East Mercia Methodist Circuit

Registered charity 1132523 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RUGBY AND DAVENTRY METHODIST CIRCUIT

The Circuit supports 15 churches by encouraging the churches to work together, by providing training for lay members and by providing youth workers. This support and leadership enables the following activities. Regular public acts of worship.The teaching of Christianity.Pastoral work.Promotion of the whole mission of the church.Supporting other charities 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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit on the General Fund of £48,034 for the year ended 31 August 2025, reflecting a policy of spending reserves on new initiatives. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £415,035, which is £42,035 in excess of the policy target of four months' average expenditure, with cash reserves of £99,583.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by JW Hinks LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 94.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Nathan Stuart Fallachair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALAN ROBERT DEANS
• ANN WINDOW · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ada-June Kusogbo
• Adrian John Price · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew John Hawkins
• Angela Wooliscroft
• BARBARA ANNE WALKER
• CAROL ROSEMARY WELLS
• Carolyn Rice · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Greenaway
• DR ERNEST PETER MUIR PHD · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Graham Brierley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ebenezeer Amo-Baiden
• Fiona Susan Clarkson
• GILLIAN MARGARET GLENN CERT ED
• Howard John Warrener
• Ian Francis Basson
• JEFFREY PAUL WELLS BSC
• JUDITH ANNE BRIERLEY BA CERT ED · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Lynn Blackhurst
• Karen Ann Margaret Tomkins
• Lucy Anne Catling
• MICHAEL JOHN MARGETTS · trustee of 1 other charity
• MILDRED WENDY CURTIS
• MR IAIN RENNIE
• Mary Eleanor Bird
• PAT BASSON
• PETER DAVID ARNOLD
• PETER LAMONT GREENAWAY RIBA
• Paul Brian Colliss · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Shuker · trustee of 1 other charity
• REV DAVID PAUL COLLINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Alison Frances Tomlin BA, BD
• Rev Andrew Thomas Murphy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Brian Hutton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev CHRISTINE ANNE DYBDAHL
• Rev DAVID RAYMOND TOMLIN
• Rev Jane Elizabeth Gaffney
• Rev Noel Nhariswa · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Leicestershire · Northamptonshire · Warwickshire

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