FREE METHODIST CHURCH, MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM

Registered charity 514358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEYSHAM FREE METHODIST CHURCH

Religious activities such as Sunday services, meetings for children, youth, elderly and general ages. Support of missions and local charities.

Objects

THE FURTHERANCE IN MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM OF THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES, DISCIPLINES AND USAGES OF THAT CHURCH FOR THE TIME BEING AS SET FORTH IN THE BOOK OF DISCIPLINE.

Area of benefit: MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM

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

Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · 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 state that the charity holds reserves of approximately £60,000, which the treasurer describes as healthy and substantially more than the three months of operating expenditure recommended by the Charity Commission. The charity reported an operating surplus for the year, driven by increased income from general offerings and gift aid, alongside one-off large gifts from estates. Expenditure increased due to major maintenance projects, including manse re-roofing and sound system replacement, but the overall financial position is described as good.

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 4 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.

• 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
• 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev MARK JOHNSTONEchair
• Bethany Ruth Fitch-Ryding
• Gillian Liley
• Ian David Parker
• NIGEL CHARLES PURCELL
• SANDRA PARKER
• Simeon Mark Johnstone

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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