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METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE

Registered charity 1151218 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

As in Charitable objects.

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

Latest income
£2.1m
Latest spending
£1.7m
Registered
2013
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that closing reserves were £1,656,225, with unrestricted reserves of £1,376,558. The trustees report that there is no policy to maintain significant long-term reserves and consider the state of financial affairs to be very satisfactory. The charity has a net income of £332,635 for the year and holds cash and short-term deposits of £1,179,468.

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

What the accounts disclose

Payments to trustees: Dr P M Masters £21,880; Mr A Onojobi £41,742; Mr C M Laws £7,593; Mrs H M Compston £33,827
“The following Elders and family members of Trustees received remuneration for services provided to the church: Dr P M Masters £21,880 Mr C M Laws £7,593 Mr A Onojobi £41,742 Mrs H M Compston £33,827” — page 14
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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 31/12/2024)

Total income
£2.1m
Total spending
£1.7m
Cost of raising funds
£5k
Reserves (reported)
£1.4m
Employees
26

Reported reserves equal ~9.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% 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: Lambeth · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£2.1m£1.7m
31/12/2023£1.8m£1.7m
31/12/2022£1.6m£1.6m
31/12/2021£1.6m£1.4m
31/12/2020£1.8m£1.4m

Common questions

Is METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that closing reserves were £1,656,225, with unrestricted reserves of £1,376,558. The trustees report that there is no policy to maintain significant long-term reserves and consider the state of financial affairs to be very satisfactory. The charity has a net income of £332,635 for the year and holds cash and short-term deposits of £1,179,468. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
COUNTYPIER LIMITED1£116k
REIFER MEMORIAL LIMITED1£20k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRIST FAITH TABERNACLE INTERNATIONAL.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE£2.1m—0unclear—no doubt
CHRIST FAITH TABERNACLE INTERNATIONAL FY2025£2.4m—1above—no doubt
Great Beauty Tabernacle FY2025£119k—0above—no doubt
TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH, PENARTH FY2025£240k—0unclear—no doubt
CREATED: CHURCH FY2025£315k—0above—no doubt
TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH FY2025£1.7m——above—no doubt

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