Pendle Hill Area Meeting

Analysis

Pendle Hill Area Meeting is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bolton. It was registered in May 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Pendle Hill Area Meeting reported income of £121k and spending of £220k, spending 182% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £120k to £121k (+1.3%), an average of +0.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 138% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Pendle Hill Area Meeting sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalen, Tetbury (£121k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Margaret's West Hoathly (£121k) and Al-Hidaayah Foundation (Keighley) (£121k).

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.