**Trinity Methodist Church Brentgovel Street Bury St Edmunds** ## **Charity No. 1129116** ## **Annual Trustees Report – Year ending 31[st] August 2022** **Membership** 129 ## **Management** Trinity Methodist Church is managed under The Methodist Church of Great Britain and its constitutions and policies are determined by that body’s Model trust and standing orders. Finance and Property matters are delegated to committees which report to the Church Council. ## **Risk Management** The trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, in particular, those related to land and buildings, and are satisfied that systems are in place to control and mitigate their exposure to these risks. ## **Objectives** The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the Gospel of God’s Love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission. Inspired by this calling the aims are: 1. To increase awareness of God’s presence and celebrate God’s love. 2. Help people grow and learn as Christians through mutual support and care. 3. To encourage more people to follow Christ. 4. To show a presence in local society by being aware of local needs. ## **Activities** Regular activities Sunday Morning worship including activities for children. There is a monthly evening service and a twice monthly evening service on Zoom. Our services are recorded, members can borrow the recording if they wish, sermons are added to our website weekly. Wednesday Coffee Morning planned to restart in September 2022, following the pandemic. Coffee and Chat in the afternoon on Zoom continues weekly. Various housegroups meet regularly during the week and one has continued to meet on Zoom since the pandemic. In many cases the membership of these groups has continued to increase. There is an Events group who co-ordinate events throughout the year to encourage the social life of the church as well as fundraising both for the church and outside charities also. Events include Christmas Fayre, Quiz evening, talks and concerts. We hope that events will be able to restart after the COVID pandemic. ## **Financial Review** Our income for the year was £108,293 lower than the previous year, mainly due to the loss of lettings. Expenditure was £124,347 giving a small deficit. Much of this extra financial activity has been due to extensive refurbishment of our lift to enable access for all to all floors, and also repairs to the roof. ## **Reserves policy** ## 1. General Fund We aim to hold in reserve funds to cover 6 months expenditure - £30,000 This is required to ensure: - i) We can meet normal expenditure without recourse to borrowing ii) To cover items not normally covered by the budget CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS TRINrrY METHODIST Church FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 August 2022 BURY ST EDMUNDS Circuit Circuit no. 14103 Registered Charity - Charity Registration number 1129116 If not a registered charity Her Majestys Revenue and Customs Gift Aid number (The HMRC number is equivalent to a registered charity number in terms of eviden￿ 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 charits'es are excepted from registration under StatLrtory Instrument 2014 No.242) Minister-. Church Stewards: LI OSIK K£JIS CAAt S (Fé￿GÉx D £J+fyi +IL CoLnNJ Iltc14AQQ VJI LO Treasurer. Ra￿ P2015A¥ 1of5 ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2022 TRINITY METHODIST Church Unrestricted Restricted Tota[5 this Funds Funds year Totals last SECTION A a1 RECEIPTS Note a2 Offerin s and Tax recovered Bank and CFB interest and Investment income 67.539 67.539 62.259 a3 105 105 37 a4 Lettin 7,932 32,717 108.293 7,932 32,717 108.293 a5 Other receipts TOTAL RECEIPTS 5,894 68.190 a6 {a71 SECTION B b1 PAYMENTS b2 Circuit Assessment or Share 56.807 56,807 50,940 b3 Donations 1.450 1,450 2,108 Repairs and Maintenance Utilities Ilnsurdnces. w8ler charges, healing & lighting) 56.084 4,153 b5 6.470 6.470 5,448 b6 b7 other payments TOTAL PAYMENTS 3.536 124347 3.536 124.347 929 b8 Ib91 63,578 SECTION C NET RECEIPTSIPAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR a6-b8 16,054 16,054 4,612 Total funds brought forward from last year c2 69.484 69.484 c6 64,872 Sub total c1+¢2 53.430 69.484 Transfers and ad.ustme￿ts {cn TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR (¢3+¢4) 53.430 {c8} 69.484 Ic6) SECTION D FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO ExfERNAL ORGANISATIONS Ithe$e amounts are not to be included in totsl receiptslpayrnents figures d1 Balance brou ht forward from last ar d2 Offerin sIGtfts- received for extemal anisations d3 OfferingslGifts - passed to extemal organisations BALANCE STILL TO BE PJUD {d1+d2-d31 CbuTcb Rand P 2015.x 2of5 TRINITY MEfHODIST CPwr¢h SUMMARYOF CH SECTION E Pkne loUiwthE Guidance Motes to com ethts SLJmmary ol Chufch accounts for the yearerKI& 31 Auoust 2022 and lnÉemalthoan￿tW￿ rew¥tsvd io theC*Jurch Counc4lChurth Meebng. Nota thatthpfund5 of an Inttsm& Orgonis8bon ¥vOU￿ rK)tttwW R¢SttthluntsS un*sS btsck*sf4y*n be usèj fw aty Method&tpurw)se. This mustbe ¢tynpknl￿dtD attive *lhpgrD55 lnr(xnB￿Q expend*Jtptr)i*ofthè CXxuttL exce* theAccYLJa<rKestrdJ. theknpJè]srnthod ofac(xJunting AND A DIFFERENT FORM tnusl beused to ttEwxwnb15ee Fkne ￿lÈrkn trÈguKkrte rths I￿ard1￿ transfers between the Distr and conneded DkStrrfOrgaNsabors. INTERNAL ORGANJSAI]ONS ope￿￿9 es Clo lance5 e5 Subtotal of Intem e11 È12 Chureh Èettsunts Itoials broUghtfOn￿rd frompage 108293 la7) 124347 114054) Icn Ic61 53,430 BY CHURCH 108253 124347 116.0541 53,430 Conthue on a separate 4*et ifnecesw and bfirrfJ the lolas foNiard TOTAL RECEM TOTAL PAYMEiirs SECTION F CHURCH-CASH FUND5 HÉLD a131 ￿gI￿12￿22 BALANCES Cash h h8nd Bank ¢uirentAttthnt 41711 Bank De trt Cetthl FinarLce Board 9.719 Trustee5forMB#￿I￿5t¢hwth pur￿ Qtherfunds SUB TOTAL- Church a￿0V￿￿ 430 ic61 Total funds held bylntemal OrganL5atw¢ltr* lo￿ frrm atrthel (e121 TOTALCASH FIJNDS HELD BY CHURCH 53.430 SECTION G 31 Avgu5t2022 Invest￿￿￿ts Indude Land & ¥er Other knab￿￿E$ f4 Indudeonty Funts hewattscenba Finarts 3d5 Name of Church Trinity Methodist.......................................... No...14103 Declarations and Scrutlny l eonfimi that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the year to 31 August 2022 have been prepared from the records of the Church and that they incliKle all funds under the control of the Church trustees. Signature of treasurer ...... Name and address of treasurer ... ..4.u P-.(- Q L I Post Code..... Presentation to the Church trustees I confimi that the annual report and aecounts for the year ended 31 August 2 presented to the meeting of the Church trustees held on Signature of the Chair of the meeting Name of the Chair of the meeting JrtSc•hJ INYftI). Date .. . Independent Examinerfs Report to the Tn￿tee$ of the Trinity Methodist Church Charity Number 1129116 Responsibilities and basi8 of report I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Trinity Meth¢)disl Chutch for the year ended 31 August 2022 sel OLrt on pages 2 to 3 As the Church's trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance the requirernenls of the Charittes Act 2011 I'the Act.). I report in respect of my examirlation of the Church's accounts carried out under section 145 of the Acl and, in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the appluble Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515llbl of the Act. delete or circle as appropriate 2015 P.th 4015 Name of Church Trinity Methodist.......................................... No...14103 Independent Examiner's Statement I have completed my examinaton. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below") whith give me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the ACL or Ithe Ithe I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection wtth 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 ha¥elhave nor obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts, bank balan￿S and ftjnds at the Central Finants 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 Deborah Lechmere Relevant professional qualificabon of independent examiner FIA Name of firm (where appropriate) Address 29 Heartsease Lane Norwtch Post Code NR7 9NP Date 31 October 2022 delete or circle as appropriate Sep-22 2015 churth R and P 5of5 Name of Church Trinity Methodist.......................................... No...14103 Independent Examiner's Ststement I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examinats.on (other than that disdosed belo￿) which give me cause to believe that in. any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordan(* with section 130 of the ACL or Ithe Ithe I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection wtth 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 ha¥elhave nov obtained independent verification of all investments wÉth the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts, bank balan￿S and funds at the Central Finan￿ 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 Deborah Lechmere Relevant professional qualificab'on of independent examiner FIA Name of fimi (where appropriate) Address 29 Heartsease Lane Norwch Post Code NR7 9NP Date 31 October 2022 delete or circle as appropriate Sep-22 2015 churth R and PJfs 5015