NORTHUMBERLAND MARK BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 1007791 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To receive bequests and donations from Mark Lodges, Royal Ark Mariner Lodges and Brethren of the Province of Northumberland and from other Masonic organisations. To make grants to Mark Brethren, widows and children in need and donations to the Fund of Benevolence of Grand Mark Lodge & other Masonic and non Masonic charities.

Objects

TO MAKE EMERGENCY AND/OR EX GRATIA GRANTS FOR THE RELIEF OF BRETHREN IN NEED WHO ARE MARK MASTER MASONS OR ROYAL ARK MARINERS AND ARE OR HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THE PROVINCE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, AND THEIR WIDOWS, PARTNERS, DEPENDANTS AND CHILDREN PENDING ANY NECESSARY APPLICATION MADE TO THE GRAND LODGE OF MARK MASTER MASONS' FUND OF BENEVOLENCE FOR ASSISTANCE

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE NORTHUMBERLAND

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the fund generated a surplus of £5,817 for the year, increasing unrestricted reserves to £132,083. The trustees report that despite market turmoil affecting investment values, the fund maintained a good balance between income and expenditure. No material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern were identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Raymond Arthur Waltonchair
• Hugh Padruig MacLeod
• Leslie Frederick Francis
• Paul Oliver Hilditch
• Richard Northey
• STUART CAIRNS

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northumberland

Income and spending

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