WEST KENT AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN

Registered charity 1166299 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEST KENT QUAKERS

Strengthening the life and witness of Quaker meetings . Spreading the message of Quakers. Undertaking Quakers service for the relief of suffering at home and abroad. Funding the concerns that Quakers meetings have adopted or agreed to support. Providing pastoral care to those in need of education. Maintaining Quaker meeting houses for places of worship.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF WEST KENT 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 WEST KENT AREA MEETING AND BEYOND.TO THAT END, THE CIO'S INCOME AND PROPERTY ARE USED SOLELY TO FURTHER THE AREA MEETING?S OBJECT BY WORK SUCH AS:I) STRENGTHENING THE LIFE AND WITNESS OF QUAKER MEETINGS BOTH IN THE AREA OF WEST KENT AREA MEETING AND BEYOND;II) SPREADING THE MESSAGE OF QUAKERS AND INTERPRETING AND DEVELOPING THE THOUGHT AND PRACTICE OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY;III) UNDERTAKING QUAKER SERVICE FOR THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING AT HOME AND ABROAD;IV) FUNDING THE CONCERNS THAT QUAKER MEETINGS IN THE AREA OF WEST KENT AREA MEETING OR BEYOND HAVE ADOPTED OR AGREED TO SUPPORT;V) PROVIDING FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS AND ATTENDERS INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO THOSE IN NEED AND FOR EDUCATION;VI) MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING QUAKER MEETING HOUSES AS PLACES FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP AND FROM WHICH TO CARRY OUR WITNESS INTO THE WORLD;VII) ADMINISTERING AND MAINTAINING THE ORGANISATION OF WEST KENT AREA MEETING AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE SUPPORT OF BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total unrestricted funds of £139,875 as of 31 March 2025, representing a net increase from the previous year's cash balance. Total incoming resources were £78,579 against total resources expended of £70,561, resulting in a positive net movement in funds. The charity holds significant assets retained for its own use, including meeting houses valued at over £4.7 million.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jill Russellchair
• Janet Aldyth Rowe
• Jill Clarke
• John Leonard Roberts
• Merrill Woolf
• Michael Evans

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

Operates in: Kent

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