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2022-08-31-accounts

Lymm Methodist Church

The trustees have pleasure in presenting their report and the financial statements for the year ending 31 August 2022

Annual Trustees Report st st 1 September 2021 to 31 August 2022

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Administrative Details

Registered charity name Lymm Methodist Church Charity registration number 1188591 Principal office Lymm Methodist Church Eagle Brow Lymm Cheshire, WA13 0LP

The Trustees

The trustees who served the charity during the year and since the year end are as follows;

Church Secretary— June Hill

Circuit Ministers (ex Officio) Rev David Easton (Superintendent), Rev Mark Coles

Church Stewards Victoria Sims, Gill Chiverton, Norma Lamb Dot Shopland, June Hill, Eve Collen

Church Appointments

Church Treasurer Graham Pegg Chair Finance and Property John Woodthorpe Worship and Discipleship Graham Pegg Pastoral Care Gill Fuller Churches Together Jean Wardell Safeguarding Officer Jane Thompson

Congregational Representatives

Sandra Woodthorpe, John Saxton, Derek Ogden,

The Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes act as Custodian Trustees for the Charity’s property.

Structure Governance and Management

Lymm Methodist Church is part of the Sankey Valley Circuit. It is governed by the Deed of Union 1932 and by the Methodist Church Standing Orders.

The church is cared for by a Presbyter (ordained minister).

The decision making body for the Charity (who are its trustees and listed above) is the Church Council that meets 3 times per year.

The Annual General Church meeting, that is open to all members of the Church, raises issues for consideration by the Church Council.

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Position in the Community

Lymm Methodist Church is located in the centre of Lymm, a town of approx.15k people. It is situated on a main arterial road through the village on a small plot of land surrounded by mature trees with marked out parking spaces for two vehicles. There is a public car park within easy walking distance.

The buildings date back to 1850 but are proving difficult to maintain due to their age. There is a traditional worship space plus a community building with 2 halls, a kitchen, coffee room, and a general purpose room.

Our Mission

We believe there are three elements to achieving our stated Mission.

How we structure our activities towards achieving our Mission can be summarised as follows;

Maintaining a strong worshiping community

Re-establishing and Upgrading

It has been a year of progressively re-establishing a regular patten of Sunday worship similar to that pre–pandemic.

The Church audio system has been up graded, folding chairs introduced to create a more flexible space,

We encourage people to express their love of God through music and drama as part of our ‘fresh expressions of worship’.

Live streaming and the recording of the Sunday Services continues to be popular and is an area for further improvements in 2022 –2023. The number of those attending worship has slightly increased with many people also watching the recorded Services during the week.

Blend Café is starting to attract families who under normal circumstances would not attend a traditional church services.

We are encouraged that more people are taking an active part in worship. We see this as an important first step along the path to becoming a Local Preacher. We have a team of talented musicians who can cover a range of worship styles.

Our approach to worship goes beyond the walls of the Church. Informal sessions of Christian teaching and worship are an integral part of our Mission amongst children and young people.

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Life Time Path to Discipleship

Children

We are delighted that the Open the Book Team has been enthusiastically welcomed back by all five local Primary Schools.

A lunchtime meeting at

the High School aimed at helping young people explore life experience issues in a friendly environment. It is well attended with many of the young people having previously been involved in Messy Church, seen the leaders at Open the Book and Hope Journey sessions and attended 7up.

Adults

They are now a fixture in the school curriculums.

Pre-pandemic we had three strong Fellowship/ Discussion Groups along with Advent and Lent meetings. These were sustained during the pandemic via ZOOM meetings but in last 12 months all three have closed for a variety of reasons. The situation is being reviewed with the possible use of IT to allow remote groups to connect in virtual meetings.

Showing God’s Love

The five Primary Schools have

The church family continue to show God’s love in a wide variety of ways. This is by giving their time and financial support across a range of activities. One of our members received an award for her outstanding support to JMA.

once again started to attend the Hope Journey experience on the church premises. Taking place twice this year plus a visit by the team to present a story to the reception classes.

Messy Church has restarted and whilst being a Churches Together Lymm and District activity, it’s mainly managed and run by people from the our church.

7up is well attended with a programme appropriate to a more energetic age group.

A team continues to highlight how we can challenge injustices by inviting guest speaks from CAB and Warrington Food Bank.

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Our 20 years support of the Warrington homeless remains strong via fund raising events, providing food plus warm clothing and personal hygiene items at Christmas.

A dedicated group continue to produce knitted items. The recent focus has been on jumpers for asylum seekers, blankets for Ukraine and hats for the Mission for Seafarers, Liverpool.

Life Church continue to worship at our premises on a Sunday evening,

Financial Review

2020/21 2021/22 VARIANCE 2020/21 2021/22 VARIANCE
INCOME EXPENDITURE
OFFERTORY 35237 31696 -3541 CIRCUIT ASSESSMENT 31205 30620 585
GIFT AID REFUND 8357 7507 -850 UTILITIES 4457 6125 -1668
43594 39203 -4391 INSURANCE 1836 1887 -51
MAINTENANCE & REPAIR 5694 14022 -8328
MISSION AND OUTREACH 2515 2563 48 CLEANING 2676 2530 146
CHURCH FAMILY 1000 3850 2850 INTERNET 290 345 -55
LETTINGS & ADVERTISING 5883 13304 7421 YOUNG PEOPLE 348 337 11
CHURCH SERVICES 80 230 150 STATIONERY 1835 1671 164
OTHER INCLUDING INTEREST 9141 1887 -7254 MISSION & OUTREACH 2901 3028 -127
18619 21834 3215 OTHER 2980 5639 -2659
54222 66204 -11982
SUB TOTAL 62213 61037 -1176
SUB TOTAL 54222 66204 -11982
LEGACY 0 0 0
DEVELOPMENT FUND 13854 8821 -5033 CHILDREN & FAMILIES WORKER 18166 18172 -6
Including Sound System and Chairs 13854 8821 -5033
PROJECTS
SUB TOTAL 76067 69858 -6209 LIVESTREAMING 8697 0 8697
DEVELOPMENT FUND 519 0 519
CHILDREN&FAMILIES WORKER 18092 18245 153 BLEND 0 493 -493
CHAIRS 0 3237 -3237
TOTAL 94159 88103 -6056 SOUND SYSTEM 0 3451 -3451
9216 7181 2035
TOTAL 81604 91557 -9953
EXCESS EXPENDITURE OVER
INCOME 12555 -3454 -16009

COMMENTARY

As we returned to normal activity following the end of the pandemic so did our financial activity In particluar Lettings income was over £13K. Life Church are now using our premises for their regular worship avtivity

Maintenance activity increased as we sought to catch up on the backlog of repairs and we utilised the Roy Snaith legacy to support this.

At the end of the year our reserves stood at £3636 apart from £47063 in the Redevelopment fund and £144 left of the Circuit grant for the Fresh Expression BLEND project.

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RECEIPTS AND PA AC

THE METHODIST CHURCH

STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS

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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 August 2022

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SANKEY VALLEY Circuit Circuit no. 18
Registered Charity - Charity Registration number 118
If not a registered charity Her Majesty's Revenue and
Customs Gift Aid number
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(The HMRC number is equivalent to a registered charity number in terms of evidence of charitab and may be used to give to donors or grant funders wishing to see evidence of the organisation' charitable status. Methodist charities in England and Wales that are not registered charities are from registration under Statutory Instrument 2014 No.242)

Minister:

Rev Mark Coles Church Stewards: Mrs Victoria Sims Mr Ed Wardell (until 8.2.22) Mrs Dot Shopland Mrs June Hill Mrs Norma Lamb Mrs Gill Chiverton Mrs Eve Collen (From 8.2.22) Treasurer: Mr Graham Pegg

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ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2022

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Unrestricted Restricted Totals this Totals last
SECTION A Funds Funds year year
£ £ £ £
a1 RECEIPTS Note
a2 Offerings and Tax recovered 39,203 39,203 43,594
Bank and CFB interest and
a3 Investment income 199 199 51
a4 Lettings 13,304 13,304 5,993
a5 Other receipts 8,331 27,066 35,397 44,521
a6 TOTAL RECEIPTS 61,037 27,066 88,103 (a7) 94,159
SECTION B
b1 PAYMENTS
b2 Circuit Assessment or Share 30,620 30,620 31,205
b3 Donations 460 460 460
b4 Repairs and Maintenance 14,022 14,022 5,694
Utilities (Insurances, water
b5 charges, heating & lighting) 6,125 6,125 6,293
b6 0
b7 Other payments 8,632 31,697 40,329 37,953
b8 [TOTAL PAYMENTS ] 59,859 31,697 91,556 (b9) 81,605
SECTION C
NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS FOR
c1 THE YEAR (a6-b8) 1,178 (4,631) (3,453) 12,554
Total funds brought forward from
last year
c2 2,458 51,836 54,294 (c6) 41,740
c3 Sub total (c1+c2) 3,636 47,205 50,841 54,294
c4 Transfers and adjustments 0 (c7)
c5 [TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR ] (c3+c4) 3,636 47,205 50,841 (c8) 54,294 (c6)
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SECTION D
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS
d (these amounts are not to be included in total receipts/payments figures £ £
above)
d1 Balance brought forward from last year 20 20
d2 Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations 2,563 2,516
d3 Offerings/Gifts - passed to external organisations 2,523 2,516
d4 BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID (d1+d2-d3) 60 20
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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 2022 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.

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Net Receipts/ Opening
INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS Receipts Payments Payments Adjustments balances Closing balances
e1 Loving Hearts and Hands 241 0 241 328 569
e2 0 0
e3 0 0
e4 0 0
e5 0 0
e6 0 0
e7 0 0
Sub total of Internal
e8 Organisations funds 241 0 241 0 328 (e11) 569 (e12)
Church accounts (totals
brought forward from page
e9 2 - totals column) 88,103 (a7) 91,556 (b9) (3,453) (c7) 54,294 (c6) 50,841 (c8)
TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD
e10 BY CHURCH 88,344 91,556 (3,212) 0 54,622 (x) 51,410 (y)
Continue on a separate sheet TOTAL
if necessary and bring the TOTAL RECEIPTS PAYMENTS
totals forward
SECTION F
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
OPENING CLOSING
CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2022 BALANCES BALANCES
f1 Cash in hand
f2 Bank Current Account 7,650 6,762
f3 Bank Deposit Account
f4 Central Finance Board 46,644 44,079
f5 Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
f6 Other funds
f7 SUB TOTAL - Church accounts 54,294 (c6) 50,841 (c8)
Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
f8 balance total from above) (e12) 328 (e11) 569 (e12)
f9 TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH 54,622 (x) 51,410 (y)
SECTION G At At
1 September 2021 31 August 2022
OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES
g1 Investments (include Endowments)
g2 Land & Buildings (see notes re Insurance value) 1,754,696 1,795,000
g3 Other Assets 105,282 106,000
g4 Loan(s) - show amount outstanding at year end
g5 Other Liabilities
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f4 Include only Funds held at the Central Finance Board

f5 Include only Funds held at Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes

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Declarations and Scrutiny

I confirm that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the year to 31 August 20 prepared from the records of the Church and that they include all funds under the con trustees.

Signature of treasurer ……………………………………………………… Date……………………

Name and address of treasu Mr GC Pegg FCMA CGMA 4 Fox Gardens Lymm …………………………………………………………………………………. Post Code………………

Presentation to the Church trustees

I confirm that the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2022 were meeting of the Church Trustees held on 11 October 2022.

Signature of the Chair of the meeting ………………………………………………………………

Name of the Chair of the me Rev Mark Coles

Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of

Lymm

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Charity Number 1188591

Responsibilities and basis of report

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I report in respect of my examination of the Church’s accounts carried out under secti and, in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions give Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

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Independent Examiner’s Statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to m connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below*) which give me ca in, any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the exa attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of t reached.

I have/have not* obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustee Church Purposes or held in other trusts, bank balances and funds at the Central Finan Methodist Church which are individually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) a sheet date.

Signature of independent examiner …………………………………………………………………

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THE METHODIST CHURCH

STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS

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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 August 2022

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SANKEY VALLEY Circuit Circuit no. 18
Registered Charity - Charity Registration number 118
If not a registered charity Her Majesty's Revenue and
Customs Gift Aid number
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(The HMRC number is equivalent to a registered charity number in terms of evidence of charitab and may be used to give to donors or grant funders wishing to see evidence of the organisation' charitable status. Methodist charities in England and Wales that are not registered charities are from registration under Statutory Instrument 2014 No.242)

Minister:

Rev Mark Coles Church Stewards: Mrs Victoria Sims Mr Ed Wardell (until 8.2.22) Mrs Dot Shopland Mrs June Hill Mrs Norma Lamb Mrs Gill Chiverton Mrs Eve Collen (From 8.2.22) Treasurer: Mr Graham Pegg

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ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2022

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Unrestricted Restricted Totals this Totals last
SECTION A Funds Funds year year
£ £ £ £
a1 RECEIPTS Note
a2 Offerings and Tax recovered 39,203 39,203 43,594
Bank and CFB interest and
a3 Investment income 199 199 51
a4 Lettings 13,304 13,304 5,993
a5 Other receipts 8,331 27,066 35,397 44,521
a6 TOTAL RECEIPTS 61,037 27,066 88,103 (a7) 94,159
SECTION B
b1 PAYMENTS
b2 Circuit Assessment or Share 30,620 30,620 31,205
b3 Donations 460 460 460
b4 Repairs and Maintenance 14,022 14,022 5,694
Utilities (Insurances, water
b5 charges, heating & lighting) 6,125 6,125 6,293
b6 0
b7 Other payments 8,632 31,697 40,329 37,953
b8 [TOTAL PAYMENTS ] 59,859 31,697 91,556 (b9) 81,605
SECTION C
NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS FOR
c1 THE YEAR (a6-b8) 1,178 (4,631) (3,453) 12,554
Total funds brought forward from
last year
c2 2,458 51,836 54,294 (c6) 41,740
c3 Sub total (c1+c2) 3,636 47,205 50,841 54,294
c4 Transfers and adjustments 0 (c7)
c5 [TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR ] (c3+c4) 3,636 47,205 50,841 (c8) 54,294 (c6)
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SECTION D
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: MONEY RECEIVED AND PASSED ON TO EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS
d (these amounts are not to be included in total receipts/payments figures £ £
above)
d1 Balance brought forward from last year 20 20
d2 Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations 2,563 2,516
d3 Offerings/Gifts - passed to external organisations 2,523 2,516
d4 BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID (d1+d2-d3) 60 20
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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 2022 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.

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Net Receipts/ Opening
INTERNAL ORGANISATIONS Receipts Payments Payments Adjustments balances Closing balances
e1 Loving Hearts and Hands 241 0 241 328 569
e2 0 0
e3 0 0
e4 0 0
e5 0 0
e6 0 0
e7 0 0
Sub total of Internal
e8 Organisations funds 241 0 241 0 328 (e11) 569 (e12)
Church accounts (totals
brought forward from page
e9 2 - totals column) 88,103 (a7) 91,556 (b9) (3,453) (c7) 54,294 (c6) 50,841 (c8)
TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD
e10 BY CHURCH 88,344 91,556 (3,212) 0 54,622 (x) 51,410 (y)
Continue on a separate sheet TOTAL
if necessary and bring the TOTAL RECEIPTS PAYMENTS
totals forward
SECTION F
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
OPENING CLOSING
CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2022 BALANCES BALANCES
f1 Cash in hand
f2 Bank Current Account 7,650 6,762
f3 Bank Deposit Account
f4 Central Finance Board 46,644 44,079
f5 Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
f6 Other funds
f7 SUB TOTAL - Church accounts 54,294 (c6) 50,841 (c8)
Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
f8 balance total from above) (e12) 328 (e11) 569 (e12)
f9 TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH 54,622 (x) 51,410 (y)
SECTION G At At
1 September 2021 31 August 2022
OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES
g1 Investments (include Endowments)
g2 Land & Buildings (see notes re Insurance value) 1,754,696 1,795,000
g3 Other Assets 105,282 106,000
g4 Loan(s) - show amount outstanding at year end
g5 Other Liabilities
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f5 Include only Funds held at Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes

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Declarations and Scrutiny

I confirm that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the year to 31 August 20 prepared from the records of the Church and that they include all funds under the con trustees.

Signature of treasurer ……………………………………………………… Date……………………

Name and address of treasu Mr GC Pegg FCMA CGMA 4 Fox Gardens Lymm …………………………………………………………………………………. Post Code………………

Presentation to the Church trustees

I confirm that the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2022 were meeting of the Church Trustees held on 11 October 2022.

Signature of the Chair of the meeting ………………………………………………………………

Name of the Chair of the me Rev Mark Coles

Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of

Lymm

……………………..……………………..Church

Charity Number 1188591

Responsibilities and basis of report

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the ………………………… the year ended 31 August 2022 set out on pages … to …. As the Church’s trustees, y for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Chariti Act’).

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I report in respect of my examination of the Church’s accounts carried out under secti and, in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions give Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

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I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to m connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below*) which give me ca in, any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the exa attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of t reached.

I have/have not* obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustee Church Purposes or held in other trusts, bank balances and funds at the Central Finan Methodist Church which are individually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) a sheet date.

Signature of independent examiner …………………………………………………………………

Name of independent examiner ………………………………………………………………………

Relevant professional qualification of independent examiner …………………………………

Name of firm (where appropriate) ……………………………………………………………………

Address ……………………………………………………………………………………………………

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