Mumbles Methodist Church

Mumbles Methodist Church is a constituent church of the Methodist 'Connexion' within the Swansea and Gower Circuit which in turn is part of the Wales Methodist Synod.The activities of the congregation fall into four main areas:- Worship; Pastoral Care; Learning and Development; and Mission and Outreach.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: Undefined. in Practice, Local.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £122,077 and spent £116,497.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 10%, from £136,177 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £122,077 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 95% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 August 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2002, worth at least £782,500.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

22 trustees run the charity.

• Rev Howard David LongChair
• Alison AldermanAppointed 1 November 2018
• Alison NewnhamAppointed 14 July 2024
• Andrew CrimpAppointed 25 November 2015
• Carole WooldridgeAppointed 11 April 2022
• Caroline BucklerAppointed 1 May 2019
• Caroline Mary Morgan Ba Pgce Ma
• David John Boakes
• Dr RUTH HOPKINSAppointed 19 May 2022
• Geoffrey Bernard Maddock
• Gill WatsonAppointed 14 July 2024
• Julia WaltersAppointed 28 March 2020
• Julian MyersAppointed 14 August 2024
• Katie BirdAppointed 1 December 2022
• Lee Ellery

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1129281

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 April 2009

Governing document

DEED OF UNION (1932) AND METHODIST CHURCH ACT (1976)

Website

www.mumblesmethodist.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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