Alderholt Congregational Church

Analysis

Alderholt Congregational Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Fordingbridge. It was registered in June 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Alderholt Congregational Church reported income of £139k and spending of £145k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £103k to £139k (+34%), an average of +7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Alderholt Congregational Church sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Great Meeting Unitarian Chapel Trust Properties and Funds Held in Connection Therewith (£139k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Michael & All Angels with St Edmund, Northampton. (£139k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Malvern Link with Cowleigh (£138k).

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.