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Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1191435West YorkshireGrant-making and general purposes
Income£144k2025-12-31
Spending£120ksame year
Spent / received82%5-year average
Size in its cause83rd pctGrant-making and general purposes
Registered2020CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Yorkshire. It was registered in September 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain reported income of £144k and spending of £120k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £183k to £144k (-21%), an average of -5.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain 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 76th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ponosi Foundation (£144k), R G Hills Charitable Trust (£144k) and The UK Friends of Sumbandila Scholarship Trust (£144k).

Income and spending

£0£46k£91k£137k£183k2021 Income: £182,5052021 Spending: £85,04720212022 Income: £84,7932022 Spending: £78,77120222023 Income: £108,3102023 Spending: £122,50120232024 Income: £138,4472024 Spending: £135,68520242025 Income: £143,8272025 Spending: £119,5142025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The object of Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Meeting is the furtherance of the general religious & charitable purposes of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain in the area of BWYAM & beyond. Our principal activity is the holding of public meetings for worship according to Quaker tradition in the constituent local meetings of Bradford, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Huddersfield and Scholes

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Ponosi FoundationHounslow£144k
R G Hills Charitable TrustCanterbury£144k
The UK Friends of Sumbandila Scholarship TrustLondon£144k
Emley Show SocietyHuddersfield£144k