Methodist Central Hall, Manchester

Registered charity 1137980 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MCBMC, METHODIST CENTRAL BUILDINGS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Methodist Central Hall, Manchester (MCHM) aims to promote, facilitate and assist with the work and purposes of the Methodist Church for the advancement of the Christian faith. In order to achieve this aim, MCHM aims to maintain sound finances and good property management so that it can continue to provide suitable accommodation for each of the Church Bodies at Central Buildings.

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: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains no financial data, narrative, or accounts; 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 FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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

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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 02/07/2024, 2 days after the 30/06/2024 due date); year ending 31/08/2022 (received 05/07/2023, 5 days after the 30/06/2023 due date); year ending 31/08/2021 (received 14/07/2022, 14 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (47% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALETHEA CHIA JUNG SIOWchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• David John Pickles · trustee of 2 other charities
• Deacon Jennifer Allison Jane Jones
• Garrie Charles Naden
• Laura Vare
• Louise Wilkins
• Rev Dr Joanne Heather Cox-Darling · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Dr Kennedy Gondongwe · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Dr Raj Bharat Patta · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE METHODIST CHURCH - MANCHESTER CIRCUIT.

• THE METHODIST CHURCH - MANCHESTER CIRCUIT income £2.9m
• Westminster Methodist Central Hall Trust income £9.0m
• METHODIST CENTRAL HALL, COVENTRY income £461k
• The Methodist Church, Caversham income £149k
• MANCETTER MEMORIAL HALL income £42k
• TEMPLE METHODIST CHURCH income £120k

Side by side with its peers

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