# WANTAGE AND ABINGDON METHODIST CIRCUIT

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1132995
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Previously excepted
- **Registered:** Nov. 26, 2009
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1132995


## Contact

- **Address:** 32 Black Croft, WANTAGE, Oxfordshire
- **Postcode:** OX12 9EX
- **Phone:** 01235766655
- **Email:** keith.underhill@methodist.org.uk
- **Website:** www.wantab.org.uk



## 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 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.

**Activities:** The Circuit acts as an umbrella organisation for the eleven churches which constitute it.  It provides strategic planning, staff, a preaching plan, training, financial and administrative services, circuit events, and encouragement to the churches in their shared mission.

**Area of benefit:** UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL




## Classification

- **How:** Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- **What:** Religious Activities
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Oxfordshire



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 31, 2024 | £217221 | £410898 | — | — |
| Aug. 31, 2023 | £204111 | £319175 | — | — |
| Aug. 31, 2022 | £188078 | £295370 | — | — |
| Aug. 31, 2021 | £186882 | £264439 | — | — |
| Aug. 31, 2020 | £204276 | £315531 | — | — |



## Trustees

- **Rev Georgina Felicia Tutuaa Bondzi-Simpson** (Chair) — appointed March 3, 2024
- ALISON MARGARET PHILLIPS BED HONS — appointed Sept. 1, 2017
- ANN ELIZABETH BARBER — appointed Sept. 2, 2011
- Alistair Charles Fear — appointed Sept. 14, 2022
- Andrew Peter DIXON — appointed Jan. 1, 2021
- BARBARA EILEEN KERSHAW
- CYNTHIA DOROTHY BARTLETT — appointed Sept. 1, 2013
- Carolyn Hawkes — appointed Nov. 1, 2021
- Carolyn Ida Roche — appointed Sept. 1, 2016
- DEACON SELINA JANE NISBETT — appointed Sept. 1, 2015
- Deacon Margaret Blake — appointed Sept. 14, 2022
- Derek Pooley — appointed March 6, 2024
- Dr Anne Matthews — appointed May 1, 2019
- Dr BARBARA SEXTON — appointed Sept. 1, 2017
- Dr PAUL RANDALL WILLIAMS
- Dr Roger Bett — appointed March 3, 2021
- Dr Thomas William KYFFIN — appointed Sept. 1, 2016
- ELIZABETH ANN WOOD — appointed Sept. 1, 2015
- Elizabeth Middleton — appointed March 3, 2025
- GEOFFREY HOWARD MAUNDER — appointed Sept. 2, 2011
- GEOFFREY JOHN CAUDLE
- Graham Ifill — appointed Sept. 1, 2020
- HELEN WESTON — appointed Sept. 1, 2017
- Heather Joy Wells — appointed March 4, 2025
- Helen Gant — appointed March 14, 2023
- Ian David Sturt — appointed March 1, 2020
- Isabell Mary Hancock
- JEAN MARGARET CAUDLE — appointed June 18, 2012
- John Gordon Skidmore
- Kenneth Philp Smith — appointed Sept. 1, 2020
- MARIANNE PATIENCE MAUNDER
- MARLENE ELIZABETH CHALKLEY — appointed Feb. 28, 2016
- MRS TRICIA COOK
- NEIL DENNIS OASTLER — appointed Sept. 1, 2022
- PETER JOHN HEMMINGS MA — appointed Sept. 1, 2016
- Rev Bruce David Thompson — appointed March 3, 2025
- Rev JOHN DRYDEN ANDERSON — appointed Sept. 1, 2018
- Rev KEITH RICHARD UNDERHILL BA — appointed Sept. 1, 2016
- Rev Kenneth Blake — appointed Sept. 14, 2022
- SALLY ELIZBETH SCRIVENER — appointed March 1, 2016
- SUSAN ANNE BUTLER
- Sarah Ifill — appointed March 3, 2021
- Violet Caroline Hill — appointed March 6, 2024