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Pool Mission Area

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1176603PowysReligion
Income£330k2025-12-31
Spending£397ksame year
Spent / received94%5-year average
Size in its cause88th pctReligion
Registered2018Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Pool Mission Area is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Powys. It was registered in January 2018, 8 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, Pool Mission Area reported income of £330k and spending of £397k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £814k to £330k (-59%), an average of -20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Pool Mission Area sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% 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 Ecclesiastical Parish of the Bourne (£330k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Francis, Salisbury (£330k) and Debre Selam Medhanealem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church Cardiff (£330k).

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.

Income and spending

£0£203k£407k£610k£814k2021 Income: £813,5122021 Spending: £402,73420212022 Income: £376,3002022 Spending: £478,43020222023 Income: £343,8392023 Spending: £428,33020232024 Income: £357,3892024 Spending: £392,53620242025 Income: £329,9902025 Spending: £396,6922025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Provide religious services, which are open to all, that take place in the churches and other buildings within the Pool Mission Area covering Welshpool and surrounding communities. Within that area, the nature of the Anglican church is that it seeks to serve the whole community.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of the BourneFarnham£330k
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Francis, SalisburyWiltshire£330k
Debre Selam Medhanealem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church CardiffCardiff£330k
Springfield Gospel TrustChichester£330k