Dorset & South Wiltshire Area Quaker Meeting

Analysis

Dorset & South Wiltshire Area Quaker Meeting is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorchester. It was registered in November 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07900649). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Dorset & South Wiltshire Area Quaker Meeting reported income of £152k and spending of £179k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £95k to £152k (+61%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Dorset & South Wiltshire Area Quaker Meeting sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Celestial Church of Christ (Covenant of God Parish) (£152k), The Ingram Art Foundation (£152k) and The Jewel Foundation (£152k).

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.