||Trustees'|Trustees'|Trustees'|Trustees'|Annual|Report|Report|for the|for the|period|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||From||Period start date||||T|Period end||date|||| ||||Day||Month|Year|O|Day||Month|Year||| ||||1||Sept|2022||31||Aug|2023||| ||||||||||0|0|||| |||Charity|||name||||Central|Methodist|Church||| |Other names charity||is known
by||||||Lune Street Methodist
Church|||||| |Registered
charity number||||(ifany)
1131157|||||||||| ||Charity's
principal|||address
Lune||Street|||||||| ||||||Preston||||||||| ||||||Postcode PR1 2NL||||||||| |mes|ofthe charity trustees|||who manage the charity|||||||||| ||Trustee name||||Office (ifany)||Dates
whole||acted ifnot for
year||Name ofperson (or body)
entitled to appoint trustee (if
any)||| |1|Rev Barbara Peititt||||Minister/Chair||||||||| |2|Davina
Hinchliffe||||||||||General|Church|Meeting| |3|Ruth Millward-Hopkins||||Church Steward||||||General|Church|Meeting| |4|Julia Blackett||||Church Steward||||||General|Church|Meeting| |5|Susan Burgess||||Church Steward||||||General|Church|Meeting| |6|Olwen Swindlehurst||||Pastoral Secretary||||||General|Church|Meeting| |7|Paul Blackett||||Treasurer||||||General|Church|Meeting| |8|Peter Johnstone||||||||||General|Church|Meeting| |9|Maureen
Abson||||||||||General|Church|Meeting| |10|Peter Abson||||||||||General|Church|Meeting| |11|Ronald Bosworth||||||||||General|Church|Meeting| |12|Richard
Billingharn||||||||||General|Church|Meeting| |13|Sheena Rhodes||||||||||General|Church|Meeting| |14|Naseerah
Patel||||Secretary||||||General|Church|Meeting| |15|Valerie Waterhouse||||Secretary||||||General|Church|Meeting| |16|Geoff Tyson||||Safeguarding|Officer|||||General|Church|Meeting| |7|Sarah O'Halloran||||Safeguarding
/ Resources|Officer
Chair|||||General|Church|Meeting| |18|||||||||||General|Church|Meeting| |19|||||||||||General|Church|Meeting| |20|||||||||||||| ||Names ofthe trustees||for||the charity,|ifany, (for||example, any custodian trustees)|||||| ||Name||||||Dates acted|||ifnot for|whole year||| |Names and addresses ofadvisers|(Optional
information)||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |T pe ofadviser
Name|Address||||| |Name ofchief executive or names|ofsenior staff members
(Optional
information)||||| ||~
4|R|||| |Description ofthe charity's trusts|||||| |Type ofgoverning
document|Constitutional
Practice and Discipline|ofthe Methodist|Church||| |How the charity is corIstituted|Deed of Union 1932||||| |Trustee selection methods|Appointed
annually
by the General Church
Meeting||||| |Additional
governance
issues|(Optional
information)||||| |You may choose to include
additional
information,
where
relevant,
about:|Central Methodist
Church forms part ofthe Preston Ribble Methodist
Circuit, which falls under the governance
ofthe Lancashire
Methodist
District.
Nationally
Central
Methodist
Church
is part ofthe Methodist
Connexion.||||| |~ policies and procedures|||||| |adopted for the induction
and|The church was governed
by the church council which||consisted|of 17|| |training
oftrustees;|elected members
from across the life|ofthe church. The Church||Council|| |~ the charity's
organisational|met 4times in the year.||||| |structure
and any wider|||||| |network
with which the|A resources committee was responsible
for overseeing||the property||and| |charity works;|finance with recommendations
made|to the church council for approval.|||| |~
relationship
with any related
parties;|Separate committees
met to oversee
pastoral care ofthe congregation
and|church
life, mission and the
adherents.|||| |~ trustees'
consideration
of
major risks and the system
and procedures
to manage|Church stewards are appointed
annually
at the General
to have oversight
with the minister ofthe whole life and
church.||Church
mission|Meeting
ofthe|| |them.|||||| |a|||||| |~|||||| |Summary
ofthe objects ofthe|'Loving God, Serving People, Changing
Lives'.||||| |charity set out in its|||||| |governing
document|||||| |||||||||Loving|God||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||~|We offer public Christian
worship
on Sundays
at 10.30am and||| ||||||||||Wednesdays
at 1pm which is inclusive
and diverse and aims|to|| ||||||||||engage a wide range ofdifferent people.
Other public worship||is| ||||||||||offered during the Christian seasons such as Holy Week and||| ||||||||||Christmas.
Our Sunday worship
is available
online via zoom|for|| ||||||||||those unable to be with us in person.||| |||||||||~|We are also involved
with our ecumenical
partners
in offering||| ||||||||||worship
in the city centre on Remembrance
Sunday,
Advent|and|| ||||||||||Good Friday||| |||||||||~|We provide opportunities
for prayer,
Bible study and learning||| |||||||||e|We are open 7days a week when possible,
offering opportunities||| ||||||||||to share the love ofGod with others throughout
the week,||| |Summary|||ofthe main||||||including
through
the community
coffee shop.||| |activities||undertaken||||for|the||||| |public benefit|||||in relation||to|Serving|People||| |these objects|||||(include within|||~|Our building
serves the local community
in a number
ofways|—the|| |this section||||the statutory|||||Olive Grove Community
Coffee Shop is open 4 days a week,||| |declaration||||that trustees|||have||offering a space for friendship,
support
and inclusion.
The||| |had|regard|||to the guidance|||||continued
employment
ofour Coffee Shop Project Manager|by|the| |issued by|||the||Charity||||Preston Ribble Methodist
Circuit ensures that the building
is||| |Commission||||on public|||||available to community
groups such as the Preston Macular||| |benefit)|||||||||Society, Preston Friendship
Group, Peer Talk (mental
health||| ||||||||||support group) and others.||| |||||||||~|We continue to build good relationships
with the local shops|and|| ||||||||||businesses,
through
visits, church newsletters
and offering prayer||| ||||||||||and support.||| |||||||||~|We also serve the congregation,
the coffee shop customers|and|| ||||||||||the local community
through
social media, our website and various||| ||||||||||publications.||| |||||||||Changing
Lives|||| |||||||||~|We support one sponsored
child in Mexico||| |||||||||~|We remain
committed
to recruiting,
training
and supporting||| ||||||||||volunteers
across the whole range ofthe charity's
activities||| |Additional|||details of|||objectives||and activities (Optional
information)|||| |||||||||The church and Olive Grove Coffee Shop are staffed almost entirely||by|| |||||||||volunteers.
During the year there were approximately
50 people|||| |You may||choose to include||||||volunteering
across the range ofthe church's
life and ministry.
Volunteers|||| |further statements,
where||||||||undergo|interviews
and DBSchecks as required
for the role and have||| |relevant,||about:||||||safeguarding
training.|||| |~|policy|on||grantmaking;||||The Minister,
Project Manager and Cleaner received remuneration
from|||| |~|policy|programme||||related||Preston|Ribble Methodist
Circuit.||| ||investment;||||||||||| |~|contribution||||made|by|||||| ||volunteers.||||||||||| |Summary|of|the main|The main achievements
in 22/23 were:||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |achievements
ofthe charity
during the year|||Continued
our support of Ribbleton Avenue
Methodist
Junior
School. The church continues to raise funds for vulnerable||| ||||families at the school.||| ||||Christmas
'shoe boxes' filled with gifts for children
and|young|| ||||people
in poorer countries were provided
and delivered|by the|| ||||International
Aid Trust charity.||| ||||With the help ofour Project Manager,
we have increased the||use| ||||of our building
to the local community/charities
and visiting||| ||||groups.||| ||||Continuation
ofthe good work we do with the Olive Grove||| ||||Community
Coffee Shop and providing
a service in the|city|| ||||centre.||| ||||We continued
to be good stewards
ofthe building
to ensure that||| ||||the life and mission ofthe church
will continue
into the|future.|| ||||Pastoral care for all volunteers
and members
was continued||via| ||||phone,
email and post with some face toface visits.||| ||||The Olive Branch Gift offers a range of Fair Trade and|Christian|| ||||related books and gifts not available
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