Cheshire Freemasons' Charity

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

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Stockport
• Tameside
• Trafford
• Wirral
• Cheshire East
• Cheshire West & Chester

Area of benefit in its governing document: Cheshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £232,438 and spent £434,757.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 50%, from £469,195 in the year to 30 April 2022 to £232,438 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 187% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 5 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £10,000, awarded in 2020.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Paul Robert CrudgeChairAppointed 16 October 2019
• Dennis TalbotAppointed 17 August 2018
• Jeffrey CunninghamAppointed 4 December 2023
• Michael George LeeseAppointed 31 January 2022
• Neil Arthur WillisAppointed 6 November 2024

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

219177

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

27 June 1963

Governing document

BY LAWS OF THE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF CHESHIRE INCLUDING CHESHIRE PROVINCIAL FUND OF BENEVOLENCE CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 6 OCTOBER 1979 AS AMENDED 3 OCTOBER 2012 AND 4 DECEMBER 2012.

Website

www.cheshiremasons.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Flintshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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