QUEEN STREET HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1076186 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as QUEEN STREET MASONIC HERITAGE CENTRE LIMITED

Queen Street Freemasons Hall dates from 1785. It is the oldest Freemasons Hall still in active use. The trusts main activities are to maintain and preserve the fabric of the building, to improve the facilities there, to increase public awareness of the hall and its importance and to receive visitors for educational purposes.

Objects

(1) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN THE FABRIC AND STRUCTURE OF THE FREEMASONS' HALL, QUEEN STREET EAST, SUNDERLAND(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PRINCIPLES OF FREEMASONRY, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A MASONIC HERITAGE CENTRE

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.

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Registered contact address: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£14k
Latest spending
£5k
Registered
1999

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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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2025

  • Volunteers: 6
  • Government income: £3,253 — grants £3,253 (1); 24% of the £13,794 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2024

  • Volunteers: 6

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2022

  • Government income: £15,171 — grants £15,171 (1); 48% of the £31,925 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2021 (received 28/06/2022, 59 days after the 30/04/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Sunderland

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£14k£5k
30/06/2024£12k£8k
30/06/2023£5k£13k
30/06/2022£32k£23k
30/06/2021£15k£4k

Common questions

Who funds QUEEN STREET HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name QUEEN STREET HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED as a grant recipient include SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUSTFY2022£10kSection 2 f Charitable Organisations
SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUSTFY2024£5kSection 2(f)

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund25/09/2006£4kWilliam Wapples Collection
The National Lottery Community Fund24/08/2006£6kIncreasing Community Involvement
The National Lottery Heritage Fund15/08/2003£4k"This Group Owns The William Waples Collection Which Comprises Over 450 Photos Of Sunderland Between 1890 And 1930. The Award Will Be Used Fo"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund24/07/2001£1k"This company limited by guarantee are set up to preserve the grade I listed Freemasons Hall, making it available for community events and ac"