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Cambridge Methodist Circuit

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1134226CambridgeReligion
Income£291k2025-08-31
Spending£358ksame year
Spent / received120%5-year average
Size in its cause86th pctReligion
Registered2010Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Cambridge Methodist Circuit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in February 2010, 16 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, Cambridge Methodist Circuit reported income of £291k and spending of £358k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £235k to £291k (+24%), an average of +5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Cambridge 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 Chabad of Hampstead Garden Suburb Limited (£291k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Peter, Shipley (£291k) and South Street Baptist Church Exeter & Brampford Speke (£291k).

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£90k£179k£269k£358k2021 Income: £234,7402021 Spending: £299,01020212022 Income: £272,1722022 Spending: £318,32820222023 Income: £297,7812023 Spending: £320,60520232024 Income: £279,2972024 Spending: £355,64120242025 Income: £290,7082025 Spending: £358,2792025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The Circuit's policy is framed in the light of the Methodist Church's calling. Through the structures of the Circuit local churches assist each other to respond to their calling seeking to deploy shared resources effectively to that end.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Chabad of Hampstead Garden Suburb LimitedLondon£291k
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Peter, ShipleyShipley£291k
South Street Baptist Church Exeter & Brampford SpekeExeter£291k
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary the Virgin, WendoverBuckinghamshire£291k