Annual Report of **Kenilworth Methodist Church** Priory Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 1LQ **Charity Registration Number 1140252**
## Annual Report of **Kenilworth Methodist Church September 2021-August 2022 Charity Registration Number 1140252**
Kenilworth Methodist Church Council has oversight of the activities of Kenilworth Methodist Church Working with the Minister, The church aims to enable its members to live out their calling as a Methodist People, to develop their discipleship, to worship, to serve and to care for others and to draw others to faith through evangelism.
The year running from September 2021 to August 2022 was one of significant change as the church emerged from the period of closure after the Covid pandemic.
At the start of the year our activities were largely limited to Sunday morning worship, our pastoral ministry, some online activities, and our provision of a group for toddlers and their carers was provided by volunteers and our Missioner for Families and Young Families. Hirers were tentatively beginning to return to use the building as were the uniformed organisations that we sponsor. We were pleased to see New Hope the Christian Counselling Service back up and running here too.
As we reopened some activities did not restart. Strategic and practical decisions were taken about where to focus our limited resources. The break provided by Covid provided us with space to rethink and to prioritise the discipleship, pastoral and mission activities of our church.
In September we boldly restarted Junior Church. This is a great success. The team of leaders and their helpers have adapted to suit the young people attending . It is lovely for this small group of children to get to know more of us and to realise we can all share our faith with one another.
During the covid pandemic we rethought our approach to pastoral ministry and introduced “pastoral triangles” whereby members of our fellowship provide support for one another across the church in small groups, usually of three people. Groups of triangles are then linked together by pastoral visitors. Each pastoral visitor looks after one or two triangles and feeds back information to the pastoral support team. The small support team can then ensure that visits and prayers are provided as necessary to the whole fellowship. Not everyone is part of the network, but this is working well for those that find it helpful.
1 | P a g e
Annual Report of **Kenilworth Methodist Church** Priory Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 1LQ **Charity Registration Number 1140252**
During the global Climate change conference COP 26 in October, we held daily prayer vigils in the Grounds for Hope called 262626. The Girl Guides helped us mark this event by making decorative hand shaped bunting. We achieved our Eco Church Bronze Award in January 2022 and began to work towards our Silver Award.
In November we were finally able to formally welcome our new Minister Revd Dr Iain Ballard, to Kenilworth, 15 months after he moved with his family, with a public service of welcome led by the Chair of District, Revd Ian Howarth and Clergy from across the Circuit and Town in attendance. It was great to see the building almost full again, even if there was still some nervousness about social distancing.
Ian Howarth introduced us all to the Methodist Way of Life material which we used as the teaching material for the Kenilworth Connection discipleship course for the following 6 weeks. This was hugely successful bringing in a wide range of ages to reconnect over food for fellowship and learning about what it means to be a Methodist in the 21st century.
In November the Church Council considered the issues from the God in Love report from the Methodist Church Conference and voted to allow same sex couples to celebrate their marriages in our church. We published a press notice to this effect which was covered in the local media.
Our more intentional mission activity was focussed during the pandemic on a food distribution project which we concluded at Christmas 2021. The meeting and greeting of those using our building is part of our mission activity and this continued as the building use increased throughout the year.
During 2022 we ran four shorter series of Kenilworth Connections each with a different theme, Covenant, rediscovering the brilliance of God’s Plan during Lent, reflecting on the impact of the Pandemic looking back to move forwards in June and finally what does it mean to be a member of the Melodist church in August. This model of short burst of courses, run on a Sunday evening and repeated on a weekday afternoons seems to suit some people better than the traditional Sunday evening service. These courses were particularly helpful as we welcomed new people into worship and fellowship some of whom knew very little about the history of Methodism.
Gradually as the year progressed and the Covid restrictions eased activities returned to something like a new normal, with some new initiatives and some old favourites too.
Toddlers on a Friday morning on the other hand goes from strength to strength and under new voluntary leadership and supported by the excellent hard-working team of volunteers. It welcomes Toddlers and their carers from across Kenilworth and beyond for imaginative play
2 | P a g e
Annual Report of **Kenilworth Methodist Church** Priory Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 1LQ **Charity Registration Number 1140252**
in a safe and welcoming space, where their carers can be assured of a friendly face and a listening ear if they need one. We end each session with a song and story time.
Our church without walls has continued through the year in the Grounds for Hope garden. Many people have benefited from the crops grown there and from crops grown elsewhere and left on the sharing table. Our Harvest Festival in 2021 was a little late for many of our growers but what we had was given away in the garden. The garden has also been a fruitful place for prayer and conversation some of this was captured in a short film shown across the District demonstrating community outreach projects.
The Church Council was pleased to be able to meet in person again during this period and has met five times.
The General Church Meeting was on 26 June 2022. Fi Pethick was re-elected and Sandra Quarterman and David Williams were elected as Leadership Stewards. - -
Our annual income for the year for the year to 31 August 2022 totalled £108k. After payments of £120k there was a net loss of £13k which was covered from reserves. During the year, it was necessary to replace the boiler and cooker costing £21k which is included in the payments made.
We started the year with three part time employees and for various and different reasons each resigned during the year. We no longer employ anyone in these roles. This has contributed significantly to our budgetary savings. We anticipate a small surplus at the end of the current fiscal year.
3 | P a g e
#
#
#
##
#
##
|ACCOUNTSFOR THEYEARENDED|ACCOUNTSFOR THEYEARENDED|ACCOUNTSFOR THEYEARENDED||KENILWORTHMETHODIST
CHURCH|KENILWORTHMETHODIST
CHURCH|KENILWORTHMETHODIST
CHURCH|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unrestricte||||
||31
ust2022||dFunds|Funds|year|year|
||SECTIONA||||||
|a1|RECEIPTS|Note|t|g|€|g|
|a2|Offerings andTaxrecovered||74,378|10,216|84,594|91,971|
||Bank and CFB interestand||||||
|a3|lnvestment income||57|0|57|38|
|a4|Lettings||19,992|0|f9,992|3,445|
|a5|Other receipts||3,186||3,186|5|
|aG|TOTALRECEIPTS||97,613|10,216|107,828 (a7l|95,459|
||SECTIONB|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|b1|PAYMENTS|||||||
|b2|CircuitAssessment orShare||58,320|0|58,320|58,320||
|b3|Donations||4,040|0|4,040|3,950||
|b4|Repairs and Maintenance||32,190|0|32,190|8,523||
||Utilities (lnsurances,water|||||||
|b5|charqes,heatinq & liqhting)||8,559|0|8,559|6,866||
|b6|||||0|0||
|b7|Otherpayments||5,961|11,842|17,803|22,770||
|b8|TOTALPAYMENTS||109,070|11,842|120,913 (bs)||{00,4?q||
||SECTIONC|||||||
||NET|||||||
||REGEIPTS'PAYMENTS|||||||
|c1|FOR THEYEAR|(a6-b8)|(11,458)|(1,627)|(13,084)|(4,e70)||
||Totalfundsbrought forward|||||||
|c2|fromlastyear||49,688|2,960|52,648 (c6)|57,578||
|c3|Subtotal|(c1+s21|38,231|1,333|39,564|52,648||
|c4|Transfersand adjustments||(1,046)|1,046|0 (c8)|0||
|c5|TOTALFUNDSATEND OFY(c3+c4)||wn
EE-tl:ril||||(c6)|
##
||INFORMATIONONLY:MONEY|ECEIVED|ON TO||:.|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|d|EXTERNALORGANISATIONS|||||
||amountsarenottobeincludedintotalreceipts/paymentsfigures||||:..|
|d1|forwardfromlast year
Balance||0|0||
|d2|-received for external||3,203|1,345||
|d3|to external|isations|203|1,345|:l|
||||||:|
|d4|ESTILL TO BEPAID|d1||0||
##
||INTERNAL|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||ORGAITIISATIONS|||||||||||
|el
eZ
e3
e4
e5|erdGroup
Flower Guild
Ea(frflintm
Toddlers
Wedcoff€emorning|lt
il
ll
ll
II|
831
2
96|73
231
1,207
24|fi
(13
B7
(2,|||212
37
1.14(
2t||143
237
0
764
0||
|e6||||||||||||
|e7||||||||||||
|e8||||||||||0||
|e9||||||||||0||
|||||||||||0||
|e||||||||||0||
|el2|||||n|||||0||
||Subtotaloflnternal|||||||||||
|e8|Organisations funds||929|1,535|(606)|0||1,749|(e11)|1,143||
||Churchaccounts|||||||||||
|e9|(totalsfrompaSe 2)||107,828|120,913|(13,084)|0||52,648|(co)|39,564|(c7)|
||TOTALCASHFUNDS|||||||||||
|el(|HELDBYCHURCH||108,757|122,U7|(r|0||54,397|(x)|40,707|(v)|
||SEC]IONF||STATEMENT|OFASSETS|ANDUABIUNES|||||||
|||||||OPENING||||||
|fl|CHuRCfl- CASHftttOS IIELDat31
C;ashinhand|||||BAI.Ai{CES
o|||CLOSING|BALAITICES||
|t2
R|Bank CurrentAccount
Bank Deposit Account|||||33.005
0||||22,826||
|f4
f5|Central Finance Board
TrusteesforMethodist|ChuicF||||18,776
1,570||||15,787
1,572||
|f6|C'hequesnot cashedat|end prevyr||||||||(622)||
|f7|Funds receivedafter year||end|||||||||
|a|SUBTOTAL-Church accounts||||||c6|||39,564|ct|
|f9|Organisations (theclosingbalance|||||1,749|11|||1,143||
|fl0|TOTAL CASHFUNDS|||||54,397|(x)|||40,707|(v)|
##
##
##
##
##
##