## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 

## (Quakers) 

Annual Report and Accounts for the Year Ending 31[st] December 2022 Charity Number 1191435 



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## **Administrative Details** 

## **Purpose and Constitution** 

The object of Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting is the furtherance of the general religious and charitable purposes of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain in the area of Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting and 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. 

Our governing document states that “Income and property are used to further our object by work such as: 

i) strengthening the life and witness of Quaker meetings both in the area of Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Meeting and beyond; 

ii) spreading the message of Quakers and interpreting and developing the thought and practice of the Religious Society; 

iii) undertaking Quaker service for the relief of suffering at home and abroad; 

iv) funding the concerns that Quaker meetings in the area of Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Meeting or beyond have adopted or agreed to support; 

v) providing for the pastoral care of individual members and attenders including assistance to those in need and for education; 

vi) maintaining and developing Quaker meeting houses as places for public worship and from which to carry our witness into the world; 

vii) administering and maintaining the organisation of Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Meeting and contributing to the support of Britain Yearly Meeting. “ 

Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) (BWYAM) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered with the Charity Commission in accordance with the Charities Act 2011, and is CIO number 1191435. Our governing document was adopted on 23/11/2020.  Memoranda of understanding specify the relationship between BWYAM and our constituent Local Meetings.  Area Meeting, Local Meetings and Trustees conduct their business in accordance with “Quaker Faith and Practice,” the book of Christian discipline of the yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. 

## **Address for Correspondence** 

The Area Meeting Clerk, Friends Meeting House, Church Street, Paddock, Huddersfield, HD1 4TR. 

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## **Managing Trustees and Officers** 

BWYAM has between 5 and 15 Trustees and a number of Officers appointed by the Area Meeting in session after nomination by the Area Meeting Nominations Committee.  Appointments are for three years with possible reappointment for up to two more terms (maximum 9 years in total). 

## **Trustees during 2022** 

Suzie Bogle Dawn Beck Chris Greaves (Treasurer) Jeanette Hattersley (Resigned 31/12/23) Deryck Hillas (Clerk) Rebecca Mattingly (Resigned 31/12/23) Jane Morris (Resigned 14/8/23) David Provis 

**Other Area Meeting Officers during 2022** Frank Sharman (Membership Clerk) Rosemary Daley (Meeting for Sufferings Rep) Jan Walters (Registering Officer) 

**Area Meeting Clerking Team until March 2022** Elizabeth Backhouse (Co-Clerk) Rachel Taylor (Co-Clerk) Alison Leonard (Co-Clerk) Jim Ledwidge (Co-Clerk) Jane Milne (Co-Clerk) Mo O’Ryan (Co-Clerk) Hazel Bone (Co-Clerk) 

**Area Meeting Clerking Team from March 2022** Mark Holtom (Coordinating Clerk) Richard Jarvis (Correspondence Clerk) Mo O'Ryan (Co-Clerk) Rachel Taylor (Co-Clerk) Jane Milne (Co-Clerk) 

## **Bankers** 

Cooperative Bank, 1 Balloon St, Manchester M60 4EP 

CAF Bank Ltd, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME9 4TA 

Skipton Building Society, The Bailey, Skipton, North Yorks BD23 1DN 

Triodos Bank, Brunel House, 11 The Promenade, Bristol BS8 3NN 

## **Custodian Trustee** 

Friends Trusts Ltd, Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ (Registered Charity 237698) 

## **Independent Examiner** 

Rhys North ACA, West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service CIO, Stringer House, 34 Lupton St, Leeds LS10 2QW 

## **Membership** 

Membership of BWYAM is granted by Area Meeting in session.  Non-members who regularly attend Meeting for Worship and take an active role in the life of one of our Local Meetings are referred to as “Attenders” to distinguish them from “Members”.  The Term “Friends” is used to include Members and Attenders.  On 31 December 2022 there were 137 Members and 90 Attenders as detailed below. 

||Bradford|Halifax|Hebden<br>Bridge|Hudd-<br>ersfield|Scholes|**Total**<br>**2022**|Total<br>2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Members**|22|9|58|40|8|**137**|143|
|**Attenders**|8|12|29|21|20|**90**|90|
|**Total**|30|21|87|61|28|**227**|233|



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## **Records** 

The Clerks and Treasurers of Local Meetings, Area Meeting and Trustees keep recent minutes and financial records. Minutes are regularly compiled and stored in the Brotherton Library at Leeds University along with corporate information such as deeds, our governing document, memoranda of understanding (between Area Meeting and Local Meetings) and policies. 

## **Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Meeting 2022** 

## **Introduction** 

An area meeting should “provide that balance between worship, mutual support, administration, learning, deliberation and social life which can make its meetings enjoyable” (Quaker Faith and Practice 4.02). 

Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Meeting comprises five Local Meetings: Bradford, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Huddersfield and Scholes.  Each meeting is unique and the life and times of each can be read in their own annual reports and in our own Area Meeting journal, “Meeting Points”. Some local meetings experienced reduced levels of attendance in early 2022 due to the effects of the Covid pandemic, but most meetings now report new growth and a rebuilding of their community. 

Through Local Meetings, we manage three Meeting Houses (Bradford, Huddersfield and Scholes) and three Legacies funded by departed Friends (Carole Killick, Marlene Maundrill and Edna Woodhouse). Hebden Bridge and Halifax Local Meeting hire or lease rooms for their meetings. 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

## **Worship** 

Public meetings for worship are usually held on Sundays by each Local Meeting.  This is the focus of our community.  These are traditional unprogrammed Quaker meetings where deep silence is valued as well as spoken ministry.  Area Meeting appoints Elders to support the spiritual life of each Local Meeting through activities such as discussions, presentations and individual spiritual support for those who need it. Some meetings use the term ‘spiritual advisor; for this role. 

Some of our meetings were held online meetings during 2022, some of which were blended with in person meeting for worship. However, there was a move back towards in person meetings as the year progressed.  A regular Thursday evening online meeting for worship was hosted by Hebden Bridge Meeting throughout 2022, which was available to Friends across the Area Meeting. This midweek meeting was laid down in January 2023, but a Wednesday evening online meeting held by Scholes continues and is open to all. Huddersfield Meeting began holding a two-hour 9.30am meeting for worship once a month from November 2022. 

## **Pastoral Care** 

Area Meeting appoints people to support pastoral care in each Local Meeting.  Variously referred to as pastoral carer, pastoral friend and or link friend, these people also provide a listening ear to individuals, facilitate supportive relationships, organise shared lunches and offer practical support often in the form of grants to individuals for education, spiritual development or to relieve hardship. 

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Some meetings currently arrange their pastoral care on an informal basis, rather than through specific appointments. 

## **Area Meetings:** 

Meetings for Area Meeting business were held bi-monthly during 2022, online early in the year and in person as the year progressed. 

## **Discussion and reading groups** 

Local meetings have held discussion groups and reading groups on a range of topics during the year, both online and in person. These are mostly held on Sundays after Meeting but some take place midweek. Meetings report the value of these groups in forging a stronger sense of community. 

## **Children and Young People** 

At the end of 2022 there were 22 children and young people under 16 recorded as involved in our Local Meetings, although actual numbers tend to be fluid.  Some Local Meetings have a Children’s Meeting which provides engaging activities for children whilst enabling parents to attend Meeting for Worship. Children usually attend a short period of worship before or after Children’s Meeting. Hebden Bridge meeting’s annual holiday at Barmoor included children as well as adults in 2022. Some of our young people (13 to 18) attended the Yorkshire Friends Holiday School.  We are also helping to fund a Yorkshire Youth Development Worker in collaboration with other Area Meetings. 

## **Outreach** 

Outreach activities undertaken in 2022 included: 

- Distribution of white poppies and laying of white poppy wreaths at remembrance events 

- A copy of the Friend has been supplied to Hebden Bridge and Todmorden Libraries by Hebden Bridge Local Meeting, although this ceased at the end of 2022 

- Our outreach web site is a gateway to local Quaker Meetings for those searching online. 

- Vigils and other peace and justice events involving Friends provide a visible local presence for Quaker witness in our communities 

## **Glenthorne Weekend** 

Bookings for the February 2023 Area Meeting Glenthorne weekend took place in late 2022, with a healthy level of take-up of places, including children. 

## **Sanctuary Everywhere** 

Our Local Meetings share a concern about our national hospitality for refugees and asylum seekers leading some to become Sanctuary Everywhere Meetings and Area Meeting has agreed to support Sanctuary Everywhere. We help local refugee support groups, in particular the Bradford East Africa Community, the Bradford Rohingya Community, the Bradford East Africa Community, the St Augustine’s Centre in Halifax and Sanctuary Kirklees. 

## **Climate Emergency and Peace Activism** 

Many local Friends were involved in numerous non-violent direct actions in 2022. 

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An Earth Vigil is held monthly At Huddersfield Meeting House in association with Extinction Rebellion to reflect on the roots of the crisis and our response to it. 

Local Friends have joined with others in their local areas in vigils relating to the war in Ukraine. 

We continue to support the Swords into Ploughshares group which is seeking to divert funds away from military purposes and towards humanitarian and eco-friendly purposes. 

Bradford Local Meeting purchases all its electricity from green energy sources and generates electricity from photovoltaic cells on the roof of its Meeting House. Scholes Local Meeting has set aside funds to do likewise. 

## **Concern about slavery and reparations:** 

Local meetings and Area meeting have spent time during 2022 considering the issue of racial justice / reparations for slavery. The results of discernment at Area Meeting were forwarded to Meeting for Sufferings. 

## **National and Regional Involvement** 

## _**Yearly Meeting Gathering**_ 

Friends from across our Area Meeting attended Britain Yearly Meeting gathering, which was held at Friends House and online with the theme: ‘faith, community and action’. Friends then shared the Epistle and issues covered at Yearly Meeting experiences with local Friends. 

## _**Meeting for Sufferings**_ 

Our representatives attended Meeting for Sufferings, the body which sets the direction for the work of Britain Yearly Meeting during the year.  We have received updates and advice on a range of issues. 

## _**Other Involvement**_ 

Several local Friends serve on national and regional Quaker bodies including: 

- Northern Friends Peace Board 

- Quaker Peace Studies Trust 

- Woodbrooke as tutors 

- Group to Reinvigorate and Simplify Structures and Processes (GRASP) 

- Ackworth School General Meeting 

- Quakers in Yorkshire 

- Quaker Peace and Social Witness 

Friends have also attended the following events 

- Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations conference 

- Quaker Peace and Social Witness Annual Conference and sub-committees 

- Quakers in Yorkshire 

Friends actively support a range of local causes 

- Bradford City of Sanctuary 

- Bradford East Africa Community 

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   - Bradford Peace Museum 

   - Bradford University Department of Peace Studies 

   - Bradford University Chaplaincy 

   - Calderdale Interfaith Council 

   - Calder Valley CND for Peace and Justice 

   - Destitute Asylum Seekers Huddersfield (DASH) 

   - Roots of Resistance 

   - St Augustine’s Centre in Halifax 

   - Sanctuary Kirklees 

   - West Yorkshire Campaign Against the Arms Trade 

   - Hebden Royd Christian Aid 

   - Women of Faith Network 

- On the international stage we have links with 

   - Moscow Friends Centre 

   - Quaker Congo Partnership 

## **Educational Grants** 

In addition to educational grants to individuals mentioned above, the Edna Woodhouse Legacy Fund, administered by Bradford Local Meeting, provides educational grants to Bradford College students experiencing financial hardship and financial support to individual Friends undertaking educational and creative activities. 

## **Ecumenical and Interfaith** 

Most Local Meetings are involved with their local Churches Together group and several Friends attend meetings of the Calderdale Women’s Interfaith Group. 

## **Libraries** 

Each Local Meeting maintains a Library of primarily Quaker reading material adding new works regularly throughout the year, many subscribing to journals such as “The Friend”. 

## **Plans for 2023** 

We will continue to support people in worship and spiritual growth and Area Meeting and Trustees will offer the guidance, training and resources needed to promote safe and effective conduct of Quaker activities.  We will continue our support of Friends and organisations involved in direct action to bring much needed attention to the ongoing climate emergency and in opposition to the arms trade and of groups involved in alleviating hardship for refugees and the homeless as well as those seeking to further the cause of peace. 

## **Merger with Halifax Meeting House Charity Trust (HMHCT)** 

It is anticipated that HMHCT will be wound up and its assets transferred to us in the first half of 2023. We aim to produce financial guidelines that embrace our current activities and our new responsibilities for managing the funds transferred from HMHCT. 

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## **Professionalisation of our Back Office** 

With increased financial responsibility and the ever-increasing need for accountability we aim to employ professional staff to assist with bookkeeping, financial management and administrative support. 

## **Glenthorne Weekend** 

Our Area Meeting weekend in the Lake District will go ahead in February 2023. 

## **Burial Grounds** 

The restoration of Idle Burial Ground and development of a strategy for all our burial grounds will be a significant project we hope to commence in 2023. 

## **Web Site** 

We hope to further develop our web site to help improve communication and organisation within our Area Meeting. 

## **Youth Development Worker** 

In collaboration with other Area Meetings, we will continue to fund a Youth Development Worker for Yorkshire.  We would like to provide around £7,000 per year for 2023 and 2024 and will seek funding from the Mem Maudrill Fund, the Edna Woodhouse Fund and Halifax Meeting House Charity Fund for this purpose. 

## **Trustees** 

Trustees met six times in 2022 to consider issues including those outlined below. 

## **Property** 

Meeting houses in Bradford, Huddersfield and Scholes are managed by their respective Local Meetings as well as burial grounds in Todmorden, Idle, Undercliffe and Newlands (Brighouse). Trustees consider expenditures above £1,000.  A new lease of the offices at Bradford Meeting House to Bradford African Community has improved our income and provides a meeting place for a local cultural group.  In 2022 we completed overdue quinquennial surveys of all our Meeting Houses and local meetings have already committed to implementing the repairs and improvements recommended therein. 

## **Employees** 

We employ a caretaker/lettings officer at Huddersfield Meeting House and use VAK (Voluntary Action Kirklees) to manage the associated payroll on our behalf.  She is enrolled in a pension scheme with The People’s Pension.  Line management of our employee is the responsibility of Huddersfield Local Meeting in accordance with conditions of employment set out by Trustees.  Trustees also ensure that self-employed contracts are in line with government definitions of self-employment. Hebden Bridge Meeting pays a local man on a self-employed basis to set out the meeting room on a Sunday morning. 

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## **Policies** 

We have the following polices 

- Reserves (renewed 2019) 

- Health and Safety (renewed 2019) 

- Safeguarding (renewed 2019) 

- Investment (renewed 2020) 

- Data Protection (2021) 

It is intended to develop a financial policy in 2023/24. 

## **Management of Risk** 

Trustees keep a risk register which identifies and prioritises risks in terms of likelihood and potential impact.  The register also identifies any mitigating systems in place to reduce the likelihood or impact of each risk. 

## **Trustees Responsibilities Statement** 

Trustees are required to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the charity’s financial activities during the year and its financial position at year end. Trustees should 

- Select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently 

- Make reasonable and prudent judgements and estimates 

- State whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the financial statement 

- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Charity will remain in operation. 

The trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records and safeguarding the assets of the charity. 

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## **Public Benefit Statement** 

Our public meetings for worship offer a safe space for anyone to experience traditional Quaker worship.  Rooms in our meeting houses are also available for hire by community groups that undertake activities that do not conflict with our charitable purpose. 

Local Meetings and our Legacy Funds make donations to charities and organisations that work in accord with our charitable purpose.  Beneficiaries in 2022 included: 

- Britain Yearly Meeting 

- Crawshawbooth Meeting House 

- Disasters Emergency Committee 

- Northern Friends Peace Board 

- Osmotherly Meeting House * 

- Peace Museum Bradford 

- Quaker Service Northern Ireland 

- Quaker Social Action 

- Quakers in Yorkshire 

- Scholarships for Street Kids 

- Welcome Centre 

## **Trustee Payments** 

No Trustees received any remuneration during the year or the previous year.  There were no related party transactions during the year or the previous year. 

## **Statement of Going Concern** 

Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting is vibrant, well funded and with assets that are well maintained.  The financial effects of Covid 19 were much diminished in 2022 as room hirings and investment property rentals returned.  The Trustees have assessed the charity’s ability to continue for at least 12 months from the date that the accounts are approved and are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties about the charity’s ability to meet its liabilities as they fall due. 

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## **Financial Review** 

There was a decrease in our funds of £1,211 during the year comprising an increase of £6,022 in unrestricted funds and a decrease of £7,233 in restricted funds. 

At year end our meetings hold unrestricted reserves of £102,732 in cash (including bank accounts) and £107,188 in investments.  The total reserves held by meeting funds exceed the target set in our reserves policy.  As shown in Note 9 in the accounts, some meetings are holding less than their target (Bradford, Huddersfield and Halifax Meetings) and others are holding more (Hebden Bridge, Scholes and Area Meetings). 

## **Funds in deficit** 

At 31 December 2022 the fund for paying quinquennial survey fees was in deficit by £3,960 and the fund for dissolution costs of Halifax Meeting House Charity was in deficit by £2,840.  The Halifax Meeting House Charity has agreed to provide grants which will clear these deficits. 

Signed: … Mark Holtom ………………  (Mark Holtom, Area Meeting Clerk) 

Date: 10/9/23 

Signed: …Deryck Hillas…………………  (Deryck Hillas, Clerk to Trustees) Date: 28/9/23 

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|Receipts andpayments account||||||||||
|for theyear ended 31 December 2022||||||||||
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|||Notes||||||||
||||2022||2022||2022||2021|
|||Unrestricted|||Restricted||Total||Total|
||||funds||funds||funds||funds|
||||£||£||£||£|
|**Receipts**||||||||||
|Voluntary income||(2)|48,024||6,742||54,766||63,001|
|Activities generating funds|||20,206||-||20,206||6,318|
|Investment income|||11,689||67||11,756||3,746|
|Other income|||106||-||106||5,171|
|Quaker activity income|||4,768||-||4,768||4,551|
|Investment sales||(3)|-||5,000||5,000||8,000|
|Transfer from unincorporated association|||-||-||-||91,718|
|**Total receipts**|||84,793||11,809||96,602||182,505|
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|**Payments**||||||||||
|Activities Generating Funds|||613||-||613||144|
|Premises Costs:||||||||||
|Improvements and maintenance|||21,261||3,400||24,661||20,776|
|Salaries and NI||(4)|6,348||-||6,348||5,875|
|Insurance|||2,956||-||2,956||2,837|
|Rent and rates|||7,615||1,917||9,532||7,130|
|Utilities and telephony|||12,163||425||12,588||8,273|
|Other premises costs|||3,868||4,460||8,328||2,179|
|Total Premises Costs|||54,211||10,202||64,413||47,070|
|Quaker Activity Costs:||||||||||
|Governance|||2,627||2,840||5,467||4,308|
|Grants and donations||(5)|16,695||6,000||22,695||25,891|
|Training and courses|||226||-||226||81|
|Residential retreats|||1,426||-||1,426||5,503|
|Other Quaker activity costs|||2,973||-||2,973||2,050|
|Total Quaker Activity Costs|||23,947||8,840||32,787||37,833|
|||||||||||
|**Totalpayments**|||78,771||19,042||97,813||85,047|
|**Net receipts /(payments)**|||6,022||(7,233)||(1,211)||97,458|
|||||||||||
|**Fund balances brought forward**|||96,710||748||97,458||-|
|<br>**Fund balances carried forward**||(6)|102,732||(6,485)||96,247||97,458|



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|Statement of assets and liabilities||||||||||
|as at 31 December 2022||||||||||
||||2022||2022||2022||2021|
|||Unrestricted|||Restricted||Total||Total|
||||£||£||£||£|
|**Cash funds**||||||||||
|Cash at bank:||||||||||
|BWYAM Current Account|||9,273||-||9,273||10,514|
|Bradford Meeting Current Account|||8,626||-||8,626||751|
|<br>Bradford Meeting Deposit Account|||4||-||4||4|
|<br>Edna Woodhouse Deposit Account|||-||315||315||248|
|<br>Halifax Meeting Current Account|||18,281||(6,800)||11,481||9,726|
|<br>Hebden Bridge Meeting Current Account|||24,734||-||24,734||23,418|
|<br>Huddersfield Meeting Current Account|||10,439||-||10,439||21,771|
|<br>Huddersfield Meeting Deposit Account|||20,464||-||20,464||20,409|
|<br>Scholes Legacy Building Society Account|||4,712||-||4,712||6,330|
|<br>Scholes Meeting Current Account|||6,119||-||6,119||4,111|
|<br>Cash in hand:||||||||||
|Bradford Meeting|||64||-||64||110|
|<br>Halifax Meeting|||16||-||16||16|
|<br>Scholes Meeting|||-||-||-||50|
|<br>**Total cash funds**|||102,732||(6,485)||96,247||97,458|
|||||||||||
|**Debtors and prepayments**|||||||2022||2021|
||||||||£||£|
|Debtors-Rental income|||||||3,036||548|
|Debtors-Glenthorne Fees|||||||2,318||-|
|Debtors-Halifax Meeting House Charity|||||||6,800||-|
|<br>Prepayments-Insurance|||||||-||1,891|
|<br>Other debtors-Gift Aid|||||||4,852||4,994|
||||||||17,006||7,433|
|||||||||||
|**Investment assets**|||||||2022||2021|
||||||||£||£|
|Bradford Meeting Investments|||||||18,342||20,521|
|<br>Edna Woodhouse Fund Investments|||||||8,248||14,620|
|Huddersfield Meeting Investments|||||||2,999||2,999|
|<br>Scholes Meeting Investments|||||||85,847||95,860|
||||||||115,436||134,000|
|||||||||||
|**Assets retained for the charity's own use at market value February 2021**|||||||2022||2021|
||||||||£||£|
|Bradford Meeting House|||||||170,000||170,000|
|<br>Huddersfield Meeting House|||||||295,000||295,000|
|<br>Scholes Meeting House|||||||145,000||145,000|
||||||||610,000||610,000|
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|**Liabilities**|||||||2022||2021|
||||||||£||£|
|Creditors-Glenthorne Retreat|||||||5,428||5,428|
|Creditors-Britain Yearly Meeting Huddersfield LM|||||||-||4,142|
|<br>Creditors-Other|||||||592||402|
|Accruals|||||||1,650||1,440|
||||||||7,670||11,412|
|The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on …………..……<br>10/9/23|||||||...…….|||
|Signed: ……………...………….….    (Trustee)<br>Deryck Hillas||||||||||
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|Name: ……………..…..………….<br>Deryck Hillas||||||||||



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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022 

**1 Accounting policies Basis of accounting** The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis. There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year. No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years. **Taxation** As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates. **Fund accounting** Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity. Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal. Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts. 

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||Notes to the accounts continued||||||||||||||
||for theyear ended 31 December 2022||||||||||||||
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|**2 **|**Voluntary income**|||||||2022||2022||2022||2021|
|||||||||Unrestricted||Restricted||Total||Total|
|||||||||funds||funds||funds||funds|
|||||||||£||£||£||£|
||Grants:||||||||||||||
||Halifax Meeting House Charity|||||||-||3,542||3,542||7,029|
||Quakers in Yorkshire|||||||-||3,200||3,200||1,330|
||HMRC Job Retention Scheme|||||||-||-||-||1,900|
||Kirklees Council|||||||-||-||-||8,500|
||Donations|||||||46,119||-||46,119||43,742|
||Bequests and legacies|||||||2,000||-||2,000||500|
|||||||||48,119||6,742||54,861||63,001|
|||||||||-95||||-95|||
|**3 **|**Investment sales**|||||||2022||2022||2022||2021|
|||||||||Unrestricted||Restricted||Total||Total|
|||||||||funds||funds||funds||funds|
|||||||||£||£||£||£|
||Edna Woodhouse Fund investments|||||||-||5,000||5,000||6,000|
||Bradford Meeting investments|||||||-||-||-||2,000|
|||||||||-||5,000||5,000||8,000|
||||||||||||||||
|**4 **|**Staffcosts and numbers**|||||||||||2022||2021|
|||||||||||||£||£|
||Gross salaries|||||||||||5,941||5,471|
||Pensions|||||||||||291||274|
||Payroll charges|||||||||||116||130|
|||||||||||||6,348||5,875|
||||||||||||||||
||The average number employees during the period<br>£60,000.|||||||was 1.  There w||ere no employees with emoluments above|||||
||||||||||||||||
||Defined contribution pension scheme|||||||||||2022||2021|
|||||||||||||£||£|
||Costs of the scheme to the charity for the year|||||||||||291||274|
||||||||||||||||
|**5 **|**Grants and donations**|||||||2022||2022||2022||2021|
|||||||||Unrestricted||Restricted||Total||Total|
|||||||||funds||funds||funds||funds|
|||||||||£||£||£||£|
||Contribution to Britain Yearly Meeting|||||||14,620||6,000||20,620||16,821|
||Donations to other Quaker bodies|||||||1,487||-||1,487||2,370|
||Donations to individuals|||||||588||-||588||-|
||Donations to non-Quaker bodies:||||||||||||||
||Bradford College|||||||-||-||-||4,000|
||Ackworth School|||||||-||-||-||2,000|
||St. Augustine's (from Hebden Bridge LM)|||||||-||-||-||700|
|||||||||16,695||6,000||22,695||25,891|



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||Notes to the accounts continued||||||||||||||
||for theyear ended 31 December 2022||||||||||||||
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|**6 **|**Restricted funds**|||||Balance b/f||Incoming||Outgoing||Transfers||Balance c/f|
|||||||£||£||£||£||£|
||Edna Woodhouse Legacy Fund|||||248||5,067||5,000||-||315|
||HMHC-Halifax Meeting House|||||-||2,342||2,342||-||-|
||<br>HMHC-Youth Worker|||||-||1,000||1,000||-||-|
||HMHC-Brighouse Burial Ground|||||-||200||200||-||-|
||HMHC-Quinquennial|||||-||-||3,960||-||(3,960)|
||HMHC-Dissolution Costs|||||-||-||2,840||-||(2,840)|
||QIY-Window|||||-||1,500||1,500||-||-|
||QIY-Brighouse Burial Ground|||||-||700||700||-||-|
||QIY-Floor Covering|||||-||1,000||1,000||-||-|
||Legacy-M Dix|||||500||-||500||-||-|
|||||||748||11,809||19,042||-||(6,485)|
||||||||||||||||
||**Fund name**|||||**Purpose of restriction**|||||||||
||Edna Woodhouse Legacy Fund|||||This fund was created by a legacy of £50,000 and is used for<br>people attendingconferences and educational courses.||||||||the benefit of|
||HMHC-Halifax Meeting House|||||To support Halifax Local Meeting's rental costs.|||||||||
||HMHC-Youth Worker|||||To contribute towards the cost of a regional youth development worker.|||||||||
||HMHC-Brighouse Burial Ground|||||Towards the costs of the Brighouse Newlands burial ground.|||||||||
||HMHC - Quinquennial|||||To support quinquennial survey fees; the grant being outstanding at 31<br>December 2022.|||||||||
||HMHC - Dissolution Costs|||||To reimburse legal costs paid by the CIO on behalf of HMHC; the grant<br>beingoutstandingat 31 December 2022.|||||||||
||QIY-Window|||||Towards costs of improving ventilation at the Huddersfield meeting house.|||||||||
||QIY-Brighouse Burial Ground|||||Towards the maintenance costs of the Brighouse Newlands burial ground.|||||||||
||QIY - Floor Covering|||||Towards costs of changing the floor covering at the Huddersfield meeting<br>house.|||||||||
||Legacy-M Dix|||||For improvements to Huddersfield meeting house.|||||||||
||||||||||||||||
|**7 **|**Related party transactions**||||||||||||||
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||**Trustee e**~~**x**~~**penses**||||||||||||||
||No trustee received any expenses|||||during this year or the previous year.|||||||||
||||||||||||||||
||**Trustee r**~~**e**~~**muneration and benefits**||||||||||||||
||No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||
||**Independent Examiner Fees**||||||||||||||
||During the period West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service was paid £1,440 as the charity's<br>Independent Examiner||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||
|**8 **|**Funds held as agent**|||||||Balance b/f||Incoming||Outgoing||Balance c/f|
|||||||||£||£||£||£|
||Funds collected on behalf of other organisations|||||||-||1,746||1,390||356|
|||||||||-||1,746||1,390||356|



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||Notes to the accounts continued||||||||||||||
||for theyear ended 31 December 2022||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||
|**6 **|**Restricted funds**|||||Balance b/f||Incoming||Outgoing||Transfers||Balance c/f|
|||||||£||£||£||£||£|
||Edna Woodhouse Legacy Fund|||||248||5,067||5,000||-||315|
||HMHC-Halifax Meeting House|||||-||2,342||2,342||-||-|
||<br>HMHC-Youth Worker|||||-||1,000||1,000||-||-|
||HMHC-Brighouse Burial Ground|||||-||200||200||-||-|
||HMHC-Quinquennial|||||-||-||3,960||-||(3,960)|
||HMHC-Dissolution Costs|||||-||-||2,840||-||(2,840)|
||QIY-Window|||||-||1,500||1,500||-||-|
||QIY-Brighouse Burial Ground|||||-||700||700||-||-|
||QIY-Floor Covering|||||-||1,000||1,000||-||-|
||Legacy-M Dix|||||500||-||500||-||-|
|||||||748||11,809||19,042||-||(6,485)|
||||||||||||||||
||**Fund name**|||||**Purpose of restriction**|||||||||
||Edna Woodhouse Legacy Fund|||||This fund was created by a legacy of £50,000 and is used for<br>people attendingconferences and educational courses.||||||||the benefit of|
||HMHC-Halifax Meeting House|||||To support Halifax Local Meeting's rental costs.|||||||||
||HMHC-Youth Worker|||||To contribute towards the cost of a regional youth development worker.|||||||||
||HMHC-Brighouse Burial Ground|||||Towards the costs of the Brighouse Newlands burial ground.|||||||||
||HMHC - Quinquennial|||||To support quinquennial survey fees; the grant being outstanding at 31<br>December 2022.|||||||||
||HMHC - Dissolution Costs|||||To reimburse legal costs paid by the CIO on behalf of HMHC; the grant<br>beingoutstandingat 31 December 2022.|||||||||
||QIY-Window|||||Towards costs of improving ventilation at the Huddersfield meeting house.|||||||||
||QIY-Brighouse Burial Ground|||||Towards the maintenance costs of the Brighouse Newlands burial ground.|||||||||
||QIY - Floor Covering|||||Towards costs of changing the floor covering at the Huddersfield meeting<br>house.|||||||||
||Legacy-M Dix|||||For improvements to Huddersfield meeting house.|||||||||
||||||||||||||||
|**7 **|**Related party transactions**||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||
||**Trustee e**~~**x**~~**penses**||||||||||||||
||No trustee received any expenses|||||during this year or the previous year.|||||||||
||||||||||||||||
||**Trustee r**~~**e**~~**muneration and benefits**||||||||||||||
||No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||
||**Independent Examiner Fees**||||||||||||||
||During the period West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service was paid £1,440 as the charity's<br>Independent Examiner||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||
|**8 **|**Funds held as agent**|||||||Balance b/f||Incoming||Outgoing||Balance c/f|
|||||||||£||£||£||£|
||Funds collected on behalf of other organisations|||||||-||1,746||1,390||356|
|||||||||-||1,746||1,390||356|



Edna Woodhouse Legacy Fund This fund was created by a legacy of £50,000 and is used for the benefit of people attending conferences and educational courses. HMHC - Halifax Meeting House To support Halifax Local Meeting's rental costs. HMHC - Youth Worker To contribute towards the cost of a regional youth development worker. HMHC - Brighouse Burial Ground Towards the costs of the Brighouse Newlands burial ground. HMHC - Quinquennial To support quinquennial survey fees; the grant being outstanding at 31 

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||Notes to the accounts continued|Notes to the accounts continued|Notes to the accounts continued|Notes to the accounts continued|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||for theperiod ended 31 December 2022||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||
|**9 **|**Reserves**|Bradford||Halifax||Hebden<br>Bridge||Huddersfield||Scholes||Area<br>Meeting||**Total**|
||General|20,000||7,000||12,000||25,000||15,000||7,000||86,000|
||Repair & Maintenance|17,000||5,000||-||20,000||20,000||-||62,000|
||Emergency|5,000||-||2,000||-||-||-||7,000|
||Projects:||||||||||||||
||Children’s room/kitchen|-||-||-||-||30,000||-||30,000|
||New carpeting|-||-||-||-||5,000||-||5,000|
||Installation of solar panels|-||-||-||-||1,000||-||1,000|
||Agreed Reserves|42,000||12,000||14,000||45,000||71,000||7,000||191,000|
||||||||||||||||
||**Actual Reserves at 31 December 2022:**||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||
||Bank and Cash Reserves|8,694||18,297||24,734||30,903||10,831||9,273||102,732|
||Investment Reserves|18,342||-||-||2,999||85,847||-||107,188|
|||27,036||18,297||24,734||33,902||96,678||9,273||209,920|



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