The Stowmarket Church Charity

Analysis

The Stowmarket Church Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Suffolk. It was registered in May 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Stowmarket Church Charity reported income of £19k and spending of £20k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £49k to £19k (-62%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 126% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Stowmarket Church Charity sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bishops College, Cheshunt (£19k), Redeemed Christian Church of God - Hephzibah Parish Edmonton (£19k) and The Friends of St Nicholas' Church, Newnham (£19k).

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.