LONDON DISTRICT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1134871 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON METHODIST DISTRICT

Promotion of Christianity through the staging of events and support services for Methodist Churches in London.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the District reported a net outgoing resource deficit of £786,924 for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven primarily by significant grant expenditures. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves are being rebuilt towards a policy target of three to six months' expenditure, and the trustees consider the overall reserves adequate but not excessive.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Clay Ratnage Strevens & Hills. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Revd Dr Jonathan Dean — District Chair (source)
• Revd Faith Nyota — District Chair (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 ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (90% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ama Ackah-Yensu
• Deacon Katherine Jane Johnson
• Eleanor Gillian Jackson · trustee of 1 other charity
• George Noi-Lartey · trustee of 4 other charities
• John Robert Logan
• Priyadarshini Rasanayakie Rasanayagam
• Rev Catherine Hutton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Dr Jonathan Dean · trustee of 5 other charities
• Rev Faith Mwari Nyota · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Matthew Stephen Lunn
• Richard Charlton · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LINCOLNSHIRE METHODIST DISTRICT.

• LINCOLNSHIRE METHODIST DISTRICT income £504k
• METHODIST CHURCH - NORTH WEST ENGLAND DISTRICT income £7.3m
• BRISTOL DISTRICT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH income £664k
• YORKSHIRE NORTH AND EAST DISTRICT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH income £3.1m
• BUCKLEY AND DEESIDE METHODIST CIRCUIT income £289k
• BEDFORDSHIRE ESSEX AND HERTFORDSHIRE DISTRICT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH income £980k

Side by side with its peers

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