Reports are essentially financial statements and records of membership including items such as:

• Tables of income from subscription and numbers working by shop and district
• Breakdown of membership - working, idle, retired, foreign - by district
• Monthly income and expenditure by district
• Details of dues income, levies and benefits granted by district - audited
• Names of members receiving idle benefit and amount received
• Occasional reports of events e.g. International Workmen's congress of 1889
• Occasional reports of referendum ballots
• Details of loans to members giving names and amounts
• Trade census - members, apprentices, hours and standard wages by district
• Occasional correspondence

Over the years there were modifications in the presentation of the reports to include items such as:

• Expenditure for funeral benefits for named members with cause of death listed: 1894
• Historical table of membership, income and expenditure 1842-1894: December 1894
• List of names of foundries and location: December 1894
• Brief reports of recent conciliation cases: February 1897
• Names and addresses of district officers with place and time of district meetings: July 1897
• Names of new members or ones re-joining by district: July 1897
• Extensive reporting of dispute between Iron Moulders and Brass Moulders: June 1902
• List of names, age and length of membership of members benefiting from superannuation and reason for being unable to work: August 1902
• List of names of members participating in a referendum ballot: September - December 1918
• Table of number of members and wives dying and age at death by year 1878 - 1917: January 1918
• Table of salary and other expenses by branch, with average membership by branch and cost of servicing members by branch for 1918: last quarter 1918
• Historical table of income and expenditure (by heading) for years 1842-1919: last quarter 1919