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Brunswick Methodist Church

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1128118Newcastle Upon TyneReligion
Income£302k2025-08-31
Spending£303ksame year
Spent / received108%5-year average
Size in its cause87th pctReligion
Registered2009Previously excepted
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Brunswick Methodist Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in February 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Brunswick Methodist Church reported income of £302k and spending of £303k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £205k to £302k (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Brunswick Methodist Church sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wade Street Church, Lichfield (United Reformed and Baptist) (£302k), Ramgarhia Sikh Association, Woolwich (£302k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Frimley (£302k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.

Income and spending

£0£76k£151k£227k£303k2021 Income: £204,9072021 Spending: £246,58620212022 Income: £202,7442022 Spending: £249,17820222023 Income: £240,5302023 Spending: £241,49620232024 Income: £224,0812024 Spending: £227,09220242025 Income: £302,0222025 Spending: £302,7202025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

  • Other 100%

In the charity's own words

Brunswick Methodist Church is part of the Methodist Church of Great Britain. Our strap line is 'The Church at the heart of the city'. We are the successors to John Wesley's [founder of the Methodist Church] first purpose built Methodist Church, we work to bring about change in people through a love of Christ, we act with Christian social justice, teaching, preaching and being a place of refuge.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Wade Street Church, Lichfield (United Reformed and Baptist)Lichfield£302k
Ramgarhia Sikh Association, WoolwichUK£302k
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of FrimleyFrimley£302k
Parochial Church Council of Bournemouth Town Centre ParishBournemouth£302k