CENTRAL NORFOLK METHODIST CIRCUIT

Registered charity 1134271 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MID NORFOLK METHODIST CIRCUIT

RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES

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 SUBSIDIARY 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 unrestricted funds total £2,725,882, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of six months' expenditure (£148,000). Although the general fund showed a net loss before property gains, the overall net assets increased significantly due to the acquisition of closed churches.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• AILSA JARDINE WARBURTON
• ANDREW ERNEST DURRANT
• AVRIL ELIZABETH TEMPLE
• Aileen Fox
• Andrew James Alder
• Anne Elizabeth Richmond
• Anne Thorp
• Beryl Flood
• Brenda Softley
• Christina Foster
• David Frank Martin
• Deirdre Moden
• ELSIE IVY WARBY
• Georgina Eames
• Geraldine Mary Allen LRAM, ARCM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Glyn Constantine · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham Thompson · trustee of 2 other charities
• HAZEL MARY YARHAM
• HEATHER MARY PARLE
• Hannah Fox
• JACQUELINE ROSEMARY WOOR
• JOHN SPARKES HULL MA, B.ED.
• JOSELYN BUNTING
• Jane Ellen Heath
• Jennifer Gillings
• Kathleen Elizabeth Lodge
• MICHAEL JOHN COLMAN
• MR FRED GARNER · trustee of 1 other charity
• MRS PAT HALL
• Maria Louise Martin
• Marion Perryman
• Martin John Neave
• Olwyn Brough
• PAULINE BERYL BALDRY · trustee of 1 other charity
• PHILIPPA MARY COOK
• Pamela Yaxley
• REV ROSEMARY WAKELIN
• RUTH CATHERINE SOUTHERLAND
• Raymond Junge
• Rev Derek Vivian Grimshaw · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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