AMERSHAM METHODIST CIRCUIT

Registered charity 1132354 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Support to local churches in the circuit to provide acts of worship open to members and non-members alike. The teaching of Christianity through sermons, courses and small groups. Pastoral work including visiting the sick and bereaved. Promoting Christianity through the staging of events and services. Supporting other charities in the UK and overseas financially and with prayer.

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 discipline 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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Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £202,883 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £2,900,772 to £2,697,890. Per the trustees' report, the circuit holds unrestricted reserves of £2,697,890, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of six months' average expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention regarding compliance with the Charities Act.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANN ELIZABETH BIRD
• ANN FRANCES CLOKE
• Arthur David Hillas
• CAROL HELENA WILSON
• CHRISTOPHER GEORGE YOUNG
• Carol Flower
• Carol Margaret Stirk
• Claudia Lanyon Richards
• JOHN FREDERICK DEAKIN BA FCA
• Jill McCluney
• June Sandra Elizabeth Wheatley
• Katherine Mary Hoskin
• Lucinda Catherine Gigg
• MAUREEN OLIVE SEYMOUR
• MR CHRIS WILLIAMSON
• MRS GILL MCALLISTER
• MRS PAM SITFORD
• Marian Elizabeth Horn
• PHILIP JOHN ROBERTS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Edwin Adam Wells · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev James Alan Patterson
• Rohan Thelvendran Navaratnam
• Ruth Helen MacGill
• Susan Kathleen Stratford
• Teresa Margaret Game

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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