MASONIC SAMARITAN FUND

Registered charity 1130424 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Taking over the activities of the former unincorporated body registered as Charity No 1001298: the provision of medical assistance, support, treatment, care or advice to Freemasons, their wives, children or dependants, or the widows, children or dependants of deceased Freemasons.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a digital signature log for a file generated on 6 November 2025, rather than the charity accounts themselves. Consequently, no financial data, reserves, or operational details are available for analysis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06876310

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Masonic Samaritan Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LONG, James Martin — director, appointed 14/03/2024on trustee list
• MASONIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — corporate director, appointed 01/04/2016on trustee list
• NURSE, Brenda Enrica Paulette — secretary, appointed 01/03/2022

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Longchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Masonic Charitable Foundation · trustee of 7 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• THE GRAND CHARITY income £16.0m
• THE RMIG ENDOWMENT TRUST income £1.0m
• THE ROYAL MASONIC TRUST FOR GIRLS AND BOYS income £467k
• THE JOSH CHARITABLE TRUST income £124k
• THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION income £2.3m
• FRIENDS OF LEWES VICTORIA HOSPITAL income £111k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.