## **TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH RAINSFORD ROAD, CHELMSFORD CM1 2XB** ## **ANNUAL REPORT** **SEPTEMBER 2021- AUGUST 2022** |CONTENTS|| |---|---| |Index|
2| |Trustees Report|3 - 10| |Accounts|11–15| |Reference and administrative information|16| ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for year ended 31 August 2022** ## **Governing Documents and Objectives** Trinity Methodist Church is governed by the Methodist Church Act 1976, the Deed of Union and the Model Trusts of the Methodist Church. The purposes of the Methodist Church are and shall be deemed to have been since the date of union the advancement of: (a) the Christian faith in accordance with the doctrinal standards and the discipline of the Methodist Church; (b) any charitable purpose for the time being of any Connexional district, circuit, local or other organisation of the Methodist Church; (c) any charitable purpose for the time being of any society or institution subsidiary or ancillary to the Methodist Church; (d) any purpose for the time being of any charity being a charity subsidiary or ancillary to the Methodist Church. Trinity Methodist Church has taken into account the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance on advancing a charity’s aims when carrying out its range of activities. The trustees consider that these provide benefit to those who worship in our church and to the wider local community. ## **Organisational Structure** Overall control rests with the Methodist Conference. The Connexional office implements decisions made by Conference and is also responsible for the stationing of Ministers in this Circuit. Connexional decisions are passed to the Chair of the District and the appropriate Officers of the District for regional implementation. Trinity is part of the Chelmsford Circuit which is part of the Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex District. The District passes control down to circuit level for local implementation by the Superintendent Minister, supported by ministerial staff and circuit stewards. At local church level authority is delegated to the Church Council as the decision making body. The policies of the Church Council are implemented by the minister in pastoral charge supported by church stewards. In addition to this, the Church Council is required to ensure all property and financial reports are submitted to the Circuit in a timely fashion. Trustees of the church who served during the year are listed at the end of this report. ## **Church Membership** The period covered in this report was seriously affected by the COVID Pandemic. For some of 2021 there were no services or events on the premises. We continued to adapt our worshipping life and many of groups and committees working online in various ways. It has been good to realise that whatever challenges we face the church continues its work of witness and praise to God. Membership has dropped slightly to at 135. We have once again been blessed with new worshippers joining our fellowship from other churches/circuits and countries. However, growth is not simply a matter of numbers but one of spirituality. We have continued to provide opportunity for fellowship through our House groups, special Sunday services and seasonal study evenings. 3. ## **Staffing** Ministerial input remains the same in the Circuit since the previous year: Deacon Ramona Samuel and Presbyter Mark Pengelly being the ministers. The Circuit continues to employ part time workers for Safeguarding, Administration and Financial control. Staff in the Church office continue to support the work of Trinity, and have gradually been able to resume duties on site. We have two worship Leaders. ## **Training** Creating Safer Space Safeguarding training has continued to meet the requirements of our Safeguarding Policy: since March 2020 such training has not been available. Online courses have now been made available ## **Support** One of the Circuit Stewards attends our Church Council meetings, held three times each year. They take note of issues raised at these meetings and reports back to the Circuit Leadership Team which offers encouragement and guidance as necessary. Representatives from the Church council attend the Circuit Meeting. ## **Plans for the Forthcoming Year** In the 2022-23 year Trinity is sincerely hoping to return to more worship and meetings without the complications of COVID. To this end we are planning an away day whereby we can review and look forward to the things that will continue to provide hope and faith to those within and beyond our community. We hope it will be a time of inspiration and renewal for us given the complications we have faced in the last 2 years. ## **Trustees** Expenses: it is the policy to reimburse trustees and others involved in the administration of church affairs for expenditure properly incurred in carrying out their duties. Apart from ministers no trustees were in receipt of any payment for work undertaken on behalf of the church, although certain travelling and administration costs were re-imbursed as set out in financial statements. ## **Recruitment** We follow the Connexional ‘Safer Recruitment’ guidelines and whilst the appointment of trustees is determined in accordance with Methodist procedures it is the aim to ensure that the Church Council has a broad experience to include pastoral, financial and property matters. Training for stewards and council members is available at circuit level. 4. ## **Responsibilities** The trustees are required to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the Church’s financial activities during the year and of its financial position at the end of the year. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees have: - selected suitable accounting policies and applied them consistently, - prepared accounts on a cash and receipts basis, - followed applicable accounting standards, - prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis. The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the church and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the law. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the church and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. So far as each of the trustees is aware, there is no relevant information that has not been disclosed to the independent examiner and each of the trustees believes that all steps have been taken that ought to have been taken to make him/her aware of any relevant information and to establish that the independent examiner has been made aware of that information. ## **Reserves Policy** The policy ensures that adequate funds are held to meet the day to day expenditures of the church. However, this always acknowledges that the continued payment of the church assessments, as agreed prior to the start of each financial year, will be sufficient to cover the main costs of the church including the circuit assessment. In September 2011 the Reserves Policy was set to require that the church maintains sufficient reserves to be held to cover 6 months expenditure, to pay the circuit assessment and church expenditure. At the end of this financial year we had £135,591.94 in reserves (£143,276,93 Legacies). The previous year we had £203,349.83 (£163,728.14 Legacies) as reserves. We have met our 6 Months policy requirement. ## **Activities** Our mission is to proclaim the love of God, in Jesus, to all people by: being a place of welcome, worship and nurture; belonging, learning and growing together; serving the community in whatever way we can. Trinity provides training and support to its members and the wider church community to enable them to carry out the mission of the Church. It supports other charities in the UK and overseas, financially and with prayer. Trinity seeks ways of engaging with the local community and several members of the congregation serve as school governors, members of local charities and community care and support projects. 5. CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS Trinl Methodist Chelmsford Church FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 August 2022 Circuit Circuit no 3419 Regi$tered Charlty - Charity Registration number If not a registered Gharily Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Gift Aid number IThe HMRC number is equivalent to a registered charity number in terms of evidence of Charitable status and may be used lo give lo donors or grant funders wishing 10 See evidence of the oiganisalion's charitable status. Melhodisl charities in England and Wales that are not registered charities are excepted from registration under Slalutory Instrument 2014 No.2421 1144627 Minister.. Rev. Mark Pen Church Stewards.. Carol Kellingray Gillian Harrington Mukumba Lance Molyneux Bender Christine Elles Treasurer". Nigel Murrell Church R and P 2015 xLs ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2022 Trinity Methodist Chelmsford Church Unrestrlcted Restricted Funds Funds TDta15 thits ear Totals la8t ar SECTION A RECEIPTS Note a2 Offerin s and Tax fecovered Bank and CFB I TMCP interest 8nd Investment income 56,250.81 56,250.81 55.572.98 392.71 392.71 216.66 a4 Lettin 14,218.25 18.166.50 87,026.27 14,216.25 16.166.50 87.026.27 3.060.00 18.684.42 77,534.06 a5 Other receipts TOTAL RECEIPTS la71 SECTION b1 PAYMENTS b2 Circuit Assessment 01 Share 63,582.00 200.00 63.S82.00 63.582.00 b3 Donations 200.00 300.00 Re airs and Maintenance Util111es Ilnsurances. water cha e5. heatin 7,308.61 7,308.61 7,370.00 b5 7,9g2.78 7.992.78 10,177.93 b7 Other payment5 TOTAL PAYMENTS 18,901.76 97.985.15 18,901.76 97,985.15 12,533 66 93,963.59 b8 Ib91 SECTION C NET RECEIPTSIPAYMENTS ¢1 a6-b81 10,958 88 10,958.88 16,429.53 Total funds brought forward from last year 155,861.04 155,861.04 Ic6 172.290.57 Sub total ¢1+¢21 144.902 16 144.902.f6 155,861.04 Transfers and ad"uslments Ic7 TOTAL FUNOS AT END OF YEAR Ic3+c41 144,902.16 144,902.16 Ic81 155,861.04 Ic61 SECTION D FOR INFORMATION ONLY.. MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS Ithese amounts are not to be included in total receiptslpayment5 figures abovg) d1 Bal8n¢e brou ht forward from last 1,059.73 622.00 d2 Offerin sIGrfts- re￿iVed for external or anisations 5.943 85 2,672 73 d3 OffeiingslGrfts P35sed to extemal org8nisatlOn5 5,663.42 2.235 00 BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID Id1 +d2-d31 1,340.16 1,059.73 2of5 Trini Methodist Chelmsford ehur¢n FCH AND IFITERfiALOFIGA REP RT SECTION E aweNDte5 tocom SurnrnaryolthECh￿rth ar￿MiS￿O￿￿e YÈ8r 3-. A￿9￿5t 2022 and Inlemal Organisakns repDrnfig lo IhpChurchCoumVChuich K*eting Notethalthe fu￿s013 Inieinèi OrgBnts3tlDDwould mThaltybe Rest￿1￿￿ fundsvnless Ilcould oe¢ieaty Sh04W loèitheyrthJ￿ oe loraty winoJiStpuiP)se. This$ecii￿ mus1 be PW8d 103iThveatme9fos$4rtcome*d expe￿11￿￿ IDtsIs Drthechurth Ifgro&s IncomEeMceEds IhpACcF￿1d5 Ihreshalts. then IhpAoJualsmethDdofzccountswAND ADIFFERENT FORhtrnuslte USBbtOFePOrtthe accounis 15eemeihMl￿￿ety9lQ) pkaseiefei iothe9uidants no￿ regar41rtg trèr6leis )ehE¢n we Disill￿and cann8￿@d Dist￿1 OroanI¥1￿ns INTERNAL ORGANISAMONS Net Receip1s1 Payrnents Opening baL4ncBS Fa Adiusknén clo￿￿￿ b31afice FAens Su Club 17.5B 6992 ¢orfeeShO 70716 72A8 12300 19588 atTwo IL￿d￿ Grou 139.50 16.00 123. 43023 55J73 Club 21040 6Z621 lysi¢8 Dram4 37 $99.15 3èQ17.3S 194D248 Trf Trinity Link Caregroup 1,439.87 799.87 1.25856 4$869 42289 03 22,050.40 20 291.49 Church accounts Itota broughtforward from pagé 2-totals t(dumhl 87.028 97,98S.1S 10.958.88 IS5,861.04 144,902.16 8Y c￿￿ReH 127.558.J 140,274.1$ 177,911.44 165,193.65 ¢oThtinwon a sevla￿ sheet rfne¢￿38arya￿d btingttr aist¢hrar4 TOTAL RECEIPT$ TOTAL PAYMEFITS SECTION F STATEMENT OFASSEfsAND LIA61UtI£s OPENING BALANCES CLOSING BALANCES CHURCH- CASH FUNDS HELDat31 Au ust2022 Cash In ha B3nk cu[rE￿A￿ 12.584 11 310.22 Bank srtAccount tenitsi FInar￿ Boè 51,21è 7J è3435 1& TIUsteesfoth*thDdistGl￿th P 91.￿7 20 91h￿l￿ndS SUB TOTAL-¢huKh x¢ounts 1SS,B61.Q4 Icei 144,902.16 Ic8 r￿?1 IN￿rNal tyyaniS*iOnS lihÈCI)Sing b￿a￿ptaIal from above) le121 22,050.40 20,291.49 TOTALCASH FUNDS HELD 8YCHURCH 177,911.44 165,193.65 SECnON G 1 5eptembe12021 31 A￿Ust2022 OTHERAS$ETS and LIABILinES Inves1￿nts In¢lJdè EThyovMenis Laro 8euilJin Insvran*v8 4 380 440 00 4.853,502.00 0th8rAss8ts 160 539 00 177 876 00 Loa - sh￿¥2￿0U￿t￿LqIandIn Othei Liabiltys M I￿l￿de￿ty Fu￿$ ￿&S?11he Ceniral Fifftan￿ Board f5 I￿UdB Fll￿3 watT￿￿tee5fQW￿let￿1slC￿ICh Puw5ÈS 11 lrtluJeP￿yOl￿ Invesbwtsimtthecash elemeniofTmCPtyJ61sacv￿￿15th￿ts Is1￿￿d￿d In Il￿f5 3oTS Name ofchurch Trinity Methodist Chelmsford................................. No..Jl.*lrL&I Declarations and Scrutiny I confirm that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the year lo 31 August 2022 have been prepared from the records of the Church and that they include all funds under the control of the Church trustees. Signature of treasuier Date.. I Name and address of treasurer Nigel Murrell 10A Tower Avenue, Chelmsford, Essex Post Code CM12PW Presentstion to the Church trustees I confirm that the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2022 were presented to the meelinq of the Church trustees held on Signature of the Chair of the meeting Name of the Chair of the meeting Nillk f PEDJtriLL-I Date . 2022 Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of the Trinity Methodist Church Charity Number 1144627 Responsibilities and basis of report I report to the trustees on my examinalion of the accounts of the Trinity Methodist Church for the year ended 31 August 2022 set out on pages1 to 5 As the Church's trustees, you are responsible for Ihe preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 I'lhe Act'i. I report in respect of my examination of the Church's accounts cairied out under section 145 of the Act and, in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the 2015 thurch R a￿j P.pJs 4015 Name of Church Trinrty Methodist Church, Chelmsford No Independent Examiner's Ststsment I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my atter connection with the examination lolher than Ihat disclosed below'l which give me cause to that in, any material respect.. Ihe accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act., or the accounts do not accord with the accountinq records. Ithe Ilhe I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examinat which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of tl accounts to be reached. I have obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for Methodist C Purposes or held in other trusts, bank balances and funds al the Central Finance Board of t Methodist Church which are individually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the I sheet date. Signature of independent examiner Name of independent examiner Chris Regan Relevant professional qualification of independent examiner MAAT, ATT Name of firm (where appropriate) Chris Regan Ltd Address Citygare House FUO 197-199 Baddow Road Chelmsford, Essex Post Code CM2 7P2 Date Sep-21 2015 ¢hur¢h R and P.x 5of5 ## **Trustees of the Church** ## **Minister** Rev Mark Pengelly Chair ## **Stewards** Gillian Harrington Carol Kellingray Sheila Mukumba Pam French (Aug. 2021 – April 2022) Roger Fairclough “ “ Tony Bender ( April 2022 - present) Christine Elles “ “ Lance Molyneux “ “ ## **Church Representatives** Val Scott Church Council Secretary Nigel Murrell Treasurer Hilary Walden Pastoral secretary Kay Burton Worship & Nurture Group Tony Bender Outreach & Fellowship Group Diane Potter Office representative Janet Wintle from April 2022) Property Steward Sheridan Pengelly Circuit Representative Ian Armstrong Congregational representative Russell Burton Congregational representative Jeff Green Congregational representative Karen Murrell Congregational representative Eric Smart (from April 2022) Congregational representative