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# CULCHETH INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHAPEL
Charity Reg 249755
Hob Hey Lane, Culcheth, WA3 4NR
## **Trustee Report and Church accounts for year ending 31 March 2024**
It is noted that ‘The Independent Methodist Connexion’ are the Trustees of the Church building and land. The acting trustees for the administration of the Church are the current Church Elders namely; Mr Geoffrey Bates: Mr Nigel Featham; Mr Graham Edmondson. (Refer to Trustee Eligibility Declaration below)
The Elders noted with thanks the work done to maintain the building particularly with Repairs to the roof.
## **CULCHETH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP**
|**RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
**GENERAL FUNDS**
Notes
**RECEIPTS**
Tithes & Offerings
1
Property lettings
2
Bank Interest
Mission Fund Donations
3
Donation from Methodist Association
Donations
Holiday Account
Roof Leak Insurance Income
Sundry
**TOTAL RECEIVED**
**PAYMENTS**
Pulpit Supply
Caretaking & Cleaning
Building maintenance
4
Methodist Association Fees & Other fees
5
Mission Fund
6
Bank Charges
Love Gifts
Outreach
7
Utility charges
Insurance
Sundry
8|2023/2024
£16,809.93
£-
£173.88
£250.00
£4,000.00
£2,460.00
£3,349.00
£9,851.60
£38.98|
|---|---|
||**£36,933.39**|
||£1,240.00
£1,139.00
£10,963.10
£1,676.42
£1,840.00
£-
£1,200.00
£800.00
£3,535.73
£1,478.13
£5,717.42|
£29,589.80
**TOTAL PAID**
|Net receipts (payments) for the year
Cash and bank balances at start of period 1st April 2023
**TOTAL GENERAL FUNDS IN HAND AS AT 31 MARCH 2024**
**Summary of how funds are held**
RBS bank balance Current account
RBS bank balance Reserve account
Cash in hand
Signed as a true record as Treasurer: B Jones
Signed as a true record as Independent Examiner:
**CULCHETH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP**
**RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
NOTE 1 -Tithes & Offerings
Average weekly tihes & offerings = Gross / 52
£323.27
NOTE 2 - Property lettings - Nil
Warrington Borough Council (Election)
NOTE 3 - Mission Fund Donations
This amount covers individual donations and special offerings
See Mission Account for detail
We also allocate a tithe of collections to the Mission Fund
NOTE 4 - Building Maintenance
A Wood repairs
Worship group sundries
MCS Roofing
Heathfield Construction
Argus Fire inspection|£7,343.59
£27,008.00|
|---|---|
||£34,351.59|
||£9,176.28
£25,175.31|
||£34,351.59|
||2023/2024
£16,809.93|
||£16,809.93|
|||
||£-|
||£250.00|
||£1,680.99|
||£7,518.00
£89.94
£707.16
£2,450.00
£198.00|
5 yr electrical inspection
|NOTE 5 - Methodist Association Fees & Other Fees
IM Resources
Local Churches Together
CCLI Copyright Licence
Find a Church
IMC Fees
costco fee
NOTE 6 - Mission Fund - see report attached
NOTE 7 - Outreach
Penfold & Tipple
Yan Hadley love gift
NOTE 8 - Sundries & Church Holiday
Printing
Village Club meal
Birthday Gifts
HMRC Fine
Thornley Hotel 2023+Holiday deposit for 2024
Holiday refund: Coronation Drink:Key Cutting
**CULCHETH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP**
**RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
Notes
**MISSION FUND**
**RECEIPTS**
10% Tithe transfer from total collections
Love Light Romania
Yan Hadley
**TOTAL RECEIVED**|£10,963.10|
|---|---|
||346.42
£1,330.00|
||£1,676.42|
||£800.00
£1,200.00|
||£2,000.00|
||£315.22
£414.40
£150.00
£200.00
£4,574.00
£63.80|
||£5,717.42|
||2023/2024
£1,680.99
£250.00
£925.00|
||**£2,855.99**|
**PAYMENTS**
|OMS International £30 per month
monthly
adopt a child £40 per Month
Love Light Romania
Yan Hadley
**TOTAL PAID**
Net receipts (payments) for the year
Mission Fund balance at start of period 1st April 2023
**TOTAL MISSION FUND IN HAND AS AT 31 MARCH 2024**|£360.00
£480.00
£1,000.00
£1,200.00|
|---|---|
||£3,040.00|
||-£184.01
£961.06|
||£777.05|
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALÉS
Trustee Eligibility Declaration
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