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Registered charity · Hertfordshire

Bedfordshire Essex and Hertfordshire District of the Methodist Church

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...

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £980k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Central Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire
Website
www.behdistrict.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£980k£830k
  • 2024£712k£498k
  • 2023£503k£693k
Earlier years
  • 2022£467k£418k
  • 2021£383k£340k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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.

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.

5y median 4y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (7)

5
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 15Education/training 3Amateur Sport 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Education 5Health and social care 2Other services 2

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£980k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

21.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 19.6 in 2021

6 from 7 in 2023
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1133921
Status
Registered
Governing document
METHODIST CHURCH ACT (1939), METHODIST CHURCH FUNDS ACT (1960) AND DEED OF UNION (1932)
Contact on the register
01279 657195 · beh34office@gmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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