THE PROVINCE OF HAMPSHIRE & ISLE OF WIGHT MASONIC CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 202930 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HUBERT GILES MASONIC BENEVOLENT TRUST

To provide funds for the relief and benefit of Freemasons their wives, widows and dependants who are in distressed circumstances.

Objects

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO NECESSITOUS FREEMASONS AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DEPENDANTS.

Area of benefit: HANTS AND ISLE OF WIGHT

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £4,759,360, driven by a significant increase in unrestricted general funds from £313,092 to £622,739. The charity holds substantial endowment funds of £4,136,621 and maintains a positive net current asset position of £202,415. The trustees and auditors confirm the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Maxwell & Co. 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Matthew Baigentchair
• ANDREW MICHAEL WELDYCZ
• Brian Peter Durrant
• Gordon Brakewell
• Ian Alexander Carnegie
• MALCOLM DAVID CHILDS
• Michael James Hibberd

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

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