2022-08-31-accounts - Barton, Brigg and Wolds Circuit

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ANNUAL REPORT SEPTEMBER 2021 TO AUGUST 2022 BARTON AND BRIGG CIRCUIT Trustees Annual Report for the year ended 31[st] August 2022

Objectives and Activities

Barton and Brigg Methodist Circuit (Circuit) exists to advance the mission of the Methodist Church throughout the Circuit by providing support for the ten churches in line with the Connexional priorities. The Circuit comprises of 10 local Methodist churches served by a ministerial team of some 3 ordained ministers plus a number of part time active retired ministers, lay workers and volunteers.

The Circuit is led by an Acting Superintendent Minister assisted by Superintendent Ministers from the s neighbouring Circuits of Grimsby and Cleethorpes and Wolds and Trent plus a Deacon.

The Circuit Meeting, which met 4 times during the year, sets the policy for the Circuit, serving as a link between the Lincolnshire Methodist District, the Methodist Conference and the Connexional team on the one hand and the local churches on the other. It has oversight of all Circuit affairs, formulating and promoting policies, through its various officers and committees to assist the mission of the Church, to give inspiration to the leaders in the churches and to ensure the interrelation of all aspects of the Church’s life throughout the Circuit. The members of the Circuit meeting are the trustees of the charity registered with the Charity Commission. As a registered charity, the Circuit takes seriously its responsibilities to the Charity Commissioners and adheres to their guidance concerning public benefit in relation to charitable objectives.

The day to day work of the Circuit is carried out by the Circuit Leadership Team, which consists of the Superintendent Minister, the Deacon, four volunteer Circuit Stewards and the Circuit Safeguarding Officer, with the additional assistance of a Circuit Administrator and Circuit Minute Secretary.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

The Barton & Brigg Methodist Circuit follows ‘Our Calling’ priorities for mission. The Circuit and Circuit Leadership Team aimed to support each church in their community, and encouraged them to be a vibrant place of worship, service, learning and fellowship, and take risks for the gospel outreach.

We encouraged churches to discover the needs of their communities and prayerfully consider how God calls them to respond, both inside and outside the church building, working ecumenically wherever possible.

We encouraged churches to

explore new forms of worship
work with children and young people in schools, messy church, school assemblies, creative crafts
to be a ‘presence’ at community events and mark major events in the nation and locally with invitational acts of worship
support and raise awareness of the world church through justice and peace – support for mission eg All We Can, Christian Aid, Action for Children,

Methodist Homes for the Aged, Methodist Ministers’ Housing Society, Food Banks, Homelessness Project.

We did this by

strengthening and supporting our Local Preachers and Worship Leaders
finding resources that are accessible and interesting for congregations
encouraging Mission Audits, and Healthy Church Audits
enabling congregations to have a rich prayer life and spirituality, with ’Space to Be’ - Be Still, Be Silent, Be Creative; Bible Study; Local Preacher groups and monthly Circuit Prayer groups
providing opportunities for discipleship including abundant hospitality and generous giving; costly service and radical grace eg OIKOS-BRIGG which became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation during the year, through Foodbanks in both Brigg and Barton and a Homelessness Project in Barton.

We do none of this in our own strength; we rely upon the grace of God, the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the example of Christ who is with each one of us in this pilgrimage of faith.

Achievements and Performance

The year 2020/2021 will be remembered for the Covid 19 pandemic. Churches experienced periods of closure and the cessation of all activities in person followed by a gradual return to more familiar ways of meeting and working. The Circuit responded by changing to online meetings, events and worship, and in many instances these have proved to be very fruitful, engaging greater numbers of people than would usually meet face to face.

Work on conversations across the 3 Circuits of Barton & Brigg, Epworth & Scunthorpe, and Wolds & Trent which was given impetus by the curtailment of Rev Nichola Jones as superintendent for Barton & Brigg is continuing, albeit in a changed fashion due to the restrictions we find ourselves in.

2 morning sessions with stewards, local preachers and others looking at the imperative for mission and the life of the Circuits were held in December and the small oversight group working alongside Tim Peebles (consultant for this work) is looked at developing resources so that those ideas and questions might be rolled out on a wider scale to encourage both the Circuits and local churches to examine how they might be able to do to identify what their mission is in their places.

The prevailing image is that of seasons; what season is your church in? Realistically for many that will be autumn or winter, but even in these seasons there is opportunity for re-seeding the ground with a new crop. That crop may be radically different to what grew before but there may still be fruitfulness to come. But, with the growth of digital church presence there are opportunities which are very-much of spring.

At a Circuit level as well as asking that same question, this work is also developing some conversation about how the Circuits can resource local mission most helpfully and, in the interest of efficiency and not re-inventing the wheel in all 3 Circuits, how we might be able to pool our efforts.

This latter conversation crosses over with a request from the Chair of District for every Circuit to have conversations with neighbouring Circuits about how we work. The eye of the ‘Faithful and True’ conversations is undoubtedly on Circuit

boundaries and does put the question of whether larger Circuits would make more sense.

The 3 Circuit leadership teams have identified a number of areas where we may be able to create cross-Circuit teams. It is likely that people from all 3 Circuits involved in these bits of work will be invited to participate in conversations about what would make their lives easier and what might be possible. As well as existing areas of what could be seen as more functional requirements the 3Circuits aspect looks to stretch this model to include new areas of mission resourcing as mentioned above.

Our work with young people continued during the pandemic, finding new ways to do ‘Messy Church’ and delivering ‘Open the Book’ stories via video links through you tube, as well as recorded Worship which was ‘streamed’ into classroom rather than face to face assemblies.

A new Superintendent Minister has been appointed to the Circuit to commence on 1[st] September 2021 and we look forward to working with her.

Plans for the future

As identified in the 3Circuit discussions we will further explore the following possible Cross-Circuit Groups: (Not a definitive list)

Safer recruitment - for Circuit posts only, or also acting for chapels?
Safeguarding oversight for the Circuit safeguarding officers?
Property - overseeing schemes?
Property - helping churches review their buildings?
Finance - a team to help chapels do their accounts?
Finance - a team who can look over cash-flow/trends/budgets etc?
What other admin stuff could we streamline?
Is there newsletter/website stuff we could streamline? Co-ordinating Connexional or local news?
GDPR
Digital church
Work with young people
Work with Third Age groups
Eco-church matter

Seek a Presbyter to be appointed from September 2022 to work with the churches at the South end of the Circuit.

Seek volunteers to continue the work with schools that has begun and not to lose momentum for this as the Deacon responsible for the success of this leaves the Circuit in August 2022

A proposal for a 5- year appointment of a Family Outreach Worker, based in Brigg

Financial review

The circuit finances are in a strong position. In part due to a staffing level of one during 2020/21 and the sale of Barnetby the circuit finances had risen to £424,000. This compares with a reserves policy requiring £80,000 and requires us to think about spending that money wisely

At the Circuit meeting in June 2021 a number of resolutions were proposed with the prime intention of supporting mission:-

Resolution 1: We should retain the decision of the March 2019 Circuit Meeting to set the Circuit budget in line with financing 2 full-time members of staff from present income i.e. assessments

Resolution 2: As churches are still recovering from the last year, we should repeat the offer to refund 50% of one quarter’s assessment during 2021/22, to those churches which request this (and intend to pay their assessments in full)

Resolution 3: We should set a budget of £15,000 to cover supernumerary costs and this should come out of reserves.

Resolution 4: We should reserve £50,000 of the circuit monies to fund a loan scheme.

Resolution 5: We should allocate the remaining monies to be available as grants to fund missional projects . (The cap on these is that the Circuit funds will not go below £130,000 within the next 5-year plan: £80,000 as 6 months reserves plus the £50,000 for the loan scheme)

Resolution 6: That we make £6,000 available to cover the extension of the Outreach Worker for the Elderly at Barton, should it be needed.

Resolution 7: That we adopt the application process for loans/grants. All resolutions were accepted by the meeting.

. Malcolm reminded the meeting of what was agreed at the previous Circuit Meeting ie. A £50,000 loan fund, a 50% of a quarter’s assessment refund available for all churches, £6,000 to underwrite the cost of the Barton Lay Worker and the mechanism put in place for applying for money from the missional fund.

The Circuit has the following principal sources of Income Assessment on Churches in the Circuit The letting of; Brigg Manse for £895 per month. Hibaldstow manse for £675 per month.

CIRCUIT RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS Barton & Brigg Methodist Circuit FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2022 Lincolnshire District Circuit no 17111 Registered Charity - Charity Registration number 1132257 If not a registered charity Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Gift Aid number IThe HMRC number is equivalent to a registered charity number in terms of evidencè of charitable slalus and may be used lo give lo donors or grant funders wishing lo see evidence of the organisalion's charitable status. Methodist charities in England and Wales that are not registered charities are excepted from registration under Slalulory Instrument 2014 No.2421 Ministers.. Rev Sally Long Deacon Helen Webster Cir¢uil Stewards.. Mr Malcolm Bailey Mr Stephen Nightingale Mrs Kale Marr MTS Anne Morgan Mrs Joyce Harris Treasurer.. Mr John Mccartney 2015 Circuit R and P.xls 1 of5

20ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2022 Barton & Brigg Methodist Circuit Restricted Funds Totals thls year Totals last SECTION A restri¢ted Model Trust Funds Fund year a1 RECEIPTS Note a2 Assesstnenvshare 109,350 109,350 132,980 a3 Capital receipts Bank and CFB interest and Investment income a4 3.221 3,221 2.019 a5 Grants a6 Other receipts TOTAL RECEIPTS 13,854 13,854 20.942 a7 126,425 126,425 la81 155,941 SECTION B PAYMENTS b1 b2 Stipends, salaries, NIC, Pension and travel c051s 90.952 90,952 58,295 b3 Manse Costs 23,730 12,080 23,730 12.080 28.821 b4 Administration elc 12,638 25,784 b5 District Assessment 25,996 22,529 25,996 22,529 b6 Grants & donations 9.275 b7 b8 Other payments TOTAL PAYMENTS 1,038 1,038 b9 176,325 176,325 Ib91 134,813 SECTION C c1 NET RECEIPTSIPAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR la7-b91 149,9001 149,9001 21,128 Total funds brought forward Irotn last year 91,012 91,012 Ic61 69,884 c3 Sub total Ic1+c21 41,112 41.112 91.012 c4 Transfers and adjustments Ic71 c5 TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR Ic3+c41 41,112 41.112 Ic81 91,012 Ic61 SECTION D FOR INFORMATION ONLY.. MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS these amounts should ngt be included in totsl recei tslpayments above) d1 Balance biou hl forward from last ear d2 Offefin sIGills reiVed for external or anisalions d3 OfferingslGifts- passed to external organisalions BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID Idl + d2 - d31 d4 2015 Circuit R and P xls 2ofS

Barton & Brfgg Methodlst cIrc F CIRC cc AND INfÉRt4AL ANI ATI NREP RnN TO ThE CIRC IT MEEnN SECTION É Summary ¢1 the ¢ir¢uil ac¢ouni$ for thè year 6ndtd 31 AugU812022 and IDlefnal Organisalions reporiin9 to Ihg Cifcuil Meeting Note that Ihp funds ol an lTriernal Org8ni$8iion would normally b8 Re$iri¢i8d lunds unless il could be ¢larly shown Ihai Ihtry ¢ouI¢ bt Used for any M$ihodi$i purwst. Thi$ seGtion Musl be completed ID arrive al the gross receipis and payments ioiBls ol Ihe Circlt. If gros$ Income exceeds the Acciuals threshold 011250.000. then ihe Accruals melhod of accounling AND A DIFFERENT FORM mu51 be used lo reFth the accounts Isee MeihodiS1 websi181. Please refer to the guid8nc& noies r¢g¥rdiny Iransftrrs b&ween Ihe Circuil and ¢onne¢ied Circuit Organis$iions. INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS Recei5 PiympntB Net Receiplst Paymenig Adjusifflenis opern9 baldThces Circuit L08n Fund 457 4571 457 ¢7 e8 Subtolal of In18fn 019anisaiion¥lunds 457 457 Clr¢ultoc¢ounts Itotsls broughtfOrrd from pago 2-toials column) roTAL CASH FUNDS HELO BY CIRCUIT Coniinueon a sepÈrate Xheel rf necessary and Ihe lolals fOard 12S,425 176,325 149,9001 91.012 41,112 126,425 150,3571 91.469 41.112 TOTAL RECEIPTS TOTAL PAYMEPITS 5ECllON F STATEMENT OFASSÉTS AND LIABIUTIES CIRCUIT-CASH FUNDS HELD ¥t31 Auuust20ZZ OPENING 8ALANCES CLOSING BALANCÉS Cfish In nand 8Bnk Cu¢TErttAttOunt 84,824 19.379 Bank DewsitAccovni CeDi¢ Flnance Boaid 26.188 21,733 TrJsiee&l¢i Mein¢diSt ChutGh PurposEY (Ah•rlund6 SUB TOTAL 91,012 41.112 Toigl lunds held by Int&mal Organtsaln(th& 457 TOTAL CASH FUNDS HÉLD BY CIRCUfT 91,469 41,112 SECllON G Al OTHER ASSETS and LN8ILITIES 1 Spiembpr2021 31 AW% 2022 341309 317465 L8nd BU¢Inglse ne5 re In5uranc¢ 799,621 920.407 Lo¥fjls1- ¥howamounioutst£ndlng at yearend 15 IncludB only CF8 beld at Trusiees loi hleihodi Chuicn Purpose$ 91 Indudry gny othef investments Inoi th&cash element ol TMCP trult acetsunls ihis K insert•d in ne f51 2015CrfoJlR4KOPxli

Name of Cir¢uit.- Barton & Brigg Methodist Circuit No. 17111 Declarations and Scrutiny I confirm that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the year to 31 August 2022 have been prepared from the records of the Circuit and that they include all funds under the control of the Circuit meeting. Signature of treasurer 202L Name and address of treas Mr John Mccartne , 4 Greenway, Barton upon Humber, North Lincolnshire Post Code.. DN18 SHY Presentation to the Circuit meeting I confirm that the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2022 werelwill be. presented to the Circuit meeting held on Signature of the Chair of the meeting Name of the Chair of the meeting Date . Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of the Barton & Brigg Methodist Circuit Charity Number.. 1132257 Responsibilities and basis of report I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Barton & Brigg Methodist Circuit for the year ended 31 August 2022 set out on pages to As the Circuit's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 I'the Act'}. I report in respect of my examination of the Circuit'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. delete or circle as appropriate 2015 CirGuil R and P.x15 4of5

Name of Circuit.. Barton & Brigg Methodist Circuit No.. 17111 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 (other than that disclosed below'l 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. 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 not 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 eXsS of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balance sheet date. Signature of independent examiner Name of independent examiner.. Carrie Jensen Relevant professional qualification of independent examiner.. ACA Name of firm (where appropriate).. Forrester Boyd Chartered Accountants Address.. 26 South St Marys Gate, Grimsby Post Code.. DN311LW Date 1411112022 delete or circle as appropriate Sep-22 2015 Circuit R and P.xls Sofs