Wantage and Abingdon Methodist Circuit

Analysis

Wantage and Abingdon Methodist Circuit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxfordshire. It was registered in November 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, Wantage and Abingdon Methodist Circuit reported income of £339k and spending of £509k, spending 150% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £187k to £339k (+81%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 158% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Wantage and Abingdon Methodist Circuit sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Bishop's Stortford (St Michael) (£338k), Camborne Wesley Methodist Church (£339k) and St James Mar Thoma Church-Uk (£338k).

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.