2023-08-31-accounts - Tewkesbury Methodist Church

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Tewkesbury Methodist Church The Cross Church Street Tewkesbury GL20 5PA	Charity Registraton Number 1179000 Financial Year FY22-23 September 2022 – August 2023

Aims of The Methodist Church

The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God’s love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission.

Worship
The Church exists to increase awareness of God's presence and to celebrate God's love
Learning and Caring
The Church exists to help people to grow and learn as Christians, through mutual support and care
Service
The Church exists to be a good neighbour to people in need and to challenge injustice
Evangelism
The Church exists to make more followers of Jesus Christ

Governance of the Methodist Church

The Methodist Church’s governing documents can be found in the Constitutional Practice and Discipline Volumes 1 and 2 at the link below. In particular Volume 2, ‘Part 6, The Local Churches’.

htps://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/governance/cpd/

Treasurer Report for 1[st] September 2022 until 31[st] August 2023

COVID’s detrimental effect on Tewkesbury Methodist Church’s (TMC’s) finances has gradually eased. Room bookings have made some slow recovery. Similarly, numbers attending Sunday services stabilised and midweek meetings slowly returned. Fortunately, our former caretaker cottage has been rented out throughout this year providing a stable source of income.

The total receipts on unrestricted income received between 1[st] September 2022 until 31[st] August 2023 was £107,503. The unrestricted expenditure for the same period is £66,742, plus an additional adjustment of £10,000 for a donation paid in initially as unrestricted but then transferred to the restricted “Welcome Space” fund, in accordance with the donor’s wishes. Overall, this leaves an unrestricted profit of £30,363. However, £37,000 of TMC’s unrestricted income during this period were kind, generous donations from members of the congregation from the proceeds of wills and therefore ‘one-offs’. Without these ‘one-off’ donations, TMC would have made a loss of £6239. TMC still needs a viable long-term, sustainable, financial basis.

To this end, the Welcome Space project was setup to explore how TMC’s premises could be altered to better suit the needs of the community. TMC received a grant of £120,000 towards the project from the Benefact Trust in November 2022. However, in August 2023, the plans to begin the alterations were halted due to concerns about the costs and timescales. The whole Welcome Space Project is now being reevaluated. The Benefact Trust were informed and kindly gave permission for TMC to retain their grant for up to 2 years (from receipt), to allow TMC to formulate an amended plan that may still meet the Benefact Trust’s grant requirements.

Our Family Outreach Worker (FOW) left our employment to take up a new fulltime role on Sunday, 4th September 2022 and was not replaced. Many members of the congregation gave a regular monthly amount towards paying for the Family Outreach Worker’s salary. Once the Family Outreach Worker left, the donors were contacted and asked if they wished to finish this regular donation or to redirect it instead to general funds. Most opted to keep their Family Outreach Worker as well as their offertory donations running and agreed that all remaining Family Outreach Worker money previously collected and all future donations could be used for general church purposes.

To avoid bank charges, we have successfully encouraged church members to give by standing order to reduce the amount of cash and cheques to be banked. We have also moved to paying as many bills as possible by Direct Debit, Standing Order, or BACS, to avoid raising cheques. However, Tewkesbury’s branches of Barclay’s, NatWest and HSBC banks have all closed, making it difficult for their customers without access to electronic banking, to manage their standing orders etc.

Other than the cleaner and Minister (Rev. Jayne Webb), TMC is entirely run by volunteers from the Church membership.

The signed, audited TMC accounts were submitted to its governing body, the Church Council, on the 20th April 2024. (Draft accounts were submitted to the autumn Church Council held on 20[th] November 2023.) The RESERVES POLICY was briefly discussed. This is the recommended minimum amount TMC retains to cover 6 months of essential expenditure. Employing a cleaner, this was estimated at £12,260 excluding the monthly assessment paid to Methodist Gloucestershire circuit. (Including it would add another £3739 pcm.) If TMC has 3 months or less of operating funds, Circuit must be advised.

Minister’s Report for Tewkesbury Methodist Church year ending August 2023

The Welcome Space Project, which aims to adapt Tewkesbury Methodist Church premises for wider community use, had been progressing with plans to house a ‘Changing Places’ disabled toilet facility within the premises. A grant of £120,000 was received from The Benefact Trust towards the costs. A number of applications were completed for funding for the wider project which was supported by the Gloucestershire Circuit and the Bristol District. Plans were in place to begin the work in October 2023, though at the time of writing this report (April 2024), the plans have been paused and a revision is now in place, as we are unable to accommodate the contractual and procedural demands of the ‘Changing Places’ facility.

We have a number of regular newcomers to the church some of whom have become members. They are all active in different ways, taking on different roles and showing a willingness to engage in church life and activities.

Following a safeguarding audit in 2022, all of our records and processes are up to date; we continue to hold safeguarding as an important part of church life for all. As our age profile increases, our ability to

serve the pastoral needs of the church family is more of a challenge as people step down from the pastoral visitor role. However, we maintain contact with all of our members who attend church and the focus of the pastoral visitors’ work is with those who are no longer able to attend.

Our Breakfast Club remains a popular monthly service for all, though is geared towards a younger congregation and is very informal. Following this service there is always a more traditional communion service; preaching services continue to be held every Sunday morning.

There are currently three House groups, two of which meet on the church premises. These are all popular groups and membership is not restricted; there are a core of regular members in each. Other groups include the church women’s group “Wives and Friends”, “Men Allowed” - a popular men’s supper group, a craft group, a book club, a song and music group who do regular performances and a Saturday morning coffee community. We also have a "Dinner Ladies" lunch club.

We continue to support Leprosy Mission and World Mission charities (through the envelope scheme) and Ukraine with donations of medication and toiletries. We continue to let out our premises to bring in income; the Church is a popular venue for concerts, and for choirs and music groups from the wider community.

Reverend Jayne E Webb

Minister, Tewkesbury Methodist Church

CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS THE METHODIST CHURCH STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS T•wk•8bu Church FOR THE YEAR ENDED Thursday, August 31, 2023 GI005hlrn Clrcult Clrcuft no. 07107 Rogi•tsrnd Charlty . Charlty Regkntratlon nuMr If not 8 registered charity H•r Maje8ty'* Reven and Customs Glft Ald numb•r {The HMRC number is 8quival8nt to a registered Chaiity number in tern of evidence of charitable 8tatus and may be used to give to donors or grant fundern wishing to See evrdence of the organisation, Charitable Status. Methodist charities in England and Wares that are not registered chariti88 are except8d from registration under Statutory Instrument 2014 No.242) 1179000 Minister. Rev Ja ne Webb Church Stewards.. Linda Salli8 Jean Davies Gill Sh¢llcy AlIen Treasurer. Juli¢ May 1 . churcWreceipts-arKkpayment&2023.xls 1ofS

AccouKfs FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023 Tewkesbury Chureh Totsl• la•t SECTION A Fund• a1 RECEIPTS Offerin s and Tax recovered Bank and CFB interest and Investment income 84.347 48,804 a3 891 691 2n Leth'n 15.302 a5 Othor recei TOTAL RECEIPTS 320 106.519 107,603 147) 69,167 SECTION B PAYMENTS Cirujit Assessment or Share b1 b2 b3 Donabons irs and Malntenance utiliti.es {In8urances. wat¢r cha és. hoatln htin 8.843 b5 b7 Other ments TOTAL PAYMENTS b8 65.816 86,742 Ib91 90,284 SECTION C NET RECEIPTSIPAYIAEp¥rs FOR THE YEAR Tokl funds brought forward from last year c1 243 11.994 Sub total ¢1•¢2 18,125 Transfers and ad ustments 10.0(M) ¢7 TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR {c3rf41 18.128 61,124 (¢81 30,363 (¢6 SECTION D FOR INFORMATION ONLY: IAONEf RECEIVED AND PeD ON TO ExfERNAL ORGANISATION8 th8 amounts arn not to b• Includ•d In total d1 Balan brou ht f0Tr4*rd from last d2 rfts. recewl for exwnal isalw)n$ 1,708 d3 Offeri pJGtfts - lo extemal BALANGE STILL TO BE PAID d1+d243 2of5

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Name of Chu Declarations and Scrutiny I confimi that thèse Receipt and Payment based accounts for the to 31 August 2023 have been prepared from the recwds of the Church and that they irKgude all fuThJs under the wittol of the Church trustees. Signature of treasurer .... Name and addre88 of trea8urer .. Pre8ontsUon to th• Church tru•te I confimi that the annual report and a¢c(MJnts for entsj 31 August 2023 rel•s. we88nl to the meeting of the Church trustees held on ........... SwJnature of the Chalr of th8 meeting ....... Name of the Chalr of the meetii¥J ... JqYKjé É ....w.¢...... (2(J 03 24 Independent Examln•rfs Report to tho Tte•S of the ¥{)£E).LK. ..r4.otr£. .akn.Q..Church Charlty Numb•r..l.1.1..9 0 d O Re•pon8lbllltlo• and bMl• of r•port <eLJJlees I report to the trustees on my 8xamin8llon of the ants ofthe .... . Church for the year ended 31 August 2023 set oui on pag88 ..{ to ..5 As the Church's trustees, you are responsible for the preparati of the o¢¢ounts in K£ordance Wblh Ihe requIrerts of the Charities Act 2011 Act,). I report in respect of my examinaon of th8 Church's ac&wnts carrd ¢xrt under section 145 of the A and. in carrying out my examinat4. I have folh7d all appkabkn Diralon5 ty the Charity Cc*nmission under secaion 145(5Mb) of the ACL ' delete or clrcle as appropnate 4ot5

Name of Church ... Independent ExamineV8 Statoment I have completed my examination. I confimi that no matsTial matters have me to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disdosed belovf) which give me cause to believe that in, any material respect: the 8ccounting records re not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or the accounts do not accord wth the accounting rerds. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connedion with the examlnallon to which attention Should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. I havelhave not. obtained independent verlfication of all inveslments with the Tru8tee8 for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts. bank balances and fijnds at the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church which are indNidually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balance sheet date. Signature of independent examiner N8me of independent examiner fjOQL>.4.ty................ . Relevant professional qualifiGation of indeperKlent examiner Name of firm (where approprlate) Address ..opciia gb ...c.Qc>t..r. .....£ts..ty..o.hJ.S........M.o.AT.oNJ.......... Post Code LW...71fr8 Date delete or circle as appropriate 1 . chUrches-reipts-alpay202Il0IS_rjWeS {1).xls 5ofS

Summary of ca8h and Inv081m•nts at 31 August 2023 CIRCUIT NUMBER:. 07107 CIRCUIT NAME: Methodkt artuft of GknKester5hlr• CHURCH NAME.. T•wkesbyry jul M jcin mail@bli?lernet com otw 2914S7 Ro••ryo Polley . Uthv•thtct•d lundi n• (Full rMerv49 pollcy tshould •nI In h 12.260 67.994 UBI 46.734.35 To1 • Pwpo•• I Il••trl¢tlon• on UM? (pl•M•9•I riiii¢h lrtf0ml¢Jffi •1 poMlbl•i CNSHAT BM( ie) TOT N•rn• l Yth•rnN•ld7 AT¢F TMCP VrrntrlGIDS 14rty•yd nmlno. t2e FuTrJ. E222Wi¥Jb and Gttrjp and É177Awty Day H88C Gon Fundaf¢Yèm dty nmnln¢ 0natl h•k# In i CFB IdE8 nitthj &Jildi Fthd CFB 20,1¢1 17,510 2522 TMCP $82 G•n•rnl runnl gJB. TOTAL.IPlnk RthvJthiWII J.IXt 61.124 nPJR&PPI5.1 3 arcultTreasurers ale iequtred to Couaiethurth in1ormatn comk4etethetat4E aE•Mexh yand 5th*tothe DlstrktTreèsurerin eLNnplanctwtth The MethadlstCanferenc¢ dlrth•.

THE METhODIST CHURCH INTERNAL O NISA ENDED 31 A T 2022 Eath yw every organi¥]on connected wilh a k1 Chwth. CirrJJit or District 1$ wimred by Standiry Orders to pent ts accounts to the Chwch CwncAVCiruJit MOetirWSyd The Managing Trustees are 8nnualty requir&J to AThwl A(niS $61tirvJ wt the finartyal affaiTr of ts ChurcNcirvJitlistnct ir&[¥j 811 118 irrtwnal ythsation& Thi$ form can be used for a ChurclVCiruJiL Stn"¢t lsatI()n) rthJuires details of the aceounls of your organ1881ion so that all reSPs1b1111le¥ be ffilled. We ask for w cwwation vktich will ensure proper wt4ic aecauntth.lity aThJ ts prcrtecbui oflhow willingty act as treasurern. I ClrcultlDl•trl¢t i GrouOryan11a1Ion I signat 88(on Ju .Jzl24 I I th•t I ha* •c<Tr wrfl oftr ' tkn ch0 (cl, ° 20 ao Id2

INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS, REPORT FORM llth form ShOd bt vled th ewIJeo• with the STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUTh CÈrt•it & Dhtrlrt A stp•r¢¢ Report Vorn sbothi be propAYed for eaeh Internl RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCO bklootrn SECTION H RECEIFrs bl Gifts & thmations 130000 Other reeeipts TOTAL RECEIFrs {t• R¢¢elpts eol p•% 3 kn th¢ m1• ateouts) 4261.00 h3 134261 SECTION I PAYMEIYTS tkTrnations Other payments 23,509.00 23509 TOTAL PA YMEKfs (to col ptyt 311 the tt•uts) SEcfioN J NET RECEIPTS (PAYMENTS) (h3-Dl 110752 OPENIIYG BALANCE 31• the ttoutsl 36060 Adjustm¢n13 (SI w neRativ¢ adjUthts in CLOSING BALANCE (to Cio814 bAll ¢oL 3 l• the m1# te•••ts) tii+J2+1-j31 146812 SECTION K kl Cth in hBnd Cth at BwcFB ¢1¢ 146,812.00 k4 TOTAL FUNDS HELD (iknuld y¢¢ Tlth IlmeJ4 alw¢) (k1+k2) 146812 SECTION M FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RBCEIVED AND PASSED ON TO OTHER KXTRRNAL ORGANISATIONS hea¢ bt Imd•thwl l# Balance brou t forward friwn last Offerin m3 Offerin Gifts- m4 BALANCE STIiL TO BE PAID (ml+m2-m3} 1of2