Rochdale Sportsmans Evening raises £4000+
Provincial Grand Charity Steward Jamie Beninson has raised a magnificent sum – in excess of £4000 from last Fridays Sportsmans Evening held at…
Promoting the Fraternity across the World
Provincial Grand Charity Steward Jamie Beninson has raised a magnificent sum – in excess of £4000 from last Fridays Sportsmans Evening held at…
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.
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.
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”.
The initiative was started in 2015 by Bucks Freemasons, and has now seen several hundred men in the county tested, with some of them having follow-on checks after receiving their PSA results.
During the day 117 visitors were tested.
Liscard Lodge has been supporting Ushka, a German Shepherd Retriever cross for the last 2 years.
Masons from Lilford Lodge visited the Hindley-based hospice to present the money, which was collected by all seven Masonic lodges in Leigh.
More than 30,000 cardiac arrests occur out of hospital in the UK every year, yet just 1 in 10 people survive. Immediate CPR and early defibrillation are crucial steps in saving someone’s life.
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.
Freemason Grand Master for the United Grand Lodge of Queensland, Alan Townson, installs Cecil Hamley as the new Master of Nambour. John McCutcheon
IT’S his second time in the hot seat, but Cecil Hamley is not taking lightly his induction as Worshipful Master of the Freemasons’ Nambour Lodge.
“It’s still an experience, a new one,” he told the Daily before the Grand Master for the United Grand Lodge of Queensland, Alan Townson, placed him on the chair of King Solomon at Nambour Masonic Centre yesterday.