Friends of Cirencester Parish Church

Analysis

Friends of Cirencester Parish Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gloucestershire. It was registered in November 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Friends of Cirencester Parish Church reported income of £101k and spending of £7,670, leaving 92% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £48k to £101k (+108%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 230%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Friends of Cirencester Parish Church sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Baptist, Margate (£101k), Cranbrook Baptist Church (£101k) and Transformation Life Centre (£101k).