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The Library and Museum Charitable Trust of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Berkshire

The Library and Museum Charitable Trust of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Berkshire is a registered charity (number 1098092) based in Wokingham, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Gerald Reginald Preston since 2025. Latest income £7k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as The Berkshire Library and Museum of Freemasonry (Charity Commission)

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £7k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough and more
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7k£5k
  • 2024£6k£5k
  • 2023£6k£5k
Earlier years
  • 2022£5k£5k
  • 2021£6k£5k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1. WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE BELOW MENTIONED SUB-CLAUSE 3.2 TO PROVIDE MAINTAIN MANAGE UPKEEP AND IMPROVE A MUSEUM AND LIBRARY FOR THE EDUCATION AND BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND TO COLLECT MAINTAIN PRESERVE CONSERVE DISPLAY AND MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION THE ARCHIVES RECORDS PRINTED MATERIAL REGALIA JEWELS AND ARTEFACTS OF FREEMASONRY2. TO APPLY THE INCOME AND SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL AS THEY SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM COMMITTEE (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE COMMITTEE") MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT BUT SUBJECT TO SUCH APPROVALS OR CONSENTS AS MAY FOR THE TIME BEING BE PRESCRIBED BY LAW OR IN THE REGULATIONS HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FOR THE PERIOD OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THIS DEED INSTEAD OF APPLYING THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN ANY YEAR ACCUMULATE ALL OR ANY PART OF SUCH INCOME AT COMPOUND INTEREST BY INVESTING THE SAME AND THE RESULTING INCOME IN ANY OF THE AUTHORISED INVESTMENTS AND HOLD THE SAME AS AN ACCRETION TO AND AS PART OF THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THEIR RIGHT TO APPLY THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF SUCH ACCUMULATED INCOME IN ANY SUBSEQUENT YEAR AS IF THE SAME WERE INCOME OF THE CHARITY ARISING IN THE THEN CURRENT YEAR

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 5Education/training 5Environment/conservation/heritage 5

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Property 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£7k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1098092
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 28/09/2002AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 29/03/2013
Contact on the register
0118 978 7625 · johnjenkinsco@hotmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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