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2020-08-31-accounts

Great Ayton Methodist Church Charity Commission Annual Report Year ended 31st August 2020

Objectives:

The Church is committed to enabling as many people within the Community to worship within the Church and use its facilities.

Mission & Vision Plan

The key elements of our plan are:

Its implementation will ensure that:

Covid

Like many institutions our Church and members have been effected by the Covid restrictions. Its been a challenging year and its impact will b felt for many years to come.

With the Church being closed for a significant period it significantly reduced our activities in Church, community and our charity fund raising

When we did reopen it was for a limited period and social distancing and protective measures limited what could be achieved. It is not expected that we will get back to some normality until 2021/22

Church Life

We take a holistic view that all stages of life should be catered for and we aim to support all ages including children, youth, family and older age groups.

In addition to offering Church services on a Sunday we also offer a quiet, intimate and reflective environment for worship.

Church in the Community

We normally run a busy program of weekly events including: primetime games, community lunch, coffee & crafts, toddler groups, film nights and coffee mornings.

Wesley Mouse was introduced last year by Hannah Jackson which continues to be a great success. During the year we hosted the mission team from Heritage Park Baptist Church in Texas in which they worked in the community. Unfortunately, this had to be cut short due to Covid.

Children & Youth

We continue to reach out to young people and support young families in the community.

Activities are normally available throughout the week including Sunday ‘Kings kids’, J Time, Messy Church, Family Fun Time and wider Youth activities.

Worship

We offer a range of prayer services during the week. As a Church we continue to try and create different worship styles and events for members. On a Sunday we offer two services; one with a band and one more traditional.

In early 2020 Covid took effect and we were no longer able to function as before. Since March 2020 Sunday services and 7 children’s story programs were viewed online. Feedback from members and the wider community throughout the country has been very positive and it is expected that this format will continue.

We also hosted Zoom breakfasts, lunches and after service coffee meetings.

House Groups were also unable to function at the same level but again this moved online.

We would like to thank our Minister Lisa Quarmby for all her work in Great Ayton and the surrounding Churches during the past 5 years. Whilst she will be a great loss to our community we are sure that her work will be of benefit to her new ministry in Sheffield. We wish her well.

Pastoral

Current Membership is 113 with the combined ‘Membership & Friends’ at 175

Charity

Being able to help vulnerable people throughout the world is fundamental to members’ commitment to giving and the community.

During 2019 (paid in January 2020) we raised £7000 for the Smiles Foundation for their charity work in Romania . The nominated charity for 2020 was Teesside Hospice (eventually raising £12000)

Property

Following the previous year’s refurbishment and upgrade no major works were undertaken in 2019/20

Financial Performance

Covid had a major impact on Church finances during the year. Income dropped £12k to £77k and expenditure declined by £2k to £69k. Net Income therefore fell by £10k to £8k

Additional investment was undertaken to upgrade our website and communications to enable us to reach out to the wider community especially during Covid.

Given the circumstances it should be judged as a successful outcome and we continued to improve reserves. Total Church Funds as at August 2020 were £142568 and cash at Bank stood at £134300.

Governance & Management

The full Church Council meets four times a year, The Leadership Stewards normally meet monthly under stewardship of the Minister and there are members meetings twice a year.

Safeguarding

There were no reportable incidents between 01/09/19 and 31/08/20.

We would like to thank our safeguarding officer for all the work he does in ensuring all Church activities are safe, training is undertaken and monitored and people are made aware of their responsibilities.

Volunteers

We help and support all age groups from Nursery up to Community Lunches for the elderly. The Church would not function without people who freely give up their time. We are blessed that we have a group of people who make our Church a lively and vibrant community.

JH Whitehead Treasurer 10[th] February 2021

CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS

THE METHODIST CHURCH

STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS

Great Ayton Methodist Church

FOR THE YEAR ENDED

31 August 2020

Circuit
Stokesley		 Circuit no 1305
(since Dec 2016)
Registered Charity - Charity Registration number
1170323

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 Robinson
Church Stewards:
Steve Smith Howard Whitehead
David Kent Eileen Cowen
Sally Chaplain Chris Stokeld
Jeanette Hardy
Treasurer:
John Howard Whitehead

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ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2020

Great Ayton Methodist Church Church

SECTION A Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds		 Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds		 £
72,349
181
3,026
2,127
Totals this
year		 £
72,349
181
3,026
2,127
Totals this
year		 Totals last
year
£ £ £ £
a1 RECEIPTS Note
a2 Offerings andTax recovered 72,349 72,349 79,042
a3 Bank and CFB interest and
Investment income		 181 181 190
a4 Lettings 3,026 3,026 4,390
a5 Other receipts 2,127 2,127 5,655
a6 TOTAL RECEIPTS 77,683 **77,683 ** (a7) 89,277
SECTION B 43,392
405
4,507
7,288
14,257
b1 PAYMENTS
b2 Circuit Assessment or Share 43,392 43,392 40,662
b3 Donations 405 405
b4 Repairs and Maintenance 4,507 4,507 8,741
b5 Utilities (Insurances, water charges,
heating &lighting)		 7,288 7,288 7,563
b6
b7 Otherpayments 14,257 14,257 15,292
b8 TOTAL PAYMENTS 69,849 **69,849 ** (b9) 72,258
7,834
SECTION C
c1 NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS FOR
THE YEAR
(a6-b8)		 7,834 7,834 17,019
c2 Total funds brought forward from last
year		 111,964 22,336 134,300 114,068
142,134
c3 (c1+c2)
Sub total		 119,798 22,336 142,134 131,087
c4 Transfers and adjustments 434 434 (c7) 3,213
c5 TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR
(c3+c4)		 120,232 22,336 142,568 (c8) 134,300 (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 ORGANISATIONS		 £
d1 Balance broughtforwardfrom last year 4,103 5,984
d2 Offerings/Gifts-received for external organisations 9,402 7,696
d3 Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations 9,822 9,577
d4 BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID 3,683 4,103

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Great Ayton 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 2016 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 INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS Receipts Payments Net Receipts/
Payments		 Net Receipts/
Payments		 Net Receipts/
Payments		 Openingbalances Closingbalances
e1 Traidcraft 4,157 4,758 (601) 4,799 4,198
e2 Church in the Community 1,910 1,652 258 1,258 1,516
e3
e4
e5
e6
e7
e8 Sub total of Internal
Organisations funds		 6,067 6,410 (343) 6,057 5,714 (e12)
e9 Church accounts (totals
brought forward from page 2 -
totals column)		 77,683 69,849 7,834 434 134,300 142,568 (c8)
e10 TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD
BY CHURCH		 83,750 76,259 7,491 434 140,357 148,282 (y)
TOTAL RECEIPTS TOTAL
PAYMENTS
SECTION F
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LI ABILITIES
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
CHURCH -CASH FUNDS HELDat 31 August 2018
BankCurrentAccount
SUB TOTAL - Church accounts
Cash in hand
TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH
Bank Deposit Account
Central FinanceBoard
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
Other funds
Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)		 OPENING
BALANCES
21,011
111,266
2,018
5
134,300
(c6)
6,057 (e11)
140,357
(x)		 CLOSING
BALANCES
f1 Cash in hand
f2 BankCurrentAccount 21,474
f3 Bank Deposit Account 119,058
f4 Central FinanceBoard
f5 Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes 2,036
f6 Other funds
f7 SUB TOTAL - Church accounts 142,568 (c8)
f8 Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)		 5,714 (e12)
f9 TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH 148,282 (y)
SECTION G At At
SECTION G
OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES
Other Assets
Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end
Land & Buildings(see notes re Insurance value)
Investments(include Endowments)
Other Liabilities		 1 September 2017
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil		 31 August 2018
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
g1 Investments(include Endowments) Nil Nil
g2 Land & Buildings(see notes re Insurance value) Nil Nil
g3 Other Assets Nil Nil
g4 Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end Nil Nil
g5 Other Liabilities Nil Nil

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

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DECLARATIONS

Treasurer

I confirm that I have prepared the accounts from the records of the Church and that they include all funds under the control of the Church Council

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Signature of Treasurer Date 10/02/2021
Name John Howard Whitehead
Address 33 Skottowe Crescent, Great Ayton, TS96DS
Presentation to the Church Council for approval.
I confirm that the Accounts have been presented to the Church Council on 10/02/2021
and were approved.
Signature of the Chair of the meeting
Name of the Chair of the meeting Rev Andrew Robinson
Date 10/02/2021
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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the

Great Ayton Methodist Church

This Report is on the Church Accounts for the year ended 31[st] August

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2020
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Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner

The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

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Basis of Independent Examiner’s Report

My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair' view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent Examiner’s Statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention (other than that disclosed below*):

(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

* Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply appropriate

(3) I have obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes ("TMCP") or held in other Trusts, Bank balances and Funds at the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church ("CFB"), which are individually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balance sheet date.

* Please circle as appropriate

Name Ron Kirk Signature Ron Kirk Relevant Professional qualification or body FCA,CTA Address 2 Rosehill, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, TS9 6BH Date 08/02/2020

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Basis of Independent Examiner’s Report

My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the acc records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts prese report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent Examiner’s Statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention (other than that disc

(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper to be reached.

* Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply appropriate

(3) I have obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for M ("TMCP") or held in other Trusts, Bank balances and Funds at the Central Finance Bo ("CFB"), which are individually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the bal

* Please circle as appropriate

Name Ron Kirk
Signature Ron Kirk
Relevant Professional qualification or body
FCA,CTA
Address 2 Rosehill, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, TS9 6BH

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