## **APPENDIX 1** ## OSC **r** |**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Period start date||||Period end date||| ||Day|Month|Year||Day|Month|Year| |From|
01|09|2024|To|
31|08|2025| Office of the Scottish **Charity Regulator** ## **Reference and administration details** **Charity name** St. John’s Methodist Church - Arbroath **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number SC037709 Charity’s principal address** 14, Shore Arbroath Angus **Postcode DD11 1PB** **Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**1**
**2**
**3**
**4**
**5**
**6**
**7**
**8**
**9**
**10**
**11**
**12**
**13**
**14**
**15**
**16**
**17**
**18**
**19**
**20**
**21**
**22**|Rev. Adam Stevenson|Superintendent
~~Minister of Circuit~~||Ex Officio| ||Rev David Bidnell|
Circuit Minister||Ex Officio| ||Rev Helen Jenkins|Circuit Minister||Ex Officio| ||Susan Marshall Jennings|Local Lay Pastor||Ex Officio| ||Jennifer Whittle|Circuit Steward||Ex Officio| ||Janice Swankie|Church Steward||Ex Officio| ||Fiona Murray|Church Steward||Ex Officio| ||Margaret Robertson|Church Steward||Ex Officio| ||Thomas Alan Anderson|Treasurer||Ex Officio| ||Jane Stock|Council Secretary||Ex Officio| ||Carol Tollerton|Safeguarding Officer||Ex Officio| ||Valerie Laing|Trustee||General Church Meeting| ||Grahame Lockhart|Trustee||General Church Meeting| ||Maureen Moir|Trustee||General Church Meeting| ||John Prow|Trustee||General Church Meeting| ||Wendy Shepherd|Trustee||General Church Meeting| ||Alison Simpson|Trustee||General Church Meeting| ||Julie Smith|Trustee||General Church Meeting| ||Kevin Smith|Trustee||General Church Meeting| ||Michael Wood|Trustee||General Church Meeting| |||||| |||||| **1** **APPENDIX 1** ## **Reference and administration details** ## **Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)** |**Name**|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---|---| |REV ANDREW BAKER||| |||| |||| |||| |**Structure, governance and management**||| |||| |**Type of governing document**
**Trustee recruitment and appointment**||| ||THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE AND DISCIPLINE OF THE
METHODIST CHURCH|| ||EX-OFFICIO WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE GENERAL
CHURCH MEETING ENSURING ALL AREAS OF CHURCH LIFE ARE
PROPERLY REPRESENTED. .|| |||| |**Objectives and activities**||| |**Charitable purposes**
**Summary of the main activities**
**in relation to these objects**||| ||THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE DOCTRINAL STANDARDS AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE METHODIST
CHURCH AND ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE TIME BEING OF ANY
CONNEXIONAL, DISTRICT, CIRCUIT, LOCAL OR OTHER ORGANISATION OF
THE METHODIST CHURCH.|| ||OUR MISSION IS:
•
TO WORSHIP GOD
•
TO BE THE EFFECTIVE AND ACCESSIBLE BODY OF CHRIST
WHERE WE ARE.
•
TO USE OUR GOD-GIVEN GIFTS TO SERVE OUR
COMMUNITIES AND THE WIDER WORLD
•
TO ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER IN OUR
SPIRITUAL GROWTH, WITNESS AND SERVICE.
•
TO OFFER OUR “PECULIAR” METHODIST GIFTS TO THE
WIDER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY
•
TO BE OPEN TO THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BE
PREPARED TO CHANGE|| **2** ## **APPENDIX 1** ## **Achievements and performance** |**Summary of the main achievements of**
**the charity during the financial period**|THE CHURCH HAS BEEN SEEKING TO DEFINE ITS MISSION FOR
THE FUTURE WITH A FOCUS ON BIBLICAL ENGAGEMENT AND
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY ACTION.
MAJOR COMPONENTS OF BIBLICAL ENGAGEMENT ARE
1. REGULAR SUNDAY WORSHIP
2. MID WEEK STUDY AND FELLOWSHIP GROUPS
MAJOR COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY ACTION ARE
1. CONTINUED RUNNING OF THE WEEKLY CLOTHES BANK
FROM THE C.A.B. OFFICES BY VOLUNTEERS FROM THE
CHURCH FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE IN NEED
OF WARM CLOTHING.
2. A NEWLY OPENED CAFÉ OFFERING A WELCOMING SPACE
IN WHICH PERSONS FROM THE COMMUNITY HAVE THE
OPPORTUNITY TO TALK, BE LISTENED TO AND HAVE THEIR
CONFIDENCE AND SKILLS AS VOLUNTEERS ENHANCED.
3. USING OUR NEWLY REFURBISHED PREMISES TO
a. HOST LOCAL CRAFTING GROUPS
b. HOST UNDER 18 ASYLUM SEEKERS FOR WORLD CUP
QUALIFYING ENTERTAINMENT.
c. PROVIDE GALLERY SPACE FOR LOCAL ARTISTS AND
FOR ANGUS CREATIVES ANNUAL EXHIBITION| |---|---| ## **Financial review** |**Brief statement of the charity’s policy**
**on reserves**
**Details of any deficit**
**Donated facilities and services (if any)**|THE CHURCH AIMS TO HOLD RESERVES AMOUNTING TO
APPROXIMATELY SIX MONTHS’ AVERAGE EXPENDITURE| |---|---| ||Not applicable| ||.| **3** ## **APPENDIX 1** ## **Other optional information** ~~ees~~ ## **Declaration** ~~ee~~ **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** |**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**|**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**|**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Signature(s)**|||| ||Dei|halal,|T(olan Qussusaanr| |**Full name(s)**|DAVID BIDNELL||T ALAN ANDERSON| |**Position (e.g. Chair)**|CHAIR||TREASURER| |**Date**|4thFebruary 2026||4thFebruary 2026| Enter SC No. below Enter charity name below |APPENDIX 2||||Enter charity name below|Enter charity name below|Enter charity name below|Enter charity name below|Enter charity name below|||||Enter SC No. below|Enter SC No. below| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**St Johns Methodist Church - Arbroath**|||||||||||**SC037709**|| ||||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||||| |||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
01
09
2024
Day
Month
Year|||**to**|Period end date
Day
Month
31
08|||Year
2025|||| |||||||||||||||| |**Section A Statement of receipts and payments**||||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**
**current period**|||**Total funds last**
**period**|**Total funds last**
**period**| |||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||| |Donations||**10,425**||||||||**10**|**10,425**||**7,127**|| |Legacies||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |Grants||**4**||||||||**4**|**4**|||| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities||**1,248**||||||||**1**|**1,248**||**240**|**240**| |Gross tradingreceipts||**16,152**||||||||**16**|**16,152**|||| |Income from investments other than||||||||||||||| |land and buildings||**1,975**||||||||**1**|**1,975**||**2,525**|| |Rents from land & buildings||**1,350**||||||||**1**|**1,350**|||| |Gross receipts from other charitable||||||||||||||| |activities||**35,621**||||||||**35**|**35,621**|||| |||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |**_A1 Sub total_**|**_A1 Sub total_**|**_A1 Sub total_ 66,775**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**66,775**|**66,775**||**9,892**|| |**A2 Receipts from asset &**|**A2 Receipts from asset &**|||||||||||||| |**investment sales**||||||||||||||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
**-**
Proceeds from sale of investments
**-**
**_A2 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 66,775**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**66,775**
**9,892**
~~—————~~||||||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraising activities||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |Gross trading payments||**16,944**||||||||**16**|**16,944**|||| |Investment management costs||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |Payments relating directly to charitable||Payments relating directly to charitable||||||||||||| |activities||**22,740**||||||||**22**|**22,740**||**22,936**|| |Grants and donations||**60**||||||||**60**|**60**|||| |Governance costs:||||||||||||||| |||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |Audit / independent examination||||||||||**-**|**-**||**20**|**20**| |Preparation of annual accounts||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |Legal costs|Legal costs|||||||||**-**|**-**|||| ||Other|Other||||||||||||| |||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |**_A3 Sub total_**|**_A3 Sub total_ **|**39,744**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**39,744**|**39,744**||**22,956**|| |**A4 Payments relating to asset and**||||||||||||||| |**investment movements**||||||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets||||||||||||||| |||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |Purchase of investments||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |**_A4 Sub total_**|**_A4 Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**39,744**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**39,744**|**39,744**||**22,956**|| |**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**||**27,031**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,031**
**6,650)**
**(**
**-**
**27,031**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,031**
**6,650)**
**(**
~~SSS~~
~~SS=~~||||||||||||| APPENDIX 2 **SC037709** ## **St Johns Methodist Church - Arbroath** ## **Section B Statement of balances** **Unrestricted Expendable Permanent Total current Categories Details funds Restricted funds endowment funds endowment funds period Total last period to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B1 Cash funds** Cash and bank balances at start of year **45,680 2,000 47,680 47,792** Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and payments account **27,031 27,031 ( 5,599) - - Cash and bank balances at end of year 72,711 2,000 - - 74,711 42,193** ~~SSS Se~~ (Agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) - - - - - 1,051 **Fund to which asset belongs Market valuation Last year Details to nearest £ to nearest £ B2 Investments** ~~=~~ **Total - - Current value (if Details Fund to which asset belongs Cost (if available) available) Last year to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B3 Other assets -** ~~=~~ **Total - - -** ~~2a~~ **Details Fund to which liability relates Amount due Last year to nearest £ to nearest £ B4 Liabilities Total - -** ~~= =~~ **Details Fund to which liability relates Amount due (estimate) Last year to nearest £ to nearest £ B5 Contingent liabilities Total - - Signed by one or two trustees on Date of behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval** 4/02/2026 T Alan Anderson ~~—-~~ 2 Trustee Annual Report 24-25.xlsx / Statement of balances 2 December 2007 APPENDIX 2 **St Johns Methodist Church - Arbroath** **SC037709** ## **Section C Notes to the Accounts** **C1 Nature and purpose of funds** _(may be stated on analysis of funds worksheets)_ |**C3a Trustee remuneration**
**C4a Trustee expenses**
**C5 Transactions with**
**trustees and connected**
**persons**
**C2 Grants**
**C4b Trustee expenses -**
**details**
**C3b Trustee remuneration -**
**details**|**Type of activity or project supported**|**Type of activity or project supported**|**Individual /**
**institution**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| |||||**Total**|**-**
| ||||||**£**| ||If no remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected to
a trustee cross this box (otherwise complete section 3b)||||| ||**Authority under which paid**||||| ||Kevin Smith employed as Café Manager||||**10,213**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross
(otherwise complete section 4b)|||this box|| |||**Nature of transaction**||**Number of**
**trustees**|**£**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||**Nature of relationship**|||**Transaction**
**amount (£)**|**Balance**
**outstanding at**
**period end (£)**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| **C6 Other information** 2 Trustee Annual Report 24-25.xlsx / Notes December 2007 3 APPENDIX 2 **St Johns Methodist Church - Arbroath** **SC037709** ## **Additional analysis (1)** ## **Analysis of receipts and payments** ## **1 Donations** |**1 Donations**||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**||**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |Offertory|**8,452**|||||**8,452**||**7,127**| |Gift Aid|**-**|||||**-**||| |Other|**1,974**|||||**1,974**||**240**| |Legacy||||**-**||**-**||| |**Total**|**10,425**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**10,425**||**7,367**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**reference**| ## **2 Grants** |**2 Grants**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**||**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**||**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |Remains of Mrs Shaws Fund remitted by Circuit|**4**||||||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| |**Total**|**4**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**reference**||**-**| ## **3 Gross receipts from other charitable activities** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |VAT return on listed building work|**35,198**|||||**35,198**||| |Sundries|**424**|||||**424**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |**Total**|**35,621**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**35,621**||**-**| ||-||-|-|-|-||-| ## **4 Payments relating directly to charitable activities** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Payment to Circuit Maintenance of Ministry|**6,000**|


||||**6,000**|









|| |Local Admin and Ministry costs|**2,815**|||||**2,815**||| |Maintenance of local property + Utilities|**13,810**|||||**13,810**||| |Sundry expenditure|**116**|||||**116**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |**Total**|**22,740**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**22,740**||**-**| ||-||-|-|-|-||reference error| 2 Trustee Annual Report 24-25.xlsxAdditional notes (1) December 2007 APPENDIX 2 **SC037709** ## **Additional analysis (2)** **5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds** |**5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 1 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**
**St John's**
**Arbroath**||**Unrestricted**
**fund 2 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 3 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 4 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds**|**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds last period**| |Donations|**10,425**|||||**10,425**|**7,127**| |Legacies||||||**-**|| |Grants|**4**|||||**4**|| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities|**1,248**|||||**1,248**|**240**| |Interest|**1,975**|||||**1,975**|**2,525**| |buildings||||||**-**|| |Rents from land & buildings|**1,350**|||||**1,350**|| |Gross receipts from other charitable activities|**51,773**||**-**|||**51,773**|| |**_Sub total_**
**Receipts from asset & investment sales**|**66,775**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**66,775**|**9,892**| |||||||-|| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets||||||**-**|| |Proceeds from sale of investments||||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**Payments**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**66,775**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**66,775**|**9,892**| |||||||-|| |Expenses for fundraising activities||||||**-**|| |Gross trading payments|**16,944**|||||**16,944**|| |Investment management costs||||||**-**|| |Payments relating directly to charitable activities|**22,740**|||||**22,740**|**22,936**| |Grants and donations|**60**|||||**60**|| |Governance costs:||||||**-**|| |Audit / independent examination|**-**|||||**-**|**30**| |Preparation of annual accounts||||||**-**|| |Legal costs||||||**-**|| |Refurbishment Costs|||||||| |||||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**
**Payments relating to asset and investment**
**movements**|**39,744**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**39,744**|**22,966**| |||||||-|| |Purchases of fixed assets||||||**-**|| |Purchase of investments||||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||||||-|| ||**39,744**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**39,744**|**22,966**| |||||||-|| ||**27,031**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**27,031**|**13,074)**
**(**| ||||||||| |||||||**-**|| ||||||||| ||**27,031**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**27,031**|**13,074)**
**(**| |||||||-|| |**Nature andpurpose of funds**|||||||| ||||||||| 2 Trustee Annual Report 24-25.xlsxAdditional notes (2) December 2007 APPENDIX 2 **St Johns Methodist Church - Arbroath** **SC037709** ## **Additional analysis (3)** |**Receipts**
**6 Breakdown of restricted funds**|**Restricted fund**
**1 - enter name of**
**fund below**|**Restricted fund**
**1 - enter name of**
**fund below**|**Restricted fund**
**2 - enter name of**
**fund below**|**Restricted fund**
**3 - enter name of**
**fund below**|**Restricted fund**
**4 - enter name of**
**fund below**|**Total restricted**
**funds**|**Total restricted**
**funds**|**Total restricted**
**funds last**
**period**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations||||||||| |Legacies||||||**-**||| |Grants||||||**-**||| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities||||**-**||**-**||| |Gross tradingreceipts||||||**-**||| |Income from investments other than land and
buildings||||||**-**||| |Rents from land & buildings||||||**-**||| |Gross receipts from other charitable activities||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**
**Receipts from asset & investment sales**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets||||||**-**||| |Proceeds from sale of investments||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**Payments**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| |Expenses for fundraising activities|||**-**|||**-**||| |Gross trading payments||||||**-**||| |Investment management costs||||||**-**||| |Payments relating directly to charitable activities||||||**-**||| |Grants and donations||||**-**||**-**||| |Governance costs:||||||**-**||| |Audit / independent examination||||||**-**||| |Preparation of annual accounts||||||**-**||| |Legal costs||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**
**Payments relating to asset and investment**
**movements**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| |Purchases of fixed assets||||||**-**||| |Purchase of investments||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| |**Nature andpurpose of funds**||||||||| |||||||||| 2 Trustee Annual Report 24-25.xlsxAdditional notes (3) December 2007