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Registered charity · West Sussex

West Sussex (Coast and Downs) Methodist Circuit

  • 56 trustees
  • Income £598k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
West Sussex
Website
www.methodist.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£598k£596k
  • 2024£651k£599k
  • 2023£577k£687k
Earlier years
  • 2022£560k£681k
  • 2021£584k£634k

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 SUBSIDIARY 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.

56 trustees on the board

6y median 6y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure
8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (29)

Portfolio (27)

8
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 56General Charitable Purposes 4Education/training 2Other Charitable Purposes 2Accommodation/housing 1Amateur Sport 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.

Health and social care 5Other services 4Arts and leisure 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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£598k 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.

13.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 16.0 in 2021

12 from 15 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.
Qualified
Auditor's opinioniAuditor's opinionThe accounts_qualified flag on the latest filed annual return is True - the auditor qualified their opinion. A register flag, shown as filed.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1139998
Status
Registered
Governing document
DEED OF UNION (1932) AND METHODIST CHURCH ACT (1976)
Contact on the register
01903 717035
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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