THE METHODIST CHURCH - MANCHESTER CIRCUIT

Registered charity 1135067 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MANCHESTER CIRCUIT · filing overdue (register status)

Support Churches in providing acts of worship open to members/non-members; sacred space for prayer/contemplation; teaching Christianity; pastoral work; promoting Christianity via events/services; youth/senior citizens'/men's/women's clubs with Christian ethos; promoting mission of Church (& aiding social cohesion) via activities for specific needs groups; supportCharities financially & by prayer

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The provided document contains no financial data, narrative, or accounting statements; it consists solely of repeated Docusign envelope identifiers and dates. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from the text.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rev. Dr Jo Cox-Darling — Superintendent (source)
• Rev. Christopher Cheeseman — Supernumerary Presbyter (source)
• Rev. Catharine Hughes — Minister (source)
• Miriam Moules — Circuit Office Manager (source)
• Rachel Humphreys — Communications Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~93.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Dr Joanne Heather Cox-Darlingchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW CHARLES SLIM · trustee of 1 other charity
• AUDREY JEAN REDSHAW BA
• Abigail Hester Lorraine Parr
• Angela Ralph
• BEVERLEY WILLIAMS
• CHRISTINE MARY GRIME · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Davis
• Cristiana Eva Manley
• DR ADRIAN HAROLD WILLIAM CURTIS JP BA PHD
• Deacon Jennifer Allison Jane Jones
• Dr Daphne Christine Estelle Dawson
• ELIZABETH IRENE LOUISE STUART
• ELVA KAY TOWLER
• Elizabeth Hazel Kaminska
• FIONA HELEN FULTON
• Graham William Ascroft
• HILARY MAVIS SMALL
• Heather Steward · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Fielding
• JANET CAROL SANDERSON BAILEY
• JENNIFER MARY WENT
• JULIE AMANDA ROWBOTHAM
• Janet Elizabeth Hignett
• John Alan Shuttleworth
• John Garforth JP
• Lance Robert Johnson
• Linda Christine Carroll
• MARGARET ANNIS MORRIS
• PETER SMITH
• PHILIP JOHN DAVIS BED. MED.
• Papa Andoh-Kweku · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paula Collins
• Professor Nicholas Palfreyman
• RUSSELL GEORGE KIRBY
• Rev Catharine Anne Hughes
• Rev Christopher John Cheeseman
• Rev Paul Welch
• Rev Sharon Read · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robert Fullen

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

Operates in: Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Tameside

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