Upper Thames Methodist Circuit

Analysis

Upper Thames Methodist Circuit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Swindon. It was registered in February 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Upper Thames Methodist Circuit reported income of £152k and spending of £205k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £400k to £152k (-62%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income dropped by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Upper Thames Methodist Circuit sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Bridge Christian Fellowship Temple Fortune (£152k), East Cheshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (£152k) and Keren Klei Kodesh (£151k).

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.