## **CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS**
## **THE METHODIST CHURCH**
# **STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS**
## **Seedfield Methodist**
**Church**
FOR THE YEAR ENDED
## 31 Au ust 2025 g
**Circuit Circuit no. 06-08** 1134393
## **Registered Charity - Charity Registration number**
If not a registered charity **Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Gift Aid number**
(The HMRC number is equivalent to a registered charity number in terms of evidence of charitable status and may be used to give to donors or grant funders wishing to see evidence of the organisation's charitable status. Methodist charities in England and Wales that are not registered charities are excepted from registration under Statutory Instrument 2014 No.242)
Minister:
Rev David Somerville Church Stewards: Cath Hulbert Brian Sharples Ann Mears Treasurer: Joel Cook
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## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025**
## **Seedfield Methodist**
||**SECTION A**|||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**£**
**66,360.38**
**8,329.72**
**13,849.50**
**600.00**
**Totals this**
**year**|**£**
**66,360.38**
**8,329.72**
**13,849.50**
**600.00**
**Totals this**
**year**|**Totals last**
**year**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**||
|a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|||||||
|a2|Offerings and Tax recovered|||56,652.91|9,707.47|**66,360.38**||99,991.00||
|a3|Bank and CFB interest and
Investment income|||7,005.18|1,324.54|**8,329.72**||5,757.30||
|a4|Lettings|||10,782.00|3,067.50|**13,849.50**||13,784.50||
|a5|Other receipts||||600.00|**600.00**||23,588.08||
|a6|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|||**74,440.09**|**14,699.51**|**89,139.60 **|**(a7)**|**143,120.88**||
|||||||||||
||**SECTION B**|||||**58,151.00**
**1,280.00**
**8,786.06**
**4,588.82**
**2,854.63**
**9,270.81**||||
|b1|**PAYMENTS**|||||||||
|b2|Circuit Assessment or Share|||58,151.00||**58,151.00**||55,485.00||
|b3|Donations|||1,280.00||**1,280.00**||170.00||
|b4|Repairs and Maintenance|||8,786.06||**8,786.06**||14,148.74||
|b5|Utilities (Insurances, water
charges,heating& lighting)|||4,588.82||**4,588.82**||18,961.40||
|b6|Worship|||2,854.63||**2,854.63**||17,978.56||
|b7|Otherpayments|||9,270.81||**9,270.81**||5,444.95||
|b8|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**|||**84,931.32**||**84,931.32 **|**(b9)**|**112,188.65**||
|||||||**4,208**||||
||**SECTION C**|||||||||
|c1|**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR**
**(a6-b8)**|||(10,491)|14,700|**4,208**||30,932||
|||||||||||
|c2|Total funds brought forward from
last year|||136,497|97,532|**234,029 **|**(c6)**|203,097||
|||||||**238,238**||||
|c3|**(c1+c2)**
**Sub total**|||126,006|112,232|**238,238**||**234,029**||
|||||||||||
|c4|Transfers and adjustments||||||**(c7)**|||
|||||||||||
|c5|**TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR**
**(c3+c4)**|||**126,006**|**112,232**|**238,238 **|**(c8)**|**234,029**|**(c6)**|
||**SECTION D**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|d|**(these amounts are not to be included in total receipts/payments figures above)**
**FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL**||**£**
**ORGANISATIONS**||**£**
|
|d1|Balance brought forward from lastyear|||||
|d2|Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations|||||
|d3|Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations|||||
|d4|**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID** (d1+d2-d3)|||||
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## **SUMMARY OF CHURCH ACCOUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS REPORTING TO THE CHURCH COUNCIL**
**SECTION E Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page** Summary of the Church accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025 and Internal Organisations reporting to the Church Council/Church Meeting. Note that the funds of an Internal Organisation would normally be Restricted funds unless it could be clearly shown that they could be used for any Methodist purpose. This section must be completed to arrive at the gross income and expenditure totals of the Church. If gross income exceeds the Accruals threshold, then the Accruals method of accounting AND A DIFFERENT FORM must be used to report the accounts (see Methodist website). Please refer to the guidance notes regarding transfers between the District and connected District Organisations.
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||**SECTION E**
**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|||||||||||||
||**SECTION E**
|||||||||||||
||Summary of the Church accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025 and Internal Organisations reporting to the Church Council/Church Meeting. Note that the funds of
an Internal Organisation would normally be Restricted funds unless it could be clearly shown that they could be used for any Methodist purpose. This section must be
completed to arrive at the gross income and expenditure totals of the Church. If gross income exceeds the Accruals threshold, then the Accruals method of accounting
AND A DIFFERENT FORM must be used to report the accounts (see Methodist website). Please refer to the guidance notes regarding transfers between the District
and connected District Organisations.|||||||||||||
||**INTERNAL**
**ORGANISATIONS**|Receipts||Payments||Net Receipts/
Payments||Adjustments||Opening
balances||Closingbalances||
|e1||||||||||||||
|e2||||||||||||||
|e3||||||||||||||
|e4||||||||||||||
|e5||||||||||||||
|e6||||||||||||||
|e7||||||||||||||
|e8|Sub total of Internal
Organisations funds||||||||||**(e11)**||**(e12)**|
|e9|**Church accounts (totals**
**brought forward from page**
**2 - totals column)**|**89,140 (a7)**
**89,139.60**|**(a7)**|**84,931 **|**(b9)**|**4,208**|||**(c7)**|**234,029 **|**(c6)**|**238,238**|**(c8)**|
|e10|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD**
**BY CHURCH**|||**84,931.32**||**4,208.28**||||**234,029.23**|**(x)**|**238,237.51**|**(y)**|
||Continue on a separate sheet
if necessary and bring the
totals forward|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||**TOTAL**
**PAYMENTS**||||||||||
## **SECTION F**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
||**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2025**
Cash in hand
Bank Current Account
Bank Deposit Account
**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**
**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**
Central Finance Board
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
Other funds
Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)|**OPENING**
**BALANCES**
151.12
89,984.50
68,733.00
75,160.61
**234,029**
(c6)
(e11)
**234,029.23**
(x)|**CLOSING**
**BALANCES**||
|f1|Cash in hand||151.12||
|f2|Bank Current Account||38,827.29||
|f3|Bank Deposit Account||28,973.00||
|f4|Central Finance Board||170,286.10||
|f5|Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes||||
|f6|Other funds||||
|f7|**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**||**238,237.51**|(c8)|
|f8|Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)|||(e12)|
|f9|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**||**238,238**|(y)|
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||**SECTION G**
**OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES**
Other Assets
Land & Buildings(see notes re Insurance value)
Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end
Other Liabilities
Investments(include Endowments)|At
1 September 2024
14,127
2,826,885
93,121|At
31 August 2025
14,135
3,006,472
95,915||
|g1|Investments(include Endowments)|14,127|14,135||
|g2|Land & Buildings(see notes re Insurance value)|2,826,885
93,121|3,006,472
95,915||
|g3|Other Assets||||
|g4|Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end||||
|g5|Other Liabilities||||
f4 Include only Funds held at the Central Finance Board
f5 Include only Funds held at Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
g1 Include any other investments (not the cash element of TMCP trusts accounts this is included in line f5
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Name of Church Seedfield Methodist…………………………………… No 06-08
## **Declarations and Scrutiny**
I confirm that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the year to 31 August 2025 have been prepared from the records of the Church and that they include all funds under the control of the Church trustees.
Signature of treasurer ……………………………………………………… Date………07/11/2025
Name and address of treasurer …… Joel Cook, 60 West Drive, Bury
…………………………………………………………………………………. Post Code……………BL9 5DW
## **Presentation to the Church trustees**
I confirm that the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025 were/will be* presented to the meeting of the Church trustees held on 3rd December 2025
Signature of the Chair of the meeting ……………………………………………………………………
Name of the Chair of the meeting …David Somerville… Date 3rd December 2025
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the**
**…………** Seedfield Methodist
## **Charity Number …** 1134393
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Seedfield Methodist Church for the year ended 31 August 2025 set out on pages 2 to 3 As the Church’s trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Church’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.
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Name of Church Seedfield Methodist…………………………………… No 06-08
## **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*) 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 excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balance sheet date.
Signature of independent examiner ………………………………………………………………….
Name of independent examiner ………………Stuart Chatburn
Relevant professional qualification of independent examiner …………………………N/A
Name of firm (where appropriate) …………………………………N/A
Address 41 Belgrave Street, Radcliffe, Manchester
……………………………………………………………………………….. Post Code ………… M26 4DG Date …… 12-Nov-25
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Form Review Nov-25
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