POOLE METHODISTS

Registered charity 1178972 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as POOLE METHODIST CHURCH

Religious, social community and pastoral activities.

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.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Religious Activities · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £115,878 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £489,064 against charitable expenditure of £373,186. The trustees confirm the entity is a going concern, supported by sufficient regular contributions from members and supporters. Readily available reserves increased significantly to £154,600, well above the stated policy target of six months' average expenditure.

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
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: THE SPIRE MANAGEMENT GROUP TRADING LTD Companies House 16678712

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Redwood
• BASIL KENNETH MATTHEWS
• DENISE ANNE GIBBS
• EIFRON HOPPER · trustee of 1 other charity
• EVELINE MARION LE POIDEVIN
• Gerald Beddard
• HELEN MARGARET DAVIS
• JOHN STEPHEN REDWOOD
• KATE WHITE
• MARIAN EDITH MATTHEWS
• Paul Stigwood
• RONALD GEORGE BALMER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Sarah Knebel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sherry-Lynn Gerard-Tofts
• Susan Mitchell
• Timothy Mitchell

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CARSHALTON METHODIST CHURCH income £267k
• COUNSELLING PASTORAL TRUST income £56k
• MOLE CHARITABLE TRUST income £364k
• ST. PAUL'S, FURZEDOWN income £132k
• THE POTEL CHARITABLE TRUST income £111k
• WESTBOROUGH METHODIST CHURCH income £293k

Side by side with its peers

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