## **Annual report September 2022/Aug 2023**
## **Church**
We are an intentionally growing church, and it’s good to see it picking up again after Covid several new young families have joined the congregation, we also have two new babies born to church families and their baptism services were joyous events. There is also a mid-week bible study.
## **Mums and tots Mon and Wed Morning Friday afternoon**
Continues to grow with over 40 children registered and a regular 20 attending its lovely to see them all playing together and the parents all getting along so well. As requested by the group we have started a Friday afternoon session aimed at some of the older tots who have just started school part time.
## **Monday evening Lighthouse Youth Club**
Seniors continues to grow and nice to see some of the older members joining in with the Tuesday Adult Club. The juniors now meet in the two bottom rooms because we rent out the main hall which means there is less space to run around but we still have lots of activities on offer.
## **Puppetry Mission practise on Monday evening**
Continues to be a major part of the church life taking part in worship both hear and at Moreton. They also performed at two retirement homes a refugee party and raised money for Claire House by performing at Morrisons. They also attend the annual puppetry convention in Rugby.
## **Tuesday Adult social club**
This is a new venture with a regular twelve people and others joining when childcare permits, they have a fun time together the youth club games room is open with snooker, pool etc and the coffee bar with board games and a social area to chill and chat new people are always welcome **.**
## **Wed Kidz Zone Dolly Club**
Is also doing well still attracting approx. 35 children per session, we have two bouncy castles now in the hall and various tabletop games in the lower rooms, When the weather is good, we open outside with bikes and scooters.
## **Thursdays Rainbows Brownies and Guides**
This is a well-established group that has been running on this site for over fifty years and continues to serve the community and is blessing to the church
## **Holiday Club**
Run in partnership with Moreton Church offered four days of club 10am till 2pm, with breakfast and lunch provided. Two sessions per week at each church for four weeks of the summer Holidays. The Children were able to attend at both churches.
Apart from the regular club activities we had some special visitors including AZ Safari Party, Gautby Road Reptile encounter, Ballnado and Human Hungry Hippo, Alwood Donkeys, Fancy Dress Party and 360-degree photo booth, Sublime Science, Burnzies giant Slide and a trip to Blackpool.
We ended the summer with a fun day run by the parents, some of our volunteers and our friends from the Welcome Centre.
Once again, a big thank you to all who helped, in so many ways, It was a massive project and wonderful that we can offer this to our community.
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Denise and Tim Edwards
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**CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS**
## **THE METHODIST CHURCH**
## **STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS**
## **Church @ the Cross Birkenhead**
**Church**
## FOR THE YEAR ENDED
## 31 August 2023
**wirral Circuit Circuit no.**
## **Registered Charity - Charity Registration number**
**9/8 1141711**
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:
## **Heather Cooper**
## Church Stewards:
**June Buckingham Catherine Hitchell Timothy Edwards Denise Edwards Christine Conway Joan Corkill Rosemary Neill**
Treasurer:
**Rosemary Neill**
|**ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023**|**ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023**|**ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023**|**ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023**|**ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023**||**Church @ the Cross**
**Birkenhead**|**Church @ the Cross**
**Birkenhead**|**Church @ the Cross**
**Birkenhead**|**Church**|**Church**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**|**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Totals this**
**year**||**Totals last**
**year**||
|||**SECTION A**|||||||||
||||||**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**||
||a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|||||||
||a2|Offerings and Tax recovered|||16,635||**16,635**||15,401||
||a3|Bank and CFB interest and
Investment income|||217||**217**||34||
||a4|Lettings|||20,147||**20,147**||3,588||
||a5|Other receipts|||32,189|36|**32,225**||118,244||
||a6|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|||**69,188**|**36**|**69,224 **|**(a7)**|**137,267**||
||||||||||||
|||**SECTION B**|||||||||
||b1|**PAYMENTS**|||||||||
||b2|Circuit Assessment or Share|||13,089||**13,089**||18,320||
||b3|Donations|||265||**265**||310||
||b4|Repairs and Maintenance|||7,111||**7,111**||28,028||
||b5|Utilities (Insurances, water
charges, heating& lighting)|||8,146||**8,146**||19,005||
||b6||||||||||
||b7|Otherpayments|||15,575|34,462|**50,037**||65,473||
||b8|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**|||**44,186**|**34,462**|**78,648 **|**(b9)**|**131,136**||
||||||||||||
|||**SECTION C**|||||||||
||c1|**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR**||**(a6-b8)**|25,002|(34,426)|**(9,424)**||6,131||
||||||||||||
||c2|Total funds brought forward from
last year|||4,664|34,471|**39,135 **|**(c6)**|39,135||
||||||||||||
||c3|**Sub total**||**(c1+c2)**|29,666|45|**29,711**||**45,266**||
||||||||||||
||c4|Transfers and adjustments||||||**(c7)**|||
||||||||||||
||c5|**TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR**||**(c3+c4)**|**29,666**|**45**|**29,711 **|**(c8)**|**45,266**|**(c6)**|
||||||||||||
|||**SECTION D**|||||||||
||d|**FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS**|||||||||
|||**(these amounts are not to be included in total receipts/payments figures**|||||**£**||**£**||
||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)|||||||||
||||||||||||
|||||||||||Church @ the Cross Birkenhead|Church @ the Cross Birkenhead|Church @ the Cross Birkenhead|Church @ the Cross Birkenhead|**Church**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**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 2023 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)**||**69,224 **|**(a7)**|**78,648 **|**(b9)**|**(9,424)**|||**(c7)**|**39,135 **|**(c6)**|**29,711**|**(c8)**|
||e10|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD**
**BY CHURCH**||**69,224**||**78,648**||**(9,424)**||||**39,135**|**(x)**|**29,711**|**(y)**|
|||Continue on a separate sheet
if necessary and bring the
totals forward||**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||**TOTAL**
**PAYMENTS**||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||
|||**SECTION F**||||||||||||||
|||**STATEMENT OF ASSETS A**|**ND**|**LIABILITIES**||||||||||||
|||**CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HE**|**L**|**D at 31 August 2023**||||||**OPENING**
**BALANCES**||||**CLOSING**
**BALANCES**||
||f1|Cash in hand||||||||||||||
||f2|Bank Current Account||||||||27,802||||13,290||
||f3|Bank No 2 Youth Account||||||||4,039||||8,910||
||f4|Central Finance Board||||||||695||||719||
||f5|Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes||||||||6,599||||6,792||
||f6|Other funds||||||||||||||
||f7|**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**||||||||**39,135**|(c6)|||**29,711**|(c8)|
||f8|Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the
closing balance total from above) (e12)|||||||||(e11)||||(e12)|
||f9|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD**|**BY CHURCH**|||||||**39,135**|(x)|||**29,711**|(y)|
|||||||||||||||||
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|||**SECTION G**||||||||At||||At||
|||**OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES**||||||||1 September 2022||||31 August 2023||
||g1|Investments(include Endowments)||||||||||||||
||g2|Land & Buildings (see notes re Insurance
value)||||||||||||||
||g3|Other Assets||||||||||||||
||g4|Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end||||||||||||||
||g5|Other Liabilities||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||
|||f4 Include onlyFunds held at the Central Finance Board||||||||||||||
|||f5 Include onlyFunds held at Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes||||||||||||||
|||g1 Include any other investments (not the cash element of TMCP trusts acco||||||unts this is included in line f5||||||||