The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Bishop's Stortford Methodist Church

Registered charity 1127323 Registered since 2008

Operates: Essex, Hertfordshire

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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.

21 trustees on the board

5.5y median 4y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (18)

Portfolio (3)

0
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 21General Charitable Purposes 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Disability 1

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

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Related organisations

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.bsm-church.org.uk
Emailmanager.bsmc@gmail.com
Phone01279501745
Address34B South Street, Bishop's Stortford, Herts, CM23 3AZ

Finances

£167,386 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£86,636£102,929
2022£90,345£102,705
2023£128,106£102,687
2024£127,446£116,772
2025£167,386£200,158

What it does

What

Religious Activities

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Other Charitable Activities

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.

Governing document: DEED OF UNION (1932) AND METHODIST CHURCH ACT (1976)

Trustees (21)

21trustees
0aged 70+

Connected charities (2)

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