2025-08-31-accounts - Willerby Methodist Church

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Report from the church Stewards 2025

The stewards have supported Rev Louisa over the past year. Her role as superintendent has been challenging with numerous problems to address within the circuit. We realise that because of that and the fact that she is minister of the Well Hub her time is very limited for her four churches. She maintains pastoral contact and visits as many people as possible.

Currently, we have three main concerns as stewards.

The fist, as you will here in the finance report is the state of the finances of the church. While our church is fortunate within the circuit, we must not become complacent as we face challenges. We continue to have a healthy financial position and our grateful thanks should go the Bill King who has guided our finances of the last years. Following his stepping down at the end of February a decision had been taken by the council to employ a treasurer as no one had come forward. As a result of this Carl Andrew has been employed and is starting to work with the stewards. This may mean some changes in how things are dealt with but we will endeavour to let people know any major changes as the months go on.

The second is the worship here at Willerby. One of the major tasks of the superintendent is the completion of the Preaching Plan. Because of the lack of ministers and the number of preaching dates offered by local preachers all churches in the circuit are seeing more and more blank spaces on the plan where the stewards must fill in. The stewards acknowledge that the congregation here at Willerby have been very understanding about this and accepted that on occasions we have to visit other churches for services as well as hold our own hub services and the stewards thank you for this. We realise that this is not ideal when we have to close the church on a Sunday morning but at times there is just no alternative. At the start of September within the circuit we do get two new ministers one full time and one part time which will help the circuit plan a little. So we please just ask you to bear with us.

The third is the annual problem of new stewards. The current stewards have been serving for many years, and we require new stewards to assist with the work. Please consider this opportunity.

For the work done in the church we continue to be a very busy church with many activities continuing. Mandy continues with her children’s/youth work with the help of John Seymour on Friday evening and this has seen the numbers grow significantly during the year. Time for Tots continues on a Wednesday afternoon with the help of several of the church members. Family fun on a Saturday morning is well supported but help is always needed as this is a time when members can help by just being there to talk to the families. Amy and Sally are effectively handling the Old Persons role. Thanks to the temporary cash hub, they open the Coffee shop daily from 10:00am to midday with volunteer support. Familiar faces on a Tuesday morning continues and although numbers are not great it is much appreciated by those who attend. Other successful church groups that continue are the wives’ group, the art group, the men’s brunch Good news singers and the various bible study groups.

The property is in very good order thanks to the work of the property committee and the daily work by Grahame our caretaker. We also thank Mike Seymour for looking after the garden but has had to stop due to an operation.

The stewards appreciate the behind-the-scenes support from many others. Although there is always requests for more volunteers from both the older persons worker and the Family worker. If you can help in any way then please do contact them for further details, the more volunteers the less often you have to attend.

We also give a huge thank you to Bill King for all his work as the Church treasurer and the support he has given the stewards.

Stuart Hickson

CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS Willerb Methodist Church Church FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 August 2025 Hull Central & West Clrcult Circuit no. 2906 Registered Charlty - Charity Rgglstratlon number not a registered charity Her Majesty's Revenu• and Customs GiftAld number (The HMRC number is equivalent to a registsred charity number in ter6 of evidence of charitable status and may be used lo give lo donors or grant funders wishing to see evidence of the organisation's charitable status. Methcmlisl charities in England and Wales that are not registered charities are excepted from registr8tion under Statutory knstrument 2014 No.242) 1129172 Minister. Rev Louisa Ha es Church Stewards.. ROsery Adred Stuart Hickson Colin Shepherd Chri5top¢r Ahtr¢d Treasurer. Julian Wild

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