The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons' Fund of Benevolence

Registered charity 207610 Registered since 1963

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

12 trustees on the board

3.1y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

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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 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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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£2.2m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

66.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 100.8 in 2021

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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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.markmasonshall.org
Emailg.newell@mmh.org.uk
Phone02077471166
AddressMARK MASONS HALL, 86 ST. JAMES'S STREET, LONDON, SW1A 1PL

Finances

£2,237,300 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,730,133£2,676,341
2022£2,049,178£1,444,719
2023£1,778,012£1,668,719
2024£1,877,346£1,989,795
2025£2,237,300£3,423,284

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesThe Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who

Elderly/old PeopleOther Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

3.1 SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY BE DETERMINED FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE TRUSTEES, WHO IN REACHING THAT DETERMINATION SHALL SEEK AND CONSIDER THE VIEWS OF THE GRAND LODGE.3.2 THE RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONG MARK MASTER MASONS, THEIR FAMILIES OR OTHER DEPENDANT, AND/OR AMONGST RETIRED EMPLOYEES OF THE GRAND LODGE IN SUCH MANNER AS THEY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Governing document: CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 01/01/1955 AS AMENDED ON 11/06/1963 AS AMENDED ON 15/07/1986 AS AMENDED ON 09/09/1986 AS AMENDED ON 04/10/2007 AND DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 13/09/2011

Trustees (12)

12trustees
0aged 70+

Connected charities (3)

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