## ## |Trustees|Rev. P A Billsborrow|Rev. P A Billsborrow|| |---|---|---|---| ||Mrs H Staniland||| ||I C White||| ||SBest||| ||Rev. LCatlow||| ||Rev. J Hassall||| ||Mrs V Mayers||| ||Mrs BGuile||| ||G Parkes||| ||Mrs SGraham||| ||Deacon J Taylor||| ||D J Pickles||| ||Rev A Clowes||| ||Rev P Hancock||| ||Rev T PSimms||| ||Rev H R Kirk||| ||B R Barber|(Appointed 1September 2019)|| |Charity number|1132237||| |Principal address|Methodist
District|Office|| ||Bishop's Wood||| ||Nantwich||| ||Cheshire||| ||CW5 7QD||| |Auditor|McLintocks
(NW)|Limited|| ||2 Hilliards
Court||| ||Chester Business|Park|| ||Chester||| ||Cheshire||| ||CH4 9PX||| |Bankers|Lloyds Bank pic||| ||8Foregate Street||| ||Chester||| ||Cheshire||| ||CH1 1XP||| ||Methodist
Chapel|Aid Ltd|| ||1Telford Terrace||| ||Albermarle
Road||| ||York||| ||Y024 1DQ||| ||Central
Finance Board ofthe Methodist||Church| ||9Bonhill Street||| ||London||| ||EC2A 4PE||| ## |||Page| |---|---|---| |Trustees'
report||1-3| |Statement
oftrustees'|responsibilities|| |Independent
auditor's|report|5-7| |Statement
offinancial|activities|8-9| |Balance sheet||10| |Statement
ofcash flows||| |Notes to the financial|statements|12-25| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |Current financial
year|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total| ||||funds|funds|funds||| ||||general|designated|||| ||||2020|2020|2020|2020|2019| |||Notes|||||| |Inde.Mm;|||||||| |Donations
and legacies|||706,082||291,762|997,844|963,812| |Investment
income|||916||6,812|7,728|14,469| |Total Income|||706,998||298,574|1,005,572|978,281| |E
n
I ure on:|||||||| |Raising funds|||||519|519|629| |Charitable
activities|||751,995||163,055|915,050|1,252,231| |Total resources expended|||751,995||163,574|915,569|1,252,860| |Net gains/(losses)
on investments||11|||||(53,745)| |Net (outgoing)/incoming|resources||||||| |before transfers|||(44,997)||135,000|90,003|(328,324)| |Net (outgoing)/incoming|resources||||||| |before transfers|||(44,997)||135,000|90,003|(328,324)| |Gross transfers
between|funds||9,223|(5,742)|(58,002)|(54,521)|| |Net (expenditure)/income|for the year/||||||| |Net movement
In funds|||(35,774)|(5,742)|76,998|35,482|(328,324)| |Fund balances at 1September 2019|||378,954|54,521|668,139|1,101,614|1,429,938| |Fund balances at31August 2020|||343,180|48,779|745,137|1,137,096|1,101,614| ## ## ## |Prior financial|year||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total| |||||funds|funds|funds|| |||||general|designated||| |||||2019|2019|2019|2019| ||||Notes||||| |Im;~mo}m;|||||||| |Donations
and|legacies|||709,283||254,529|963,812| |Investment
income||||3,750||10,719|14,469| |Total Income||||713,033||265,248|978,281| |Ex enditure
on:|||||||| |Raising funds||||||629|629.| |Charitable
activities||||782,533||469,698|1,252,231| |Total resources|expended|||782,533||470,327|1,252,860| |Net gains/(losses)
on investments||||(53,745)|||(53,745)| |Net (outgoing)/incoming||resources before|||||| |transfers||||(123,245)||(205,079)|(328,324)| |Gross transfers|between funds|||(58,447)|54,521|3,926|| |Net (expenditure)/Income||for the year/|||||| |Net movement|In funds|||(181,692)|54,521|(201,153)|(328,324)| |Fund balances|at 1September 2018|||560,646||869,292|1,429,938| |Fund balances|at31August 2019|||378,954|54,521|668,139|1,101,614| ## ## |||||||2020|2019| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||Notes||| |Fixed assets|||||||| |Tangible|assets||||12|518,974|519,523| |Current|assets||||||| |Stocks|||||13|68,173|85,521| |Debtors|||||14|7,312|5,739| |Cash at|bank and|in|hand|||556,820|499,071| |||||||632,305|590,331| |Creditors: amounts|||falling|due within one|||| |year|||||15|(14,183)|(8,240)| |Net current assets||||||618,122|582,091| |Total assets less||current||liabilities||1,137,096|1,101,614| |Income|funds||||||| |Restricted funds|||||16|745,137|668,139| |Unrestricted
funds||-|designated|||48,779|54,521| |Designated
funds|||||17|48,779|54,521| |General|unrestricted||funds|||294,401|324,433| |||||||343,180|378,954| |||||||1,137,096|1,101,614| ## ## |||||||2020||2019|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||Notes||||| |Cash flows from operating||activities|||||||| |Cash generated
from/(absorbed
by)|||||23||||| |operations|||||||57,937||(261,529)| |Investing|activities||||||||| |Purchase|oftangible
fixed|assets||||(188)||(1,049)|| |Proceeds|on disposal of investment||property|||||(1,059)|| |Net cash|used In Investing|activities|||||(188)||(2,108)| |Net cash|used ln financing
activities||||||||| |Net increase/(decrease)||ln cash and||cash|||||| |equivalents|||||||57,749||(263,637)| |Cash and|cash equivalents|at beginning||ofyear|||499,071||762,708| |Cash and|cash equivalents|at end|ofyear||||556,820||499,071| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |3|Donations and le|gac|ies|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||2020|2019| ||Circuit contributions||received||59,887|81,391| ||C A P F new levies||||115,291|67,809| ||Assessments
from|Circuits|||497,732|497,748| ||Beacon Christian|Fellowship||grants and donations|15,053|17,126| ||Sundry income||||11,712|12,739| ||Other grants received||||86,769|59,660| ||Museum
receipts|and book||sales|17,061|28,097| ||Book Centre sales||||193,359|194,369| ||Galley Centre income||||980|4,873| ||||||997,844|963,812| |4|Investment
Income|||||| ||||||2020|2019| ||||||f,|| ||Rents received||||2,864|9,212| ||District Advance
Fund interest||||2,753|2,681| ||Other funds interest||||2,111|2,576| ||||||7,728|14,469| |5|Raising funds|||||| ||||||2020|2019| ||Investment
management|||costs||| ||Support costs||||519|629| ||||||519|629| ## ## ## |Charitable
activities||||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||||2020|2019| |Wages|||66,767|93,972| |The Beacon C.F.resources|||15,193|16,028| |Venture
FX||||(179)| |Benevolent grant made||||623| |Costs relating to Book Centre sales|||125,185|129,513| |Costs relating to museum|receipts|and book sales|3,944|4,357| |Safeguarding|||22,228|25,304| |Children
and Youth work support|||700|2,850| |Book Centre employee costs|||69,241|72,785| |Galley Centre expenditure|||1,592|3,553| |Cheshire South team|||22,369|(4,707)| |Staffs
Moo rla nds tea m ministry|||5,763|(2,949)| ||||332,982|341,150| |Grants payable (see note|7)||494,309|472,067| |Support costs (see note 8)|||84,905|436,240| |Governance costs (see note 8)|||2,854|2,774| ||||915,050|1,252,231| |Analysis
by fund||||| |Unrestricted
funds - general|||751,995|| |Restricted funds|||163,055|| ||||915,050|| |For the year ended 31August 2019||||| |Unrestricted
funds - general||||782,533| |Restricted funds||||469,698| |||||1,252,231| |Grants payable||||| ||||2020|2019| |Contribution
to Methodist|Church|Fund|425,980|434,068| |Churches
and Englesea Brook Museum|||68,329|37,999| ||||494,309|472,067| ## ## ## |Support costs||||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Support costs|Governance|2020|2019| |||costs||| |Management||||| |Trustees' expenses||||1,496| |Manse expenes|3,698||3,698|9,767| |General expenses|23,777||23,777|27,927| |Office - operating costs|13,099||13,099|15,074| |Travel expenses|7,828||7,828|6,616| |Finance||||| |Bank charges|2,823||2,823|2,435| |Human resources||||| |Training and development|2,973||2,973|9,202| |Other||||| |Depreciation|737||737|834| |Other support costs||||| |Rent and rates|8,686||8,686|9,160| |Insurance|4,346||4,346|4,258| |Repairs to property|5,812||5,812|329,963| |Utilities|5,840||5,840|13,936| |Professiona
Ifees|4,176||4,176|4,176| |Equipment
leasing|1,110||1,110|1,396| |Governance
costs||||| |Ecumenical
expenses||2,854|2,854|2,774| ||84,905|2,854|87,759|439,014| |Ana lysed between||||| |Charitable
activities|84,905|2,854|87,759|439,014| ## ## ## ## ## |District Office|| |---|---| |Englesea
Brook Chapel|8 Museum| |Methodist
Book Centre|| |The Beacon|| |Immerse|| |District Team|| |Cheshire
South Team|| |Staffordshire
Moorlands|Team| |2020|2019| |---|---| |Number|Number| |19|19| ## |||||||Total|Unrestricted| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||funds| ||||||||general| |||||||2020|2019| |Gain/(loss)|on|sale|of|investment|properties||(53,745)| ## ## ## |Tangible fixed assets|Tangible fixed assets||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||Freehold|Leasehold|Fixtures and|Computer|Total| ||||property|Improvements|fittings|equipment|| |Cost|||||||| |At 1September 2019|||510,796|89,562|22,803|8,410|631,571| |Additions|||||188||188| |At31August|2020||510,796|89,562|22,991|8,410|631,759| |Depreciation|and impairment||||||| |At 1September 2019||||89,562|16,761|5,726|112,049| |Depreciation|charged|in the year|||334|402|736| |At31August|2020|||89,562|17,095|6,128|112,785| |Carrying
amount|||||||| |At31August|2020||510,796||5,896|2,282|518,974| |At31August|2019||510,796||6,042|2,685|519,523| ## |13|Stocks||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||2020|2019| ||Stocks|||68,173|85,521| |14|Debtors||||| |||||2020|2019| ||Amounts|falling due within one year:|||| ||Trade debtors|||3,042|2,421| ||Other debtors|||98|615| ||Prepayments||and accrued income|4,172|2,703| |||||7,312|5,739| ## ## ## ## |Creditors: amo|unts
fa|lling due within one year||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||||2020|2019| |Other taxation|and social security||1,690|1,433| |Trade creditors|||4,425|4,234| |Other creditors|||6,000|20| |Accruals and deferred||income|2,068|2,553| ||||14,183|8,240| ## ||||||||Movement
In|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||funds|||| ||||||||Incoming|Balance at|Transfers|Balance at| ||||||||resources|1September|31August 2020|| |||||||||2019||| |The|Methodist|Book|Centre|(from|Bemersley|House)|54,521|54,521|(5,742)|48,779| ||||||||54,521|54,521|(5,742)|48,779| ## ## ## ## ||2020 are incorporated
into the acc|ou|nts|of the District for its year ende|d 31August 2020.|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |23|Cash generated
from operations||||2020|2019| ||Surplus/(deficit)
for the year||||35,482|(328,324)| ||Adjustments
for:|||||| ||(Gain)/loss
on disposal of investment||property|||53,745| ||Depreciation
and impairment
oftangible|||fixed assets|737|834| ||Movements
in working capital:|||||| ||Decrease
in stocks||||17,348|8,255| ||(Increase)/decrease
in debtors||||(1,572)|6,425| ||Increase/(decrease)
in creditors||||5,942|(2,464)| ||Cash generated
from/(absorbed|by)|operations||57,937|(261,529)| |24|Analysis ofchanges
ln net funds|||||| ||The charity had no debt during the|year.|||||