Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Charity number 1191435
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 December 2024
Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2024
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 9|
|Examiner's report|10|
|Receipts and payments account|11|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|12|
|Notes to the accounts|14 to 18|
## **Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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# Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Trustees' report for the year ended 31 December 2024
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position Dates** Deryck Hillas Clerk Resigned 31 December 2024 Janet Walters Clerk Appointed 1 January 2025 Chris Greaves Treasurer Resigned 31 December 2024 Deryck Hillas Treasurer Appointed 1 January 2025 David Provis Resigned 31 December 2024 Suzie Bogle Resigned 31 December 2024 Dawn Beck Rachel Taylor Janet Walters Rosemary Daley Appointed 1 January 2025 Graham Prescott Appointed 9 March 2025 **Charity number** 1191435 Registered in England and Wales **Registered and principal address** Friends Meeting House Church Street Paddock Huddersfield HD1 4TR
Resigned 31 December 2024 Appointed 1 January 2025 Resigned 31 December 2024 Appointed 1 January 2025 Resigned 31 December 2024 Resigned 31 December 2024
Registered in England and Wales
## **Bankers**
Cooperative Bank, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester M60 4EP CAF Bank Limited, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME9 4TA Skipton Building Society, The Bailey, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 1DN Triodos Bank, Brunel House, 11 The Promenade, Bristol BS8 3NN
## **Custodian Trustee**
Friends Trusts Ltd, Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ (Registered Charity 237698)
## **Independent examiner**
Rhys North ACA
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024
## **Structure, governance and management**
Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain (BWYAM) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) formed on 23 September 2020 and is governed by a constitution. Memoranda of understanding specify the relationship between BWYAM and its 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.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
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-year terms with the option for reappointment for a second term, and in exceptional cases, a third term (maximum 9 years in total).
## **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 2024 there were 133 Members and 81 Attenders as detailed below:
## **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.
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
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 Meeting and beyond.
## **The charity's main activities**
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.
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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024
## **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”.
Through Local Meetings, we manage three Meeting Houses (Bradford, Huddersfield and Scholes) and Hebden Bridge and Halifax Local Meeting hire or lease rooms for their meetings. The Area Meeting through the Trustee body also manages three burial grounds not attached to Meeting Houses at Idle (Bradford), Newlands (Brighouse) and Shewbread (Todmorden).
## **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.
All five local meetings hold a weekly Sunday morning Meeting for Worship in person. Hebden Bridge meeting has also continued with an online meeting every Sunday, which is sometimes ‘blended’.
A Wednesday evening online meeting is held by Scholes and is open to all. Hebden Bridge Meeting also now holds a public midweek evening meeting for worship on the second Wednesday of each month in Todmorden which started in September 2024. Huddersfield Meeting holds a two-hour 9.30am meeting for worship once a month. Some meetings have held special all-age meeting events, especially around Christmas time.
## **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. Some meetings currently arrange their pastoral care on an informal basis, or through the use of ‘circles’, rather than through specific appointments.
## **Safeguarding**
Safeguarding issues have arisen during the year but these have been dealt with sensitively in accordance with our Safeguarding Policy.
## **Area Meetings**
Meetings for Area Meeting business were held bi-monthly during 2024, online in January and in person for all other meetings.
## **Discussion and reading groups**
Local meetings have held study 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. A very successful event took place on 1[st ] June, 2024 in association with staff from Woodbrooke entitled ‘ Hope as a Practice’.
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# Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024
## **Achievements and performance continued**
## **Children and Young People**
At the end of 2024 there were 19 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 2024. 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 2024 included:
- l Distribution of white poppies and laying of white poppy wreaths at remembrance events.
- l Vigils and other peace and justice events involving Friends providing a visible local presence for Quaker witness in our communities.
- l Our outreach website is a gateway to local Quaker Meetings for those searching online.
## **Glenthorne Weekend**
The Area Meeting Glenthorne weekend in the Lake District took place in November 2024, with a full house and a wide range of ages present. Plans are under way for another Glenthorne weekend in February 2026.
## **Support for refugees and asylum seekers**
Our Local Meetings share a concern about our national hospitality for refugees and asylum seekers leading some to become Sanctuary Everywhere Meetings. We help local refugee support groups, in particular the Bradford African Community, the Bradford Community Alliance, the St Augustine’s Centre in Halifax and Sanctuary Kirklees. Huddersfield Meeting House hosts the offices of Immigration and Asylum Support Kirklees (IASK)
## **Climate Emergency and Peace Activism**
Local Friends were involved in a range of non-violent direct actions in 2024:
- l Monthly Peace and Justice vigils are held in Huddersfield town centre.
- l Local Friends have continued their links with Quaker Roots in nonviolent direct action activities including at the Excel weapons exhibition in September 2024 and through links with Northern Friends Peace Board.
- l Area Meeting clerks sent letters to party leaders regarding the importance of keeping/establishing roles of minister/shadow minister for Peace and Disarmament.
- l Local Friends have joined with others in their local areas in vigils relating to the war in Ukraine.
- l Local Friends are centrally involved in 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. Huddersfield Meeting purchases its electricity and gas from Ecotricity, a not-for-profit company that supplies 100% green electricity and carbon neutral gas.
## **National and Regional Involvement**
## **Yearly Meeting**
Friends of all ages from across our Area Meeting attended Yearly Meeting which was held at Friends House, London and on-line from 26[th] to 30[th] July 2024. Friends then shared the Epistle and issues covered at Yearly Meeting experiences with local Friends.
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# Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024
## **Achievements and performance continued**
## **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.
## **Yorkshire Quaker Governance Group**
Throughout 2024, the Area Meeting was represented on the Yorkshire Quaker Governance Group which has been meeting regularly to consider the proposal to replace the current seven Area Meeting charities and the existing Quakers in Yorkshire (QIY) charity with one Yorkshire wide charity to be called ‘Yorkshire Quakers’. The new charity will be responsible for the finances, employment of staff, properties, and regulatory requirements over the QIY region. This will enable Area Meetings to concentrate on supporting worship and witness as they will no longer be separately registered charities and follows similar developments to simplify Quaker structures and processes taking place in Wales, Scotland and London.
## **Other Involvement**
Several local Friends serve on national and regional Quaker bodies including:
- l Northern Friends Peace Board
- l Quaker Peace Studies Trust
- l ‘Woodbrooke’ as tutors
- l Quakers in Yorkshire
- l Ackworth School General Meeting
- l Quaker Council for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR)
Friends have also attended a number of events including:
- l Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations conference
- l Quakers in Yorkshire
Friends actively support a range of local causes:
- l Bradford Community Alliance
- l Bradford African Community
- l Bradford Peace Museum
- l Bradford University Department of Peace Studies
- l Calderdale Interfaith Council
- l Calder Valley CND for Peace and Justice
- l Immigration and Asylum Support Kirklees
- l Roots of Resistance
- l St Augustine’s Centre in Halifax
- l Sanctuary Kirklees
- l West Yorkshire Campaign Against the Arms Trade
- l Hebden Royd Christian Aid
- l Women of Faith Network
On the international stage we have links with:
- l Moscow Friends Centre
- l Quaker Congo Partnership
## **Educational Grants**
This year, in addition to educational grants to individuals mentioned above, the Edna Woodhouse Legacy Fund, administered by Bradford Local Meeting, supported the Yorkshire Youth Development Worker in their work providing fun educational resources and activities for our young people.
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# Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024
## **Achievements and performance continued**
## **Ecumenical and Interfaith**
Most Local Meetings are involved with their local Churches Together group and several Friends attend meetings of the Calderdale 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 2025**
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 for groups involved in alleviating hardship for refugees and the homeless as well as those seeking to further the cause of peace.
## **Halifax Meeting House Charity Trust (HMHCT)**
In August 2023 HMHCT resolved that it would be wound up and BWYAM agreed to receive their assets. We appointed Lupton Fawcett, Solicitors, to assist in the winding up process which was completed with the Charity Commission in February 2024. The transfer of the assets of the HMHCT to the Area Meeting was finally completed by 19/12/2024. All the assets were assigned to a new designated Area Meeting Grant Fund to support Halifax Meeting and the furtherance of Quaker work in other parts of the Area Meeting.
## **Professionalisation of our Back Office**
For several years, we have paid for bookkeeping and accountancy services from an Attender at one of our Meetings which provides considerable help to local Meeting treasurers.
## **Website**
Our Website Development Manager has further developed our website to help improve communication and organisation within our Area Meeting and arranged for its transfer to the national Quaker Meetings Network platform.
## **Youth Development Worker**
In collaboration with other Area Meetings, we provide funds for a Youth Development Worker for Yorkshire. The contribution of £7,000 for 2024 included funding from the Carol Killick Fund, the Edna Woodhouse Fund and some private donations. We have agreed to continue this support during the three year period from 2025 to 2028.
## **Trustees**
Trustees met five times in 2024 to consider issues including those outlined below.
## **Property**
Meeting houses in Bradford, Huddersfield and Scholes are managed by their respective Local Meetings whilst the burial grounds at Shewbread (Todmorden), Idle (Bradford) and Newlands (Brighouse) are managed by trustees. Trustees consider all items of expenditure above £1,000. A lease of the offices at Bradford Meeting House to Bradford African Community provides a significant income and a meeting place for a local cultural group. Between 31/01/2022 and 5/03/2022, a local firm of architects carried out thorough quinquennial surveys on the three Meeting Houses which were received in April 2022. During 2024, Trustees have continued to receive regular reports from Friends in these meetings concerning the work undertaken to address issues requiring attention that were identified in these reports.
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Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the
## Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024
## **Employees**
We employ a caretaker/lettings officer at Huddersfield Meeting House and use Third Sector Leaders to manage the associated payroll on our behalf. Line management of our employee is the responsibility of Huddersfield Local Meeting in accordance with conditions of employment set out by Trustees.
## **Policies**
We have the following polices:
- l Reserves (renewed 2019)
- l Health and Safety (renewed 2024)
- l Safeguarding (renewed 2024)
- l Investment (renewed 2020)
- l Data Protection (2021)
- l Privacy (2021) l Lettings (2024)
## **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.
## **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 hold collections in order to make donations to charities and organisations that work in accord with our charitable purposes. Beneficiaries in 2024 included:
- l The Welcome Centre
- l Quaker Social Action
- l Ramallah Friends School
- l CRESST: conflict resolution education
- l Amos Trust, part of Hebron International Resource Network
- l Shared Goods
- l Ruddis Retreat
- l Medical Aid for Palestinians
- l Brummana High School
- l Quaker Housing Trust
- l Scholarships for Street Kids
- l Disasters Emergency Committee
- l Friends World Committee for Consultation
- l Step 2
- l Campaign Against the Arms Trade
- l Quaker Congo Partnership
- l Prisoners’ Education Trust
- l Happy Days UK
- l Todmorden Food Drop-In
- l Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Our Local Meetings also supported financially several Meeting House Appeals that were brought to our attention.
## **Statement of Going Concern**
Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting is well-funded and with assets that are well maintained. 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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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2024
## **Financial review**
The net receipts for the year were £2,762, including net receipts of £159 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £2,603 on restricted funds.
## **Reserves policy**
At year end we held unrestricted funds comprising £88,700 in cash (including bank accounts) and £607,394 in investments. The need for maintaining reserves is determined by each local meeting and include general risk management, repairs and maintenance and planned projects. We recognise that total reserves held by meeting funds exceed the target of £165,000 set in our reserves policy. Some meetings are holding less than their target (Bradford, Huddersfield and Halifax Meetings) and others are holding more (Hebden Bridge, Scholes and Area Meeting) - as shown in Note 10 to the accounts. The principal reason for the excess reserves being held, when including investments, is due to the holding by the Area Meeting investments (valued at £503,590 at 31 December 2024) transferred to the CIO by the Halifax Meeting House Charity in 2024.
## **Funds in deficit**
The fund for burial grounds maintenance was in deficit by £935 and Quakers in Yorkshire agreed to provide a grant for this amount, which was received in February 2025. The fund for HMHC was in deficit by £4,103 and this fund will be repaid once additional funds have either been released from transferred HMHC investments or if surplus investment income from these investments is available in year.
Approved by the board of trustees on …………..……...…….
Signed: ………………..…………. (Trustee)
Name: ……………..…..………….
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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Brighouse West
## Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 December 2024, which are set out on pages 11 to 18.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the CIO's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed: …………………………………… Name: Rhys North ACA
Date: …………………….
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 December 2024
|Notes
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Voluntary income
(2)
62,447
Activities generating funds
29,049
Investment income
15,518
Other income
3,820
Quaker activity income
6,235
Investment sales
(3)
7,000
Donation from Halifax Meeting House Charity
-
-
**Total receipts**
124,069
**Payments**
Activities Generating Funds
269
Premises Costs:
Improvements and maintenance
39,089
Salaries and NI
(4)
7,482
Insurance
3,743
Rent and rates
11,979
Utilities and telephony
19,580
Other premises costs
1,253
Total Premises Costs
83,126
Quaker Activity Costs:
Governance
4,151
Grants and donations
(5)
22,856
Training and courses
-
Residential retreats
6,828
Other Quaker activity costs
3,680
Total Quaker Activity Costs
37,515
Other Costs:
Investment purchases
3,000
**Total payments**
123,910
**Net receipts / (payments)**
159
**Fund balances brought forward**
88,541
**Fund balances carried forward**
(6)
88,700|2024
Restricted
funds
£
3,580
-
1,105
-
-
4,496
5,197
-
14,378
-
6,315
-
-
-
-
-
6,315
-
5,460
-
-
-
5,460
-
11,775
2,603
(7,641)
(5,038)|2024
Total
funds
£
66,027
29,049
16,623
3,820
6,235
11,496
5,197
-
138,447
269
45,404
7,482
3,743
11,979
19,580
1,253
89,441
4,151
28,316
-
6,828
3,680
42,975
3,000
135,685
2,762
80,900
83,662|2023
Total
funds
£
57,946
23,443
13,200
50
3,419
21,000
-
119,058
317
39,467
6,836
3,181
11,829
17,004
4,479
82,796
6,579
33,536
690
7,295
3,192
51,292
-
134,405
(15,347)
96,247
80,900|
|---|---|---|---|
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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the
## Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Statement of assets and liabilities
|as at 31 December 2024
2024
2024
Unrestricted
Restricted
£
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank:
BWYAM Current Account
8,368
(5,038)
BWYAM Deposit
1,817
-
Bradford Meeting Current Account
1,260
-
Bradford Meeting Deposit Account
8,439
-
Edna Woodhouse Deposit Account
1
-
Edna Woodhouse Savings Account
-
-
Halifax Meeting Current Account
5,156
-
Halifax Meeting Deposit Account
5,035
-
Hebden Bridge Meeting Current Account
25,733
-
Huddersfield Meeting Current Account
14,141
-
Huddersfield Meeting Deposit Account
16,208
-
Scholes Meeting Current Account
2,489
-
Cash in hand:
Bradford Meeting
53
-
Halifax Meeting
-
-
88,700
(5,038)
**Debtors and prepayments**
Debtors - Rental income
Debtors - Energy
Debtors - Halifax Meeting House Charity
Debtors - Quakers in Yorkshire
Prepayments - Residentials
Prepayments - Insurance
Other debtors - Gift Aid
**Investment assets**
Area Meeting Grants Fund
Bradford Meeting Investments
Edna Woodhouse Fund Investments - restricted
Huddersfield Meeting Investments
Scholes Meeting Investments
**Assets retained for the charity's own use at market value February 2021**
Bradford Meeting House
Huddersfield Meeting House
Scholes Meeting House|2024
Total
£
3,330
1,817
1,260
8,439
1
-
5,156
5,035
25,733
14,141
16,208
2,489
53
-
83,662
2024
£
862
175
-
-
200
2,651
5,796
9,684
2024
£
503,590
23,633
-
2,999
77,172
607,394
2024
£
170,000
295,000
145,000
610,000|2023
Total
£
1,178
-
1,561
2,504
388
-
10,898
-
24,646
15,019
15,765
8,822
44
75
80,900
2023
£
3,360
559
11,028
1,400
848
2,252
6,021
25,468
2023
£
-
19,610
4,224
2,999
71,728
98,561
2023
£
170,000
295,000
145,000
610,000|
|---|---|---|
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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the
## Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Statement of assets and liabilities
## as at 31 December 2024
|**Liabilities**
Creditors - Quakers in Yorkshire
Creditors - Utilities
Creditors - Rent
Creditors - Other
Accruals - Independent examination fee
Other creditors - Pension costs|2024
£
680
385
548
753
1,650
55
4,071|2023
£
-
4,931
533
-
1,650
53
7,167|
|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on …………..……...…….
Signed: ……………...………….…. (Trustee)
Name: ……………..…..………….
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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 2024
## **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.
Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes.
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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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious
## Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2024
|**2 Voluntary income**
Grants:
Quakers in Yorkshire
Halifax Meeting House Charity
Sir James Reckitt Charity
Donations
Bequests and legacies
**3 Investment sales**
Edna Woodhouse Fund investments
Scholes Meeting Investments
Total
**4 Staff costs and numbers**
Gross salaries
Pensions
Payroll charges|2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
52,618
9,829
62,447
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
7,000
7,000|2024
Restricted
funds
£
2,580
-
-
1,000
-
3,580
2024
Restricted
funds
£
4,496
-
4,496|2024
Total
funds
£
2,580
-
-
53,618
9,829
66,027
2024
Total
funds
£
4,496
7,000
11,496
2024
£
6,917
449
116
7,482|2023
Total
funds
£
3,000
2,676
4,000
48,270
-
57,946
2023
Total
funds
£
5,000
16,000
21,000
2023
£
6,457
263
116
6,836|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|The average number employees during the year was 1 (2024 - 1). There were no employees with|The average number employees during the year was 1 (2024 - 1). There were no employees with||
|---|---|---|
|emoluments above £60,000.|||
|Defined contribution pension scheme|2024|2023|
||£|£|
|Costs of the scheme to the charity for the year|449|263|
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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the
## Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2024
|**5 Grants and donations**
Contribution to Britain Yearly Meeting
Donations to other Quaker bodies
Donations to individuals
Donations to non-Quaker bodies:
Network for Peace
St Augustine's
Undercliffe Cemetery Charity
Abigail Housing
Anchor Project
BEACON Bradford
BIASAN
Bradford African Community
Bradford Community Alliance CIC
Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank
Bradford Soup Run
Emmaus Bradford
Inn Churches
Peace Museum
Refugee Action
Sanctuary Kirklees Buzz
Unitarian Church Bradford
Yorkshire CND
**6 Restricted funds**
Balance b/f
£
Edna Woodhouse Legacy Fund
387
QIY - Brighouse Burial Ground
(700)
QIY - Fire Alarm
3,000
HMHC - Various Costs
(10,328)
WY Youth Developmental Worker
-
(7,641)|2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
19,840
1,726
410
30
700
150
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
22,856
Incoming
£
4,573
3,080
-
6,225
500
14,378|2024
Restricted
funds
£
5,460
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5,460
Outgoing
£
4,960
3,315
3,000
-
500
11,775|2024
Total
funds
£
25,300
1,726
410
30
700
150
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
28,316
Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-|2023
Total
funds
£
21,060
4,511
955
-
1,400
150
400
400
400
400
400
400
400
100
400
400
400
400
500
60
400
33,536
Balance c/f
£
-
(935)
-
(4,103)
-
(5,038)|
|---|---|---|---|---|
**Fund name** Edna Woodhouse Legacy Fund
## **Purpose of restriction**
This fund was created by a legacy of £50,000 and is used for the benefit of people attending conferences and educational courses.
QIY - Brighouse Burial Ground Towards the maintenance costs of the Brighouse Newlands burial ground. QIY - Fire Alarm Towards the costs of new fire alarm safety equipment and works at Huddersfield.
HMHC - Various Costs To reimburse legal costs paid by the CIO on behalf of HMHC; fund quenquennial survey fees and support the provision of a headstone. The deficit balance relates to funds yet to be released from transferred HMHC investments.
WY Youth Developmental Worker Being donation received to support the costs of the WY Youth Development Worker.
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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious
## Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Notes to the accounts continued
for the year ended 31 December 2024
## **7 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
|**8 Funds held as agent**
Funds collected on behalf of other organisations
Ploughshares
**9 Designated funds**
Balance b/f
£
Area Meeting Grant Fund
-
-|Balance b/f
£
655
1,500
2,155
Incoming
£
2,743
2,743|Incoming
£
3,180
19,700
22,880
Outgoing
£
2,743
2,743|Outgoing
£
3,763
14,000
17,763
Transfers
£
-
-|Balance c/f
£
72
7,200
7,272
Balance c/f
£
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
## **Fund name**
## **Reason for designation**
Area Meeting Grant Fund Being investment income realised from former Halifax Meeting House Charity investments that has been designated for use by the Halifax Meeting House and other Area Meeting needs.
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## Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of
## Friends (Quakers) in Britain Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2024
|||||Hebden|||Area||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**10 **|**Reserves**|Bradford|Halifax|Bridge|Huddersfield|Scholes|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:||||||||
||Installation of solar panels|-|-|-|-|10,000|-|10,000|
||Agreed Reserves|42,000|12,000|14,000|45,000|45,000|7,000|165,000|
||**Actual Reserves at 31 December**
Bank and Cash Reserves
Investment Reserves|**2024:**
9,752
23,633|10,191
-|25,733
-|30,349
2,999|2,489
77,172|10,186
503,590|88,700
607,394|
|||33,385|10,191|25,733|33,348|79,661|513,776|696,094|
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