UNITY METHODIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1173520 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SANDBACH METHODIST CHURCH, WESLEY AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH, SANDBACH

Sunday and midweek worship; youth and family work, including Stepping Stones (parents and toddlers) and family afternoons; pastoral care; Lifeline Debt Advice; Foodbank; Pantry. Hire of premises to outside groups; Craft and Chat group; Wesley Guild; House Groups; Social events (Saturday Cafe, community lunches, Sunday lunches, church bowls group); Justice and Peace Group; fundraising; donations.

Objects

SECTION 4 METHODIST CHURCH ACT 1976THE PURPOSES OF THE METHODIST CHURCH ARE AND SHALL BE PURPOSES 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 BEING A 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;

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 the charity ended the year with a surplus of £4,200, exceeding the forecasted shortfall. The trustees report that the charity is able to meet its reserves policy target of holding 50% of anticipated expenditure, with unrestricted reserves at £76,266 against a forecasted expenditure of £123,000.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Carolyn Ann Lawrancechair
• ANN HORSFIELD
• BRUNILDA EYRE
• Brian Cornel Hanna
• Cynthia Kelly
• Elizabeth Mary Trinder
• Ellen Doreen Cieka · trustee of 2 other charities
• GEORGE ALAN PIMLOTT
• Gillian Margaret Bailey
• JAYNE LORRELLA BUNN
• Karen Elizabeth Foster
• Kathleen Elizabeth Wharton
• Katy Louise Lowe
• Marian Pauline Sherwin
• Matthew Timothy Cooke
• Norma Joyce Stolworthy
• Pamela Christine Smith
• ROBERT PAUL CHARLES GLASSONBURY
• STEPHEN DAVID PARKER-AIKEN

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

Operates in: Cheshire East

Income and spending

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