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W Bro Steve Ashworth dropped in on the North West Blood Bikes. The N.W.B.B. assist the hospitals in the North West and Lakes delivering vital blood, donations, hospital records and anything else required during the hours of 1900 and 0200 during the week and 24hrs on Saturday and Sunday.
Their work is vital to the running of these hospitals during the ‘out of hours’ periods.
Tottington Park Bowling Club where he presented a cheque for £2000 to fund a new kitchen in their clubhouse. The application was made by Geoff Leach shown 2nd from the right.
Just under £5000 was presented to the Ashworth Valley Scout Camp on Wednesday 22nd March 2017. The donation was to fund the fitting of a heating system in one of the camping buildings on the site
Bryan Redshaw, Worshipful Master of the St Saviour Lodge handed over a Laptop and i-Pad purchased for York children’s charity, The Island, to Nigel Poulton and Emma Bewlay of the charity.Receiving the equipment, Mentoring Co-ordinator, Nigel Poulton said that ‘The laptop and iPad will enable us to carry out some of our work much more easily
Karin Grandal-Park of Leonard Cheshire Home Windermere for £600.00. The money had been raised by freemasons on the occasion of W Bro Bland’s 50 years in Freemasonary certificate presentation in February from a collection, raffle and auction of table decorations made by his wife Mary.
General News
On Sunday 30th April 2017, the Old Oakhamian Lodge meeting in Oakham held its annual Ladies Lunch at the stunning venue of Launde Abbey, East Norton, with over sixty people in attendance. During the afternoon a collection was made through generous donations from the lodge and a raffle, enabling W.Bro Chris Gibbins to present a cheque of £400 to Rainbows Hospice, Loughborough.
The Worshipful Master, of Royal Marines Plymouth Lodge N0. 9528, presented a cheque to the staff of Plym Ward, Mount Gould Hospital, on behalf of the Brethren of Royal Marines Plymouth Lodge and The Lodge of Integrity.
South Shields dancers perform for thousands at Wembley
On Saturday, 24th June, the gardens of Worshipful Brother Darrell Clayton and his lovely wife Sally, in Gata de Gorgos, were again thrown open to hold another stunning ‘Glyndebourne in Gata’ celebration. This is now an annual event, organised by local Freemasons, which is modelled after the grand Glyndebourne event in England although on a slightly smaller scale. Not withstanding that this classical concert was incredible and everyone there enjoyed it enormously. The idea is generally of a black tie, classical music event to be held in Darrell and Sally’s magnificent gardens.
Recently members of the Surrey Masonic Charity Team led by Nick Parsons were delighted to visit Home-Start Sutton to present a certificate reflecting the £5,000 Grant received from the Masonic Charitable Foundation to enable the continued provision of volunteer home support and family support groups to vulnerable families with a child under 5 years old.