THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM CHARITABLE TRUST OF THE UNITED GRAND LODGE

Registered charity 1058497 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM CHARITABLE TRUST OF THE BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES OF THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND ., THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF FREEMASONRY

The Library and Museum houses one of the worlds leading collections of Masonic books, artefacts and ephemera.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST [1]. WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE BELOW MENTIONED SUB-CLAUSE 3.2 TO PROVIDE MAINTAIN MANAGE UPKEEP AND IMPROVE A MUSEUM AND LIBRARY FOR THE EDUCATION AND BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL AND TO COLLECT MAINTAIN PRESERVE CONSERVE DISPLAY AND MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION THE ARCHIVES RECORDS PRINTED MATERIAL REGALIA JEWELS AND ARTEFACTS FREEMASONRY. [2]. TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE COUNCIL MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT BUT SUBJECT TO SUCH APPROVALS OR OR CONSENTS AS MAY FOR THE TIME BEING BE PRESCRIBED BY LAW OR IN THE REGULATIONS HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FOR THE PERIOD OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THIS DEED INSTEAD OF APPLYING THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN ANY YEAR ACCUMULATE ALL OR ANY PART OF SUCH INCOME AT COMPOUND INTREST BY INVESTING THE SAME AND THE RESULTING INCOME IN ANY OF THE AUTHORISED INVESTMENTS AND HOLD THE SAME AS AN ACCRETION TO AND AS PART OF THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THEIR RIGHT TO APPLY THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF SUCH ACCUMULATED INCOME IN ANY SUBSEQUENT YEAR AS IF THE SAME WERE INCOME OF THE CHARITY ARISING IN THE THEN CURRENT YEAR.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free reserves of £784,887, which complies with its stated policy of maintaining reserves at half of annual expenditure. However, the financial statements are prepared on a basis other than going concern because the trustees intend to transfer all activities and assets to a new legal entity within 12 months. Consequently, the current legal entity will cease all trading activity upon this anticipated transfer.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K LLP. Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Risk management
• Volunteer management

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• James WP Campbellchair
• David Mackay Blair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Richard Andrew Berman
• Jonathan Charles Whitaker DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie Aspey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Francis Norman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robin Max Fellerman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas James William Milner · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OXFORDSHIRE MASONIC CHARITY.

• OXFORDSHIRE MASONIC CHARITY income £88k
• THE GRAND CHARITY income £804k
• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED income £19.9m
• RICHARD HENRY HOLMES MASONIC BENEVOLENT FUND income £218k
• GRAND CHARITABLE TRUST OF THE ORDER OF WOMEN FREEMASONS income £107k
• Libraries Connected income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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