using Zoom, and some other fellowship groups also met via zoom, as did the Church Council.
As the country emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Church implemented measures to ensure safe worship (including one-way systems, additional sanitation, the wearing of facemasks and social distancing). Worship was provided in a blended manner with both in person and online services offered. As the year progressed and the community began to feel safer, the Church resumed more ‘normal’ delivery with Sunday worship offering a variety of styles including monthly Café Worship.
Prayer continued to be a focus, with a monthly prayer meeting for sharing and encouragement, a fortnightly prayer meeting for wider concerns and prayer chain offering support in a variety of ways.
The church hosted a weekly Saturday coffee morning, run by church, charities and community groups.
The core groups that met at the church, run by ourselves and outside groups, continued to enrich and support many people from the surrounding community. The church supports various activities with young people through Scouting, Guiding and our youth and S club. Many of these groups maintained contact during this period via online fora to ensure that these young people continued to be supported during this time.
Church members continue to support Sarenga Hospital in India, and continued to support the work of Young Minds which is a charity that supports children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
## **CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS**
# **THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS**
## **THE SQUARE DUNSTABLE**
**Church**
FOR THE YEAR ENDED
## 31 August 2021
|**Circuit**
**SOUTH BEDFORDSHIRE**|**Circuit no**|**34/04**|
|---|---|---|
|**Registered Charity - Charity Registration number**|||
|||1126936|
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 2014 No.242)
## Minister:
REV.N JOHNSON Church Stewards: MRS L FOSTER MRS J FOSTER MRS S BUNU MR S PARKINSON
Treasurer: MR S CANTELLOW
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## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2021**
## **THE SQUARE Church DUNSTABLE**
||**SECTION A**|||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**£**
**64,831**
**45**
**2,210**
**4,665**
**Totals this**
**year**|**£**
**64,831**
**45**
**2,210**
**4,665**
**Totals this**
**year**|**Totals last**
**year**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**||
|a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|||||||
|a2|Offerings and Tax recovered|||60,081|4,750|**64,831**||72,674||
|a3|Bank and CFB interest and
Investment income|||45||**45**||193||
|a4|Lettings|||2,210||**2,210**||11,205||
|a5|Other receipts|||4,665||**4,665**||4,225||
|a6|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|||**67,001**|**4,750**|**71,751 **|**(a7)**|**88,297**||
|||||||||||
||**SECTION B**|||||**57,854**
**9,689**
**9,844**
**4,010**||||
|b1|**PAYMENTS**|||||||||
|b2|Circuit Assessment or Share|||57,854||**57,854**||43,839||
|b3|Donations|||||||||
|b4|Repairs and Maintenance|||9,689||**9,689**||27,658||
|b5|Utilities (Insurances, water
charges,heating& lighting)|||9,844||**9,844**||13,066||
|b6|Direct PropertyEmployment Costs|||||||||
|b7|Otherpayments|||4,010||**4,010**||5,003||
|b8|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**|||**81,397**||**81,397 **|**(b9)**|**89,566**||
|||||||**(9,646)**||||
||**SECTION C**|||||||||
|c1|**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR**
**(a6-b8)**|||(14,396)|4,750|**(9,646)**||(1,269)||
|||||||||||
|c2|Total funds brought forward from
last year|||59,961||**59,961 **|**(c6)**|61,230||
|||||||**50,315**||||
|c3|**(c1+c2)**
**Sub total**|||45,565|4,750|**50,315**||**59,961**||
|||||||||||
|c4|Transfers and adjustments||||||**(c7)**|||
|||||||||||
|c5|**TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR**
**(c3+c4)**|||**45,565**|**4,750**|**50,315 **|**(c8)**|**59,961**|**(c6)**|
||**SECTION D**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|d|**(these amounts are not to be included in total receipts/payments figures above)**
**FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL**||**£**
**ORGANISATIONS**||**£**
|
|d1|Balance brought forward from lastyear||7,545||3,677|
|d2|Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations||347||7,202|
|d3|Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations||4,734||3,334|
|d4|**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID**
(d1+d2-d3)||**3,158**||**7,545**|
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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 Church. 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.
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||**SECTION E**
**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|||||||||||||
||**SECTION E**
|||||||||||||
||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 Church. 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.|||||||||||||
||**INTERNAL**
**ORGANISATIONS**|Receipts||Payments||Net Receipts/
Payments||Adjustments||Opening
balances||Closingbalances||
|e1|**Mums & Toddlers**|||50||(50)||||50||||
|e2|**Inters Youth Group**|||||||||240||240||
|e3|**Ladies Thursday Club**|||||||||902||902||
|e4|**Shell Youth Group**|||||||||784||784||
|e5|**Square Drama**|3||1,060||(1,057)||||6,250||5,193||
|e6|**Middle Generation Group**|||||||||42||42||
|e7|**Brought Forward**|912||1,369||(457)||||1,443||986||
|e8|Sub total of Internal
Organisations funds|915||2,479||(1,564)||||9,711|**(e11)**|8,147|**(e12)**|
|e9|**Church accounts (totals**
**brought forward from page**
**2 - totals column)**|**71,751 (a7)**
**72,666**|**(a7)**|**81,397 **|**(b9)**|**(9,646)**|||**(c7)**|**59,961 **|**(c6)**|**50,315**|**(c8)**|
|e10|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD**
**BY CHURCH**|||**83,876**||**(11,210)**||||**69,672**|**(x)**|**58,462**|**(y)**|
||Continue on a separate sheet
if necessary and bring the
totals forward|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||**TOTAL**
**PAYMENTS**||||||||||
## **SECTION F**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
||**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2021**
Cash in hand
BankCurrentAccount
Bank DepositAccount
**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**
**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**
Central FinanceBoard
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
Other funds
Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)|**OPENING**
**BALANCES**
36,600
30,906
(7,545)
**59,961**
(c6)
**9,711** (e11)
**69,672**
(x)|**CLOSING**
**BALANCES**||
|f1|Cash in hand||||
|f2|BankCurrentAccount||44,549||
|f3|Bank DepositAccount||||
|f4|Central FinanceBoard||8,924||
|f5|Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes||||
|f6|Other funds||(3,158)||
|f7|**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**||**50,315**|(c8)|
|f8|Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)||**8,147**|(e12)|
|f9|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**||**58,462**|(y)|
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||**SECTION G**
**OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES**
Other Assets
Land &Buildings (seenotesreInsurancevalue)
Loan(s)-showamount outstanding at yearend
Other Liabilities
Investments (includeEndowments)|At
1 September 2020
8,269,580
153,900
654|At
31 August 2021
8,269,580
153,900
114||
|g1|Investments (includeEndowments)||||
|g2|Land &Buildings (seenotesreInsurancevalue)|8,269,580|8,269,580||
|g3|Other Assets|153,900|153,900||
|g4|Loan(s)-showamount outstanding at yearend||||
|g5|Other Liabilities|654|114||
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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## **Declarations and Scrutiny**
I confirm that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the year to 31 August 2021 have been prepared from the records of the Church and that they include all funds under the control of the Church trustees.
Signature of treasurer ……………………………………………………… Date……………………..31.08.21
Name and address of treasurer: MR S A CANTELLOW
14 PRINTERS WAY DUNSTABLE BEDS LU6 2UT
## **Presentation to the Church trustees**
____ I confirm that the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2021 were/will be* presented to the meeting of the Church trustees held on ……………..8th November 2021
Signature of the Chair of the meeting ……………………………………………………………………
Rev. Nina Johnson 31.10.21 Name of the Chair of the meeting …………………………………………… Date ……………………
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the**
## **The Square Methodist Church**
1126936 **Charity Number …………..**
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Square Methodist Church for the year ended 31 August 2021 set out on pages 2 to3 As the Church’s trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Church’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and, in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
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## **Independent Examiner’s Statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below*) 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 accord with the accounting records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
I have not* obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts, bank balances and funds at the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church which are individually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balance sheet date.
Signature of independent examiner
## CJSheehan
Name of independent examiner Mrs C J Sheehan
Relevant professional qualification of independent examiner Chartered Accountant
Name of firm (where appropriate) N/A
Address 88 Goswell End Road, Harlington, Beds.
……………………………………………………… Post Code LU5 6NX
Date 26/11/2021
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