THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING CHARITIES

Registered charity 1202955 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The CIO undertakes activities to advance the interests of the general religious and charitable purposes of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain within Cambridgeshire and beyond. Income and property are used solely to further the CIOs object through initiatives that support Quaker beliefs, values and to undertake worship, as well as providing pastoral care for members and attenders

Objects

THE FURTHERANCE OF THE GENERAL RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN IN THE AREA OF THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE 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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence, with unrestricted reserves of £852,832 held at the end of 2025. The trustees report a good state of health, noting that the charity does not make public appeals but raises money through member contributions, room hires, and property rents. While a new reserves policy is being developed, the charity maintains significant designated building funds and holds total net assets of £15,409,214.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Prentis & Co LLP. Discloses 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham Waterhousechair
• Dr DOROTHY BALL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Elizabeth Megson
• Martin Harnor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Denmead
• Professor David Felix Buscher · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

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
• DEVON AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £254k
• NORTHUMBRIA AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £232k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £226k
• WEST WILTSHIRE AND EAST SOMERSET AREA MEETING income £214k
• OXFORD AND SWINDON AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £370k

Side by side with its peers

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