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Declarations and Scrutiny

| confirm that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the yearto 31 August 2022 have been prepared from the records of the Church and that they include all funds under the control of the Church trustees. es, one. 4) 2.8

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Presentation to the Church trustees

| confirm that the annual report and accounts for t e year ended 31 August 2022 were/wilte* presented to the meeting of the Church trustees held on a 0.22 01DSf aaa AE AYe; ; Signature of the Chairofthe mee thrg meer—irisSEYone een WLI cans=csnicoiins sated wena Sues Sees cian age Heiney ag» Nameofthe Chair of the meeting Rw. Vader rir DDL Date 24/03/202

Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the

EDMONTON METHODIST CHURCH

Charity Number ... 1127395...........

Responsibilities and basis of report

| reportto the trustees on my examination of the accounts Of[the][...............cseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees][Church][for] the year ended 31 August 2022 set out on pages ... to .... 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’).

| 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, | 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

| have completed my examination. | 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:

e the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or e the accounts do not accord with the accounting records. [the [the

| 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.

| have/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.

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Name of independent examiner MRS MARGARET PRATT...............5+.

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CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS

THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED

31 August 2022

Registered Charity - Charity Registration number

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1127395
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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'D VALENTIN DEDJI

Church Stewards:

JESSIE DOWUONA

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DOREEN NYARKA
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Treasurer:

ROSALIND RUTTY

ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2022

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|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Unrestricted|Restricted|otals|otals|las| |SECTION A|Funds|Funds|this|year|ear| |RECEIPTS|[Note||||TS]|CUE| |Offerings and|Taxrecovered|||—~—S«<|—s77,495|sd||__—s77,495|64,249| |Bank|and|CFB|interest| |ao[Bankand|CFBinterest [|| |[22,955,]|16,422| |jaa[Lettings||S|C™~—~—~sYYSCi|[95H]]|et]||||at| |Restricted|funds|receipts|fTt*t~<“tsSsSsTS_53,530]]|53,530]|57,168| |as [TOTAL|RECEIPTS|«Ss|100,731]|__53,530}[154,261|(a7)|137,949| |SECTION|B| |PAYMENTS| |lb2|Circuitps[Donations Assessmentssor ShareCtdTSSS™~—sCSYSSCéiTSC‘“CS™SC<dSECNCitéAQOYCCs||[—————s|—s]|[100,000]]||—|||100,000||_115,000| |Repairs|and|Maintenance|ee|=<2]|5,376|1,898| |Uilities (Insurances,||||rz]||227|4.162| |pe|Restricted funds|payments.|||||SCs]|SATA}||| |[7 Other payments|es|S72)|||2)|6,790| |lbs| TOTAL|PAYMENTS|118,024, ——-64||_|118,088|127,850| |SECTION|C| |ct|NET|.|reins|a6-b8|17,293|53,467|||36,173|10,100| |c2||forward|from|last|year|2,058||117,693}||119,751|109,651| |lea|sell|[annul]| |[<3 |Sub|total|c1+c2|15,235)||171,160|119,751| |4 |Transfers and|adjustments|ee|eee|[is| |cs|TOTAL|FUNDSATENDOF YE|(c3+c4)|15,235)||171,160|119,751|

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SECTION D

} FORthese INFORMATIONamounts are ONLY:not to MONEYbe included RECEIVEDin total receipts/paymentsAND PASSED ON TOfiguresEXTERNALabove ORGANISATIONS

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SUMMARY OF CHURCH ACCOUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS REPORTING TO THE CHURCH COUNCIL

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SECTION E Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page
Summary of the Church accounts for the year ended 31 August 2022 and Intemal 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 Oraanisations.
Net Receipts/ Opening
INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS Receipts Payments Payments Adjustments balances Closing balances
a, | GHANAIAN FELLOWSHIP 4,792 5,835 1,043 6,649 5,806
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totals column) a7 118,088| (b9) 36,173 (c7) 119,751
TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD
BY CHURCH 159,053 161,730
Continue on a separate sheet TOTAL
if necessary and bring the TOTAL RECEIPTS PAYMENTS
totals forward
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SECTION F
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
OPENING CLOSING
CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2022 BALANCES BALANCES
Bank Current Account 52,863 106,765
Central Finance Board 66,888 49,159
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SUB TOTAL - Church accounts 119,751 | ral
Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12) (e11) 5,806} (e12)
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OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES Investments (include Endowments) Land & Buildings (see notes re Insurance value) Other Assets Loan(s) - show amount outstanding at year end 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

Edmonton Methodist Church Annual Report for Year Ended 31 August 2022

We are a diverse community of people originating from many different countries. The annual statistical return in October 2022 showed that we had 299 members. There are just over 800 people on the church’s community roll.

We have come together in response to our Christian calling. We strongly believe that our unity in Jesus Christ is a powerful Christian testimony as we endeavour to serve the present age. Thus, we are committed to contributing to the wellbeing of each other through the following mission statement:

Our Mission Statement

Affirming our calling to ‘serve the present age’ through our faith and discipleship in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Be an inclusive community that cherishes the diversity of talents, culture, race, age and gender. We seek to work in partnership with other churches through existing or new ecumenical mission agencies in our local area.

Learn to give special attention to the spiritual, social and moral well-being of all who are part of our church according to their need and circumstances.

Enable our members to advance issues of God’s mission, through social justice and peace, while advocating policies that protect the environment.

Our Vision

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Our Planned Future Community-Oriented Projects

It is our strong expectation that, the rebuilding of our church will enable us to be more practical in carrying out our motto: ‘Serving God’s people in the Community and in the Church’. Consequently, after some in-depth consultations in our local community, the following activities and community projects will be our immediate objectives:

Aims and Purposes

Edmonton Methodist Church Council has authority and oversight of the Church, including the management of its property and finance and, crucially, its pastoral care of members and friends. Its responsibilities include the setting of our aims and objectives and governance including finance, property and health and safety.

Our Primary Purposes are:

  1. The provision of regular public acts of worship open to members of the church and non-

members alike.

  1. The provision of sacred space (a building) for prayer and contemplation.

  2. The teaching of Christian doctrine, principles and practices through sermons, courses and small groups.

  3. Pastoral work, including visiting the sick and bereaved.

Objectives and Activities

The Church Council is committed to enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church and to become part of our church community.

When planning our activities for the year, the Church Council has considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. In particular, we try to enable ordinary people to live out their faith as part of our Church through:

Worship and prayer: that is thoughtful, relevant to the situations both of those who attend and of the wider world, rooted in the goodness of God.

Nurture and learning: developing understanding of the gospel and knowledge and trust in Jesus.

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Service: providing hospitality to community groups, running groups that are of benefit to the wider community, children and youth work, taking an active interest in the affairs of that community.

Evangelism: promoting the Good News of God in Christ Jesus and encouraging others to consider the way of discipleship alongside Interfaith dialogue.

To facilitate this work it is important that we maintain the fabric of the church buildings and the funds to enable us to do so. We also adhere to and regularly review the Methodist Church’s Safeguarding Policy including Safer Recruitment.

Achievements and Performance

Worship and prayer

Our Sunday morning worship is the principal gathering with average weekly attendance of 108 adults and 15 young people and children. The 10:45am service has one Holy Communion, one all-age worship and two or three preaching services most months that enable people to worship God and follow Jesus, on a cycle of all age worship and more traditional worship too. Again, it has been good to welcome new people in the course of the last year, both those who remain as part of our congregation and those who, new to the area, are seeking out a Christian home.

We no longer hold an Evening Service following the COVID Pandemic.

In addition to the Sunday services there are occasional, festival and other mid-week services particularly in Lent/Holy Week.

As well as our regular services, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of the journey through life. During 2021/2022, we hosted 3 marriage blessings, 8 funerals, 5 baptisms, 4 confirmations and welcomed 10 new members.

Baptism Ministry

During Baptism a candle is lit and the following words are said, “Receive this > light for you belong to Christ. Christ is your light and your way. As light is essential to all life and growth, so is Christ to the whole world”. A Bible and certificate are handed to the parents.

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Nurture and Learning

Our Sunday Junior Church remains active, with an enthusiastic core of youngsters and appropriate recognised leaders. Our Junior Church and Young People's Fellowship (YPF) make a significant contribution to all-age worship throughout the year. They are also very active in supporting the Circuit at the Sunday Fundays.

Edmonton Methodist Church Junior Church children attendance numbers have been increasing since the decline during the pandemic 2020 — 2022.

The leaders have been very dedicated. The children are becoming very vocal during their questioning about what they have learnt in their group. We continue to encourage their spiritual growth.

The children contributed in the Christmas service in December 2021. The children have been very involved in the youth services on the 3 Sunday of each month. We pray that the Lord continue to bless the parents, leaders and children as they grow in their understanding of Christ.

Our Brownie Unit and Guides unit enjoyed another busy and varied year of activities and the Boys’ Brigade Company continues to be a regular part of the church’s life although many of them worship on a Sunday at other churches.

Youth

Our youth continue to make significant contribution to FUSION, formally known as the Young Adult Group (YAG) with the group meeting every last Sunday of the month in our church. This group of young people are growing in knowledge and are eager to develop their personal Christian lives as well as wanting to know how to contribute to their community.

Generation of Disciples (G.O.D), aimed at young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 years meet fortnightly to discuss various themes and topics that impact them as young adults from a biblical perspective. To promote leadership within the group, members of G.O.D. take it in turns to lead on topics.

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Mission Statement: ‘Follow Christ not people; Growing in faith, led by God

Fellowship Groups

We have a number of different Fellowship Groups including: Ghanaian Fellowship, Women’s Fellowship, and Men’s Fellowship.

Edmonton Methodist Church Ghanaian Fellowship (GMF)

The Peace of the Lord be with you!

We thank God for his faithfulness and provision in bringing us to the end of another successful year.

Aims and Objectives

The aims and objectives for the fellowship continues to be the same, pooling resources together to address the welfare purposes being the core objective.

Governance and Management

The fellowship continues to be run and managed by a team of Executive members led by Mr George Noi-Lartey (Chairman). The team of executive members were elected or appointed as per the GMF constitution. We are encouraged by the response of our members to some changes to foster love and togetherness, self-development through learning and most importantly the call to be more active in the work of the church.

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Meetings

There were no changes to our meeting days. At the moment, executive meetings continue to be held on Zoom every third Friday preceding our general meetings on third Sunday of the month after Church service.

Growth in Membership

The fellowship continued to grow in the last year. New members joined us bringing our us to over 60 memberships with 40 active members.

Bring and Share

The fellowship continued to organise quarterly “Bring and Share” as per the constitution. The aim is to promote socialisation in the fellowship. The fellowship had successful “Bring and Share” in the year as members contributed enough food and drinks on each occasion. These “Bring and Share” are open to non-members of the fellowship.

Ghana Independence Day Celebration

The fellowship celebrated Independence Day in March 2022 with members participating in Bible readings. There was a special offertory to raise funds for the new church building. As part of the Independence Day celebrations GMF members also went to Westminster Central Hall for a special Independence Day Service.

Lectures

As part of our education and development plan, EGMF organised lectures in several health and Self-Development for members. The aim is to promote the health and wellbeing amongst members and to inform them of social issues and what support is available to people. Most of these lectures were held in our Ghanaian language to reinforce understanding among all members.

Electronic Records

We continue to keep electronic records for all GMF information and responding to the call for GDPR compliant.

Church Cleaning

GME lead the organisation of the church deep cleaning in April 2022 during which members deep cleaned the entire church as done every year.

Church Activities

GMF remained committed to the Church by participating in all church activities. Members participated in the Annual Church harvest which took place during the year.

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Prayer Night

Members continued to participate in the prayer night of the church and St. Marks Church throughout the year.

Invitations from Other GMF

We were invited by some of our sister fellowships to support them in anniversary celebrations which we participated and contributed funds to support in their activities.

Westminster Central Hall Church Services

Members continue to participate in activities of GMF UK Chaplaincy including monthly church services at Westminster Central Hall. As part of the church activities members went to support the GMF UK church harvest in November.

Welfare

As a welfare organisation, the fellowship continued its support to members through bereavement, sickness, birthday celebrations, christenings, marriage ceremonies, births and others in the Ghanaian way. Sadly, the COVID pandemic was challenging, and we lost a member during the period.

End of Year Accounts

The annual end of year accounts was presented to members and a copy given to every member of the fellowship.

Other

We had a successful year to the glory of God. We pray that the current year will even be better as we continue to make changes in the fellowship and also to forge ahead to participate in more activities in Edmonton Methodist Church and raise more funds for the New Church building.

Women’s Fellowship

We give God all the glory, praise and thanksgiving His grace, mercies, protection, healing and blessings for us during this year.

Despite the ease of covid restrictions, there are still challenges and difficulties for many to meet face to face. Meetings were therefore held virtually using Zoom on the third Thursday of the month from 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Total number on the roll is 20 and averagely 6-8 attend meetings. A lot have not been attending the Zoom meetings due to technology issues.

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We continue to support the food hub by members donating food, items, volunteering, distributing, serving and delivering.

We donated £200.00 to ‘Feed the Hungry’.

Mothering Sunday service was led by the fellowship face to face, members sang and distributed water bottles to everyone. The service was successful.

Women in seven days of prayer, continued through emails and WhatsApp.

We stayed in contact with each other, especially those who were sick, bereaved and housebound, by phone and WhatsApp.

Members took an active role in hosting MWIB sector B Jubilee tea party held in June 2021 at Ponders End Methodist Church as well as attending World Day of Prayers and Daffodil day at Methodist central hall.

Some sisters had health challenges, were admitted but God granted them healing.

Unfortunately, we lost a sister, may her soul rest in perfect peace.

Members continue to play their part in cleaning the church, flowering and Sunday school Ministries, welcoming stewards and many others.

It is our greatest desire is to have face to face meetings in the coming year God wiling.

Music Ministry

Music has always been an essential part of our worship. From the days of the Old Testament, when “David and the people of Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with castanets, harps, lyres, tambourines, and cymbals” — 2 Samuel 6:5 (NIV)

Praise God for another fruitful year of ministry! It has been amazing to see how God has been working in both the music and technical worship ministries in church. | have chosen a few key highlights which give some insight into what | have been doing this year.

The last couple of years were very busy for the music ministries since the pandemic, we have never stopped. Putting Jesus first in our lives, lifting up our voices to God the Father with one accord, and becoming invisible within our talents so His message shines brighter. Where the Holy Spirit is active in our life, where we are experiencing God like never before.

At Edmonton Methodist Church ministry we have various arts and music teams. The Music ministry team consists of technicians who operate the visual and audio sound engineering system (4 members) and the main choir, (11 members) and on some occasions a worship team (3 members). We are constantly increasing the involvement of our music ministry by inviting,

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accepting and training anyone who wants to be part of our ministry to keep the church making a joyful noise unto the Lord.

Our worship streams live every Sunday by preachers submitting their order of service to Bro Sean Davis, George Noi-Lartey or Anthony Sarpong in preparation for our Sunday morning service or any other special events.

Our vision was to create an oasis in the middle of people’s busy schedules where they could take a ‘time-out’ and reconnect with God. We have recently created a social media page for the church on Facebook and LinkedIn which at the moment is just for advertisement but in due course we will be streaming live on these sites. We still have our YouTube account which can be used on special occasions. Currently we are using our Zoom account for any special meetings. It also has the function to ‘go live’ via YouTube. Our aim is to invade the airwaves and these sites are only used to let other knows we are here for our local community and for the world to know what is happening within our Ministry at Edmonton.

Music helps gather and centre us, it gives us strength as we lament, assurance in troubled times, joy in times of happiness, and a voice with which to praise our Saviour and our Creator. Our worship at Edmonton is filled with music of all different kinds, providing the soundtrack to our worship each and every Sunday together with live playing of the instrument (keyboard).

We are truly blessed at Edmonton and our music ministry exists to teach us of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the promises inherent in it. It reminds us of the sovereignty of God and all he is capable of doing. We continue to be loyal, positive, patient, flexible, caring, humble and a strong influence on our church.

Service

The church buildings remain extensively used by the local community for various functions such as birthday parties, traditional wedding ceremonies, funeral gatherings. We make our space available to let to a number of different groups including NOBLE LADIES, Bible College, Ghanaian Community and an Indian Dance tuition group. We continue to provide food for the local food bank. Caring for those in need has long been a way Methodists express and commend their faith. During the course of[the][year,][collection][for][our][Benevolent][Fund][was] used to maintain our support for Action for Children, Methodist Homes, Christian Aid, and Methodist Women in Britain as well as emergency appeals. It is good that these efforts on behalf of others can be combined with opportunities for fellowship and indicates the breadth of our concern for God’s world.

No application was received during that period. That was due to the lockdown which did not allow young people to plan any project.

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Regular Lettings to Outside Hirers

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Most of the regulars before the lockdown have now change to “One-Off”.

One-Off Lettings

Significant numbers coming to use the Hall mainly for Birthdays, Anniversaries, Funeral wakes, Meetings, play rehearsals, subject to limitations imposed by size of the hall.

Future Community Organisations to use our new Premises

Evangelism

Through Confirmation and the activities of other groups we have given people an opportunity to discover and grow in faith. The New Year Watch Night Service again allowed over fifty visitors to worship and see in the New Year with us, many of whom we only see on this occasion. Baptism Services have allowed many people who wouldn’t normally attend church to see what church is like, hear about the love of God and hopefully receive a warm welcome.

Wider relationships

The church is part of the Enfield Methodist Circuit. Six members of our church are elected by the church council to be part of its managing body, the Circuit Meeting. Our Minister in Pastoral Charge is an Enfield Circuit Minister and leads worship in Circuit Churches on a

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regular pattern. We also liaise with the London District of Methodism and wider Methodist Church of Great Britain.

Edmonton Methodist Church is part of the Faith Forum for Enfield. Ordained ministers, lay leaders from different church denominations (Methodist, Evangelical, Baptist and Pentecostal), together with Faith Leaders (Muslims and Jews) belonging to the said Forum, meet regularly on quarterly basis for breakfast meetings. During such meetings, issues related to peace-building in our local communities feature prominently on the agenda. Prayers of mutual support are also offered. We still have contact with the local Rumi Mosque.

Property and Finance

There has been a growing recognition that our existing premises are not ideally fit for purpose. The buildings are what remained after the large adjoining Central Hall was vacated in the late 1960s and subsequently demolished. The present worship area was originally a large hall, and is situated at the rear of the buildings. The other rooms and facilities are also poorly laid out. Moreover, externally, the premises present a very bleak, unwelcoming face to the community that the church is striving to serve.

The seating capacity of the church has been increased by 50 in the last twenty years by the addition of a balcony but we are already running out of space again. We have been exploring various possibilities by which we might be able to undertake the redevelopment of the present premises of the church.

Our Vision: To rebuild our historic church, formerly known as Edmonton Methodist Central Hall, to make it fit for new priorities and challenges of God’s Mission in our local community in this present age.

Our objective is to equip the church’s new building with a number of modern facilities, in order to serve in the best possible ways, the youth, the elderly and the needy in our local community.

We continue to progress with our application for planning permission. We continue to hold meetings and updates with our team of Architects and the London Borough of Enfield Council Planners.

Fundraising events are continuing and donations towards the new building continue to flow in.

Reserves Policy

In line with the Charity Commission and Methodist guidelines, our reserves policy for the General Fund is to hold enough funds to cover at least six month's expenditure.

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Volunteers

We would like to thank all those who freely give of their time and skills to make the church the pastorally caring, lively and vibrant community it is — to all with safety and safeguarding paramount. Sincere thanks also go to individuals and all the various groups and fellowships that have tirelessly raised funds for our new church building project. There were 56 volunteers during 2020/2021.

Structure, Governance and Management

The governance of a local Methodist Church such as Edmonton is set out in the Connexional Practice and Discipline of the Methodist Church of Great Britain. The membership of the Church Council consists of those who are members ex-officio because they are Circuit staff, church stewards, the Church Treasurer or Church Council Secretary. It also includes those appointed by the Church Council to ensure representation of the various activities of the church and those appointed by the General Church Meeting to ensure the Council is representative of the congregation. The General Church Meeting also elects the Church Stewards.

The Church Council met four times in the year. Given its wide responsibilities, the Council has a number of committees, each dealing with a particular aspect of church life. These committees, which include worship, pastoral, property and finance are all responsible to the Church Council and report back to it regularly. We seek greater inclusion and all our meetings are open to all members and friends to observe and speak at. Minutes are circulated to members and copies are accessible within the building.

Administrative information

We are to be found on Fore Street in Edmonton. We are part of the Enfield Circuit within the Methodist Church of Great Britain. The correspondence address is Edmonton Methodist Church, 300 Fore Street, Edmonton, London N9 OPN. Our Minister’s telephone number is 020 8884 0841. The Church Council is a registered charity, numbered 1127395.

Church Council members who served for the period of this report are:

Ex-Officio Members:
Revd Dr Valentin Dedji (Chair)
Revd Papa Owusu (Circuit Minister)
Revd Julia Wiktorska (Circuit Minister)
Miss Isata Jalloh (Circuit Youth and Children's Worker)
Mrs Rosalind Rutty (Church Treasurer)
MissMillieHylton (Secretary,ChurchCouncil)

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General Church Meeting Appointments Mrs Jessie Dowuona Miss Doreen Nyarko Mr Nana Osei Bonsu Mrs Rosalind Rutty Mr Ben Tackie Mr Joseph Owusu Ms Alana Riley Miss Samuella Dedji Ms Gladys Agyeiwaa Mrs Juliana Hammond Mrs Margaret Lyth Mrs Cecelia Ukoumunne Mrs Maxine Scott George Noi-Lartey

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Church Council Appointments Mrs Geranium Byam Malcolm Lyth Mr Sam Sam Agyei Mrs Rebecca Darkwa-Marfo Mrs Norah Lord Mr Raymond Pettipher Sean Davis Mrs Hilda Morrissey Mrs Pat Pettipher

Mrs Geranium Byam (Sec, Pastoral Committee) — until 2020 Malcolm Lyth (Property Representative) Mr Sam Sam Agyei (Lettings Secretary) Mrs Rebecca Darkwa-Marfo (Rep, Ghanaian Fellowship) Mrs Norah Lord (Secretary, Methodist Women in Britain) Mr Raymond Pettipher (Local Preacher) -until moving to Bush Sean Davis Hill Park Methodist Church in 2019 (Local Preacher) Mrs Hilda Morrissey (Rep, Wesley Tours) Mrs Pat Pettipher (Rep, Worship Leaders-until moving to Bush Hill Park Methodist Church in Jachin Haughton 2019) (Rep, Worship Leaders) Mrs Claudia Cole (Gift Aid Secretary) Ms Cicely Thomas (Women’s Fellowship Representative) Mrs Elizabeth Quarcoopome (Communion Steward) Ms lona Farquharson Membership Secretary Mrs. Lesley Davis Membership Secretary

Approved by the Church Council and signed on their behalf by:

Revd. Dr Valentin Dedji (PhD Cantab)

Date: 24" June 2023

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