Warning! The numbers below may be very inaccurate! Very!
I needed to get that warning out of the way... I arrived at these membership numbers using the congregational quota contributions from the GA's 2009 Annual Report. I simply divided by £24 and rounded, as each chapel was meant to contribute £24 per member in 2009. Some chapels give more and some give less. Some chapels have not cleaned out their membership list in a while. It happens... Life is messy.
Nonetheless, as the old management adage goes, "you can't manage what you can't measure." If we are trying to measure growth, we need to be able to measure it.
Admittedly, weekly attendance is a better, more reliable measure than membership, but you have to use what you've got. So, here are the 2009 numbers!
If anyone would like to correct the numbers listed for their chapel, please feel free to post a comment.
Congregation | Members |
Aberdare | 23 |
Aberdeen | 50 |
Ainsworth | 17 |
Alltyblaca | 3 |
Altrincham | 50 |
Ashton-in-Makerfield | 52 |
Atherton | 59 |
Banbury | 10 |
Bath | 7 |
Bedfield | 2 |
Belper | 4 |
Billingshurst | 7 |
Birmingham Edgbaston | 48 |
Birmingham Hollywood | 50 |
Blackpool | 19 |
Bolton Bank Street | 56 |
Bolton Chorley New Road | 19 |
Bolton Egerton | 29 |
Bolton Halliwell Road | 15 |
Boston | 9 |
Bournemouth | 8 |
Bradford Russell Street | 17 |
Bradford Unitarians | 17 |
Bridgwater | 5 |
Bridport | 12 |
Brighton | 38 |
Bristol Brunswick Square | 14 |
Bristol Frenchay | 19 |
Bury | 81 |
Bury St Edmunds | 22 |
Cambridge | 49 |
Capel Ifan | 0 |
Cardiff West Grove | 18 |
Cefn Coed y Cymer | 23 |
Cellan | 2 |
Chatham | 8 |
Chelmsford | 10 |
Cheltenham | 11 |
Chester | 10 |
Chesterfield | 4 |
Chorley | 23 |
Ciliau Aeron | 2 |
Cirencester | 6 |
Coseley | 7 |
Coventry | 10 |
Cradley | 24 |
Crewkerne | 12 |
Cribyn | 5 |
Croydon | 49 |
Cullompton | 6 |
Cwmsychbant | 5 |
Cwrtnewydd | 7 |
Dean Row | 84 |
Denton | 0 |
Derby | 7 |
Ditchling | 16 |
Doncaster | 18 |
Douglas | 6 |
Dover | 5 |
Dudley | 1 |
Dukinfield | 50 |
Dundee | 35 |
Eccles | 64 |
Edinburgh | 54 |
Enfield | 16 |
Evesham | 26 |
Felinfach | 2 |
Framlingham | 10 |
Glasgow | 38 |
Gloucester | 8 |
Godalming | 34 |
Great Hucklow | 19 |
Great Yarmouth | 11 |
Hale Barns | 29 |
Hastings | 16 |
Hinckley | 64 |
Hindley | 12 |
Horsham | 29 |
Horwich | 6 |
Hull | 27 |
Hyde | 2 |
Hyde Flowery Field | 8 |
Hyde Gee Cross | 12 |
Ipswich | 38 |
Kendal | 47 |
Kidderminster | 29 |
Knutsford | 53 |
Lampeter | 14 |
Leeds | 30 |
Leicester | 25 |
Lincoln | 13 |
Liverpool Gateacre | 19 |
Liverpool Sefton Park | 28 |
Liverpool Toxteth | 9 |
Llandysul | 4 |
Llanwnnen | 8 |
London Bethnal Green | 0 |
London Brixton | 0 |
London Golders Green | 39 |
London Hampstead | 163 |
London Islington/Newington Green | 56 |
London Kensington | 50 |
London Lewisham | 13 |
London Stratford | 5 |
Loughborough | 2 |
Lytham St Annes | 14 |
Macclesfield | 42 |
Maidstone | 7 |
Manchester Chorlton | 10 |
Manchester Cross Street | 26 |
Manchester Dob Lane | 15 |
Manchester Gorton | 14 |
Mansfield | 48 |
Mossley | 12 |
New Mill | 6 |
Newcastle | 22 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 21 |
Newport | 7 |
Northampton | 8 |
Norwich | 34 |
Nottage | 12 |
Nottingham | 21 |
Oldbury | 4 |
Oldham | 10 |
Oxford | 36 |
Padiham | 50 |
Plymouth | 22 |
Pontsian | 5 |
Portsmouth | 45 |
Prengwyn | 6 |
Pudsey | 12 |
Rawtenstall | 8 |
Richmond | 34 |
Rivington | 19 |
Rochdale | 54 |
Scarborough | 13 |
Sevenoaks | 26 |
Sheffield Fulwood | 48 |
Sheffield Norfolk Street | 56 |
Sheffield Stannington | 24 |
Shrewsbury | 25 |
Sidmouth | 4 |
Southampton | 16 |
Southend-on-Sea | 3 |
Southport | 10 |
Stalybridge | 12 |
Stockport | 8 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 21 |
Stourbridge | 7 |
Styal | 24 |
Swansea | 12 |
Talgarreg | 8 |
Taunton | 13 |
Tenterden | 8 |
Torquay | 9 |
Trebanos | 19 |
Trowbridge | 20 |
Urmston | 46 |
Wakefield | 17 |
Warrington | 14 |
Warwick | 18 |
Watford | 11 |
Whitby | 7 |
Whitefield | 53 |
Wick | 10 |
Wirral | 19 |
Wolverhampton | 2 |
Worthing | 4 |
York | 40 |
