Agenda Volume 3 - Methodist Conference

57. The Fruitful Field Project
Expenditure and funding streams
83 The Church currently spends
approximately £6.2 million each
year on the learning pathways,
expert staff and institutions
described above. The division of
that expenditure budgeted for
2012/2013 is illustrated in table A.
Table A: Division of expenditure
(2012/2013)
Grants and fees to institutions,
centres and colleges
Maintenance payments to
student ministers
Other ministerial development
programmes and costs
District Evangelism / Mission
Enablers
£2,232k
£1,116k
£620k
£186k
Training Officers £930k
District Development Enablers £868k
Participation Project Managers £248k
Total
£6,200k
84 It is possible to recategorise the
division of expenditure into (a)
practitioner staff costs, (b) other
costs at institutions, colleges and
centres, (c) maintenance payments
to student ministers, and (d) pathway
and programme costs. This division
is illustrated in table B.
Table B: Alternative division of expenditure
(2012/2013)
Practitioner staff costs
Non-staff costs at institutions,
colleges and centres
Maintenance payments to
student ministers
Other pathway and
programme costs
Total
£3,325k
£1,139k
£1,116k
£620k
£6,200k
85 These significant costs are met from
a number of connexional funding
streams, as illustrated in table C.
Approximately £3 million is received
more or less directly from the District
Assessment (contributed by Circuits
through Districts). The remainder
of the £6.2 million is received from
four funds. The Connexional Priority
Fund (CPF), the Mission in Britain
Fund and the World Mission Fund
are three connexional funds which
receive income largely from levies (in
the case of the CPF) and donations.
The remaining contribution from
funds is received from the Training
Assessment Fund. This was built up
at the turn of the millennium and
has been used over recent years,
with the Conference’s permission, to
sustain a high level of connexional
expenditure on learning pathways,
expert staff and institutions.
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