Lancashire Central and North Area Quaker Meeting

Analysis

Lancashire Central and North Area Quaker Meeting is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancaster. It was registered in February 2010, 16 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 other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Lancashire Central and North Area Quaker Meeting reported income of £241k and spending of £287k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £160k to £241k (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 138% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Lancashire Central and North Area Quaker Meeting sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John, Lindow (£241k), Keren Shlomo Trust (£241k) and Hayes Lane Baptist Church (£241k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.