Registered charity · Dunstable

The Square Methodist Church, Dunstable

14 trustees
Income £167k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does: Religious Activities
Where: Central Bedfordshire, Bedford
Website: www.squaremethodist.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2008

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£167k£100k
2024£93k£109k
2023£97k£91k

Earlier years

2022£96k£85k
2021£72k£81k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The purposes of the Methodist Church are and shall be deemed to have been since the date of union the advancement of -(a) the Christian faith in accordance with the doctrinal standards and the dicipline of the Methodist Church;(b) any charitable purpose for the time being of any Connexional, district, circuit, local or other organisation of the Methodist Church;(c) any charitable purpose for the time being of any society or institution subsiduary or ancillary to the Methodist Church;(d) any purpose for the time being of any charity being a charity subsidiary or ancillary to the Methodist Church.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

14 trustees on the board

6.5y median 4.5y

average tenure

15y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Carole Denise Pratt since 2014
IAN Stuart Ellis since 2011
Jennifer Alison Smith since 2014
Marjorie Samudzimu since 2020
Wendy Armiger since 2015

6.2y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (4)

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2

Gaps to watch

No commercial or business experience on the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£167k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 1126936
Status: Registered
Governing document: DEED OF UNION (1932) AND METHODIST CHURCH ACT (1976)
Contact on the register: 07702012755 · thesquaretreasurer@outlook.com
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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