Registered charity · Wokingham
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
- Gerald Reginald Preston Chair since 2025
- Anthony Charles Howlett-Bolton since 2017
- John Ferguson since 2025
- John Michael Jenkins since 2023
- Mark Heppelthwaite since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Anthony Charles Howlett-Bolton since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Gerald Reginald Preston Chair since 2025
- Anthony Charles Howlett-Bolton since 2017
- John Ferguson since 2025
- John Michael Jenkins since 2023
- Mark Heppelthwaite since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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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
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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