Hertford and Hitchin Area Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Analysis

Hertford and Hitchin Area Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bedfordshire. It was registered in September 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2024, Hertford and Hitchin Area Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) reported income of £187k and spending of £180k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2024, income grew from £165k to £187k (+13%), an average of +4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Hertford and Hitchin Area Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of the Isles of Scilly (£187k), Sutton Coldfield Methodist Church (£188k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford (£187k).

Data notes from the register: The regulator lists this charity's latest annual return or accounts as overdue.