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The Bridgend Masonic Lodges Charitable Trust

RegisteredRegistered charity number 515337Mid GlamorganPoverty relief
Income£95k2025-12-31
Spending£88ksame year
Spent / received72%5-year average
Size in its cause66th pctPoverty relief
Registered1984Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

The Bridgend Masonic Lodges Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Mid Glamorgan. It was registered in July 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Bridgend Masonic Lodges Charitable Trust reported income of £95k and spending of £88k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £115k to £95k (-17%), an average of -4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Bridgend Masonic Lodges Charitable Trust sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Life Destiny Church Trust (£95k), Task Brasil-The Abandoned Street Kids of Brazil Trust (£95k) and Beth Hamedrash Kingsley Way Trust (£95k).

Income and spending

£0£36k£73k£109k£145k2021 Income: £114,8072021 Spending: £74,53120212022 Income: £109,0042022 Spending: £80,69520222023 Income: £90,2452023 Spending: £74,53220232024 Income: £145,3252024 Spending: £82,87420242025 Income: £94,7312025 Spending: £87,6142025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Relief of poor and distressed brother masons or their poor and distressed widows or children or to or for the benefit of such Masonic charities or other exclusively charitable institutions, societies and objects as the lodge shall in duly constituted metings from time to time direct

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Life Destiny Church TrustStarbeck£95k
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Beth Hamedrash Kingsley Way TrustLondon£95k
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