Promoting the Fraternity across the World
The team enjoyed another successful day out at East Barnet Festival on Sunday, the second time we’d attended this event.
It was a delight and a relief to see that Summer had decided to grace us with its presence for the day and the crowds correspondingly came out in volumes.
The concept of what constitutes a man is time honored and tested. The traditional role of men has been essential to the development and maintenance of society. Learning to think for ourselves, to form our own judgments, to trust our decisions, to comprehend, to expand our knowledge, to choose this course of action over that, to decide between good and bad, have through the millennia been recognized as the attributes that define a man.
At his Installation on October 19th 2015 WBro John Young PPGReg, WM explained that during his year as Master he wanted raise funds for Derby Mountain Rescue Team and Guide Dogs (Derby) being involved with both charities as John and his wife Janet were both Puppy Walkers for Guide Dogs for five years and John is a member of the Derby Mountain Rescue Team’s Supporters Group and their youngest son, Mark is a Section Leader within the Team
Winterbourne villagers held their community day ‘clean up’ on Saturday 12th September 2015 and were helped by Members and their families including Jessican Maybey (in the wheelbarrow)
Studley Green Community Centre new cloakroom facilities Built in 1966, the Studley Green Community Centre (SGCC), on the outskirts of Stokenchurch, plays…
Saturday 18th June turned out to be a great day for the Masonic charity cycle challenge. Fourteen brethren representing a variety of Lodges from around the Province cycled 100 miles from Long Eaton Masonic Hall to the seaside town of Skegness.
Lodge St Andrew 228, located in Insch, received a letter from Bhenn and Emma from the Insch out of school club. They were seeking assistance in relation to an ongoing Gardening Project in a small field at the rear of Insch Community Hall. There are approximately forty children from primary 1-7 involved.
No fewer than 37 charities received grants totalling more than £25,000 from Shropshire’s Freemasons at a special awards day on Monday, 20th June. Representatives from most of the charities were on hand to receive grants at a special reception and buffet lunch.
A review of Freemasonry in England in the last century is a subject for an
entire book. The only logical method to present this brief review is to select
some dates of importance in the past 110 years, emphasizing the significance and consequence of the historic events as they occurred in a chronologic sequence.
When a group of lodges in Kidderminster wanted to relocate from the cellar of a hotel, joining a local cricket club proved to be the perfect solution
In December 2015 the Membership Focus Group launched a strategic paper that identified masonic centres as a key area for improvement in the organisational development of Freemasonry. With many centres not considered fit for purpose by the members who meet in them, the challenge for lodges is how to turn a legacy problem into an opportunity.