The Provincial Grand Chapter Of Worcestershire Charity Fund
Charity 1166195
Overview
Summary
The Provincial Grand Chapter Of Worcestershire Charity Fund appears to be a member-led grant-making vehicle connected to Worcestershire’s Holy Royal Arch Freemasonry. Rather than delivering services directly, it channels support to charities and charitable organisations, primarily in and around Worcestershire, through applications advanced by members. Its role may therefore extend beyond funding: it can translate the local knowledge and networks of a dispersed Masonic membership into support for community needs, while retaining scope to contribute nationally and internationally.
Operational geography
No operational geography is currently available for this organisation.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A member-networked route into local giving
The fund appears to rely on members to identify and put forward local charitable causes, making its grant-making model relationship-led rather than openly evidenced as a public application programme.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation’s reach and priorities may be shaped by where members have knowledge, relationships and confidence. It may be especially able to surface smaller local organisations, but could also leave needs outside members’ networks less visible.
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“Applications are put forward by members of the organisation to local charities and charitable organisations in and around Worcestershire.”
Source:Charity Commission“The Provincial Grand Chapter of Worcestershire is the administrative body for Holy Royal Arch Freemasons in Worcestershire.”
Source:Organisation
Primarily a civic intermediary, not a service provider
The fund appears designed to strengthen other organisations’ capacity to help people, rather than to provide direct support itself.
Why it matters
Understanding it as an intermediary clarifies its potential civic contribution: its impact depends on grant selection, recipient relationships and the effectiveness of funded organisations.
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“How the charity helps: Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission“To provide support whether financial or otherwise to charities undertaking charitable activities in or around Worcestershire.”
Source:Charity Commission
Local focus with deliberately broad boundaries
Worcestershire is the apparent centre of gravity, but the fund retains a wider remit that could enable responses to national or international causes as well as local hardship.
Why it matters
This creates a potential strategic tension: without grant records, it is unclear how resources are balanced between place-based needs and wider charitable commitments.
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“To provide support to charities undertaking charitable activities in or around Worcestershire.”
Source:Charity Commission“To support national and international charities which provide care help and support for those in need or undertake other charitable activities for the benefit of the community.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which organisations, places and causes have received grants, and at what scale.
- Whether charities can apply directly or require a member sponsor.
- How the fund decides between local, national and international requests.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and grant recipient lists, including amounts and purposes.
- Grant criteria, application guidance and evidence of how members identify and assess local need.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To consider and approve if agreed applications put forward by members of the organisation to local charities and charitable organisations in and around Worcestershire to provide support to those in need through poverty sickness disability or age.
Charity objects
1 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT WHETHER FINANCIAL OR OTHERWISE TO CHARITIES UNDERTAKING CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN OR AROUND WORCESTERSHIRE. 2 TO PROVIDE HELP AND SUPPORT TO THOSE IN NEED WHETHER THROUGH POVERTY SICKNESS DISABILITY OR AGE. 3 TO SUPPORT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CHARITIES WHICH PROVIDE CARE HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THOSE IN NEED OR UNDERTAKE OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.