NORTHAMPTON METHODIST DISTRICT

Registered charity 1130373 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting other charities in the UK and overseas financially and with prayer

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.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £1,495k from £928k in the prior year, while total expenditure was £956k. The trustees confirm the District is a going concern, noting that Circuits continue to meet their assessments and the District Advance Fund has adequate funds to cover any shortfall.

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.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rev'd Dr Sonia Hicks — Chair of District (source)
• Rev'd David Alderman — Deputy Chair (source)
• Jenny Oliver — District Executive Secretary (source)
• Matt Forsyth — District Mission Team Leader (source)
• Andrew Lewis — District Treasurer (source)
• Chris Linford — District Property Secretary (source)
• Rev'd Ian Suttie — District Ecumenical Officer (source)
• Rev'd Alan Bolton — Synod Secretary – Presbyteral (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (94% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER LINFORD
• Dr Hellen Okello
• Jennifer Oliver
• Matthew Forsyth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Olive Ruvimbo Ruzvidzo · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Alan John Bolton
• Rev Edson Dube · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Ian Suttie · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Karen Beecham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Philip Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Susan Jacobs
• William Keith BROOKS · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Leicester City · Leicestershire · Milton Keynes · Northamptonshire · Oxfordshire · Peterborough City · Rutland · Warwickshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with West Midlands Methodist District.

• West Midlands Methodist District income £1.5m
• METHODIST CHURCH - NORTH WEST ENGLAND DISTRICT income £7.3m
• LONDON DISTRICT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH income £2.4m
• BEDFORDSHIRE ESSEX AND HERTFORDSHIRE DISTRICT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH income £980k
• EAST DURHAM CIRCUIT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH income £149k
• SIRI GURU SINGH SABHA NORTHAMPTON income £297k

Side by side with its peers

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