Chippenham and District Provincial Grand Lodge Benevolent Fund

Analysis

Chippenham and District Provincial Grand Lodge Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chippenham. It was registered in February 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Chippenham and District Provincial Grand Lodge Benevolent Fund reported income of £22k and spending of £17k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £181 to £22k (+11927%), an average of +231% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 2117%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Chippenham and District Provincial Grand Lodge Benevolent Fund sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Ashray Charitable Trust (£22k), Restoration House Ministries Foundation Trust (£22k) and Padstow Masonic Charity Trust (£22k).