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2020-08-31-accounts

The Peterborough Circuit of Churches

Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peterborough Methodist Circuit for the church year 1st Sept 2019 to 31st August 2020

(Registered Charity No 1135613)

Produced by the Peterborough Circuit of the Methodist Church Circuit Office, Brookside Methodist Church, Gunthorpe Road, Peterborough PE4 7TG Email: pborocircuitoffice@gmail.com Tel: (01733) 328192

We seek to discover the needs of contemporary society and respond to it; working with our ecumenical partners towards creating relationships within the communities and sharing the word of God with those around us.

We are seeking to utilise and ensure the abilities and skills of lay people fully in the Circuit and encourage others to explore and offer themselves for service at all levels as equal partners in our work.

Our vision statement for our children’s and young people’s ministry ‘Providing loving and caring ministries that children and young people may come to know Jesus Christ’

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Trustees during the year Trustees during the year
Revd Langley Mackrell-Hey (Chair) Sue Keeney
Giles Armstrong Christine Kell
Philip Assensoh Sarah Kelly
George Barber Nigel Lightfoot
Sue Baron Laura Martin
Sarah Bereznyckyj Valerie Octon
Heather Black Revd David Parkes
Ewan Cappitt Janet Rich
Sue Gage Cathy Ruffles
Owen Gardiner Margaret Smith
Elizabeth Gee Revd Douglas Stevens
Michael Goodman Simon Stewart
Anita (Neat) Gordon Monica Sturgess
Revd Sarah Gower Ann Tooth
Susan Halford Revd Graham Tooth
John Hewitson Denise Watson
Sue Holmes Elizabeth White
Trevor Howlett Nicky Ward
Paul Hutchings Peter Williams

Our Circuit

There are 13 churches in the Peterborough Circuit, and the Circuit crosses 3 counties – Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire. One of these churches (Yarwell), is an Anglican Church and Methodist ministers or local preachers lead the service there once a month. The Yarwell congregation is a class of Elton and receives support from the congregation there. Three of the churches: Whittlesey, Westgate New Church and Christ Church are Local Ecumenical Partnership’s (LEPs)

Trustees of the Circuit Meeting met three times during the year: In September 2019 and in January and June 2020. Our Circuit Meeting Devotions this year were led by: a Local preacher on ‘New Beginnings’; an outside speaker on ‘Supporting Syrian Refugees in Peterborough’; and our Superintendent Minister on ‘Building on our Reimagine sessions’ including ‘The Dragonfly’ model. Unfortunately, our March 2020 meeting was cancelled because of the national lockdown related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

It has been an unprecedented year due to the Coronavirus, which has forced us to work very differently as a Circuit. We have responded well to the many challenges we have encountered and our report shows how we have adapted our ways of working, and put on new and different services and activities in a variety of creative ways. Everyone has stepped up, learned new skills and embraced all kinds of technology, often surprising themselves, and gaining confidence along the way. It has been a steep learning curve for us all!

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Revd Langley continued with his churches plus continued Methodist oversight of the Local Ecumenical Partnerships (LEPs) at Westgate New Church and Whittlesey Queen Street Church. With his work as Superintendent, oversight of seven churches, plus taking on the ATC Chaplaincy, it has been a very busy and active year for him.

Whilst the role of a minister has not changed, the focus of what ministers do is changing and has done so for some time. Revd Langley’s role seems now to be one of enabling churches and helping them plan, and also one of mentoring key leaders. With this in mind, thanks go to Nigel Lightfoot for helping at WNC and Monica Sturgess at Oundle. Their support was part of the Circuit making the best use of our preachers on the Preaching Plan, and also to give more consistency given that Revd Langley’s focus is spread. It has enabled a deeper link with the Circuit and helped the Circuit know how it can support the churches better in terms of meeting their worshipping needs, particularly during the uncertainties and difficulties brought by the pandemic.

We have had a lot more discussions generally this year on what the needs of the churches are and how the Circuit can help. And, regarding Westgate New Church, much progress has been made in terms of building relationships with other local agencies and with the United Reformed Church. Plans in moving forward have been affected by the North Westgate Development, which has also been delayed in its progress by major changes which have impacted on the developers’ plans for the City Centre, of which Westgate New Church is a part.

We are in discussion and negotiation with the developers regarding a site for a new church building as part of this new development. This is not just about WNC; it is about how the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church have a platform for mission in the city of Peterborough. Revd Langley has worked with WNC to develop a ‘Mission Statement and Action Plan’ that demonstrates how the church sees itself, and its vision for the city centre. He sees the potential for WNC as a base for pioneer work, community work and mission.

The URC, like Methodism, are facing challenges in resourcing ministers to churches. To plan for the future they are looking at Resourced Churches where one church is the main centre of a group where a minister is based but also supporting other churches. Discussions have been held with Whittlesey and Westgate New Church to understand their opinions of the proposals and to feed that back to the URC.

During the pandemic, WNC requested volunteers to help co-ordinate the Foodbank, and to assist with the BOB project - 'Back of Beyond' – which has received funding from both denominations. BOB spurred people on and we now have this bigger vision in the church, involving pioneer work. These will be the leads we follow. We have made contact with a Connexional resource who advises on how to build a worship centre that matches the mission of the church for the future and are looking to build on this opportunity.

Thanks go to Simon Stewart for all his work on this, and to the CLT, and to those who attended the Reimagine gatherings and those who helped in the local churches.

2 Mission and Outreach

This section includes: The work of our Pioneer Team Leader, Neat Gordon, who ministered in Welland:

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different mission activities happening in the Circuit; and some examples of specific mission in individual churches.

2.1 Welland

Neat resigned from her role in March 2020, after being with us for two years and two months. Throughout her time with us, she got lots of things moving, and galvanised volunteers to help with activities in the local community. She brought different aspects to things and her role became more community-based. She made a wide range of contacts across the area.

These are the things she achieved and enabled in her last year:

This section builds on work started last year when, following the news that many families would have to find extra resources for them to feed their children throughout the summer holidays, Neat arranged for the existing groups, facilitated by Pioneer Welland, to extend to offer meals around Dogsthorpe. Therefore, every meal was attended by families, carers, grandparents and the sense of community between the different venues increased. After five weeks of running the Summer Food Programme, they had fed 211 children and 148 parents and carers (350 hot meals).

A grant from Near Neighbours enabled them to continue the Friday Feast until half-term and do meals during half-term as well. They ran this at 100a Central Avenue, from 12 noon until 2.30pm and it was open to anybody.

During September to December, Neat engaged with 165 people (72 children and 93 parents/carers) who attended drop-in sessions, activities and events within the community.

In January, Neat undertook a SWOT analysis, looking at the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities available for the ongoing Pioneer Welland project:

Strengths - Since September, they continued working closely with the Olive Branch Community Garden and Barnardo’s, hosting Parent’s United three times a week. Every Friday lunchtime, serving a hot meal brought a good atmosphere of friendship and support among the five regular families that attended.

At half-term and Christmas they offered free meals to parents and children at each venue, and it was encouraging to see the donations of food and the number of occasional volunteers grow, with other people able to cook a meal or provide food for a lunch. Also, all families and children were able to receive a gift at Christmas as a result of a kind donation from a family in Dogsthorpe Methodist Church.

Weaknesses – The amount of time and energy expended during the summer months meant cutting back on other activities within Welland to keep within Neat’s twenty hours, but she maintained contact through emails and occasional meetings.

Neat offered pastoral and practical support to the families she connected with. She was honoured to serve them, but it did bring challenges.

Opportunities – Plans were made to operate a Community Fridge in Dogsthorpe. Another plan was to develop running an Art and Craft Café style group at the Charteris Centre during the week. Many ladies in Dogsthorpe and Welland are interested in crafts and there is an opportunity for them to demonstrate their particular skill to others. Running this event one evening per week would allow working people to join in. Also, in order to get to know residents better and to find out more about the cultural make up of Welland, plans were made to visit houses on the estate door to door.

Threats – the two main threats to Pioneer Welland are the time available and volunteers. As the project is a Circuit-led resource, having more volunteers from outside the immediate area would be an asset to the group. The volunteers come from villages outside of Peterborough, therefore, she appealed to anyone who was interested in helping with meals, serving teas and snacks or sitting chatting to other parents for an hour or two each week.

Over the two years in post, Neat noticed how the nature and scope of the Welland estate has changed; there are more working families and local authorities are strongly encouraging parents to return to work so, reaching them has become more difficult. However, the problems of loneliness, isolation and other related issues do not go away, and so running groups at other times to suit parents may be of benefit.

Along with her team, Neat reflected on Pioneer Welland and how effective it has been, what was

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happening and what was the best way forward to continue building the whole Dogsthorpe community, and offering support to the Christ the Carpenter Parish, and the charities and community groups working on Welland. She shared her thoughts at the Pioneer Welland Prayer Meeting in February at the Charteris Centre. She also held a Celebration and Vision Evening in March at Dogsthorpe Methodist Church and invited all stakeholders, team members, circuit church members and community groups that she was working alongside.

Neat saw fruit appearing where the foundations of prayer and faithful commitment to the Dogsthorpe and the Welland estate have been planted over the years. She thanked everyone for their faithfulness in prayer, provision and activity across the years. Her prayer was a quote from Bill Johnson in the book “Power that Changes the World”:

“I have discovered that when we enjoy life with the citizens of our communities and show people that we are real and practical, we have influence. We need to have more faith and confidence in the impact the Holy Spirit’s presence in us will have. He will affect our surroundings….we are to become immersed in the affairs of our cities.”

Neat believed this is what we were seeing in Welland, and she acknowledged the need for disciples, not volunteers, to help ‘pioneer’ into Dogsthorpe and Welland. Thanks go to Laura Martin who worked alongside Neat and joined up to help at the Tuesday event at The Acorn Centre, where we saw a change in just a few weeks.

The CLT is in discussion about a replacement for Neat. With her resignation and the desire to provide additional support for Westgate New Church and Whittlesey, one proposal the CLT is considering is looking at whether it is feasible to create one full-time role encompassing the two roles. Unfortunately, with the recruitment freeze during lockdown, nothing could progress this year.

2.2 Mission in our Circuit

2.3 Mission in our Churches

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club, Boys’ Brigade. At Oundle , Bible Study group; Clergy Prayers. At Crowland : Explorers; Toddlers group, Saturday morning coffee sessions with book stalls 10 to 11-30am. Small fellowship / study groups: Wesley`s Wayfarers on the 1st & 3[rd] Tuesdays of each month at 11 am and Stepping Stones fortnightly on Tuesday afternoons at 2pm, At Westgate New Church , Circuit Intercessions. At Whittlesey , Network Group, Little Fishes; at Elton, the ‘Cheeky Monkeys’ toddlers’ group, including forging links with the mums and encouraging them in the Christian faith.

There was regular use of the Prayer Chain supporting one another in joyful and sorrowful situations. On Covenant Sunday, Revs David Parkes led a “Love feast” Covenant Service via Zoom. The church family has held together well - births, special birthdays, deaths, special occasions have all been remembered and noted. During a brief period between lockdowns they did meet under strict Covid rules.

2.4 Worship, Services and Prayer

As part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity : Brookside held a service and prayer time, along with four other churches in the PE4 area; Christ Church joined together with the Churches Together in the Ortons for a service at Orton Waterville Methodist and, during Lent, they meet up each week for lunch together in the different churches. This was a lovely way of joining together and an example of ecumenical gathering.

Our County Ecumenical Officer, Caroline Hutchings, attended a Hope4Peterborough meeting and she distributed prayer bookmarks and other literature and promoted the ‘Call to Prayer’ meetings arranged

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for the year.

Several churches took part in the global ‘Thy Kingdom Come’ initiative during Ascension Day to Pentecost Sunday. This was more low key this year because of the pandemic, but prayers for Thy Kingdom Come featured in our livestream ‘Morning Prayers’.

Once the Covid regulations allowed, the congregation at Orton Waterville were able to meet in the local village hall for their Sunday services as the church was not spacious enough to meet. Their services were led by two dedicated Local Preachers, with additional reflections sent from other Local Preachers and ministers.

We have been getting about 250 views but, most importantly, about 120-130 comments on a Sunday which is people engaging, we get about half that in the weekly Monday to Thursday ‘Morning Prayers’ at 8.30am. We have started to consider the big question of, once we come out of Lockdown, how do we cover it? When do we support other churches? He has started to involve other people, and it is easier getting people to volunteer to help with the ‘Morning Prayers’, but the Sunday morning at 10.30am has the significant following and he is aware that we could lose people if we cannot maintain it. This is in tandem with knowing what the local churches need when the Lockdown eases.

Huge thanks go to Revd Dale Sherriff and Matt Forsyth who also lead Livestream worship and ‘Morning Prayers’.

2.5 Our Focus as a Circuit

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links with local churches and congregations, but also there was this recurrent call for us to return to our roots, to tend to our roots and, with Revd Graham Tooth’s advice, the focus being on how we encourage people in prayer and in small groups.

As we have reflected in the Pioneer Hub, which is open to everyone, we stumbled across another model and he showed us the image of the dragonfly. The Dragonfly is a devotion. Revd Dale Sherriff has come to us with a significant amount of experience in helping churches and encouraging small groups and one of the things he has brought to us is, if we think about how we gather as a Church, we can think perhaps about the four wings of a dragonfly for us in the Methodist tradition, but also in the wider Church tradition. The four wings could be: The Circuit – a group of churches working together; the local congregations; the small group/fellowship group with a class leader; prayer partners of two or three/small bands.

The dragonfly operates both in each wing independently or together, and it is a helpful model. One of the things we do is to ensure people feel connected in prayer and we are looking at how we group people together, i.e., virtually or via email or via paper when we have worship at home, and it is key that we get this right as we move out of Lockdown.

Revd Langley did a survey in the earlier phase of the Coronavirus with the Local Preachers and Worship Leaders regarding what we sense the Lord is saying to us, and he wrote a report on it, and this was when The Pioneer Hub was starting to get into motion as it thought about the Dragonfly Model, and there were two conclusions which are open to further exploration: Firstly, we need to be very wary of the idea of thinking that we are going to go back to the way things were before, in the sense that this is a golden opportunity for us to think about the needs and mission of the Church, learn the lessons in things like telephone pastoral ministry that is happening at places like Orton Waterville, the WhatsApp groups – we are all learning whether we are creating or receiving – creative things happening with paper as we use ‘The Vine’ material. So, this is an opportunity as we come out of Lockdown to think what do we need to do? When do we need to do it? Who is it for? How do we do it? Particularly, how do we ensure that we hold those people who have joined us during the Lockdown period?

Bishop Stephen Cottrell advised churches to be careful about just thinking we will go back to the way it was before. Revd Langley said there will be a Plan and we will be doing morning Worship but let us learn the lessons from the good things that are happening.

Secondly, online worship has been a significant success and it would be a mistake not to continue it in some shape or form. Exactly what that is, he does not know.

3 Staffing and Appointments, Stewards and Ministries

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course, an extremely difficult time for them during the Covid pandemic, and Helen was able to offer much needed help, encouragement and support to the residents and staff. Helen also remained as a volunteer with the Pioneer Hub and carried on helping at Ailsworth in partnership with Revd Shameela.

Our thanks to all who have provided up to date information and assistance to those in their churches, including those who have produced paper copies, church newsletters and written reflections from preachers to those not on email. Our thanks also to the pastoral carers who have supported those isolated by the pandemic.

4 Safeguarding

The District Safeguarding Team are looking at online Safeguarding Foundation training as an option for Circuit Safeguarding trainers if the lockdown restrictions continue. District has started training Circuit Safeguarding trainers on how to conduct online training courses.

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need to review what we used to do and whether it was really the best way to serve God. When churches are allowed to open, but with continuing restrictions on social distancing, printed books, singing, socialising after worship, we need to find a way that means no one is excluded, but still deliver meaningful worship.

Forms for photo permissions to be used with children and young people have been sent to all Safeguarding Co-ordinators and to the Local Preachers’ Secretary, and to Sunday school teachers too. The directive from the District Safeguarding Team is that these forms have to be completed before any photo is taken of children and young people during a church event and church service.

5 Finance

We acknowledged that, as a church, we are very good at reaching out to new people, but moving people into discipleship is more of a challenge. With the encouragement and hard work of all involved we have seen how Ailsworth is growing in a totally different way to how we would normally see it in a Methodist church. The following are thanked for their sterling work: Mick Goodman, The CLT, Bridget Spencer, Linda Bass and Helen Crofts for Messy Church and the ‘Sewing Bees’ group and building up good pastoral relationships.

Obviously, some of the churches have been hit quite hard through the Covid-19 crisis. We started to get an overview of churches’ positions so we can see what next year might look like, and then update our budget accordingly.

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6 Property

We believe we have and we have done it through working and learning together, and supporting and encouraging each other. The Circuit Leadership Team is grateful to everyone for all their contributions and support in this difficult year.

Signed: L Mackrell-Hey

(Revd Dr Langley Mackrell-Hey – Chair – and Superintendent of the Methodist Circuit: Peterborough Circuit of Churches)

Date: 24[th] June, 2021

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CIRCUIT RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS PETERBOROUGH FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020 Dl8trl¢l Glrctslt no 23r21 R9kn￿ Cha￿. Charlty R$glstration numb9r 1135613 ff w a ¥egrsteTJ charity Her Majesty's Rèvenuè and Customs Gift Aid number (Tre HMRC nwnbw is equivalenl to a registered charity number in terms of evidence of ch8rftsbk stat￿5 and be us&$ to give to donors or grant fund8rs wishing to See evidence of the organisation's chaiitable Stat￿ Meth￿￿St charilies in England and iNales that 8re not registerod charities gre excepted from uThAer Slalutory Instrument 2014 No.242 } Ministers= REVD DR LANGLEY MACKRELL-HEY REVD SHAMEELA JAMEELEE-SAMUEL REVD SARAH GOWER Ciicuit Stewards.. MRS SUE KEENEY MRS CHRISTINE KELL MRS ANN TOOTH MR. SIMON STEWART MRS. S HOLMES Tre8suror. MR GILES ARMSTRONG

Accoubifs FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020 PETERBOROUGH Clrcult r¢stri¢ted ¢irGult Mod81 R•stricted Fund$ TNSI Fund Funds Totals thFs ar Total$ last SECTION A a1 RECEiwrs Not a2 Assessmenushare 158,131 158.131 123,289 1.368 a3 Ca ital recei ts Bank and CFB interest and Invtsslmenl Income 2,642 1,947 3.007 4.954 8.205 a5 Grants 9,IK)O 14,218 a6 Other receipts TOTAL RECEIPTS 14.218 183.661 15,682 87 183,296 365 161,544 SECMON B b1 b2 PAYMENTS SIIp8nds, salaii8s. NIC. Pension and travel eosts 96,716 13,309 5,289 96.715 13.309 127,566 17,364 6,790 23,184 b3 Manse Costs b4 A(Iministration otc b5 Dlstrlct Assessment 31,507 31.507 b6 b7 Grants & donations b8 Other P8yments TOTAL PAYMENTS 9,192 156.012 4,977 14,169 160.989 14,039 188.9d3 b9 4,9TT Ib9) SECTION C NET RECEIPTSIPAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR c1 a74)9 27284 4,612 672 27,399 c2 Total funds brou ht forward from last ar 35,540 157,046 192.586 219,985 Sub tot c1+e2 62.824 152,434 215.258 Trdnsfers and ad'ustments 2,500 2,500 c7 TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF Y&4R Ic3+c41 60,324 IS4,934 215.258 192,586 ¢6 SECTION D FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS thas• amounts should not be included In total rècèl asrynonts abovttl Balance brou d1 ht forward from last ear fforin sIGifts - recelved for exiemal an£satlons eringslGitts- passed to exiem81 organlsations BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID d1 +d2-d3 2015 R8nu p.xts 2Lrf5

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DECLARATIONS Treasurer I confirm Ihal I have prepared the accounts from the records of Ihe Circuit and that they include all funds under the control of the Circuit Signature of Treasurer Date zi Name . GILES ARMSTRON Address 1, EATHWAITE GREEN, PETERBOROUGH PE4 6SZ Presentation to the 'Circuit Meeting for approval. I confirm that the Accounts havg been presented lo the Circuit Meeting on uliol Lo2D and were appmved. Signature of the Chair of the meeting Name of the Chair of the meeting Date ri1041lcL ( Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of the Circuit This Report is on the Circuit Accounts for the year ended 31. August 2020 Respective responsibilittes of Trustees and Examiner The charit5ls trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's Iruslees considf audit is not required for this year under section 144 of Ihe Charities Att 2011 {the Charities Act) and th" independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to.. Examine the accounts under Section 145 of Ihe Charities Acl to follow Ihe procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charily Commission (under SeGlion 145{51{bl of the Charities Act), and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of Independent Examiner's Report My examination Wds carried out in accorctance with gÈner81 Dlrections given by the Ch8r*ty Commission. An examination indudes a revlew of the accounting records kept by the ¢harity and a comparfson of the accoijnts presented with those recotds. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosvres in the accoun18, and seeking explanations from fhe trustees conceming any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be requlred in an audit, and consequently no opinlon is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fairf view and th8 r8POrt is Ilmllod lo those matters set out in th8 siatement below. Independent Examiner's Stalement In connection with my examlnatlon, no mztter has oome to my atlentlon lolher than that disclosed belo￿)= (1} which glves me r68sonable cause lo beligve that in any material respect the requirements.. lo keep 8ccounliny records in accordance wilh section 130 of the Cha15ties Act. . lo prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply wth the accounting requir&m8nts of the Charitses Act have not been met.. or {21 lo which. in my opinlon, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understsnding of the accoutts k) be reacheil. ' Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply appropriate 13) I havelhave not. obtained independent verificallon of all inveslmenls with the Trust&s for Methodist Church Purposes {'TNqCP'I or held in other Trusts. Bank balances and Funds at the Central Financè Boaffl of th8 Moknodist Church I"CFB"l. which are indivldually in excess of £10,000 Iltrn thousand pounds) al the b818nce sheet dale. "Please urGle as appropriate Name Signature Relevant Professional qualification or body Address "7'£Q.O>OQJ IA611 7l Date

CIRCUIT RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS PETERBOROUGH FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020 Dl8trl¢l Glrctslt no 23r21 R9kn￿ Cha￿. Charlty R$glstration numb9r 1135613 ff w a ¥egrsteTJ charity Her Majesty's Rèvenuè and Customs Gift Aid number (Tre HMRC nwnbw is equivalenl to a registered charity number in terms of evidence of ch8rftsbk stat￿5 and be us&$ to give to donors or grant fund8rs wishing to See evidence of the organisation's chaiitable Stat￿ Meth￿￿St charilies in England and iNales that 8re not registerod charities gre excepted from uThAer Slalutory Instrument 2014 No.242 } Ministers= REVD DR LANGLEY MACKRELL-HEY REVD SHAMEELA JAMEELEE-SAMUEL REVD SARAH GOWER Ciicuit Stewards.. MRS SUE KEENEY MRS CHRISTINE KELL MRS ANN TOOTH MR. SIMON STEWART MRS. S HOLMES Tre8suror. MR GILES ARMSTRONG

Accoubifs FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020 PETERBOROUGH Clrcult r¢stri¢ted ¢irGult Mod81 R•stricted Fund$ TNSI Fund Funds Totals thFs ar Total$ last SECTION A a1 RECEiwrs Not a2 Assessmenushare 158,131 158.131 123,289 1.368 a3 Ca ital recei ts Bank and CFB interest and Invtsslmenl Income 2,642 1,947 3.007 4.954 8.205 a5 Grants 9,IK)O 14,218 a6 Other receipts TOTAL RECEIPTS 14.218 183.661 15,682 87 183,296 365 161,544 SECMON B b1 b2 PAYMENTS SIIp8nds, salaii8s. NIC. Pension and travel eosts 96,716 13,309 5,289 96.715 13.309 127,566 17,364 6,790 23,184 b3 Manse Costs b4 A(Iministration otc b5 Dlstrlct Assessment 31,507 31.507 b6 b7 Grants & donations b8 Other P8yments TOTAL PAYMENTS 9,192 156.012 4,977 14,169 160.989 14,039 188.9d3 b9 4,9TT Ib9) SECTION C NET RECEIPTSIPAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR c1 a74)9 27284 4,612 672 27,399 c2 Total funds brou ht forward from last ar 35,540 157,046 192.586 219,985 Sub tot c1+e2 62.824 152,434 215.258 Trdnsfers and ad'ustments 2,500 2,500 c7 TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF Y&4R Ic3+c41 60,324 IS4,934 215.258 192,586 ¢6 SECTION D FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS thas• amounts should not be included In total rècèl asrynonts abovttl Balance brou d1 ht forward from last ear fforin sIGifts - recelved for exiemal an£satlons eringslGitts- passed to exiem81 organlsations BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID d1 +d2-d3 2015 R8nu p.xts 2Lrf5

PEfER8OROVGH CRC ou SECTiofi E Q25&10110 thetsu tocorn Summary of Ihe &rcuit8¢wunl¥for thoyEar Bnded 31 Auywt 2019 and Inl8mal Organlsabons repOru￿j tothtr CirttitlA¥thg. Note Ihatthefthws ofan IDtem Org8ni%alK)n hwllf nomElly bè R8slrf¢i8d fvnds Un￿5$ ii¢ould be deal￿ th¢hYTrthatthey¢oukJ be us¥5 foraw meb￿ls1 wtK)s& Thls mw41 bfr to Arrive 21 th8 gross paymnts totsls ol lh& Clrcutt. K gross inconÈ excéeds lh• At(n4$th[estrK)￿ of£25D,000, th￿ th AcrIL￿ of a￿)unI￿g AND A DIFFERENT FORFJ must be uged to r•portth¥ I¢￿￿181¥e& mèttK￿¥t￿bsltsl. Pjaase Tefertothe guKlaDCt wr¢uig trafisfers b8lw88n the Cifujiland GOnn￿j CirGuiI organ￿¥t￿n¥. INTERTr14L N91R￿lP￿I 8ubirAÈlof Intsmal Or9¢n￿&f￿m funds Clr¢uitacvounts Itota bmugPklorwrdfrom pagè2-101tt1s Golvmnl 113,661 ae 110 bg) 22.672 192.586 215,258 HELD BY C•tcutt 183.661 160,989 22.672 t92 586 21525B onlnueon a s•path sheet Ynecessaryand brino t￿lo￿Ls1or￿s TOTAL RECEPTS TOTAL PAYMENTS sEc￿oN F Nr OPENING 8ALANCES ¢LOSINO ¢IRcuif-CASH FIJNDS at31 uÈt2Mg Cash in Bank Currem 8nkD J6th)uni CÈrtrdFk4nce Board TrVBl8855JrMth￿￿t 157,046 154,932 SUB TOT 192.586 214258 TotslfUndShfy￿ by Intomd (the SI￿ balan¢¢ tDvol{812 411 ¢1 TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BYCUICU 192,SB6 215.258 8ECTION G orMÉRASSEf8 •nrf U￿LFrIE8 2019 t2020 Imstrnentg (aJd• En￿￿Onts lar￿ a￿d Bu￿. so9 not4s r?￿suranCeva￿Je 899.939 OthErAsse -showemountoLtsisno4 dt ond f4 Inc4udg only Funds hddatlhe C8ntralFinÈnCe PrtTd f5 IndudBO￿CFB Funth alTrustegsf¢rKtsthvdEtChwth Puwe 91 Ind￿jganYOb)er#lv•$tM•nia CrKIth ¢a6heIgm￿I0tTfvKg trUSta￿un￿th knknèf61

DECLARATIONS Treasurer I confirm Ihal I have prepared the accounts from the records of Ihe Circuit and that they include all funds under the control of the Circuit Signature of Treasurer Date zi Name . GILES ARMSTRON Address 1, EATHWAITE GREEN, PETERBOROUGH PE4 6SZ Presentation to the 'Circuit Meeting for approval. I confirm that the Accounts havg been presented lo the Circuit Meeting on uliol Lo2D and were appmved. Signature of the Chair of the meeting Name of the Chair of the meeting Date ri1041lcL ( Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of the Circuit This Report is on the Circuit Accounts for the year ended 31. August 2020 Respective responsibilittes of Trustees and Examiner The charit5ls trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's Iruslees considf audit is not required for this year under section 144 of Ihe Charities Att 2011 {the Charities Act) and th" independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to.. Examine the accounts under Section 145 of Ihe Charities Acl to follow Ihe procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charily Commission (under SeGlion 145{51{bl of the Charities Act), and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of Independent Examiner's Report My examination Wds carried out in accorctance with gÈner81 Dlrections given by the Ch8r*ty Commission. An examination indudes a revlew of the accounting records kept by the ¢harity and a comparfson of the accoijnts presented with those recotds. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosvres in the accoun18, and seeking explanations from fhe trustees conceming any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be requlred in an audit, and consequently no opinlon is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fairf view and th8 r8POrt is Ilmllod lo those matters set out in th8 siatement below. Independent Examiner's Stalement In connection with my examlnatlon, no mztter has oome to my atlentlon lolher than that disclosed belo￿)= (1} which glves me r68sonable cause lo beligve that in any material respect the requirements.. lo keep 8ccounliny records in accordance wilh section 130 of the Cha15ties Act. . lo prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply wth the accounting requir&m8nts of the Charitses Act have not been met.. or {21 lo which. in my opinlon, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understsnding of the accoutts k) be reacheil. ' Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply appropriate 13) I havelhave not. obtained independent verificallon of all inveslmenls with the Trust&s for Methodist Church Purposes {'TNqCP'I or held in other Trusts. Bank balances and Funds at the Central Financè Boaffl of th8 Moknodist Church I"CFB"l. which are indivldually in excess of £10,000 Iltrn thousand pounds) al the b818nce sheet dale. "Please urGle as appropriate Name Signature Relevant Professional qualification or body Address "7'£Q.O>OQJ IA611 7l Date