The Methodist Church: South-East District

Registered charity 1130274 Registered since 2009

Operates: Slough, East Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey, West Sussex, Brighton And Hove, Malta, Gibraltar

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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.

13 trustees on the board

4.4y median 5y

average tenure

10y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Pauline Janet Newton since 2016
Rev Samantha Funnell since 2020

8.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (10)

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 13General Charitable Purposes 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Economic/community Development/employment 1Other Charitable Purposes 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 1Recreation 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 1

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£951k latest income

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

17.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 1.4 in 2021

2 from 3 in 2021

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

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

Central Sussex United Area 2 shared trustees
North Kent Methodist Circuit 2 shared trustees

Connected through a shared trustee

West Sussex (Coast and Downs) Methodist Circuit 1 shared trustee
Fleet Methodist Church 1 shared trustee
WEY Valley Methodist Circuit 1 shared trustee
Southwick Methodist Church 1 shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Website	www.methodistsoutheast.org.uk
Email	wendy.cory@methodistsoutheast.org
Phone	01293813970
Address	District Office, Unit 4b Basepoint Business Centre, Metcalf Way, Crawley, W Sussex, RH11 7XX

Finances

£950,785 latest income

Year	Income	Spending
2021	£642,769	£578,925
2022	£545,156	£340,943
2023	£612,345	£685,684
2024	£771,580	£798,743
2025	£950,785	£443,510

What it does

What

Religious Activities

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides ServicesActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

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 discipline 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 (13)

13trustees

89median age

2aged 70+

Bridget Ann Quint since 2022
Charlotte Ellen Scrivens since 2024
Jennifer Mary Jacksonage band 75-79 since 2021
Jennifer Ann Gandy since 2020
Linda Louise Weedon since 2022
Pauline Janet Newton since 2016
Roger Stephen Byard since 2026
Rev Conrad Julius Hicks since 2025
Rev Daniel Balsdon since 2020
Rev Dr Bonni Belle Pickard since 2021
Rev Nicholas Andrew Oborski since 2021
Rev Samantha Funnell since 2020
Rev William Fletcherage band 95-99 since 2023

Connected charities (14)

North Kent Methodist Circuit 2 shared trustees
Central Sussex United Area 2 shared trustees
Redhill Methodist Church 1 shared trustee
Methodist Church Redhill and East Grinstead Circuit 1 shared trustee
West Sussex (Coast and Downs) Methodist Circuit 1 shared trustee
Southwick Methodist Church 1 shared trustee
WEY Valley Methodist Circuit 1 shared trustee
Bearsted Choral Society 1 shared trustee
The Hope Street Centre 1 shared trustee
Union Street Methodist Church 1 shared trustee
Fleet Methodist Church 1 shared trustee
Trinity Methodist Church Woking 1 shared trustee
Kent Workplace Mission 1 shared trustee
Churches Together in Surrey 1 shared trustee

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