## Lymm Methodist Church _**The trustees have pleasure in presenting their report and the financial statements for the year ending 31 August 2023**_ **Annual Trustees Report** **st st 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2023** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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Loving Hearts & Hands Baptism
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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) Andrew C Moffoot (Superintendent), Rev Mark Coles ## Church Stewards Victoria Sims, Eve Collen, Gill Chiverton, June Hill, Norma Lamb, Rachel Saxton, Dot Shopland ## **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 Communion Steward Dot Shopland ## **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. 2 ## **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** ## **Continuing to Grow** The past twelve months have seen the church continue to grow, with the introduction of new activities and styles of worship. One of aspects of lockdown that improved our outreach to the local community was our use of technology. In September the circuit decided to make good use of this regularly live stream Services across the circuit. This has continued and we are now regularly live streamed and recorded for people to watch later. ## **Strong Worshiping Community** The worship team continued looking at how we reintroduce the different styles of worship. We believe there are three elements to achieving our stated Mission. - Maintaining a strong worshiping community that can learn to know Christ and grow in Faith. - Helping individuals to follow a life time path of discipleship. - Showing God’s love by supporting others and challenging injustices How we structure our activities towards achieving our Mission can be summarised as follows; **Impact** started again and has been very well received and attended. **BLEND** also restarted. This is a café where our witness is to talk and meet with other people. It also includes LEGO Church, enjoyed by all ages. It is always preceded by a 9am Communion Service . ## **Pathway to Discipleship** **7Up** started again once a month on a Friday evening and is going from strength to strength. The work of our Children and Family Worker continues to blossom. **Messy Church** , **Hope Journey** and **Open the Book,** all helping to spread the Bible stories to our primary schools. Whilst the ‘ **Chat n Chill’** sessions at the High School, provide a strong Christian presence in the local secondary school. 3 ## **Reaching Out** We have been working hard to improve our lines of communications with weekly NEWS emails, weekly updates on the website and focused Facebook posts. We will further expand our internet and social media communication. Our market lunches (now renamed **Lunch at the Brow** ) has restarted once a month on a Friday. They have gone from strength to strength. **Loving Hands and Hearts** continue to meet and knit on two Thursdays in the month. **Coffee Mornings** to raise money for charity have been held on several Fridays and more are planned. Distributing **Activity Bags** for children and adults started during lockdown as a way of connecting with the church community were delivered again for Advent. Third party bookings for people to use our premise are growing. Income received is higher than pre-COVID. One major user is Life Church who hold their worship at our church every Sunday evening. ## **Redevelopment Project** The project has been restarted and the Project Management Team strengthened. In February 2023 the Planning Application was submitted to Warrington Borough Council Planning Department. We anticipated that it would take up to 6 months to receive a decision. The Team worked hard to ensure that all church members and friends were visited and given the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the plans. Fund raising activities were started and the church community asked to make a financial commitment to supporting the project. ## **Looking Forward** **I** n September 2023 we received Full Planning Permission from Warrington Borough Council to go ahead with the Redevelopment Plan. Both our Fund Raising and Grants Teams are confident that we can meet the financial target and that construction will commence no later than the end of 2024. ## **Changes to Worship** Worship is Livestreamed on a regular basis, including monthly via the Sankey Valley Circuit’s YouTube channel. In order to standardise timings across the Circuit we have moved our10.15 Service start to 10.30. In addition the monthly 9.00 Communion Service has moved to the same week as Impact. 4 **Financial Review** ||**Income**|**Income**||||**Expenditure**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||||£||||£||| ||**Regular Giving**|||||**Mission & Outreach**|||| ||StandingOrders||28,634.00|||Designated Offerings for Organisations|6,523.04||| ||Envelopes Loose cash & cheques||3,439.00|||General Mission & Outreach|630.57||| ||Loose cash & cheques||549.00|||Children & Families Worker -salary|19,574.35||| ||Others income||7,813.75|||Children & Families Worker -expenses|514.37||| ||||**40,435.75**||||**27,242.33**||| ||||||||||| ||**Funds for Mission & Outreach**|||||**Circuit/Partnership**|||| ||Amount - Gift Aided||8.75|||Circuit Assessment|30,200.00||| ||Amount - non Gift Aided||7,022.50||||30,200.00||| ||||**7,031.25**||||||| |||||||**Running Costs`**|||| ||**Funds for Lymm Church Family**|||||Utilities|7,629.62||| ||Amount - Gift Aided||0.00|||Insurance|2,178.23||| ||Amount - non Gift Aided||841.79|||Maintenance & Repair|10,988.52||| ||Dev Fund - Gift Aided||27,916.00|||Cleaning|2,530.00||| ||Dev Fund - non Gift Aided||11,862.11|||Stationery&photocopying|1,241.19||| ||C&F Worker - Gift Aided||10,887.00|||Internet Expenses|352.38||| ||C&F Worker - non Gift Aided||4,085.00|||YoungPeople|705.78||| ||||**55,591.90**|||Other Expenditure|5,572.07||| ||||||||**31,197.79**||| ||**General Income**||||||||| ||Church Services||100.00|||**Projects**|||| ||Lettings||17,552.30|||P1 Church Development Plan|21,533.70||| ||Bank Account Interest||1,502.99|||P2 BLEND|0.00||| ||Other||3,877.92|||P3 Livestreaming|0.00||| ||||**23,033.21**|||P4|0.00||| ||||||||**21,533.70**||| ||||||||||| ||Total Income||**126,092.11**|||**Total Expenditure**|**110,173.82**||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |||||||**Balance - Income vs Expenditure**|**15,918.29**||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |||Creditors|||||||| ||||£||||£||| |||Fresh Expressions|144|||Co-opBank||7,018|| |||Reserve Fund|3,000|||CFB||59,741|| |||||||||66,759|| |||Ministers Benevolent Fund|500||||||| |||Dev Fund|65,308|||CFW||0|| ||||||||||| ||||68,952||||||| ||||||||||| |||**Avalable Funds**|**-2,193**|||||66,759|| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| Excluding Church Development and Children and Families Worker funds, the General Account year expenditure exceeded income by £2329. This was due to expenditure that we had to incur on the premises that could not be deferred until the Redevelopment project begins. **Signature** **Date** 5 # **CHURCH RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS** # **THE METHODIST CHURCH** # **STANDARD FORM OF ACCOUNTS** **LYMM Church** ## FOR THE YEAR ENDED ## Thursday, August 31, 2023 |**SANKEY VALLEY**
**Circuit**|**Circuit no.**|**18/13**| |---|---|---| |**Registered Charity - Charity Registration number**||| |||1188591| 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 Mark Coles Church Stewards: Mrs Victoria Sims Mrs Dot Shopland Mrs June Hill Mrs Norma Lamb Mrs Gill Chiverton Mrs Rachel Saxton Treasurer: Mr Graham Pegg Untitled 1 of 5 **LYMM Church** **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023** ||**SECTION A**|||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Totals this**
**year**|**Totals this**
**year**|**£**
39,203
199
13,304
35,397
**88,103**
30,620
460
14,022
6,125
40,329
**91,556**
(3,453)
54,294
**50,841**
**Totals last**
**year**|**£**
39,203
199
13,304
35,397
**88,103**
30,620
460
14,022
6,125
40,329
**91,556**
(3,453)
54,294
**50,841**
**Totals last**
**year**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**|| |a1|**RECEIPTS**||**Note**|||||||| |a2|Offerings and Tax recovered||||40,436||**40,436**||39,203|| |a3|Bank and CFB interest and
Investment income||||1,503||**1,503**||199|| |a4|Lettings||||17,552||**17,552**||13,304|| |a5|Other receipts||||11,851|54,750|**66,601**||35,397|| |a6|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||||**71,342**|**54,750**|**126,092 **|**(a7)**|**88,103**|| |||||||||||| ||**SECTION B**|||||||||| |b1|**PAYMENTS**|||||||||| |b2|Circuit Assessment or Share||||30,200||**30,200**||30,620|| |b3|Donations||||460||**460**||460|| |b4|Repairs and Maintenance||||10,989||**10,989**||14,022|| |b5|Utilities (Insurances, water
charges, heating& lighting)||||9,808||**9,808**||6,125|| |b6|||||||**0**|||| |b7|Otherpayments||||17,095|41,622|**58,717**||40,329|| |b8|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**||||**68,552**|**41,622**|**110,174 **|**(b9)**|**91,556**|| ||||||||**15,918**|||| ||**SECTION C**|||||||||| |c1|**(a6-b8)**
**NET RECEIPTS/PAYMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR**||||2,790|13,128|**15,918**|||| |||||||||||| |c2|Total funds brought forward from
last year||||3,636|47,205|**50,841 **|**(c6)**|54,294|| ||||||||**66,759**|||| |c3|**Sub total**
**(c1+c2)**||||6,426|60,333|**66,759**|||| |||||||||||| |c4|Transfers and adjustments||||||**0 **|**(c7)**||| |||||||||||| |c5|**TOTAL FUNDS AT END OF YEAR**
**(c3+c4)**||||**6,426**|**60,333**|**66,759 **|**(c8)**|**50,841**|**(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**||**£**
20
7,031
7,051
**0**
**ORGANISATIONS**|**£**
| |d1|Balance brought forward from lastyear||20|20| |d2|Offerings/Gifts - received for external organisations||7,031|2,516| |d3|Offerings/Gifts -passed to external organisations||7,051|2,516| |d4|**BALANCE STILL TO BE PAID** (d1+d2-d3)||**0**|**20**| 2 of 5 Untitled LYMM **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 2023 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.|| ||**SECTION E**
|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**|**Please follow the Guidance Notes to complete this page**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Summary of the Church accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023 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**|Receipts
206
206
**126,092 (a7)**
**126,298**||Payments||Net Receipts/
Payments||Adjustments||Opening
balances||Closingbalances|| |e1|**Loiving Heats and Hands**|||500||(294)||||569||275|| |e2||||||0||||||0|| |e3||||||0||||||0|| |e4||||||0||||||0|| |e5||||||0||||||0|| |e6||||||0||||||0|| |e7||||||0||||||0|| |e8|Sub total of Internal
Organisations funds|||500||(294)||||569|**(e11)**|275|**(e12)**| |e9|**Church accounts (totals**
**brought forward from page**
**2 - totals column)**||**(a7)**|**110,174 **|**(b9)**|**15,918**|||**(c7)**|**50,841 **|**(c6)**|**66,759**|**(c8)**| |e10|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD**
**BY CHURCH**|||**110,674**||**15,624**||**0**||**51,410**|**(x)**|**67,034**|**(y)**| ||Continue on a separate sheet
if necessary and bring the
totals forward|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||**TOTAL**
**PAYMENTS**|||||||||| ## **SECTION F** ## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES** |**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**|**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**CHURCH - CASH FUNDS HELD at 31 August 2023**
f1
Cash in hand
f2
Bank Current Account
f3
Bank Deposit Account
f4
Central Finance Board
f5
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
f6
Other funds
f7
**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**
f8
f9
**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**
Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)||6,762
44,079
**50,841**
(c6)
**569** (e11)
**51,410**
(x)
**OPENING**
**BALANCES**||**CLOSING**
**BALANCES**|| |f1|Cash in hand||||| |f2|Bank Current Account|6,762||7,018|| |f3|Bank Deposit Account||||| |f4|Central Finance Board|44,079||59,741|| |f5|Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes||||| |f6|Other funds||||| |f7|**SUB TOTAL - Church accounts**|**50,841**|(c6)|**66,759**|(c8)| |f8|Total funds held by Internal Organisations (the closing
balance total from above) (e12)|**569**|(e11)|**275**|(e12)| |f9|**TOTAL CASH FUNDS HELD BY CHURCH**|**51,410**|(x)|**67,034**|(y)| ||**SECTION G**|||At||At| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**OTHER ASSETS and LIABILITIES**|||1 September 2022||31 August 2023| |g1|Investments(include Endowments)|||||| |g2|Land & Buildings(see notes re|Insurance value)||1,882,802||2,049,874| |g3|Other Assets|||112,968||121,051| |g4|Loan(s)- show amount outstandingatyear end|||||| |g5|Other Liabilities|||||| 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 Untitled **18/13** **LYMM** Name of Chu ## **Declarations and Scrutiny** I confirm that these Receipt and Payment based accounts for the year to 31 August 2023 have been prepared from the records of the Church and that they include all funds under the control of the Church trustees. Signature of treasurer ……………………………………………………… Date…………………….. Name and address of tre Mr Graham C Pegg 4 Fox Gardens Lymm …………………………………………………………………………………. Post Code…………… WA13 9EY ## **Presentation to the Church trustees** I confirm that the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023 were/will be* presented to the meeting of the Church trustees held on …………….. Signature of the Chair of the meeting …………………………………………………………………… Name of the Chair of the Rev Mark Coles 10-Oct-23 ## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the** LYMM **……………………..……………………..Church** **Charity Number** 1188591 ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the …………………………………. Church for the year ended 31 August 2023 set out on pages … to …. As the Church’s trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the Church’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and, in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. * delete or circle as appropriate 4 of 5 Untitled Name of Chu 18/13 LYMM ## **Independent Examiner’s Statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below*) which give me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. I have/have not* obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts, bank balances and funds at the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church which are individually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balance sheet date. Name of independent exa Mr Ken Long Relevant professional qualification of independent examiner ……………………………………… Name of firm (where appropriate) ……………………………………………………………………… Address 2 Cypress Close Woolston Warrington ……………………………………………………………………………….. Post Code … WA1 4EB Date ………………………………………… - delete or circle as appropriate Untitled 5 of 5 F￿￿ Rwlgw May-23 Unbtled 5of5 Jme of Church .. LYMM 18113 Independent Examlnerfs Statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection wit.i the examination (other than that disdosed belo￿} which give me cause to believe that in, any material respect: the accounting re￿rdS were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act" or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records. I have no (L)ncerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to ch attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understsnding of the accounts to be reached. I havelhave nor obtained independent verification of all investments with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes or held in other trusts. bank balances and funds at the Central Finan￿ Board of the Methodist Church which are indiwdually in excess of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) at the balan￿ sheet date. Signature of independent examiner Name of independent examiner . Mr Ken Long Relevant professional qualifi4%tion of independent examiner r Name of firm (where appropriate) Address 2 Cypress Ck)se Woclston Warrrng Post Code . WA14EB . Date delete or circle as appropriate Std fomi of accounts 31.823 5of5