Potters Bar United Reformed Church Charity

Analysis

Potters Bar United Reformed Church Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertfordshire. It was registered in January 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Potters Bar United Reformed Church Charity reported income of £124k and spending of £138k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £103k to £124k (+21%), an average of +5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 130%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Potters Bar United Reformed Church Charity sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Linton, Diocese of Ely (£124k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Edburgha Yardley (£124k) and Homelands Free Church (£124k).

Data notes from the register: The regulator lists this charity's latest annual return or accounts as overdue. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.