_Statement from The Chairman_ ## Nurturing Growth, Seeking The Stranger As a charity, the trustees of Trinity Methodist Church remained focussed on our primary roles of Christian mission and ministry throughout the 20242025 Church Year. In the main, our vision continued primarily to be the translation of God’s extraordinary plan of salvation into real life in both our church family and our surrounding community. We continued to be guided in this by the overall Mission of our parent charity body, the British Methodist Church, to ‘spread scriptural holiness’ through the land. That has meant working on two fronts: first, the internal front – building ourselves up spiritually. And second, the external front – reaching out to our surrounding communities with the transforming Gospel of Christ. Our operational activities have centred around the study of the Holy Scriptures and the cultivation of spiritual disciplines: prayer, Bible reading, meditation. In a lot of these activities, we have strategically kept an eye on our own growth, and the other on outreach. We have sought the stranger, and we have also tried to build the spiritual home to which they will come. And we have continued to offer a pastoral presence to all other groups within the church and its surrounding community. The adjoining reports on our finances, property and premises, stewards, GDPR, pastoral work, and safeguarding all attest once again to a busy year and a hopeful future for our charity. Yours Sincerely The Reverend Greg Obong-Oshotse M.Th. _Minister_ TRINITY IIETTrK)DIST CHURCH FINANC YEAR ENDING 31.81025 Methodtst Chu 26$ Burra Road Plum tea SE18 7JW Chrlty R•gl•trallon No. 1129942 PwJ•1 014 •IcI)￿ 4 EXPENMRE ACCW YEAR ENDING 31ST AUGUST 2025 2025 Not•z 17 65687 I£1.￿ 1203 Fund 402 6397 Inler851 Cifcurt Refunds Olher Rel￿d$ ¢Tax) Trdn51er fr£ffi BuldiTrJ FWKI 179) 7051 4192 7624 1497 Retrpal IL￿11) Tothl Incom• 542 135142 13•425 EXPE14DITURe Qrcull Awssment 64350 44747 3243 U￿￿8$ Irouranca Cle&nM¥J Telephone 5779 19191 2529 5870 16248 177 7483 1765 6553 19SJ7 2297 41mlnlstralb>i 8ank ChaffJ•s R¥twi Offerlry Relu1￿ IPTnt lo Abbey Wo(Kll Mekrtenan C(xnp8gx￿. 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I110￿y RECEIVED *IID PASSED ￿ TO EXTERN￿ ORGANISAfKINB thM• •nounty •r• l• ￿ inc1￿1•d In lo¢al t11 ALAMCÈ aThL TO BE PAID dl+d2431 2alS 11.070 .8y tTDT 21.9 10.181 5•.•54 074 DECLARATIONS 23.2.2 4L*Jtt Is reqk**d IL* ¥eclth 144 ol Ihfr CtrwlbDS Acl 2011 Ilh• •LI) ￿ IhDt Cryrwtthh* S•ckn 145(SMbl c4th• ChwW*&i). b•MfvJ)S 1bT qloili•X 15thvthR•1 P.* 5dJ ## **PROPERTY REPORT TO THE TRINITY CHURCH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON SUNDAY 10[TH] MAY 2026** Calvary greetings to you all in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Church Heating: The installation of the new boilers has been completed, commissioned and fully functional. The project cost about Thirty-seven thousand pounds of which we got a grant of twentyfive thousand pounds from the district advance fund to support this project. The balance was covered from the church account. Premises use: Charlton Park Academy continues to be the major user of the building Monday to Friday. Other user groups are Scouts, Sound steps, Music School, Alcoholics Anonymous as well as other one-off bookings that come in occasionally. Inspection: All other required periodic inspections of the building are up to date except the five-year electrical condition report (EICR) that is being arranged for. The London fire service visited the building recently and outline some health and safety issues that we need to put in place. Work is still ongoing on this but most of them have been done including safety signs and emergency lightings around the premises. The was a big blockage in the building underground waste disposal system which resulted in blockage of the toilets. Contractors were called in and they removed some of the blockages and freed up the toilets but the underground waste system is still being monitored. In order to avoid future occurrence, the premises committee have stopped the use of blue tissues, installed new hand dryer in the downstairs lady’s toilet and have installed signs in all toilets for people not to flush items capable of causing blockages in the toilets. . Thank you Tolu Tikare Property Steward. ## **TRINITY CENTRE** ## **PREMISES COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT 2024-25** The Committee consists of eight members, including the Church Treasurer and Church Property Steward, and has met every two months under the chairmanship of Revd Greg Obong-Oshotse. The Church and Circuit Administrator is the Secretary to the Committee. As usual we invited representatives of Charlton Park Academy and 19+ group (Trinity People) to join us for part of each meeting. The main user group during the week is still Charlton Park Academy (Monday to Friday), We still host Scouts, Soundsteps Music School, Alcoholics Anonymous, GABTA Karate, Pilates weekly session, GCDA Cookery Club, and quarterly meetings of the Trustees of Plumstead Almshouses. The Wednesday tuition group stopped meeting at Trinity, as did the Wednesday Tamil School. Mensah Edusport used the building for activities (and meals) for children in the school holidays. Occasional one-off bookings for community events are accepted, if approved by the Committee. Sincere thanks are due to Julie our Administrator who copes with a heavy workload and undertakes many practical tasks to look after the user groups; also to Tolu our Property Steward who freely gives his time and skills to maintain a large complex building ; and the team of church volunteers who look after the Centre reception desk, Monday to Friday during office hours. KB/premises committee annual report 2024-25 ## **Stewards** There are currently nine (9) active stewards on rota that make up the stewards’ body. |Ben Godwyll|Margaret Gbadamosi|Oyebunmi Baderinwa| |---|---|---| |Femi Lawson|Josephine Adekola|Irene Fynch| |Tolu Tikare|Adebayo Joloaso|Faith Moses| Ben, Femi and Tolu have keys to the church and are trained to open and close up the church. Ben and Femi have access to the safe. On the rota, three stewards are assigned for each service with varying duties. Benjamin Godwyll, Senior Church Steward 15/04/2026 **TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE** ## **GDPR ANNUAL REPORT, 2024- 2025** Trinity’s Annual Return on Data Protection was submitted to the District to meet the deadline of 31[st] May. Prior to that submission, our Data Mapping form and Processor Record were reviewed and updated. We are making progress in securely destroying old personal information that does not need to be kept. As more archive material is transferred to the first floor archive store (formerly the computer room) we will no doubt identify more such information. No breaches of data security notified. There were no requests by individuals for access to their personal data held by Trinity. Church Council members, as Managing Trustees, were reminded to read the updated Managing Trustees Privacy Policy which is displayed on the notice board in the vestibule. It is also available online via the website of the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes (TMCP) . KB/GDPR annual report 2024-25 ## **TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH AND COMMUNTY CENTRE** ## **PASTORAL TEAM ANNUAL REPORT 2024- 2025** The Pastoral Team consisted of nine Pastoral Visitors, one of whom acted as Secretary to the Pastoral Committee. The Committee met in October 2024, and January, April, and July 2025 under the chairmanship of Revd. Greg Obong-Oshotse. Its main purpose was to receive, in confidence, reports from the Pastoral Visitors and lift up church members in prayer. In order to inform the Committee, the Pastoral Visitors made every effort to keep in contact with the members and church attenders on their lists and support them individually with prayer. It was noted that some people who were nominally church members, had not attended services or been in contact for some time. In July 2025 a personal letter was sent to each of those people (about 30 in all) asking them to make contact if they wished to continue their association with Trinity. A few responded but most did not. It was decided that their details should be kept for a while, but on a separate list, in case they decided to return to Trinity. Our first Pastoral Service, which included the Commissioning of Pastoral Visitors, was held on 16[th] February 2025. Each group had a designated area in the chapel so that they could sit with their Pastora Visitor, and they were also invited to sit with their group for the fellowship meal afterwards. In advance of the service, updated lists showing Pastoral Visitors and the names of those in their groups, were displayed in the vestibule and the congregation were invited to check in case anyone had not been allocated a Visitor. KB/Pastoral Team annual report 2024-25 ## **Trinity Methodist Church Safeguarding report for AGM** ## **May 2026** ## **Safeguarding Incident** There was no incident reported last year. ## **Training** Ongoing training continues for all volunteers. 20 volunteers including Church stewards and Sunday school teachers have completed the Foundation Module training. Online and face to face training is being facilitated by the London district Methodist church Safeguarding team and Face to face training could also be accessed when arranged by the Circuit Safeguarding Officer. ## **DBS** There is work in progress to ensure all volunteers have an up-to-date DBS certificate. At present, 11 volunteers have had their DBS completed. The Circuit Safeguarding Officer who is responsible for DBS is aware and continues to work with us to ensure all DBS are done. ## **Safeguarding Policy:** Policy is on display on the noticeboard in the reception area of the church and is also on the Church website. Winnie Williams Safeguarding Officer