Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes

Analysis

Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in June 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes reported income of £1.6m and spending of £1.4m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £1.2m to £1.6m (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Alice Ellen Cooper-Dean Charitable Foundation (£1.6m), Mucklow Charitable Trust Limited (£1.6m) and Pimco Foundation Europe (£1.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 95%, investments 4.0% and donations and legacies 1.2%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £19k. Charitable activities took 96% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £1.6m would cover about 13 months of spending at that rate. It employed 21 people.