## Trustees Annual Report and Accounts East Kent Area Meeting, 2025
## **Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2025**
**Charity name** : East Kent Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain (the Area Meeting).
**Registration number** : 1210610.
**Principal Office** : The address to use for Trustees is Clerk of Trustees, c/o Friends Meeting House, 6 The Friars, Canterbury, CT1 2AS.
**Names of Trustees who served during the year and at report date** (March 2026):
George Conyne ( from 20 November 2021)
Eleanor Brooks ( to 17 September 2025)
Dorothy Douse ( to 17 September 2025)
Caroline Howden (to 17 September 2025)
Stephen Jewell (from 15 November 2025)
Tim Landsman (ex officio from January 2024)
Phil Laurie ( from 15 November 2025)
Jeffrey Loffman (from 17 January 2026)
Hugh Miall ( ex officio from January 2024)
Jane Short (from January 2025, Clerk from 17 January 2026)
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**Key officers in the Area Meeting at the time of writing** (March 2026):
Co-Clerks of Area Meeting: Rose John, Danny Chesterman, Terry Wood, Liz Cooper
Co-Treasurers: Tim Landsman and Hugh Miall (from January 2024)
## **Bankers and Investments**
Lloyds Bank Ltd, 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN.
Triodos Bank: Deanery Road, Bristol BS1 5AS
COIF Charities Ethical Investment Fund, CCLA, London EC4V 4ET
## **Independent Examiner** :
For 2025 accounts:
Rev Alan Clements, MA, ACIB, FCIE 15 Carleton Road, Great Knowsley, Chorley, PR6 8TQ **Email : fralanclements@gmail.com**
**Nominee owner of property** : Friends Trusts Limited, Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ (Company Number 188362, Registered Charity Number 237698)
## **Structure, governance, and management**
A Governing Document was adopted on 17 November 2007 by Minute 4 of East Kent Area Quaker Meeting. It was revised by Minute 6(c) of East Kent Area Quaker Meeting on 21 May 2022. This added a provision for meetings to take place by zoom. The spiritual aspect of our structure and governance is set out in _Quaker faith and practice_ , published by Britain Yearly Meeting.
## **Statement of public benefit**
The trustees confirm that we have had due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission and are guided by Quaker values as outlined below.
## **Charitable objectives**
The object of East Kent Area Meeting is the furtherance of the general religious and charitable purposes of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain in East Kent Area Meeting and beyond. These purposes are explained more fully in a document called ‘ _**Our faith in the future**_ ’, approved by Quakers in Britain in September 2015 https://www.quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/meeting-for-sufferings/our-faithin-the-future
To achieve these objectives, East Kent Quaker Area Meeting and its associated local meetings base their religious and charitable activities on the following themes.
- Meeting for Worship is the bedrock of living as a Quaker
- Quaker communities are loving, inclusive and all-age
- All Friends understand and live by Quaker discipline
- Quaker values are active in the world
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- Quakers work collaboratively
- Quakers are well known and widely understood.
## **Meeting for Worship is the bedrock of living as a Quaker.**
For many years, in-person Meetings for Worship, open to the public, have been held twice weekly by our larger local meeting (Canterbury), and weekly and monthly by our other three local meetings ( Ashford and Folkstone, Faversham and Broadstairs).
In 2025 East Kent Area Meeting attracted a wider range of worshippers and increased the number of Meetings for Worship including an additional Meeting on Saturday afternoons in Broadstairs. During the year we have established twice monthly Meetings for worship in Deal, attracting attenders who are unable to travel to larger meetings.
Several of our Meetings for Worship are also held online, extending opportunities for worship to include sick, elderly and disabled Friends and those living abroad.
## **Quaker communities are loving, inclusive and all-age**
During the year East Kent Area Meeting has made a concerted effort to attract younger attenders with their parents. In September we held an open house event in Canterbury to celebrate Heritage Day with a number of activities for children. We have been particularly mindful of safeguarding issues in this respect and have revised and published our safeguarding processes.
**Tea by the sea 2025 - hosted by local Canterbury Friends.**
## **All Friends understand and live by Quaker discipline**
During 2025 Trustees visited all our local meetings to explain the role of trustees and their relationship with the meetings and Britain Yearly Meeting. Reference was made to Quaker Faith and Practice, Chapter 15 for those who wished to explore in more detail. We hope that a deeper understanding of the role of trustees may encourage more Members to be willing to enter this form of service.
Meetings for Learning on topics related to Quaker values were held in local meetings on a regular basis
## **Quaker values are active in the world**
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Members and attenders of East Kent Area have upheld the Quaker testimonies of peace, equality and sustainability by participating in vigils for peace and demonstrations for equality and the right to campaign. We are also active in climate change and sustainability groups in Kent.
## **Quakers work collaboratively**
East Kent Quaker Meeting houses are available for hire by community groups and charities at fair rates. During 2025 East Kent Area Friends collaborated with a local charity to welcome and support a refugee family selected under the UK Resettlement Scheme. The family moved into a house purchased by East Kent Area Meeting to house refugees under the Safe Haven project.
## **Recruitment, appointment, and activities of Trustees**
Trustees are appointed by Area Meeting following nomination by East Kent Area Meeting Nominations Committee. The Trustees nominate one of their number to be Clerk to Trustees and the appointment is made by Area Meeting. The Area Meeting Treasurer is appointed by Area Meeting following nomination by East Kent Area Meeting Nominations Committee. The Area Meeting Treasurer is appointed a Trustee _ex-officio_ .
Trustees met six times during the year. Their work included the following:
- We continued to oversee the Safe Haven project during the refurbishment and furnishing of the property purchased in 2023. The construction work included: removal of asbestos and repairs and insulation to the roof of the house, re-plastering water damaged walls, replacement of the heating system and fitting an accessible bathroom. The work was completed within budget and the proposed time frame.
- As Trustees, we signed an agreement with a local property management agent to collect rent and arrange maintenance of the property.
- We received monthly progress reports from The Safe Haven project group.
- The AM Finance Committee met regularly and drafted a five-year strategy for the Building Fund to be presented to Area Meeting.
- We appointed Rev Alan Clements as Independent Examiner for the 2025 account.
- To comply with our policy of ethical investment, we transferred the Philcott endowment funds to a Churches, Charities and Local Authorities (CCLA) Ethical Investment Fund.
- Working with Local Meeting premises committees, we approved expenditures to maintain, repair and upgrade our three Meeting Houses.
- We appointed Adkins surveyors to carry out the quinquennial inspections on our Meeting Houses in 2026. We will ensure that the inspections assess the sustainability of our Meeting Houses.
- We completed the revised Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) between AM and the Local Meetings. These were approved by Area Meeting in on 15 November.
- With the aim of informing and encouraging East Kent Friends to serve as trustees, we completed a written role description of Trustee duties and invited individuals to attend Trustee meetings.
- We approved revised policies on Internal Financial Controls, Data Protection, Health and Safety and Safeguarding.
- We adopted Britain Yearly Meeting Employment policies, which include: Equality and Diversity, Bullying and Harassment, Workforce Data Protection and Whistleblowing.
- We received reports from the South East Quaker Working Group, which is studying the feasibility of a structure of Quaker Governance that would span several Area Meetings. We begin to have more clarity as to the objectives of this proposed amalgamation of Area Meetings and look forward to further discernment on creating common Trustees, policies, accounting frameworks and reserves in the future.
Detailed reports from each of our local meetings and the Safe Haven project continue below
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**THE LIFE AND WORK OF EAST KENT MEETINGS IN 2025**
## **ASHFORD AND FOLKESTONE**
## THE LIFE AND WORK OF OUR MEETING IN 2025
**Meeting for worship is the bedrock of living as a Quaker.** We have held meetings for each Sunday in Ashford Meeting House. Usually about ten or twelve people from the Ash Folkestone areas are present.
Meetings have also been held in the Folkestone area in the houses of Friends.
**Quaker communities are loving, inclusive and all age.** During the year we remained in with members of our meeting based abroad, and heard letters from some of them at our pa programmed meeting in December.
We have provided for the pastoral care of members and attenders in our meeting. Our eld pastoral carers have met regularly to plan meetings for learning and to review our pastora clusters. We held a bring-and-share lunch with barbecue on 10 August.
**All Friends understand and live by Quaker discipline.** We have held meetings for lear the first Sunday of alternate months throughout the year: subjects have included our peace testimony, the Ecochurch initiative, and a viewing of the Swarthmore lecture. In March awayday in Ashford for LM members and attenders, facilitated by our local development which helped us to get to know one another “in the things which are eternal”. In October a very sucessful day workshop for East Kent AM led by The Kindlers, on the theme “Exp Spirituality”.
**Quakers are well known and widely understood.** We have welcomed enquirers and att our meeting. We have held monthly coffee mornings at a hotel in Folkestone, to which en invited. In May we held an outreach coffee morning in Ashford Meeting House: despite to advertise it, it did not attract immediate interest from many outside the Society of Frien we welcomed some members of our LM whom we had not seen for some time. In July w welcomed members of the Nepalese community in Ashford to our meeting, and heard fro something of their beliefs and customs.
We have maintained our meeting house and garden as a place for public worship and for u community organisations.
**Quakers work collaboratively.** We collect money after each meeting for worship to don different charity each month. We aim to give to non-Quaker as well as to Quaker charitie
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**BROADSTAIRS AND DEAL**
Meetings for Worship were held regularly each Sunday all year with up to fifte attending. A passage from Advices & Queries was read on the first of each mon addition, since April meeting for worship has been held on Saturday afternoons smaller number of friends attending but a number of first-time attenders. Meeti Broadstairs is often completely silent but friends appreciate the quiet and the fr exchange afterwards. Friends vary widely in age. As we do not hold a children we have made a child friendly area in the meeting room; so far only one child h young visitor from China.
Meeting for Worship in Deal was held on the second and fourth Sunday every m Golf Road Community Centre, with a reading from A & Q on the second Sund number of attenders at Deal has stayed consistent.
Meetings for Business were held every other month. Less formal meetings of W Friends have been held as needed (four times in 2025). Following a simple me with willing friends rather than nominating elders and pastoral friends continue to support the meeting’s work.
Friends held meeting for worship in the chapel at Yoakley Retirement home tw
Meetings for learning have continued to be held every two weeks discussing as Quaker spirituality. These have been well attended, both by Broadstairs friends of other meetings.
Lunch on the lawn (a potluck lunch) was held in July. There was also a shared January.
The meeting hosted AM in July giving us a chance to welcome members from meetings.
Broadstairs meeting took part in the Friends of Kent Churches annual “Ride an the second Saturday in September, with a Friend riding for the meeting, and frie welcoming participants in the Meeting house.
The Broadstairs meeting house is also a regular venue for other faith groups, co groups and classes, particularly for the U3A. Room hire is by suggested donati
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## **CANTERBURY**
## **Introduction**
2025 has been a successful year for Canterbury Local Meeting. We are a vibrant and joyful community with a sense of purpose in our worship and witness. We have shared our joys and sorrows, and had fun in our activities.
In July, recognising that we cannot do everything at once with limited resources, we agreed to focus on two areas of Our Faith in the Future – _Quaker communities are loving, inclusive and all-age_ and _Quakers are well known and widely understood_ for the rest of the year. In December we reviewed our progress. We agreed that our 2026 theme will be _Quaker values are active in the world_ .
## **Meeting for worship is the bedrock of living as a Quaker** .
We continued to hold blended meetings for worship on Sunday mornings, with attendance usually about thirty, sometimes higher, and children’s meeting on the fourth Sunday of the month. The Thursday lunchtime meeting for worship was not blended and attracted about ten to fifteen worshippers. A safeguarding concern led us to restrict online attendance at our blended meetings for worship to existing members of the Quaker community in Kent.
## **Quaker communities are loving, inclusive and all-age.**
Our community is gradually becoming more diverse, including in age, interests and ethnicity. Activities to strengthen our community included
- We held an all-age meeting for worship in which we made Lego and thought about what our Quaker community means to us. We held a ‘traditional’ meeting for worship in parallel for those who find it more comfortable.
- A meeting for learning led by our regional development worker on being a multigenerational worshipping community
- A Woodbrooke Where You Are workshop on developing our Quaker community
- Shared meals, with more provision for vegans and particular dietary needs.
- Supporting members who have been unable to attend meeting for worship through age and infirmity.
- Working as a team to prepare the Safe Haven house for occupation by a refugee family.
## **All Friends understand and live by Quaker discipline.**
We held a series of Becoming Friends sessions for attenders. It was a small group; we keep trying to find the right format for this learning.
Two of our young Friends went to Young Friends General Meeting in October and found it supported their growth as Quakers.
**Quaker values are active in the world.** A member of the meeting concluded her period of service as an Ecumenical Accompanier in Palestine and Israel in February. This was followed up by events including a local meeting simple meal, reflection and worship-sharing on Gaza and talks to other faith groups.
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**Vigil for Peace in Canterbury - 2025**
The meeting became an associate member of the Quiet Garden Movement and we opened our garden as a place of rest and refreshment for people attending Canterbury Pride. We have continued to work to improve the sustainability of our meeting, including Eco Church status.
## **Quakers work collaboratively.**
We agreed to take action to witness for peace. We held three, well attended vigils for peace in Gaza in the Buttermarket during the year, in collaboration with other churches. Several people have witnessed for peace at events in London.
**Walk of Witness – London 2025**
**Quakers are well known and widely understood.** We put on a much-expanded exhibition and welcoming activity for Heritage Open Day and the Friends of Kent Churches Ride & Stride.
This built community within the team engaged with the event. They enjoyed inquiring conversations with the ninety visitors.
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## **FAVERSHAM**
## **Meeting for Worship is the bedrock of living as a Quaker**
2025 has been a mixed year for Faversham Meeting. On one hand we have lost a few regular attenders (for diverse reasons) but on the other hand have attracted a steady trickle of new attenders who bring new energy and gifts. Faversham Quakers have met once a month on the 2nd Sunday of the month. We have an attendance of 97 for the year (an average of 8 people per Meeting). We experimented with 3 additional Wednesday evening meetings in the summer but attendance numbers were low and didn’t cover cost so we have suspended this for now.
## **Quaker Communities are loving, inclusive and all age.**
We had a meeting in a care home particularly for our Friend Mary Brookman. She was subsequently able to attend, with her sons, our Sunday meeting for worship in Faversham on a number of occasions. Faversham Quakers participate in a Quaker listening group across East Kent. We have a number of younger attenders (below 50) on a regular basis.
## **All Friends understand and live by Quaker discipline**
Faversham Meeting fully supports a member who robustly brings his Quaker faith and concern for the ecological crisis into (peaceful) conflict with authority. We are actively supporting his request to undertake a Travelling Ministry. He was recently awarded the Quaker Truth and Integrity award. We ran a newcomer session for what it means to be a Quaker.
## **Quaker values are active in the world**
Many members and attenders are involved individually in community activities. In recent political demonstrations, including a flag campaign, some Faversham Quakers have actively but peacefully opposed these.
We made a donation to Pilgrims Hospice in 2025 . Friends regularly give service in local charities.
## **Quakers work collaboratively**
Faversham Meeting shares its administration through Willing Friends and a network of volunteers who undertake specific tasks. After our monthly meeting for worship we discuss business matters and pragmatically make decisions. Faversham hosted an area meeting in September. The meeting has links with the local interfaith community.
## **Quakers are well known and widely understood**
Three Friends joined Westminster Meeting walkers at Chilham for their annual Kent walk.
A member of our meeting undertook a pilgrimage to Winchester staying at various locations on route with other members of Faversham meeting joining this pilgrimage for a short time. Faversham Meeting 26/02/2026
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## **SAFE HAVEN**
During 2025 we reached a milestone in the evolution of the Safe Haven project, which was first proposed in 2022. Over the three months from January to March 2025 the house was refurbished and adapted to meet the needs of a refugee family that included a member with limited mobility.
Thanks to all those who donated materially, financially, with their practical skills and spiritual support, the house was fully equipped and furnished by July, The project demonstrated how effectively Quakers put their faith into action and work with the community .
Our partners in the project, Canterbury Welcomes Refugees, successfully sponsored a suitable family through the Community Sponsorship pathway in the UK Resettlement Scheme, funded by the Home Office.
The family arrived in the UK on 19[th] August, when volunteers from Canterbury Welcomes Refugees met them at the airport and accompanied them to the house in Canterbury. The local Bruderhof Community generously provided transport.
Taking into account the composition of the family, we set the rent at a rate based on the housing element of Universal Credit and, under the guidance of Canterbury Welcomes Refugees, the family signed a renewable 1 year tenancy with a local estate agent,. The agency is responsible for managing and maintaining the property on behalf of East Kent Area Meeting, who are the legal landlords.
From this point CWR and their volunteers began to support the family in the process of settling in to their new life: opening bank and utility accounts, registering with doctors, claiming benefits, enrolling in English and Further Education classes and socialising informally.
Several Friends joined the CWR volunteer group and provided local meetings with updates and requests for support. The Safe Haven group continues to liaise with CWR, the estate agent, EKAM Trustees and Area Meeting.
We adopted a risk management plan to guard against the risk of rent arrears.
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## **FINANCIAL REPORT AND ANNUAL ACCOUNTS**
## **East Kent Area Meeting**
1. Performance against our overall EKAM budget We knew this would be an unusually expensive year with the Safe Haven refugee house refurbishment although the net deficit was only £72,000 instead of the £83,000 we had expected:
- Overall Income at £96,500 was £700 more than budgeted
- Overall Expenditure at £169,500 was £10,000 less than budgeted due to a combination of less new furniture and equipment than predicted and lower than expected administration and legal costs.
2. Despite the large annual deficit, EKAM overall still has enough money to meet the level of contingency funds that we like to hold in reserve, although the central funds at the end of year were £1,000 less than the target, due to the fall in value of its CCLA COIF investments
## 3. Safe Haven refurbishment
The Safe Haven project team has now spent the money they collected on refurbishing the house over the last few years and are now receiving an income from the letting.
## 4. Philcott Permanent Endowment Fund
The endowment capital has been managed in ethical investment funds by Craven Wealth Management for a number of years but during 2025, we were forced into transferring the investments that make up this fund as Craven Wealth decided our funds were too small for them to manage. The funds were moved into an ethical fund run by CCLA in the middle of the year and dividends have continued to be paid to Canterbury LM. The funds had performed well in the first half of the year under Craven Wealth and the level of dividends was higher than usual. Unfortunately, their value has fallen significantly under CCLA and ended the year 2% lower than the 2024 value. Note - During 2026, the value of the fund has since recovered to its original level.
## 5. Reserves for next few years
We are aware that each of the LM's have plans for significant building improvement during the next few years that will be paid for out of central funds as well as the unknown costs arising from the Quinquennial surveys to be carried out in 2026. To meet these costs we will need to raise the LM contributions for the next few years but even so are expecting our level of reserves to drop below the level required by our policy. We will plan to restore them by the end of 2028.
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## **Overall Income and Expenditure EKAM 2025**
All values in £, negative values in brackets, ‘-’ = zero
||Total
Unrestricted|Total
Unrestricted|Total
Unrestricted|Total
Unrestricted|Total
Unrestricted|Total
Unrestricted|Total
Unrestricted|Total 2024|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Total Receipts
Total Payments
Asset sales
Asset purchases
Transfers In/Out (Net)|92,245
144,123|||||||105,682
97,512|
||||||||||
|**Surplus/(Deficit) after transfers**|( 51,878)||( 20,999)|||( 72,877)||8,169|
## **EKAM Statement of assets and liabilities at 31/12/2025**
||Total
31 Dec 2025||Total
31 Dec 2024|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Cash funds**
Cash in hand
Current accounts
Savings accounts
**Total cash funds**
**Other monetary assets**
COIF Income units AM funds
CCLA - Philcott Endowment capital
**Total other assets**|53
52,167
132,797||134
130,482
119,108|
||185,017||249,724|
||56,877
123,386||58,342
125,032|
||180,263||183,374|
|**Total monetary assets**|365,280||433,098|
Full details can be found in the accompanying spreadsheet.
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examIneS
report on th8 accounts
Section A
Independent Exatniner'5 Report
R•port to the trusteesl ',
members of i East Kent Area Quaker Mee*"ng.
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I report in respect of my exarThnation of the Twsl's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my exatnination, I
have ft)Ilowed the applicable Directions given by the Chaity Cornmi55ion
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||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**East Kent Area Quaker Meeting**|||||**1210610**||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||
||||01/01/2025||||31/12/2025|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Contributions and collections|**41,063**||**-**||**-**||**41,063**||**31,275**|
|Grants and legacies|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**27,306**|
|Hiring rooms|**45,459**||**-**||**-**||**45,459**||**37,130**|
|Income from Quaker activities|**75**||**-**||**-**||**75**||**60**|
|Investment income|**4,807**||**4,317**||**-**||**9,123**||**9,483**|
|Other receipts|**841**||**-**||**-**||**841**||**427**|
|**_Sub total_**|**92,245**||**4,317**||**-**||**96,562**||**105,682**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|**92,245**||**4,317**||**-**||**96,562**||**105,682**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Quaker Activities|**6,729**||**-**||**-**||**6,729**||**5,188**|
|Grants and Donations Given|**28,235**||**-**||**-**||**28,235**||**28,728**|
|Premises Building& Garden|**108,452**||**25,316**||**-**||**133,768**||**62,782**|
|Other support costs|**607**||**-**||**-**||**607**||**714**|
|Costs ofgovernance|**100**||**-**||**-**||**100**||**100**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**144,123**||**25,316**||**-**||**169,439**||**97,512**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investmentpurchases**||||||||||
|Safe Haven house|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|**144,123**||**25,316**||**-**||**169,439**||**97,512**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**( 51,878)**||**- 20,999**||**-**||**- 72,877**||**8,169**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**236,895**||**20,999**||**-**||**257,894**||**249,724**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**185,017**||**-**||**-**||**185,017**||**257,894**|
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Section B Staternent of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unre¥tri¢ted
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Meeting Houses
Safe Haven house
2,432,000
260,000
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85 Llablllt106
## **East Kent Area Quaker Meeting**
## **2025 ACCOUNTS**
## **Receipts and payments accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025 All in £, negative numbers in brackets**
||Unrestricted Funds|Unrestricted Funds|Unrestricted Funds|Unrestricted Funds|Unrestricted Funds|Unrestricted Funds|Unrestricted Funds|Unrestricted Funds||Restricted Funds|Restricted Funds|Restricted Funds||Endowmen
t Funds|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||AM Central
Fund|AM Building
Fund|Ashford &
Folkestone
LM
Broadstairs
LM
Canterbury
LM
Faversham
LM
Safehaven|||||Total
Unrestricted||Safehaven|Philcott
Endowment
Income|Total
restricted||Philcott
Endowment
Capital||Total Funds
2025||Total Funds
2024|
||||||||||||||||||||
|**Our Cash funds at 1/01/2025**|3,705|34,729|38,818|17,161|81,429|178|60,875|236,895||20,999||20,999||||257,894|||
|**Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||
|butions and collections|530
1,964||6,234
4,272
21,187
511
8,328
15,221
2,256
19,981
8,002
75
519
299
1,473
551
100
741|||||41,063
45,459
75
4,807
841|||4,317|4,317||||41,063
45,459
75
9,123
841||31,275
27,306
37,130
60
9,483
427|
|Grants and legacies|||||||||||||||||||
|Hiringrooms|||||||||||||||||||
|Income fromQuaker activities|||||||||||||||||||
|Investment income|||||||||||||||||||
|Other receipts|||||||||||||||||||
|**Total Receipts**|2,494||22,049
6,928
43,383
511
16,880|||||92,245|||4,317|4,317||||96,562||105,682|
|**Payments**|2,782
2,163
208
100|7,083|614
330
2,493
510
7,135
3,600
17,375
125
14,117
2,614
14,167
68,307
60
159
180|||||6,729
28,235
108,452
607
100||20,999|4,317|25,316||||6,729
28,235
133,768||5,188
28,728
62,782
714
100|
|Quaker Activities|||||||||||||||||||
|and Donations Given|||||||||||||||||||
|es Building& Garden|||||||||||||||||||
|Other support costs|||||||||||||||||||
|Costs ofgovernance|||||||||||||||||||
|**Total Payments**|5,254|7,083|21,866|6,604|34,194|635|68,487|144,123||20,999|4,317|25,316||||169,439||97,512|
||||||||||||||||||||
|Asset sales|||||||||||||||||||
|Assetpurchases|||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||
|Transfers In/Out(Net)|3,500|7,000|(2,750)
(1,210)
(12,040)
5,500||||||||||||||||
|**Surplus/(Deficit) after transfers**|||||||||||||||||||
||740|(83)|(2,567)|(886)|(2,851)|(124)|(46,107)|(51,878)||(20,999)||(20,999)||||(72,877)||8,169|
|Cash funds at 1/01/2025
Calculated Cash funds at 31/12/2025|||||||||||||||||||
||3,705|34,729|38,818|17,161|81,429|178|60,875|236,895||20,999||20,999||||257,894||249,724|
||4,446|34,646|36,251|16,274|78,578|53|14,768|185,017||||||||185,017||257,894|
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## **Statement of assets and liabilities at 31/12/2025**
|**Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**31/12/2025**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||AM Central
funds||Ashford &
Folkestone
LM
Broadstairs
LM
Canterbury
LM
Faversham
LM
Safehaven|Total||Total Funds
31 Dec 2024|
|**Cash funds**
Cash in hand
Current accounts
Savings accounts
**Total cash funds**
**Other monetary assets**
COIF Income units AM funds
AEGON - Philcott Endowment capital
**Total other assets**|-
24,520
14,572||-
-
-
53
-
9,194
1,200
12,902
-
4,350
27,057
15,074
65,676
-
10,418|53
52,167
132,797||134
130,482
119,108|
||39,092||36,251
16,274
78,578
53
14,768|185,017||249,724|
||56,877
123,386||-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|56,877
123,386||58,342
125,032|
||180,262||-
-
-
-
-|180,262||183,374|
|**Total monetary assets**|219,354||36,251
16,274
78,578
53
14,768|365,279||433,098|
|Opening and Closing Debtors and Creditors
Start of Year Creditors
Start of Year Debtors
End of Year Creditors
End of Year Debtors|||Total
815
815
FWCC
-
-
800
800
FWCC, QSA, Amnesty Intl
-
-||||
||||815
-
800
-|815
-
800
-|||
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## **Notes to the accounts**
## **1. Assets retained for the charity's own use and purposes**
Ashford, Broadstairs and Canterbury Meeting Houses: insurance value of buildings £2,337,000 and contents £95,600. Kennington burial ground
Safehaven house for refugees: insurance value of buildings £235,000 and contents £10,000
## **2 Philcott Endowment**
This is a permanent endowment left by Richard Philcott in 1727. The income can only be spent for the public benefit of Canterbury Local Meeting and is currently used to part fund the Canterbury Warden's salary. he income is received into EKAM central account and passed directly onto Canterbury's accounts, so is recorded as income received by Canterbury and pass-through (acting as agent) funds in EKAM Central books.
The endowment capital was managed in ethical investment funds by Craven Wealth Management but during 2025, we were forced into transferring the investments that make up this fund as Craven Wealth decided our funds were too small for them. The funds were moved into an ethical fund run by CCLA in the middle of the year and dividends have continued to be paid to Canterbury LM. The funds had performed well in the first half of the year under Craven Wealth and the level of dividends was higher than usual. Unfortunately their value has fallen significantly under CCLA and ended the year 2% lower than the 2024 value. Note - During 2026, the value of the fund has since recovered to the level we invested it at.
## **5. Reserves**
Target reserve levels have been set in accordance with the EKM Reserves Policy to: a) General contingency - the average expenditure for the past three years + 10%. See following table b) 4% of the insurance of buildings and contents for the Meeting Houses in the building fund = £93,490 Safehaven normal annual expenditure is as yet unknown but a initial £10,000 reserve has been assumed
|Expenses 2023
Expenses 2024
Expenses 2025
Average + 10% = General Contingency Target
Building Reserve Target
Overall Reserve Target
Unrestricted cash funds at 31/12/2025
Earmarked for specific uses
Giving additional funds over target reserves of:|AM Central
Fund||Ashford &
Folkestone
LM
Broadstairs
LM
Canterbury
LM
Faversham
LM
Safehaven|Overall|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||3,255
2,963
3,769
3,420
93,490
96,910
95,969
( 941)
AM Central
Fund||||
|**6. Donations made**|AM Central
Fund||Ashford &
Folkestone
LM
Broadstairs
LM
Canterbury
LM
Faversham
LM
Safehaven|Total|
|BYM
Other Quaker
Other organisations
Grants to individuals (hardship)
Total|-||6,750
3,000
17,000
-
385
200
250
-
400
125|26,750
835
525
-|
||||7,135
3,600
17,375
-
-|28,110|
|BYM
Other Quaker
Other organisations
Total
**7. Acting as Agent collections - amount rece**|||||
||20
20
1,123
913
681
391||-
210
290||
||1,824|1,324|500||
Approved by the Trustees at their meeting of 3 March 2026 and by Area Meeting at its meeting on 14 March 2026.
Signed on behalf of Trustees by:
Jane Short, Clerk, [signed]
and
Liz Cooper, EKAM Clerking Team [signed]
Independent examiner’s report
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