WEST WILTSHIRE AND EAST SOMERSET AREA MEETING

Registered charity 1134534 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH SOMERSET AND WILTSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING

Part of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): - supporting Quaker Meetings - spreading the Quaker message - undertaking service - funding concerns - providing pastoral care of Quakers in need - maintaining/developing Meeting Houses as places for worship and witness - administering the Area Meeting -supporting Britain Yearly Meeting

Objects

THE FURTHERANCE OF THE GENERAL RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE SOCIETY IN THE REGION OF WEST WILTSHIRE AND EAST SOMERSET AREA MEETING AND BEYOND

Area of benefit: WEST WILTSHIRE AND EAST SOMERSET.

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) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £85,993 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by significant legacy income and interest from investments. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted cash reserves totalled £365,130, which exceeds the trustees' calculated baseline requirement by approximately £100,000, providing a strong financial buffer for future property renovations and operational needs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CORA ROSE GALLAGHER
• Christopher James Douglas Pollock
• John Graham Flynn
• Juliet Anne Solomon
• Nicholas Edward Aslett
• Sally Louise Harris

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• WEST KENT AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £79k
• WORCESTERSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING income £118k
• LONDON WEST AREA QUAKER MEETING income £490k
• DORSET & SOUTH WILTSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING income £152k
• EAST CHESHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS income £152k
• SUSSEX EAST AREA QUAKER MEETING income £217k

Side by side with its peers

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