BARNES METHODIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1133913 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Religious activities in Barnes, London

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: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £4,105,034, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to three to six months' expenditure. Although the charity reported a small operating deficit of £2,357 for the year, the overall net assets are strong at £7,381,685, largely due to the revaluation of the church building to £7,253,298.

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.

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
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2022 (received 15/03/2024, 259 days after the 30/06/2023 due date); year ending 31/08/2021 (received 14/03/2024, 623 days after the 30/06/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher John Moorhouse · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deacon Richard David Goldstraw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deborah Davies
• Elysia Cunningham
• MRS F M Moorhouse · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Benneworth
• Philip Blow
• REV GEOFFREY FARRAR · trustee of 3 other charities
• VALERIE HEARN
• VIVIEN ISAAC

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

Operates in: Richmond Upon Thames

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PUTNEY METHODIST CHURCH.

• PUTNEY METHODIST CHURCH income £176k
• SOUTH BRISTOL METHODIST CHURCH income £264k
• BROADSTONE METHODIST CHURCH income £137k
• WEMBLEY PARK LANE METHODIST CHURCH income £117k
• SOUTHGATE (THE BOURNE) METHODIST CHURCH income £173k
• THE AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH income £168k

Side by side with its peers

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