2021-08-31-accounts

WESLEY CHURCH CAMBRIDGE

Trustees Annual Report - year to 31[st] August 2021

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Charity name	Wesley Methodist Church, Cambridge
Charity registration number	1129303
Address:	Christ’s Pieces, Cambridge CB1 1LG
Trustee names	Paul Ashley Barbara Sinclair Graham Burghall Angus Campbell Geoff Batty Kathy Batty Janet Davis John Papaloizou Lynda Meharry Rachel Hallam Elaine Papaloizou Adrian Mackintosh Margaret Skempton Natalie Amery Dottie Haslett Malcolm Haslett Phil Howie
Structure and management	Wesley Methodist Church, as a charity, incorporates the physically and numerically larger Wesley Church and the smaller Chesterton Methodist Church. Wesley Methodist Church is governed and managed in accordance with the standing orders of the Methodist Church. The church is led a minister who chairs the Church Council, the governing body. The members of the Church Council, excluding the minister(s) and representatives of external organisations, are the trustees of the charity. Members of the Church Council are chosen by one of the following processes: (1) Ministers appointed to the church by the Methodist Church (2) ordinary members elected by the annual General Church Meeting (3) stewards of the church, elected by the annual General Church Meeting (4)_ex officio_officers of the church, such as the treasurer, who are appointed by the Church Council itself (5) representatives from the Methodist Church in the local circuit. The Church Council meets normally three times a year, and receives reports from officers and organisations within the church. Day-to-day management is devolved to the ministers, stewards, the Finance & Property Committee, the Pastoral Committee, and the officers of the church, such as the pastoral secretary, treasurer and property steward. Trustees must all be members of Wesley Methodist Church or Chesterton Methodist Church. They serve for a period of six years at a time, and may be reappointed.

Objectives in the year

Our objectives are summarised in our mission statement:

Our mission is to be a...

Worshipping Welcoming Witnessing Christian Community

• with a distinctive Methodist character serving Cambridge and district. To that end, we intend…

• To maintain a centre of Christian worship in the Methodist tradition, of high quality and in a wide variety of styles

• To strengthen expressions of our fellowship and unity in Christ, through growth and nurture and pastoral care

• To deepen the Christian knowledge and faith of the church community

• To engage in effective outreach to those who live, work, study or play in central Cambridge

• To serve the local community through individual participation and the use of our premises

• To co-operate with other Churches and Christian workers in the city and in our circuit

In particular, we intend to increase our efforts…

• To reach out to children and young people

• To welcome and integrate those who join our community

• To provide adequate resources to reach our targets – resources of people, premises and money to reach our targets in:

• Increasing small fellowship groups and extending other opportunities for Christian Education

• Extending the use of premises for outreach and improve interaction with users

• Improving and extending the use of technology for worship, administration and promotion.

Activities and achievements

The year to August 2021 was severely disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. There were no formal reports submitted to the Annual Church Meeting on 27 April 2021. The following summary is therefore based on the minutes of that meeting, and reports presented to the Church Council on 10 November 2021.

Wesley Church

Almost all activities of the church were halted for much of the year because of the pandemic lockdown and subsequent restrictions.

• Worship. no regular in-person worship was held at all in this period.

• Video services: since the end of April 2020, weekly services have been recorded in the Chapel. The only people present are the minister and the video camera operator, who normally leaves the space for the duration of the recording. The services are combined with

readings recorded at home by members, and with recordings of hymns sung by the full congregation in previous years. The complete service is uploaded to YouTube for public viewing. They have proved popular with members of the church and with an unexpectedly large number of people further afield in the UK and other countries.

• The King Street Preschool restarted when permitted, and has continued, but with smaller numbers.

• The only external organisation to continue using the premises were the NHS Blood Donation Service.

• Sunday worship, in person in the church, recommenced in late spring 2021 with increasing frequency, becoming weekly from the end of August 2021.

The lay employee custodian of the premises remained in employment throughout the year, and the premises were fully maintained in the second half. The centre manager worked from home for much of the year, and was part time furloughed, but returned to work full time and in the office during the last quarter.

Chesterton Church

There was a similar pattern of a cessation of most in-church activities for the first three quarters of the year, and a gradual approach to return to normality at the end of August 2021.

The part time lay employee administrator remained in post.

The construction of the toilet extension was completed in November 2020.

The premises remain in good condition and well maintained.

Financial review for year ended 31[st] August 2021

The registered charity consists of Wesley Church proper, and Chesterton Methodist Church, which is formally a ‘class’ of Wesley Church. The accounts ‘books’ are kept separate for each church.

Our formal financial statements however, are combined with Chesterton Methodist Church for reporting to the Methodist Church and The Charity Commission. Even combined, our income is still below the threshold (£250,000) above which we would be legally required to employ professional experts to examine our accounts. Nevertheless we do so because the size and complexity of our accounts makes it difficult to find a suitable ‘lay’ independent examiner. Prentis & Co has acted as our independent examiner.

Wesley Church

Wesley Church made a substantial deficit of £32,446 across all funds, although this was an improvement on the previous year’s £67,122. The General Fund deficit of £26,012 is mainly attributable to the loss of lettings income since March, but has been greatly improved by a Circuit rebate on the assessment of £13,000. A transfer of £41,000 from the Legacies & Donations fund was made during the year to support cash flow in the General Fund.

Giving by members has declined somewhat, and we are obviously missing the Sunday collection from non-members. Regular giving is higher than recent years, though slightly down.

Our overall financial position, in terms of ‘cash in the bank’, remains strong (see the table of Balances – By Account), because of past legacies.

We make donations under our Planned Giving programme amounting to 10% of the previous year’s regular giving (collections and standing orders). Donations arising from giving in 2017-2018 and 20182019, amounting to £14, 335.70 have now been distributed. From the year 2019-2020 we would now

be ready to make donations amounting to £6,679.80; actual payment will await the consideration of our reserves policy.

Chesterton Methodist Church

Chesterton Methodist Church is engaged in a development project that has income and costs out of proportion to its normal finances. Therefore the financial tables (Receipts & Payments) separate the Development Project from other ‘normal’ activities. Chesterton also has responsibility for the Little Music Makers group, which has received funding from legacies and the Circuit Youth fund; this group is also shown separately.

Chesterton made a loss of £3,338 in 2020-21 (first column) compared to a budgeted exact balance. Income from giving remains lower than pre-covid, and less than anticipated in the year. We benefited from a rebate on the assessment from the Circuit of £1,319. Although income from lettings has picked up, one substantial payment from Headway just fell into the current year, which has affected the figures. Staff costs are slightly higher in reality, but are shown much higher in the table arising from a mistimed transfers of funds from Chesterton to Wesley (which pays salaries on Chesterton’s behalf). Thus overall the deficit is not disappointing.

The final payments for Phase 2a of the development project (toilet extension) were incurred in the past year. We received a grant of £15,000 from the City Council (Section 106 funding) for the completed toilet extension.

The current Phase 2b of the development project (community café) has seen little expenditure. AllChurches Trust (managed by Methodist Insurance) has made a grant of £31,000 for the proposed café project.

Chesterton’s balance sheet (Balance - By Account and Balance – By Fund) remains stable, even after excluding the Development Project. We did not draw from the Trust Fund last year.

Combined charity accounts

Then financial statements of the registered charity are dominated by the finances of Wesley Church. The charity made a net deficit of £29,754 in 2020-21, on income of £205,465 and expenditure of £235,219. The deficit was funded from reserves. We retain reserves of £270,001. We also hold endowment funds whose value on 31 August 2021 was £151,384.

Paul Ashley, Treasurer

CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS Wesley Mgthodlst Church Ilncludlng Che5tsrton Mthodlst Church) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 August 2021 Cambridg Circult Clrcult no 14126 Registered Charlty. Charlty Registratlon number 1129303 If not a registered c8rfty Her Majestys Revenue and Customs Gift Ald number (r￿ HMRC number is equivafent to a rlered charity rvjmber kn lem￿ of evidence of charttabte Status and may be used lo give to donors or grant fvn¢Jws wisthg lo see evidence of the ￿ganisation'S charitable slatus. Methodist ¢rfti68 In England and Wdes that are nol rffjstered charitles are excepted from istration IMKler Stabjtory Inslrument 2014 No.2421 Minister. Revd Cth S Churth StthV￿S. Lynda Meharry Hallam Barbara Sfir￿r Gtaham BiKtyI811 Adrian Mackntosh Phil Howie Paul Asl 2015 (w¢h R •r* P.yJs 4ofS

Wel￿Y Methodf51 Church Ilhtluding Chesrton Methgdlst Chur¢hl ACC¢XINTS FOR THE YEAR 31 AUGLK8T 2021 Church Unf¢rI￿Ed ftesuic￿ T014Js thls Funds Funds Tr￿$ last ar SECTION A RECEIPTS Offerings and Tax rocoveTrd Bank and CFB interost ar¥J Investmenl Incorne 94.769 94.769 134,985 a3 24 53.033 57.017 53.033 57.064 205h65 83.475 39.217 237.923 Other wips TOTAL RECaPTS 46 205,419 la71 SECTION B b1 PAYMENTS Circuit ASSes￿ent orsha 83,409 6.653 97.728 b3 Donats'ons 6,653 17.297 Repalrs ènd M3inlertan¢g Utilities Ilnsurance5. W8ter ¢harge$. healno & lighlj'ngl Slaff 55.635 55.635 71,543 bs 22.789 22,789 21,452 53.788 12,948 235,219 53.788 12, 235,219 49,849 25,7C4J 283.569 b7 OlhLy payments TOTAL PAYMENTS b8 Ib91 SECTION C NET RECEIPTSIPAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR c1 (a&bB (29,8001 129,754) 145.8481 Total funds brought roNariJ frum 18$1 yeor 33.728 299.593 {c61 345,238 Sub total {c1+c21 33.775 269.839 299,593 Transfe￿ and adjustrnents 188 ¢¢71 TOTAL FUNOS AT END OF YEAR 236.232 33.775 270.007 (¢81 299,593 Ic61 SECTION D FOR INFOKMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEP4ED ANO PASSED ON TO &YfERNAL ORGANISATtONS Ithests amounts are not to bg I￿l￿ded kn tcrtal recelMWyjr￿nts fiowDs al)oNEI Bala￿¢ brought lorwafd from lait y offering￿ffts- re￿1¥•￿ fcrexl0m￿ org8nisatiorr4 7.552 7.991 d3 OfferinWGffts . passed to extemal Nganfjsal io, BAIANCE STILL TO BE P￿D 1.622 2015th￿Tch Rand P 4LI5

SEcT￿E INTERNAL Z.b)&is¢dth 236￿¥ 2JO311 J54 g.S93 270.fp)7 TOTALRECESvrs TOTIL PAVIIPITS SECTTrJ14 F CKURCH.CASN FL￿% 79 159.317 124.495 9.2541 4.396 SUB ToTAL.cfKehac￿rt$ 270.OD1 IOTALGAiFIJILA¥tW¥￿CTrWM ZTO.U01 Awi3y21 133.gB2 14.117. 14.175.7 54Z936

Name of Church w￿•Y M￿l￿dIat Cknu￿h Ilncludlng Chest•rton M•thodlst Church) Declarations and Scrutiny I confinn that these Receipt and Payment based accounts forthe year to 31 August 2021 have been prepared trom the records of the Church and that they includ8 all funds under the control of the Chur trusiees. Signature of treasurw ......... e.... Name and address of treasurer....... E Paul Ashlgy 59 GHb•rt Carnbildg• C84 3Ni Presentatlon to tho Church tru$to08 I confimi that the )nual report and ae¢ounls for Ihe ye ended 31 August 2021 were presented to the meeling of the Church truste8s held on 10 November 2021 Signature of the Chair of the meetEng Name ol the Chalr of the meeting .. R￿d Colkn Smtth 15{1 Independent Examinefs Report to the Trustees of the Wesley Methodist Church (Includlng Chestsrton Methodist Church) Charlty Number 11293L13 Rgsponslbllltl•s and bas1¥ of rwrt I report lo the trustees on my examination oftr acccKmts ofwesley Methodlst Church for the year ended 31 Augusl 2021 set out on pages .1. to 3. As tre Churth's trnstees, you are responsibk for th8 preparation of the accounts in aco)rd8nce wrfh the requirements of the Chari1195 Act 2011 {Ihe Act,). I report in resped of my examination of the Churth's armjnts r3rTied out under section 145 of the Act and, in ￿ryIng ¢Xrt my examination. I have followed all the applicable DÉrection5 glven by the Charlty Commission under sectlon 145(5llb) of the Act. ' delete or drcle as appropriate 2015LK￿￿•l P.JJ 4015

Name of Church Wesley Methodist Church (including Chesterton Methodlst Church) Independent Examinerfs Ststement I have completed my examinatKJn. I confim that no material matters have c(Kne to my attention in Connection with the examination which give me c*use to believe that in. 8ny material ￿peCt. the a¢¢ounting records were not kept in accordance section 130 of the Act., or the accounts do not accord with th8 8C￿)Unting rec(wds. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a prop8r understanding of th8 accounts to be reached. I havell￿¥￿ obtained independent verification of all inveslments with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts. bank balances and funds at the Central Finan￿ Board of tho Methodist Church which are individually in exc8ss of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balan sheet date. Signature of independent examiner Name of independent examiner A-.￿} Fco4 fooA Relevant professional qU￿ificati￿ of ind8pendent examiner Name of fimi (where appropriate) KG Address J-L fD Post Code Date delete or cirde as approprÈate 2U15 chwcth R 4dS