WEST LANCASHIRE FREEMASONS' CHARITY

Registered charity 1175246 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WLFC

The objects of the Fund are to provide financial assistance to: Freemasons and their dependants in cases of distress; children resident in the Province for educational and quality of life purposes; community projects in the Province and other charitable purposes as may from time to time be decided by the scheme's trustees.

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF FREEMASONS OF THE PROVINCE, THER WIIDOWS, CHILDREN AND ANY DEPENDANTS OF A FREEMASON OF THE PROVINCE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.2) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF (25) WHO ARE N NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND ARE RESIDENT IN THE PROVINCE.3) THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO MASONIC CHARITABLE FUNDS OR INSTITUTIONS OR OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased to £19,114,884, supported by an investment portfolio valued at £17,939,433. The charity reported a net income increase of £123,823 for the year, driven by investment income and gains, while charitable grants paid totaled £427,864. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by JS Audit Limited. Discloses 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (77% 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: 12.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Derek Parkinsonchair
• Colin John Rowling
• Ian Timothy Sanderson
• John David Gibbon
• Paul Harold Baines

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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