Bury St.edmunds Methodist Circuit

Analysis

Bury St.edmunds Methodist Circuit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bury St Edmunds. It was registered in May 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, religious activities, environment/conservation/heritage and human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity, which this site groups under religion. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Bury St.edmunds Methodist Circuit reported income of £416k and spending of £296k, leaving 29% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £156k to £416k (+167%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 531%. Over the whole period it spent 57% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Bury St.edmunds Methodist Circuit sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Union of Evangelical Churches (£415k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Broadwater Worthing (£416k) and Revival Fires (£415k).