The Panel of Solicitors will be in attendance at the Conference this year, accompanied by a couple of the TMCP Legal Team

Calling all Treasurers, Finance Stewards, Ministers and anyone else who deals with, or is interested in, trusts that are held with TMCP. TMCP are asked a variety of recurring questions about the trusts which we hold for you and so we are pleased to introduce our planned live and interactive training sessions for Managing Trustees regarding the various types of trusts that they may hold.

At TMCP our legal team have now been using the Matter Management System (MMS) for over eight months and are working hard to ensure that we reply to you and your instructed professionals as quickly and efficiently as we can.

TMCP is often contacted by Managing Trustees in relation to concerns or queries in relation to car parking arrangements. TMCP is in the process of producing some website guidance on some of the common questions we are asked by Managing Trustees when they are approached by third parties wanting to use Methodist car parks.

Following the third tranche of reforms to the Charities Act 2011 (brought in by the Charities Act 2022), which came into force on 7 March 2024, TMCP has updated its various template clauses that are required to be included in transactional documents which involve Methodist property.

TMCP and the Connexional Team are pleased to announce that the Retention Schedule was updated in January 2024. (This important document is a table listing all the different types of records commonly held by Local Churches, Circuits and Districts. It confirms how long to keep each type of record and what to do at the end of the retention period.)

TMCP would like to remind managing trustees that it is the time of the year when they should be thinking about submitting their Data Protection Annual Checklist to their Districts. As with previous years the deadline for submission of the Annual Checklist remains 31st May 2024.