LYMM METHODIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1188591 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Proclamation of the Christian gospel

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an excess of income over expenditure of £5,729 for the general account and held total unrestricted reserves of £383,437. The trustees note that the redevelopment project is reaching its climax with work scheduled to start in January 2026, indicating active capital investment. Membership numbers have remained stable, and the charity continues to engage in significant community outreach and fundraising activities.

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
• 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
• 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Derek Ogden
• Dorothy Shopland
• Dr JOHN WOODTHORPE
• Dr John Martin Saxton
• Dr Paul Andrew Melland Thompson
• Eve Collen
• GRAHAM CHARLES PEGG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gill Chiverton
• Gill Fuller
• Jane Thompson
• Jean Wardell
• Kenneth Brian Sims
• Norma Lamb
• Rev Jeremy Nicholas Tresise · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Vincent Jambawo
• Sandra Woodthorpe
• Valerie Slack
• Victoria Sims · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Warrington

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EAST PECKHAM METHODIST CHURCH.

• EAST PECKHAM METHODIST CHURCH income £240k
• TONBRIDGE METHODIST CHURCH income £121k
• BRIXTON HILL METHODIST CHURCH income £116k
• RIVERCOURT METHODIST CHURCH income £134k
• PLYMOUTH METHODIST CENTRAL HALL income £742k
• CARSHALTON METHODIST CHURCH income £267k

Side by side with its peers

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