HARDSHAW AND MANN AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN

Registered charity 1134522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of the Hardshaw and Mann Area Meeting is the furtherance of the general religious and charitable purposes of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain in the area of Hardshaw and Mann Area Meeting and beyond.

Objects

THE FURTHERANCE OF THE GENERAL RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN IN THE AREA OF THE HARDSHAW AND MANN MEETING AND BEYOND

Area of benefit: HARDSHAW AND MANN

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds substantial total net assets of £6,114,558, primarily comprised of fixed assets valued at £5,057,066. However, free unrestricted reserves are significantly lower at £195,507, which the trustees state are sufficient to cover 12 months of running costs. The accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xaviers Accountants Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~135.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 58.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ERIC SILK · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jai James Brierley
• Liese Lottie Van Alwon
• Margaret Smith
• Shanthini Cawson

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Wigan

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORCESTERSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING.

• WORCESTERSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING income £118k
• HERTFORD AND HITCHIN AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) income £187k
• BANBURY & EVESHAM AREA QUAKER MEETING CHARITIES income £139k
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLANDS AREA QUAKER MEETING income £268k
• NORFOLK & WAVENEY AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS income £303k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £226k

Side by side with its peers

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