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V4V Aylesbury Methodist Church & Centre 2020-2021 Buckingham St. Aylesbury, Bucks. HP20 2NQ Re8iStered charity number: 1129749 Minister: Rev. Richard Atkinson T: 01296 426526 methodists.or methodists.or E- office lesbu 5esbu

This annual report shows what we, as a registered charity, have done during the past Methodist year (September 2020 to August 2021). It includes how our organisation, youth and other groups, the charities we support, and our finances have been affected by, and risen to, the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic.

I don’t know about anyone else but simply trying to piece together the last year is complicated. When have we been allowed out and when locked in? What has been vaguely normal? We went on holiday. What has been different? Celebrating Christmas at Easter and having to sit outside to abide by the regulations. Remembering what restarted when, or at least trying to, adds to the fun.

The good news is that we are back and apart from the continued request to wear masks things are feeling relatively normal; Christmas is being planned in the hope that all the usual events and services will take place. It has been good to see the gradual return of our congregation. There are still those coming back for the first time, and I suspect this will continue for a while yet.

All this means that the content of the Annual Report will not be as fulsome as in previous years because as we look back, the shadow of the pandemic still casts a large shadow. However, we appear to be emerging and with booster jabs and such more normal life is ahead. We have new folk who have joined us, we are looking to rebuild and hopefully continue to serve the community around us as well as proclaiming the story of our faith in Jesus Christ

Our hope and prayer need to be that the potential contained within these passages spurs us on in the adventures that the future has in store.

Blessings,

Richard.

ORGANISATION

Governance – Peter Green

Methodists belong to local churches or ecumenical partnerships, but also feel part of a larger connected community, the Connexion . The local decision-making body is the church council . Members of this council are also the church trustees and comprise elected officials and representatives from the annual General Church Meeting , which anyone can attend. Our own church council members last year were:

Rev. Richard Atkinson, Jackie Simpson-Tyda, Roger Kirk, Gill Marks, Gill Nord, Kaz Tyda, Frances Aylen, Elaine Hope, Philip Kolade, Matilda Phiri, Keith Wallace, Vivienne Kemp, Peter Green, Margaret Miskin, Albert Odro, Jennie Torpey, Arthur Sara, Pauline Noble, David Neville, Peter Farmer, Kevin Hardern, John Miskin, Sandie Steeden, Rae Garden, Babs Trend, Paul Ingram, Lynn Bernstone and Tim Olufosoye.

At Aylesbury, the church council appoints church stewards and a leadership team . Church stewards ensure the smooth running of worship services and act as a conduit between minister and congregation. The leadership team includes church steward representatives and acts as the executive arm of the church council.

Aylesbury Methodist Church & Centre belongs to the Vale of Aylesbury circuit , a group of 16 churches served by a team of ministers. The circuit is led by the superintendent minister, who is also our own minister, Rev. Richard Atkinson. He presides over the circuit staff (both lay and ordained) and the circuit District Chair Rev. Helen Cameron with our meeting, and with lay and ordained colleagues facilitates minister and Circuit Superintendent, Rev. Richard Atkinson and encourages mission throughout the circuit. Our circuit is one of 21 within the Northampton district , whose chair is Rev. Helen Cameron. The district exists primarily to advance the mission of the Church in a region by providing support for the circuits in line with the connexional priorities.

The Covid-spaced 2021 Methodist conference

All districts are represented at the annual Methodist conference , the governing body of the Methodist Church. Detailed governance is set out in CPD , the Constitutional Practice and Discipline of the Methodist Church. This is available in two volumes as a free download from the Methodist Church website.

Leadership Team – Jennie Torpey

Leadership Team meetings continued to be conducted via Zoom throughout the imposition and lifting of various Covid restrictions during the year. This enabled the team to monitor the resumption of Sunday Church services and other activities in the Church and Community Centre.

Both Government Covid regulations and Methodist Church guidance were strictly observed during Sunday services, and a small and increasing number of the congregation attended between September and December, until they had to be suspended again just before Christmas. However, services have continued to be streamed, either from the Church or from the Manse, and the daily Thought for Today videos recorded and made available on the website. Sunday worship resumed on 23[rd] May 2021, Harvest Festival, with current Covid guidelines in place.

Funds were made available for a Young Leaders scheme, and Charlie Levitt and Jeremy Hanson chosen to take these positions, working within the confines of lockdowns. Some safeguarding training was delivered by Zoom, with more planned for the autumn of 2021. Up until the end of April, AMC members, as part of a group from local churches, continued to cook and deliver evening meals to a local hotel, where rooms for rough sleepers were temporarily funded by the government.

NHS Blood Donation sessions - essential hirers during the pandemic

Use of the Community Centre was mainly restricted to essential hirers such as the NHS Blood Donation service and Sees the Day - a day centre for people with learning difficulties. However, several user groups plan to return in the autumn of 2021. The Coffee Shop in the Welcome Space is due to reopen in September 2021, initially on three days a week.

A security system upgrade installation took place in December 2020. Membership of the Leadership Team this year has been Rev Richard Atkinson, Peter Green, Kevin Hardern, Vivienne Kemp, Gill Marks, Margaret Miskin, Albert Odro, Tim Olofusoye and Jennie Torpey. Peter Green has now retired from the group after many years’ service.

Church Stewards – Gill Marks

All the group of stewards at AMC have worked well together and liaised with Richard to ensure that our congregation come back to worship safely as we emerged from lockdown twice during this last year. We have worked out how to adjust as different rules have been brought in or relaxed and more and more people have been coming through our doors. Although some of our regulars are yet to come back, we are welcoming many new worshippers which is great to see. Also with fewer ministers and lay workers in the circuit, the stewards have worked

Gill Marks - Senior Church Steward

with many visiting preachers to ensure a smooth running service can take place.

Having dealt with many different problems over the last 12 months, we are all looking forward to the future when we hope things will be back to the new normal and our church seats are back full again. We are very grateful to the regular members who have also stood in to help with the extra jobs we have had to cover and would like to point out we can always do with more stewards if anyone is interested in this very worthwhile and rewarding role.

Property – Kevin Hardern

It has been a very strange year, with not much activity on the premises by users, but some continuing work needed on the fabric of the building itself and the services for which we contract.

Kevin Hardern Tim Olufosoye Jennie Torpey Shirley Francis

Following the successful re-sanding of the main floor last year and the laying of the badminton court, this year’s main project has been a revision of the security arrangements. This was led by Tim Olufosoye, ably assisted by Shirley Francis and Jennie Torpey. This has resulted in a much more secure environment for all users. It does not require any passwords for access, as all people with ‘fobs’ are uniquely identifiable on their opening of the building and opening its secure doors, both from the foyer and into the church itself.

Other works to the building include minor repairs to roofing, which was creating water ingress issues, and the replacement of Room 4 fire escape

door and surrounds. Certification of the 10-year electrical check, in line with legal requirements, has now been obtained and discussions continue about wall repair due to tree growth at the rear of the property. It is hoped this will be concluded next year. Regular, weekly checks of the property during periods of lockdown were undertaken by appropriate volunteers for which we thank them very much. We continue to retain final payment due to contractors for the ‘Welcome Space’ as they have yet to complete works adequately on the heat curtain in the foyer.

Trevor Nord

Finally, our sincere thanks go to Trevor Nord for leading the change of our telephone supplier from BT to Vodafone. This saved us considerable expense due to the nature of the contractual arrangements that were in place with BT, our reduced usage, and their inflexibility in altering the contract to meet our needs.

Let us all hope 2021/22 brings some sense of a return to normal use of the premises.

Communications – Peter Green

All church members share their faith with neighbours, friends, family, and the wider community with what they say and do. We have some tools to help in this, namely, our website, streamed services, social media, noticeboards, Thought For The Day videos and this annual report. Each gives more detail about who we are, what we do and what we care about. We look at each in turn.

Website : During the last year, we have been discussing with Then Media, our website providers, an upgrade to a faster, more stable platform. The transition was completed in September 2021, giving a refreshed look. By the end of 2021, thanks to Marilyn Storer’s guidance, we will become compliant with government and Methodist Church data protection requirements by automatically removing news items more than two years old. The new site includes quick links to the weekly notices, preaching plan, calendar, and policies. During lockdown, the calendar was minimal but as we return towards normality, we are pleased to welcome back Margaret

Smith as the office volunteer who will help to populate the calendar with church and user group bookings.

The 'new look' website

Social media : Whenever we post a news item or Thought For The Day video on the website, there is also a linked Facebook posting and Tweet. In addition, during the last year as part of the District Young Leaders’ Scheme, Jeremy Hanson has also posted some items. Longer term, we would like someone to take on or guide our social media presence to help gain greater interaction with our local communities, so if you know someone who might be interested, please let Richard or me know. Support will be available to them from the recently formed Network of Methodist Communicators.

Streaming : Our streamed services have been a real blessing during the pandemic and continue to be so for those not yet able to return in person. We are indebted to The Sunday Service for providing us with the free equipment and technical support to enable us to stream services from both the manse and from church. A big thank you too to Albert Odro and Harry

Darku for manning the camera keyboard in the gallery each week since we returned to church. It is good to learn that some of our younger members have expressed interest in helping them. Services can be accessed from the Streaming button on the website and are kept on the site for about six weeks.

Geoff Short, Pete Honeyball, Richard Atkinson, and David Neville - some of the regular contributors to TFTD videos on the website News section

Thought For The Day (TFTD) : 398 TFTD videos were produced six days a week during the pandemic, until a break was taken in July 2021. Shown on our website and averaging three to four minutes each, they were written and presented by Richard, other circuit clergy, and lay preachers. Feedback received, means that they are being recommenced with Richard and his lay team in November 2021. Our thanks go to Roy Collis, for his technical work to help make this happen.

Noticeboard: Our external noticeboard was showing its age and the church council agreed to have a replacement one slotted into the existing posts.

Pandemic-related staff illnesses, furloughing and travel restrictions meant the installation was delayed until October but is now complete (see back cover of this report).

YOUTH

Boys' Brigade – Steve Kemp

We started back in the Autumn to face-to-face activities with social distancing and PPE in place although that made sessions difficult to run. When we hit another lockdown, we employed more excellent #BBatHome resources from Headquarters, supplemented with resources packs that we delivered to boys’ homes.

Some of the BB resource material

Zoom was used for weekly meetings for each age group with three officers on each call. We returned to face-to-face activities at the church before the

summer break including a carefully organised Awards/Promotion Evening for parents and family members to share in the boy’s achievements during a difficult year, which saw one boy gaining the Queen’s Badge (the highest award in BB) and one boy the President’s Badge.

As always, I am very grateful to all the officers and helpers and the continued support from all parents/carers that enables BB to run; I truly believe we make a difference to the boys' confidence, outlook, and sense of community.

Girls’ Brigade – Dawn Wright & Sarah Davidge

1[st] Aylesbury Girls’ Brigade has continued to run throughout COVID albeit in a very different way. As every other organisation did, we had to adapt through the last year to all the restrictions. Being leaders with barely any technical ability between us, this at times was extremely stressful, but somehow, we managed.

We met each week via zoom – even managing to split into breakout rooms for the different age groups – I am still not sure that any of us believe we managed it! We are so grateful that we were able to find a way to meet as it became quickly obvious how much

many of our girls were struggling with home schooling and isolation from their friends. This was particularly noticed in our older girls. We tried to make Monday evenings as upbeat and fun as we could, with time for them also to talk in a safe space and realise they were not alone in some of their feelings.

Thankfully, we are now back at GB face-to-face on a Monday evening which is lovely. We have started back with games, craft and learning about things such as homelessness, refugees, and poverty.

We continue to be proud of all the girls and hope that over this next year they will continue to come along, have fun, and hear more about God’s love for us all.

J Team and Creche - Vivienne Kemp

After various lockdowns and church closures, we tentatively opened our doors again at the beginning of the summer and have now resumed some form of normal activity. With numbers initially small as we returned to J Team, we began with all-age activities but have now split into two groups with more age-specific activities. We remain masked and covid-safe, but it has been a delight to welcome our youngsters back.

Sunbeams – Margaret Miskin

Sunbeams continues to thrive despite the many times we had to close because of Covid restrictions. Lots of text messages were sent and phone calls made so that we could keep in touch. It was truly wonderful when we all met up again. How the children had grown and the smiles on everyone’s faces spoke louder than words. My thanks go to Elaine Hope, who stepped in when Mel left us. It really does take two to tango.

Youth Exchange - Vivienne Kemp and Dawn Wright

Daun in the Eifel - home of our youth exchange partners T.u.S. Daun

Our exchange has now been in abeyance for 2 years although we continue to keep up with our German friends in Daun. Central Daun was affected by some flooding but luckily our friends all managed to stay safe, although former exchange leaders Gorden and Petra Nickel had some mopping up to do in their holiday let near Gerolstein. We continue to

receive regular updates and will need to review in the autumn whether the virus has subsided enough for us to plan an exchange for 2022.

ACTIVITIES

Banner Group – Brenda Horne

We have not met since March 2020 and so have been unable to do any work on banners. Instead, we have all been working on our own projects at home. We are hoping to start again in the spring of 2022 when we shall be looking for new members and new ideas for banners.

Bedgrove House Group – Rosemarie Bucknell

Despite planning our programme together last November at our AGM we were unable to meet as planned due to the pandemic. The group said goodbye to two of our members who relocated back to Yorkshire but welcomed two new joiners, so our numbers remain at 16. Some of us learnt new skills as we embarked on ‘Zoom’ meetings and a monthly email from myself helped us to keep in touch, especially those of us isolating.

...a gloriously sunny day in April...

Our first meeting together was a coffee morning on a gloriously sunny day in a member’s garden, where we enjoyed each other’s company and a chat over cake and biscuits. Our garden party in August eventually went ahead having been delayed when the host was isolated because of a covid contact.

Although the weather was a little cool, we feasted inside in well ventilated rooms and enjoyed ourselves. Another coffee morning was also hot and sunny and enjoyed by all. Let us hope our plans for next year will be more achievable, but we will have to wait and see, won’t we!

Flower Arrangers – Melanie Dean

During the time that the Sunday services were being streamed from Herston Close, flower arrangements were not created for the church. But the front gardens at AMC were tended and watered along with the indoor plants. (Kevin Hardern dealt with the weeds!) Once services resumed in AMC, an arrangement was placed at the front in church as usual.

Going forward, flower arrangements are created on Friday mornings and placed in the Church and the Welcome Space now the coffee bar has resumed. We also work together when decorating the Church for celebrations and we had a wedding!

Thank you to Janice Matthews

Janice Matthews has now handed over the 'reins' of the Flower Team to myself - after many years of keeping us organised. My thanks to her for her dedication to the role and her mentoring. Janice will continue to create beautiful arrangements along with the rest of the team, who are myself, Ruby Darku, Edith Awadzi and Sue Kirk.

Friday Food – Karen Crussell

The provision of hot food and hospitality in our newly refurbished Welcome Space came to an end with the announcement of the first lockdown in March 2020. Since then, up until 30 April 2021, members of the Friday Food continued to work tirelessly alongside St Joseph's Church and the Quaker Meeting to ensure that all homeless people, lodged in a local hotel because of Coronavirus precautions, received a daily two course hot meal. Our efforts were much appreciated by the homeless guests at the hotel and the agencies supporting them.

There has been a noticeable reduction in rough sleepers in the town and this is expected to continue as the Council, AHAG and other organisations have expressed a determination to do all they can to ensure that accommodation is made available to all who need it.

The team, however, has not disbanded. We are maintaining contact with relevant organisations, ready to respond appropriately to the situation of

poverty and homelessness in our town as needs become apparent. We welcome feedback, suggestions, and ideas from anyone in the church community as to how we might most effectively do this.

Good Faith Book Clu b – Peter Green

Zoom, rather than face-to-face meetings were the Covid-enforced order of the day this year for our six meetings. We aim for a mix of styles and genres to cater for our differing preferences. So, this year’s books included an inspirational one by the American Bishop who spoke at Harry and Meghan’s wedding, the work of a locally based charity working in Guatemala, an autobiography of England cricket captain and Anglican Bishop, David Sheppard and one on why faith makes sense in this secular world.

However, we found the two

best books were bad books – The Badly Behaved Bible by Nick Page and How To Be A Bad Christian And A Better Human Being by Dave Tomlinson. A summary of our discussion of each book is on our website under Activities/Good Faith Book Club.

In the coming year, we plan to revert to meeting in person. As we come towards our tenth anniversary and 60[th] book, we will also debate whether to continue, or celebrate our ten years and cease to meet.

In Stitches – Pauline Latham

With some of our group shielding during the pandemic, we have not been able to meet but hope to do so, all being well, in early 2022.

Greeting Cards - Janice Matthews and Rosemarie Bucknell

For many years we have together crafted a large variety of handmade greetings cards which are available to purchase from the display stand in the Reception Area of the community centre The cards are attractively priced and the substantial income from sales is transferred into church funds periodically. We are happy to create Personalised Cards to order. Please speak to one of us advising your requirements. You won’t be disappointed!

Music Director’s Report – Derrick Matthews

Choir : Regrettably since the outbreak of Covid 19 the choir have been unable to contribute to worship due to the prevailing restrictions. They have however, during recent weeks attended to give backing support to the appointed soloists during Sunday morning worship. Choir Members and Organists greatly miss providing their skills to the worship of our church and hopefully it will not be too long before ‘normal service can be resumed! The Preachers and Stewards give generous support to the Choir, and this is greatly appreciated.

Derrick Matthews at the console

Organists: The appointed organists have attended on their allocated Sundays to accompany the appointed soloists and more recently the limited congregational singing. They have also provided suitable voluntaries before and after worship.

Organ Concerts: The acclaimed Annual Organ Concerts (34 to date)

were to have taken place with top recitalists Ian Tracey in 2020 and Gordon Stewart in 2021, but unfortunately these had to be cancelled as audiences of well over 200 could not be guaranteed or accommodated. Resumption of this event will hopefully continue when deemed viable.

Music Group - Sue Kirk

In May, live services resumed after the second lockdown, and the Music Group played at monthly family services. Our numbers were restricted to six, but in the Autumn we were allowed our full complement.

We thank Julie Maguire for her leadership and piano playing over the years and to Nick Aylen for his stage management. We are hoping to encourage younger singers and players to join the group.

Nick Aylen

SOS – Lynn Bernstone

During 2020, SOS continued with Zoom most months and in December we had a Christmas quiz and shared a coordinated virtual meal. We have a WhatsApp group where we share bits of news and very silly posts which crop up on various social media pages. We had our first face to face get together in September this year at the Storer’s home. It was a very well attended, joyful occasion with wonderful food as you would expect at any

SOS do, matched with laughter and free flowing conversations. No one wanted to leave.

We have a couple of casual events planned for the rest of this year into January, after which we shall hopefully gather and put together our annual programme for 2022. As we didn’t do half of what we had planned for 2020, we may well dip into that. We remain a happy, welcoming bunch, approaching 30 years of sharing fellowship.

Tuesday Fellowship – Coral Soulsby

We are back, with much thankfulness for our health and strength to pick up the fellowship and friendship we enjoyed pre-virus.

Our first meeting was the long-awaited AGM. It was chaired by our Minister, the Rev Richard Atkinson, and ten of our members attended. The decision was voted on to limit our meetings to just once every month, at least until everyone feels happy to increase our meetings, if just for friendship and a cup of tea. Many thanks to Margaret and Jean for picking up the task of teas again. Thanks also to Roger Kirk for his assistance whilst we are without a treasurer.

Prayerfully, we will be able to again book the speakers who were cancelled due to the lockdown. They will be informative and inspirational, so I trust that others from the church family will join us for the afternoon on occasions.

Welcome Space Coffee Bar – Chris Sara

We were saddened, that like so many venues, we had to remain closed through much of the past year. We did open for a few weeks during the brief lifting of restrictions, with careful consideration to Covid rules. Our three or four regulars were pleased to be able to meet up again. However, with the age group of our volunteers, we struggled to open every weekday as we had previously done.

Pat Martin Seehusen, our co coordinator for the previous year, moved away from the area in June, and we offer our thanks to her for her work and wish her every blessing in her new home. I felt that I could not take on the responsibility again as I am away from Aylesbury on many occasions, so we closed again across the summer.

We are delighted that Margaret Miskin and Elaine Hope have taken on the task and have the coffee bar up and running again. Sadly, we are still short of helpers and so at present it is only opening on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, so far with very few clients attending. The ladies of the knitting group, who used the space on Fridays, were delighted when we reopened and now come along on Mondays. We do hope that we will continue to be supported as it is such a valuable space for people to meet and share friendship.

CHARITIES

Action for Children – Pauline Noble

Another very difficult year in our fundraising work for Action for Children with no possibility of holding any of our annual events or collecting money from those with home collecting boxes. However, hopefully there is a little light at the end of the tunnel and in 2022 we hope to have our annual Quiz and hold Cake and Produce Stalls in the church hall. We have also been able to start collecting in our home collecting box money, and

to date £345.13 has been forwarded to Action for Children HQ, together with a further donation of £75 for the Charity from our Wingrave chapel.

However, within this difficult year there has been a highlight. Shortly before our 2020 Toy Service there came an announcement of a Christmas lock down and therefore cancellation of our plans to collect new toys for children in our area who would otherwise have had very little. Not to be downhearted, and with help from our Church Treasurer, we put out an appeal for money donations and within 2 weeks had collected £900. In discussion with Bucks CC Outreach Officer as to the way forward, we then turned this money into vouchers for children and young people. All wrapped and each with a Christmas card ready to name they were handed to the Family Workers to deliver.

Cards for Good Causes – John Miskin

What a year 2020 turned out to be. First, we opened on 17[th] October, then we were closed on the 4[th ] November because of “Lock Down”, then we opened again on 2[nd] December and then finally closed for the year on 19[th] December. This meant we were open for 32 days and closed for 23 days. However, we still managed to sell £6145.17 of cards and gifts.

Cards for Good Causes

Add to this we had all the Covid restrictions, hand sanitizer as people came in, signing in on the NHS app or manually, face masks, a one-way system around the shop and only 4 people in the shop at any one time. On top of all that we had a new computerised till system which allowed us to scan the bar codes and the computer did the rest, including taking a credit card payment.

I would like to thank all my volunteers, some of whom did not have a chance to work in the shop because of the lockdown. A big thanks goes to my duty managers, Steve Marks, Bob Bucknell, Arthur Sara and a special thanks to Cliff Darlington who after many years as manager and duty manager has decided to retire.

Christian Aid – Jennie Torpey & Maureen Tucker

Christian Aid is an international development organisation that insists the world can and must be changed to one where ‘everyone can live a full life, free from poverty and inequality’. Their aim to end poverty and injustice involves working in partnership with local organisations, as well as with governments and the private sector. Their work includes helping people to:

claim their rights and access services such as healthcare and education
ensure they are not discriminated against for any reason
become more resilient to shocks and disasters such as drought, climate change and hurricanes
make the most of opportunities, such as being able to sell their produce for a fair price.

Aylesbury Methodist Church counts Christian Aid as one the main charities

they support, with collections at the annual Christmas Carol Concert and the Christmas Eve Midnight Communion Service going to help fund the crucial work done by this charity.

The main fund-raising usually takes place annually during Christian Aid Week in May, with a House-toHouse collection, and a retiring collection on Christian Aid Sunday, when we have a video or a speaker to tell the congregation about some

of the individuals whose lives have been transformed with help. Sadly, because of the Coronavirus pandemic, none of these events were able to take place this year; neither were store collections, which are another way we raise funds for Christian Aid. However, once the Church returns to a more ‘normal’ life, we plan to acknowledge, celebrate, and support the valuable contribution that Christian Aid makes around the world, during our Harvest Festival service in October, including a retiring collection.

We hope that our regular events will be able to take place during 2021 – 2022.

Karibuni Children – Joy Murphy

Last year really was a challenge to us all, and not least for those we support and work with in Kenya. Last year I told of how Karibuni had been able to raise extra money through generous donors, and by using a significant amount from reserves, to continue feeding the children and their families. This did cause many difficulties for the social workers who were approached and sometimes threatened by men not connected with the projects. The brave staff (mainly young women) confronted them and were able to send them away empty handed. In the meantime, very young,

hungry children unknown to the projects, but who had heard about the food parcels, were arriving and often the staff were moved to provide ‘chai kidogo’ (something small) for them, from their own resources.

Back to school

In January most children returned to school and the government decreed that both this year and next should each have four terms to replace the terms lost through the shutdown. For the children and staff this has meant very short holidays and increased pressure. For Karibuni it has meant an extra term’s fees for two years! It is difficult to know what the Covid infection rate is in Kenya –

their official figures are very low, but quite different to the accounts we hear from the social workers on the ground.

We are experiencing rising prices of food and fuel here at home, and many people are struggling as a result. In Kenya, having lost crops last year to plagues of locusts, quickly followed by floods and then drought, all during the Covid pandemic, the cost of living has increased alarmingly. This obviously has repercussions for our fundraising this year.

Joy Murphy making a surprise visit pre-Covid-19

We have been able to have monthly zoom meetings with the social workers from the 6 largest projects, and this has been an invaluable tool, giving moral support to them and encouraging us. This has been so useful to both

sides, that it will continue in some way even after Covid. There have been some challenges – Kenya suffers from regular electricity cuts, and poor internet connections plus, on one occasion, a deluge of rain which, falling on a tin roof, made it impossible to hear what our Kenyan friends were saying!

Last year we were unable to have many fundraising events, although we did manage to have our annual quiz, albeit via zoom thanks to some very talented friends! This was successful and we raised almost the same amount as we do with our face-to-face quizzes, which we are hoping to have in January 2022 – possibly a hybrid affair to enable people not local to Aylesbury to join in.

Karibuni oven gloves

There are several small sales of Karibuni merchandise booked so far, including one in Wingrave Methodist Church on November 27th (2pm - 4pm) and one at Stone Village Hall on December 3[rd] . There are also two primary and a secondary school offering support in different ways – we are always delighted when young people want to be involved with Karibuni, and a Methodist Church in Kendal is going to adopt Karibuni as their Christmas project.

We are beginning to feel we are at

the beginning of a re-opening of opportunities and are ready to take advantage of this. Several of us are ready and eager to go out to churches and other groups and share information about the work being done in Kenya among the children from the ‘poorest of the poor’.

Again, thank you for the support you continue to give to Karibuni – our hope is that none of us grow tired of enabling the children to reach their potential.

Link to Hope – Margaret Miskin

As was expected, our Link to Hope shoe box appeal was down on previous years as many of our regular donors were in isolation due to Covid-19 so found it difficult to participate. However, many very generously donated money which I then used to buy goods to fill some shoe boxes. From our local area, 85 boxes were sent to Link to Hope’s main warehouse in Worthing ready to go on their journey to Romania and surrounding countries.

MHA – Jennie Torpey

MHA, (originally called Methodist Homes for the Aged), is a charity founded in 1943 by members of the Methodist Church. The charity provides care, accommodation, and support services for older people throughout Britain.

Their mission is to inspire the best care and wellbeing at every stage of later life, and are proud to be recognised as a leading provider of care and support in later life. They provide:

care homes, many offering specialist dementia or nursing care.
retirement living communities, with access to social and leisure facilities and flexible care if and when needed.
‘Live at Home’ community services to support those who wish to live independently in their own homes.

At Aylesbury Methodist Church we usually have an annual retiring collection in June on MHA Sunday, sometimes inviting a speaker to tell us more about their work, especially about the local project, Hillside Care Home, just along the road from the Church. Sadly, due to the church closures during the Covid-19 pandemic, MHA Sunday collections have been unable to take place for the past two years.

We have strong ties traditionally with Hillside, partly because of our proximity, since AMC is more accessible for residents to attend our Sunday services, if they are able. Our Minister and others regularly hold a short communion service for

the residents at the home, and Hillside have, in the past, held a service at AMC for families and friends to remember those residents who have passed away. Funerals of Hillside residents also sometimes take place at our Church.

However, again, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, communion services at Hillside were required to cease in March 2020, although it is planned to resume these in November 2021.

Whitechapel Mission - Ruth & Peter Watkins

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We are pleased to report that we were able to support the Mission at Harvest time this year, both with food, clothing, and money. Despite a smaller congregation than usual for Harvest the gifts were very generous. Unfortunately, the Easter Breakfast did not take place, but I know some folk made a direct gift to the mission.

We have kept in touch with Tony Miller during the past year and we report that they have done sterling work coping with those clients unable or unwilling to access the help from the government. Now some of the restrictions are behind them, they have identified a new need for advice mainly to do with debt

and have managed to employ another person to help with this.

FINANCE

Notes to the accounts – Roger Kirk

Basis of accounts

This year our formal accounts will be submitted, through the formal Methodist channels, on the Accruals basis. This allocates income and expenditure to the year to which they relate rather than in which they were received or paid, thus providing a more meaningful picture of the accounts.

The year 2020/21 - General Fund

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Roger Kirk – Church Treasurer
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Roger Kirk – Church Treasurer The accounts were affected by the closure of the Church, this time from December Roger Kirk - Church Treasurer 2020 to May 2021 due to the Corona Virus pandemic. Lettings income, at £23,982 was again affected and was less than the £29,281 of the previous year.

To compensate for the loss of lettings income, additional income of almost £12,000 was received from members donations (£6,839) and the Governments job retention scheme (£4,966). A further benefit was the discount of 10% on the Circuit contribution, thus saving £8,000.

On expenditure, we spent £2,916 on improving the security system of the building and £1,816 on repairs to a door and a window in room 4 and 6 respectively.

The net result for the year was a surplus of £9,126, increasing our general fund balance to £44,214.

Restricted Funds

The Welcome Area Fund shows a balance of £3,393 and we are still waiting to pay the final balance to the contractor once all snags have been completed.

Joy Murphy making a surprise visit pre-Covid-19

Balance Sheet

Balance Sheet	Balance Sheet
Assets and Liabilities include the following debtors and creditors.
Debtors and prepayments Tax refund Letting fees Water Furlough grant Stoke Mandeville MC Payment in advance to Circuit Deposit on new noticeboard Creditors Utilities Gift Aid to Stone MC	£ 5,815 2,444 521 262 52 7,227 975 17,296 300 592 892

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

Informal income and expenditure account for the year ended 31st August 2021

General (Unrestricted) Funds on accruals basis

Note: The full accounts submitted to the Vale of Aylesbury Circuit will be found in an appendix to the Trustees Report.

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH	AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH	AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH
Informal income and expenditure account for theyear ended 31st August 2021
General(Unrestricted) Funds on accruals basis
*Note: Thefull accounts submitted to the Vale of Aylesbury Circuit will befound in an appendix to the Trustees Report.*

2019/20	GENERAL FUND	2020/21
£		£
	INCOME
87,993	Offerings & tax recovered:	83,232
69,455 18,538	Collection (services, standing orders and annual) Income Tax refund	67,673 15,559

131	Bank & CFB interest and investment income	13

29,281	Lettings	23,982

44,251	Other income,detail in shaded area below:	19,922
3,470 7,805 27,302 3,205 881 1,488 100	Fund raising Donations and legacies Layworker (last year) and Young Leaders Scheme grants Government Job Protection Scheme re Covid 19 Weddings and funerals Coffee Bar profits Miscellaneous	3,180 6,839 4,000 4,966 926 12 -

161,656	Income Grand Total	127,150

	EXPENDITURE
83,184	Circuit contribution	74,616

-	Donations and subscriptions	1,000

21,299	Repairs & maintenance,detail in shaded area below:	13,524
11,014 7,704 2,581	Building maintenance Cleaner's wages and supplies Equipment maintenance (incl.organ & piano)	2,157 6,154 5,213

13,159	Utilities & insurance,detail in shaded area below:	11,292
9,612 3,547	Heat, light, water and refuse Insurance	7,742 3,550

45,419	Other expenditure,detail in shaded area below:	17,602
3,537 9,599 27,552 2,264 1,570 897	Administration Administrators - wages, less Circuit share Layworker (last year only) and Young Leaders Scheme Telephones Church Activities Publicity & miscellaneous expenses	2,126 9,320 2,902 1,738 1,025 491

163,061	Total Expenditure, excl. Welcome Area Improvements	118,034
( 1,405)	NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) FOR THE YEAR accruals basis	9,116
36,867	Balance brought forward 1/9/2020	35,088
35,462	Subtotal	44,204
( 373)	Net transfers between funds, excl. Welcome Area Fund	10
35,089	Subtotal	44,214
	Welcome Area Improvements:
*111,990*	Funds transferred from the Welcome Area Fund	-
**( 111,990) **	Above funds then expended on the Welcome Area and capitalised	-
35,089	GENERAL LIQUID FUNDS AT 31/8/21 C/ FWD.	44,214

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Informal Income and Expenditure Accounts for theyear ended 31 August 2021
Restricted Funds, Endowments and Church Organisations
*Note: Thefull accounts submitted to the Vale of Aylesbury Circuit will befound in an appendix to the Trustees Report.*

RESTRICTED FUNDS
2019/20			Welcome Area Fund	Benevolent Fund	Total 2020/21
£			£	£	£
	Income
64		Offerings		5	5
6,272		Grants,donations,etc & tax recovered	-		-
6,336	Total income		-	5	6
	Payments
3,423		Other expenses	-	-	-
		(£102,352 treated in 2018/19 aspart of
		'Transfer betweenfunds' below)
3,423	Total expenditure		-	-	-

2,913	Net income/ (expenditure)		-	5	6
-	Earlieryears' expenditure capitalised		-		-
		(added to and treated in 2018/19 aspart
		of 'Transfer betweenfunds' below)
-	Transfers between funds		-		-
2,913	Net income/ (expend.) after transfers		-	5	5

870	Balances brought forward 1/9/2020		3,393	390	3,783
2,913	Net income/ (expenditure)		-	5	5
3,783	Balances carried forward 31/8/2021		3,393	395	3,788

ENDOWMENT FUNDS HELD BY THE TRUSTEES FOR METHODIST CHURCH PURPOSES
Totals 2019/20			Mead Bequest	Stranks & Staley's Bequests	Totals 2020/21
£			£	£	£
			Restricted	Unrestricted
3,746	Balances brought forward 1/9/2020		210	3,548	3,759
25	Income		1	10	10
( 25)	Paid to General Fund		( 1)	( 9)	( 10)
-	Paid to J Team and Choir		-	-	-
13	Change in Value of investments		-	( 27)	( 27)
3,759	Balances carried forward 31/8/2021		210	3,521	3,731

CHURCH ORGANISATIONS
£	Income				£
		Offerings & tax recovered
		Investment income,etc
5,591		Other income			1,846
5,591	Total income				1,846
	Payments
4,976		Other expenses			3,066
4,976	Total expenditure				3,066

614	Net income/ (expenditure)				( 1,221)
398	Transfers between funds				-
1,012	Net income/ (expend.) after transfers				( 1,221)

10,702	Balances brought forward 1/9/2020				11,715
1,012	Net income/ (expenditure)				( 1,221)
11,714	Balances carried forward 31/8/2021 *				10,494
	* Excludes Endowment Mead Bequest Fund, which is shown above.

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH	AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH	AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH	AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH	AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH	AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH	AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH	AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH	AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

Informal Summary of Income and expenditure accounts for theyear ended 31st August 2021
(on Accruals Basis)
All Funds

*Note: Thefull accounts submitted to the Vale of Aylesbury Circuit will befound in an appendix to the Trustees*							*Report.*


Actual 2019/20 accruals basis			General Fund	Resticted Funds	Endow- ment Funds	Church Organ- isations		Totals
£			£	£		£		£

173,608	Income		127,150	6	10	1,846		129,012

	Expenditure, excl. Welcome Area
171,459		improvements	118,034	-		3,066		121,100

2,149	Net income/(Expenditure)		9,116	6	10	( 1,220)		7,912

	Welcome Area improvements:
-	Earlieryears' expenditure capitalised			-				-
-	Expenditure capitalised thisyear		-	-				-

13	Change in value of investments				( 27)			( 27)

2,162	Subtotal		9,116	6	( 17)	( 1,220)		7,885

-	Net transfers between funds:							-
		Welcome Area Fund	-	-
		Other funds	10	-	( 10)	-

2,162	Subtotal		9,126	6	( 27)	( 1,220)		7,885

43,176	Liquid Funds Balances b/fwd 1/9/2020		35,088	3,783	3,759	11,715		54,345

45,338	Liquid Funds Balances c/fwd 31/8/21		44,214	3,789	3,732	10,495		62,230

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

Informal Statement of Assets and Liabilities on an accruals basis as at 31st August 2021 Note: The full accounts submitted to the Vale of Aylesbury Circuit will be found in an appendix to the Trustees Report.

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Informal Statement of Assets and Liabilities on an accruals basis as at 31st August 2021
*Note: Thefull accounts submitted to the Vale of Aylesbury Circuit will befound in an appendix to the Trustees Report.*





Actual		Funds balances at 31st August 2021			General	Restricted funds			Church	Total
2019/20					fund	Welcome	Benevol-	Endow-	orgs.
						area	ent	ments
£					£	£	£		£	£
54,345		Liquid Fundsper Income & Expend. accounts			44,214	3,393	395	3,731	10,495	62,228
1,015,720		Capitalised expenditure			1,015,720					1,015,720
1,070,065		Total funds			1,059,934	3,393	395	3,731	10,495	1,077,948

		Represented by:

		Assets:
		Capitalised expenditure on fixed tangible assets:
1,015,720			Communitycentre improvements at cost b/f		1,015,720					1,015,720
-			Welcome area improvements at cost thisyear		-					-
1,015,720					1,015,720					1,015,720
		Current assets
			Bank balances
15,124				HSBC current	14,569					14,569
9,507				HSBC deposit	8,626					8,626
182				Metro current	755					755
4,912				Central Finance Board	4,360	3,393	395		128	8,276
100				Imprest account	100					100
11,557				Held bychurch organisations					10,366	10,366
			Endowment funds accounts*							-
3,548				Stranks & Staley's bequests				3,521		3,521
210				Mead bequest(J Team and choir)				210		210
17,861			Debtors andprepayments		17,296				-	17,296
63,001			Total current assets		45,706	3,393	395	3,731	10,495	63,720

		Current liabilities
850			Lettings deposits		600					600
7,819			Creditors and amounts received in advance		892					892
8,669			Total liabilities		1,492					1,492

54,344		Net current assets(current assets less liabilities			44,214	3,393	395	3,731	10,495	62,228

1,070,064		Net assets(all assets less liabilities)			1,059,934	3,393	395	3,731	10,495	1,077,948

*Held byTrustees for Methodist Church Purposes
There are differences of up to £1 which are due to rounding.
These informal accounts show theposition as at 31st August 2021 before anycharge for depreciation of fixed assets.
The	formal accounts will includeprovision for depreciation, yet to be approved.

ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021

Putting the greatest number of people in the greatest possible danger of finding the love of Jesus Christ

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

A Registered Charity

ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS

(ACCRUALS BASIS)

for the year ended 31st August 2021

Charity Registration Number 1129749

Belonging to Vale of Aylesbury Methodist Circuit - Circuit number 23/29

Minister Church Stewards Treasurer	Rev. Richard Atkinson Gill Marks Philip Kolade Matilda Phiri Frances Aylen Jackie Simpson - Tyda Kaz Tyda Elaine Hope Gill Nord Roger Kirk

Church No

1129749

Name of Church

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) for the year ended 31 August 2021

Income	Notes to the accounts	General Fund (Unrestricted) See Note 2 * £	Designated Funds (Unrestricted) £	Restricted Funds £	Endowment Funds £	Totals 2021 £	Totals 2020 £

1 Offerings		67,673 10,839 5 15,559 - 13 18 11 1,828 33,066 -				67,673	69,455
2 Donations,legacies &grants						10,844	13,036
3 Gift aid	3					15,559	18,572
4 Interest and investment income	4					42	175
5 Income from investmentproperties						0	0
6 Internal organisations	5					1,828	5,571
7 Other charitable income	6					33,066	66,797
8Total income Expenditure		127,150	1,846	5	11	129,012	173,606

9 Circuit assessment or share		74,616 1,000 100 - 13,524 - 11,292 15,843 13,184 4,419 - 2,966				74,616	83,184
10 Grants and donations	7					1,100	155
11 Property& equipment maintenance	8					13,524	24,247
12 Insurance,utilities etc	9					11,292	13,159
13 Depreciation	1c(v),*2					15,843	15,843
14 Office expenses	10					13,184	15,400
15 Other expenditure	11					4,419	30,341
16 Internal organisations activites	5					2,966	4,976
*17 Total charitable expenditure*	* 2	133,878	3,066	0	0	136,944	187,305
18 Gains/(losses)on monetaryinvestments	13	( 27)				( 27)	13
19 Gains/(losses)on investmentproperties						0	0
20Net income/(expenditure)	* 2	( 6,728)	( 1,220)	5	( 16)	( 7,959)	(13,686)
21 Transfers between funds 22 Other gains/(losses) 23Net movement in funds 24 Total funds brought forward *25 Total funds carried forward*	14	10 - ( 10)				-	0
						0	0
		( 6,718)	( 1,220)	5	( 26)	( 7,959)	(13,686)
		1,083,396	11,715	3,783	3,758	1,102,652	1,116,338
	* 2	1,076,678	10,495	3,788	3,732	1,094,693	1,102,652

*** Note 2 of Notes to Accounts shows division of the General Fund between unrestricted Funds and Property Reserve.**

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Name of Church

Church No.

1129749

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

Balance Sheet as at 31 August 2021

Fixed Assets	Notes to the accounts	General Fund (Unrestricted) £	Designated Funds (Unrestricted) £	Restricted Funds £	Endowment Funds £	Totals 2021 £	Totals 2020 £

Land and buildings	15	849,831				849,831	854,609
Welcome Space	15	95,190 87,443				95,190	100,790 92,909 0
Contents						87,443
Investmentproperties						0
Investments	16				3,732	3,732	3,758
*Total fixed assets*		1,032,464	0	0	3,732	1,036,196	1,052,066
Current Assets
Debtors andprepayments	17	17,296				17,296	17,861
Loans bythe Churches						0	0
Investments with TMCP						0	0
Central Finance Board Deposits	18	4,360	129	3,788		8,277	4,913
Cash at Bank and in hand	18	24,050	10,366			34,416	36,471
*Total current assets*		45,706	10,495	3,788	0	59,989	59,245
Current liabilities
Creditors (due in under 1 year)	19	1,492				1,492	8,659
Grantspayable within 2018-19						0	0
*Total current liabilities*		1,492	0	0	0	1,492	8,659
*Net current assets / liabilities*		44,214	10,495	3,788	0	58,497	50,586

*Total assets less current liabilities*		1,076,678	10,495	3,788	3,732	1,094,693	1,102,652

Long term liabilities(due after more than oneyear)
Grantspayable after 2019/20						0	0
Loans to the Church						0	0
						0	0
*Net assets*		1,076,678	10,495	3,788	3,732	1,094,693	1,102,652

Funds of the Church

Funds of the Church
General Fund(Unrestricted)	20	1,076,678	10,495 3,788 3,732			1,076,678	1,083,396
Designated Funds(Unrestricted)			10,495			10,495	11,715
*Total Unrestricted Funds*						1,087,173	1,095,111
Restricted Funds				3,788		3,788	3,783
Endowment Funds					3,732	3,732	3,758
*Total Funds*		1,076,678	10,495	3,788	3,732	1,094,693	1,102,652

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Aylesbury Methodist Church

Church no. 1129749

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

1 Basis of accounting and accounting policies
a. Basis of Accounting

The accounts have been prepared under the historic cost convention, (except where noted below) and in compliance with the Standard of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), and the Charities Act 2011.

b. Public benefit entity

Aylesbury Methodist Church of Buckingham Street, Aylesbury meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. It is an unincorporated charity.

c. More on the basis of accounting, including departures from the historic cost convention.
i The accounts have been prepared on an accruals basis.
ii The accounts are designed to show a true and fair view of Aylesbury Methodist Church's financial position and activities. iii Quoted investments are shown at their market value, rather than cost. iv Tangible fixed assets values:
- As the original cost of the church's land and buildings and much of the contents is not known, (apart from improvements and alterations carried out within the last 12 years), a deemed cost has been established. In the case of the land on which the church buildings stand, its estimated current use value has been used. As regards the buildings and contents, their deemed cost has been determined by using Discounted Replacement Cost (DRC) in place of actual cost. This method applies a discount, calculated by reference to the age of the building and estimated age of the contents, and their useful economic life, and applying the discount to their sum insured values.

This does not apply to additions to fixed assets aquired since 1st September 2017, where cost stated is actual cost.

v Depreciation policy: Assets held at 1/9/2017

Land upon which the church stands

Land upon which the church stands Not depreciated The church building, including community centre Over 140 years on a straight line basis Contents Over 20 years on a straight line basis

Assets acquired since 1/9/2017

Modernising church foyer ('Welcome Space') Over 20 years on a straight line basis These expected useful lives, which represent a standard/initial assessment for each asset-class, have been reviewed against current assumptions of each asset's likely further useful life.

vi All values are expressed in sterling (pounds), and have been rounded to the nearest pound.

vii The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis as the trustees are of the opinion that the church is sufficiently resourced financially and in members' support to continue for the forseeable future.
viii Income is recognised when the church becomes entitled to the resources, and the monetary value is reliably measurable, and it is considered more likely than not that the economic benefit of the income will be forthcoming. In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102), the monetary value of volunteers' time is not recognised in the accounts.
ix Expenditure is recognised when a liability is incurred, or a constructive obligation arises, where the value is reliably measurable and it is considered more likely than not that there will be an outflow of economic benefit.
x The church is not registered for VAT, and consequently expenditure on which it has been incurred has been included gross in the accounts, i.e. inclusive of the VAT.
xi The church's only monetary investments held in the year and the previous year, were those pertaining to the Stranks endowment. They are deposited with TMCP as custodian trustees, and have been valued at market value by TMPC.
xii Debtors stated represent the amounts owed to the church or prepaid by the church at the financial year end. Creditors are amounts owed by the church or have been received in advance at the financial year end.
xiii The church makes monthly contributions to the Vale of Aylesbury Methodist Circuit, which have been assessed by the circuit annually, based on the the church's main regular sources of income. The circuit remits part of the contributions received to the Northampton Methodist District by way of its assessment on the circuit. The district in turn remits most of its income from the circuits in its jurisdiction, to The Methodist Church Fund.

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Aylesbury Methodist Church

Church no. 1129749

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

2	Division of unrestricted General Funds between Liquid Funds and Property Reserve Total Total 2021 2020 2021 2020 2021 2020 £ £ £ £ £ £ 8 Total income per Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) 127,150 161,654 127,150 161,654 17 Total charitable expenditure per Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) 133,878 178,906 133,878 178,906 13 Adjust for depreciation charged in the accounts for the year - see note 15 ( 15,843) ( 15,843) 15,843 15,843 - - 17 Adjusted expenditure 118,035 163,063 15,843 15,843 133,878 178,906 18 Gains/(losses) on monetary investments - - 19 Gains/(losses) on investment properties - - 20 Net income/(expenditure) 9,115 ( 1,409) ( 15,843) ( 15,843) ( 6,728) ( 17,252) 21 Transfers between funds 10 ( 373) - - 10 ( 373) 22 Other gains/(losses) - - - - - - 23Net movement in funds 9,125 ( 1,782) ( 15,843) ( 15,843) ( 6,718) ( 17,625) 24 Total funds brought forward 35,087 36,869 1,048,309 1,064,152 1,083,396 1,101,021 25 Total funds carried forward 44,212 35,087 1,032,466 1,048,309 1,076,678 1,083,396 Liquid Funds Property Reserve	Division of unrestricted General Funds between Liquid Funds and Property Reserve Total Total 2021 2020 2021 2020 2021 2020 £ £ £ £ £ £ 8 Total income per Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) 127,150 161,654 127,150 161,654 17 Total charitable expenditure per Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) 133,878 178,906 133,878 178,906 13 Adjust for depreciation charged in the accounts for the year - see note 15 ( 15,843) ( 15,843) 15,843 15,843 - - 17 Adjusted expenditure 118,035 163,063 15,843 15,843 133,878 178,906 18 Gains/(losses) on monetary investments - - 19 Gains/(losses) on investment properties - - 20 Net income/(expenditure) 9,115 ( 1,409) ( 15,843) ( 15,843) ( 6,728) ( 17,252) 21 Transfers between funds 10 ( 373) - - 10 ( 373) 22 Other gains/(losses) - - - - - - 23Net movement in funds 9,125 ( 1,782) ( 15,843) ( 15,843) ( 6,718) ( 17,625) 24 Total funds brought forward 35,087 36,869 1,048,309 1,064,152 1,083,396 1,101,021 25 Total funds carried forward 44,212 35,087 1,032,466 1,048,309 1,076,678 1,083,396 Liquid Funds Property Reserve	Division of unrestricted General Funds between Liquid Funds and Property Reserve Total Total 2021 2020 2021 2020 2021 2020 £ £ £ £ £ £ 8 Total income per Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) 127,150 161,654 127,150 161,654 17 Total charitable expenditure per Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) 133,878 178,906 133,878 178,906 13 Adjust for depreciation charged in the accounts for the year - see note 15 ( 15,843) ( 15,843) 15,843 15,843 - - 17 Adjusted expenditure 118,035 163,063 15,843 15,843 133,878 178,906 18 Gains/(losses) on monetary investments - - 19 Gains/(losses) on investment properties - - 20 Net income/(expenditure) 9,115 ( 1,409) ( 15,843) ( 15,843) ( 6,728) ( 17,252) 21 Transfers between funds 10 ( 373) - - 10 ( 373) 22 Other gains/(losses) - - - - - - 23Net movement in funds 9,125 ( 1,782) ( 15,843) ( 15,843) ( 6,718) ( 17,625) 24 Total funds brought forward 35,087 36,869 1,048,309 1,064,152 1,083,396 1,101,021 25 Total funds carried forward 44,212 35,087 1,032,466 1,048,309 1,076,678 1,083,396 Liquid Funds Property Reserve
	8 Total income per Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) 17 Total charitable expenditure per Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) 13 Adjust for depreciation charged in the accounts for the year - see note 15 17 Adjusted expenditure 18 Gains/(losses) on monetary investments 19 Gains/(losses) on investment properties 20 Net income/(expenditure) 21 Transfers between funds 22 Other gains/(losses) 23Net movement in funds 24 Total funds brought forward 25 Total funds carried forward	Liquid Funds	Property Reserve

Property Reserve

SORP (FRS102), the fair value of the land, the buildings and contents on a DRC basis is taken as their deemed historical cost under FRS102, and treated as belonging to an expendable endowment for the church's general purposes. More on the calculation of DRC values can be found in note 15.

General Internal Welcome Benevolent Funds Organisations Area Fund Designated Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted Restricted 15,559 - - 15,559 - 13 18 13 18	General Internal Welcome Benevolent Funds Organisations Area Fund Designated Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted Restricted 15,559 - - 15,559 - 13 18 13 18	Endowment 11	Total Total 2021 2020 15,559 13,348 - 5,189 - 35	Total Total 2021 2020 15,559 13,348 - 5,189 - 35
			15,559	18,572
			31 150 11 25
13	18	11	42	175

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Church no. 1129749

Aylesbury Methodist Church

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

5 Designated Funds (unrestricted)

Internal organisations J Team (Junior Church) German Exchange Girls' Brigade Boys' Brigade Youth Club Tuesday Fellowship Choir Banner Group Flower Fund Sunbeams Toddler Group Other charitable income Fund raising Income from use of church premises Layworker grants Government Job Protection Scheme Weddings and funerals Coffee Bar profits Miscellaneous Total Grants and donations expended Aylesbury Town Chaplaincy Connexional donations: Diaconal Order Home Mission Fund Methodist Property Fund Methodist Ministers Housing Society Donation from Benevolent Fund Boys Brigade Headquarters Property & equipment maintenance and	Balances b/f Income from activities Expenditure on activities & interest & donations 391 2 - 6,987 18 - 1,305 - 950 1,616 1,365 1,526 674 - - 184 - 8 9 150 140 135 - - 258 310 413 157 - 29	Balances b/f Income from activities Expenditure on activities & interest & donations 391 2 - 6,987 18 - 1,305 - 950 1,616 1,365 1,526 674 - - 184 - 8 9 150 140 135 - - 258 310 413 157 - 29	Balances b/f Income from activities Expenditure on activities & interest & donations 391 2 - 6,987 18 - 1,305 - 950 1,616 1,365 1,526 674 - - 184 - 8 9 150 140 135 - - 258 310 413 157 - 29	Internal transfers - - - - - Benevolent Endowment Fund Restricted - - Benevolent Endowment Fund	Balance c/f Balance c/f 31/8/18 2021 2020 393 391 7,005 6,987 355 1,305 1,455 1,615 674 674 176 184 19 9 135 135 155 257 128 158	Balance c/f Balance c/f 31/8/18 2021 2020 393 391 7,005 6,987 355 1,305 1,455 1,615 674 674 176 184 19 9 135 135 155 257 128 158
	11,716	1,845	3,066	-	10,495	11,715
	General Internal Welcome Funds Organisations Area Designated Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted 3,180 - 23,982 - 4,966 926 12 - 33,066 - 500 100 150 - 100 - 150 - 100 1,000 100 repairs 2,157 6,154 6,435 - ( 1,222) 13,524 - General Internal Welcome Funds Organisations Area Designated				Total Total 2021 2020 3,180 4,540 23,982 29,281 - 27,302 4,966 3,205 926 880 12 1,488 - 101
					33,066	66,797
					500 - 100 - 150 - 100 - 150 - - 155 100 -
					1,100	155
					2,157 11,014 6,154 7,704 6,435 5,429 ( 1,222) 100
Buildings maintenance Cleaner's wages and cleaning supplies Equipment repairs and replacements Organ & piano repairs and maintenance
					13,524	24,247
					Total Total 2021 2020

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Aylesbury Methodist Church

Aylesbury Methodist Church	Church no. 1129749	Church no. 1129749
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021 9 Insurance, utilities, etc. Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Light & heat 7,518 Water ( 215) Refuse collection 439 Insurance 3,550 11,292 10 Office expenses Office wages, less Circuit contribution 9,320 Telephone 1,738 Other office expenses 2,126 13,184 11 Other expenditure Young Leaders Scheme/Layworker 2,902 Church activities 1,025 Publicity 491 Miscellaneous incl. rounding diff. 1 - 4,419 - 12 Salaries & associated costs (included in Notes 8, 10 & 11 above). Salaries were paid to 5 (4 in 2019/20) members of staff during the year and were in total as follows Gross salaries,before deduction of Circuit contribution of £3,840 20,278 Employer's: NIC 444 Pension contrib. 720 21,442	7,518 8,157 ( 215) 964 439 491 3,550 3,547
	11,292	13,159
	9,320 9,599 1,738 2,264 2,126 3,537
	13,184	15,400
	2,902 27,552 1,025 1,570 491 462 1 757
	4,419	30,341
	20,278 40,756 444 2,541 720 2,104
	21,442	45,401

There was one member of staff employed full-time last year, but none in 2020/21.

13 Gains/(losses) in value of monetary investments

Unrealised gain/(loss) in market value on endowment investments

( 27) ( 27) 13

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Aylesbury Methodist Church

Church no. 1129749

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

14 Transfers between funds

General/Welcome area

The Welcome Area Fund was instigated to raise funds for transforming the church foyer into a more welcoming space for the community in which the church stands. This was achieved during the 2018/19 financial year, and funds were transferred to the General Fund to enable the works to be carried out. These were completed also in the 2018/19 financial year. A small balance is retained in the Welcome Area Fund for use on furnishings and other future related costs associated with the space.

15	Transfer from Welcome Area Fund to General Funds Transfer from Endowment funds for Junior Church and Choir for general purposes Transfers from General Funds to to Internal Church Organisations Transfers from Internal Church Organisations to General Funds Tangible fixed assets Cost or valuation B/fwd at 1/9/20 at deemed cost B/fwd at 1/9/20 at actual cost Improvements in year at actual cost C/fwd at 31/8/21 Depreciation B/fwd at 1/9/20 Provided in year C/fwd at 31/8/21 Net book amount at 1/9/20 Net book amount at 31/8/21	General Internal Welcome Benevolent Endowment Total Total Funds Organisations Area Fund 2021 2020 Designated Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted Restricted - - - - - ( 10) ( 10) ( 25) - - 2 10 10 23 - - ( 398) - - 398 - - - - - -	General Internal Welcome Benevolent Endowment Total Total Funds Organisations Area Fund 2021 2020 Designated Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted Restricted - - - - - ( 10) ( 10) ( 25) - - 2 10 10 23 - - ( 398) - - 398 - - - - - -	General Internal Welcome Benevolent Endowment Total Total Funds Organisations Area Fund 2021 2020 Designated Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted Restricted - - - - - ( 10) ( 10) ( 25) - - 2 10 10 23 - - ( 398) - - 398 - - - - - -	General Internal Welcome Benevolent Endowment Total Total Funds Organisations Area Fund 2021 2020 Designated Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted Restricted - - - - - ( 10) ( 10) ( 25) - - 2 10 10 23 - - ( 398) - - 398 - - - - - -	General Internal Welcome Benevolent Endowment Total Total Funds Organisations Area Fund 2021 2020 Designated Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted Restricted - - - - - ( 10) ( 10) ( 25) - - 2 10 10 23 - - ( 398) - - 398 - - - - - -	General Internal Welcome Benevolent Endowment Total Total Funds Organisations Area Fund 2021 2020 Designated Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted Restricted - - - - - ( 10) ( 10) ( 25) - - 2 10 10 23 - - ( 398) - - 398 - - - - - -	General Internal Welcome Benevolent Endowment Total Total Funds Organisations Area Fund 2021 2020 Designated Unrestricted Unrestricted Restricted Restricted - - - - - ( 10) ( 10) ( 25) - - 2 10 10 23 - - ( 398) - - 398 - - - - - -
		10	-	-	-	(10)	-	-
		Land Buildings Welcome Church Total Space contents 200,000 668,943 109,305 978,248 111,990 111,990 - - 200,000 668,943 111,990 109,305 1,090,238 N/a 14,334 11,200 16,396 41,930 N/a 4,778 5,600 5,465 15,843 N/a 19,112 16,800 21,861 57,773 200,000 654,609 100,790 92,909 1,048,308 200,000 649,831 95,190 87,443 1,032,464

The expected useful lives, which represent a standard/initial assessment for each asset-class, have been reviewed against current assumptions of each asset's ilkely further useful life. No significant changes are considered necessary at this time.

Deemed cost - Discounted Replacement Cost (DRC) Insurance values at 1/9/2017:

Assets excl. land	Acquired	Insurance	Total useful Average age	Total useful Average age
	date	values	economic at 1/09/2017
	(approx)		life (years)	(years)
Buildings-church & commun. c'tre	1893/1920	3,902,168	140	110
Contents	Various	218,609	20	10
Tangible fixed assts continued……

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15 Tangible fixed assets continued

Land value £200,000 (Current use value estimated by the trustees after taking professional advice.)

DRC calculation - deemed cost at 1/9/2017

Buildings-church & commun. c'tre 3,121,734 30/140 Contents 218,609 10/20 3,340,343 Tangible fixed assets-Year ended 31st August 2020 Land Buildings Welcome Contents space Deemed cost 1/9/2017 200,000 668,943 109,305 Actual cost 2019 111,990 Depreciation to 31/8/2020 14,334 11,200 16,396 Net book value at 31/8/2020 200,000 654,609 100,790 92,910 Annual rate of depreciation 1/140 1/20 1/20 Assets excl. land Insurance values (buildings less 20% for site clearance) Anticipated future life divided by total useful economic life	Buildings-church & commun. c'tre 3,121,734 30/140 Contents 218,609 10/20 3,340,343 Tangible fixed assets-Year ended 31st August 2020 Land Buildings Welcome Contents space Deemed cost 1/9/2017 200,000 668,943 109,305 Actual cost 2019 111,990 Depreciation to 31/8/2020 14,334 11,200 16,396 Net book value at 31/8/2020 200,000 654,609 100,790 92,910 Annual rate of depreciation 1/140 1/20 1/20 Assets excl. land Insurance values (buildings less 20% for site clearance) Anticipated future life divided by total useful economic life	Buildings-church & commun. c'tre 3,121,734 30/140 Contents 218,609 10/20 3,340,343 Tangible fixed assets-Year ended 31st August 2020 Land Buildings Welcome Contents space Deemed cost 1/9/2017 200,000 668,943 109,305 Actual cost 2019 111,990 Depreciation to 31/8/2020 14,334 11,200 16,396 Net book value at 31/8/2020 200,000 654,609 100,790 92,910 Annual rate of depreciation 1/140 1/20 1/20 Assets excl. land Insurance values (buildings less 20% for site clearance) Anticipated future life divided by total useful economic life	Buildings-church & commun. c'tre 3,121,734 30/140 Contents 218,609 10/20 3,340,343 Tangible fixed assets-Year ended 31st August 2020 Land Buildings Welcome Contents space Deemed cost 1/9/2017 200,000 668,943 109,305 Actual cost 2019 111,990 Depreciation to 31/8/2020 14,334 11,200 16,396 Net book value at 31/8/2020 200,000 654,609 100,790 92,910 Annual rate of depreciation 1/140 1/20 1/20 Assets excl. land Insurance values (buildings less 20% for site clearance) Anticipated future life divided by total useful economic life	Buildings-church & commun. c'tre 3,121,734 30/140 Contents 218,609 10/20 3,340,343 Tangible fixed assets-Year ended 31st August 2020 Land Buildings Welcome Contents space Deemed cost 1/9/2017 200,000 668,943 109,305 Actual cost 2019 111,990 Depreciation to 31/8/2020 14,334 11,200 16,396 Net book value at 31/8/2020 200,000 654,609 100,790 92,910 Annual rate of depreciation 1/140 1/20 1/20 Assets excl. land Insurance values (buildings less 20% for site clearance) Anticipated future life divided by total useful economic life	Fair value on DRC basis 668,943 109,305
					778,248
					Total 978,248 111,990 41,930
Deemed cost 1/9/2017 Actual cost 2019 Depreciation to 31/8/2020 Net book value at 31/8/2020 Annual rate of depreciation
	200,000	654,609	100,790	92,910	1,048,308
	1/140 1/20 1/20

Property Reserve

Since there is no evidence of a permanent endowment, it is assumed that the money donated to build the church premises at various times, was in the expectation of their long-term use, and therefore in these accounts prepared under SORP (FRS102), the fair value of the land, and the buildings and contents on a DRC basis is taken as their deemed historical cost under FRS102, and treated as belonging to an expendable endowment for the church's general purposes.

Endowment 3,759 10 ( 10) (27)	Total Total 2021 2020 3,759 3,745 10 25 ( 10) ( 25) (27) 13	Total Total 2021 2020 3,759 3,745 10 25 ( 10) ( 25) (27) 13
3,732	3,732	3,758
Endowment	Total Total 2021 2020 7,227 6,218 5,815 7,414 2,444 4,229 1,810 -
	17,296	17,861

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Aylesbury Methodist Church

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

18 Cash at bank and in hand

Current accounts: HSBC 14,569 Metro Bank 755 Deposit funds: HSBC deposit account 8,626 Central Finance Board 4,360 129 3,393 395 Various held by Internal Church Organisations 10,366 Cash in hand - Imprest account 100 28,410 10,495 3,393 395 Creditors & accruals (due within one year) For goods and services 300 Grants and donations received in advance for expenses relating to the next financial year - Deposits held relating to use of church premises 600 Gift Aid tax to pass on 592 1,492	Current accounts: HSBC 14,569 Metro Bank 755 Deposit funds: HSBC deposit account 8,626 Central Finance Board 4,360 129 3,393 395 Various held by Internal Church Organisations 10,366 Cash in hand - Imprest account 100 28,410 10,495 3,393 395 Creditors & accruals (due within one year) For goods and services 300 Grants and donations received in advance for expenses relating to the next financial year - Deposits held relating to use of church premises 600 Gift Aid tax to pass on 592 1,492	14,569 15,125 755 182 8,626 9,507 8,277 4,913 10,366 11,557 100 100	14,569 15,125 755 182 8,626 9,507 8,277 4,913 10,366 11,557 100 100
		42,693	41,384
		300 5,809 - 2,000 600 850 592 -
For goods and services Grants and donations received in advance for expenses relating to the next financial year Deposits held relating to use of church premises Gift Aid tax to pass on
	1,492	1,492	8,659

20 Funds of the church

General funds (unrestricted)

These exist for the furtherance of the church's general objectives, and are represented by the church building and its community centre, and liquid assets for use at the trustees' discretion in the achievement of those objectives, and maintaining the church's premises.

Internal church organisations (Designated fund)

These are maintained by various groups to support their activities within the church, who are required to provide annual accounts to the church council. The funds are represented by bank and cash balances.

Welcome Area Fund (Restricted)

The Welcome Area Fund was instigated to raise funds for the transformation of the church foyer into a more welcoming space for the community in which the church stands. This was achieved during the 2018/19 financial year, and funds were transferred to the General Fund to enable the works to be carried out. These were completed also in that financial year. A small balance is retained in theWelcome Area Fund for use on furnishings and other future related costs associated with the space.The Fund is represented by a balance held within the church's bank account. Income 2021 2020 2 Donations, legacies & grants - 5,167 3 Gift aid - 35 7 Other charitable income - 1,070 8Total income - 6,272 Expenditure 11 Property & equipment maintenance - 2,948 15 Other expenditure - 320 17 Total charitable expenditure - 3,268 20Net income/(expenditure) - 3,004 21 Transfers between funds - - 23 Net movement in funds - 3,004 24 Total funds brought forward 3,393 389 25 Total funds carried forward 3,393 3,393	The Welcome Area Fund was instigated to raise funds for the transformation of the church foyer into a more welcoming space for the community in which the church stands. This was achieved during the 2018/19 financial year, and funds were transferred to the General Fund to enable the works to be carried out. These were completed also in that financial year. A small balance is retained in theWelcome Area Fund for use on furnishings and other future related costs associated with the space.The Fund is represented by a balance held within the church's bank account. Income 2021 2020 2 Donations, legacies & grants - 5,167 3 Gift aid - 35 7 Other charitable income - 1,070 8Total income - 6,272 Expenditure 11 Property & equipment maintenance - 2,948 15 Other expenditure - 320 17 Total charitable expenditure - 3,268 20Net income/(expenditure) - 3,004 21 Transfers between funds - - 23 Net movement in funds - 3,004 24 Total funds brought forward 3,393 389 25 Total funds carried forward 3,393 3,393	The Welcome Area Fund was instigated to raise funds for the transformation of the church foyer into a more welcoming space for the community in which the church stands. This was achieved during the 2018/19 financial year, and funds were transferred to the General Fund to enable the works to be carried out. These were completed also in that financial year. A small balance is retained in theWelcome Area Fund for use on furnishings and other future related costs associated with the space.The Fund is represented by a balance held within the church's bank account. Income 2021 2020 2 Donations, legacies & grants - 5,167 3 Gift aid - 35 7 Other charitable income - 1,070 8Total income - 6,272 Expenditure 11 Property & equipment maintenance - 2,948 15 Other expenditure - 320 17 Total charitable expenditure - 3,268 20Net income/(expenditure) - 3,004 21 Transfers between funds - - 23 Net movement in funds - 3,004 24 Total funds brought forward 3,393 389 25 Total funds carried forward 3,393 3,393
	-	6,272
	- 2,948 - 320
	-	3,268
	- 3,004 - -
	-	3,004
	3,393 389
	3,393	3,393

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Aylesbury Methodist Church Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

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20 Funds of the church continued……

Benevolent Fund (restricted)

The Benevolent Fund exists for the relief of poverty and distress, and is required by Methodist Standing Order 651. It is represented by balances held at bank.

It is represented by balances held at bank.
Income 2 Donations, legacies & grants Expenditure 10 Grants and donations 20Net income/(expenditure) 23 Net movement in funds 24 Total funds brought forward 25 Total funds carried forward	2021 2020 5 64 - 155 5 (91)
	5	(91)
	390 481
	395	390

Endowment Funds

These arise from bequests in the past. They are:

Mead, for general purposes

Stranks and Staley, for the junior church and the church choir

The endowment funds are represented by investments and CFB balances held. The information below combines the Stranks and Staley

Mead Stranks & Mead Stranks & Staley Staley 1 10 2 23 (27) 13 2020 2021	Mead Stranks & Mead Stranks & Staley Staley 1 10 2 23 (27) 13 2020 2021	Mead Stranks & Mead Stranks & Staley Staley 1 10 2 23 (27) 13 2020 2021	Mead Stranks & Mead Stranks & Staley Staley 1 10 2 23 (27) 13 2020 2021
1	(17)	2	36
( 1) ( 9) ( 2) ( 23) - ( 26) - 13 210 3,548 210 3,535
210	3,522	210	3,548

21 Capital Commitments and contingent liabilities

The church had no capital commitments at 31st August 2021. There were no known contingent liabilities at that date.

22 Loans and creditors due after one year

There were no loans or other liabilities due after more than one year as at 31st August 2021.

23 Related party transactions

Relationship Contibutions to Vale of Aylesbury Method.Circuit Connexion Methodist Connexional Funds: Methodist Fund for Property Connexion Diaconal Order Connexion Home Mission Fund Connexion Methodist Ministers Housing Soc. Connexion Aylesbury Town Chaplaincy Charity Name of related party	Payments to related par- ties 2020/21 74,616 100 100 150 150 500 75,616	Payments to related par- ties 2019/20 89,402 - - - - -
	75,616	89,402

Trustees employed by Aylesbury Methodist Church in other roles (other than the minister's stipend): - Melvina Brown as Layworker - Gross salary, employer's pension and NIC's 27,552

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23 Related party transactions continued

Trustees who received fees in respect of weddings/funerals: Rev. Richard Atkinson 295 754 John Miskin 95 -

24 The church trustees

The trustees are the members of the church council. Those who served in the year ended 31st August 2021 were: Superintendent minister: Leadership team: Representatives appointed by Rev. Richard Atkinson Rev. Richard Atkinson the Annual Church Meeting: Team ministry: Jenny Torpey John Miskin Arthur Sara Kevin Hardern Barbara Trend Secretary: Margaret Miskin David Neville Jackie Simpson - Tyda Vivienne Kemp Pauline Latham Church stewards: Trevor Nord Lynn Berstone Gill Marks Peter Green Stephen Marks Philip Kolade Tim Olufosoye Paul Ingram Matilda Phiri Peter Farmer Albert Odro Frances Aylen Circuit steward: Rae Garden Jackie Simpson - Tyda Keith Wallace Sandy Steeden Kaz Tyda Elaine Hope Elaine Hope Karen Crussell Gill Nord Church treasurer: Roger Kirk

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AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH …………………………………No 1129749

Declarations and Scrutiny

I confirm that these accruals-based accounts for the year to 31 August 2021 have been prepared from the records of the Church and that they include all funds under the control of the Church trustees.

Signature of treasurer ……………………………………………………… Date…………………….. Name and address of treasurer: Roger Kirk………………………………………………….

77 Aylesbury Road, Bierton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5BT

Presentation to the Church trustees

I confirm that the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2021 were/will be* presented to the meeting of the Church trustees held on ……………..

Signature of the Chair of the meeting ……………………………………………………………………

Name of the Chair of the meeting: Rev. Richard Atkinson………………… Date ……………………

Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

Charity Number 1129749

Responsibilities and basis of report

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Aylesbury Methodist Church for the year ended 31 August 2021 set out on pages 1 to 11. As the Church’s trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

I report in respect of my examination of the Church’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and, in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission

under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

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Independent Examiner’s Statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which give me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records; or

the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view, which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination the trustees’ annual report is not consistent with the accounts

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with 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 have obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts, bank balances and funds at the Central Finance 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: Michael Foote…………………………………….

Relevant professional qualification of independent examiner: FCA

Address 8 Bates Lane, Weston Turville, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Post Code: HP22 5SL

Date …………………………………………

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Aylesbury Methodist Church.......---.-.-----.....---.-... No 1129749 IndePdt Examlnorfs Statement I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material rnatters have corne to my attentn in connection with the exarnination whKh give me cause to believe that in. any material respect. the accountin8 records were not kept in accordance with sertion 130 of the Act. or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records; or the accounts do not compty with the applicable requirements concerning the forni and Content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulab"ons 2(NJ8 other than any requirement that the accounts give a Irue and fairf view. which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination the trustees, annual report is not consistent with the aCcnts I have no concerns and have come across no other matter5 in Connecti( with the examination to vthich attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understsnding of the accounts to be reached. I have obtsined independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for Methodist ChuKh Purpose5 or held in othef trusts. bank balances and funds at the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church which are individually in excess of £IO,(XXJ (ten th(wsand pounds) at the balance sheet date. Signare of independent examiner Name of independent examiner: Michael Foote.-.---..-----.....---.... Relevant professional qualffication of independent examiner: FCA Address 8 Bates Lane. west Turville. Aylesbury. Buckithmshire Post Code: HP22 SSL Date 30th October 2021 Page 13

CONTENTS

ORGANISATION

YOUTH

ACTIVITIES

Friday Food – Karen Crussell

SOS – Lynn Bernstone

CHARITIES

MHA – Jennie Torpey

FINANCE

Notes to the accounts – Roger Kirk

Basis of accounts

The year 2020/21 - General Fund

Restricted Funds

Balance Sheet

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

Informal income and expenditure account for the year ended 31st August 2021

General (Unrestricted) Funds on accruals basis

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS

for the year ended 31st August 2021

Name of Church

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) for the year ended 31 August 2021

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

Balance Sheet as at 31 August 2021

Funds of the Church

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

Property Reserve

Aylesbury Methodist Church

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

Aylesbury Methodist Church

13 Gains/(losses) in value of monetary investments

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

14 Transfers between funds

General/Welcome area

Property Reserve

Aylesbury Methodist Church

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31st August 2021

18 Cash at bank and in hand

20 Funds of the church

General funds (unrestricted)

Internal church organisations (Designated fund)

Welcome Area Fund (Restricted)

Benevolent Fund (restricted)

Endowment Funds

21 Capital Commitments and contingent liabilities

22 Loans and creditors due after one year

23 Related party transactions

23 Related party transactions continued

24 The church trustees

Declarations and Scrutiny

Presentation to the Church trustees

Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the

AYLESBURY METHODIST CHURCH

Charity Number 1129749

Responsibilities and basis of report

Independent Examiner’s Statement