By 1908 it had become necessary to appoint a number of nominal trustees, as the number of original trustees remaining from 1889 was very low.
As early as January, 1909 the trustees had resolved to have a new trust deed drawn up, and had discussed the possibility of transferring the Chapel to the Model Deed of the Connexion.
However nothing appears to have been done at this time.
Again in 1922 it was suggested that a new trust deed should be drawn up, and, in 1925, the trustees resolved to instruct their solicitors to prepare a new Deed, but once again nothing came of these suggestions, possibly as a result of the reluctance of many of the older members to transfer to the Model Deed, a process which they saw as ‘signing away our heritage’, and thereby loosing our independence.
This independence would have been very precious to the older members at that time, as their parents and grandparents could have witnessed the struggles and stormy times of the previous century.
Shelley Methodist Church
The Model Deed, 1934
