CHESHIRE FREEMASONS' CHARITY

Registered charity 219177 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHESHIRE PROVINCIAL FUND OF BENEVOLENCE

To relieve in cases of need Freemasons of the Province of Cheshire & their dependentsTo make grants to other Masonic CharitiesTo make grants to Non Masonic Charities

Objects

A) TO RELIEVE IN CASES OF NEED FREEMASONS OF THE PROVINCE OF CHESHIRE AND THEIR WIVES, WIDOWS, PARTNERS, RELATIVES, CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDANTS.B) TO MAKE GRANTS TO THE ROYAL OR OTHER MASONIC CHARITIES. C) TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE TO SUCH OTHER MASONIC AND NON MASONIC CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE.

Area of benefit: CHESHIRE

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £5,545,243, which the trustees consider essential to support anticipated future deficits. The charity reported a net income of £147,671, driven by significant investment gains of £349,990, while charitable expenditure of £407,339 exceeded incoming resources from donations and legacies.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 5 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 24/02/2026, 116 days after the 31/10/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~88.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (75% 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: 3.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/10/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Robert Crudgechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• DENNIS TALBOT · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jeffrey Cunningham · trustee of 2 other charities
• Michael George Leese
• Neil Arthur Willis · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wirral

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WORCESTERSHIRE FREEMASONS CHARITY.

• THE WORCESTERSHIRE FREEMASONS CHARITY income £89k
• THE PROVINCE OF HAMPSHIRE & ISLE OF WIGHT MASONIC CHARITABLE TRUST income £98k
• PROVINCE OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE MASONIC BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION income £153k
• THE CHESHIRE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF MARK MASTER MASON'S FUND OF BENEVOLENCE income £53k
• Durham Freemasons Charity income £517k
• THE HEREFORDSHIRE MASONIC CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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