BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)
Registered charity 1127633 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as QUAKERS IN BRITAIN
Sustaining our church and faith; Supporting Quaker meetings; Promoting Quakerism; Witness through Action.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £4.4m for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £70.2m. The trustees confirm the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, citing robust income streams and a strong reserves position, while committing to a recovery plan to achieve a balanced budget by 2028.
Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Fundraising cost ratio: 11.1% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“For every £1 spent in 2024 on total costs of raising voluntary income for BYM centrally, £9 was received in donations, legacies and grants.”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: four months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £70.2m)
“Our reserves policy has been to maintain reserves at between 5.5- and 7.0-months running costs. Following an exercise to better understand the purpose of our restricted and designated funds and therefore utilise them fully we now believe a reserve target for unrestricted funds of four months would be more appropriate.”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)
Cost of raising funds
£5.0m
Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 41.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (16/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (27/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (07/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (16/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (30/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (08/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Maria Rosaria Johnsonchair
- Catherine Mary Brown
- Christopher Andrew Fotheringham
- Christopher Robert Jardine
- Elisabeth Helen Burch
- Elizabeth Josephine Redfern
- Elizabeth Margaret Law
- Friend Silas Johnson Price
- Joanna Louise Hills
- Kit Jonathan King
- PAUL CHAPPLE WHITEHOUSE
- Ruth McTighe · trustee of 3 other charities
- Teresa Jane Murray
- Ursula Dorothy Fuller · trustee of 1 other charity
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Belgium · Burundi · Ireland · Israel · Kenya · Scotland · Switzerland · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda
Income and spending
Common questions
Is BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) financially healthy?
Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £4.4m for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £70.2m. The trustees confirm the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, citing robust income streams and a strong reserves position, while committing to a recovery plan to achieve a balanced budget by 2028. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.
Who funds BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)?
Funders whose own accounts filings name BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) as a grant recipient include W F SOUTHALL TRUST, WORLD DAY OF PRAYER NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ENGLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND, HARDSHAW AND MANN AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN, THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY.
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