Wimborne Minster Church Foundation

Analysis

Wimborne Minster Church Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wimborne. It was registered in April 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides other finance and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Wimborne Minster Church Foundation reported income of £29k and spending of £52k, spending 179% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £31k to £29k (-4.8%), an average of -1.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 144% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Wimborne Minster Church Foundation sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Elizabeth Walter (£29k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Thurston (£29k) and Leicester Christian Tabernacle (£29k).

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.