WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1129303 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our mission is to be a Worshipping, Welcoming, Witnessing, Christian Community with a distinctive Methodist character serving Cambridge and district.

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 charity incurred a deficit of £70,308 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves to £1,026,390. The trustees report that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to continue operations.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Mackintosh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Angus Ferguson Campbell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deacon Ian Henry Murray
• Dorothy Haslett
• Dr Malcolm Haslett
• Dr Philip Howie
• ELAINE J PAPALOIZOU
• GEOFFREY BATTY MA · trustee of 1 other charity
• GRAHAM BURGHALL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jennifer Margaret Izzett
• John Christopher Baillie Papaloizou · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Christopher Heron
• Katharine Anne Batty
• Michael John Abbs
• PAUL ASHLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Prof. Judith Margaret Lieu · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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