BRADFORD SOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT

Registered charity 1157285 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Circuit has 7 churches and employs and supports 2 full time Presbyters and 1 part time Deacon who share their pastoral care, The Circuit supports work in the local churches and St Arnolds (a chaplaincy role in the centre of Bradford). 1 Circuit Manager supporting the churches.

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.

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 provided text is an annual report focusing on structure, aims, and activities, but it does not contain financial statements or figures regarding reserves, income, or expenditure. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from the explicit content of this document.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~16.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (73% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev GRAEME MATTHEW DUTTONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BEVERLEY TAYLOR HARDY
• Brian Charles Jennings
• CHRISTINE PEACOCK
• DAVID DONLON
• DENNIS WATSON
• Deacon Joy Anne Sykes
• Derek Marshall
• ELIZABETH ANN SMITH
• GEOFFREY DAVID TWENTYMAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• GRAHAM PHILLIP ATKINS
• Gianfranco Gonzalez
• HELEN CATHERINE BOOCOCK · trustee of 2 other charities
• JENNIFER MARY HARDY · trustee of 2 other charities
• JOYCE ENID MCGUFFIE
• Jean Sheard
• John Kenneth Andrew
• John Richard Walsh
• Joy Suzanne Rainbow
• LOUISA HILDA JEAN-PIERRE
• Lynda McLindon
• MARY TWENTYMAN
• MICHAEL TOMLINSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Margaret Mary Wainwright
• Michael Bastow
• RICHARD IAN SHEARD
• Rev Andrew Stead
• Rev Philip Nigel Drake
• SUZANNE OLIVE ALLSOP
• SYLVIA JEAN BOOCOCK
• Susan Jennifer Andrew
• TERESA MARY LUNN
• VALERIE WALTON

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

Operates in: Bradford City

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