Promoting the Fraternity across the World
To celebrate the Tercentenary of Grand Lodge and promote Freemasonry throughout the South West, a banner will be paraded across the Province’s of Wiltshire, Jersey, Guernsey & Alderney, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorset and Hampshire & Isle of Wight.
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.
A combination of glorious weather and the organisational skills of the Lancaster and District Masonic Group golf representative Arthur Laycock helped to ensure a wonderful day when golfers from the Lancaster and District Group took part in the local round of the West Lancashire Provincial Golfing Tournament at Bentham Golf Club.
The day was rounded off with prize giving of certificates and medals by the day’s sponsor and with a very slow reluctance to leave, the children departed on their coaches with beaming smiles and tales of river monsters (or was that our PGM?), their happy faces said it all.
Two plenary presentations and ninteen round table sessions will allow a well rounded development of the theme. Each will be chaired by a different lodge of research. The topics of each conference and round table will be published subsequently. A participation fee will be asked for the plenaries and panels.
On the 15th July, Oxford University Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners, No 55. are having a charity dinner at Boodle’s, which will benefit the Alzheimer’s Society.
The South East Area recently held a very successful Summer Ball at the Officers Mess in Southwick House; just under 200 attended the event, including the Deputy P.G.M. the A.P.G.M. and the Area Chairman, accompanied by their wives.
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 great night of ten-pin bowling and more was organised by The Iron Bridge lodge 9897 on 19th June and attended by many members as well as friends from other lodges. Prizes were awarded for highest individual score, lowest individual score (Andy’s not telling), and best lodge score (Round Table.lodge 9104). We are asked to point out that 9104 is their lodge number, not their score..