Trustee Report to the Charity Commission. Year 2023 - 24 Elburton Methodist Church Charity No: 1128726 During 2023/24, Elburton Methodist Church have continued their return to activities that were lost during the Covid pandemic, including a focus on our ministry for more mature members of the community including a summer holiday club, monthly lunch club and Methodist Women in Britain. However there continues to be a welcome rise in the number of families and young people attending Messy Church and our associated Brownie company who use our premises. Links with the community continue to grow, including our ecumenical partnership with Plymstock Churches Together. In line with the UK Methodist Church’s paper on same sex marriage “God in Love Unites Us’, the church participated in a clearly defined and agreed decision making process which saw the Church Council agree to offering weddings to both single and same sex people. This will continue to be reviewed in keeping with the Methodist Church guidelines. In addition, Elburton also started to work as a hub with Woodford Methodist Church in response to the Plymouth and Devonport circuit’s new way of working, following a period of upheaval. This has continued to be developed by the Reverend Rebecca Marshall, a probationer minister, who took up her position with both churches in September 2024. The Reverend Darren Middleton has, in turn, begun a new ministry with Rev7 in Plymouth; a New Places for New People initiative with the Methodist Church. The trustees are hopeful for the future of the Church with an emphasis on community engagement and are currently in the process of putting together a five year plan to ensure our continued financial solvency. Rev'd Rebecca Marshall - Chair of the Trustees ## **CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS** ## **THE METHODIST CHURCH** ## **STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS** **----- Start of picture text -----**
ELBURTON METHODIST COMMUNITY CHURCH Church
FOR THE YEAR ENDED
Saturday, August 31, 2024
PLYMOUTH AND DEVONPORT Circuit Circuit no.
Registered Charity - Charity Registration number 1128726
If not a registered charity His 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 DARREN MIDDLETON
Church Stewards:
ELIZABETH COLEMAN JEAN DAVIES
BRENDA YOUNGS PAULINE GOW
TRISTAN MERRIFIELD MARGARGET RIDLEY
Treasurer:
BRIAN CARLYON
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1 of 5 ## **ELBURTON METHODIST ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024 Church COMMUNITY CHURCH** ||**SECTION A**|||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**£**
**35023.25**
**1794.42**
**5588.75**
**3221.77**
**Totals this**
**year**|**£**
**35023.25**
**1794.42**
**5588.75**
**3221.77**
**Totals this**
**year**|**£**
51049.14
1280
1254
9859
**63442.14**
29758
9036
5860
20522
**65,176.00**
-1,733.86
65859
**64125.14**
1734.13
**Totals last**
**year**|**£**
51049.14
1280
1254
9859
**63442.14**
29758
9036
5860
20522
**65,176.00**
-1,733.86
65859
**64125.14**
1734.13
**Totals last**
**year**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**|| |a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|||||||| |a2|Offerings and Tax recovered||||35023.25||**35023.25**||51049.14|| |a3|Bank and CFB interest and
Investment income||||1794.42||**1794.42**||1280|| |a4|Lettings||||5588.75||**5588.75**||1254|| |a5|Other receipts||||3061.77|160|**3221.77**||9859|| |a6|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||||**45468.19**|**160**|**45628.19 **|**(a7)**|**63442.14**|| ||**SECTION B**
**PAYMENTS**||||||**29758.08**
**1681.55**
**8111.35**
**9092**
**3731.65**|||| ||**SECTION B**|||||||||| |b1|**PAYMENTS**|||||||||| |b2|Circuit Assessment or Share||||29758.08||**29758.08**||29758|| |b3|Donations||||1681.55||**1681.55**|||| |b4|Repairs and Maintenance||||8111.35||**8111.35**||9036|| |b5|Utilities (Insurances, water
charges, heating & lighting)||||9092||**9092**||5860|| |b6||||||||||| |b7|Otherpayments||||3731.65||**3731.65**||20522|| |b8|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**||||**52375**||**52374.63 **|**(b9)**|**65,176.00**|| ||**SECTION C**||||||**-6746.44**|||| ||**SECTION C**|||||||||| |c1|**(a6-b8)**
**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR**||||-6906.44|160|**-6746.44**|||| |||||||||||| |c2|Total funds brought forward from
last year||||65859.27||**65859.27 **|**(c6)**|65859|| ||||||||**59112.83**|||| |c3|**Sub total**
**(c1+c2)**||||58952.83|160|**59112.83**|||| |||||||||||| |c4|Transfers and adjustments|||||||**(c7)**|1734.13|| |||||||||||| |c5|**TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR**
**(c3+c4)**||||**58952.83**|**160**|**59112.83 **|**(c8)**|**65859.27 **|**(c6)**| ||**SECTION D**|||||||||| ||**SECTION D**|||||||||| |d|**£**
**£**
Balance brought forward from lastyear
Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations
1896
2212
Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations
1682
2212
**214**
**FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS**
**(these amounts are not to be included in total receipts/payments figures**
~~**above)**~~
**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID** (d1+d2-d3)|||||||||| |d1|Balance brought forward from lastyear
|||||||||| |d2|Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations||||||1896||2212|| |d3|Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations||||||1682||2212|| |d4|**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID** (d1+d2-d3)||||||**214**|||| 2 of 5 PAGE 2 Check Res+Unres total TRUE c6 totals TRUE 2 of 5 ELBURTON METHODIST COMMUNITY CHUR **Church** ## **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 2024 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. ||**SECTION E**
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Summary of the Church accounts for the year ended 31 August 2024 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||||Net Receipts/
Payments|||Opening
balances||Closingbalances|| |e1|**Messy Church**|||||(39)||||||| |e2|**MWiB/Network**|||||250||||||| |e3|**Lunch club, monthly**|||1,870||25||||||| |e4|**Lunch club,weekly**|114||||114||||||| |e5||||||||||||| |e6||||||||||||| |e7||||||||||||| |e8|Sub total of Internal
Organisations funds|2,546||2,196||350||||**(e11)**||**(e12)**| |e9|**Church accounts (totals**
**brought forward from page**
**2 - totals column)**|**45,628**|**(a7)**|**52,375**|**(b9)**|**(6746)**|**350 **|**(c7)**|**65,859 **|**(c6)**|**59,463 **|**(c8)**| |e10|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS**
**HELD BY CHURCH**|**48,174**||**54,571**||**(6396)**|||**65,859 **|**(x)**|**59,463 **|**(y)**| ||Continue on a separate
sheet if necessary and bring
the totals forward|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||**TOTAL**
**PAYMENTS**||||||||| |||||||||||||| ||||||||**OPENING**
**BALANCES**||||**CLOSING**
**BALANCES**|| ||**SECTION F**|||||||||||| |f1|Cash in hand|||||||||||| |f2|Bank Current Account||||||15670||||32183|| |f3|Bank Deposit Account|||||||||||| |f4|Central Finance Board|||||||||||| |f5|Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes||||||18793||||19755|| |f6|Other funds||||||31396||||7175|| |f7|**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**||||||**65859**|(c6)|||**59113**|(c8)| |f8|Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the
closingbalance total from above) (e12)|||||||(e11)|||**350**|(e12)| |f9|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**||||||**65859**|(x)|||**59463**|(y)| |||||||||||||| ||**SECTION G**
**OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES**
Investments(include Endowments)
Other Assets
Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end
Other Liabilities
Land & Buildings (see notes re Insurance
value)||||||At
1 September 2023
2085928
119869||||At
31 August 2024
2085928
119869|| |g1|Investments(include Endowments)|||||||||||| |g2|Land & Buildings (see notes re Insurance
value)||||||2085928||||2085928|| |g3|Other Assets||||||119869||||119869|| |g4|Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end|||||||||||| |g5|Other Liabilities|||||||||||| f4 Include only Funds held at the Central Finance Board 3 of 5 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 3 of 5 Page 3 ||.|| |---|---|---| |Check||1| |Check||1| |Check||1| Opening Closing Check bals TRUE TRUE 3 of 5 ## **DETAIL IN SUPPORT OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2024.** _**Numbers in italics are detail.**_ ## **ELBURTON METHODIST COMMUNITY CHURCH** ||**SECTION A**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**£**
**35023**
**1794**
**5589**
**3222**
**Totals this**
**year**|**£**
**35023**
**1794**
**5589**
**3222**
**Totals this**
**year**|**£**
**35023**
**1794**
**5589**
**3222**
**Totals this**
**year**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||**£**|**£**|**£**||| |a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|||||| |a2|Offerings and Tax recovered|||35023||**35023**||| ||_~offerings cash/standing order_|||_28262_||||| ||_~Gift Aid tax recovered_|||_5325_||||| ||_~donations from members_|||_1436_||||| |a3|Bank/CFB interest and Investment incom||e|1794||**1794**||| ||_TMCP_|||_1015_||||| ||_Skipton Building Society_|||_779_||||| |a4|Lettings|||5589||**5589**||| |a5|Other receipts|||3062|160|**3222**||| ||_~grant from PCC for sound system_||||_160_|||| ||_~other revenue_|||_1171_||||| ||_~hot x bun morning_|||_89_||||| ||_~lunch club_|||_713_||||| ||_~messy church_|||_287_||||| ||_~coffee mornings_|||_801_||||| |a6|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|||**45468**|**160**|**45628**|**(a7)**|| EMCC Accounts 2023/24 DETAIL Page 7 ||**SECTION B**|**SECTION B**|**SECTION B**|**SECTION B**|**SECTION B**|**29758**
**1682**
**8111**
**9092**
**3732**
**Totals this**
**year**|**29758**
**1682**
**8111**
**9092**
**3732**
**Totals this**
**year**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |b1|**PAYMENTS**||||||| |b2|Circuit Assessment or Share|||29758||**29758**|| |b3|Donations|||1682||**1682**|| |b4|Repairs and Maintenance|||8111||**8111**|| ||~_cleaning_|||_6250_|||| ||~_repairs_|||_1861_|||| |b5|Utilities(Insurance,water,power)|||9092||**9092**|| ||_~gas Church_|||_5014_|||| ||_~gas halls_|||_342_|||| ||_~electricity Church_|||_53_|||| ||_~electricity hall_|||_150_|||| ||_~water_|||_442_|||| ||_~insurances_|||_3092_|||| |b7|Otherpayments|||3732||**3732**|| ||_~expenses inclu.bank fees_|||_54_|||| ||_~advertising &publicity_|||_225_|||| ||_~audit & accountancy_|||_1112_|||| ||_~equipment hire eg photocopier_|||_658_|||| ||_~music & licences_|||_770_|||| ||_~community events_||||||| ||_~sundries_|||_461_|||| ||_~telephone & internet_|||_453_|||| ||_~capital expenditure_||||||| |b8|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**|||**52375**||**52375**|**(b9)**| |||||||**-6746**
**Totals this**
**year**|| ||**SECTION C**|**UnrestrictedRestricted**|||||| |c1|**(a6-b8)**
**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR**|||-6906|160|**-6746**|| ||||||||| |c2|Total funds brought forward from
last year|||65859||**65859**|**(c6)**| ||_~deposit TMCP_|||_18793_|_#_|_19755_|| ||_~current account_|||_15670_||_32183_|| ||_~Skipton Building Society_|||_31396_||_7175_|| |c3|**Sub total(c1+c2)**|||58953|160|**59113**|| ||||||||| |c4|Transfers and adjustments|||||**1856**|**(c7)**| EMCC Accounts 2023/24 Page 8 DETAIL c5 **[TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR ] (c3+c4) 58953 160 60969 (c8)** EMCC Accounts 2023/24 DETAIL Page 9 ## **SECTION D** |||**SECTION D**|**SECTION D**| |---|---|---|---| |d||2023/24
Balance brought forward from lastyear
Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations
1896
_994_
_~collections Action for Children_
_732_
_~collections Nicola's mission_
_170_
Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations
1682
**214**
**FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANI**
**(these amounts are not to be included in total receipts/payments**
**figures above)**
~d_onations for ad hoc bodies_
**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID** (d1+d2-d3)|| |d1||Balance brought forward from lastyear|| |d2||Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations|1896| |||~d_onations for ad hoc bodies_|_994_| |||_~collections Action for Children_|_732_| |||_~collections Nicola's mission_|_170_| |d3||Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations|1682| |d4||**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID** (d1+d2-d3)|**214**| EMCC Accounts 2023/24 Page 10 DETAIL ## **SECTION F** ## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES** ## **CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2024** Cash in hand Bank Current Account Bank Deposit Account Central Finance Board Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes Other funds (building society) **SUB TOTAL - Church accounts** Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing balance total from above) (e12) **TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH** EMCC Accounts 2023/24 Page 11 DETAIL **Totals 2022/23 £** 51049 _32850 6912 11287_ 1280 _586 694_ 1254 9859 _9859_ **63442** EMCC Accounts 2023/24 Page 12 DETAIL ## **Totals 2022/23** |||29758|| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |||9036|| |||_6217_|| |||_2819_|| |||5860|| |||_570_|| |||_572_|| |||_572_|| |||_572_|| |||_572_|| |||_3002_|| |||20522|| |||_52_|| |||_862_|| |||_1584_|| ||||| |||_715_|| ||||| |||_690_|| |||_426_|| |||_16193_|| |||**65176**|| |||**Totals**|| |||**2022/23**|| |||-1734|| ||||| |||65859|#| |||_18793_|| |||_15670_|| |||_31396_|| |||**64125**|| ||||| |||1856|| EMCC Accounts 2023/24 Page 13 DETAIL 65981 Ic61 EMCC Accounts 2023124 DETAIL Page 14 **----- Start of picture text -----**
ISATIONS
2022/23
2212
2212
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EMCC Accounts 2023/24 Page 15 DETAIL |15669.85
0.13
18793.39
31396.03
**65859.4** (c6)
(e11)
**65859.4**
(x)
**OPENING**
**BALANCES**|15669.85
0.13
18793.39
31396.03
**65859.4** (c6)
(e11)
**65859.4**
(x)
**OPENING**
**BALANCES**|32183
19755
7175
**CLOSING**
**BALANCES**|32183
19755
7175
**CLOSING**
**BALANCES**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |15669.85||32183|| |0.13|||| ||||| |18793.39||19755|| |31396.03||7175|| |**65859.4**|(c6)|**59113**|(c8)| ||(e11)||(e12)| |**65859.4**|(x)|**59113**|(y)| ||||| EMCC Accounts 2023/24 Page 16 DETAIL £&OuATbrJ MrThioQi>f D•clarntions and Scnrtlny .eLfl ¥QY &91*115 Relevant ￿0f￿s￿al qualfficatth of Ir￿dent examiner .................................. .. ... .. Name offinn {wthere apwopriale) ... ........... ..... ........... .................................... .......... Pcy/rt04* .A ]./ Zo2f ' deleie arde as appropnate 5015 Name of Church tLe* VLfJ kAgfééoQ 19r Ni rf Gv¢LH No ...-.-..- lrnlependent Examlnerfs Ststement I have cxtyted my eXaMir￿tIOn. I confimi that rK) matefial rnatters have con* lo my attent￿ in ¢>)nnection wth the examinats.on (Oiher than that disclosed belTh") wtmch give me cause to beli th8t in. any matenal res￿. the 8coxJnting rwds we not kept in acctydan￿ ￿th Sec￿)n 130 of the Act: the accounts do not accord with the accounts'ng r￿r￿s. I have no ￿nc￿nS 8nd have come a(xtss no other matters in conneca1￿ the examinat￿1 to whlch attention shwld be drawn In thts reBxt in oroer to enable a proper understanding of the I havelhave nor obtained infvrKlent verification of all investments with the Twstees for MethLyJist Church Purposes or held in (rther trusts. bank balar￿S al￿ fvnds at the Central Finance Board of tt Methodist Church ¥4thich are I￿1V￿￿UaIfy in excess of £10.¢X)O (ten thcKtsand [￿jndS) at the balan sheet date. s￿natU￿ of Indepen￿ examiner Name of Indep￿nI exBminer .. SeJ-, 5(rf5