SUFFOLK PROVINCIAL GRAND CHAPTER CHARITY
Registered Charity No. 296688
Trustees, Annual Report
Receipts and Payments Accounts
Independent examiners, report to the trustees of
Suffolk Provincial Grand Chapter Charity
for the year ended 31st December 2024
Provincial Off ice
Freemason5' Hall,
Soane Street
Ipswich,
IP4 2BG

Suffolk Provincial Grand Chapter Charity
Registered Chaf Ity No.296688
Trustees, Annual Report for the year ended
31" December 2024
Constltutlon
The charity is an unincorporated association based in Suffolk. It is administered by a
Management Committee who are the Charity Trustees and is governed by a constitution
adopted on and updated on the Il, May 2024
Trustees
The trvstees during the year were as follows:
Timothy McCormick- President
Rayrnond Keith Pascoe - Chair Resigned 02112124
John Leslie Pitcher
Keith George Cook
Kelvin John Larcombe Secretary from June 2024
John Scott Laverock - Treasurer
David John Wilson Charity Steward
Ralph John Robertson
John Kirk
David John Boswell
Robert Heavisides Secretary resigned June 2024
Peter Whiley
The President, and Charity Steward. are ex-officio members, the remaining members are
subject to annual elertion.
Objerts and publlc benefit
The charity's object5 are to raise funds and to make donations and grants to other registered
charities or to organisation5 With charitable purposes. or otherwise to apply funds for the
benefit and relief of individuals.
In 2024 the charlty's gross annual income of "unrestricted funds" was £4744 and expenditure
amounted to £2800 which was distributed to five non masonic charities. The restricted funds
received £26481 and distributed a further £16623 to a number of charities, the majority non
masonic.
The Management Committee meets formally once a year to review progress, assess risk,
review investment policy, and to decide strategic objectives for the forthcoming year. Dav
to day management devolves on the Treasurer and Charity Steward who liaise with the
Chair. Special meetings of the whole Management Committee are called as necessary.

Funds
In addition to the General Operating Fund, which is unrestrlcted. The trust also receives
donations from the charity collections and benevolent funds of individual Private Chapters
and other masonic bodies in Suffolk. These are available to the originator on demand,
subject only to satisfying the requirement that any withdrawal is for a purpose consistent
with the objects of the Charity. In the accounts these are described as 'Restricted Funds"
in addition, the trust may hold Designated Funds, where the Management Committee
earmarks unrestricted funds for a specific purpose. At 31st December 2024 there were no
operational Designated Funds.
Reserves
The Charity has no ongoing costs, as all work and facilities are provided voluntarily by the
Management Committee and supporters. The Management Committee undertakes to
ensure that sufficient monetary funds are available to satisfy withdrawal requirements of
the Restricted and any Designated Funds and aims to maintain a sufficient sum available on
demand to meet any reasonably foreseeable liability which might arise in future.
AcknowledgrnentS
The trustees acknowledge their responsibility for the production of accounts, but in doing so
a150 formally record their thanks to the Treasurer and independent Accounts Examiners for
their hard work and care in discharging their duties to the Charity.
Signed on behalf of all the trustees bv:
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Suffolk Provincial Grand Chapter Charity
Registered Charity No. 296688
Receipts arKI Payments Accounts for the year ended
31st. December 2024
Unrestrlcted Restrided
Funds
Funds
Previous
Year
Total Funds
Recelpts
m5 Provincial Grarnj Chapter
Officers. Donati¢xts on Apptyntrnerrt
Other Donations
Bank Interest
Gift Aid
945
2.070
170
945
2.070
19.B10
5,315
3,085
1.234
2,025
17.295
4,137
4,311
19.640
4.447
2.394
691
Total Récèipts
4,744
26.481
31.225
29,002
Payments
Charitable Giving
Administratson and GovemarKe
Unused Cheques from prewous years
16,623
19.423
11.992
-500
Total Paym•nts
16.623
19.423
11,492
Net Receipts Payments
transfer Betsyeen fijnds
9,858
11,802
17,510
Sub Totsl
Cash Funds ISL January
9.858
86.805
11.802
107.962
17,510
1,452
21,157
Cash Fund$ 31st 08cernber
23,101
96.663
119.764
107,962
Statgmenl of Assets arxl knablitses at 31sl of December 2024
Funds
Funds
Total
Bank Deposits
Uncashed theques
Total Avail8t￿e Bank Deposlts
-1,100
8.709
8.709
COIF Charities Investrnenl Trust
14.392
96.663
111.055
Totsl Cash Funds
23.101
119.764
The Chanty has r￿ Oth￿ assets and no liabilities at thg year 8nd.
Signed
Nome
Signed
Trustees
behalf ol all the Trustees

Suffolk Provincial Grand Chapter Charity
Registered Charity No. 296688
Independent exafniners. report to the trustees of Suffolk Provlncial Grand Chapter Charity.
We report to the trustees on our examination of the at¢ounts of the Suffolk Provincial Grand
Chapter Charity (the Trust) for the year ended 31st December 2024, to which thi5 report IS
appended.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the occounts In
accordance with the requirements of the Charitie5 Att 20111'the Acv).
We report in respect of our examination of the Trust's accounts carried out undef 5ertlon 145
of the Act and in carrying Out our examlnation we have followed all the applicable Direthons
given by the Charity Commission under sectlon 14515llbl of the Act.
Independent examiners. statement
We have completed our examination. We confirm that no material matters have come to our
attention in connection with the examination giving us cause to believe that In any materlal
respect:
actounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the
Act; or
the accounts do not accord with those record5.
We have DO concerns ènd have come acfOSS no other mattefs in connection with our
examination to which attentr.on should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper
understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
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Oate:
22.05.2025
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Date: