In this blog I have repeatedly called attention to shrinking Unitarian numbers. However it is worth realising that not all Unitarian congregations are in decline. The picture is of course more complicated than that. Some decline, some stay static, some grow.
Membership numbers have now been reported in the Annual Report for enough years that it is meaningful to look at growth across this time.
If we look at the five years 2010-2015 we can see that in fact 32 Unitarian congregations grew in this period, though many of them by only one or two and so really within the margin of error for these kinds of numbers. Nevertheless some grew more substantially.
So the most growing Unitarian congregations 2010-2015 were:
|
Congregation
|
2010
|
2015
|
Change
|
|
Norwich
|
37
|
55
|
18
|
|
Hollywood
|
48
|
65
|
17
|
|
Golders Green
|
41
|
54
|
14
|
|
New Unity
|
70
|
83
|
13
|
|
Bangor*
|
0
|
10
|
10
|
|
Belper
|
4
|
13
|
9
|
|
Brighton
|
38
|
45
|
7
|
|
Doncaster
|
16
|
23
|
7
|
|
Leicester
|
26
|
33
|
7
|
|
Mansfield
|
50
|
57
|
7
|
|
Portsmouth
|
47
|
53
|
6
|
|
Sevenoaks
|
20
|
26
|
6
|
|
Wirral
|
20
|
26
|
6
|
|
Denton
|
5
|
10
|
5
|
|
Oxford
|
37
|
42
|
5
|
*Bangor is a new
congregation and wasn't registered in 2010
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