The Religious Society of Friends in Ireland Lurgam
Monthly Meeting
Annual Report and Accounts for year ended 3111212022
Introduction
This report has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities
(Accounts and Reports) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 and in line with the
guidance produced by the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland.
Constitution and Governance
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) In Ireland, Lurgan Monthly Meeting is
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governed by its governing document which was agreed by the Meeting on 10 June
2020. The Meeting was registered as a charity by the Charity Commission for
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Northern Ireland on 15 February 2021.
The Trustees, of whom there should be not less than two, are appointed at the
Annual General Meeting. They are appointed for a period of up to three years and
are eligible for re-appointment for a further two terms. Trustees who senied during
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the year ending 31 December 2022 were as follows:
Lesley Burney
Anne E Gamble
Jane E Lutton
J Arnold Lutton
The Trustees are responsible for the policies, activities and assets of the charity. No
Trustee received any remuneration for services as a member of the Board of
Trustees and the charity has no employees.
The Meeting has put in place a data protection policy, based on guidelines from
Ireland Yearly Meeting, which is reviewed regularly.
Purposes of the charity
Lurgan Monthly Meeting is a Meeting for Worship of the Religious Society of Friends
in Ireland that practises in accordan￿ with the principles of the Religious Society of
Friends, also known as Quakers.
The purpose of our charity, as set out in our governing document, is the
advancement of the general religious purposes of the Religious Society of Friends by
the following means. in so far as they are exclusively charitable:
Strengthening the Christian understanding and religious development in the
geographical area of responsibility of the Monthly Meeting"
li. Contributing financially and practically to the relief of suffering at home and
abroad;

iii. Providing for the pastoral care of individual Members and Attenders of
Preparative Meetings. including assistance to those in need.
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At 31 December 2022 we had a total of 126 members as well as 12 regular
Attenders.
Our activities during 2022
We are responsible for three Preparative Meetings in Bessbrook, Lurgan and
Moyallon. Monthly Meeting met on 5 occasions during the year with an average
attendance of 11 members. Our activities in 2022 are reflected in the summary of
Annual Reports from these Meetings which follows.
In some respects, 2022 was a sombre year for Lurgan Monthly Meeting as we lost
four much loved and respected Members, two from Bessbrook and one each from
Lurgan and Moyallon, all were women and all sadly missed from within and without
of the Society of Friends. Even so, it must be acknowledged that each had had long
and well lived lives, leaving behind them legacies of love and kindness.
Happily, each of the three Meetings have also enjoyed communal activities, including
meals and one of fundraising for Macmillan Can￿r Support. On the harmonic front,
some Members of Bessbrook joined the local churches in December for a carol
concert, with one Member singing in the choir.
On a somewhat bigger scale, a large contingency of the Blackburn Association, from
the United States, came to visit Moyallon and Lurgan in July. ostensibly to view the
headstones and premises where their ancestors have been buried and would have
worshipped. On the Sunday we all lunched together in Moyallon Centre, spilling
onto the picnic tables outside as there were so many, two coach loads in fact.
Thankfully, it was a dry, sunny day and the food was prepared by outside caterers so
there were no dishes to wash. On the Monday Lurgan Meeting opened its burial
ground to enable the group to wander round. Although some had been concerned
as to whether both Meetings could manage such a large number of visitors it went
smoothly, and all seemed to find it enriching.
During the course of the year all duties, as set out in the book of Organisation and
Christian Discipline have been carried out the three Preparative Meetings and the
Child Safeguarding reports have been sent to the Clerk of IYM Education
Committee. Lurgan Monthly Meeting welcomes 38 adult Ffriends and one child in
total to their Meetings.
Looking fonmard
We look forward to God's continued blessing on our Meetings in 2023 and we hope
to see growth in Christian understanding and spiritual experience in all our Meetings.

Public benefit
The trustees of Lurgan Monthly Meeting are pleased to confirm that they have
complied with their duty to have regard to the public benefit requirement statutory
guidance of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland.
Our public benefit has been demonstrated in a number of ways over the past year:
We ensured that our Meetings hold regular Meetings for Worship and these
Meetings are open to members of the public as well as our own members and
regular attenders
these Meetings provide spiritual nourishment and deepen
the Christian experience and understanding of those who attend.
Using legacy and bequest funds that have been left to the Meeting, we
provide financial support to those in need within our Meetings and for other
charitable causes;
We opened our historic site at Moyallon to the public on World Heritage Day.
Financial review
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Our financial statement for the period 1 January to 31 December 2022 is attached
to this report and shows that we had a deficit of income over expenditure of
£4301.53 for the year, although this was mainly due to a payment of £3740 from the
previous year being made in 2022. As a result, our totsl current funds at 31
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December 2022 decreased to £7964.27 compared with £9525.80 at 31 December
2021.
We also spent £1000 to support the work of Quaker Service and £1000 to Irish
Quaker Faith in Action.
Declaration
This report was approved at the Annual General Meeting on 13th September 2023
and is signed on behalf of trustees.
J.Arnold Lutton
Clerk of Trustees