Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 0

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

12+ Trustees: -1

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -6

THE FENS CIRCUIT

The Fen's Circuit provides oversite, ecouragement and support to the churches within The Fens Circuit.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are 29 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/08/23		£204	£345	£-142	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/08/22		£190	£282	£-92	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/08/21		£504	£460	£44	£0	£451	£447	11.7	3	1
31/08/20		£327	£350	£-23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/19		£156	£196	£-40	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/18	*	£223	£180	£42	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/17		£121	£253	£-131	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/16		£138	£162	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/15		£195	£189	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/14		£263	£201	£62	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/13	*	£89	£91	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/12		£146	£203	£-57	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/11		£224	£216	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/10		£166	£180	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 14 years

www.methodist.org.uk

fenscircuit@outlook.com

01945773567

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Religious Activities

GiG Classification

Christian religious associations

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Cambridgeshire, Norfolk,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
1 volunteer

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (29)

Gender Split

Based on 28/29 persons

EVELYN HAMPS

ANNE ROSILAND EMMERSON

DAVID ADRIAN THOMPSON

DIANA BURLING

EILEEN SATTIN

ELIZABETH MARY GIBBS Appointed: 2017

ERIC CROSS

ELAINE THORNTON Appointed: 2019

GWENDOLINE ELSIE DEWDNEY Appointed: 2017

JANICE POWERS Appointed: 2012

JOAN THOMPSON

JOSEPHINE WENDY CHANDLER

JOY RUBY SMALLEY

JOYCE DOBSON Appointed: 2012

MARY JANE HURST Appointed: 2019

MAVIS ASHCROFT Appointed: 2014

NICOLA WARDEN Appointed: 2019

REV DEBORAH LEE CAULK Appointed: 2019

ROBIN WILLIAM VINCENT Appointed: 2006

ROGER EDWARD DACK Appointed: 2016

ROSEMARY KAY MARCHANT Appointed: 2019

SUSAN ASKEW

SUSAN MARGARET DACK

SYLVIA RINGHAM Appointed: 2015

TREVOR VINCENT

TIMOTHY DAVID DEWDNEY Appointed: 2017

VERONICA NELSON

LINDA VINCENT Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeship: AGE CONCERN UPWELL AND OUTWELL LUNCHEON CLUB,

REV ADAM JAMES STEVENSON (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeship: RURAL THEOLOGY ASSOCIATION,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 26/01/2010, number: 1133790

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
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

Filing Record

14 returns made; AR18: 174 days late, AR13: 0 days late,

Main office

THE FENS CIRCUIT OFFICE
Trinity Methodist Church
17 Church Terrace
WISBECH
PE13 1BL

Objectives

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.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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