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|Circuit|Ministers|and officers||
|---|---|---|---|
|Active|Circuit Ministers||Rev. Kathryn Stephens|
||||Rev. Ruth Jeffries|
|Circuit|Lay Workers||Mrs.<br>Amy Wyatt|
||||Mrs. Alison Price|
||||Mr. Sam Taylor|
||||Mrs. Glynis Cooper|
||||Mr. Brian Tattersall|
||||Mrs. Lynn Tindale|
|Circuit|Secretary||Mrs. Bev Beverley Rushton|
|Circuit|Stewards||Mr. Brian Barber|
||||Mr. Derek Mack|
||||Mr. Kenneth Burgess|
||||Mr. David Greatbatch|
||||Mr. Timothy Sproston|





|Treasurer:||Mr. Frederick Sarpong-Boateng||
|---|---|---|---|
|Independent|examiner|Name and address:||
|||Beaumonts<br>Chartered<br>Accountants||
|||29/31 Moorland<br>Road, Burslem.||
|||Stoke on Trent. ST6 1DS||
|Investment|Bankers|Central Finance Board of the Methodist|Church|
|||Trustees for Methodist<br>Church purposes||





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|Stoke on Trent Missio|n Circuit|n Circuit|n Circuit|||||a|rcuh No 1|2/|28|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Statement of Financial|Activities (SOFA)for the year|||ended|31August|2023||||||
|||Notes|to||Circuit Model||Designated|||||
|||the||General Fund||Trust|Funds||Total||Total|
|||accounts||(Unrestricted)<br>(Unrestrkted)|||(unrestrkted)||2022-23||2021-22|
|||||6|6||6|6||6||
|Income||||||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||||||||0|||
|Income from monetary|investments||4||1,535|4933|||grt68||970|
|Income from investment|properties||||||||0||0|
|Assessments<br>on Churches|||5||284,540||||284,540||311,601|
|Capital Receipts|||6||||||0||137,168|
|Grants received|||7||212||||212||1,640|
|Other charitable<br>income|||8||9,753||||9,753||9,243|
|Total inmme|||||296,040|4,933|0||300,973||460,622|
|Expenditure||||||||||||
|Grants and donations|||||957||||957||8,424|
|Salaries and associated|costs||10||199,108||||199,108||241,282|
|Property maintenance|||||9,419||||9,419||9,826|
|Connexional<br>assessment|&model trust levy||12||||||794||493|
|District Assessment<br>&Levy|||13||58,233|9,350|||67,583||63,686|
|Depreciation|||||||||0||0|
|Office expenses|||14||1,118||||1,118||2,223|
|Other outgoings|||15||17,418||120,000||137,418||21.233|
|Total charitable expenditure|||||286,253|10,143|120,000||416,396||347,167|
|Gains/(losses)<br>on monetary||investments|||0|0|0||0||0|
|Gains/(losses)<br>on investment||properties|||0|0|0||0||0|
|Net Income/(expenditure)|||||9,787|(5,210)|(120,000)||(115,423)||113,455|
|Transfers between<br>funds|||16||30,460|42,059|||72,519||(20,168)|
|Other gains/(losses)|||||0|0|||0||0|
|Net movement<br>in funds|||||40,247|36,849|(120,000)||(42,904)||93,287|
|Totalfunds<br>broughtforward|||||598,051|116,491|122,532||837,074||743,787|
|Totalfunds<br>carried forward|||||638,298|153,340|2,532||794,170||837,074|





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|Balance Sheet as at 31|August 2023|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||||GN|
|||Notes to|||Circuit|Model||||||
|||the|General|Fund|Trusts||Designated|Funds|Totals|Totals||
|||accounts|(Unrestdicted)||(Unrestdcted)||(Unrestrkted)||2022/23|ZBZ1/2Z||
|||||4||5|E||E|E||
|Fixed Assets||||||||||||
|Circuit Manses &Equipment||17||515,000|||||515,000|515,000|R|
|Investment<br>properties|||||||||||R|
|Investments||||||||||||
|Totalfixed assets||||515,000|||||515,000|515,000||
|Current Assets||||||||||||
|Debtors||18||8,520|||||8,520|8,138|5|
|Loans by the Circuit<br>Investments<br>with TMCP||19||||153,340|||153,340|236,491||
|Central Finance Board Deposits||20||59,473|||||59,473|53,034|T|
|Cash at Bank and in hand||21||79,679||||2,532|82,211|32323||
|Totalcurrent<br>assets||||147,672||153,340||2,532|303,544|328,986||
|Current<br>liabilities||||||||||||
|Creditors (due in under 1year)||22||24,373|||||24,373|6,913|U|
|Grants payable<br>within 2022-23<br>Total current Babgkles||||24,373|||||24,37S|6,913|V|
|Net current assets/liabgities||||123,299||153,340||2,532|279,171|322,073||
|Total assets less current|gabilities|||638,299||153,340||2,532|794,171|837,073||
|Long term<br>liabilities (due|after more|||||||||||
|than one year)||||||||||||
|Grants payable after 2022-23||||||||||||
|Loans to the Circuit||||||||||||
|Total long term liabilities||||||||||||
|Net assets||||638,299||153,340||2,532|794,171|837,073|W|
|Funds ofthe Circuit||||||||||||
|General<br>Fund (Unrestricted)||||638,298|||||638,298|598,050||
|Circuit Model Trust Fund|(Unrestricted)|||||153,340|||153,340|116,491|W|
|Designated<br>Funds (Unrestricted)<br>Total Unrestricted<br>Funds||||||||2,532|2B32<br>794,170|122,532<br>837,073||
|Restricted Funds||||||||||||
|Endowment<br>Funds||||||||||||
|TotalFunds||||638,298||153,340||2,532|794,170|837,073||





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|Note 4.|Income|from|moneta|ry<br>investments|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Circuit Model|||||
||||||General|Trust|Designated||Total|Total|
||||||(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)|(unrestricted)||2022-23|2021-22|
||||||||5||||
|Interest|received|from|Central|Finance Board|1,530||||1,530|95|
|interest|received|from|CAF Bank||||||||
|Interest|received|from|Model|Trust||4,933|||4,933|875|
|Total|||||1,535|4,933||0|5,455|970|





|||Circuit Model|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||General|Trust|Designated||Total|Total|
||(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)|(unrestricted)||2022-23|2021-22|
|Gateway|13,138||||13,138|12,074|
|Mount Pleasant|6,009||||6,009|5,599|
|New chapel||||||3,857|
|Oasis Community|35,753||||35,753|45,541|
|Packmoor|6,272||||6,272|6,041|
|Ponors|23,783||||23,783|23,399|
|Swan Bank|142,251||||142,251|161,350|
|The Village|12,775||||12,775|10,822|
|Wesley<br>Hall|22,739||||22,739|20,259|
|Whilehill|21,820||||21,820|21,224|
|ECG||||||1,435|
|Total||||0|284,540|311.801|



|Note 6.|Capital Receipts||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Circuit Model||||||
|||General|Trust||Designated||Total|Total|
|||(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)||(unrestricted)||2022-23|2021-22|
|||f|E||f||||
|Sales Proceeds - Biddulph Park Church||||||||137,168|
|Total|||||||0|137,168|
|Note 7.|Grants received||||||||
||||Circuit Model||||||
|||General|Trust||Designated||Total|Total|
|||(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)||(unrestricted)||2022-23|2021-22|
|||||f||f|f|E|
|Trairing|Grant|212|||||212||
|Furlough|Grant from HMRC|||||||1,840|
|||212||||0|212|1,640|





|Note 8.Ot||her c|harit|able<br>income||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||Circuit Slodel||||||
|||||||General||Trust|Designated|||Total|Total|
|||||||(Unrestricted)||(Unrestricted)<br>E|(unrestricted)<br>E|||2022-23<br>E|2021-22<br>E|
|Manse Rent Received - 19Woodland|||||grove||8,484|||||8,484|8,808|
|Newchapel||Rent|Received||||1,209|||||1,209||
|Methodist|Property|||Funds - Gateway|||60|||||60|60|
|Insurance|Claim||||||||||||375|
||||||||9,753|||0||9,753|9,243|
|Note 9.Grants|||and|donations||||||||||
|||||||||Circuit Model||||||
|||||||General||Trust|Designated|||Total|Total|
|||||||(Unrestricted)||(Unrestricted)|(unrestricted)|||2022-23|2021-22|
|||||||||f.|E|||E|E|
|Connexion||Pension||Reserve Donation|||||||||8,100|
|Donation|||||||957<br>957|||||957<br>957|324<br>8,424|
|Note 10a.Salaries||||snd associated|costs|||||||||
|||||||||Circuit Model||||||
|||||||General||Tnrst|Designated|||Total|Total|
|||||||(Unrestricted)||(Unrestricted)|(unrestricted)|||2022-23|2021-22|
|||||||E||E||||E|E|
|Minister's||Salaries||and associated|Costs:|||||||||
|Stipends|of Presbyters|||||53,856||||||53,856|51,648|
|Employer's||Nl|||||5,466|||||5,466|5,218|
|Ministers||Pension|||||14,487|||||14,487|13,893|
|Super's Allowance|||||||2,693|||||2,693|2,582|
|Com in Miriistry|||Allowance||||352|||||352|342|
|Apprentiaehip|||Levy Recharge||||286|||||286|274|
|Lay-worker's|||Salaries and associated Costs:|||||||||||
|Salaries||||||110,263||||||110,263|150,795|
|Emloyer's||Nl|||||5,516|||||5,516|8,078|
|Pension|||||||5,062|||||5,062|7,122|
|Apprenticeship|||Levy Recharge||||1,126|||||1,126|1,330|
|Total||||||199,108|||||0|199,108|241,282|



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|Note 11.P|roperty|maintenance||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Circuit Model|||||
|||||General||Trust|Designated|Total|Total|
|||||(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)<br>f||(unrestricted)<br>f|2022-23|2021-22|
|Council Tsx||||4,410||||4,410|4,261|
|Insurance||||2,020||||2,020|1,892|
|Water||||1,258||||1,258|730|
|Nswchapel|Electricity and Gas|||1,008||||1,008||
|Building<br>Inspection||Report (Qdnquennisl||||||||
|inspections)|||||||||1,425|
|RMG CRA|- Ground|management|for|||||||
|Sandiacre|Manse|||142||||142|136|
|Manse Maintenance||||581||||581|1,382|
|Total||||9,419||||9,419|9,826|



|Note 12.Connexiona|l<br>assessment 8mode|l trust levy|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Circuit Model|||||
|||General||Trust|Designated||Total|Total|
|||(Unrestricted)||(Unrestricted)|(unrestricted)||2022-23|2021-22|
|TMCP Admirlstration|Charge|||794|||794|493|
|Note 13.District Assessment 6Levy|||||||||
|||||Circuit Model|||||
|||General||Trust|Designated||Total|Total|
|||(Unrestricted)|f|(Unrestricted)<br>F.|(unrestricted)|f|2022-23<br>f|2021-22<br>f|
|District Assessmsnt||58,233|||||58,233|57,544|
|District levy||||9,350|||9,350|6,142|
|Total||58,233||9,350|||67,583|63,686|



|Note 14.|O|ffice exp|enses||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Circuit Model||||
|||||General|Trust|Designated|Total|Total|
|||||(Unrestricted)<br>f|(Unrestricted)<br>f|(unrestricted)<br>f|2022-23|2021-22<br>f|
|Stationery,||Copying|and Postage|15|||15|1,079|
|Methodist|Handbook||||||||
|Photocopy||Lease||563||||563|
|Bank Charges||||60|||60|101|
|Independent||Examiner's Fees||480||||480|
|Total||||1,118|||1,118|2,223|





|Note 15.Other out|goings||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Circuit Model||||||
||||General|||Trust|Designated|Total||Total|
||||(Unrestricted)<br>f||(Unrestricted)<br>6||(unrestricted)|2022-23<br>6||2021-22<br>6|
|Staf expenses reimbtssements||||5,196||||5,196||6,190|
|Furkwgh<br>Reimbursement||to Churches||||||||1,640|
|Rent - 32 Milehouse|Lane|||9,702||||9,702||9,000|
|Preaching<br>Expenses||||381|||||381||
|Methodist<br>Property|Funds||||||||60|60|
|Telephone|||||||||||
|Trairiing|||||||||635|25|
|DSBApplication||||38|||||38||
|Sales of Manse Expenses||charge by District||||||||2,550|
|Sundry<br>Expenses/Previous<br>Adjustment||Assessment||523|||||523|637|
|Total||||17,418||||17,418||21,233|



|Note 16.Tr|ansfer|ofF|unds|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||Circuit Model||||
|||||||General||Twist|Dsslgnstsd|Total|Total|
|||||||(Unrestricted)<br>6||(Unrestricted)<br>6|(Unrestricted)<br>6|2022-23<br>6|2021-22<br>6|
|Transfer from Nswchapel|||TMCP||to Circuit|||42,059||42,059||
|Transfer from Newchapel|||Current||Accounls to|||||||
|Circdt Cwrent|||||||30,461|||||
|Nswchapel|Children|Funds AC to|||Circdt Current||3,461|||3,461|(17,168)|
|Payment of <br>Packmoor|Newchapel||Children|Funds to|||3,461|||3,461|3,000|
|Total||||||30,461||42,059||72,520|20,168|





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|||||Fixtures,|account|and||
||||Other|fittings snd|assets under|||
||Land||bugdlngs|~quipment|construcgon||Total|
|||E|4||||E|
|Balance brought forwsni||515,000|||||515,000|
|Addiliorw|||||||0|
|Revsluacons<br>(+I-)|||||||0|
|Dlsposals (-)|||||||0|
|Trarafers<br>(+I-)|||||||0|
|Bslsncs carded folwsrd||515,000|||||515,000|
|Accumulated<br>depraclsdon||||||||
|Balance brought forward||||||||
|Deprsciaaon<br>charge for the year (-)||||||||
|Revaluations<br>(+I-)||||||||
|Disposals (-)<br>Tlansfers ' (+I-)||||||||
|Balance carried forward||||||||
|Net book value||||||||
|Brought folwsrd||515,000|||||515,000|
|Cerned forward||515,000|||||515,000|



|Note 18.D|ebtors|||||||||
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||||||Circuit Igodel|||||
|||||General|Trust|Designated||Total|Total|
|||||(Unrestrictsd)|(Unrestricted)<br>E|(Unrestricted)<br>E||2022-23|2021-22<br>f|
|Total Prepaid Expenses:||||||||||
|Presbytsrs'|Salaries and Associated Costs|||6,876||||6,876|6,401|
|Methodist|Irsurance|||1,550||||1,659||
|Menses Water Rates||||||||38||
|RMG CRA|- Ground|management|for Sandiacare|||||||
|Manse||||47||||47|48|
|Total Accrued Income:||||||||||
|Assessments<br>on Churches|||||||||1,630|
|Total||||8,520|||0|8,520|8,130|





|Note 19a.Investments<br>with TINCP||||||||
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||||Circuit Model|||||
|||General|Trust|Designated|Total|Total|2021.|
|Trust 9411||(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)|2022-23||22|
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|Opening<br>Balance - 01/09/2022|||236,491||236,491||172,851|
|Add Trust Interest (Note 4)|||3,583||3,583||875|
|Add Property Proceeds - Bid dolph Park Church (Note||6)|||||137.168|
|Less Transfer to CFBfor Ministry (Note 17)|||||||(42,500)|
|Less Transfer between<br>funds -Transfer to Oasis fro||||||||
|replacement<br>project (Note 17)|||||||(17,168)|
|Less District levy (Note 14)|||9,350||||(6,142)|
|Less TMCP Administration<br>charges (Note 13)|||674||674||(493)|
|Less Pension reserve payment/Donation|(Note 9)||||||(8,100)|
|Less Cost of Property<br>on Lord Street - Oasis|||120,000||120,000|||
|Closing Balance - 31/08/2023|||110,051||110,051||236,491|
||||Circuit Model|||||
|||General|Trust|Designated|Total|Total|2021.|
|Note 19b.Investments<br>with TMCP||(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)|2022-23||22|
|Trust 16793-Sof Land||||||||
|Opening<br>Balance - 01/09/2022|||41,954||41,954|||
|Add Trust Interest (Note 4)|||I,347||1,347|||
|Less TMCP Administration<br>charges (Note 13)|||120||120|||
|Closing Balance - 31/08/2023|||43,181||43,181|||
||||Circuit Model|||||
|||General|Trust|Designated|Total|Total|2021.|
|Note 19c.Investments<br>with TMCP||(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)|2022-23||22|
|Trust 338 - John Hamlett Legacy for poor||||||||
|Opening<br>Balance - 01/09/2022||||||||
|Add Trust Interest (Note 4)||||||||
|Less TMCP Administration<br>charges (Note 13)||||||||
|Closing Balance - 31/08/2023|||109||109|||
|Total Closin<br>Balance - 31/08/2023|||153,340||153,340||236,491|





|Note 2|0.C|entral Finance Board Deposits|||||||||
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|||||Circuit Model|||||||
||||General|Trust|Designated||Total|Total||2021.|
||||(Unrestricted)<br>f.|(Unrestricted)<br>f|(Unrestricted)<br>f||2022-23||22<br>f||
|Central|Finance Bank||59,473||||59,473||53,034||
|Note 21.Cash at Bank and in hand|||||||||||
|||||Clrcuk Model|||||||
||||General|Trust|Designated||Total|Total||2021|
||||(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)||2022-23||22||
|Natwest|Bank||78,448||||78,448||26,951||
|Cooperative||Bank||||2,532|2,532||2,532||
|Charity|Aid|Foundation|1,230||||1,230||1,840||
|Total|||79,679|||2,532|82,211||31|323|



||||||||Circuit Model||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||General||Trust|Designated|Total||Total|2021.|
||||||(Unrestricted)||(Unrestricted)|(Unrestricted)|2022-23|||22|
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|Accrued||Expenses - Indeperdent||Examiner's Fees||960|||||||
|Prepaid|Income - Assessmenis|||on Churches|19,308||||19,308|||6,373|
|Properly||Furds liability||||60||||60||60|
|Cost of|living Gik to Swan||Bank|Staff||||||500|||
|Miriisters||snd Lay-workers|Expenses||3,830||||3,830||||
|Preaching||Expenses||||91|||||||
|Total|||||24,750||||24,858|||6,913|



|23.Money rece|ived and|passed on to External Org|anisations<br>-|Ref|Note 22||
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||||2022-23||2021-22||
|Balance brought|forward|from last year||60||60|
|Offerings/Gifts|- received|for External Organisations||60||60|
|Offerings/Gifts|- passed|to External Organisations||60||60|
|Balance carried|forward|||60||60|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Fund Name||Balance|Resources|Expended|Balance|thefund||
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|||||||s<br>ciTic need||
|||||||Available|for|
|||||||funding||
|||||||outreach|and|
|||||||development||
|Dsvslo|nleilt Fufld|||||work||
|||||||Funds||
|||||||designated<br>for||
|||||||the||
|||||||maintenance||
|Circuit|resorvces centre|122,532||120,000|2,532|of the centre||
|Totals||2,532|137,168|17,168|122,532|||



|Fund Name|Fund Name||Opening<br>Balance||Incoming<br>Resources|Resources<br>Expended|Closing<br>Balance|Purpose <br>the fund|of|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||6||6|6|8|||
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|Benemlent||Fund||||||s ecific need||
|||||||||Available|for|
|||||||||funding||
|||||||||outreach|and|
|||||||||development||
|Dsvalo|fnsrll Fuild|||||||work||
|||||||||Funds||
|||||||||designated<br>for||
|||||||||the||
|||||||||maintenance||
|Circuit|resources centre|||2,532|137,168|17,168|122,532|ofthe centre||
|Totals||||2,532|137,168|17,168|122,532|||





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