Poole Bay Methodist Circuit

Analysis

Poole Bay Methodist Circuit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bournemouth. It was registered in June 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it provides human resources and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Poole Bay Methodist Circuit reported income of £377k and spending of £581k, spending 154% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £369k to £377k (+2.4%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 150% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Poole Bay Methodist Circuit sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% 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 Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrews Southgate (£377k), The Church Schools of Cambridge (The Old Schools) (£378k) and Faiths Forum for London (£377k).

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.