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|Trustees'<br>Report||3-8|
|Auditors'<br>Report||9 —11|
|Statement of Financial|Activities|12|
|Balance Sheet||13|
|Notes to the Accounts||14-21|





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|Charity|Offices|257 Stratford|257 Stratford|Road|Road|
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|||Solihull||||
|||West Midlands||||
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|Bankers||Lloyds TSB||||
|||238 Stratford||Road||
|||Shirley||||
|||Solihull||||
|||West Midlands||||
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|||Central<br>Finance Board ofthe Methodist||||
|||Church||||
|||9 Bonhill|Street|||
|||London||||
|||EC2A 4PE||||
|Auditors||Thomas|5Young||Limited|
|||Chartered|Accountants|||
|||Carleton|House|||
|||266-268|Stratford||Road|
|||Shirley||||
|||Solihull||||
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|||||Note|Funds|Funds|2023<br>f|2022|
|Income from:|||||||||
|Donations<br>and|legacies||||81,541||81,541|107,710|
|Other trading|activities||||27,071||27,071|26,650|
|Investments|||||133|330|463|32|
|Total income|||||108,745|330|109,075|134,392|
|Expenditure|on:||||||||
|Raising funds||||6|3,215||3,215|4,673|
|Charitable<br>activities||||7|111,005||111,005|95,797|
|Other||||10|2,880||2,880|2,736|
|Total resources expended|||||117,100||117,100|103,206|
|Net (expenditure)/<br>movements<br>in funds||income|for the|year/net|(8,355)|330|(8,025)|31,186|
|Fund balances|at 1September||2022||44,810|42,454|87,264|56,078|
|Fund balances at 31August|||2023||36,455|42,784|79,239|87,264|





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|3|Income|from donations|and legacies|||
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||Offering|plate||4,174|5,264|
||Other donations|||10,199|6,098|
||Standing|orders||41,782|42,643|
||Gift Aid|—donations||13,000|14,778|
||Octagon|Coffee Shop||12,192|6,000|
||Legacies|||||
||Benevolent<br>fund|||194|264|
||Grant income||||32,663|
|||||81,541|107,710|
|4|Income|from charitable|activities|||
|||||2023|2022|
||Letting s|||27,071|26,650|



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|Interest|from|deposits|463|32|





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|6|Analysis ofexpenditu|re<br>|on charitable ac|on charitable ac|tivities|tivities||||
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||||Activities||Undertaken|||Support||
||||||Directly|||Costs|Total|
||Activities support costs|towards||||||||
||youth worker|||||||||
||Charity appeals and donations|||||3,215|||3,215|
|||||||3,215|||3,215|
||fNil<br>was<br>attributable|to|restricted|funds|(2022:|fNil)|and|f3,215 was|attributable<br>to|
||unrestricted<br>funds (2022: E4,673).|||||||||
|7|Charitable activities|||||||||
|||||||||2023|2022|
||Staff costs|||||||22,031|19,733|
||Depreciation<br>and impairment|||||||6,454|9,328|
||Circuit assessment|||||||40,200|45,000|
||Printing<br>and stationery|||||||1,227|299|
||Telephone|||||||1,506|1,364|
||Organist<br>and music|||||||271|410|
||Preacher's expenses|||||||74|321|
||Copyright<br>and TV Licences|||||||731|712|
||Cleaning<br>and materials|||||||2,372|3,349|
||Heating,<br>lighting<br>and water|||||||18,777|8,071|
||Insurance|||||||4,225|3,759|
||Miscellaneous|||||||2,443|416|
||Bank charges|||||||374|346|
||Building<br>repairs and renewals|||||||10,320|2,689|
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|9|Employees|||||
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|||||2023|2022|
||Number of employees||during the year was:|||
||Employment|costs||||
|||||2023f|2022|
||Wages and salaries|||||
|10|Other|||||
|||||2023|2022|
||Auditors' fees|||2,880|2,736|





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|11|Tangible Fixed Assets|Tangible Fixed Assets|Computer I||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Equipmentf|Totalf|
||COST OR VALUATION||||
||1 September 2022||63,290|63,290|
||Additions||1,346|1,346|
||Disposals||||
||31August 2023||64,636|64,636|
||DEPRECIATION||||
||1 September 2022||38,890|38,890|
||Charge for year||6,454|6,454|
||31August 2023||45,344|45,344|
||NET BOOK VALUE||||
||31August 2023||19,292|19,330|
||31August 2022||24,400|24,400|
|12|Debtors||||
||||2023f|2022f|
||Other debtors||23,900|25,616|
|13|Creditors amounts|falling due within one year|||
||||2023f|2022f|
||Accruals and deferred|income|3816|1950|





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||||Balance|Movement|in Resources||Balance|
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||||1September|Including|Gains/Losses||31August|
||||2022<br>f|Incoming|Outgoings|Transfier|2022|
|Building<br>and||||||||
|Contingencies||Fund|30,851||||30,851|
|Benevolent|Fund||309||||309|
|Model Trust||Fund|11,294|330|||11,624|
||||42,454|330|||42,784|



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