TENDRING METHODIST CIRCUIT

Registered charity 1140466 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of regular public acts of worship open to members of the Church and non members alikeThe provision of sacred space (a building) for prayer and contemplationThe teaching of Christianity through sermons, courses and small groupsPromotion of Christianity through the staging of events and servicesSupporting other Charities in the UK 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 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: Tendring, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £8,988,395, driven by significant gains on investment properties and manses, although the operational budget for the year ended in a deficit. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £8,277,912, which significantly exceed its stated policy target of holding three months' average expenditure. The trustees confirm the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~17.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (98% 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: 19.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Luke Smithchair
• ANDREW JOHN MERRIDAY
• ANNE CHRISTINE LOTT
• Alan Harold Edwards
• Angela Shereni
• Ann Beeton
• Avril Mann
• BRIAN THOMAS CUTHBERTSON
• Barbara Brittain
• Beryl Newson
• CATHERINE ANNE SCOTT
• DAVID ERNEST SHEARMUR
• David Frederick Bavister
• Deborah Setterfield
• Deborah West
• Denise Patricia Raven
• Gillian Ruth Bavister
• Hazel McLaughlin
• Iain Campbell Mckenzie
• Janet Elizabeth Cook
• Janet Margerum
• Jaqueline Kilby
• Jayne Chapman
• KATE MARY COLLINS
• Linda Dickinson
• MARGARET MARY QUARTERMAIN
• MARIE ELIZABETH WEST
• Margaret Ann Woods · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Eirwen Grenfell-Essam · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marion Gourley
• Mark Tubby
• Philip Anthony Chapman
• ROBERT JAMES TAYLOR MIET · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev DEREK LANG BSC MA
• Rev JOHN LEWIS HESLOP ALLISON
• Rev Marion Annette Cole
• Rev ROGER JOHN PARSONS BA
• Rev Steven William Peter Sutton
• Rodney Barry Lambelle
• Rosina Fisher

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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• WHARFEDALE & AIREBOROUGH METHODIST CHURCH CIRCUIT income £779k
• EMSWORTH METHODIST CHURCH income £132k
• RIDGEWAY METHODIST CHURCH income £99k
• ROCHDALE & LITTLEBOROUGH METHODIST CIRCUIT income £428k
• NOTTING HILL METHODIST CHURCH income £936k
• SHEFFIELD METHODIST CIRCUIT income £2.1m

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