NORTH LANCASHIRE METHODIST CIRCUIT

Registered charity 1155398 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE NORTH LANCASHIRE METHODIST CIRCUIT IS PART OF THE LANCASHIRE METHODIST DISTRICT. THE CIRCUIT SUPPORTS METHODIST CHURCHES IN NORTH LANCASHIRE IN THEIR MISSION AND OUTREACH.

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

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lancaster, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts provided are a narrative Annual Report for the Charity Commission and do not contain financial statements, income, or expenditure figures. Consequently, no financial health metrics such as reserves, audit status, or fundraising ratios 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 2 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 17/07/2024, 17 days after the 30/06/2024 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~46.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (51% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Linda Jane Catlowchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALWYN YOST
• Andrew Lund · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRIAN GORST
• CATHY HARTLEY
• Clive Horsford · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID BATTARBEE
• DENIS ROGER YATES
• Daphne June Cockerill
• David France
• Deacon Margaret Eleanor Patchett · trustee of 1 other charity
• EDITH ANNE GORST
• ELIZABETH DOROTHY TUER
• Gary James Marsh
• HOWARD ROGERSON BA GRSM · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hazel Preece
• Helen Frances McGregor
• IAN LOVE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Stafford
• JANE GIBSON
• JONATHAN RICHARD WHITFIELD
• JUDITH ANNE PYE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jean Ball · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jennifer Macking
• Jill Stephanie Allen
• Joan Wallbank
• KATHRYN JOAN BAMBER
• Kathryn Maida Ellen Haigh
• LOIS DAWN PREECE
• Lisa Anne Marple
• MARION ANN BREWER
• Mary France
• Melanie Jayne Greenall
• Moyna Patchett
• Naomi Jean Elliott
• PAUL ARTHUR BOWDEN MA, NPQH · trustee of 1 other charity
• PETER JOHN GORST BSC
• Prudence Cahill
• Rev Andrew Peter Champley
• Rev Colin Marchment

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

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

• THE METHODIST CHURCH, NORTH FYLDE CIRCUIT income £223k
• THE METHODIST CHURCH - MANCHESTER CIRCUIT income £2.9m
• LANCASHIRE WEST METHODIST CIRCUIT income £215k
• NORTH CHESHIRE METHODIST CIRCUIT income £714k
• BERKSHIRE SURREY BORDERS METHODIST CIRCUIT income £282k
• TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH, CLITHEROE income £186k

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