## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Date Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 04 2022 **To** 31 03 2023
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
The Lindsey and Hermes Lodge Benevolent Fund
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)**[1079342] ~~|~~ **Trust** Bolingkbroke Road Louth
**Postcode LN11 0WA**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Leslie Alan Darby Chairman 2 Ian Castledine Secretary 3 John Richard Truss Treasurer 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ~~————————~~
March **2012**
**TAR**
1
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Trust Deed dated 29/10/1999
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Trust
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by committee
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
TO MANAGE AND MAINTAIN PROPERTY AND MONIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH POOR AND DISTRESSED MASONS, THEIR FAMILIES, OR SUCH OTHER MASONIC CHARITIES OR OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND OBJECTS AS THE LODGES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT.
March **2012**
**TAR**
2
The trustees confirm that they have referred to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity's aims and objectives, in planning future activities and in its funding for the year
Donations to non-masonic charities during the year were £100.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
March **2012**
**TAR**
3
Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
During the year to 31[st] March 2024 progress continued on the development of the Masonic Centre. T The new Masonic Centre became usable in September 2021, although some ongoing building work has continued since then A donations of £100 was made to Royal British Legion
March **2012**
**TAR**
4
## **Section E Financial review**
Reserves are used for the building and maintenance of new premises
**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** J R Truss
**Full name(s)** J R Truss **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 31/12/2024
March **2012**
**TAR**
5
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|||**Restricted**
**funds**||||**Endowment**
**funds**|||**Total funds**||||**Last year**|
|||**to the nearest**|**to the nearest**||**to the nearest**||||**to the nearest**|||**to the nearest**||||**to the nearest**|
|||**£**|||**£**||||**£**|||**£**||||**£**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||
|Lettings
**810**
**-**
**-**
**810**
**480**
Contributions to overheads
**5,200**
**-**
**-**
**5,200**
**4,820**
Donations
**17,226**
**2,000**
**-**
**19,226**
**12,833**
Interest
**7**
**-**
**-**
**7**
**-**
Other income
**-**
**-**
**-**
**499**
Loan
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Fund Raising- Raffles
**8,972**
**-**
**-**
**8,972**
**9,708**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,215**
**2,000**
**-**
**34,215**
**28,340**
**Buildings – VAT Refund**
**27,342**
**-**
**-**
**27,342**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 27,342**
**-**
**-**
**27,342.00**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income_
_for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**
~~=~~|||||||||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ 59,557**
**2,000**
**-**
**61,557**
**28,340**
**A3 Payments**
Premises RunningCosts
**18,046**
**-**
**-**
**18,046**
**10,983**
Charitable Donations
**100**
**-**
**-**
**100**
**200**
Fund RaisingCosts
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**910**
Governence costs
**451**
**-**
**-**
**451**
**492**
Loan repaid
**28,500**
**-**
**-**
**28,500**
**4,218**
Loan Interest
**751**
**-**
**-**
**751**
**1,495**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 47,848**
**-**
**-**
**47,848**
**18,298**
**Land and Buildings**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,493**
Equipment and Furnishings
**1,294**
**-**
**-**
**1,294**
**_Sub total_ 1,294**
**-**
**-**
**1,294.00**
**4,493**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
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|**_Total payments_ **||**49,142**|||**-**||||**-**|||**49,142**||||**22,791**|
||||||||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**10,415**|||**2,000**||||**-**|||**12,415**||||**5,549**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**11,995**|||**-**||||**-**|||**11,995**||||**6,446**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**22,410**|||**2,000**||||**-**|||**24,410**||||**11,995**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £**
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
## **B2 Other monetary assets**
## **B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
||Bank Balances||**22,160**||**2,000**||**11,089**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Cash balance||**250**||**-**||**906**||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**_Total cash funds_**||**22,410**||**2,000**||**11,995**||
||(agree balances with receipts and||||||Agreement||
||payments account(s))||OK||OK||Error||
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**||
||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**||
||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**||
||Land and Buildings||Unrestricted||524353||**-**||
||||funds||||||
||Equipment and Furniture||Unrestricted||**5,929**||**-**||
||||~~funds~~||||||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**||
||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**||
||Loans to Charity||Unrestricted||**124,468**||||
||||~~funds~~||||||
||||||**-**||||
||||||**-**||||
||||||**-**||||
||||||**-**||||
Date of approval
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature
Print Name
J R Truss
John Richard Truss
3111212024
# **Independent examiner's** FOR ENGLAND AND WALES **report on the accounts** CHARITY COMMISSION ~~Oe~~ **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
## Charity Name
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** The Lindsey and Hermes Lodge Benevolent Fund
**On accounts for the year** 31 March 2024 **ended Set out on pages** 1 and 2
**Charity no** 1079342 **(if any)** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/03/2018** .
**Responsibilities and basis of** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the **report** preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed:** B Kemp **Date:** 31/12/2024 ~~Ps |~~ **Name:** Barry Kemp ~~Ce~~ **Relevant professional** AFA MIPA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 26 Rimington Road Fishtoft
Boston
1
**October 2018**
**IER**
Lincolnshire PE21 0QU
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
2
**October 2018**
**IER**