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Marlborough Road Methodist Church

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1128694HertfordshireReligion
Income£108k2025-08-31
Spending£127ksame year
Spent / received104%5-year average
Size in its cause63rd pctReligion
Registered2009Previously excepted
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Marlborough Road Methodist Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertfordshire. It was registered in March 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, Marlborough Road Methodist Church reported income of £108k and spending of £127k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £155k to £108k (-30%), an average of -8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Marlborough Road Methodist Church sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Celestial Church of Christ Erith Parish (£108k), North Harrow Methodist Church (£108k) and Madrassah Gareeb Nawaz & Mosque (£108k).

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£42k£84k£127k£169k2021 Income: £154,5732021 Spending: £135,47420212022 Income: £161,6052022 Spending: £154,54620222023 Income: £137,6182023 Spending: £168,75920232024 Income: £154,3522024 Spending: £157,42120242025 Income: £107,7052025 Spending: £126,7352025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Marlborough Road Methodist Church is a congregation of Christians meeting in centre of St Albans. We seek to worship God through a number of activities such as:maintaining a Methodist presence in the city centreholding creative acts of worship related to Methodist traditions and relevant to modern lifesharing the Christian Gospelsustaining, challenging and developing Christian faith

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Celestial Church of Christ Erith ParishErith£108k
North Harrow Methodist ChurchMiddlesex£108k
Madrassah Gareeb Nawaz & MosqueDewsbury£108k
Ceredigion CircuitAberystwyth£108k