Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 1
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +1
Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

NORTH YORKSHIRE DALES METHODIST CIRCUIT

We seek to: call people to Jesus Christ, to nurture them in the faith and help them live it out identify spiritual, material and physical needs and engage in such serviceprovide pastoral care where brokenness can be healed and people discover their potential in Christ. We provide governance of the local Methodist schools as they promote personal, social, moral and spiritual education.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • There are 44 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £962,923 available, equivalent to 38 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/08/23£613£302£311£0£975£96338.3350
31/08/22£251£308£-57n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/21£348£261£87n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/20£119£131£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/19£194£259£-66n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/18*£215£264£-50n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/17£188£192£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/16£202£198£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/15£242£215£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/14£221£242£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/13£263£218£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/12*£177£199£-22n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 0%
Liabilities/Income: 0%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 38.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 39 months
Quick Ratio: INF
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 13 years

http://www.nydalesmeth.org.uk/welcome.htm

superintendent@nydalesmeth.org.uk

01969623818

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Religious Activities
GiG Classification
  • Christian congregations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • North Yorkshire,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to North Yorkshire Dales Methodist Circuit
£5,635 15/11/2019
We want to buy 120 new chairs and fit new curtains or blinds in Leyburn Methodist Church Hall.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (44)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANN WIGHT Appointed: 2011
  • ANGELA MARY HEYWOOD Appointed: 2016
  • BARBARA ROBINSON Appointed: 2016
  • EUNICE SPENCER PAGE Appointed: 2011
  • ELIZABETH SPAREY Appointed: 2013
  • FRANK TROWELL Appointed: 2016
  • GRAHAM DI DUCA Appointed: 2015
  • HEATHER SOWERBY Appointed: 2014
  • HOWARD THOMAS DIP AD Appointed: 2011
  • HELEN HUGHES Appointed: 2020
  • JANET EILEEN HARKER Appointed: 2011
  • JULIE PLEDGE Appointed: 2011
  • JACKIE MC CARTNEY Appointed: 2016
  • JANET LEAHY Appointed: 2022
  • JANET PRINGLE Appointed: 2020
  • JANET PRINGLE Appointed: 2022
  • JONATHAN SPAREY Appointed: 2013
  • JOSHUA HUDDLESTON Appointed: 2022
  • KATHERINE BRIGHTMAN BA HONS Appointed: 2011
  • KATHLEEN WOOD Appointed: 2020
  • MRS ANGIE BAILY Appointed: 2013
  • MRS BEV MACE Appointed: 2011
  • MRS CHRISTINE LAMB Appointed: 2013
  • MRS LIZ HAYTHORNTHWAITE Appointed: 2012
  • MRS MARY GILL Appointed: 2011
  • MARGARET ELIZABETH SIMPSON Appointed: 2013
  • MARION YOUNG Appointed: 2022
  • MARJORIE IVESON Appointed: 2020
  • MARY SOWERBY Appointed: 2020
  • MICHELLE STONLEY Appointed: 2020
  • PAULINE BECKETT Appointed: 2022
  • ROWLAND DENT Appointed: 2011
  • RUTH POULTNEY Appointed: 2013
  • RACHEL MARTIN Appointed: 2022
  • RACHEL PINKNEY Appointed: 2020
  • REV DAVID WOOD Appointed: 2020
  • REV JENNIFER EDMONDSON Appointed: 2012
  • REV JULIA REID Appointed: 2020
  • REV KATHLEEN BOWE BED BA Appointed: 2011
  • REV MELANIE REED (Chair) Appointed: 2019
  • REV PHIL CLARKE Appointed: 2020
  • TREVOR SMITH CQSW Appointed: 2011
  • TRICIA KIRBY Appointed: 2020
  • WENDY GRANNAN Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/08/2011, number: 1143259
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR18: 97 days late, AR12: 331 days late,
Main office

Dove Cottage
Moor Road
Leyburn
DL8 5DH

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.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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