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||East Marcia Methodist||Circuit||
|||Circuit Meeting Membership|||
|MINISTERS|Rev Andrew<br>Farrington||Chair||
||Deacon Georgina|Brooks|||
||Rev Nathan<br>Faga||Appointed|1September 2023|
||Rev Jane Gaffney||Retired 31August 2023||
||Rev Andy Murphy||||
||Rev Noel Nhariswa||||
|AUTHORISED MINISTER|||||
||Rev Diane Bussey||||
|CIRCUIT STEWARDS|||||
||Peter Arnold||||
||lan Basson||Resigned|31August 2023|
||Marilyn<br>Calvert||||
||Peter Candlin||||
||Richard Huntington||||
||John Over||||
||Carolyn Rice||||
|CIRCUIT MANAGER|||||
||Katherine<br>Tennyson||||
|CHURCH REPRESENTATIVES|||||
||Stephen Arthur||||
||Pat Basson||||
||Lynn Blackhurst||||
||Judith Bnerley||||
||Stuart Bussey||||
||Fiona Clarkson||||
||David Coginson||||
||Helen Cross||||
||Michael Curtis||||
||Wendy Curtis||||
||Alan Deans||||
||Christine<br>Dybdahl||||
||Ruth Fitch||||
||Gillian Glenn||||
||Helen Green||||
||Peter Greenaway||||
||Maggie Hadkiss||||
||Andrew<br>Hawkins||||
||Susan Helnink||||
||Ada-June<br>Kusogbo||||
||Derek Lig||||
||Michael Margetts||||
||Jeanne Moore||||
||Peter Muir||||
||Roger Piper||||
||Adrian Price||||
||lain Rennie||||
||Peterghuker||||
||Trevor Thomas||||
||Karen Tomkins||||
||Ahsonl omlin||||
||David Tomlin||||
||Patrick Teole||||
||Barbara Walker||||
||Susan Walters||||
||Howard Warrener||||
||Ruth Watson||||
||Jeff Wells||||
||Ann Window||||
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||||||||||General Fund||Trust Fund|31.8.23|31.8.22|
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|Capital receipts|for|||sale ofchurch|||||||300,000|300,000||
|Assets introduced|||on circuit merger||||||1,399,428||328,871|1,728,299||
|Other charitable||income||||||||811||811|52,728|
|Your Local Pantry||||||||||5,172||5,172||
|Release ofloan|repayments|||||||||16,000||16,000||
||||||||||1,421,411||628,871|2,050,282|52,728|
|10.Interest receivable||||||||General|Circuit|Model|Endowment|Year<br>ended|Year<br>ended|
|||||||||Fund|Trust Fund||Fund|31.8.23|31.8.22|
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|Central Finance|Board|||||||6,068|||5|6,073|18|
|Trustees for Methodist|||||Church|Purposes||4||14,615||14,619|373|
|||||||||6,072||14,615|5|20,692|391|
|11.Stipends, Salaries and Associated costs||||||||||||||
|Staff costs paid|during||||the year|were:||||||||
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|Gross stipends<br>and|||salaries|||||137,946||86,721|16,155|240,822|81,982|
|Employer's<br>National||||Insurance||costs||13,950||3,729|882|18,561|7,026|
|Pension costs||||||||36,219||3,979|913|41,111|19,103|
|Apprenticeship|Levy|||||||726||421|103|1,250|370|
|Total staff costs||||||||188,841||94,850|18,053|301,744|108,481|
|Average number||of||full time equivalent|||number|ofstaff employed||during the year were:||||
|Ministers||||||||||||5.00|3.00|
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|Phone expenses||||||
|Payments|made to trustees who are not part ofthe Circuit|Leadership|Team for|||
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|Number oftrustees who were paid expenses||||||
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|12.Feesfor audit ofthe accounts||||ended|ended|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Churches|||Menses|Total|
|Cast or valuation|||E||E|E|
|Balance at 1September|2022|883,325||1,222,554||2,105,879|
|Additions|||||420,000|420,000|
|Acquired<br>on circuit merger|||||955,000|955,000|
|Transfer to investment|properties|||(765,000)||(765,000)|
|Transfer to current asset investments||(70,000)||||(70,000)|
|Revaluation<br>in year||(563325)|||342,446|(220 879)|
|Balance at 31August 2023||250,000||2,175,000||2,425,000|
|Depreciation|||||||
|Balance at 1September|2022||||||
|Charge ofyear|||||||
|Balance at31August 2023|||||||
|Net book value|||||||
|At 31August 2023||250,000||2,175,000||2,425,000|
|At 31August 2022||883,325||1,222,554||2,105,879|
|Basis ofdepreciation||lint|||not||
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|Churches at 31August|2023comprtsm||||||
|Newbold<br>Methodist<br>Church|||||||
|Menses at31August 2023comprise:|||||||
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|||||restated)|||
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|Prepayments|accrued income||23,159|15,691|||
|17.Creditors|due in less than one year||31August|31AUEust|||
||||2023|2022 (as|||
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|Accruals and|deferred income||67,140|46,737|||
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|At 1September 2022||2,226,053|72,179|41.738|0|2.339,970|
|Net (expenditure)<br>/ income for the year||1,064,244|471,907|11,591|484|2,363.226|
|Prior year adjustment||(31,046)|0|0|0|(32,046)|
|Transfer between funds||||0|0|0|
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|Circuit||||||334,175||129,856||
|Northampton||Methodist|District|District Advance||||||
|Methodist|District|in which the||Fund contribution||||||
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