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Registered charity · London

The Grand Charity

  • 2 trustees
  • Income £804k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Masonic Charitable Foundation.

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.mcf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Grand Charity
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£804k£987k
  • 2024£879k£751k
  • 2023£668k£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£886k£1.9m
  • 2021£842k£10m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE TO SUPPORT SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, OBJECTS OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.THE OBJECTS MAY BE AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION BUT ONLY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION.

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.

1 trustees on the board

  • James Long Chair since 2024
  • Masonic Charitable Foundation since 2016
2y median 2y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

  • Masonic Charitable Foundation since 2016
31.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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

Professional services 9Business services 2Finance 2

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£804k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.0 in 2021

0
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1170335
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25 MAR 1980AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21 OCT 2016AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 06 DEC 2016
Companies House
Company number 01487345 · Active
Contact on the register
02031463333 · info@mcf.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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