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|North Cheshire Circuit||Circuit No|
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|Ministers|Revd J Neil Stacey||
||Deacon Suzanne Sale||
|Stewards|Mr Michael Haynes||
||Mrs Heather<br>JWalker||
||Professor<br>David Clough||
||Dr David Acquaye||
||Ms Sarah Pearson||
|Church Treasurer|Mrs Shirley Stacey||





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|PENDIX A: CHURCH COUNCIL MEMBERS|PENDIX A: CHURCH COUNCIL MEMBERS|PENDIX A: CHURCH COUNCIL MEMBERS|PENDIX A: CHURCH COUNCIL MEMBERS|HIP (i|.e. MANAGING<br>TRUSTEES):|from 1.9.22to|date|
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|MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY|||||NAME (asat 1.9.22)|CHANGES|SINCE 1.9.22|
|Ministers|||||Revd Neil Stacey|||
||||||Deacon Suzanne Sale|Appointed|1.9.22|
|Church Stewards|||||Michael<br>Haynes|Resigned|31.8.23|
||||||Heather Walker|||
||||||Prof. David Clough|||
||||||Dr David Acquaye|||
||||||Sarah Pearson|||
||||||Dr Heather Pearson|Appointed|1.9.23|
|Church Safeguarding|||Co-ordinator||Jane Krause|||
|Church Treasurer|||||Shirley Stacey|||
|Secretary ofChurch||Council|||Leyland<br>Haynes|||
|Admin. Committee||Secretary|||Brian Heald|||
|Property Steward|||||Stephen<br>Bowden|||
|Secretary of Pastoral|||Committee||Gillian Langrick|||
|Junior Church Liaison||||||||
|Circuit Steward Representative|||||Gill Townsend|||
|Not less than 6and||not more than 15||1.|Helen Haynes|||
|representatives|elected by the annual|||2.|Malcolm Pearson|||
|General Church|Meeting|||3.|Andrew<br>Ramsey|||
|(who are members||ofthe Church)||4|Dr Derek Fry|||
|||||5.|Julie O' Connell|Resigned|2.7.23|
|||||6.|Laura Etheridge|Resigned|2.7.23|
|||||7.|Angela Macquiban|||
|||||8.|Jeremy Heald|||
||||||Chris Royton|||
|||||10.|Terry Green|||
|||||11.|Pauline Goodlad|||
|||||12.|Dr Mark Gant|Appointed|2.7.23|
|||||13.|Denise Kingsnorth|Appointed|2.7.23|
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||||||the|Unrestricted|||Funds|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
||||||accounts|||Unrestricted||Restricted||||
|Income||||||||||||||
|Income relating tothe Church|||||4|106,416||||321|10,000|116,737|157,875|
|Fundra ising Income|||||5|28,665||||||28,665|22,216|
|Interest & Investment<br>Income|||||6||5,466|||||5,529|1,206|
|Income supporting|the Mission of||the Church||7||2,290|||6,673||8,963|6,520|
|Other Charitable|Income||||8||3,545|||||3,545|3,780|
|Other Income|||||9|39,189||||||39,189|36,988|
|Trading<br>Income|||||10|66,510||||||66,510|52,258|
||||Totai|income||||||7,056|10,000|269,138||
|Expenditure||||||||||||||
|Expenditure<br>relating to the Church|||||11|131,973|||16,567|||148,540|302,134|
|Fundraising<br>Expenditure|||||12||7,977|||||7,977|6,596|
|Interest & Investment<br>costs|||||||556|||||556|528|
|Expenditure<br>on the Mission ofthe|||Church||13||5,015|||||11,948|6,192|
|Other Charitable|Expenditure||||14||7,115||852|||7,966|7,520|
|Other Expenditure|||||||1,546|||||1,546|1,333|
|Depreciation|||||20||604|||||604|934|
|Trading<br>Expenditure|||||15||61,319|||||61,319|50,900|
|||Total expenditure|||||||17,918|6,433||240,456|376,138|
|Gains/(losses)<br>on|monetary<br>investments|||||||||||369 -|986|
|Gains/(losses)<br>on investment||properties||||||||||||
||Net income/(expenditurej||||||||17,918||10,369|29,051 -|96,281|
|Transfers between|funds||||16||3,149||3,149|||||
|Gains/(losses)<br>on|Fixed Assets||||20|||||||||
||Net movement|||infunds|||39,125|-|21,067||10,369|29,051 -|96,281|
|Total funds<br>brought forward||||||788,531|||132,121|6,593|18,470|945,714|1,041,996|
||Total funds carried forward|||||827,656||||7,216||974,765|945,714|





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|||||||Accounts|Unrestricted|Funds|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
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|Fixed Assets||||||20|||||||
|Church building and other||property|||||754,143||||754,143|754,747|
|Investment<br>properties|||||||||||||
|Investments||||||23||||28,840||18,470|
||||Totalfixed||assets||754,143||||782,983|773217|
|Current Assets|||||||||||||
|Debtors and prepayments||||||21|17,040||||17,040|16,679|
|Stock|||||||1,359||||1,359|707|
|Central Finance Board|Deposits|||||||143,147|4,958||148,106|135,128|
|Cash at Bank and in hand|||||||58,972|32,094|2,258||29,137|25,346|
|||Total current|||assets|||111,054|7,216||195,641|177,860|
|Current llabllltles|||||||||||||
|Creditors (under 1yr)||||||22|3,452|||||4,840|
||Total||current|liabilities|||3,452||||3,452||
|Net current|||assets/liabilities||||73,920||7,216||192,190|173,019|
|Total assets less|||current|liabilities||||111,054|7,216||975,173|946,236|
|Provision for liabilities||||||||||||522|
|||||Net|assets||827,656||7,216||974,765|945,714|
|Fundsofthe<br>Church|||||||||||||
|General<br>Fund (Unrestricted)|||||||827,656||||827,656|788,531|
|Designated<br>Funds (Unrestricted)||||||||111,054|||111,054|132,121|
|Total||Unrestricted|||Funds||||||938,710|920,651|
|Restricted<br>Funds|||||||||7,216||7,216|6,593|
|Endowment<br>Funds||||||||||28,840||18,470|
||||Total||Funds||827,656|111,054|7,216||974,765|945,714|





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|Statement ofcash flows|||
|Cash from operating<br>activities|||
|Net cash used in operating<br>activities,|as below|16,065|
|Cash flows from investing activities|||
|Dividends,<br>interest and rents from investments||10,703|
|Purchase ofproperty,<br>plant and equipment|||
|Acquisition/disposal<br>of Investments||10,000|
|Net cash provided<br>by investing activities|||
|Cash flows from financing activities|||
|Transfer between<br>funds|||
|Net cash used in financing activities|||
|Change in cash and cash equivalents|in the reporting period|16,768|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>at 15eptember 2022||160,474|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>at 31August 2023||177,242|
|Reconciliation ofnet income to net cash flow from operating activities|||
|Net income for the reporting<br>period|(per SOFA)|29,051|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||
|Depreciation<br>and amortisation<br>charges|||
|Dividends,<br>interest and rents from investments||10,703|
|Gains/(losses)<br>on investments||369|
|Decrease/(increase)<br>in stocks||652|
|(Increase)/decrease<br>in debtors||362|
|Increase/(decrease)<br>in creditors||1,389|
|Increase/(decrease)<br>in long term liabilities||115|
|Net cash used in operating activities||16,065|
|Analysis ofcash and cash equivalent|||
|Cash in hand and bank balances||29,137|
|Short term deposit (less than 3months)||148,106|
|Total cash and cash equivalents||177,242|





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||3,377|||10,000|13.377|23,418|
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|28,353|||||28,353|22,057|
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|28,665|||||28,665|22,216|
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|Unrestricted||Funds|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
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||Donations||||3,545|||||3,780|
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|9|Other Income|||General|Fund|Designated|Designated|Endowment|Total|Total|
|||||Unrestricted||Funds|Funds|Funds|||
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||Lettings||||33,115||||33,115|31,250|
||Wayleaves|and licences|||5,668||||5,668|5,668|
||Other||||406||||406|70|



|General<br>Fund|Designated|Designated|Endowment|Total|Total|
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|Unrestricted|Funds|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
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|Expenditure||relating to th|e|Church|General|Fund|Designated|Designated|Endowment|Total|Total|
||||||Unrestricted||Funds|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted||||
|Assessment||tothe Methodist||Church|65,311|||||65,311|65,756|
|Utilities|||||12,699|||||12,699|12,179|
|Cleaning||||||9,910||||9,910|9,244|
|Insurance||||||5,426||||5,426|5,179|
|Maintenance||||||8,567|14,325|||22,892|14,200|
|Methodist|Church Pension Contribution||||||||||35,000|
|Office||||||2,079||||2,079|10,669|
|Organ Restoration|||||||2,242|||2,242|131,667|
|Project Regenerate||||||||||||
|Reopening|Expenses/Church||Centre|||18,531||||18,531|6,262|
|Other||||||9,451||||9451|11,978|
|Total|||||131,973||16567|||148,540||



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|||||Unrestricted||Funds|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
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||Concerts||||7,977||||7,977|6,596|
||Other||||||||||
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|13|Expenditure|on the Mission|ofthe Church|General|Fund|Designated|Designated|Endowment|Total|Total|
|||||Unrestricted||Funds|Funds|Funds||2D22|
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||Mission Development||||||||||
||Benevolent|activities|||||1,227||1f227||
||Work with|the disadvantaged|||100||5,206||5,306|1,364|
||Work with|Children|||4,915||||4,915|4,439|
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||Other||||||||||
||Total||||5015||6,433||11948|6,192|
|14|Other Charitable<br>Expenditure|||General|Fund|Designated|Designated|Endowment|Total|Total|
|||||Unrestricted||Funds|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|||||||Unrestricted|Restricted||||
||Donations|to Charities|||3,545|852|||4,396|3,780|
||Donations|to the Methodist|Church||3,570||||3,570|3,740|
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||Wesley Coffee Bar||61,923|||||||61,923||51,834|
||||61,923|||||||61,923||51,834|
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||||Coffee Bar.||||||||||
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||||Unrestricted|||Funds||Funds|Funds|2023||2022|
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||To General<br>Fund (unrestricted)|||8,779|||||||8,779||
||To Designated<br>Funds (unrestricted)|||||5,630|||||5,630|55,439|
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||From General<br>Fund (unrestricted)|||5,630|||||||5,630|25,439|
||From Designated<br>Funds (restricted)|||||||||||30,000|
||From Designated<br>Funds (unrestricted)|||||8,779|||||8,779||
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||agreement<br>with the Church Council Meeting||||||||||||
||Number oftrustees who were paid expenses||||||||||||
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||Independent<br>examiner's<br>or auditors'|fees for reporting|on the accounts|1,550|1,440|
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||Staff Costs paid during the year were:|||f|f|
||Gross wages, salaries and benefits<br>in kind|||68,968|58,123|
||Employer's<br>National<br>Insurance<br>costs|||0|0|
||Pension costs|||2,668|2,621|
||Total staff costs|||71,636|60,743|
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|investment)|investment|properties|assets|fittings and|2023|
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|750,000|||2,000|37,808|789,808|
|750,000|||2,000|37,808|789,808|
|||||35,061|35,061|
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|750,000|||2,000|2,747|754,747|
|750,000|||2,000|2,143|754,143|



|General Fund|Designated|Designated|Endowment|Total|Total|
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|(Unrestricted)|Funds|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
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|Methodist|Insurance||||Insurance|policy premiums||5,426|5,179|
|North Cheshire<br>Methodist|||Circuit||Annual Assessment|||65,311|65,756|
|Methodist|City Centre|Network|||Donations|||50|50|
|Action For|Children||||Donations|||156|193|
|All We Can|||||Donations|||2,003|681|
|Fund for Support of Presbyters||||8 Deacons|Donations|||||
|Methodist|International|House|||Donations|||||
|Fund for World Mission|||||Easter Offering|||||
|Fund for World Mission|||||Annual<br>Stewardship||grant|2,520|2,640|
|Mission in|Britain||||Annual<br>Stewardship||grant|630|660|
|Fund for Property|||||Annual<br>Stewardship||grant|420||
|Methodist|Church Pension||Fund||Donation||||35,000|
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