Annual Report of **Kenilworth Methodist Church** Priory Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 1LQ **Charity Registration Number 1140252**
Annual Report of **Kenilworth Methodist Church September 2023-August 2024 Charity Registration Number 1140252**
Kenilworth Methodist Church Council has oversight of the activities of Kenilworth Methodist Church working with the Minister. The Church Council delegates some responsibilities to the Leadership Team (see below) and to the following committees: Resources, Pastoral, Discipleship, Mission. 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 care for others and to draw others to faith through evangelism.
As Christians we promote the principles of service and support at local, national, and international levels. We promote global stewardship, in the form of supporting conservation and sustainability, together with active avoidance of exploitation and wastefulness. The Methodist Church is committed to diversity and non-discrimination in all its activities within and outside the church.
The year running from September 2023 to August 2024 was very encouraging. We had 107 members (including 7 new members) and our average attendance at the 10am service was 68. We had a number of children attending Junior Church every Sunday morning and also made a space available for toddlers or children who preferred to stay with their parents in church. We ran a series of Sunday afternoon sessions, which included some teaching, small discussion groups and a light meal together. These were opportunities to build people up in their faith and also to help new members to integrate and build relationships. In February 2024 we started holding an informal monthly evening service, which we named Spirit and Sacrament, which attracted people not only from our Methodist church but also from other Methodist churches in the area and from the wider community in Kenilworth.
We held a monthly Pastoral Coffee morning on a Wednesday and offered a brief time of worship and the opportunity to take communion occasionally for those attending. This was greatly appreciated by people who found it a challenge to get to a 10am Sunday morning service. To further encourage our pastoral care of the congregation, we started to prepare a Prayer Diary for the church. Individuals were invited to contribute a prayer or brief meditation, and the majority of the congregation expressed their willingness to be included. The aim was to have the diary ready for distribution in September 2024.
Our longstanding Toddler group continued to thrive, and both the sanctuary and the hall were used regularly to host the children and their parents or carers one morning a week. This group
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Annual Report of **Kenilworth Methodist Church** Priory Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 1LQ **Charity Registration Number 1140252**
was supported by a large team of volunteers, led by a lady with a background in education who planned the activities very carefully, something that was greatly appreciated by the families. The Junior Church on a Sunday morning saw a few new children coming occasionally and this was seen as an area for potential growth.
A number of uniformed organisations continued to use our premises midweek, without charge, and several church members were among the leaders of the groups and were keen to encourage more links with the church. For example, the Scouts and Rangers helped members of the church to provide refreshments during the annual Carnival procession in June.
Many of our members are actively involved in the various community groups which exist in Kenilworth. Some rented rooms regularly for their activities: u3a open meetings, gatherings for those who were visually impaired, painting and sewing groups, choir practices and several indoor sports activities to name but a few. We regularly publicised our special services (Christmas and Easter) and other events that we hosted, such as charity collections, coffee mornings, eco fairs to all who came through our doors.
The NHS used the sanctuary area repeatedly during the year for Covid boosters and flu vaccinations. They requested a storage room for their fridges and supplies, which we were happy to provide. They were very grateful for the help of church members in setting up and clearing their equipment at the beginning and end of each session.
The desire to be more inclusive and to make the building more accessible for people with disabilities encouraged us to start looking for ways of making life easier, not only for our church members but also for all who used our premises. We also became more aware of the need to consider our carbon footprint, as individuals and as a church. Members of our Resources Committee spent many hours looking into the best way of improving our building. During the year solar panels were installed on the church roof and automatic doors fitted to the main entrance of the building to improve accessibility. Both are now reaping benefits for both the community and church users. The new doors were fitted in February 2024 and solar panels were installed in July 2024.
The Church Council met five times. (September, December, March, May and June). Our reserves policy was approved at the meeting in March 2024 and there were no debts outstanding.
The General Church Meeting was on 7 July 2024. Fiona Pethick, Sandra Quarterman, and David Williams were re-elected as Leadership Stewards. Catherine Pennington was also made a Leadership Steward, and two new trustees were appointed.
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Annual Report of **Kenilworth Methodist Church** Priory Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 1LQ **Charity Registration Number 1140252**
Our annual income for the year to 31 August 2024 totalled £160000. After payments of £145,000 there was a net surplus of £15,000. It is anticipated that most of this surplus will be spent on property repairs and improving accessibility.
## **Kenilworth Methodist Church June 2025**
## **The Trustees as at 16 June 2025 were**
Rev. Dr. Iain Ballard Madeline Ashton Andrew Bennett Christine Benson Sheila Brown Jan Burnell Jonathan Burrows Graham Caley Vanessa Caley Anne Faulkner James Flood Anne Horleston Malcolm Jones Linda Kirby Sally McCawley Catherine Pennington Fi **ona** Pethick Sandra Quarterman Lin Sullivan Les Thornton David Williams Denise Williamson Patricia Wilkinson
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||SECTIONA|||Funds||||||
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|a1|RECEIPTS|Note||||||||
|a2|Offerings and Tax recovered||69.715|41|.715|111,430||78,286||
||BankandCFB interest and|||||||||
|a3|lnvestment income||3,446||8s9|4.304||942||
|a4|Lettinqs||33.921|||33,921||24,376||
|a5|Other receipts||8.758|1|.671|10.429||10,257||
|a6|TOTAL RECEIPTS||115,840|44,245||160,084|(at1|t 13,861||
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|b1|PAYMENTS|||||||||
|b2|CircuitAssessment or Share||62.664|||82.644||s8,320||
|b3|Donations||||500|500||1.362||
|b4|RepairsandMaintenance||19.441|||19.441||9,859||
||Utilities(lnsurances, water charges,|||||||||
|b5|heatino& liohtino)||12.591|||12.591||10,112||
|b6||||||0||0||
|b7|Other payments||6,844|42.856||49.700||5,773||
|b8|TOTALPAYMENTS||101,540|43,356||144,896|(be)|85,425||
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|cl|THE YEAR|(a6{c8)|14.299||889|15.188||28,436||
||Totalfundsbrought forward from|||||||||
|c2|lastyear||64.400|3.598||67,998|(c6)|39,562||
|c3|Subtotal|(c1+c2)|78,700|4.487||83.186||67,998||
|c4|Transfersandadjustments||(4.000)|4.000||0||0||
|c5|TOTALFUNDSATEND OFYEAR|(c3+c4)|74,700|8,487||83,186||67|(cG)|
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|t)|BankCurentAccount|13,617||3,415||
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|!1|Cent€l Finane Boad|54,382||79,771||
|6|Trusteesfor Methodist Church Purposes|0||0||
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||OTHERASSETS and LIABILITIES|1September 2023||31 August 2024||
|8I|lnvestrents(includeEndoments)|||||
||Land & Buildings(seenoles re lnsuEnce value)|3,256,592||3,354,288||
|g3|Other Assets|306,675||315,875||
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