TMCP are hearing how increasingly Managing Trustees are being approached by providers who are offering a “property guardian service”. Under this service the provider agrees to secure an unoccupied property so it cannot be used by squatter...

On 1 December 2017 the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 came into force.  This Act introduced a new Private Residential Tenancy (PRT). This means that all new tenancies of residential property must, from 1 December 2017, be a PRT....

Managing Trustees may have thought about using a vacant Manse to help house refugees and/or heard about the Methodist Council’s policy on tenancies under the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Programme (VPR) specifically? The Residential Te...

Next year we will see significant changes in Data Protection law with the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’). Managing Trustees need to be aware of the changes brought about by GDPR and how it will af...

The purpose of this article is to explain how the Methodist Church Council of a Methodist Local Church may be constituted when that Local Church is a partner in a single-congregation Local Ecumenical Partnership (“SCLEP”).

The purpose of this article is to help clarify the difference between withdrawing locally held money and withdrawing money held at TMCP, when requesting funds through the Consents website. When creating a Project using the Consents website and par...

Managing Trustees need to be aware of the serious implications that can arise when Japanese Knotweed is found on land.  Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, all property owners are required by law to control and prevent invasive non-...