TLC Ireland and Widows Sons Masonic Bikers Association Ireland mark the donation of the 100,000th ‘TLC’ Teddy Bear’.

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TLC Ireland and Widows Sons Masonic Bikers Association Ireland
Teddies for Loving Care – TLC Ireland and Widows Sons Masonic Bikers Association Ireland recently attended the Ulster Hospital Emergency Department to mark the donation of the 100,000th ‘TLC’ Teddy Bear’.
TLC have donated teddy bears to the Emergency Departments in the Ulster, Lagan Valley & Downe hospitals over the past few years for staff to give to children or patients at their discretion. Giving a teddy bear to anyone who is distressed while in hospital will enable the medical staff to carry on with their vital work and help children and families have a more comforting experience.
The teddies will be used in various ways, for the child or patient to cuddle as a reward for being brave and for staff to demonstrate what they are going to do. The teddies also act as a distraction and can provide reassurance for the child which helps, parents, guardians and siblings.
Teddies for Loving Care (TLC) is a charity supported by the Masonic Order within Ireland who donate sterile packaged teddy bears to hospital Emergency Departments in both Northern and Southern Ireland.
The South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust would like to sincerely thank TLC for their donations to date and for their continued support in donating teddy bears to our Emergency Departments.

Sponsor a Disadvantaged Child for a 2016 Christmas Pantomime

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Last Christmas the Provincial Charity Steward, Wayne Smith, asked you to consider supporting your local communities by sponsoring a child from a disadvantaged background to attend a Pantomime during the Christmas holidays. An initial two hundred and fifty places were reserved and thanks to your magnificent response, six hundred and ninety disadvantaged Children, Parents and Carers had a special Christmas treat! Click here to read more about last year’s sponsored pantomime places.

Tripartite Meeting of the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine

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On Saturday 13th August at the main theatre of Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, the first Tripartite Meeting of the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine took place, which included the divisions of Cumbria, North and East Lancashire and West Lancashire.

Freemasons present Renal Unit in Maidstone Hospital with a cheque for £4,000

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On the afternoon of the 10th August at the Renal Unit in Maidstone Hospital a cheque for £4,000 was presented to the Kent Kidney Patients Association (K.P.P.A.) by a group of Maidstone Freemasons: Mick Packham of Belvidere Lodge, Les Tasker of Robinson Lodge, John Beadle of Agricola Lodge, Alan Chitty of Duke of Kent Lodge, Chris Harbord of Bearsted Lodge and Jim McDonald of Monckton Lodge – all past masters of their lodges in 2007 and known locally as the “007s”.

Masters & Wardens Conference – Saturday 17th September – Uxbridge

Masters & Wardens Conference – Saturday 17th September – Uxbridge

For those WMs and Wardens who haven’t replied yet, I would like to invite you to attend the 2016 WM and Wardens Conference, which is to be held at: The Uxbridge Masonic Centre, Western House, 4a Hercies Road, Hillingdon, Middlesex UB10 9NA on Saturday 17th September 2016, commencing at 10.00AM. Coffee and registration will be from 9.30AM.