York Area Quaker Meeting

Analysis

York Area Quaker Meeting is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in York. It was registered in December 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it provides services and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, York Area Quaker Meeting reported income of £534k and spending of £455k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £400k to £534k (+33%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, York Area Quaker Meeting sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Derby Circuit of the Methodist Church (£532k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Holy Trinity, Nailsea (£534k) and Buckingham Parish Church (£531k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 54%, donations and legacies 41% and investments 1.7%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £64k. Charitable activities took 52% of spending and raising funds 42%. Grants to other organisations totalled £104k. Reserves of £1.4m would cover about 35 months of spending at that rate. It employed 12 people.