HAMPSHIRE AND ISLANDS AREA QUAKER MEETING

Registered charity 1186058 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of Hampshire and Islands 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 Hampshire and Islands Area Meeting and beyond.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE 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 THE HAMPSHIRE AND ISLANDS MEETING AND BEYOND.

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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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total funds of £3,022,186 at the end of the year, representing a net movement in funds of £138,765. The trustees report that unrestricted and undesignated reserves of approximately £1,191,000 exceed their estimated reserves policy target of ~£474,000, resulting in an excess of ~£717,000.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~37.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dorothy Searle
• Marion Louise Penn
• Sheila Peacock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Ashley Stanek
• Susan Scott Taylor
• Theresa Linda Hall

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · Jersey

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HERTFORD AND HITCHIN AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS).

• HERTFORD AND HITCHIN AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) income £187k
• DORSET & SOUTH WILTSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING income £152k
• SUSSEX WEST AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £285k
• WEST WILTSHIRE AND EAST SOMERSET AREA MEETING income £214k
• DEVON AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £254k
• IPSWICH AND DISS AREA QUAKER MEETING income £181k

Side by side with its peers

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