**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: - Vibrant in Worship and Being - Ecumenical - Prayerful - Attractive to the Community - Community Integrated - Sustainable growth in spirit and member numbers - A Place for all Its implementation will ensure that: - The Church is sustainable in the long term - It has Methodist Values at its heart - It is Community Based - It will be a Place for All ## **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| Church R and P 2015.xls 1 of 5 ## **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**| 2 of 5 Church R and P 2015.xls **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 3 of 5 2015 Church R and P.xls ## **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 **----- Start of picture text -----**
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 **----- Start of picture text -----**
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: - Examine the accounts under Section 145 of the Charities Act - to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission - (under Section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act), and - to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. 4 of 5 2015 church R and P.xls ## **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*): - (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act have not been met; or (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 5 of 5 2015 church R and P.xls **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 - (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the re - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charitie - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply requirements of the Charities Act have not been met; or (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| 5 of 5 2015 church R and P.xls Date 0810212020 2015 church R and P.xls 5of5 Commission. An examination counts presented with those and seeking explanations from e evidence that would be ent a 'true and fair' view and the closed below*): equirements: es Act; ly with the accounting understanding of the accounts Methodist Church Purposes oard of the Methodist Church lance sheet date. 5 of 5 2015 church R and P.xls 2015 church R and P.xls 5of5