PLYMOUTH METHODIST CENTRAL HALL

Registered charity 1127642 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Christian worship, training and service for all ages and from all social and economic backgrounds

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.

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Registered contact address: Plymouth, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £49,385 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £741,728 and total expenditure of £692,343. Free unrestricted reserves increased to £171,651, exceeding the stated policy target of approximately £150,000 (six months of expenditure). The accounts were examined by an independent examiner who reported no material matters requiring attention.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (37% 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 Jonathan Haighchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Janet Stephens · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Morris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barbara Griffiths · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brian Westlake · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Hodgins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clare Gill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr IAN HODGINS · trustee of 1 other charity
• HELENA GRACE MITCHELL
• Howard Franklin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Israel Oboh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jesse Leach · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julie Morris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Beswetherick
• Laura Dawn MacGregor-Portlock
• Maria Mills · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marie Coutts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mary Beswetherick · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Jonathan Morris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul James Courtney · trustee of 1 other charity
• Phyllis Horn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Chooi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Veronica Graham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vivienne Jordan
• William Hagen Brown

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

Operates in: Plymouth City

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with METHODIST CENTRAL HALL, COVENTRY.

• METHODIST CENTRAL HALL, COVENTRY income £461k
• MARKET HARBOROUGH METHODIST CHURCH income £177k
• PRINCES AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH income £72k
• PLYMOUTH METHODIST MISSION CIRCUIT income £521k
• FREE METHODIST CHURCH, GARSTANG income £384k
• BAMBER BRIDGE METHODIST CHURCH income £73k

Side by side with its peers

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