North Lancashire Methodist Circuit

Analysis

North Lancashire Methodist Circuit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancaster. It was registered in January 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending August 2025, North Lancashire Methodist Circuit reported income of £350k and spending of £393k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £708k to £350k (-51%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, North Lancashire Methodist Circuit sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Canons Regular of Premontre, Canonry of Peckham (£350k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Stephen, Norwich (£350k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Nicholas, Tooting Graveney (£350k).