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.

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Latest income

£68k

Latest spending

£74k

Registered

2010

Accounts read

FY2025

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

Reserves policy: one quarter to one half of anticipated expenditure (held: £26k)

“The reserves policy aims to have a minimum level of unrestricted funds of one quarter of the anticipated expenditure for the forthcoming year, and a maxiumum desired level of one half of the anticipated expenditure.” — page 7

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)

“For this reason, the trustees consider that the charity is not a going concern and the Financial Statements have been prepared on a basis other than going concern; on a break up basis.” — page 7

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£68k	£74k
31/12/2024	£70k	£118k
31/12/2023	£74k	£74k
31/12/2022	£53k	£66k
31/12/2021	£25k	£52k

Common questions

Is QUAKERS IN YORKSHIRE financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds QUAKERS IN YORKSHIRE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name QUAKERS IN YORKSHIRE as a grant recipient include BRIGHOUSE WEST YORKSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN, PICKERING AND HULL AREA QUAKER MEETING.

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.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
BRIGHOUSE WEST YORKSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN	FY2024	£53k	Grants: Quakers in Yorkshire
BRIGHOUSE WEST YORKSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN	FY2023	£3k	Grants
BRIGHOUSE WEST YORKSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN	FY2023	£400	Donations to other Quaker bodies
PICKERING AND HULL AREA QUAKER MEETING	FY2024	£100	Grants paid to Other Quaker organisations
PICKERING AND HULL AREA QUAKER MEETING	FY2023	£100	Grants paid to Other Quaker organisations