2025-08-31-accounts - Marlborough Road Methodist Church

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Marlborough Road Methodist Church

Registered Charity No 1128694

Trustees Annual Report for year ending August 2025

The Methodist Church Marlborough Road St Albans AL1 3XG

Reference Information and Administration

The managing trustees

Trustee name Office (if any)

1 Revd J Daniel Yovan Chair, Presbyter St Albans section 2 Deacon Nigel Perrott Deacon (Cornerstone House) 3 Janis Gilbert Church Steward 4 Idy Osibodu Church Steward 5 Marjorie Wilson Church Steward 6 Paul Bates Church Steward 7 Maggie Dodd Church Steward 8 Carl Meredith Treasurer 9 Judith Head Pastoral Co-ordinator Secretary to Church Council – to October
10 Rona Wightman 2024, then co-opted to council
11 Frances Bates Representative from General Church Meeting 12 Andrew Johnstone Representative from General Church Meeting 13 Erma Profit Representative from General Church Meeting 14 Jenny Evers Pastoral Visitors’ Representative 15 Di Churcher Pastoral Visitors’ Representative 16 Ian Gilbert Senior Property Steward

Dates acted if not for whole year

To April 2025

Trustees for the charity

The Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes (TMCP) are custodian trustees.

Appointed advisers

We appoint an Auditor each year to check our accounts.

Structure, governance and management

The charity’s trusts

Our governing document is the Methodist Church Act 1976.

The charity is constituted as a trust.

Trustees are selected in accordance with the Constitutional Practice and Discipline (CPD) of the Methodist Church. Representatives are elected by the Annual General Church Meeting. Other trustees are appointed by Church Council by virtue of their role. There is also provision in the CPD for trustees to be co-opted by Church Council.

Governance

As a Methodist Church, we are a Church within a Circuit, in our case the St Albans and Welwyn Circuit. The Circuits fall within Districts, our Circuit is in the Bedfordshire, Essex and Herts District. The Methodist Church is a Connexional Church, that is, we see ourselves as part of an interconnected ‘body’ that offers mutual encouragement and support.

Connexional systems, requirements and guidance help us minimise risks; our Circuit Meetings and Church Council and committees consider any specific issues for us to deal with.

Our safeguarding policy is reviewed annually.

Trustees are required to familiarise themselves with CC3 The essential trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do . Our Circuit arranges annual Trustee training sessions.

Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The purposes of the Methodist Church are the advancement of:

(a) the Christian faith in accordance with the doctrinal standards and the discipline of the Methodist Church;

(b) any charitable purpose for the time being of any Connexional, district, circuit, local or other organisation of the Methodist Church;

(c) any charitable purpose for the time being of any society or institution subsidiary or ancillary to the Methodist Church;

(d) any purpose for the time being of any charity being a charity subsidiary or ancillary to the Methodist Church.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Our main activity is the holding of regular (weekly) public acts of worship, open to members of the church and non-members alike.

Pastoral work includes visiting the sick, frail or housebound and those bereaved.

We run a weekly drop-in toddler group for pre-school children and their carers and a weekly drop-in coffee morning that is mainly attended by older people.

Our premises are used by a number of community groups for cultural, educational and physical activity.

We support other charities in the UK financially and with prayer.

We continue working jointly with Hatfield Road Methodist Church (Charity No 1173147) to employ a full-time Anna Chaplain. The post was set up as full-time for five years, from April 2021, now restructured to part-time post over a longer period. The Employer is Hatfield Road Methodist Church.

Our trustees have regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.

Local churches, circuits and districts are not defined as external grant-making bodies.

Our activity is carried out by volunteers with support of stipendiary and supernumerary presbyters, our deacon, the Anna Chaplain, and administrative staff provided by the circuit. During this year we have used a contractor to provide lettings management.

Achievements and Performance 2024-25

Marlborough Road Methodist Church (MRMC) is an open and diverse congregation of Christians set near the centre of St. Albans. Our Calling is to:

Worship

The Church exists to increase awareness of God's presence and to celebrate God's love Learning and Caring

The Church exists to help people to grow and learn as Christians, through mutual support and care Service

The Church exists to be a good neighbour to people in need and to challenge injustice Evangelism

The Church exists to make more followers of Jesus Christ

Most of our activities fall under more than one heading!

Church and Circuit Resources

We have maintained our Membership numbers at just under 100 and we are supported by around 30 non-member Friends of the congregation. It remains a concern that most of our Members are older and becoming less able to carry out voluntary roles. This year our long-serving Senior Steward and Church Council Secretary have stepped down. We continued to use a contractor to manage premises lettings.

We are very grateful to all the volunteers undertaking tasks and roles, especially to our church stewards who oversee Sunday worship and other church activities and the property team who oversee the maintenance of our late Victorian premises.

Our minister is Revd Daniel Yovan, presbyter for the two St Albans section churches. In the spring of 2025 he had a sabbatical period. Our circuit deacon is Nigel Perrott, based at Cornerstone House in Salisbury Village on the western edge of Hatfield where he supports the local community and he is actively supporting the St Albans section churches too.

We are growing our relationship with our sisters and brothers at Hatfield Road Methodist Church (HRMC), with regular joint stewards meetings and shared worship. Pictured left are members from both churches taking part in the Alban Procession in June 2025.

The St Albans Anna Chaplaincy is a joint project, with HRMC as Employer of the St Albans Anna Chaplain, Maggie Dodd. We are grateful to the HRMC Safeguarding Officer for overseeing safeguarding at MRMC also.

We are a church in a circuit, and we are also supported by the other Circuit ministers, by the circuit administrator and by the circuit volunteers. We are particularly grateful to the editors of The Reporter , bringing us monthly information and news across the circuit, and to the circuit Ministers and Local Preachers who continue to prepare the weekly ‘at home’ service that is emailed or posted with our notice sheet to support and include those who find it difficult to attend Sunday worship at church.

As our people resources are limited we try to make as much use as practical of our premises in service to our community and to support our activities. Lettings are an important source of income. We are glad that community support groups are among the users of our premises, including Alcoholics Anonymous, St Albans Family Centre Service and the Winter Beds Projects.

This year we have been considering a potential mission project to convert the hall to a soft play community café, various options have been researched. A decision was made to carry out some refurbishment of the hall to better serve existing use as well as future development.

Worship

We hold services of worship most Sundays at 10.30am, led by our minister and other circuit or visiting presbyters, our deacon, and circuit and visiting local preachers. We are appreciative of two Lay Readers from St Peter’s who regularly lead worship at Marlborough Road.

We have regular joint services with Hatfield Road Methodist Church, alternating between our two church locations.

We continue our longstanding relationship with St Peters (Church of England), with several special services each year held at one or other of the churches – the Covenant Service in January, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Aldersgate Sunday and St Peter’s Patronal Festival.

A new worship event this year was the Praise in the Park on Sunday 24th August at 11am, a joint celebration by HRMC, MRMC, the Salvation Army and the Church of God of Prophecy, held in Clarence Park .

Our joint ministry with St Peter’s to provide a monthly Holy Communion service in three local retirement complexes has continued.

Bible Study

The Bible Study group meets fortnightly in the lounge of the retirement flats across the road from the church.

Thinking Lunches

The format is a speaker then discussion on (usually) the first Thursday of the month. The audience bring their own drinks and snacks. The lunches are free to attend, donations are invited to cover costs and any surplus is donated to a charity chosen by the speaker. Our seating is comfortable, the topics are challenging. Attendance numbers have still not recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Our 24/25 programme was:

Thursday 3 October 2024, Matt Ceaser, Just Money Movement ‘Money: What is it good for?’ (use of money, a biblical perspective).

Thursday 7 November 2024, Revd John Churcher The Justice and Peace of Jesus in a World on Fire

Thursday 5th December 2024, Rev Caroline Weaver

‘The vilest offender...? seeking and finding God in prison ’ (Prison Chaplaincy)

Thursday 6th February 2025, Geoff Sutton, Associate Director of Step ‘What Youth Need’ - how to make a positive difference to young people.

Thursday 6th March 2025, Becca Byass, Engagement Officer, ‘All We Can’ ‘Words Create Worlds’ - an exploration of how the stories we tell shape the actions we take.

Thursday 3rd April 2025, Rev Peter Crumpler

‘Trust in a sceptical world’ - who do you trust to tell you the truth - and how can we build trust within society.

Thursday 1st May 2025, Sophie Lawrence, Community Protection Herts CC ‘Prevent: a Home Office programme’ - helping people vulnerable to radicalisation move away from extremism.

Thursday 5th June 2025, Tim Wood, Chief Executive, Through the Roof How a Christian charity changes the lives of disabled people around the world.

Toddlers

This group is highly regarded, however, it was proving difficult to fill the volunteer rota and in July 2025 the group closed. This is viewed as a temporary measure pending refurbishment of the hall and development of the soft play mission project, which would have a new approach to mission and service involving pre-school children.

Children and young people

One of our teenagers assisted the church stewards for six months as the Volunteering section of his Duke of Edinburgh Award.

The young people across the circuit enjoy quarterly meet-ups and several of them went to 3 Generate, the Methodist Church annual youth gathering.

Chatterbox coffee morning

This is a drop-in coffee morning with ‘regulars’ who appreciate the companionship and stimulating conversations, as well as ’occasionals’ who turn up from time to time and those who do just walk in off the street - Chatterbox takes place in the vestibule, so is visible to those passing by. Although the charges for drinks and biscuits and sometimes cake are modest, there is a gradual build up of surplus funds, from which this year we have donated to Christian Aid and All We Can.

Anna Chaplaincy – spiritual care for older people

A joint initiative by the two St Albans Methodist churches appointed Maggie Dodd to the post of Anna Chaplain in March 2021. She was the first Anna Chaplain in Hertfordshire and the first full-time Anna Chaplain in the country. This year she has continued to develop Anna Chaplaincy in the local area, leading an expanding team of Anna Chaplains and Anna Friends, active in St Albans, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City and now reaching Bedford.

At the start of this reporting year Maggie had 18 months left of a 5 year appointment. With the approval of funders, her appointment has been modified to run for three years as a part time post with a remit to progressively restructure work undertaken to allow for handover to the continuing team.

Maggie leads a monthly Afternoon Worship at Hatfield Road Methodist Church and ‘CAMEO’ - a lunch with speaker and / or activity at the Salvation Army, around the corner from MRMC. Both of these involve some optional crafting as well as tea and chat.

The ‘Love to Care Homes’ project this year saw 800 crafted sheep made by churches, schools and community groups being delivered to residents just before Christmas.

Maggie compiles a directory of activities and support for seniors, twice a year, distributed via churches, libraries and GP surgeries.

Maggie speaks locally and nationally and writes articles for the local newspaper about Anna Chaplaincy and related topics such as digital exclusion of older people.

Holiday at Home

MRMC, HRMC, St Peter’s and St Albans URC once again joined forces to welcome guests for a Holiday@Home, aimed at those who may not be in a position to ‘get away for a break’. As well as churchgoers, several visitors came from nearby retirement/sheltered housing, while others were wider contacts made through the Anna Chaplaincy.

Two days at Marlborough Road, and two at Hatfield Road (Wednesday was a rest day for the volunteers!) provided fellowship, food and fun. Some holiday makers attended just for one day, others for more, and a few every day. Transport was provided if needed. Guests were treated to a range of activities and entertainment including:

The Sound Of Music in 45 minutes from the HRMC Music Group supplemented by three Sunday Club children and our 15 year-old violinist
a 1970’s sing-a-long session with the HRMC Music Group
two sessions from The Jumping Fleas ukulele band
craft activities (flowers, art, ceramics, etc)
seated exercises to music
Scrabble, Rummikub, bingo, dominoes, jigsaws and quizzes
memory boxes from the 1950s and 1980s

New this year was the Call to Mind board game, designed to stimulate memories and encourage conversations, particularly for people with dementia. The game involves players answering questions from coloured cards that cover topics from their life experiences. As we found, this gave guests the opportunity talk about their past lives, as well as their likes, dislikes and preferences.

The scrumptious lunches were all provided by our volunteers and always comprised at least two main course choices, and three or more desserts. Similarly, there was no shortage of tasty homemade cakes.

Attendance was up on last year and feedback was very positive. As in previous years, it was a joy to hear the number of connections established through common interest, background or neighbourhood - connections that can continue through the year.

Organisations we regularly support

Action for Children – a national charity founded by a Methodist minister, supporting children living in poverty. Members of the congregation have ‘lantern’ collecting boxes, although the difficulty of gathering them in during lockdown meant that the lantern box holders donated direct instead, and we have continued this practice. There is an annual collection at church on Action for Children Sunday in July.
All We Can – the Methodist Development and Relief Fund works with local organisations to help people experiencing poverty and injustice, and also responds to humanitarian emergencies We are a Partner Church, and each year a different country is featured. In January 2025 our All We Can rep took part in the All We Canuary fundraiser. She did all the Cycling the Circuit she could - in six outings between 2 January and 3 February, covering 99 miles in total, she visited all the circuit churches and her supporters donated just over £400. In March the All We Can Engagement Officer led a lively Thinking Lunch.
Christian Aid – the Christian Aid Week house to house collections have not resumed. We raised money through collections at church and direct individual donations.
FEED – a foodbank run by the Vineyard Church in St Albans. We have a monthly collection of items at church, and we publicise other ways for our church members to contribute.
Fund for Human Need – a Methodist-affiliated charity that provides small emergency grants to individuals who are destitute and vulnerable. We hold a quarterly benevolence collection to top up our church benevolence fund and any overspill goes to the Fund for Human Need.
The Living Room – has centres in Hertfordshire, including St Albans, helping people overcome addiction. We hold a retiring collection at the Aldersgate Sunday service in May, one of our joint services with St Peter’s church.
Methodist Homes – a housing and care charity, we hold a collection on Methodist Homes Sunday.

Our building serving the community

A significant and very visible asset for our church is our building: the worship space itself, the hall and the church foyer and also, tucked away at the back, a small lounge. The continued high cost of energy remained a concern. Whilst the premises hire is an important source of income for the church, we balance that with a desire to welcome and support people in need, and our rates are set accordingly.

We are very grateful to the volunteers who support this aspect of our mission by meeting users and hirers, invoicing, programming the heating control system, assessing risks and monitoring safety issues, overseeing building maintenance work and carrying out small maintenance tasks, keeping the garden looking lovely, and supporting our paid Lettings Officer.

Our premises were sought for the Winter Beds project, and between December and March up to five clients spent the night on our hall. The project is managed by the Open Door charity and supported by community volunteers.

Inevitably repairs have been needed, with expenditure on a boiler replacement, roof repairs to the hall and corridor and repairs to a vandalised noticeboard.

We are planning a more thorough refurbishment of the Hall as part of a developing a ‘toddler play café’ mission project. We intend to sell the former caretaker’s cottage, currently let to a long-term tenant, to help fund this mission project, our property steward has worked closely with the tenant to determine a suitable time to conclude the tenancy, likely to be the second half of 2026.

Eco Church

Our recycling collections at church have reduced, for the very good reason that more items can be recycled at supermarkets. We transfer dental products and blister packs to a local Eco-business and transfer wax to a church in Harpenden. Our ‘eco-corner’ displays local information on recycling and other environmental matters.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We continue to be conscious of EDI issues and take steps to develop our awareness and actions through our membership of Inclusive Church and Methodist Church initiatives and guidance. Our Thinking Lunches are often addressing Peace and Justice topics. We are a Fair Trade Church.

“We believe in inclusive church – a church which celebrates and affirms every person and does not discriminate.” Extract from Inclusive Church vision statement.

Website, Social Media and publications

We are grateful to a church member with graphical design skills and website expertise for keeping our website welcoming, informative and up to date.

Three church members keep our Facebook page going.

We are grateful to the volunteers who compile and distribute our weekly Notes .

Inter-Church relations

We have continued to work closely with Hatfield Road Methodist Church. The church stewards hold regular joint meetings, which they have found very helpful for brainstorming and mutual support. We are grateful to the Hatfield Road Safeguarding Officer for now acting also for MRMC. Holiday at Home has been a joint activity since 2019.

The Church of God of Prophecy have worshipped on our premises for many years, we are glad that God is praised here on Sunday afternoons as well as Sunday mornings!

We continue to value our close relationship with St Peter’s Church of England, begun in 2003 to mark the Anglican-Methodist covenant.

New this year was Praise in the Park , a joint service in Clarence park featuring the Salvation Army band and worshippers from MRMC, HRMC and St Paul’s Hatfield Road.

Churches Together in St Albans (CTSA ) seeks to help churches to work and to grow together. CTSA have three forums a year as well as other events such as the Cross Procession, Unity at the Cross, 24 Hour Prayer for Thy Kingdom Come, Carols at the Clock Tower, and the service of prayer for Christian Unity each January. Meetings are open to all.

MRMC is always open for the annual September CTSA City Centre Prayer Walk, when a short prayer and pause is held in each location.

Each church has CTSA reps who can vote at the AGM. Maggie Dodd in her role as Anna Chaplain is a member of the CTSA Enabling Group, made up of members of several different churches and meeting about 4 times a year.

Financial review

The Church’s policy on Reserves is to maintain a reserve in the general fund to cover a month’s running costs and to hold a sensible reserve in the repair, organ and cottage funds to cover emergency repair works.

Our principal sources of funds are voluntary donations, lettings and fund-raising.

Our expenditure goes entirely in support of our key objectives and activities.

Our investment policy has been maintained through the moral and ethical policies of the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church

Please refer to our Accounts for more details.

Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the foregoing report.

Signed on behalf of the trustees:

Rona Wightman Trustee

June 2026

CHURCH ACCRUALS ACCOUNTS THE MEfHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS Marlborough Road Methodist Church FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 Aug 2025 5t Albans & wekn circit cirojit NO. 341IJ ROter•d£h7Tfy. Chanty rnb iL21694 rfnrf • ri&trnd Mr MiiWs Custsms Gfft number HMRC Nvnb•r 15 to a rW•d ttarrty nwnbr Mitrms ol•¥Kknnc•4lchxrtabl• su$ and may US to to dorI or yant fvTrd•rs5h1Wt0 QVKl•nc• ofth• Ory•n•n's chariblo 5tahts. Meilw)dtstch•rfs wi cn¢land and wals that ¥e Mt rKstr•d drrtIeS art •Ac•wtd frorn rffffjtrniw undtr s1*1rt0ry Insrrum•iit 2Q14 M024zI Mmltter.. Tr•asw•r'.

Name of Church Marlborouth Road Methodist Chureh arcuit No 34113 Statement of Financial Activities ISOFAI for the year ended 31 August 2025 Notes to the DesS£n4ted fjener•l Funds IUwe%irxtedl Iwrellriciedl Re5trf¢ied EThJo¥mieDt FuDd5 Toi•l 202¥Z5 Ineom• l Olferin 2 Donathon5 3 Gift ohy 4 Interest Jnd Inyesiment Iorne 52.666 1.656 10.269 996 6D io.ui 1.174 41,221 148 1.174 5 Income from Investment wwertie5 6 Internal org4nis•tions 7 Other chanrob* income 8Tot41 iTrEome 41,221 719 719 106,178 719 107,705 E¥p•ndrtur• 9 Circuit O5sessment or share 10 GranTS at)d donatsons 11 Prowrty maintenance 12 Insurance,UT¥iTles erc 13 tkpreciatl¢)n 14 Offke expenses IS Other expenditurt 16 Intemal or¥an15at4ons 17Tthal charitable exyndhyre 18Goin5111055es1 on MO1ry Investmen 19Goin5111055esl on Investment properrie5 20 Nei Kle/(elpendltywe1 21 Transfers beeen luDd5 J,5XI 18,405 16,688 3,530 18A05 16,688 6.132 2.$ 6.132 12,3 9,739 116.) 9.73) 126.7)5 10.1801 1,824 75 11.8241 18,9251 119,0301 22 Other 8ainsliiosses 23 Ntt movemetht In funds 24 Total funds brou8ht forward 25 Total lunds <arrled Iotwèrd 18.356 46,379 38,023 11,7491 5,716 3.967 119.0101 92,997 73,967 40,9J2 31,977

Name of Church Marlborough Road Methodist chur¢h arcuit No 34113 Stat•m•nt of Flnanelal Actlvltl•s ISOFAI for th• y•ar •nd•d 31 Au8USt 2024 Noies Eo the acco15 Deswat fjener•l Fund {Unrellrittedl Iren(ted) Ilestred EndMeDI Fd5 Fund5 Totsi 2023.14 In¢om• l Offenny 2 Donations 70,266 12.294 18.129 1,617 39,137 70.269 22,094 18,288 1,625 39,157 9.00rn g Gift ah1 4 Inieresi and InvestmenT Income 5 Income from investment propeffjes 6 Iniernol Of1•ntiOnS 7 Otherchèritable incorne 8Toial Incthne 333 10.295 555 154.451 141A43 2.614 Exp•ndltur• 9 Circuit assessment or share 74,DX) 74,C 8,710 Z6,455 28,364 10 GranTS ond doDadons 5.130 11 Property mainienince 12 InsuTon<e.uriliDes etr l) Depreciation 14 Offke e¥•enses 15 OtThèr e¥endlturt 16 Internal oriantsatns 17Totil th•rlt•b elptThdht 18 Gains/i105sesl on monetèry Investments 19 Goin5111055e51 on Invesimeni properties 20 Net Intomellexpendlture 21 Transfers between fund5 22 Other iain51110sse51 23 moverntnT in lunds 24 Totèl funds brought forward 25 Tot•1 funds corrled lorward 26,453 28,364 1.701 17.S47 19,048 154.098 22,477 157,421 7.J45 1.768 (J.0691 7,345 39,034 46.379 1.768 13,(91 53. 40,2 5,716 92,997

O•Mr•l Fund IUnrestTkt•dl TOts2025 Funds IUnr•rthdl Pur• Funds Church wilal Irtyestmqnt d0th PID 2,WD.OtrJ 2 (th.rK)o 575.D 1.000 GulA1# opbl0rsa prep4yrngn LD8ns thé Church Invttnts Tfvtcp Centroi Fil17 IrtE ai Bankandin ftd 21,995 37,891 18.7C2 31.9 ?8.?.07 21.626 4Jm1 3,794 38.698 11,•7J C[lto1(lB In unoor 1 ywr) 5.W1 S.)1 s,rK1 •)1 5,C•l TtyW•4Mt• l••¥ ctKY•rrt 1•14•17 &•17,••7 L•nit•rth Il•blllg du••lt•r nwjm th•ho LtssnBtQir. ChJrei N•i•4s•r• Z,a13,Q2• 31,978 2,610,917 2,117,0•7 Pufids 0lth•ehuh Genvial fund 2,813 02n 2613 010 2,821,377 8.717 unwtriL Flo4triGtK puna# F0 31978 2,613,02Q 3.969 31,978 Z,167,9gT S*ned r4ftL ror (J IT14 Church freasurer

Ne$ to Ihe A(counts I B8Si5 ol•CirrtITh The finanoal statements have been prepared underthe CharitS Act 2011 in xcordance With the 2014 versi{ ol Accounting ond Reporting by Charr(ies Staternent of Recomrnended PractKe ISORPI applicabk te charr(ies preparin8 theiroccounts In accor¢Jance wrth FAS102- the Charmes SORP IFRS1021 aThtt tokinz te of the Updt Bulletin l issue in 2016. 2 Funds The fut)ds héld Constrt' Gonoral Funds hekl for an¥ purposé of ihe Church whlch art Unrostriaed. Restrktéd funds whKh are held for a nèTrower purpose . There are no Endowment funds. Detèils of each rnaterial fvnd are disdosed in the final note to these occounts. Any funds rnay be represented b¥ more than Just cash. 3 Actothtlng kIeS B•sis These •c<ounTS have been prepared ofi the basis of historkal cosr emcept That inve5trnents are shown at Their m)rker value at tht ond of tho year. on Tht acuuals basis to show a true aThJ fair vlew ol the Church's finanual positksn artNities. IrKominq Reswwces In(orne Is included irs the Statement of Financial ActNrts ISOFAI when the Church becomes entitled to the resources, and the trusEee5 are reosoThobly certain Ihev VAII recewe the reswrces. ond the rnoThetary Value can te mea5wed wirh sufficnI reliability. Resowte% Expended This Is rtcoenistd when • lblllty Is Incurred, or a ¢bll8•tioN 4rtsts. th•t resulls kn Ihe p•ymeni belNI una¥daNe. abIlItS are recoenised as soon as an ourflow ol economK bet)tfit Ls constyjered more Ilkely thon der the leqol or constrncttve obli¢atlon committini the Church to pav rA resour(e5. fjrants Grants made by the Cthurth from rts own lunds •re reco8ni5e4 In full It the knme of J8re¢mefii or %hen Ihe (thurih ceptS that there Is a legal or operatlonal obligaiiM to make the poyment. VAT Slnce trt Church Is not VAT reiisttted. Ill inputVAT is thlrgel th the exwnses to whkh tt refers. Tar4¢le tlxed isséts lor uso by the Tangible fixed a55ets ore cipitoliseo il ihey can be used for more ih•n one year. ond c05t •t le05r ElO,COJ. Property •sseTS are stlied 41 current f•iT ¥alue. The curTent fair lue of The miin church premises is ev4lu•te<l by ihe trustee5 at 20Z5 deemed values, th relefence to estimated resale value a5 Vacant P05sessTron. The current fair value of the residential investment property is evaluoted ty the tru5rees wrth reference to comparable property sole iran5attions in ihe localrry and 10 advice received from the lettin¥ 4Kent ewized to rninoie ihe woperty on behoff of the iru51ees. Boih properties hove been remewed fix irnpairrnent. De¥ ond Prepeyment5 Debtor5 prirnarity con5itUte arnoums owng by HMRC in re5pe(rof grfr oi¢J ckiim5. Creditors Crednor5 include boih trode e{litr5 ond d¢)notionsto be pobd ro thiririe5 fTQrn ihe churth Gereral Reserve as dÈtem)kned by (hurch Councll following confimiation of the full yearincomo and expenditure.

4 Payment toTru5tees There were no payments made to trustees for additional services prowded to the Church. In either the current or prior 5 Ftts for examinoiion or audit of the accounts The were no fÈes paid or payable Eo the indÈpÈndÈnt eAamimerfef reporting on the COUrtts or for hr seNkes. In either the current or Pric year. 6 Pild employees The church did noi employ any sraff dUrilhe curreni or prior yeor. 7 ca01 (ommitynent$ qnd Contirrfent tbIll11e5 Ar the 31 stAugust 2025 there •re opital cornrnitrnents. No ConDEen1 IlJJbilitie5 were Identth'ed 0131stAuEull 2025. 8 For inlorm•iion only M¢V receNed and $St on io Exitrn•l Orcanisotions 2024125 20231?4 BolirKe trouihiforw•rd from Lqst •r OMering5lGrfrs- receNed tor Extemal or8anr4IOTrs Offerin8sIGrfts- passed to External 0ls4110fts lance CafTled I01d 967 i.li? 1.9&8 2.118 967 1,992 6?7 9 T•ngiblt Fixed Assets Mokn church Residential Investment Fixtures, fitiings and equ5pmeni Total piemt5es propenv balanre brou hr forward 2.(KJO.mO S75.(0 2.575.0 balance corried forward 2.(X)O.rKJo s75.(x) 2,575,0 Ar(vniul•ied depiecwiion Balance brou ht forward Depreciaiion charge for yÈèr l-l Balance carried forward rJet t)ook value Bfoughi foord Carr1ed forwartt 2.(0.(>00 2.(K)O.QOO 575.(00 575,( 2.57S,O 2.575,0( 10 Loans The ChuT<h currenV has no loans •nd has n¢X held any loans during the currefit 01 pricyear_

11 Anqty5i5 of fund5 2024125 und Name Opetsing B&lante In24 opeIn( olnCe IDcorning estyuitts Resources ended Closln{ Re5tTi¢ted Fund5 445 150 298 464 334 4.980 Lè) yiorker Funo Total Resiiicied 47 945 9.959 10,296 40.605 40.903 53.06 22.477 10.091 ?26 6.373 6.286 Inve*imtfif Property MaiDtenanct Fund 15.00 19.974 3.94 42.982 5.717 52.09q 144,056 Toi81 Fvnd5 96.06 154,35? 157.421 92.997

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