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Priory Methodist Church, Bedford

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1127751BedfordReligion
Income£132k2025-08-31
Spending£176ksame year
Spent / received98%5-year average
Size in its cause69th pctReligion
Registered2009Previously excepted
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Priory Methodist Church, Bedford is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bedford. It was registered in January 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Priory Methodist Church, Bedford reported income of £132k and spending of £176k, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £104k to £132k (+27%), an average of +6.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Priory Methodist Church, Bedford sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Masjid and Madrasah Faiz-Ul-Quran (£132k), National Young Life Campaign Trust Ltd (£132k) and Ashbourne Methodist Church (£132k).

Income and spending

£0£44k£89k£133k£178k2021 Income: £104,2762021 Spending: £114,86920212022 Income: £124,5722022 Spending: £113,70720222023 Income: £177,9902023 Spending: £121,85420232024 Income: £139,5842024 Spending: £139,27320242025 Income: £132,0182025 Spending: £176,3282025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Priory Methodist Church is a worshipping community and promotes the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical.

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