THE WARWICKSHIRE MASONIC CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Registered charity 211588 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as W M C A LIMITED

Appealing to Masonic Lodges within the Province of Warwickshire and collecting funds at the Lodge meetings and distributing such funds to various non-Masonic and Masonic charities.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Animals · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds surplus of £331,991 for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by investment gains and income. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors regarding its going concern status.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00402213

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.

• SHAKESHAFT, David John — director, appointed 12/05/2023not on trustee list
• TRANTER, Stephen Ernest William — director, appointed 30/10/2020on trustee list
• BUTCHER, David — director, appointed 30/10/2020on trustee list
• HARRIS, John David — director, appointed 20/05/2017on trustee list
• ESWORTHY, Stuart Nigel — director, appointed 24/10/2016on trustee list
• KIMBERLEY, Mervyn John — director, appointed 22/10/2015on trustee list
• HALL, Philip Laurence — director, appointed 16/05/2015on trustee list
• BARKER, Richard Lloyd — director, appointed 18/05/2013on trustee list
• HAYWARD, John Barry — director, appointed 19/05/2012on trustee list
• MORRIS, Michael Clough — director, appointed 17/05/2009not on trustee list
• LAW, Gordon — director, appointed 29/10/2008on trustee list
• BUTTERWORTH, Stanley — director, appointed 14/03/2005on trustee list
• RYMER, Eric John — director, appointed 27/09/2000on trustee list
• GROVE, Christopher John — director, appointed 14/10/1999not on trustee list
• FOAD, Bernard Colin — secretary, appointed 19/01/2026

Official officers record.

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~16.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER JOHN GROVE MBE
• David Butcher
• David John Moffat Greenwood
• ERIC JOHN RYMER
• GORDON LAW · trustee of 1 other charity
• Geoffrey Walker · trustee of 3 other charities
• Howard Smith
• JOHN BARRY HAYWARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN DAVID HARRIS
• MERVYN JOHN KIMBERLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL CLOUGH MORRIS LLB · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Hawkins
• PETER PHILIP MANNING
• Philip laurence Hall · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD LLOYD BARKER
• STANLEY BUTTERWORTH
• Stephen Tranter
• Stuart Nigel Esworthy
• WILLIAM TAYLOR CLARK

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST RIDING MASONIC CHARITIES LIMITED.

• WEST RIDING MASONIC CHARITIES LIMITED income £764k
• OXFORDSHIRE MASONIC CHARITY income £88k
• WARWICKSHIRE FREEMASONS' CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £637k
• THE WEST WALES GRAND CHARITY income £198k
• NORTHUMBERLAND MASONIC CHARITY ASSOCIATION income £249k
• THE WARWICK TRUST income £153k

Side by side with its peers

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