Northern Lights Metropolitan Community Church

Analysis

Northern Lights Metropolitan Community Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was registered in July 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities and human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity, which this site groups under religion. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Northern Lights Metropolitan Community Church reported income of £34k and spending of £38k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £44k to £34k (-23%), an average of -6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 306%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Northern Lights Metropolitan Community Church sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Life Christian Church Hove (£34k), West Berkshire Muslim Centre (£34k) and Worktalk Learning (£34k).