Herefordshire Freemasons donate £600 to 151 (Leominster) Squadron Air Training Corps
The Herefordshire Masonic Charity Association has donated £600 to 151 (Leominster) Squadron of the Air Training Corps.
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The Herefordshire Masonic Charity Association has donated £600 to 151 (Leominster) Squadron of the Air Training Corps.
Earlier this year gales displaced one of the pinnacles high on the north west corner of Hereford Cathedral’s central tower causing fears that it would come crashing to the ground, severely damaging a number of roofs and potentially the ceiling of the nave in its fall.
Herefordshire Freemasons have made a donation of £1,000 to the Hereford Breast Cancer Haven. This continues a long tradition of support from Freemasons for this excellent and worthwhile organisation, and the Province has made a commitment to support the Haven with at least £1,000 a year through the charity’s Guardian scheme.
£10,000 for Midlands Air AmbulanceThe Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is dear to the hearts of many Freemasons in the Province, providing a service which is especially important in a thinly populated rural area such as ours. The PGM, RW Bro Rev’d David Bowen, and his Deputy, VW Bro Michael Roff, presented a further £10,000 to the MAAC at Strensham Airbase on 30 April 2016. £6,000 of this was raised by Herefordshire Freemasons and provided through the Herefordshire Masonic Charity Association. The other £4,000 came from the Grand Charity as part of its programme of support for local causes throughout England and Wales, and which is distributed through the Provinces.
In what must be a very unusual, if not unique occasion, the Immediate Past Provincial Grand Master for Herefordshire, RW Bro Rodney Smallwood, Installed the present Provincial Grand Master, RW Bro The Rev’d David Bowen, into the Chair of Dean Leigh Masters’ Lodge on 16 May 2016
This year the Herefordshire Masonic Charity Association invited representatives of those local charities to a coffee morning at the Masonic Hall in Kyrle Street, Hereford. They were welcomed by the Provincial Grand Master, Rev David Bowen, and were given a brief talk on the history of Freemasonry and the part that charity plays, by the Provincial Charity Steward, Nick Swan