SHEFFIELD METHODIST CIRCUIT

Registered charity 1134151 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHEFFIELD PILGRIM METHODIST CIRCUIT

Regular public acts of worship open to all Clubs & meetings for all age groups Luncheon clubs etc.with Christian ethos Teaching Christianity through sermons, courses & small groups Religious assemblies in schools Visiting the sick & bereaved Promote Christianity with events & services & whole mission of church with all age groups activities and other specific need groups Supporting other charities

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: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £185,615 for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven significantly by the introduction of funds from redundant churches. The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern, citing sufficient unrestricted reserves of £736,451 to cover short-term reductions in income and ongoing financial obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hawsons Chartered Accountants. 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 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANN LYONS
• ANNE HUMPHREYS
• ARTHUR LYONS
• AUDREY MANN
• Aileen Wendy Treloar
• Alexander Cartwright HND
• Andy Schofield
• Ann Croft
• Beverley Dale
• Brenda Frances Harrison
• Bridget Kellett
• Christine Buckley
• Christine Margaret Jackson
• DAVID BLACKBURN OBE
• DAVID BURTON · trustee of 6 other charities
• DR Anne Hollows BA PhD
• David James Hunter
• Deacon Carole Irene Smith
• Donald Anthony King
• Dr Jenny Bywaters · trustee of 2 other charities
• ELIZABETH ANN TAYLOR
• ELIZABETH BROOK
• Elizabeth Long
• Emmanuel Kwaku Gyening
• Erica Margaret Louise Dunmow · trustee of 3 other charities
• Evelyn Windle
• Gillian Baumeister-Walker
• Glyn William Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham David Hill
• Gregory Unwin · trustee of 3 other charities
• IAIN FREDERICK CLOKE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ian Geoffrey Wright BA Hons
• JACQUELINE ANN BAILEY
• JOHN DALE · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOYCE WILES
• JULIE TALBOT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Offord
• Janett N Malbon
• Jeffrey Dawson Hough
• Jennifer Mary Carpenter · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Derbyshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WHARFEDALE & AIREBOROUGH METHODIST CHURCH CIRCUIT.

• WHARFEDALE & AIREBOROUGH METHODIST CHURCH CIRCUIT income £779k
• TELFORD METHODIST CIRCUIT income £318k
• SOLIHULL METHODIST CHURCH income £462k
• TENDRING METHODIST CIRCUIT income £213k
• SEEDFIELD METHODIST CHURCH income £89k
• SUTTON METHODIST CIRCUIT income £389k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.