Markyate Baptist Church

Analysis

Markyate Baptist Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertfordshire. It was registered in December 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides other finance and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Markyate Baptist Church reported income of £74k and spending of £49k, leaving 34% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £73k to £74k (+1.4%), an average of +0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Markyate Baptist Church sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Worshipful Company of Farriers Charitable Trust 1994 (£74k), Cambridge Korean Church (£74k) and Overseas Chinese Association (South West Region) (£74k).