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Registered charity · Lincolnshire

The Horncastle Masonic Benevolent Fund

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £36k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Lincolnshire
Registered
1968

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£36k£41k
  • 2024£34k£40k
  • 2023£32k£47k
Earlier years
  • 2022£33k£86k
  • 2021£36k£28k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF SUCH POOR AND DISTRESSED BROTHER MASONS OR THEIR POOR AND DISTRESSED WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OR TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH MASONIC CHARITIES OR OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS SOCIETIES AND OBJECTS AS (THE TRUSTEES) SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DECIDE.

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.

9.4y median 8y
average tenure
20y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

2
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 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10Religious Activities 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.

Arts and leisure 1Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£36k latest income · spending exceeded income 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
256553
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 10 JUNE 1968 AS VARIED BY SCHEME DATED 28 AUGUST 1997 AND AMENDED 13 DECEMBER 2005 AND 7 FEBRUARY 2007 AS AMENDED 16/10/13
Contact on the register
01526344441 · alan@brithil.plus.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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