**Charity Commissioners Annual Report for 2021 Manchester Diocesan Mothers’ Union Charity No 250086** 

Mothers’ Union is a worldwide Christian organisation founded in 1876 by Mary Sumner and today has over 4 million members in 84 countries worldwide. Membership is open to anyone who is baptised in the name of the Trinity and supports its Aims and Objectives: 

- To encourage parents in their role to develop the faith of their children 

- To maintain a worldwide fellowship of Christians united in prayer, worship and service 

- To promote conditions in society favourable to stable family life and the protection of children 

- To help those whose family life has met with adversity 

- To promote and support married life 

**Our identity** : We, in Manchester, are part of a global, women led, volunteer movement. Through prayer and action, our vision is a world where everyone prospers. We support and enable in order to build confident people and resilient communities. Our movement seeks to bring about justice, challenge prejudice and advocate change. We aim to show our Christian faith by helping the sustainable transformation of communities worldwide. We do this by helping to nurture strong relationships at all levels, promoting peace and reconciliation locally, nationally and globally. Embedded in the Church and community, we have an unprecedented reach that gives a voice to the stigmatized and vulnerable around the world. 

Manchester Mothers’ Union has the same boundaries and is divided into the same parishes, deaneries and archdeaconries as the Anglican Diocese. There are 1005 members who either belong to local branches, are deanery, diocesan, or indoor members. 

Our Diocesan President is Mrs Christine Sharp. 

We have three Archdeaconry Presidents and three main Unit Coordinators this year, who support Christine and facilitate the line of communication down to the Deaneries and Branches. One role of deanery leader and some branch leader roles remain vacant, with nominated correspondents or committees keeping the communication lines open. 

The Board of Trustees is responsible to the Charity Commission and monitors the Diocesan expenditure in terms of its value and worth to the public and the promotion of Mothers’ Union projects both at home and worldwide. 

Our office is on the 3[rd] floor of Church House, Manchester, where our secretary works four days, 18½ hours per week. 

This floor also houses our shop/bookshop for the sale of cards, literature and Mothers’ Union gifts.  This is staffed by Mothers’ Union volunteers and overseen by our MUE representative, Mrs Frances Brough. 

We have an unpaid volunteer treasurer to handle the financial transactions. 



## **Review of 2021** 

Our Diocesan President, Christine Sharp holds office, along with the Archdeaconry Presidents, Unit Coordinators and the Trustee Board which met virtually 4 times during the year. Spring Council was held on Zoom due to ongoing issues with COVID 19. The AGM and Autumn Council meeting was held face to face as normal. Our Advent service took place in December. 

Newsletters are sent out bi-monthly to members and our indoor members receive communications monthly. We continue to use social media and Thursday Prayers is now on our You Tube channel. 

We aim to maintain our links in the Wave of Prayer with our five- link Dioceses, which are: Kisangani in Democratic Republic of Congo Kagera in Tanzania Awka in Nigeria Sunyani in Ghana Popandota in Papua New Guinea We hope to nurture friendship within the Wave of Prayer with these Dioceses. 

Our **Outreach** support through “Just Up Your Street” has started to increase considerably since Covid 19 restrictions, with our impact now recorded on MU Live. Our areas of support cover: Domestic Violence/Gender based violence Refuges Hospitals/ Neo natal and baby units/bereavement The homeless Hostels HMP Forest Bank and HMP Manchester Food banks Refugees Homes for the elderly Community organisations The lonely and isolated Local schools and churches 

## **AFIA** 

Our Away From It All holiday project is slowly recommencing after COVID 19. 

John Sharp Administration and Finance Co-ordinator 



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||Note||2021|2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Fixed Assets|||||
|Tangible fixed assets|11||984|1,091|
|CurrentAssets|||||
|Stock|12|1,368||2,555|
|Sundry debtors and prepayments|13|4,275||3,078|
|Cash at bank & in hand|14|82,446||91,101|
||||88,089|96,734|
|Current Liabilities|||||
|Sundry creditors|15||(990)|(1 ,946)|
|Net CurrentAssets|||87,099|94,788|
|TOTALASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES|||88,083|95,879|
|Represented by:|||||
|Unrestricted funds|16||61 ,689|68,627|
|Restricted funds|17||26,394|27,252|
|Total Funds|||88,083|95,879|





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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Notes|Funds|Funds|2021|2020|
|INCOMING RESOURCES||||||
|Incoming resources from members|1|31,862|3,768|35,630||
|Events & One-off Projects|2|4,106||4,106|1<br>,449|
|Ancilliary trading|3|5,156||5,156|6,290|
|Investment & Gift Aid|4|3,265|7|3,272|2,587|
|TotalIncoming Resources||44,389|3,775|48,164|54,669|
|RESOURCES USED||||||
|Payments to Mary Sumner House|5|21,312|1 ,084|22,396|24,593|
|Diocesan Restricted Activities|6||3,379|3,379|4,614|
|Ancilliary trading|7|4,352||4,352|5,594|
|Management & Administration|8|15,133|169|15,302|14,112|
|Deanery/Branch Expenses|9|8,520||8,520|9,304|
|Closed Branches|IO|2,011||2,011|939|
|Total Resources Used||51 ,328|4,632|55,960|59,156|
|Net Incoming/Outgoing Resources||(6,939)|(857)|(7,796)|(4,487)|
|Balances b/fwd||68,628|27,251|95,879|100,366|
|||61 ,689|26,394|88,083|95,879|





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|Not|es|to the|Financial A|ctivities|yearended 3|1st Decembe|r 2021|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Unrestricted|Restricted||||
|||||Notes|Funds|Funds|2021|2020||
|Incoming resources||from members||1||||||
|Annual Subscriptions|||||26,875|69|26,944|28,314||
|Branch Subscriptions|||||3,343||3,343|1,706||
|Donations||||||||||
|ManchesterDiocese|||||||||760|
||||Overseas|||||||
||||BIDF|||||||
||||Relief|||||||
||Development Fund|||||147|147|||
|||Special Appeals||||951|951||295|
|||Away From It All||||865|865|7,541||
|Indoor Members Prayer Circle|||||||||195|
|Manchester Projects||||||442|442||25|
||Just up your Street||||||844|2,038||
|Welcoming|||Strangers|||450|450|1,195||
|Manchester|||Branches||1 ,644||1 ,644|1|,043|
|Total|||||31,862|3,768|35,630|43,112||
|Events & Projects||||2||||||
|Fundraising/Events|||||4,046||4,046|1|,233|
|Miscellaneous|||||60||60||216|
|Total|||||4,106||4,106|1|,449|
|Ancilliary trading||||3||||||
|Literature sales|||||4,367||4,367|4,848||
|MU enterprises Ltd|grant||||711||711||766|
|Donations for face-coverings|||||22||22||419|
|Donations for lockdown poetry book|||||56||56||257|
|Total|||||5,156||5,156|6,290||
|Investment & Gift|Aid|||4||||||
|Bank Interest|||||15|7|22||183|
|Bank incentive|||||2,500||2,500|1|,250|
|Income Tax refunded||through Gift Aid|||750||750|1,154||
|Total|||||3,265|7|3,272|2,587||
|Payments to MarySumner|||House|5||||||
|Subscriptions|||||21 ,312||21 ,312|17,414||
|Development Fund||||||233|233|1|,394|
|Special Appeals||||||851|851||785|
|Emergency Covid Appeal||||||||5,000||
|Total|||||21,312|1 ,084|22,396|24,593||





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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Notes|Funds|Funds|2021|2020|
|Diocesan Restricted Activities|6|||||
|Away From It All|||1 ,384|1 ,384|2,147|
|Indoor Members Prayer Circle||||||
|Manchester Projects|||381|381|27|
|Just up your Street|||734|734|2 ,440|
|Welcoming Strangers|||880|||
|Total|||3,379|2,499|4,614|
|Ancilliary trading|7|||||
|Publications|||||746|
|Literature, etc.||4,352||4,352|4,848|
|Old stock written off||||||
|Total||4,352||4,352|5,594|
|Management& Administration|8|||||
|Salaries and National Insurance||9,914||9,914|9,736|
|Contribution to use of premises||1 ,ooo||1 ,ooo|1 ,ooo|
|Insurance||400|30|430|490|
|Office expenses||1,272||1,272|1 ,434|
|Office equipment depreciation||246||246|272|
|Postage||75|101|176|53|
|Printing and stationery||901|38|939|759|
|Expenses for co-ordinators, etc.||887||887|129|
|Expenses for conferences, meetings||238||238|39|
|Accountant's fee||200||200|200|
|Total||15,133|169|15,302|14,112|
|Deanery/Branch Expenses|9|||||
|Rent||916||916|158|
|Speakers' expenses||137||137|208|
|Officers' expenses||57||57|76|
|Donations||5,829||5,829|8,065|
|Refreshments||120||120|109|
|Flowers & Gifts||1,086||1 ,086|506|
|Fund Raising Expenses||350||350||
|Miscellaneous expenses||25||25|182|
|Total||8,520||8,520|9,304|
|Closed branches|10|2,011||2,011|939|





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|||2021|2020|
|---|---|---|---|
|Tangible fixed assets|11|||
|Cost at 1st January 2021||1 ,091|1 ,363|
|Additions in year||139||
|Depreciation@ 20%||(246)|(272)|
|Net BookValue||984|1 ,091|
|Shop Stock|12|1,368|2,555|
|Sundrydebtors andprepayments|13|4,275|3,078|
|Cash at bank & in hand|14|||
|Short term deposit<br>- Central Board of|Finance|34,603|34,585|
|Deposit account<br>- Diocese||22,911|32,389|
|Current accounts<br>- Diocese||500|500|
|Branch and Deanery accounts||21 ,666|22,159|
|Cash in hand||2,766|1 ,468|
|Total cash at bank& in hand||82,446|91 ,101|
|Sundry creditors||||
|Amounts falling due within one year|15|(990)|(1 ,946)|
|Unrestricted funds|16|||
|General Account<br>- Diocese||(22,452)|(30,203)|
|Branch Accounts||(21 ,253)|(21 ,688)|
|Deanery Accounts||(3,079)|(1 ,838)|
|Special account<br>- projects||(14,000)|(14,000)|
|Special account<br>- revenue||(905)|(898)|
|Total||(61,689)|(68,627)|
|Restricted funds|17|||
|Development Fund|||(86)|
|Special Appeals||(100)||
|Away From It All||(12,926)|(13,472)|
|Indoor Members Prayer Circle||(5,871)|(5,938)|
|Hospital||(306)|(306)|
|ManchesterProjects||(758)|(698)|
|Just up your Street||(2,786)|(2,676)|
|Welcoming Strangers||(3,647)|(4,076)|
|Total||(26,394)|(27,252)|






## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** 

## **Report to the trustees/** MOTHERS' UNION (DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER BRNACH) **members of** 

**On accounts for the year** 31[ST] DECEMBER 2021 **Charity no** 250086 **ended (if any)** 

**Set out on pages** 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/12/2021** . 

- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). 

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 

**Independent** I have completed my examination.  I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: 

- 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 order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 

* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ 

**Signed: Date:** 15/04/2023 **Name:** CAROLYN CULLEN **Relevant professional** INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF ENGLAND & WALES **qualification(s) or body** (ICAEW) **(if any): Address:** 5 HAWTHORN AVENUE ECCLES, MANCHESTER M30 9NE 

1 

**October 2018** 

**IER** 



**Section B Disclosure** 

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 

**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 

2 

**October 2018** 

**IER**