The Independent Methodist Association (Incorporated)

Analysis

The Independent Methodist Association (Incorporated) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancashire. It was registered in December 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00092321). It says it makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Independent Methodist Association (Incorporated) reported income of £128k and spending of £368k, spending 288% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £134k to £128k (-5.0%), an average of -1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 249%. Over the whole period it spent 137% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Independent Methodist Association (Incorporated) sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Religion Media Centre (£128k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Brinsworth St Andrew with Catcliffe St Mary, Treeton St Helen and Tinsley St Lawrence (£128k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Stephen, Lindley, Huddersfield (£128k).

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.