OXFORD METHODIST CIRCUIT — Charity Commission profile

01 Identity

Registration and reporting

Registration status: Registered
Reporting status: Submission Overdue
Charity type: Previously excepted
Registered: 3 March 2010
Removed: Not supplied
Financial period: 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2024
Latest income: £359,112
Latest expenditure: £360,290
Gift Aid: No
Owns or uses land: Yes
In administration: No
Insolvent: No
CIO: No

Public contact address: OXFORD METHODIST CIRCUIT OFFICE, WESLEY MEMORIAL CHURCH, NEW INN HALL STREET, OXFORD, OX1 2DH

Website recorded by the regulator: www.oxfordmethodists.org.uk (displayed as text)

02 Activities

What the charity does

The Circuit superintends the work of eleven Methodist Churches and one Local Ecumenical Partnership in its geographical area, comprising the city of Oxford, its suburbs and surrounding towns and villages.

03 Official extract

Charity Annual Return History

Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2024
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2025
Ar Cycle Reference: AR25
Reporting Due Date: 30 June 2026

Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2023
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2024
Ar Cycle Reference: AR24
Reporting Due Date: 30 June 2025
Date Annual Return Received: 22 June 2025
Date Accounts Received: 22 June 2025
Total Gross Income: £359,112
Total Gross Expenditure: £360,290

Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2022
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2023
Ar Cycle Reference: AR23
Reporting Due Date: 30 June 2024
Date Annual Return Received: 29 June 2024
Date Accounts Received: 29 June 2024
Total Gross Income: £345,350
Total Gross Expenditure: £385,142

Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2021
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2022
Ar Cycle Reference: AR22
Reporting Due Date: 30 June 2023
Date Annual Return Received: 23 April 2023
Date Accounts Received: 23 April 2023
Total Gross Income: £329,908
Total Gross Expenditure: £448,777

Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2020
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2021
Ar Cycle Reference: AR21
Reporting Due Date: 30 June 2022
Date Annual Return Received: 16 April 2022
Date Accounts Received: 16 April 2022
Total Gross Income: £1,075,279
Total Gross Expenditure: £553,448

04 Official extract

Charity Annual Return Parta

Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind: Yes
Fin Period Order Number: 1
Ar Cycle Reference: AR24
Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2023
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2024
Ar Due Date: 30 June 2025
Ar Received Date: 22 June 2025
Total Gross Income: £359,112
Total Gross Expenditure: £360,290
Grant Making Is Main Activity: No
Count Govt Contracts: 0
Count Govt Grants: £0
Charity Has Trading Subsidiary: No
Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit: No
Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee: No
Trustee Receives Payments Services: No
Trustee Receives Other Benefit: No
Trustee Resigned Employment: No
Employees Salary Over 60k: No
Count Volunteers: 0

Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind: No
Fin Period Order Number: 2
Ar Cycle Reference: AR23
Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2022
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2023
Ar Due Date: 30 June 2024
Ar Received Date: 29 June 2024
Total Gross Income: £345,350
Total Gross Expenditure: £385,142
Grant Making Is Main Activity: No
Count Govt Contracts: 0
Count Govt Grants: £0
Charity Has Trading Subsidiary: No
Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit: No
Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee: No
Trustee Receives Payments Services: No
Trustee Receives Other Benefit: No
Trustee Resigned Employment: No
Employees Salary Over 60k: No
Count Volunteers: 0

Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind: No
Fin Period Order Number: 3
Ar Cycle Reference: AR22
Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2021
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2022
Ar Due Date: 30 June 2023
Ar Received Date: 23 April 2023
Total Gross Income: £329,908
Total Gross Expenditure: £448,777
Charity Raises Funds From Public: No
Charity Receives Govt Funding Contracts: No
Charity Receives Govt Funding Grants: No
Charity Has Trading Subsidiary: No
Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit: No
Trustee Resigned Employment: No
Employees Salary Over 60k: No
Count Volunteers: 0

Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind: No
Fin Period Order Number: 4
Ar Cycle Reference: AR21
Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2020
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2021
Ar Due Date: 30 June 2022
Ar Received Date: 16 April 2022
Total Gross Income: £1,075,279
Total Gross Expenditure: £553,448
Charity Raises Funds From Public: No
Charity Receives Govt Funding Contracts: No
Charity Receives Govt Funding Grants: No
Charity Has Trading Subsidiary: No
Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit: No
Trustee Resigned Employment: No
Employees Salary Over 60k: No
Count Volunteers: 0

Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind: No
Fin Period Order Number: 5
Ar Cycle Reference: AR20
Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2019
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2020
Ar Due Date: 30 June 2021
Ar Received Date: 3 May 2021
Total Gross Income: £308,115
Total Gross Expenditure: £449,766
Charity Raises Funds From Public: No
Charity Receives Govt Funding Contracts: No
Charity Receives Govt Funding Grants: No
Charity Has Trading Subsidiary: No
Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit: Yes
Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee: No
Trustee Receives Payments Services: No
Trustee Receives Other Benefit: Yes
Trustee Resigned Employment: No
Employees Salary Over 60k: No
Count Volunteers: 0

05 Official extract

Charity Annual Return Partb

Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind: No
Fin Period Order Number: 4
Ar Cycle Reference: AR21
Fin Period Start Date: 1 September 2020
Fin Period End Date: 31 August 2021
Ar Due Date: 30 June 2022
Ar Received Date: 16 April 2022
Income Donations And Legacies: 520
Income Other Trading Activities: 0
Income Charitable Activities: 320845
Income Investments: 2867
Income Other: 751047
Income Total Income And Endowments: 1075279
Income Legacies: 0
Income Endowments: 0
Expenditure Raising Funds: £648
Expenditure Charitable Expenditure: £552,800
Expenditure Other: 0
Expenditure Total: 553448
Expenditure Investment Management: 648
Expenditure Grants Institution: 200927
Expenditure Governance: 1800
Expenditure Support Costs: 24552
Expenditure Depreciation: 0
Gain Loss Investment: 17684
Gain Loss Pension Fund: 0
Gain Loss Revaluation Fixed Investment: 0
Gain Loss Other: 0
Reserves: £449,676
Assets Total Fixed: 1385027
Assets Own Use: 1385027
Assets Long Term Investment: 0
Defined Benefit Pension Scheme: 0
Assets Other Assets: £1,629,035
Assets Total Liabilities: £251,753
Assets Current Investment: 1397611
Assets Total Assets And Liabilities: £2,762,309
Creditors One Year Total Current: 251753
Creditors Falling Due After One Year: 0
Assets Cash: £123,088
Funds Endowment: 0
Funds Unrestricted: 2759703
Funds Restricted: 2606
Funds Total: 2762309
Count Employees: 8
Charity Only Accounts: Yes

06 Official extract

Charity Area Of Operation

Geographic Area Type: Local Authority
Geographic Area Description: Oxfordshire
Welsh Ind: No

07 Official extract

Charity Classification

Classification Code: 309
Classification Type: How
Classification Description: Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Classification Code: 207
Classification Type: Who
Classification Description: The General Public/mankind

Classification Code: 108
Classification Type: What
Classification Description: Religious Activities

08 Official extract

Charity Event History

Charity Name: OXFORD METHODIST CIRCUIT
Charity Event Order: 1
Event Type: Previously excepted registration
Date Of Event: 2010-03-03T00:00:00

Charity Name: OXFORD METHODIST CIRCUIT
Charity Event Order: 2
Event Type: Asset transfer in
Date Of Event: 2022-06-08T00:00:00
Reason: Ceased to exist
Assoc Organisation Number: 1026530
Assoc Registered Charity Number: 1026530
Assoc Charity Name: FRIENDS OF GLEBE HOUSE

09 Official extract

Charity Governing Document

Governing Document Description: DEED OF UNION AND THE METHODIST CHURCH ACT 1976.
Charitable 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 SUBSIDIARY 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.
Area Of Benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

10 Official extract

Charity Policy

Policy Name: Investment

Policy Name: Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Policy Name: Complaints handling

Policy Name: Conflicting interests

Policy Name: Volunteer management

Policy Name: Risk management

Policy Name: Paying staff