Darlington and Teesdale Methodist Circuit

Analysis

Darlington and Teesdale Methodist Circuit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in County Durham. It was registered in October 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Darlington and Teesdale Methodist Circuit reported income of £295k and spending of £477k, spending 162% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £177k to £295k (+67%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 106%. Over the whole period it spent 150% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Darlington and Teesdale Methodist Circuit sits at the 86th 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 The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Matthew, Bayswater (£295k), Eden Foundation (£295k) and The Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus (£295k).

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.