## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/09/23 Period start date To 31/08/24 Period end date Charity name:Altrincham Methodist Church** ## **Charity registration number: 1129558** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The purposes of the Methodist Church**
**are, and shall have deemed to have been**
**since the date of the union, the**
**advancement of**
**A)The Christian faith in accordance with**
**the doctrinal standards of the methodist**
**Church**
**B) The charitable purposes for the time**
**being of any Connexional, District,**
**Circuit, local or other organisation of the**
**Methodist Church**
**C) Any charitable purposes for the time**
**being of any society or institution**
**subsidiary or ancillary to the Methodist**
**Church**
**Any purpose for the time being of any**
**charity being a charity subsidiary or**
**ancillary to the Methodist Church**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**A) The provision of regular acts of**
**worship open to members of the**
**church and non-members alike**
**with online services provided**
**B) The provision of sacred space (a**
**building) for prayer and**
**contemplation**
**C) The teaching of Christianity**
**through sermons, courses and**
**small groups including zoom and**
**telephone**
**D) Pastoral work including visiting**
**the sick and bereaved**
**The provision of young peoples’ groups,**
**senior citizens’ groups etc with a**
**Christian ethos**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to this**
**guidance**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**A) The church held regular public**
**services including Sunday**
**morning worship and monthly**
**evening and lunchtime services.**
**We also run monthly Lego church**
**aimed at younger children and**
**parentsThis includes streaming**
**some of these services for those**
**unable to attend in person**
**Additional services are held during**
**Christmas and Easter together with**
**special services for some of the groups**
**that use our premises e.g. parent and**
**toddler service**
**B) In addition to the regular services**
**we have a prayer chapel that is**
**available for quiet prayer and**
**contemplation with church**
**members available for support if**
**required**
**C) Our services include regular**
**Christian teaching in the form of**
**sermons but we also run Bible**
**study groups and prayer groups**
**and have small house groups**
**that meet regularly and are open**| **to members and non-members alike D) Members of our church regularly visit and support people who are ill including non-members. We try to offer comfort and practical support including lifts to hospital appointments and help with shopping etc E) We run the following groups on a regular basis – young people discussion group, two parent and toddler groups, prayer group In addition we make our premises available to Boys’ Brigade, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Rainbows, Brownies, AA** **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **==> picture [452 x 293] intentionally omitted <==** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives Para 1.41
set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Other
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## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity is considered to be**
**financially stable and whilst reserves**
**reduced during the period of the Covid**
**pandemic they remain at an acceptable**
**level but slightly below the desired level.**
**This position has improved over the last**
**12 months**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**To maintain a balance of £63,000 to**
**cover 6 months expenditure**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£57,200**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**none**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**none**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Members donations, room hire and car**
**park letting**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Governing document issued by the**
**Methodist Church**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Governing document issued by the**
**Methodist Church**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Elected by annual Church Council**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Altrincham Methodist Church| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|n/a| |Registered charity number|1129558| |Charity’s principal address|Barrington Road, Altrincham, WA14 1HF| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Rev Jackie Bellfield|Chair||| ||Ian Roberts|Treasurer||| ||Pauline Roberts|Steward||| ||LesleyEntwistle|Steward||| ||Christine Hynes|Steward||| ||Don Hines|||| ||Liz Harwood|||| ||Rachel Miller|||| ||Hugh Davies|||| ||Catherine Merrell|||| ||Carol Dodd||1/9/23 to 31/03/24|| ||Graham Jackson|||| ||Matthew Davies|||| ||Laura Grewer|||| ||Dot Bretherton|||| ||Fiona Pearson|||| ||Ruth Brankin|||| ||David Taylor|||| ||Debbie Wadsworth|||| ||Olga Wood|||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|From time to time funds are collected for other charities
such as All We Can, Action for Children etc| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|Funds are identified separately in the accounts but are
generally sent to the relevant charity within 1 month of
being collected| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Ian Roberts **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 31/03/25 **Altrincham Methodist Church No (if any) Altrincham Methodist Church 1129558 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/09/2023 31/08/2024 ~~ee ee ee ee_~~ **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||| |Offerings and tax recovered|**42,312**||**-**||**-**||**42,312**||**36,762**|| |Interest|**1,136**||**-**||**-**||**1,136**||**759**|| |Lettings|**64,439**||**-**||**-**||**64,439**||**61,879**|| |other income|**26,788 #**|**788 # **|**2,937**||**-**||**29,725**||**15,423**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|_(Gross income for_
_AR)_**134,675**||**2,937**||**-**||**137,612**||**114,823**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**134,675**
**2,937**
**-**
**137,612**
**114,823**
~~——_————~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Circuit assessment|**42,300**||**-**||**-**||**42,300**||**61,145**|| |Repairs and maintenance|**14,247**||**-**||**-**||**14,247**||**9,167**|| |Utilities|**18,399**||**-**||**-**||**18,399**||**13,527**|| |Otherpayments|**51,479**||**1,875**||**-**||**53,354**||**35,978**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**126,425**||**1,875**||**-**||**128,300**||**119,817**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**126,425**
**1,875**
**-**
**128,300**
**119,817**
~~—__—_———~~||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**8,250**
**1,062**
**- 9,312**
**- 4,994**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**45,297**
**2,654**
**-**
**47,951**
**50,288**
**53,547**
**3,716**
**- 57,263**
**45,294**
~~SSS$]~~|||||||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 31/03/2025 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
bank
CFB
TMCP
**Details**
**Details**
land and buildimngs
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**33,982**||**-**||**-**| |||**475**||**-**||**-**| |||**22,806**||**-**||**-**| |||**57,263**||**-**||**-**| |||||||OK| |||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||**4,850,000**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**When due**
**(optional)**| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||Date of
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