QUAKERS IN YORKSHIRE

Registered charity 1139514 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YORKSHIRE GENERAL MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, YORKSHIRE QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

Finds ways of explaining Quakerism to the wider public through outreach events and arts activities. Holds 4 general open meetings to discuss topics of current interest and exercise responsibilities. Provides learning holidays for children & young people. Offers grants for meeting house repairs and extensions and helping individual Quakers in need.Administers linked Rawdon Friends School Trust.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF QUAKERS IN YORKSHIRE IS THE FURTHERANCE OF THE GENERAL RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY IN THE AREAS OF THE PARTICIPANT MEETINGS AND BEYOND.

Area of benefit: YORKSHIRE

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

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Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is preparing its financial statements on a break-up basis rather than as a going concern, due to an agreed merger with seven Area Meetings to form a new charity expected within the next twelve months. Despite this impending dissolution, the charity held total net assets of £906,097 at the year end, comprising unrestricted, restricted, and endowment funds.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Quakers in Yorkshire — “Jo and Craig explain their new outreach project to families, funded by Quakers in Yorkshire.” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Arthur David Olverchair
• Christine Abbott
• Dawn Beck · trustee of 1 other charity
• Friend Roy Love
• Judith Ann Shorney
• Patricia Gerwat
• Ruth McTighe · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · City Of York · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kingston Upon Hull City · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire · Sheffield City

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Dawn Beck — trustee here and at BRIGHOUSE WEST YORKSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

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

• YORK AREA QUAKER MEETING income £534k
• WEST WILTSHIRE AND EAST SOMERSET AREA MEETING income £214k
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING income £193k
• WEST KENT AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £79k
• MANCHESTER AND WARRINGTON AREA QUAKER MEETING (RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS) income £1.1m
• WORCESTERSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING income £118k

Side by side with its peers

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