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## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/09/2022 Period start date To 31/08/2023 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Sale Methodist Circuit**
## **Charity registration number: 1151757**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|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
The circuit is a managing body of the
five Methodist churches in the Sale area.
The churches are The Avenue Methodist
Church, Trinity Methodist Church, Sale
Moor Methodist Church, Partington
Methodist and Carrington Lane Methodist
Church. The circuit is also responsible for
the Trinity Bowling and sports club grounds
on Temple Road Sale|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|The Circuit produces a quarterly preaching
plan to ensure regular acts of worship take
place at each of the 5 Methodist Churches
and these are open to all people, without
charge.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|We confirm the trustees have had regard to
the Charity Commission’s guidance on
public benefit.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|The Circuit maintains manses for use by
the Ministers in the Circuit.
The Circuit produces a quarterly preaching
plan to ensure regular acts of worship take
place at each of the 5 Methodist Churches
and these are open to all people, without
charge.
The Circuit Leadership Team is made up of
volunteers and ordained ministers who
together consider the direction for spiritual
growth and social enterprise within the
geographical area of the circuit|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|
|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The charity is considered to be financially
stable|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Circuit hold free reserves up to 50% of
its annual expenditure. The Circuit is
continuing to analyse the results of the
review of its property in 2022 and therefore
will hold a reserve to support this process
and possible pioneering missionary work. A
reserve of £20,000 will be held for this.
There is also a reserve of £30000 held for
refurbishment of the manses|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£134638|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|n/a|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|none|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|none|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Deed of Union (1932) and Methodist
Church Act (1976)|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Deed of Union (1932) and Methodist
Church Act (1976)|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Appointment by the Circuit Meeting or
appointment to the Circuit Meeting by
Church Councils or General Church
Meetings|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Sale Methodist Circuit|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1151757|
|Charity’s principal address|The Avenue Methodist Church
Wincham Road
Sale
M33 4PL|
|||
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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30|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Peter Bailey|||Sale Moor MC|
||Liz Armitage|||Sale Moor MC|
||Deryck Armitage|||Sale Moor MC|
||Brian Rains|||Sale Moor MC|
||Morris Loveland|||Avenue MC|
||Helen Norman|Treasurer||Circuit Meetng|
||Colin Norman|||Avenue MC|
||Margaret Kaye|||Avenue MC|
||David Sellers|||Avenue MC|
||Maira Sellers|||Avenue MC|
||Mabel Rudo Nyazika|||Partngton MC|
||Margaret Wiseman|||Partngton MC|
||Helen Jones|||Partngton MC|
||Ann Partngton|||Partngton MC|
||Anne Bennet|||Partngton MC|
||Corrine Koromia|||Partngton MC|
||Sue Cowlishaw|Circuit Safeguarding
Ofcer||Circuit Meetng|
||Kevin Burgess|||Trinity MC|
||Chris Clarkson|||Trinity MC|
||Chris Davies|||Trinity MC|
||Isabel Daysh|||Trinity MC|
||Judith Meredith|Circuit Steward||Circuit Meetng|
||Ruth Julian|Circuit Steward||Circuit Meetng|
||Jill Fielding|||Avenue MC|
||Douglas Couse|||Partngton MC|
||Stella Walker|Local Preachers
Secretary||Circuit Meetng|
||Richard Motershead|Minister|||
||Glayne Worgan|Minister|||
||Richard Jackson|Minister|||
– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
|---|---|---|
|**None**|||
||||
||||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets none held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Glayne Worgan
**Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)**
**Date**
19/06/24
**CIRCUIT RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS**
# **THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS**
**Sale**
Circuit
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 August 2023**
|Manchester & Stockport
**District**|**Circuit no**|1909|
|---|---|---|
|**Registered Charity - Charity Registration number**|||
||1151757||
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 )
Ministers:
Rev Richard Mottershead
Rev Glayne Worgan
## Circuit Stewards:
Ruth Julian Judith Meredith Gill Holden
Treasurer:
Helen Norman
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||||||
||**SECTION A**|||£
£
**Un -**
**restricted**
**Funds**
**Circuit**
**Model Trust**
**Fund**|||£
**Restricted**
**Funds**|£
**159,866**
**0**
**4,728**
**0**
**150**
**Totals this**
**year**||£
**Totals last**
**year**||
|a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|||||||||
|a2|Assessment/Share|||||||**159,866**||131,694||
|a3|Capital receipts|||||||**0**||||
|a4|Bank and CFB interest and
Investment income|||||||**4,728**||777||
|a5|Grants|||||||**0**||||
|a6|Other receipts|||||||**150**||4,759||
|a7|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||||**0**|**0**|**0**|**164,744**|**(a8)**|**137,229**||
|||||||||||||
||**SECTION B**|||||||**89,966**
**41,955**
**7,331**
**24,958**
**1,500**
**0**
**30,252**||||
|b1|**PAYMENTS**|||||||||||
|b2|Stipends, salaries, NIC, Pension and
travel costs||||**89,966**|||**89,966**||89,903||
|b3|Manse Costs||||**41,955**|||**41,955**||16,834||
|b4|Administration etc||||**7,331**||#|**7,331**||1,894||
|b5|District Assessment||||**24,958**||#|**24,958**||24,997||
|b6|Grants & donations||||**1,500**||#|**1,500**||1,500||
|b7|||||**0**||#|**0**||||
|b8|Otherpayments||||**30,252**||#|**30,252**||44,367||
|b9|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**||||**195,962**|**0**|**0**|**195,962**|**(b9)**|**179,495**||
|||||||||**(31,218)**||||
||**SECTION C**|||||||||||
|c1|**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS FOR**
**THE YEAR**||**(a7-b9)**||**(195,962)**|**0**|**0**|**(31,218)**||||
|||||||||||||
|c2|Total funds brought forward from lastyear|||||||165,857|(c6)|208,123||
|||||||||**134,639**||||
|c3|**Sub total**
**(c1+c2)**||||**(195,962)**|**0**|**0**|**134,639**||||
|||||||||||||
|c4|Transfers and adjustments|||||||(1)|(c7)|(1)||
|||||||||||||
|c5|**TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR**
**(c3+c4**|||**)**|**(195,962)**|**0**|**0**|**134,638**|**(c8)**|**165,857**|**(c6)**|
## **SECTION D**
||**SECTION D**|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
|d|**FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS**
**(these amounts should not be included in total receipts/payments above)**
Balance brought forward from lastyear
Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations
Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations
**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID(d1 + d2 - d3)**
0|||
|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)**||0|
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## **SUMMARY OF CIRCUIT ACCOUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISATION REPORTING TO THE CIRCUIT MEETING**
## **SECTION E Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**
Summary of the Circuit accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023 and Internal Organisations reporting to the Circuit 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 receipts and payments totals of the Circuit. If gross income exceeds the Accruals threshold of £250,000, 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 Circuit and connected Circuit Organisations.
||**SECTION E**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||
Summary of the Circuit accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023 and Internal Organisations reporting to the Circuit 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 receipts and payments totals of the Circuit. If gross income exceeds the Accruals threshold of £250,000,
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 Circuit and connected Circuit Organisations.||||||||||
||**INTERNAL**
**ORGANISATIONS**||Net Receipts/
Payments||Adjustments||Opening
balances||Closingbalances||
|e1|Sale Methodist Singers||(106)||||106||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||(106)||**0**||**106 **|**(e11)**|**0 **|**(e12)**|
|e9|**Circuit accounts (totals**
**brought forward from**
**page 2 - totals column)**||**(31,218)**||**(1) **|**(c7)**|**165,857 **|**(c6)**|**134,638 **|**(c8)**|
|e10|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS**
**HELD BY CIRCUIT**||**(31,324)**||**(1)**||**165,963 **|**(x)**|**134,638 **|**(y)**|
||||||||||||
## **SECTION F STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
## **CIRCUIT - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2023**
|f1|Cash in hand||
|---|---|---|
|f2|Bank Current Account||
|f3|Bank Deposit Account||
|f4|Central Finance Board||
|f5|Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes||
|f6|Other funds||
|f7|**SUB TOTAL**||
||Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing||
|f8|balance totals above) (e12)||
|f9|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CIRCUIT**||
||||
||||
||**SECTION G**||
||**OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES**||
|g1|Investments(include Endowments)||
|g2|Land and Buildings(see notes re Insurance value)||
|g3|Other Assets||
|g4|Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end||
|g5|Other Liabilities||
|||**OPENING**|||**CLOSING**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**BALANCES**|||**BALANCES**||
||||||||
|||2,330|||16,204||
||||||||
|||163,527|||118,434||
||||||||
||||||||
|||**165,857 **|**(c6)**||**134,638 **|**(c8)**|
|||106|**(e11)**||0|**(e12)**|
|||**165,963**|**(x)**||**134,638**|**(y)**|
||||||||
|||At|||At||
||1|September 2022|||31 August 2023||
|||6291.78|||6047.55||
|||917,832|||1,095,897||
||||||||
||||||||
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f4 Include only Funds held at the Central Finance Board
f5 Include only CFB Funds held at Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
g1 Include any other investments (not the cash element of TMCP trust accounts this is inserted in line f5)
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## **Declarations and Scrutiny**
I confirm that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the year to 31 August 2023 have been prepared from the records of the Circuit and that they include all funds under the control of the Circuit meeting.
Signature of treasurer H M Norman Date 14.11.23
Name and address of treasurer Helen Norman, 48 Framingham Road, Sale
M33 3SH
## **Presentation to the Circuit meeting**
I confirm that the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023 were
presented to the Circuit meeting held on 6 December 2023 ……………..
Signature of the Chair of the meeting G Worgan
Name of the Chair of the meeting Glayne Worgan Date 6.12.23
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the**
## **Sale Circuit**
## **Charity Number 1151757**
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Sale Circuit for the year ended 31 August 2023 set out on pages … to …. As the Circuit’s trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Circuit’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and, in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
* delete or circle as appropriate
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## **Independent Examiner’s Statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below*) which give me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
I have/have not* obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts, bank balances and funds at the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church which are individually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balance sheet date.
Signature of independent examiner D Phillips
Name of independent examiner Mr David Phillips
Relevant professional qualification of independent examiner N/A
Name of firm (where appropriate) ………………………………………………………………………
Address 4 Cranmere Drive
Sale Cheshire M33 4LB
Date 15 November 2023
* delete or circle as appropriate
Form reviewed May-23
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**CIRCUIT RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS**
# **THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS**
**Sale**
Circuit
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 August 2023**
|Manchester & Stockport
**District**|**Circuit no**|1909|
|---|---|---|
|**Registered Charity - Charity Registration number**|||
||1151757||
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 )
Ministers:
Rev Richard Mottershead
Rev Glayne Worgan
## Circuit Stewards:
Ruth Julian Judith Meredith Gill Holden
Treasurer:
Helen Norman
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||**SECTION A**|||£
£
**Un -**
**restricted**
**Funds**
**Circuit**
**Model Trust**
**Fund**|||£
**Restricted**
**Funds**|£
**159,866**
**0**
**4,728**
**0**
**150**
**Totals this**
**year**||£
**Totals last**
**year**||
|a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|||||||||
|a2|Assessment/Share|||||||**159,866**||131,694||
|a3|Capital receipts|||||||**0**||||
|a4|Bank and CFB interest and
Investment income|||||||**4,728**||777||
|a5|Grants|||||||**0**||||
|a6|Other receipts|||||||**150**||4,759||
|a7|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||||**0**|**0**|**0**|**164,744**|**(a8)**|**137,229**||
|||||||||||||
||**SECTION B**|||||||**89,966**
**41,955**
**7,331**
**24,958**
**1,500**
**0**
**30,252**||||
|b1|**PAYMENTS**|||||||||||
|b2|Stipends, salaries, NIC, Pension and
travel costs||||**89,966**|||**89,966**||89,903||
|b3|Manse Costs||||**41,955**|||**41,955**||16,834||
|b4|Administration etc||||**7,331**||#|**7,331**||1,894||
|b5|District Assessment||||**24,958**||#|**24,958**||24,997||
|b6|Grants & donations||||**1,500**||#|**1,500**||1,500||
|b7|||||**0**||#|**0**||||
|b8|Otherpayments||||**30,252**||#|**30,252**||44,367||
|b9|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**||||**195,962**|**0**|**0**|**195,962**|**(b9)**|**179,495**||
|||||||||**(31,218)**||||
||**SECTION C**|||||||||||
|c1|**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS FOR**
**THE YEAR**||**(a7-b9)**||**(195,962)**|**0**|**0**|**(31,218)**||||
|||||||||||||
|c2|Total funds brought forward from lastyear|||||||165,857|(c6)|208,123||
|||||||||**134,639**||||
|c3|**Sub total**
**(c1+c2)**||||**(195,962)**|**0**|**0**|**134,639**||||
|||||||||||||
|c4|Transfers and adjustments|||||||(1)|(c7)|(1)||
|||||||||||||
|c5|**TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR**
**(c3+c4**|||**)**|**(195,962)**|**0**|**0**|**134,638**|**(c8)**|**165,857**|**(c6)**|
## **SECTION D**
||**SECTION D**|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
|d|**FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS**
**(these amounts should not be included in total receipts/payments above)**
Balance brought forward from lastyear
Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations
Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations
**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID(d1 + d2 - d3)**
0|||
|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)**||0|
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## **SUMMARY OF CIRCUIT ACCOUNTS AND INTERNAL ORGANISATION REPORTING TO THE CIRCUIT MEETING**
## **SECTION E Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**
Summary of the Circuit accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023 and Internal Organisations reporting to the Circuit 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 receipts and payments totals of the Circuit. If gross income exceeds the Accruals threshold of £250,000, 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 Circuit and connected Circuit Organisations.
||**SECTION E**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||
Summary of the Circuit accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023 and Internal Organisations reporting to the Circuit 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 receipts and payments totals of the Circuit. If gross income exceeds the Accruals threshold of £250,000,
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 Circuit and connected Circuit Organisations.||||||||||
||**INTERNAL**
**ORGANISATIONS**||Net Receipts/
Payments||Adjustments||Opening
balances||Closingbalances||
|e1|Sale Methodist Singers||(106)||||106||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||(106)||**0**||**106 **|**(e11)**|**0 **|**(e12)**|
|e9|**Circuit accounts (totals**
**brought forward from**
**page 2 - totals column)**||**(31,218)**||**(1) **|**(c7)**|**165,857 **|**(c6)**|**134,638 **|**(c8)**|
|e10|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS**
**HELD BY CIRCUIT**||**(31,324)**||**(1)**||**165,963 **|**(x)**|**134,638 **|**(y)**|
||||||||||||
## **SECTION F STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
## **CIRCUIT - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2023**
|f1|Cash in hand||
|---|---|---|
|f2|Bank Current Account||
|f3|Bank Deposit Account||
|f4|Central Finance Board||
|f5|Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes||
|f6|Other funds||
|f7|**SUB TOTAL**||
||Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing||
|f8|balance totals above) (e12)||
|f9|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CIRCUIT**||
||||
||||
||**SECTION G**||
||**OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES**||
|g1|Investments(include Endowments)||
|g2|Land and Buildings(see notes re Insurance value)||
|g3|Other Assets||
|g4|Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end||
|g5|Other Liabilities||
|||**OPENING**|||**CLOSING**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**BALANCES**|||**BALANCES**||
||||||||
|||2,330|||16,204||
||||||||
|||163,527|||118,434||
||||||||
||||||||
|||**165,857 **|**(c6)**||**134,638 **|**(c8)**|
|||106|**(e11)**||0|**(e12)**|
|||**165,963**|**(x)**||**134,638**|**(y)**|
||||||||
|||At|||At||
||1|September 2022|||31 August 2023||
|||6291.78|||6047.55||
|||917,832|||1,095,897||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
f4 Include only Funds held at the Central Finance Board
f5 Include only CFB Funds held at Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
g1 Include any other investments (not the cash element of TMCP trust accounts this is inserted in line f5)
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## **Declarations and Scrutiny**
I confirm that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the year to 31 August 2023 have been prepared from the records of the Circuit and that they include all funds under the control of the Circuit meeting.
Signature of treasurer H M Norman Date 14.11.23
Name and address of treasurer Helen Norman, 48 Framingham Road, Sale
M33 3SH
## **Presentation to the Circuit meeting**
I confirm that the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023 were
presented to the Circuit meeting held on 6 December 2023 ……………..
Signature of the Chair of the meeting G Worgan
Name of the Chair of the meeting Glayne Worgan Date 6.12.23
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the**
## **Sale Circuit**
## **Charity Number 1151757**
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Sale Circuit for the year ended 31 August 2023 set out on pages … to …. As the Circuit’s trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Circuit’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and, in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
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Sale Circuit 1909
## **Independent Examiner’s Statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below*) which give me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
I have/have not* obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts, bank balances and funds at the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church which are individually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balance sheet date.
Signature of independent examiner D Phillips
Name of independent examiner Mr David Phillips
Relevant professional qualification of independent examiner N/A
Name of firm (where appropriate) ………………………………………………………………………
Address 4 Cranmere Drive
Sale Cheshire M33 4LB
Date 15 November 2023
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Form reviewed May-23
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