2023-08-31-accounts - St. John's Methodist Church Parkfield

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1 09 2022 31 08 2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name St John’s Methodist Church, Parkfield

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1146373

Charity's principal address

St John’s Methodist Church

Wolverhampton Road East Wolverhampton Postcode WV4 6AA

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
Barbara Brown	Social	Church Council
Marcus Brown	General	Church General Meeting
lrene Brumley	General	Church General Meeting
Martine Caffyn	Pastoral Administrator	Church Council
Evan Carney	Steward	Church General Meeting
Geneva Carney	Steward	Church General Meeting
Basil Coward	Steward	Church General Meeting Circuit Meeting
André Burns	Circuit Steward
Ian Priest	Treasurer	Church Council
Rev Steve Jackson	Chair and Minister	Circuit Meeting
Pamela Flavell	Welcome Group	Church Council
Lianne French	YoungPeople	Church Council
Ken Gough	General	Church General Meeting
Marcus Hemans	AV	Church Council
Sandra Faulkner	Safeguarding	Church Council
Norma Levett	Steward	Church General Meeting
Paul Levett	Steward	Church General Meeting
Elizabeth Macer- Wright	Pastoral Worker	Church Council/ Circuit Meeting
Ethel Mudzonga	General	Church General Meeting
Rev Rosemary Nash	Reserve Chair	Circuit Meeting
Jean Oakley	Mission	Church Council
David Punfield	PropertySteward	Church Council
Janet Punfield	Senior Steward	Church General Meeting
Dalsie Robinson	Steward	Church General Meeting
Hugo Robinson	Property	Church Council

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Rev David Wheeler	Supernumerary	Circuit Meeting
Emma Veiro	Communion Steward	Church Council


Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Deed of Union (1932) and Methodist Church Act (1976) adopted Type of governing document 2W49/1932 (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointment by Church Council or General Church Meeting; Chairperson Trustee selection methods appointed by the Wolverhampton Methodist Circuit (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

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Section C Objectives and activities

The objectives of St. John's Methodist Church are 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 Summary of the objects of the being of any Connexional, District, Circuit, local or other organisation of charity set out in its the Methodist Church; {c) any charitable purpose for the time being of governing document 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. The main activities of the church are: (a) The provision of regular public acts of worship open to members of the church and non-members alike; (b) Promoting the whole mission of the church through engagement with the wider community including older people, parents and toddlers and other specific need groups; (c) The teaching of Christianity through sermons, courses and small groups; (d) Pastoral work including visiting the sick and bereaved; (ei The provision of women's meetings, men's meetings etc with a Christian ethos. ln carrying out the church's activities, the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission Guidance on public benefit. Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

Once again, we have had a very successful year at St. John's with all Summary of the main groups meeting regularly. These include the Uniformed organisations, achievements of the charity Stay and Play group, Keep Fit class, Prayer Group, Dance classes, during the year Dementia Cafe and with the addition of a Slimming World Group, Bhangra dance group and Pastures Green wellbeing group. Our weekly Community coffee morning continues to meet offering a welcoming place for people to gather in a friendly environment.

The Seventh Day Adventist church and the Punjabi Christian Fellowship have continued to worship and during this year, we have welcomed two further church congregations - the Selah Tamil Church and the Mustard Seed Church.

Our sick, bereaved and vulnerable members of our church have received visits from our minister, pastoral worker and church visitors and we have continued to collect donations of food and toiletries for the Good Shepherd Ministry which have all been gratefully received.

Our property stewards have continued to maintain and take care of our church premises.

In May, the church celebrated the Coronation of King Charles the third with a party for all church members and members of the local community.

Section E Financial review

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Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

In order to plan for the financial stability of the church, the Church Council keeps under review the level of reserves it should retain, taking account of expected income available to fund likely costs, and the need to cover forecast deficits, cashflow variations and contingencies. Reserves are being retained to take account of the need for major maintenance and renewals over the next five years or so.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

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Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date	S. Jackson	J. Punfeld
	Rev Steve Jackson	Mrs Janet Punfield
	Chair
	21/6/24

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St John's Methodist Church, Parkfield, Wolverhampton

SUMMARY OF CHURCH ACCOUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS REPORTING TO THE CHURCH COUNCIL

SECTION E

Summary of the Church accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023 and Internal Organisations reporting to the Church Council/Church Meeting.

	INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS	Receipts	Payments	Net Receipts/ Payments	Adjustments	Opening balances	Closing balances
e1				0			0
e2				0			0
e3				0			0
e4				0			0
e5				0			0
e6				0			0
e7				0			0
e8	Sub total of Internal Organisations funds	0	0	0	0	0	0
e9	Church accounts (totals brought forward from page 2 - totals column)	58,895	55,002	3,893	0	84,044	87,937
e10	TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH	58,895	55,002	3,893	0	84,044	87,937

SECTION F STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2023 f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 Other funds Cash in hand SUB TOTAL - Church accounts y g ( closingbalance total from above) (e12) TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH Bank Current Account Bank Deposit Account Central Finance Board Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes	CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2023 f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 Other funds Cash in hand SUB TOTAL - Church accounts y g ( closingbalance total from above) (e12) TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH Bank Current Account Bank Deposit Account Central Finance Board Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes	OPENING BALANCES 0 55,318 15,380 13,346 0 84,044 (c6) 0 (e11) 84,044 (x)	CLOSING BALANCES 0 50,449 24,142 13,346 0 87,937 (c7) 0 (e12) 87,937 (y)
f1	Cash in hand	0	0
f2	Bank Current Account	55,318	50,449
f3	Bank Deposit Account
f4	Central Finance Board	15,380	24,142
f5	Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes	13,346	13,346
f6	Other funds	0	0
f7	SUB TOTAL - Church accounts y g (	84,044	87,937
f8	closingbalance total from above) (e12)	0	0
f9	TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH	84,044	87,937

	SECTION G
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

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