METHODIST CHURCH IN WALES - WALES SYNOD CYMRU

Registered charity 1128205 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as METHODIST CHURCH IN WALES - WALES SYNOD

The Methodist Church in Wales - Wales Synod acts as the umbrella body and a resource provider for all of the primarily English-speaking Methodist Church bodies in Wales.

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: Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Synod reported an overall surplus of £164,791 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total funds carried forward reaching £3,766,564. The Trustees confirmed that the Synod is a going concern, citing the ability of Circuits to meet assessments and adequate reserves to cover any income shortfalls. Per the trustees' report, the Synod holds sufficient unrestricted and designated reserves to support its ongoing mission and grant commitments.

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: Welsh Government (Social Landlords And Housing Associations). 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
• 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (86% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARRY JOHN HAWKINS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Jepson-Randall
• Dr Richard Phillip Noyes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ffion Pennant Rowlinson
• John Lindsay Hay
• Margaret Birch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Webber
• Martin Lougher
• Rev Andrew Charlesworth · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Bethany Willers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Catherine Brobbey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev David Marc Morgan
• Rev Dr James Stephen Garnett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Evelyn Ruth Bhajan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Gareth John Edwards
• Rev Howard David Long · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Ian David Morris · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev James Eaton-Challinor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Keith Edwards
• Rev Phillip Terence Poole
• Rev Richard Brian Gillion · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Tina Frederica Swire
• Rhian Evans-Hill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steve McElveen · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EGLWYS BRESBYTERAIDD CYMRU - THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WALES.

• EGLWYS BRESBYTERAIDD CYMRU - THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WALES income £4.1m
• UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (UK) income £1.5m
• METHODIST INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS TRUST income £118.2m
• METHODIST CHURCH - NORTH WEST ENGLAND DISTRICT income £7.3m
• SOLIHULL METHODIST CHURCH income £462k
• THE METHODIST CHURCH IN GREAT BRITAIN income £52.3m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.