THE PETERBOROUGH CIRCUIT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1135613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

SUPPORT TO LOCAL CHURCHES IN THE CIRCUIT TO PROVIDE ACTS OF WORSHIP - IN PERSON AND ONLINE - FOR MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS. THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIANITY THROUGH SERMONS, COURSES AND SMALL GROUPS. PASTORAL WORK INCLUDING VISITING THE SICK AND BEREAVED. PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY THROUGH EVENTS AND SERVICES. SUPPORTING OTHER CHARITIES LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND OVERSEAS 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 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 reserves increased by £63,372 to a total derived from income of £304,116 and expenditure of £240,744. However, the trustees note that without the £105,000 proceeds from the sale of Ailsworth Chapel, the circuit would have incurred an in-year loss of £42,000. The filing describes the year as 'uncertain' and notes that the Elton chapel is currently for sale.

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 3 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
• 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
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Colin Sherwoodchair
• Catherine Joan Ruffles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Ritson Kell
• Constance Hunt
• DENISE MARILYN SARAH WATSON
• David Whiting
• Diane Margaret Sherwood
• Dr John Featherstone Hewitson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Erica Dorothy Pilkinton
• Fiona Margaret McCallum
• GEORGE BARBER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Heather Joyce Black
• Karen Elizabeth Armstrong
• Karen Lightfoot
• MONICA STURGESS
• Madeleine Whiting
• Mick Goodman
• NIGEL ANTHONY LIGHTFOOT
• Nicholas James Drury
• PETER JOHN WILLIAMS
• Paul Robert Abel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev DAVID PARKES
• Rev DOUGLAS GEORGE STEVENS
• Rev Dale Stephen Sherriff
• Rev Sarah Catherine Gower · trustee of 2 other charities
• SARAH KELLY
• Sarah Jane Bereznyckyj
• Shirley Dallman
• Susan Margaret Holmes
• Suzanne Julie Delegate
• TREVOR HOWLETT
• VALERIE JOY OCTON

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Lincolnshire · Northamptonshire · Peterborough City

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH EAST NORTHUMBERLAND METHODIST CIRCUIT.

• SOUTH EAST NORTHUMBERLAND METHODIST CIRCUIT income £290k
• THE METHODIST CHURCH NOTTINGHAM SOUTH CIRCUIT income £327k
• WEST HERTFORDSHIRE AND BORDERS METHODIST CIRCUIT income £574k
• NORTH CUMBRIA METHODIST CIRCUIT income £245k
• BUCKLEY AND DEESIDE METHODIST CIRCUIT income £289k
• NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE WEST METHODIST CIRCUIT income £387k

Side by side with its peers

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