BILLERICAY METHODIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1128787 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1.provision of regular public acts of worship open to church members & non-members alike 2. provision of sacred space for prayer & contemplation 3.teaching Christianity through sermons, courses & small groups 4.pastoral work including visiting the sick & bereaved 5.promoting the church's mission through activities for older people, parents & toddlers, young people and other specific needs groups

Objects

The purposes of the Methodist Church are and shall be deemed to have been since the date of union the advancement of -(a) the Christian faith in accordance with the doctrinal standards and the dicipline of the Methodist Church;(b) any charitable purpose for the time being of any Connexional, district, circuit, local or other organisation of the Methodist Church;(c) any charitable purpose for the time being of any society or institution subsiduary or ancillary to the Methodist Church;(d) any purpose for the time being of any charity being a charity subsidiary or ancillary to the Methodist Church.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £400,128.44 exceed the stated policy target of £76,900 (six months of forecast expenditure). The charity reports no paid employees during the year, with staff costs limited to £10,052, and holds total current assets of £483,714.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Moses Kweku Agyamchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Samuel Rogers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Barbara Almond
• Elizabeth Eileen Perry
• Geraldine Joan Hanton
• Gillian Rogers
• HELEN HACKER
• Heather Ashworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julia Margaret Faulkner
• LORRAINE ANNE HARRIS
• LYN BOWDITCH
• MR KEN COWELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• MRS LIZ READ · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Kingston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Hawkins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pamela Mary Cottrell
• RACHEL KATHERINE GALLEHAWK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Felicity Al-Hassan
• Susan Cooke

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Essex

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Government & lottery funding

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