LONDON QUAKER SERVICE TRUST

Registered charity 1042735 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LONDON AND MIDDLESEX QUAKER SERVICE TRUST

MAKE GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS and ACTIVITIES CLOSELY IN SYMPATHY OR RUN BY THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS), PARTICULARLY THOSE WHICH BENEFIT PEOPLE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL/ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE A NEED OF EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND WHERE THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND DEVELOP MENTAL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES

Objects

TO FURTHER THE WORK OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATIONAL RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND DEVELOPING THEIR MENTAL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES

Area of benefit: THE AREA COVERED BY THE AREA MEETINGS IN THE LONDON REGION

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Greenwich, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£30k

Latest spending

£79k

Registered

1994

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £48,752 in 2025, primarily due to the use of reserves to fund grants. The trustees acknowledge that using reserves is not sustainable long-term and are negotiating a merger with another charity to complete before December 2026. Despite the deficit, total unrestricted funds remain at £1,232,493, which exceeds the stated reserves policy target of £50,000.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £50,000 (reserves figure: £1.2m)

“reserves are maintained at £50 000 to meet any further grant requests arising during the year, to safeguard against fluctuations in investment income and to ensure adequate cash flow” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

Stephen Peter Coxchair
Cherry Ann Simpkin · trustee of 5 other charities
Elizabeth Anne Victoria Charvet
Fiona Catherine Day
Jonathan George Lingham

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£30k	£79k
31/12/2024	£32k	£70k
31/12/2023	£33k	£86k
31/12/2022	£30k	£79k
31/12/2021	£31k	£174k

Common questions

Is LONDON QUAKER SERVICE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £48,752 in 2025, primarily due to the use of reserves to fund grants. The trustees acknowledge that using reserves is not sustainable long-term and are negotiating a merger with another charity to complete before December 2026. Despite the deficit, total unrestricted funds remain at £1,232,493, which exceeds the stated reserves policy target of £50,000. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
W F SOUTHALL TRUST	2	£55k
THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY	1	£26k
THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£8k
THE OAKDALE TRUST	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS).

BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) income £14.7m
NORTHUMBRIA AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £448k
TEESDALE AND CLEVELAND AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £177k
OXFORD AND SWINDON AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £370k
General Meeting of Young Friends in Britain income £26k
LEEDS AREA QUAKER MEETING income £232k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
LONDON QUAKER SERVICE TRUST	£30k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) FY2025	£14.7m	—	14	above	8.3%	no doubt
NORTHUMBRIA AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN FY2025	£448k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
TEESDALE AND CLEVELAND AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN FY2025	£177k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
OXFORD AND SWINDON AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN FY2025	£370k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
General Meeting of Young Friends in Britain FY2025	£26k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.