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Freemasons provide pre-cooked meals for medical staff across Leicestershire

22nd May 2020

Freemason Paul Leary and his wife Alison run Access Catering based in Leicestershire. Access Catering are the resident caterers at Syston Masonic hall, and during the current lockdown, period have been using existing facilities to provide meals for nurses and other NHS frontline workers at the three main Leicestershire hospitals. The head of Leicestershire and Rutland Freemasons, Peter Kinder, was so impressed with Paul and Alison’s efforts, an emergency grant of £3,000 was made to keep their operation supplied with the necessary raw ingredients.

Lodge Celebrates Centenary Online

19th May 2020

The 13th May 2020 was set to be a momentous occasion as the Temperantia Lodge No.4088 would meet to celebrate its centenary.

This was not to be, as the Covid-19 global pandemic did its very best to stop the Lodge from coming together for this milestone occasion. Temperantia Lodge, however, did not give in to the dreaded virus and made alternative plans to ensure that the celebration went ahead.

Freemasons £35,000 grant to help young people

15th September 2018

Young people in Leicester not in employment, education or training (NEETS) are to be helped into work thanks to a £35,000 grant from Leicestershire and Rutland Freemasons Around 250 young NEETs between the ages of 11-24, many of whom are also homeless, involved in substance misuse and crime, will be helped by TwentyTwenty through their … Read more

Freemasons donate £35000 to TwentyTwenty Youth Charity

22nd August 2018

Young people in Leicester not in employment, education or training (NEETS) are to be helped into work thanks to a £35,000 grant to youth charity, TwentyTwenty. This grant will helped to fund the Journey to Work programme. Supporting disadvantaged young people Over the next three years, around 250 young NEETs between the ages of 11-24 – many … Read more

Freemasons parade in Leicester City Centre for first time in nearly 100 years

22nd November 2017

In glorious sunshine, over 100 Freemasons of all ages gathered in Jubilee Square wearing their Masonic Regalia and subsequently paraded to Leicester Cathedral via the High Street, Gallowtree Gate, Market Place, Grey Friars and on to St Martins prior to a Service of Thanksgiving.