The Lizard and Mounts Bay Methodist Circuit

Analysis

The Lizard and Mounts Bay Methodist Circuit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Helston. It was registered in October 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, The Lizard and Mounts Bay Methodist Circuit reported income of £264k and spending of £388k, spending 147% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £454k to £264k (-42%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income dropped by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 146% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Lizard and Mounts Bay Methodist Circuit sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of All Saints, Cottenham (£264k), Crossway United Reformed Church Charity (£264k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Divine with St James the Apostle Kennington (£264k).

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.