**ESSEX PROVINCIAL ALMONERS FUND Reports and Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2023**
## **ESSEX PROVINCIAL ALMONERS FUND - REGISTERED NO. 1177292**
|**Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31st December 2021**
2023
**2022 General**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Funds**
£
£
**Income and expenditure**
**Incoming resources**
Donations:
General
8,651
Essex Provincial Charity Fund
810
Essex Provincial Grand Lodge
400
Sale of pens and stationery
**Total incoming resources**
**9,861**
**0**
**Resources expended**
Direct charitable expenditure:
Grants to brethren and dependants net of recoveries
38,007
Grants administered for:
Masonic Charitable Foundation
Other expenditure:
Trustees liability insurance
350
Data Controller registration
35
PGA expenses
150
Stationery
0
EPAF pens
0
**Total resources expended**
**38,542**
**0**
**Net incoming/(outgoing) resources**
22853
0
**Fund balances brought forwa**
1/1/2023
19689
0
**Fund balances carried forwa**
1/31/2023
42722
0|**Total for**
**2023**
13,097
4,727
913|
|---|---|
||**18,737**|
||11,014
350
75
43
2,934|
||**14,416**|
||4,321
42722
47043|
**ESSEX PROVINCIAL ALMONERS FUND - REGISTERED NO. 1177292**
|**Balance Sheet for the year ended 31st December 2023**
**Current assets**
Debtors
Cash at bank
**Current liabilities**
Creditors
Net current assets
**Total assets**
Represented by:
**Charity funds:**
Unrestricted:
General Fund
Restricted:
Masonic Charitable Foundation|**Balance Sheet for the year ended 31st December 2023**
**Current assets**
Debtors
Cash at bank
**Current liabilities**
Creditors
Net current assets
**Total assets**
Represented by:
**Charity funds:**
Unrestricted:
General Fund
Restricted:
Masonic Charitable Foundation|2022
**12/31/2022**
£
0
43,072
43,072
350
42,722
**42,722**
42,722
0
**42,722**||**12/31/2023**
£
0
47,043
0|**12/31/2023**
£
0
47,043
0|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||
|||||||
||||||**47,043**|
|||||47,043
0||
|||**42,722**|||**47,043**|
Approved by the trustees on 4/19/2024 and signed on their behalf by:
## **G J Hostler**
## **J. Mansfield**
## **ESSEX PROVINCIAL ALMONERS FUND - REGISTERED NO. 1177292**
## **Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31st December 2023**
## **1. Accounting Policies**
## 1.1
The annexed accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and using the guidelines given in recognised Statements of Standard Accounting Practice the Charity Commission’s Statement of Recommended Practice 2005 and the Chariti Act 2011.
## 1.2
There have been no changes to the accounting policies.
## 1.3
No changes have been made to previous years accounts.
## **2. Assets**
Debtors
**12/31/2022 12/31/2023 £ £** £0 £0
**ESSEX PROVINCIAL ALMONERS FUND - REGISTERED NO. 1177292**
## **Trustees report for the year ended 31st December 2023**
The name of the charity is Essex Provincial Charity Fund (EPAF), registered no. 1177292 with the Charity Commission.
The principal operating address of the charity is Provincial Office, 2 Station Court, Station Approach, Wickford, Essex, SS11 7AT.
Attached are the accounts for the EPAF for last year for the registered charity 1177292.
The names of the persons who were trustees of the charity at the date of this report or at any time during the year under review are as follows:
G J Hostler(Chairman), , P.J. Harris (Secretary), J Mansfield(Treasurer)
,R A Jordan , R E Heathfield , E L Chevin and M D Howse
The day to day management of the charity's functions were delegated to the following - G J Hostler, Chairman & Provincial Grand Almoner ,R E Heathfield Deputy Provincial Grand Almoner, and J Mansfield Treasurer of the EPAF.
The charity’s bankers are Barclays Bank PLC.
The independent examiners of the charity’s accounts is I.V. Jones
The EPAF charity remains solely to look after distressed Essex Masons and their eligible dependants in times of medical and finacial difficulties
The Trustees have been kept informed at all times throughout the year of the transactions and they have been very supportiveof the decisions and actions taken
The accounts show a reduction in financial activity . This is due to the end of the Covid 19 Pandemic and the fall off in the necessity to support members in distress.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees by:
G J Hostler ( Chairman of Trustees)
## **ESSEX PROVINCIAL ALMONERS FUND - REGISTERED NO. 1177292**
## **Independent Examiners' Report to the Trustees of Essex Provincial Almoners Fund**
We report on the accounts of the Charity for the year ended 31st December 2023
## **Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Examiners**
The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 and that an independent examination is needed.
It is our responsibility to:
Examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act.
Follow the procedures laid down in the general directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and state whether particular matters have come to our attention.
## **Basis of Independent Examiners' Report**
Our examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a "true and fair view" and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent Examiners' Statement**
In the course of our examination, no matter has come to our attention:
1. which gives us reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements a) to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act, and
- b) to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met,or
2. to which, in our opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Name:
**I.V. Jones 28 March 2024**