South Kent Methodist Circuit

Analysis

South Kent Methodist Circuit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrenden Road. It was registered in December 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending August 2025, South Kent Methodist Circuit reported income of £304k and spending of £489k, spending 161% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £264k to £304k (+15%), an average of +3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 131% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, South Kent Methodist Circuit sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Parish of Totton and Calmore (£304k), Victory Revival Christian Centre (£304k) and Norfolk & Waveney Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (£303k).

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.