WEST LONDON MISSION METHODIST CIRCUIT

Registered charity 1133739 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEST LONDON MISSION

The West London Mission (WLM) is a Circuit of the Methodist Church. We have two city centre churches and two areas of mission. The churches engage in worship, learning and caring, service, and evangelism, in ways that reflect Methodist tradition and their own identity, history and context. WLM runs a range of housing and community services and works with students and young adults in both churches.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £560,000 on general funds for the year ended 31 August 2024, which was covered by a transfer from the capital reserve. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, supported by significant investments and cash reserves.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Homes England. 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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 31/08/2025 (received 27/10/2026, 119 days after the 30/06/2026 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — West London Mission (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Ministry of Justice — “Katherine Price Hughes House is our independent approved premise funded through a Ministry of Justice contract.” (source page)

CQC provider record: West London Mission — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 27/07/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (75% 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: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev PETER JOHN CORNICKchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ALETHEA CHIA JUNG SIOW · trustee of 3 other charities
• CATHERINE MANORAMA SLATER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Chu
• Deacon Melissa Wheeler
• Deacon Ruth Yorke
• EDNA WIJERATNA · trustee of 1 other charity
• GORDON TREVOR SLATER FCCA CTA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ho Yin Wu
• Janice Francis
• Jian Ye Koay · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Chiu
• Kin Lok Leung · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lai Ngor Chan · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARTIN JOHN SINGLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Wong
• Rev Faith Nyota · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Linberg Wong
• Stephen Lee
• Tsui Ting Tsoi
• WILLIAM WONG

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON MISSION (NORTH-WEST) METHODIST CIRCUIT.

• LONDON MISSION (NORTH-WEST) METHODIST CIRCUIT income £246k
• WESTMINSTER METHODIST CIRCUIT income £641k
• LEICESTER WEST METHODIST CIRCUIT income £437k
• WARLINGHAM METHODIST CHURCH income £103k
• LONDON DISTRICT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH income £2.4m
• WEST CORNWALL AND ISLES OF SCILLY METHODIST CIRCUIT income £996k

Side by side with its peers

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