NOTTING HILL METHODIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1127356 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of regular public acts of worship open to members of the Church and non-members alike; the provision of sacred space for prayer and contemplation; the teaching of Christianity through sermons, courses and small groups; pastoral work including visiting the sick and bereaved; the provision of young people's activities with a Christian ethos; supporting other charities financially

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.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted income increased to £935,509 from £729,482 in the prior year, while unrestricted expenditure decreased to £769,487 from £825,927. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £268,295, which exceeds its stated policy target of approximately £137,000 (three months of operating expenditure).

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Banks & Co Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 24/08/2024, 55 days after the 30/06/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (80% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Derek Paul Woodchair
• Bethia Tooth
• Carla Brackett
• Chris Harvey
• Delores Charles
• ELAINE MAGDALENE SPENCE MI EX DIP · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elaine Brackett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Esther Samuels
• Gladwyn Samuels
• Hannah Kawa
• Junie Martin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nyasha Brackett-Thomas
• Patricia Rogers
• Pauline Mullings
• ROBERT DIXON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Faith Nyota · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Ian Worsfold · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev SangWoo Seo · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sharon Meredith
• Susannah Yarde · trustee of 1 other charity
• WENDY YARDE CHASE BSC HONS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yvette Powell

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Brent · City Of Westminster · Hammersmith And Fulham · Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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