WARWICKSHIRE MARK BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 213476 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide relief of distressed Mark Master Masons or their dependants. To meet present day needs of freemasons and all connected therewith as well as supporting the masonic principle of helping others and providing assistance and aid of an emergency or charitable nature.

Objects

TO PROVIDE A RELIEF FUND FOR AND SUPPORT TO OTHER MASONIC AVENUES OF FINANCIAL RELIEF FOR THE BENEFICIARIES; AND TO MAKE DONATIONS FROM THE FUND TO MASONIC AND NON-MASONIC CHARITIES

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased to £236,730 from £288,015 in the prior year, while total funds stood at £433,177. The charity reported a net outgoing of £49,295 for the year, driven by grants exceeding incoming resources. The trustees confirm that adequate financial resources are available to support the fund's commitments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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 handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR JAMES STEPHEN WRIGHTchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Rowland Armbrister
• Andrew William Crees
• CEDRIC FRANK STILES
• David Philip Fair
• Howard Leslie Smith
• Ian David Belsham
• JOHN DAVID EVANS
• James Richard Freakley
• Mr R Nigel Clemson
• Neil Edwin Austin Watkin
• PAUL FRANK MASON

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Sandwell · Solihull · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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