| Description | The Quaker church is funded by donations, legacies and bequests made by Friends to either Yearly Meeting, Area/Monthly Meetings or Local/Preparative Meetings, together with income from rented properties, investments and the hiring out of rooms in meeting houses. Since the end of 1901, these funds have been administered by the Finance Committee which initially comprised 5 members. Duties involved providing the Monthly Meeting with an annual statement of receipts and expenditure and nominating Friends as collectors of subscriptions to the Consolidated Plan. The Consolidated Plan was the scheme whereby Friends were annually asked if they could give donations to the Religious Society of Friends. Members could select which areas of Quaker work they wished to support (see SF/2/1/1/4/5/1/1 and SF/2/1/1/5/9 for details).
See SF/2/1/1/5 for financial records. |