Cheshire South Methodist Circuit

Analysis

Cheshire South Methodist Circuit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in June 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Cheshire South Methodist Circuit reported income of £638k and spending of £867k, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £613k to £638k (+4.1%), an average of +1.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2024, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 143% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Cheshire South Methodist Circuit sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Binscombe Evangelical Church (£638k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St George the Martyr, Queen Square with Holy Trinity, Holborn and St Bartholomew (£638k) and Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Christ Church, Gipsy Hill (£637k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 83%, investments 15% and donations and legacies 1.4%. Charitable activities took 92% of spending and raising funds 2.8%. Grants to other organisations totalled £33k. Reserves of £724k would cover about 9 months of spending at that rate. It employed 16 people.

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.