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|The Church|Council me|mbers<br>are the Truste|
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|Minister and|Chair:|Rev Clare Stainsby|
|Secretary:||Anne Pearson|
|Treasurer;||David Ayrton|
|Safeguarding|Officer:|Janet Clark|
|Local Representatives|||
|Cowling:||Philip Boocock|
|||Tony Denning|
|Eastburn:||Jean Ainsworth|
|||Rev Jennifer<br>Lunn|
|||Christine<br>Smith|
|||Roger Smith|
|Silsden:||Claire Corp|
|||Sarah Halstead|
|||Tim Sharp|
|||Joan Whiffield|
|StPeter's Cross Hills:||Phil Corp|
|||Monica Dobson|
|||Frances Greenwood|
|||Graham<br>Sheard|
|Steeton:||Dean Berry|
|||Julie Eccleshare|
|||Christine<br>Hambley|
|||Joanne Stokes|





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|The Governing|Document:|Deed of Union (1932)and|Methodist<br>Church Act|Methodist<br>Church Act|(1976)|(1976)||
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|Constituted:||Act of Parliament||||||
|Selection ofTrustees:||Appointed<br>by existing trustees<br>(Craven Church Council)||||||
|||The minister<br>is ex officio a|trustee.|||||
|Structure:||Part ofAiredale<br>Methodist|Circuit, which|is part ofthe||||
|||Yorkshire West District of|the Methodist|Church,|which|in|turn is|
|||accountable<br>to the Methodist<br>Conference||||||
|Decision Making:||Craven<br>Methodist<br>Church|Council<br>is the|decision-making|||body|
|||responsible<br>for the charity.|It meets<br>in the autumn||and spring and|||
|||as necessary at other times to guide the||mission|and business of|||
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|AC|COUNTS FOR THE YEA|R||NDED|31|AUGUST 2023||C|RAVEN|||Church||
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||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Totals this|||Totals last||
||SECTION A||||||Funds|Funds|year|||year||
|a1|RECEIPTS|||||Note||||||||
|a2|Offsrin s and Tax recovered||||||101,022||101,022|||89,847||
||Bank and CFBinterest and|||||||||||||
|a3|Investment<br>income||||||3,927||3,927|||494||
||Lettin s||||||40,797||40,797|||31,264||
||Ad' to Balance||||||687||687|||1,885||
|a5|Other receipts||||||26,018||26,018|||43,309||
|a6|TOTAL RECEIPTS||||||172,451||172,451|(a7)||166,799||
||SECTION B|||||||||||||
|b1|PAYMENTS|||||||||||||
|b2|Circuit Assessment<br>or Share||||||75,100||76100|||77,952||
|b3|Donations||||||2,080||2,080|||2,640||
||Rs airs and Maintenance||||||22,517||22,517|||14,292||
||Utilities (Insurances,<br>water|||||||||||||
||charges,<br>heating<br>8 lighting)||||||32,087||32087|||24,289||
|b7|Other payments.||||||33,540||33,540|||36,519||
||TOTAL PAYMENTS||||||165,324||165,324|(b9)||155,692||
||SECTION C|||||||||||||
||NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS|||||||||||||
||FOR THE YEAR|||||a6-b8|7,127|||||||
||Total funds brought forward||from|||||||||||
|c2|last year||||||183,978||183,978|c6||167,536||
|c3|Sub total|||||c1+c2|191,105||191105|||178,643||
|c4|Transfers<br>and ad'ustments|||||||||||||
|c5|TOTAL FUNDS AT END|OF||YEAR||(c3+c4)|191,105||~(88185|( 8(|(|(18,(n~s(|8(|
||||||||||||plus 5,334classed|||
||SECTION D|||||||||previously as investment<br>=183978||||
||FOR INFORMATION<br>ONLY:|||MONEY RECEIVED AND <br>external|||PASSED ON TO|EXTERNAL|ORGANISATIONS|||||
||these amounts<br>are not|to|be included|||in total receipts/payments<br>fl urea|||f|||||
|d1|Balance brou<br>ht forward|from last|||ear||||605|||333||
|d2|Offerin<br>s/Gifts - received|for|||o|anisations|||5,380|||12,161||
|d3|Offerings/Gifts<br>-passed to external||||organisations||||5,629|||11,945||
|d4|BALANCE STILLTO BEPAID|||||(d1+d2-d3)|||356|||||
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||SECTION E|8|8|8|8|8|8|||||||||||||||||||||||
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||Summary<br>ofIhs church accounts|for the year ended||||||31 August||2023 and Internal||||organbadons||reporting||to Ihe ctwrch|||counclgchurch||Meegng. Note that the funds ofan Internal|||organlsagon||||
||would<br>normngy be ReslrkM funds unless||||It|could be dearly shovm||||||Ihst|Ihey coukl be used for any||||Methodist||purpose.||Thts secdon nwsl be completed|||to arrive st the gross|Income||and|||
||expendlurs<br>totals ofIhe Church.|Ifgross Income|||||exceeds Ihe Accruals||||||hrsshold,|then the Acauah|||method ofeccoundng|||||AND A DIFFERENT FORM must be used to report|||Ihe|accounts (ses||||
||Methodist webske).<br>Please refer|to|the gukhnce||||notes||reganfhg||transfers between||||Ihe Dlstrht|and|connected|||Dlshlct|Orgenlssuons.|||||||||
||INTERNAL|||||||||||||)let|Recelptsr|||||||||||||||
||ORGANISATIONS||R|||s||||||||P|ts||A|ustfnenls||||||||||||
|cl|Network|||||||||||270|||113|||||||||||||||
||Main<br>Msn|||||||||||||||||||||||75||||||
||Arulles<br>Iflbulmdmml||||2|403|||||2|825||||||||||||||||||
||Communl<br>Care Fund||||2|523||||||||||||||||||13105||||13704||
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||ub total o Irltemal|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||8funds|||||||||||||||||||||||14146 811|||14777||812|
||Church accounts (total ~|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||brought forward<br>from page|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|~10|BYCHURCH<br>Conlhue on asspwate sheet<br>IfnscsssnG<br>wtd brhg the<br>totals fNwsnl<br>2 - total ~column)|172,451<br>175,518<br>TOTAL RECEIPIS<br>155,324<br>170,752O<br>TOTAL<br>PAYMENTS|||||||||||(ba)||7,127<br>7,757||||||(cy)|||183,978<br>198,124|||191106<br>206,882||ca|
||SECTION F|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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||CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31Au|||||ust 2023|||||||||||BALANCES|||||||||BALANCES||||
|fl|Cash h hand|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|f2|Bank Current Acaxmt|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|ty|Bank<br>Account|||||||||||||||||||I 282||||||||||
|f4|Central Finance Board|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|fs|Trustees for Methodfst<br>Church P||||||||||||||||||74,999||||||||76,853|||
||||||||||||||||||||15,451||||||||18,970|||
|t7|SUBTOTAL - Church accounts|||||||||||||||||183977|||||||||191,106||cS|
||Total funds hekl by Intwllal<br>Ofganlsadons|||(uw ckwlng||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|IS|balance total from abave) (el2)||||||||||||||||||14148|||at(|||||14,7?7||e12|
|fs|TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BYCHURCH|||||||||||||||||198,123|||||||||206,S82|||
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||OTHER ASSETSand LIABILmES||||||||||||||||I September 2022||||||||31August|||2023||
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||f5 Inctude<br>only Funds hekl nl Trustees for Methodist|||||||Church Purposes||||||||||||||||||||||
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