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The money will go towards the new Lealholme community bus project that will allow residents to continue to have trips, increase involvement with the community and enjoy activities while living at the home.
Lodge secretary Robin Murray said: “We are committed to raising funds to help local charities and organisations provide a service for those in our community. What better way to help than to look at our young people and help them with equipment and activities at their schools.”
Freemasons donate £10,000 to Hereford Times flood appeal
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.
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
Many times since I became a member of this grand fraternity, I have in retrospective moments, asked myself, why I am proud to be a Mason and I dwell upon those things that Masonry has brought before me. The feelings of warmth, friendship, and potential comfort in times of distress are always with me, yet they seem to appear most readily in lodge.
A local Freemasons branch has presented Louth Churches For Refugees with a £500 cheque, which will support a family who are due to settle in Louth next month.
