CORNWALLIS EAST KENT FREEMASONS' CHARITY

Registered charity 1153575 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a grant making charity. The primary focus of our giving is social welfare and need, including the prevention or relief of poverty. Grants are restricted to individuals and organisations with connections in or around Kent.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds held by the charity increased significantly to £1,783,475, driven largely by a £1.124M legacy received during the year. Free reserves decreased to £263,579, which the trustees note is consistent with their policy of holding extremely low levels of free reserves due to low operating costs. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by McCabe Ford Williams. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Neil Hamilton Johnstone — Provincial Grand Master of East Kent Freemasons (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER JOHN RODDchair
• Colin Alan Barden
• Duncan Andrew Rouse · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Edward Costelloe
• Peter Michael Brooshooft
• Peter Ronald Rhodes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roy Edward Brooks

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

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 CHESHIRE FREEMASONS' CHARITY.

• CHESHIRE FREEMASONS' CHARITY income £232k
• CANTIACORUM FOUNDATION income £155k
• North Wales Freemasons Charity income £148k
• CORNWALL CARE LIMITED income £34.6m
• KENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.5m
• DONATIONS WITH A DIFFERENCE income £153k

Side by side with its peers

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