East Cheshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

Analysis

East Cheshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in January 1973, 53 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, East Cheshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends reported income of £152k and spending of £129k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £14k to £152k (+965%), an average of +81% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 1219%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, East Cheshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 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 Upper Thames Methodist Circuit (£152k), Lighthouse Christian Ministries (Upc) (£152k) and The Bridge Christian Fellowship Temple Fortune (£152k).