## Guisborough Methodist Church
## Trustee Report
## Financial Year 24 25
Guisborough Methodist Church continues to thrive and moves from strength to strength under the new leadership of the Rev Meg Peters, who joined us from the USA this September 2025.
We have on average 60 people attending services on a Sunday morning with a membership of 94 and 73 adherents. There is a service held fortnightly at Hinton Ct which is a Methodist Homes establishment located in Guisborough. Every second and fourth Sunday at GMC is a café style service.
The church is open every day with the following activities: Good Neighbours, Women’s Fellowship, Girl Guides, Youth Club, Music group, and Saturday Coffee Morning.
A local charity the Bridge Association hire GMC premises for a community shop where they distribute food to people who require help and support, interestingly this is mostly single people. The Bridge also hire GMC premises to run a weekly Soup and a Roll session as a fund-raising event.
Other community groups using the GMC premises are the Guisborough photo group, U3a singing for pleasure, Guisborough Choral Society and we have regular private children’s parities. A new group we are starting to work with is Little Buddies Nursery a local nursery that use GMC 3 mornings a week.
The church family at GMC is a vibrant group of people attempting to live out their faith and love of God through their worship activities, that include weekly house groups as well as Sunday fellowship and a weekly prayer meeting.
The GMC family expression of faith is evidenced in the way they try to be inclusive and outward looking meeting the need of local people where they are just as we witnessed in the life and work of Jesus.
GMC has an online presence where more information about our church can be found at www.guisboroughmethodist.online
Jason Griffiths
Treasurer GMC
23/10/2025
**Cleveland and Danby Circuit**
**13 / 07**
## **Name of Church**
## **Guisborough**
## **Notes on Receipts**
|1
**Donations**
General Fund
Legacy
**Total**
2
**Offerings and Tax Recovered**
Offering
Tax refund
**Total**
3
**Lettings**
Church Premises
Aislaby Court
**Total**
4
**Fund Raising**
Coffee Mornings
Sunday Coffee
Fund Raising events
**Total**
5
**Other Receipts**
Internal Organisation receipts
Loan from Circuit (Wayforward project)
Connexion Pension refund
Other Restricted Funds
Others
**Total**|**2023/24**|**2024/25**|
|---|---|---|
||-
1,033.86
2,863.39||
||**1,033.86**|**2,863.39**|
||||
||**2023/24**|**2024/25**|
||54,703.34
55,463.53
12,324.80
13,135.87||
||**67,028.14**|**68,599.40**|
||||
||**2023/24**|**2024/25**|
||14,146.00
13,236.40
5,662.64
6,005.10||
||**19,808.64**|**19,241.50**|
||||
||**2023/24**|**2024/25**|
||4,768.72
5,832.43
5.20
97.58
461.69
498.51||
||**5,235.61**|**6,428.52**|
||||
||**2023/24**|**2024/25**|
||1,814.92
1457.51
7,328.16
8,645.65
119.20
1,362.68
525.66
501.50||
||**2,459.78**|**19,295.50**|
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**Cleveland and Danby Circuit**
**13 / 07**
## **Name of Church**
## **Guisborough**
## **Notes on Expenditure**
|**tes on Expenditure**|||
|---|---|---|
|6
**Maintenance**
Repairs
Equipment renewal
Cleaning
**Total**
7
**Insurance and Utilities**
Insurance
Electricity
Gas
Water
Telephone/WIFI
**Total**
8
**Worship Expenses**
Mission
Copyright/Licence exps
Others
**Total**
9
**Funds passed to other Charities**
Christian Aid
Easter Offering
Funeral Collections
**Total**
10
**Other outgoings**
Internal Organisation exps
Catering etc
Stationery & Admin
Youth Fund costs
Bank Charges|**2023/24**|**2024/25**|
||9,407.44
4,793.79
2,289.36
1,828.68
8,826.96
5,964.95||
||**20,523.76**|**12,587.42**|
||||
||**2023/24**|**2024/25**|
||4,162.81
4,361.91
3,511.73
2,277.48
8,120.89
5,632.75
471.32
617.31
576.00
576.00||
||**16,842.75**|**13,465.45**|
||||
||**2023/24**|**2024/25**|
||87.99
204.67
692.37
716.69
173.25
438.02||
||**953.61**|**1,359.38**|
||||
||**2023/24**|**2024/25**|
||345.93
237.75
485.67
501.50||
||**485.67**|**1,085.18**|
||||
||**2023/24**|**2024/25**|
||2,091.08
1,479.43
311.13
449.91
481.25
343.22
2,930.22
1,832.77
373.13
134.18||
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**Cleveland and Danby Circuit**
**13 / 07**
## **Guisborough**
||||
|---|---|---|
|**Name of Church**
**Guisborough**
Others
Leaving Gift/Books
Wayforward Project
**Total**|1,486.73
2,174.43
684.00
7,328.16||
||**7,673.54**|**14,426.10**|
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Name of Church . . Guisborough Methodist Church
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
") 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.
l */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
Name of independent examiner
. Mr R E N Shawcross
Relevant professional qualification of independent examiner
.FCA
Name of firm (where appropriate)
.NIA
Address
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