**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 


Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 01 2024 **To** 31 12 2024 

Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** Norfolk Museum of Freemasonry 

## **Other names charity is known by** 

**Registered charity number (if any)**[Charitable Incorporated ] Organisation 1183920 

**Charity's principal address** NORFOLK MUSEUM OF FREEMASONRY 47 ST. GILES STREET NORWICH **Postcode** NR2 1JR 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Stephen Norman<br>Allen|Chair|||
||Michael Stanley<br>Gooderson BEM||||
||Michael Terry<br>Goffin||||
||Charles James Hall||||



## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** 

**Name Dates acted if not for whole year** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of adviser Name Address** 

## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

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**Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

||Type of governing document<br>(eg. trust deed, constitution)|<br>The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), controlled by<br>its Constitution document dated 26 November 2018 amended 2 April<br>2024.|
|---|---|---|
||How the charity is constituted|Charitable Incorporated Organisation 1183920|
||(eg. trust, association, company)||
||Trustee selection methods<br>(eg. appointed by, elected by)|New Trustees may be recruited to the Board at any time by the Trustees.<br>In selecting individuals for appointment as Trustees, the Trustees must<br>have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the|
|||effective administration of the CIO.|
|**Additional governance issues (Optional information)**|||
|You**may choose**to include<br>additional information, where||The Trustees manage the affairs of the Charity and meet regularly to<br>discuss and review its financial and operational affairs.|
|relevant, about:||The charity trustees make available to each new charity trustee, on or|
||policies and procedures|before their first appointment, a copy of the current version of the|
||adopted for the induction and|Constitution document and a copy of the Charitable Incorporated|
||training of trustees;|Organisation's latest Trustees' Annual Report and statement of accounts.|
||the charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the charity<br>works;|The principal risks to the Trust are the general level of donations which<br>make up a significant portion of the Trust's income and the possible<br>damage to and loss of the museum's collections.|
||relationship with any related|Best practices are adopted in the identification, evaluation, and control of|
||parties;|risks to ensure that, as far as possible, such risks are eliminated or|
||trustees’ consideration of|reduced to an acceptable level.|
||major risks and the system||
||and procedures to manage||
||them.||



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## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

To advance education for the benefit of the public by the maintenance of **Summary of the objects of the** a museum and library. **charity set out in its governing document** The Norfolk Museum of Freemasonry is a small museum run by volunteers. It is open to everyone and entrance is free. There is also a reference library. 

The highlights in the collection include the Provincial Grand Master’s chair, the Provincial sword with a flame shaped blade and a 17th century portrait of a Freemason wearing a long operative apron in lodge. New **Summary of the main** cabinets and lighting installed have been installed and visitors can learn **activities undertaken for the** about jewels, aprons, rare books, regalia, glassware, pottery, and other **public benefit in relation to** masonic items mostly associated with Norfolk Freemasonry. **these objects (include within this section the statutory** There is also a rolling TV screen with pictures showing recent local **declaration that trustees have** masonic events and the work of Freemasons in the community. We also **had regard to the guidance** have a large reference library. **issued by the Charity Commission on public** The charity continues to managed effectively. **benefit)** 

The Trustees have considered the guidance given by the Charity Commission and are satisfied that the charity meets the requirements on public benefit. 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

The opening and continuing operation of the museum was possible with much hard work from volunteers and help by the curators from the Norwich Museum Services. 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

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Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

The Museum is located in Norwich on a site owned by the Masonic Province of Norfolk. During 2025 the museum will relocate to a new site. The CIO continues to deliver a permanent facility allowing it to showcase informative displays on local and national masonic history, presented through a variety of media, artefacts and collections. 

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**Section E                    Financial review** 

**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** 

The charity feels it has achieved the necessary amount of funding to enable it to achieve its objectives. The charity's policy on reserves is to hold sufficient funds to meet day to day needs. 

## **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)** <br>**Full name(s)** <br>**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**<br>**etc)**<br>**Date**|Stephen Norman Allen|Michael Stanley Gooderson|
|---|---|---|
||Stephen Norman Allen|Michael Stanley Gooderson BEM|
||Trustee|Trustee|
||05/03/2025||



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**Norfolk Museum of Freemasonry** 

CIO 1183929 


## **Receipts and payments accounts** 

**CC16a** 

**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/01/2024 31/12/2024 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**|||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest**|**£**||**to the nearest**|**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||
|Grants||**6,000**|||**-**|||**-**||**6,000**||**6,000**|
|Donations||**90**|||**-**|||**-**||**90**||**60**|
|Other||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Sale of surplus items||**255**|||**-**|||**-**||**255**||**41**|
|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_||**6,345**|||**-**|||**-**||**6,345**||**6,101**|
||||||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**||**6,345**|||**-**|||**-**||**6,345**||**6,101**|
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||
|Audit of collection||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Rent||**6,000**||||||||**6,000**||**6,000**|
|Displayequipment||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Restoration||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Membership||**71**|||**-**|||**-**||**71**||**68**|
|Other||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**804**|
||**_Sub total_ **|**6,071**|||**-**|||**-**||**6,071**||**6,872**|
||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**||**6,071**|||**-**|||**-**||**6,071**||**6,872**|
||||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||**274**|||**0**|||**0**||**274**||**(771)**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**0**|||**0**|||**0**||**0**||**0**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**39**|||**0**|||**0**||**39**||**810**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**||**313**|||**0**|||**0**||**313**||**39**|



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|||**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|||**funds**|
||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank account||**313**|||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||**313**||**-**|||**-**|
||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments||||||||
||account(s))||OK||OK|||OK|
|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print|Name||||Date of<br>approval|
||||Michael Stanley Gooderson BEM|||||07/03/2025|
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