Church Financial Report for Great Britain 2013 - Headlines

[_Bazooka]

Overview

Income from members (tithing and other donations, plus income from the temple and media sales)
2013 - £34.8million
2012 - £34.3million
2011 - £34.8million
2010 - £33.6million
2009 - £31.7million
2008 - £32.1million
2007 - £33.2million

*Temple income for 2013 @ £974,000, is at the lowest level (by c£60,000) for four years.

Total Income less operating expenses (excluding one-off donations from parent company in SLC)
2013 - £12.1million loss
2012 - £9.6million loss
2011 - £10.1million loss
2010 - £1.4million loss
2009 - £8.4million loss
2008 - £353,000 profit
2007 - £3.5million profit

*parent donation to offset deficit was £13.3million for 2013 (£17.9million 2012).

The cost of missionary work expenses rose to £9.3million in 2013 from £6.9million in 2012 and £7million in 2011.
Within expenses, the amount spent on staff costs was £11.8million in 2013 (£13.9million 2012)

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[_kairos]

So , divide the revenues/tithing by the number of members-hmm 186,000 total men ,women and children so we assume 86000 tithe payers(the men) and we get 34,000,000/86,000= 395 pounds per tithe payer or about 600 dollars per tithe payer. conclusion" not a hellavu lot of tithing hitting the coffers from united kingdom."

comments?

k

[_Bazooka]

So , divide the revenues/tithing by the number of members-hmm 186,000 total men ,women and children so we assume 86000 tithe payers(the men) and we get 34,000,000/86,000= 395 pounds per tithe payer or about 600 dollars per tithe payer. conclusion" not a hellavu lot of tithing hitting the coffers from united kingdom."

comments?

k

The proportion of temple recommend holding adults to overall membership runs at about 10% in Europe.
We can assume then that of the 186,000 members in Great Britain, 18,600 are tithe payers.
Which would equate to each of them paying £1,600 a year in tithing.

Even this seems low per person so I would surmise that the number of tithe paying members in Great Britain is somewhere south of 18,600.

[_Mercury]

Hmm, 600 dollars per member? that's a lot of chavs.

[_Dr. Shades]

(tithing and other donations, plus income from the temple and media sales) . . . *Temple income for 2013 @ £974,000, is at the lowest level (by c£60,000) for four years.

What on earth is "temple income?"

[_Bazooka]

(tithing and other donations, plus income from the temple and media sales) . . . *Temple income for 2013 @ £974,000, is at the lowest level (by c£60,000) for four years.

What on earth is "temple income?"

I am assuming it is the proceeds of temple clothing rental and temple cafeteria food sales.

[_Bazooka]

Hmm, 600 dollars per member? that's a lot of chavs.

The average weekly salary in the UK for 2013 was £517 per week. That's £26,884 per annum.
At that rate, tithing income for 2013 (£30,199) would equate to a full tithe being paid on gross salary by an average of 11,235 members, which is roughly thirty members per congregation.

[_Bazooka]

So , divide the revenues/tithing by the number of members-hmm 186,000 total men ,women and children so we assume 86000 tithe payers(the men) and we get 34,000,000/86,000= 395 pounds per tithe payer or about 600 dollars per tithe payer. conclusion" not a hellavu lot of tithing hitting the coffers from united kingdom."

comments?

k

Actually, I've just noticed it's worse than that.
Here are the regions where the 'charity' states it operates, and therefore from where the figures for donations are drawn from:

THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES
FRANCE
NORTHERN IRELAND
SCOTLAND

http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Sh ... ryNumber=0

That's right, it includes France!
Which means adding another 37,000 members to the total of 186,000 to get a membership total of 223,000 contributing £34.8 million.