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2025-08-31-accounts

Southgate Methodist Church Calderdale Circuit

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Annual Report
for year ending 31 [st] August 2025
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Administrative Information

Charitable Status and Constitution:

Southgate Methodist Church is registered with The Charity Commission as a charity, registration number 1130095. It is constituted in accordance with The Constitutional Practice and Discipline of The Methodist Church, found at www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/governance/cpd/).

Correspondence Addresses:

Minister: Church Council Secretary: Rev Godfrey Chikaviro Mr Colin Lees 55 Holly Bank 6 Broomfield Elland Elland HX5 0JT HX5 0QX

Managing Trustees:

The Managing Trustees are the Church Council, which, as at the 31[st] August 2025 was constituted as follows:

i) Minister in Pastoral Charge Rev. Colin Sherwood and Superintendent Rev. Vicky Atkins ii) Lay Pastor Mrs Pamela Hales iii)The Church Stewards Mrs Lesley Kershaw Mr Alwyn Kershaw Mrs Wilma Paton Mrs Diane Sherwood iv)Church Treasurer Mr Andrew Stopford v)Secretary of the Pastoral Committee Mrs Jenny Iredale vi)Secretary of the Church Council Mr Colin Lees vii)Representatives elected by the General Church Meeting: Mr Keith Iredale Mr James Pickles Mrs Glenys Wadsworth Mr Ray Wilkinson Mrs Margery Wilkinson Mr Graham Alsancak viii)1 Circuit Steward Mrs Keren Wild

Number of Church Members: 40

Our Aim

To mission and minister to the community of Elland alongside the other Methodist Church in Elland, namely Bethesda Methodist church and our ecumenical partners.

Our Purpose

We operate as a local Methodist Church under the provisions of the Methodist Church act 1976 which states: The purposes of the Methodist Church are and shall be deemed to have been since the date of union the advancement of:

Our Objectives

We express our aims and purposes by attempting to translate into action the Priorities of the Methodist Church by seeking to proclaim and affirm its conviction of God’s love in Christ, for us and for all the world; and renew confidence in God’s presence and action in the world and in the church-

Church Stewards

At the start of the church year there were four stewards, Lesley and Alwyn, Wilma and Diane. Lesley was Senior Steward. Colin was elected as a steward at the church AGM in November. Diane left in August to go with Rev Colin to his new appointment in Peterborough. Our thanks go to Diane for all her hard work. We’ll miss her. As the amount of work required was proving to be difficult it was decided to form a Leadership Team which included others who were willing to help. This team met for the first time in October. The team is currently:- the named church stewards Lesley, Alwyn, Colin and Wilma plus Keith and Jenny, Ray and Margery and Graham. Graham has agreed to be our safeguarding officer.

We celebrated Harvest in October when we collected items for the foodbank. We also brought toiletries and gifts for the foodbank during our gift service in December. Maria and her team do a wonderful job, Thank you for your support.

An All Souls’ memorial service was held at the end of October when a stone cairn was built and candles lit to remember loved ones.

The church was decorated for Christmas and there was a ‘Carols for All’ service on Christmas Eve and a Christmas morning service. A Christingle service was held with the Boys’ and Girls’ Brigade during one of their December meetings.

Daffodils were distributed during the Mothering Sunday service and we added items to the cross during Lent. On Easter Sunday the cross was decorated with flowers and placed outside the Church.

In July we held a farewell lunch for Rev Colin and Diane after his last morning service. This was our ‘Southgate ‘goodbye. Colin was presented with gifts and mementoes of his time as our minister. A circuit farewell service was also held at Southgate. This was followed by a bring and share meal and was attended by other churches in the circuit.

Thank you to everyone who has helped in any way to make these services a success.

A huge thank you to the Leadership team for all your hard work. It isn’t always easy but we’re working well together.

As you know, changes have been taking place in the Calderdale Circuit with the formation of the clusters and a review of how this is working will take place soon.

In Elland talks have been taking place between Southgate and Bethesda to try and find the best way forward together in the future. After a discussion at Southgate earlier in the year a further joint meeting for all members of both congregations took place at Bethesda in July. We were asked to think and talk

about our hopes and fears about joining together in the future. We were asked what we valued most about our own church and what we would be willing to let go. Not easy questions. The meeting was very well attended by members of both churches and we joined together in mixed groups to discuss this. It was decided to hold a day of prayer in both churches and this took place in August. Prayer stations were set up in both churches and prayer cards were available. There are still some left if you haven’t already seen one. Here at Southgate at one of the prayer stations we were asked to plant a tiny seed and pray for growth. The seeds planted have grown. The shoots are tiny and not very strong but they have grown even though all that has been provided is water and sunshine. Perhaps this is a sign for us. From small beginnings great things can grow. We just need to trust in God.

The Leadership teams from both churches have met together and will continue to do so on a regular basis. We want to try and do more together so that the congregations at both churches can get to know each other better. We will be using members of both churches at our joint services and also for LA services. Other joint ventures will follow.

As I said before. Change is unsettling but it is inevitable. We must work together and with God’s help we can come together as one Church and be stronger in the future..

‘We will praise Him for all that is past and trust Him for all that’s to come’

Lesley

Treasurer

Annual Figures:-

Income 24-25 £ 89261 (23-24 £85033) Expenditure 24-25 £ 97113 (23-24 £97168)

Funds Held:

Funds Held: Funds Held:
31st August 2024
General Fund (combined)
£ 20556
Memoriam Fund
£ 1233
Property Reserve Fund
£ 1908
TMCP Investments
£116050
£139747		 31st August 2025
£ 32071
£ 1289
£ 1995
£ 96050
£131405
£139747

Notes

1) Combined general fund is made up of:

General Account

Property Account

General & Property Fund Central Finance Board Deposit Accounts

Treasurer's Report

The Standard Form of Accounts has been completed on a receipts & payments basis. There have been no serious incidents.

This has been another difficult year which has ended with a deficit of £7852. This deficit is less than anticipated which is welcome news, but it is still significant and unsustainable. The reduced deficit is all as a result of improvements to room hire income (see later in this report). There was an overall deficit on the previous year of £11562. I have previously reported to the F&P Committee and to the Church Council that we cannot continue with deficits of this scale. The Circuit Assessment has increased by its maximum permitted 10% during the year, from £33500 to £36400.

We have received all of our due Gift Aid refunds this year. The amount received was £5743, of which £215 was paid to the Boys/Girls Brigade Unit. Gift Aid is not ‘extra income’, but income we budget on receiving year to year. We continue to benefit from the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS). We have once again received several one-off or regular donations (some Gift Aided) from friends old and new, offering support, for which we are grateful. I repeat my reminder to members that it is essential that we ensure that all Gift Aid claims are accurate and verifiable. All providers of Gift Aid declarations have a personal legal responsibility to be certain that they pay sufficient income tax for Gift Aid donations to Southgate to be claimed. Colin Lees has again assisted me with the Gift Aid claim, and we both repeat our request for a volunteer to take on this responsibility.

Cashflow has, as always, been tight, but is helped enormously due to the number of people who pay their offering by standing order. I cannot stress too highly how important this regular income stream has been. Many members have once again managed to review and increase their weekly giving, which is much appreciated. We have lost a number of members over the year by death or transfer, which is reflected in the overall reducing income from offerings.

Lloyds Bank, having reviewed our accounts during last year, moved us from Business accounts to free of charge Charity accounts. This was extremely beneficial and we have had no bank charges this year. The bank has since thought better of itself, however, and has advised that a charge for charity accounts will be introduced in November 2025. These new charges are not dissimilar to the charges we previously paid.

Ongoing costs for utilities continue to be reviewed. Our energy (both gas and electricity) is supplied by British Gas. Worship activity is held in the Sykes Hall in winter months, which helps enormously with keeping costs down. Southgate’s utility costs over the year amounted to £13528, as opposed to £13215 in the previous year, a marginal increase of under 2.5 %. We are now being charged business rates by the local authority on the unoccupied sandwich shop premises – this amounts to over £1600 for the year, for which we receive precisely nothing in return.

Our property is covered by Methodist Insurance, which provides a highly specialised service to Methodist organisations. We have had one claim this year following a damaging excursion onto the shop roofs by some local youths. The claim was promptly settled. The annual premium is due in June, and we now pay the premium in monthly instalments.

The suite of premises at Southgate is regularly inspected and cleaned, necessary to ensure the cleanliness and safety of our premises both for us, and our hirers. The costs of inspections and cleaning are met from the income we receive from our hirers and shop tenants, whose rent also contributes to the funds we maintain for repairs and other unexpected costs. Room hire is now in the hands of Wilma Paton and Sue Alsancak, who have worked very hard and increased our takings considerably – see below. We continue to host the Cross Hills Pantomime, which is a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Our parade of shops still provides a vital income. All our tenants have paid all the rent due. Rental income from the shops this year was £21301 (£22266 23/24). Income from room hires was £16685 (£10066 23/24), a combined total of £37986, a welcome overall increase of £5654 on the previous year, brought about entirely because of the increased room hire which has more than offset the reduced rental income.

Southgate holds a capital sum with TMCP in Manchester. We are grateful to those who choose to support Southgate with generous donations by way of legacies. We benefit from a proportion of the income generated by the funds held at TMCP, with TMCP taking an administration fee. Interest rates have drifted downwards during the year, as expected, and the amount of income we have received from TMCP is a reduced £4746, after a fee of £377 taken by TMCP. We are able to access the capital funds at TMCP for approved projects, and, if necessary, to support general income. During a particularly tight period

in February, I was finally forced to apply to TMCP for £20,000 from the capital to support the general account. This application was approved, but the result is that our total capital sum at TMCP now stands at £96050. This application had been previously approved by the Church Council in readiness for the day that I would need to make it.

Our CFB deposit accounts (general funds and property development) have similarly paid reducing interest this year. The Memoriam Fund, into which is paid funds given in memory of deceased members and friends, most usually in the form of funeral collections, has not made any grants this year, but is steadily accumulating again after contributions from two funerals were added during the year.

There have been several fundraising events this year, bringing in £1825, and we were glad also to receive £767.52 from the after-worship coffee bar, plus £3023 from Snackattack. A proportion of Snackattack’s surplus is paid to Methodist Mission Charities, and to external charities chosen by the church.

Reserves, and the Reserves Policy continue to be reviewed. As a general rule, incoming resources should be used to meet general expenditure. It is for the Church Council, as Managing Trustees, to maintain and review strategies of building up reserves, and to ensure net income & expenditure are as close as possible. Managing Trustees are reminded of their legally binding obligations and requirements to exercise prudence and provide good governance at all times.

Thanks are due to Keith & Jenny for managing the Sunday collections, and to Alsancak for dealing with payroll & HMRC issues. The annual church accounts are being examined on a commercial basis by Messrs BM Howarth Ltd. This is a detailed and time consuming task, which has to be carried out before the accounts can be presented to the Church Council for acceptance and onward submission to the Circuit, the District, and the Connexion.

I am, as ever, grateful for the support and assistance I receive from so many people.

Count your many blessings, money cannot buy your reward in heaven, nor your home on high .

Andrew

Finance and Property Committee

My thanks to Alwyn in particular and all other members who have volunteered over the year with odd jobs; gardening; and storage clearance. It is much appreciated.

All necessary and required checks; inspections; and servicing including the 5- yearly electrical inspections have been carried out to the required standards.

Shop Units . Church Council have agreed that our block of shop units should be sold off. A Designated Advisor’s Report is being prepared by Walker Singleton and we are in discussion with Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes [TMCP] as to the way forward. It is proving to be a relatively slow process and we are still incurring costs for business rates and standing charges on the empty unit. On the advice of TMCP we are at present unable to try and relet this unit. We also incurred further expense in clearing the empty unit when it was abandoned by the tenant. Other expense has been necessary on works when the Samaritans took over Unit 3 / 4. We sadly have also had another insurance claim following vandalism once again to the Samaritans shop roof.

Quinquennial Inspection. This was arranged by the Circuit and carried out by Abbey Hanson Rowe in mid-May. We are still awaiting the report.

The Zoom licence has not been renewed; foam fire extinguishers can no longer be replaced from the 1[st] October: suitable replacements will be found. During the year, as well as miscellaneous repairs, the following required repairing or replacing: church laptop computer; boiler pump; coffee bar water heater element; car park outside lights; some emergency lights. The gents’ toilet water heater was removed rather than replaced. The upper hall kitchen fridge was replaced [the food bank contributed 50% cost]. Fly tipping was removed.

In line with our cleaning contract, costs increased from the 1[st] April. The Yamaha piano has been sold.

Maintenance of the church garden has become a major issue, as it had got into a jungle-like state because of the lack of time and volunteers to keep up to regular gardening. However, a gardening day held in mid-August did see a lot of work carried out with the appearance vastly improved, thanks to all the volunteers who turned out. I must also thank members of the Bailey family for the care and planting of the boxes filled with plants fixed to the church railings. Notwithstanding this, Church Council have agreed, subject to costings, that the planting in the garden be removed and replaced with a weed membrane and then covered with bark chippings.

The committee also considered the suitability of access and seating to and in the sanctuary following suggestions that it was proving very difficult for some members of the congregation. It was suggested that the only way these could be improved satisfactorily would be to concentrate worship in the Sykes Hall with only special services in the Sanctuary, perhaps making it into a “Mission Chapel” with some suitable alterations making it more worshipful. General agreement was reached by Church Council to the suggestion, but further discussions are necessary on services to still be held in the sanctuary and what if any modifications could be made to the Sykes Hall. A further paper on

this subject is being prepared for discussion generally and presentation to the October Church Council. [30[th] October]

Keith

Room Hire

Resource Administrator . Chris, our administrator, resigned from the post on the 31st December 2024. Thanks Chris for all the valuable work that you have done for us.

Bookings Team. Church Council decided not to fill the post of administrator, but to seek volunteers to carry out aspects of the role and the bookings team of Sue; Jenny; Wilma; David and Colin was set up. This has proved to be very successful and my thanks go to the team.

As is now standard practice, room hire rates were increased by the Finance & Property Committee from the 1st April 2025.

A room hire banner had been prepared by Chris and is now hung on the Church railings.

Room hirings have increased, partly because of the closure of the Savage Hall, with new regular bookings from the local Family Hub; Baby Ballet; Silver Band; Greetland Academy and a Dance show booked for December. The Cross Hills pantomime will also be playing in the Upper Hall once again in February 2026.

The former GB store room on the Upper Hall balcony is now hired to members of the Cross Hills technical team as a sound and lighting store.

Thanks again to anyone who has in any way assisted with the running of this vital income stream for the church.

Keith

Pastoral Committee

Another busy year with even less Pastoral Visitors to go around our 39 members.

Sadly we have lost 3 more members and continue to keep their family & friends in our prayers.

Now that Diane has moved away we only have 3 Pastoral Visitors left with no one coming forward SO we decided to put an invite in the notices asking would you like to be a Telephone Buddy/Friend. Success !!! we got 8 volunteers (Thank you all)

Rev Godfrey and I are getting our heads together and hopefully in the not too distant future we will have many more helpers.

We are aware there are quite a few members who have not got a Pastoral Visitor but we try our best to watch over you all. Membership cards will be given out soon but unfortunately I am unable to visit everyone, (as much as I’d like to)

We continue to have joint Re-Dedication Services with our Bethesda Friends and support each other.

We have recently completed a half day training course and updated our Safety/Safeguarding. Thank you all for your time with this.

Next April Rev Nick is holding a Pastoral Gathering day entitled ‘Taking Church to People’ and hopefully we will all be able to attend.

Finally I want to say THANKYOU SO MUCH to my small team who do a lot of work behind the scenes to keep the wheels turning. It really is appreciated.

Jenny

Mission

During this year money was raised for Missions through two envelope collections:

Advent Offering Collection for the work of the Methodist Church Mission in Britain Fund - £123.00 (including Gift Aid)

Easter Offerings Collection for the Methodist Church World Mission Fund - £192.50 - (including Gift Aid)

In addition to these envelope collections, additional donations have been given to Methodist Missions from the money raised by the SnackAttack coffee mornings. 20% of the money raised during the financial year 2023 – 2024 was distributed as follows:-

  1. Methodist Women in Britain - £135.00

  2. Mission in Britain Fund - £269.00

  3. World Mission Fund - £269.00

Sincere thanks to everyone for your support.

Margery

The Boys’ Brigade and Girls’ Association

Elland Boys’ and Girls’ Brigade enjoyed another eventful and enjoyable session during 2024-25. We have a good group of young people who are a pleasure to work with each week.

Our Wednesday nights can certainly be lively, and we do have a lot of fun throughout the year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the parents

and guardians of our members who are extremely supportive and are brilliant at recommending us to their friends and family.

One of the things that we always enjoy celebrating are the achievements of our young people. Congratulations to Toby who was awarded the King’s Badge this year. Toby was presented with his King’s Badge by the Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire at Howden Minster. This is the highest award in the Brigade and Toby is the first from Elland to get the new King’s Badge therefore becoming our first ‘King’s Man’ for over 75 years.

It is great to see our young people getting involved in the community as part of their badge work and we are proud of the difference they make; our Senior group have been volunteering at SnackAttack as well as helping at Elland Carnival and other local events.

Our team of Officers and helpers do a fantastic job; I would like to thank all the Officers and helpers for their continued work with the Company and to everyone else that has lent a hand over the last year. On behalf of the Company, I would also like to thank David for fulfilling the role of treasurer once again this year.

Our annual residential weekend saw us visit another PGL site. This year, we headed to Newby Whiske near Thirsk where 12 of our young people enjoyed a brilliant weekend. Three of our members also enjoyed attending Battalion Camp in Torbay.

We said goodbye to our Chaplain, Rev. Colin at the end of the session. I would like to place on record my personal thanks for all the support over his years with us and we wish him well in his new posting. We also look forward to getting to know Rev. Godfrey over the coming months and years.

We were able to hold our regular Craft Fairs in 2024-25. As usual, we had to postpone our Christmas Craft Fair due to snow but we still managed to arrange two successful events during the session. Thanks to all of you who have supported these. Our fundraising has also been supplemented by our Easyfundraising account. If you shop online, you can go through their website and the retailer donates a small percentage of the transaction to the Company. All the major online retailers are on the website and it is free to both the shopper and the Company. Go to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ellandboysgirlsbrigade to find out more.

We continue to have a strong online presence through our Facebook page. This has been invaluable in keeping in touch with our members over the past year. Our Facebook page is great at raising awareness of the Brigade in Elland and we have seen plenty of our posts reach several hundred people. Our address is www.facebook.com/EllandBB . Feel free to follow/like our page.

Finally, thank you on behalf of the Company for all of your support throughout the year.

James

Prayer Meeting

We currently have an average of 9/10 people who meet together each week on Friday mornings in the Prayer Room. Three gentlemen and 6/7 ladies endeavour to be there every Friday if at all possible! Five members of the group, volunteer to take it in turn each week, to lead our time together! And we thank them for that!

We like to begin with a hymn! Sometimes we have a theme! Usually we share thoughts, concerns, joys, sadness, laughter etc. as we share good news and not so good news, about those who are currently on our Prayer List, or people who have appeared on the TV news, or for any who we feel are in need of prayer! We also discuss worldly happenings, the weather, our own church and all other churches, and whatever else that attracts our attention! Then we go into a time of spoken and unspoken prayers!

We praise and thank the Lord for all the blessings He bestows upon us! For His presence with us and for answered prayers!

And – constantly - we pray that others will come and join us - always - regularly - sometimes – whenever! Our door is always open and you would be very welcome! God Bless.

Maureen

Together Group

After our usual summer break the group began meeting again on alternate Thursday afternoons in September. We have once again had a successful year with old and new members enjoying various activities and speakers, followed by tea or coffee and a time to chat together.

Ray entertained us with a very enjoyable afternoon of piano music and Janet Revill taught us how to play a variety of drums and other percussion instruments. We’ve had a number of different games afternoons and a humorous talk about retirement. On other occasions members have brought in photographs or treasured items and have shared their stories. The afternoon when we’re asked to imagine ourselves on a desert island and asked how we would cope brought some very interesting and very unexpected ideas. Carolyn told us about her life as a teacher.

We would be pleased to welcome any new members. There already members from other churches and the local community but we always have room for more.

Sadly, two of our very senior members have passed away. Betty and Anne will be missed by everyone. Their unfailing good humour and wonderful life experiences were a lesson to us all.

The group will recommence in September and a varied programme has been arranged with some old favourites and some new and different guests.

A huge thank you to the small group who work so hard to make our times together such a success.

Lesley

Gents’ Gathering for Grub

We are a small group of men who meet for a meal at The Toby Carvery, Ainley Top on a Wednesday evening once a month in most months of a year. Numbers vary but average about 8. Rev Colin loved to join us whenever other commitments allowed him to. We said goodbye to him at our penultimate meal of the year in July and thanked him for being one of the instigators of the group.

Colin Lees

SnackAttack

This year has seen the continuation of SnackAttack with numbers of people continuing to swell and diversify. It is so heartwarming to hear the buzz of people chatting away and feeling at home in our Christian Centre.

We are busy bees for the length of time we are here and would love it if other people could step up and help. Thanks go to everyone who mans the coffee bar and helps in the kitchen, it really is appreciated. My special thanks goes to Emma, my mate in the kitchen.

We managed to give £3023.00 to the Church. Thanks to all for your continuing support and encouragement.

Wilma

Sunday Coffee Bar

Coffee bar after church continues to be a vital part of our church life where people can catch up and perhaps feel they belong to a community of likeminded people. This is so important as we travel through life.

Great to hear we made £767.52 for Church.

If anyone feels they wish to go on the rota for coffee bar, please let me know. Thank you again for all your support.

Wilma

Table Tennis

We have 2 new members this year and numbers are up usually between 8 and 10.

We now have 3 tables; the extra one supplied free from Brighouse U3A, collected and erected by chief engineer with labouring from yours truly.

After 2 months off we started by popular demand in August and had 11 members the second week.

Philip

CHURCH CHURCH RECEIPTS RECEIPTS AND AND PAYMENTS PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS ACCOUNTS

THE THE METHODIST METHODIST CHURCH CHURCH STANDARD STANDARD FORM FORM OF OF ACCOUNTS ACCOUNTS ee Southgate Southgate Church zl FOR FOR THE THE YEAR YEAR ENDED ENDED 3 31 31 August August 2025 2025 Calderdale Circuit Circuit no. 27/34 Calderdale Circuit eee es| ee27/34 es | - - Charity Charity Registration Registration number number 1130095 1130095

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If lf not not a a registered registered charity charity His His Majesty's Majesty's Revenue Revenue and and Customs Customs Gift Gift Aid Aid number number

(The (The HMRC HMRC number number is is equivalent equivalent to to a a registered registered charity charity number number in in terms terms of of evidence evidence of of charitable charitable status Status and and may may be be used used to to give give to to donors donors or or grant grant funders funders wishing wishing to to see see evidence evidence of of the the organisation's organisation's charitable charitable status. status. Methodist Methodist charities charities in in England England and and Wales Wales that that are are not not registered registered charities charities are are excepted excepted from from registration registration under under Statutory Statutory Instrument Instrument 2014 2014 No.242) No.242)

Minister: Minister:

The The Rev Rev Colin Colin Sherwood Sherwood

Church Stewards: Church Stewards: Lesley Lesley Kershaw Kershaw Alwyn Alwyn Kershaw Kershaw Wilma Wilma Paton Paton Diane Diane Sherwood Sherwood Colin Colin Lees Lees

Treasurer: Treasurer: Andrew Andrew Stopford Stopford

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ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED AUGUST 2025 ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2026

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NTERNAL | j | enta | we PO Receipts/ nents Ad ustments balances Opening Closin balancoo
ORGANISATIONS ; | Receipts l.c-.4 | | _ Pay a 1.070 Payments 4 Adjustments balances 71 Closing balances 75.00
eo •s •Girls Brigade 5.353 6.585 1,202 8 741.00 7 539.04
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cs cS O Sub|Organisations anisatyons total of Inter funds fu n alds | 6.457 6,457 7 7,655 655 1,198 1,198 8 8,812 812 ell aiaiiiadasca| 7 7,614.04] 614.04 e12 (e12
Church Church accounts accounts (totals (totals
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c9 2 |2- totals totals column) column) 89,261] 89,261 (a7) (a7) 97.113 97,113} (b9) (b9) (7,853) (7,853) (c7) (c7) 139,258 131 ,405.36
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BY CHURCH 95,718 104,769 (9,051) 148,070 (x) 139,019.40
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STATEMENT STATEMENT OF OF ASSETS ASSETS AND AND LIABILITIES LIABILITIES
OPENING OPENING CLOSING CLOSING
CHURCH CHURCH - - CASH CASH FUNDS FUNDS HELD HELD at at 31 31 August August 2025 2025 BALANCES BALANCES BALANCES BALANCES
Cash in hand 44.00 44.00
12 Bank Bank Current Current Account Account : 4,598.00 4,598.00 19,375.17 19,375.17
Bank De it Account
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Central Finance Board 18,567.00 15,937.19
Trustees Trustees for for Methodist Methodist Church Church Purposes Purposes 116,049.00 116,049.00 96,049.00 96,049.00
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sua _|suB TOTAL TOTAL - - Church Church accounts accounts : 139,258.00 139,258.00 Peprerica 131 ,405.36 (c8)
Total Total funds funds held held by by Internal Intemal Organisations Organisations (the (the closing closing
f8 balance balance total total from from above) above) (e12) (e12) 8,812.00 8,812.00] (ell) (e11) 7,614.04 7,614.04| (e12) (e12)
f TOTAL |TOTAL CASH CASH FUNDS FUNDS HELD BY HELD BY CHURCH CHURCH . 148,070.00 148,070.00 eee (x) 139,019.40 139,019.40 (Y)
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OTHER OTHER ASSETS ASSETS and and LIABILITIES LIABILITIES
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Name Name of of Church: Church: Southgate.... Southgate......... No: No: 27/34 27/34

Dec;arations Deciarations and and Scrutiny Scrutiny

I | confirm confirm thal thal these these Receipt Receipt and and Payment Payment based based accounts accounts for for the the y year year to to 31 31 August August g 2025 2025 have have been been prepared prepared from from the the records records of of the the Church Church and and that that they they include include all all funds funds under under the the control control of of the the Church Church trustees. trustees. — Signature of treasurer Date.... coonienee ~~he~~ dete Name Name and and address address of of treasurer: treasurer: Andrew Andrew Stopford, Stopford, 330 330 Wakefield Wakefield Road, Road, Bailiff Bailiff Bridge, Bridge, Brighouse, Brighouse, HD6 HD6 4DU 4DU

Presentation Presentation to to the the Church Church trustees trustees

I | confirm confirm that that the the annual annual report report and and accounts accounts for forjthe h year year ended ended 31 31 August August 2025 2025 were/wiJl-be* presented presented to to the the meeting meeting of of the the Church Church trustees held trustees held on on Ne le CS... Signature Signature of of the the Chair Chair of of the the meeting meeting ......... CERRO cccceeeveergereen ee | Name of the Chair of the meeting .C.I:I Date ..g.. .(•• Name of the Chair of the meeting ...SZORE). CY\KAYIRD Date 2ih.0/za

Independent Independent Examiner’s Examiner's Report Report to to the the Trustees Trustees of of the the Southgate Southgate Methodist Methodist Church Church Charity Charity Number Number 1130095 1130095

"Responsibilities Responsibilities and and basis basis of of report report

I | report report to to the the trustees trustees on on my my examination examination of of the the accounts accounts of of the the Southgate Southgate Church Church for for the the year year ended ended 31 31 August August 2025 2025 set set out out on on pages pages 1 1 to to 3. 3. As As the the Church's Church's trustees, trustees, you you are are responsible responsible for for the the preparation preparation of of the the accounts accounts in in accordance accordance with with the the requirements requirements of of the the Charities Charities Act Act 2011 2011 (‘the ('the Act’). Act').

I | report report in in respect respect of of my my examination examination of of the the Church's Church's accounts accounts carried carried out out under under section section 145 145 of of the the Act Act and, and, in in carrying carrying out out my my examination, examination, I | have have followed followed all all the the applicable applicable Directions Directions given given by by the the Charity Charity Commission Commission under under section section 145(5)(b) 145(5)(b) of of the the Act. Act. “ _ ome a elias

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Independent Independent Examiner's Examiner’s Statement Statement

I | have have completed completed my my examination. examination. I | confirm confirm that that no no material material matters matters have have come come to to my my attention attention in in connection connection with with the the examination examination (other (other than than that that disclosed disclosed below) below) which which give give me me cause cause to to believe believe that that in, in, any any material material respect: respect:

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

I have have no no concerns concerns and and have have come come across across no no other other matters matters in in connection connection with with the the examination examination to to

which which attention attention should should be be drawn drawn in in this this report report in in order order to to enable enable a a proper proper understanding understanding of of the the accounts accounts to to be be reached. reached.

I | have/have have/have not not obtained obtained independent independent verification verification of of all all investments investments with with the the Trustees Trustees for for Methodist Methodist Church Church Purposes Purposes or or held held in in other other trusts, trusts, bank bank balances balances and and funds funds at at the the Central Central Finance Finance Board Board of of the the Methodist Methodist Church Church which which are are individually individually in in excess excess of of £10,000 El 0,000 (ten (ten thousand thousand pounds) pounds) at at the the balance balance sheet sheet date. date.

Signature Signature of of independent independent examiner examiner .............. SANANGS AMT teens : Name Name of of independent independent examiner examiner - Gh eCes Cole mooggu Mects aa FCA Relevant Relevant professional professional qualification qualification of of independent independent examiner examiner Gens Se sleceqeenies cist cian eae

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