Deeping Masonic Trust Benevolent Fund

Analysis

Deeping Masonic Trust Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Peterborough. It was registered in March 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Deeping Masonic Trust Benevolent Fund reported income of £12k and spending of £14k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £4,866 to £12k (+146%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 176%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Deeping Masonic Trust Benevolent Fund sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Woodham Mortimer and Hazeleigh Village Hall (£12k), Hilton Town Estate Charity (£12k) and Help Rizokarpasso (£12k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.