## **Annual Report for Period 1[st] September 2019 to 31[st] August 2020** Charity Commission Registered Number **1166757** You will find us on Front Street, Acomb, York postcode YO24 3BX The **governing documents** of the Methodist Church are the Deed Of Union (1932) and Methodist Church Act (1976). ## **Section 4 Methodist Church Act 1976 states** _The purposes of the Methodist Church are and shall be Purposes 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 being a 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 Mission Statement of Acomb Methodist Church** _Our Church’s calling is to encourage growth through:-_ _Worship, Learning and Caring, Service and Evangelism_ ## _Worship_ - _To expand our provision of different worship styles in order to both meet the worshipping needs of our present congregation, but also to engage with those who are on the fringes or outside the church at present._ ## _Learning and Caring_ - _Provide stepping stones for developing discipleship and spiritual exploration to enable people to grow in their faith._ - _Provide particular opportunities for our young people to develop their own ministry and discipleship._ ## _Service_ - _Supporting community development and action in our context_ - _Seek ways to reduce our environmental impact in tune with the connexional policy of 80% carbon reduction by 2050._ ## _Evangelism_ - _Create opportunities to build relationships with our community_ - _Promote the things we do more clearly to the outside world._ - _Provide opportunities to explore faith_ ## **The Administration of Acomb Methodist Church** The Church is held on the 1976 Model Trust by the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes, and the Church Council act as Managing Trustees. ## **Managing Trustees at 31[st] August 2019** |**Managing Trustees at 31st August 2019**|| |---|---| |
Name|Role(s)| |Rev. AndyLindley|Minister, Chairman| |David Blamire|Steward, Communion Steward| |Janet Holdaway|Steward| |Tim Short|Steward, Property, Communion Steward| |Robin Taylor|Treasurer| |Gillian Mason|Steward| |Helen Rough|Steward, Welcomer, Family& Outreach| |Judith Pinder|Pastoral| |Olive Waterfield|Member| |Heather Harding|VestrySteward, Welcomer| |HenryRough|Property| |Michael North|Property| |Dr Phil Hasnip|Family& Outreach| |Sheila Blamire|Communion Steward| |Joan North|Member| |Rob Harrison|AV for worship| |Kirstie Wilkinson|Steward, Safeguarding| |Fran Taylor|Family& Outreach| The Church Council will appoint annually all Church Officers as determined from time to time by the Council whether on the nomination of a committee or otherwise; all such appointments being for the year commencing 1 May, apart from the Church Treasurer, whose appointment will commence on 1 September. The Council will also appoint the committees of the Church, again as from 1 May each year. Church Council members (managing trustees) are appointed by the Annual Church meeting at which all church members are eligible to vote. ## **Organisation of the Church** ## **The Church Life Report (Summary)** ## **Pastoral:** A brief update: There have been no deaths over the past few months from within our membership for which we are thankful. Membership 68, Adherents 27. We also have 2 new categories. Ceased to meet and Worshiping elsewhere. People who are on these lists are not included in our Stats. Housegroups: the minister is still working on setting up a digital cell. This will be for all churches. ## **Finance Report:** The accounts presented were for the year up to the 31[st] August 2020. Therefore, the majority of the accounts cover pre covid restrictions, and the church as far as lettings go mainly only missed out on Summer term fees. We did receive help from the Government under the Job Retention scheme and a reduction in the Assessment paid to Circuit. It was pleasing to see the Offerings had increased over the year. The majority of our offerings are through Standing Orders. Those on the envelope scheme have mostly found other ways to give their money. We are currently only doing basic repairs and maintenance. There has been an increase in donations to the Benevolent fund which will help us provide support to people through the coming year. Obviously, it is very difficult to assess where we will be with the accounts this year. The Circuit assessment in November will be reduced from £37,000 to £31,000. Unfortunately, we will see a huge drop in lettings income over the next year of between £24,000 and £28,000. Circuit Assessment is based on a 3- year rolling programme so this needs a close eye keeping on it. It might be worth considering consolidating lettings we do have to certain days to enable us to cut down on heating the building every day. A suggestion that we offer reduced letting fees for a few weeks to new groups who may have been displaced from other buildings took place and it was agreed to pass this to Leadership to discuss further. ## **Property:** We now have the planning permission to change the side doors. A financial impact with regard to the gutters will be discussed by the Leadership Team. A discussion took place on the possibility of researching a new internet provider that would be able to give better specification than we currently have. Current provider is BT. One main suggestion was to look into Talk Talk UFO. A brief consultation in February/March 2020 took place on the future of the Communion Rails. Following a brief discussion it was AGREED that we move to no rail at the present time and will review this at the next Annual Church Meeting in June 2021. **Café Logo** Design: Rainbow 10 Living Stones 3 Mosaic 0 It was decided to put this on hold for the present. ## **Groups/Lettings:** We currently have a few of our regular groups back and some new one’s meeting. Tuesday Playtime are looking at online provision until the current situation has eased. ## **Worship Development:** Worship is currently being held via Zoom on a Sunday with 3 other churches and with a variety of leaders and other contributors. This appears to be going well and is well received. For those who cannot access the Internet there are various other ways to stay in touch via paper services being delivered to their doors, television services etc. We are also being joined by people from areas outside of York which is good to see. ## **Mission:** a) Project Bob – The proposed person was not right for this role so currently looking for alternatives. b) The Friday Café has restarted. It is currently running under Tier 2 Covid restrictions. If York is moved in to Tier 3 it will close immediately. We will also close is if people start to not observe social distancing under Tier 2 regulations. It is being valued by the people who have come back to use it. c) The Cinema is currently not running and will probably need a relaunch with new people involved once we are able to use our buildings to gather in again. d) Hard to Recycle is on hold. ## **Garden Room Project:** Andy showed some drawings of the old plan (2019) and a new provisional revised plan (2020) for the Garden Room project. He talked through all the changes and the reasons behind some of the changes. One aspect is to lower the staged area in Room 4 to floor level and then extend it out to the back of the building. Then put in glass doors overlooking the garden and a raised balcony with steps leading down into the garden. A discussion took place on various areas of storage being provided, glass doors/wooden partitions/bi folding doors. We need to make sure that Room 4 will reflect that it is a worship space and not just a hall. The treasurer updated on current finance for this project £19,000 in TMCP, £24,000 in restricted funds and £70,000 from Connexion still to be drawn down. ## **CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS** # **THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS** |**STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS**|**STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS**|| |---|---|---| |**Acomb Methodist**||**Church**| |FOR THE YEAR ENDED
31 August 2020||| |**YORK**
**Circuit**|**Circuit no**|**29/33**| |**Registered Charity - Charity Registration number**||| |||**1166757**| 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: Rev Andrew Lindley |||Church Stewards:|Church Stewards:|Church Stewards:||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||David Blamire
Tim Short
Gillian Mason
Rev Ian Waterfield|||Kirsty Wilkinson
Janet Holdaway
Helen Rough|| Treasurer: Robin Taylor Church R and P 2019.xls 1 of 5 **Acomb Methodist** **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020** **Church** ||**SECTION A**|||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**£**
**42,693**
**14**
**19,340**
**29,969**
**Totals this**
**year**|**£**
**42,693**
**14**
**19,340**
**29,969**
**Totals this**
**year**|**Totals last**
**year**|**Totals last**
**year**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**|| |a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|||||||| |a2|Offerings and Tax recovered||||40,529|2,164|**42,693**||**41,971**|| |a3|Bank and CFB interest and
Investment income||||14||**14**||**41**|| |a4|Lettings||||19,340||**19,340**||**24,791**|| |a5|Other receipts||||10,135|19,834|**29,969**||**9,951**|| |a6|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||||**70,018**|**21,998**|**92,016 **|**(a7)**|**76,754**|| |||||||||||| ||**SECTION B**||||||**31,570**
**80**
**2,884**
**10,534**
**0**
**35,927**|||| |b1|**PAYMENTS**|||||||||| |b2|Circuit Assessment or Share||||31,570||**31,570**||36,874|| |b3|Donations||||0|80|**80**||290|| |b4|Repairs and Maintenance||||2,884||**2,884**||4,726|| |b5|Utilities (Insurances, water
charges, heating& lighting)||||10,534||**10,534**||11,025|| |b6|||||||**0**||0|| |b7|Otherpayments||||20,144|15,783|**35,927**||44,345|| |b8|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**||||**65,132**|**15,863**|**80,995 **|**(b9)**|**97,260**|| ||||||||**11,021**|||| ||**SECTION C**|||||||||| |c1|**(a6-b8)**
**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR**||||4,886|6,135|**11,021**|||| |||||||||||| |c2|Total funds brought forward from
last year||||25,462|26,701|**52,163 **|**(c6)**|72,669|| ||||||||**63,184**|||| |c3|**Sub total**
**(c1+c2)**||||30,348|32,836|**63,184**|||| |||||||||||| |c4|Transfers and adjustments||||(3,265)|3,265|**0 **|**(c7)**||| |||||||||||| |c5|**TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR**
**(c3+c4)**||||**27,083**|**36,101**|**63,184 **|**(c8)**|**52,163**|**(c6)**| ||**SECTION D**|||| |---|---|---|---|---| |d|**(these amounts are not to be included in total receipts/payments figures above)**
**FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL**||**£**
931
2,786
2,641
**1,076**
**ORGANISATIONS**|**£**
| |d1|Balance brought forward from lastyear||931|541| |d2|Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations||2,786|3,386| |d3|Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations||2,641|2,996| |d4|**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID** (d1+d2-d3)||**1,076**|**931**| Church R and P 2019.xls 2 of 5 Acomb Methodist **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 2019 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. ||**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**|**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 Church accounts for the year ended 31 August 2019 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||||||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|**(e11)**|0|**(e12)**| |e9|**Church accounts (totals**
**brought forward from page**
**2 - totals column)**|**92,016 **|**(a7)**|**80,995 **|**(b9)**|**11,021**|||**(c7)**|**52,163 **|**(c6)**|**63,184**|**(c8)**| |e10|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD**
**BY CHURCH**|**92,016**||**80,995**||**11,021**||**0**||**52,163**|**(x)**|**63,184**|**(y)**| ||Continue on a separate sheet
if necessary and bring the
totals forward|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||**TOTAL**
**PAYMENTS**|||||||||| ## **SECTION F** ## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES** ||**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**|||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2019**
Cash in hand
Bank Current Account
Bank Deposit Account
Central Finance Board
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
Other funds
**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**
**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**
Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)|51,324
579
260
**52,163**
(c6)
**0** (e11)
**52,163**
(x)
**OPENING**
**BALANCES**|**CLOSING**
**BALANCES**|| |f1|Cash in hand|||| |f2|Bank Current Account||62,181|| |f3|Bank Deposit Account|||| |f4|Central Finance Board||743|| |f5|Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes||260|| |f6|Other funds|||| |f7|**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**||**63,184**|(c8)| |f8|Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)||**0**|(e12)| |f9|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**||**63,184**|(y)| |||||| ||**SECTION G**
**OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES**
Investments(include Endowments)
Land & Buildings(see notes re Insurance value)
Other Assets
Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end
Other Liabilities|At
1 September 2019
3,282,117|At
31 August 2020
3,367,460|| |g1|Investments(include Endowments)|||| |g2|Land & Buildings(see notes re Insurance value)|3,282,117|3,367,460|| |g3|Other Assets|||| |g4|Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end|||| |g5|Other Liabilities|||| f4 Include only Funds held at the Central Finance Board f5 Include only Funds held at Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes - g1 Include any other investments (not the cash element of TMCP trusts accounts this is included in line f5 3 of 5 2019 Church R and P.xls Y ar3.F, NarTre cf CPitsrth ZfiJ43 Declarations and Scrutiny I corfim ttrat gecci?l a.-e ri-.. e-. 3cccbrts for t￿& lear t*ry 31 ALgL5t 202C bB"r* beer, '. eF8r* Trom ine rectrrds of ttre Ctr, tr ar,c ttr81 all fLnOS LiryEr Ibe rwtrol cf the c￿tirch IrLslees. Sign?1 Ire of Irèa¢urnf C'rréo￿4k{.p . Yo(L GSI Presentation to the Church trustees ', conlifm ltr,al thé lepoi,, arc accoL.-15 fcf leaf e pre5enlec lo Ibe mèè￿0 ol l*e Church trbsl88s t.8￿1 on . Stonature of the Chaif af th& me+iirg Name ol Ib,8 Ck,air of meelir..g Andy Lindley 3111120 Indepondent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of the ivP*..M.£.IMtt.fJiTre.i..........Church Charity NumberiA%¥knl￿r Re5ponsbbilities and basis of report r8p0￿ Ic Irtsslees or my ex¥rrsina' cp. ol Ire 3=r- for ihe ve?.r #nded ?1 .q'.'gusf ?-. -.r qal ￿.. f,:r piposc8liOn of t￿.￿ if Aci 201 J j '.-. e Atr." j. ACC: Mt3 j r Chu,-ch , Ib It,É fè)yll¥ni¥l",Is ol Ihe Charii I rp.Th)rl In respect of my e¥aminalN)n of Chitytr"5 ?cr￿￿￿t$ c2rrFeo nul thder wlw)r 144 of t￿e Att ar.o. in csrfy,'Yo OLI ny f Aar,;-,alopi l ts4e;"',twÉO ts11 .8 appilL&é Dar8cirrs ￿l'lej b4'.trie Ctr-;..Iv Ccmmigsiw, br,aer sgctior 145lSijbp d I￿.e Acl. del@16 or cirrle a5 3pproprkie De¢krattffi IEI2L2 Name of Church .. V¥&. ￿rl.￿￿..CHl)ftLt￿........................... Inde￿ndent Examlner's Ststemert I have completed my examD)atDJn. I confffm that no material matters have oxne lo my attention in connection with the examination vthich give me cause to believe that i). any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance wtth sedion 130 of the Acl" or the acc¢)unts do not awd wilh the accounting recxxds. Ithe Ithe I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection wrth the examination to which att&rtion should be drawn in this rep￿ Ni £xder to enable a proper understanding of the a¢£￿nIS to be reached. I Iwo*lhave not" obtained ￿￿ependent verrft(atK)n of all investn￿nts with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts. bank balances and ￿ndS at the Central Finan￿ Board of the Methodist Churth thich are indivKlualty in excess of £10.000 (tsn thousand pounds) at the balance sheel date. Signature of independent examiner NarrE ol tndependent examftier ..Trl.knEEW....&Li.ts..&ET.kk....HA.N￿j htrl..... Relevant professional qualification of independent e￿￿nIner R£TILE￿. J..EAC.EJ.£@.Q.F..*cccJ¥a N TS Name of finn (where appropriate) Address .5.....w.4hlts ￿.4.￿￿.. y.0..F.l<￿.F*.l.@Q........................ Post Code yo￿Z.7.Fw Date a9.kb.. o~F*yzr-... 20.20... . delete or cÈr¢le as apwwiate Sep-19 P￿5