**Charity Number: 293406**
## **GRAND STEWARDS’ LODGE 250[th] ANNIVERSARY BENEVOLENT FUND**
**ANNUAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
**GRAND STEWARDS LODGE 250[th] ANNIVERSARY BENEVOLENT FUND**
**Trustees’ Report**
|**Trustees**|R A Bates (resigned 18 January 2023)|
|---|---|
||G C Burton|
||M R George|
||H I Sabin (appointed 18 January 2023)|
||D J Thompson|
|**Address**|73-75 High Street,|
||Buntingford,|
||Herts SG9 9AE|
|**Objectives and Activities**|The Charity’s objectives are to make|
||grants to both Masonic and non-|
||Masonic charities.|
|**Achievements and**|In the year six such grants were|
|**Performance**|approved, totalling £21,500, including|
||£7,500 to non-Masonic charities thus|
||benefiting the general public directly.|
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**GRAND STEWARDS LODGE 250[th] ANNIVERSARY BENEVOLENT FUND**
## **RECEIPTS & EXPENSES For the year ended 31 December 2022**
|Gift Aid donations and tax recoverable
Bequest
Other donations
Gain on Investments
Bank Interest less bank Charges
**Total Receipts**
**Donations made**
Masonic Charitable Foundation
Prostate Cancer UK
Royal Star & Garter
Masonic Housing Association
Lifelites
Trussell Trust
Princess Alice Hospice
Dragon Hall Trust
**Total Expenses**
**Excess of Income over Expenses**
**Transfer (to)/from accumulated fund**|**Year**
**ended**
**31 Dec**
**2022**
**£**
3,713
50,000
1,295
-
528
55,536
10,000
2,500
-
2,500
1,500
2,500
-
2,500
(21,500)
34,036
(34,036)
-|**Period**
**ended**
**31 Dec**
**2021**
**£**
4,163
-
450
11,109
(136)|
|---|---|---|
|||15,586
6,000
2,500
2,500
2,500
1,000
-
1,500
2,500|
|||(18,500)|
|||(2,914)|
|||2,914|
|||-|
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**GRAND STEWARDS LODGE 250[th] ANNIVERSARY BENEVOLENT FUND**
## **BALANCE SHEET As at 31 December 2022**
|**s**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors
Cash at bank
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within one year
**TOTAL NET ASSETS**
**ACCUMULATED FUND**
Balance b/f
Transfer from/(to) current year|**2022**
**£**
1,576
210,037
211,613
(21,500)
190,113
156,077
34,036
190,113|**2021**
**£**
833
184,744|
|---|---|---|
|||185,577
(29,500)|
|||156,077|
|||158,991
(2,914)|
|||156,077|
**Approved on** 18 January 2023
**Signed on behalf of Trustees** by D J Thompson
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**GRAND STEWARDS LODGE 250[th] ANNIVERSARY BENEVOLENT FUND**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report**
## **Report to the Trustees of Grand Stewards Lodge 250[th] Anniversary Benevolent Fund Charity No 293406.**
- I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 December 2022
**Responsibilities and basis of** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the **report** 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come **examiner's** to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to **statement** 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.
**Signed:** Sunil Devalia
**Date:** 18 January 2023
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