Promoting the Fraternity across the World
Saturday 8th February saw Worshipful Master Robert Phillips and his wife host a wonderful Pre-Valentines Ball at The Left Bank in Headingley, Leeds, romantically decorated by Balloonatix of Leeds.
Grove Road Community Primary School – which has limited outdoor space and no field or garden – has been awarded £3,000 to buy outdoor playground with furniture, walled mounted games and an outdoor table tennis table.
Sheffield Touch of Colour Stroke Group is a Stroke Association voluntary group. The group meets each month to explore different artistic techniques, and help members overcome the devastating effects of stroke. Originally an art course run by the Stroke Association, the art group became Sheffield Touch of Colour in April 2018, run by the charity’s volunteers in the area.
The BMCF (Bucks Masonic Centenary Fund) recently donated a £1000 to purchase a large guillotine, and artwork materials, to help produce braille books for young sight-impaired children.
Back in 2018 Buckinghamshire Freemasons raised over £3500 which included a donation of £500 from Winslow Lions to buy young Dexter Ward, who is severely visually impaired due to Congenital Glaucoma, a braille machine.
Now, a spokesperson for the Grand Lodge of Scotland has said that it will join the many lodges that use vinyl aprons in place of lambskin.
Lincolnshire’s 3,400 Freemasons, including those from Louth and Alford, have committed to raise £2.25 million for charity during the next five years.
Grants from Freemasons to hospices have exceeded £13 million in England and Wales since 1984.
Over the last number of years and with increasing concentration in recent times, individual Brethren and Grand Lodges seem to be getting more and more involved in matters which clearly fall without the stated “aims and relationships of the Craft
