||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Trustees' Annual Report**|||||**for theperiod**||| |**From**|Period start date|||**To**|Period end date||| ||06|04|2021||05|04|2022| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** The North & East Yorkshire Mark Benevolent Fund **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 517013 **Charity's principal address** Glebe House Seaton Road Bewholme Driffield **Postcode YO25 8EB** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||David Robert
Clancey|President||| ||Allan Cameron
Scott|||| ||Paul David Barham|||| ||John White|||| |||||| |||||| **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**|**Type of**
**adviser **
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser **
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| October **2022** **TAR** 1 **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Trust Deed 1[st] July 1985 - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are elected by the Charity Committee and appointed by the Trustee selection methods existing trustees by deed. (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; In accordance with the Governing Document the day to day management of the Charity is undertaken by the Charity Committee. The Charity Committee is made up of an elected representative from each Lodge within the Province. The Chairman of the Committee is elected from within the Committee membership and serves a one year term of office. The Secretary to the Committee is appointed by the President of the Charity and also acts as treasurer. - 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 raise income from Mark Lodges within the Province for the relief of poor and distressed Mark Masons and their dependents and to support the Grand Mark Benevolent Fund and non-masonic charities within the Mark Province of North & East Yorkshire. The Charity does not raise funds from the general public. **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)** The Charity awards grants to non-masonic charities in the Province. These may be one-off grants or spread over a 5 year period. Having regard to the statutory duty to act for the public benefit and within the constraints of the Governing Document, the Charity Committee invites recommendations from the Mark Lodges as to those non-masonic charities within the Province which would most benefit from these grants. October **2022** **TAR** 2 ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** |**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.
**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|To be eligible for a grant from the Charity, non-masonic charities must be
registered with the Charity Commission and either wholly based within
the Province or ring fence any grant for use only within the Province, for
the benefit of the local community.
The Charity has adopted a policy that up to 5 eligible Charities would be
selected to be beneficiaries over a 5 year period. Other charities are
eligible for one–off grants.
The Charity Committee meets twice a year and determines which
charities should be awarded grants, and how much, having regard to the
available funds.| ||In this financial year the Charity raised over £33,000 from within the Mark
membership of the Province.
Grants were awarded to 10 non-masonic charities including the 4 in the 5
year programme. The total amount awarded was £14,264.
In addition the Charity supported the work of the Grand Mark Benevolent
Fund with donations totalling £24,726 of which £11,000 was designated
for their Ukrainian Relief Fund. and £5,000 released from reserves.| **Section E Financial review** The Charity has a reserves policy agreed in 2014 and regularly reviewed **Brief statement of the** since, that £35,000 should be held in reserve to cover future liabilities **charity’s policy on reserves** that may arise and emergency disaster funding. At the year end the Reserve Account stood at £35,076.. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** Charitable income was significantly boosted this year by members You **may choose** to include donating funds totalling £11,000 to be passed on to the Grand Mark additional information, where Benevolent Fund for Ukrainian Relief. In addition £3,000 was donated to relevant about: support the Connaught Court Care Home operated by the Masonic the charity’s principal Charitable Foundation whose normal fundraising had been severely sources of funds (including reduced by Covid restrictions. Overall charitable giving amounted to any fundraising); £41,990 resulting in a planned reduction in reserves and a £2,000 reduction in the current account balance. - 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. October **2022** **TAR** 3 **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)** William Stephen Hawkes **Full name(s)** David Robert Clancey **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** President Secretary **etc) Date** 30/10/2022 October **2022** **TAR** 4 THE NORTH AND EAST YORKSHIRE MARK BENEVOLEKf FUND IRggthr*J Chwity 517013} Ch•rltabl• 8our¢w Unrnstrk￿ F￿ndS INCOME AND expe14DITURE Accoupir YEAR ENDED 6th APRIL 2022 2021 INCOME Mark Lodg88 Bank Interest Festival Badge8 T*¥ R•c4airnod Donthons lind. Prov. Grwxl Lry)Je lkntirvJ81 14.760 20,036 170 2,222 2,374 24,998 3,107 14.468 EXPENDITURE Grand Mark Benevolent Fund Fe8llva18adge8 Nw Maaonic Charit GMBF Collar•tte• Connaught CourtMe•t York8 F•8¥val 14.284 18,SC 5.816 24,118 Exwl of Exp•nd1￿T• o¥•r BALANCE SHEET AS AT 6th APRIL 2022 CURRENT A98eT8 TSB Current Actourbt rsB Dap08￿ Account Vlrgin Ntorey t)epositkoxrrt 16.117 17.929 40,024 57.953 2.222 80.175 51.193 Debtcf HMRC 51.193 ACCUhlULATED FUND Balon￿ 8t 6th April 2021 Le88.' Exce86 of Eyp8ndrtUrn IrK<*rn fort￿ y Add.. Exe•u ol Incorne over Eyr¥Jriure for ts ye B8lan¢• at 5th April 2022 ,175 882 APPROPRIATION Gener81 Reser¥e tYe6ignatod Fund• 51,193 80.175 Not•.. Th• Chanty has 8 conts'rynt IKgts1ty in respect ofrnnts from whic* may u￿.Mat￿lY used as paymants toward8 Grand L• rtwrity c¢llar8tt# the frjuro has not téen qU￿tffi￿. Rwrt ol th• Ae¢ounts examln•r I have reported to the Chafty Trustee8 01Th North •rK1 E88tYotknhw• Mat1( Furk1 that I hm ￿rrIed oul an independent examinthn ofthe actounts ofth• Fur#J for th• yw•r¥Jad 5th h￿ri12022 ONI hm gr￿ thern an Unquall￿d report In acuJrdan¢* Dire(XK)n¥ by the ChBrity THE NORTH AND EAST YORKSHIRE MARK BENEVOLEKf FUND IRggthr*J Chwity 517013} Ch•rltabl• 8our¢w Unrnstrk￿ F￿ndS INCOME AND expe14DITURE Accoupir YEAR ENDED 6th APRIL 2022 2021 INCOME Mark Lodg88 Bank Interest Festival Badge8 T*¥ R•c4airnod Donthons lind. Prov. Grwxl Lry)Je lkntirvJ81 14.760 20,036 170 2,222 2,374 24,998 3,107 14.468 EXPENDITURE Grand Mark Benevolent Fund Fe8llva18adge8 Nw Maaonic Charit GMBF Collar•tte• Connaught CourtMe•t York8 F•8¥val 14.284 18,SC 5.816 24,118 Exwl of Exp•nd1￿T• o¥•r BALANCE SHEET AS AT 6th APRIL 2022 CURRENT A98eT8 TSB Current Actourbt rsB Dap08￿ Account Vlrgin Ntorey t)epositkoxrrt 16.117 17.929 40,024 57.953 2.222 80.175 51.193 Debtcf HMRC 51.193 ACCUhlULATED FUND Balon￿ 8t 6th April 2021 Le88.' Exce86 of Eyp8ndrtUrn IrK<*rn fort￿ y Add.. Exe•u ol Incorne over Eyr¥Jriure for ts ye B8lan¢• at 5th April 2022 ,175 882 APPROPRIATION Gener81 Reser¥e tYe6ignatod Fund• 51,193 80.175 Not•.. Th• Chanty has 8 conts'rynt IKgts1ty in respect ofrnnts from whic* may u￿.Mat￿lY used as paymants toward8 Grand L• rtwrity c¢llar8tt# the frjuro has not téen qU￿tffi￿. Rwrt ol th• Ae¢ounts examln•r I have reported to the Chafty Trustee8 01Th North •rK1 E88tYotknhw• Mat1( Furk1 that I hm ￿rrIed oul an independent examinthn ofthe actounts ofth• Fur#J for th• yw•r¥Jad 5th h￿ri12022 ONI hm gr￿ thern an Unquall￿d report In acuJrdan¢* Dire(XK)n¥ by the ChBrity