Agenda Volume 2 - Methodist Conference

34. The Future of Wesley House, Cambridge
***RESOLUTIONS
34/1. The Conference receives the report.
34/2. The Conference approves the principles set out in paragraph 26 of the report as
the principles by reference to which a scheme amending the trusts set out in the
Foundation Deed of Wesley House dated 24 February 1919 should be framed.
34/3. The Conference:
(i)
(ii)
approves the principle that the whole (subject to a leaseback) or a part of
the present Wesley House site should be sold or leased to provide funds
for works associated with the implementation of the proposal explained in
Section D of the report;
delegates to the Methodist Council the exercise of its power of consent to
such a sale or lease (such delegation being conditional upon the making of
a scheme pursuant to which it has power to enter into such a delegation).
APPENDIX
Extracts from formal letter dated 12 December 1912 from Michael Gutteridge to the
original Trustees
“With a view to securing the better education of candidates for the Ministry of the Wesleyan
Methodist Church and in the hope that in addition to my donation a sum of £20,000 at least
will be subscribed for the foundation and maintenance of a Hostel within the University of
Cambridge for the use and training of candidates who are likely to profit by education at that
University, I have this day transferred the undermentioned Stocks into your joint names ...”
“If and when and as soon as the additional sum of £20,000 has been subscribed ... I wish
you to use or apply both the capital and income of the investments then representing my
donation for such purposes in connection with the foundation equipment and maintenance
of a Hostel within the University of Cambridge for the use and training of candidates for
the Ministry (including the adequate remuneration and maintenance allowances for a tutor
or tutors, resident or otherwise) as you or the survivor of you after consultation with the
Wesleyan Methodist Conference or any person or committee authorised by such Conference
shall think fit ...”
“In the event of the said additional sum of £20,000 not having been collected for the
purposes of such Hostel by the First day of January 1916 I desire you to apply both the
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