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BRISTOL AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE CIRCUIT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1150295 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BSGC

The core purpose of the Bristol and South Gloucestershire Circuit of the Methodist church is to be a Discipleship Movement Shaped for changed. We do this through 4 key areas, Worship, Learning and Caring, Evangelism and Service.

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Latest income
£1.3m
Latest spending
£1.6m
Registered
2012
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves increased to £2,128,081 from £1,808,860 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the charity is a going concern, although some charitable activities are dependent on securing future funding and continued creditor support.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by T Turner. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bristol and South Gloucestershire Circuit (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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

Total income
£1.3m
Total spending
£1.6m
Reserves (reported)
£13.8m
Employees
43

Reported reserves equal ~103.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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

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

Operates in: Bristol City · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£1.3m£1.6m
31/08/2024£2.3m£2.2m
31/08/2023£1.7m£1.8m
31/08/2022£3.1m£1.8m
31/08/2021£1.4m£1.3m

Common questions

Is BRISTOL AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE CIRCUIT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves increased to £2,128,081 from £1,808,860 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the charity is a going concern, although some charitable activities are dependent on securing future funding and continued creditor support. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by T Turner.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund14/10/2015£9kLincoln Street

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE METHODIST CIRCUIT OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BRISTOL AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE CIRCUIT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH£1.3m—0unclear—no doubt
THE METHODIST CIRCUIT OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE FY2025£1.3m—0above—no doubt
BRISTOL DISTRICT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH FY2025£664k—0above—no doubt
SOUTHAMPTON METHODIST CIRCUIT FY2025£246k—0above—no doubt
THE SOUTH BEDFORDSHIRE METHODIST CIRCUIT FY2025£473k—0unclear—no doubt
BRADFORD NORTH METHODIST CIRCUIT FY2025£336k—0above—no doubt

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