SUTTON COLDFIELD METHODIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1128900 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH PARADE METHODIST CHURCH

a) The provision of regular acts of worship open to members of the church and non-members alike; b) The provision of sacred space (a building) for prayer and contemplation; c) The teaching of Christianity through sermons, courses and small groups; d) Pastoral work including visiting the sick and bereaved; e) Taking religious assemblies in local schools.

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 the church is in a healthy financial situation and is able to meet its commitments to the Circuit assessment and maintain its premises. The trustees report that general reserves are equivalent to six months' running costs, which is consistent with the connexional policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

• AMANDA JANE HUME
• ANNE COLE
• Angela Mary LAVENDER
• CYNTHIA ELIZABETH REAKES
• DONNA KATHRYN MILLER
• David MILLS
• Dr KEITH DENNIS
• ELIZABETH TOPLISS
• ENID JENNIFER HOWLES
• GILL WALLWORK
• GRAHAME HENRY TENCH ACIB
• LES BURKWOOD
• PAT ALLEN
• PETER VERNON LE BROCQ BSC ACGI · trustee of 1 other charity
• Phillip Griffith
• ROBERT OLIVER DAUNCEY
• Rev Sarah Michelle BUTCHER
• YVETTE MORGAN

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

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Government & lottery funding

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