Promoting the Fraternity across the World
Freemasonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason. These are the degrees offered by Craft (or Blue Lodge) Freemasonry. Members of these organisations are known as Freemasons or Masons. There are additional degrees, which vary with locality and jurisdiction, and are usually administered by different bodies than the craft degrees.
The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the Lodge. The Lodges are usually supervised and governed at the regional level (usually coterminous with either a state, province, or national border) by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. There is no international, world-wide Grand Lodge that supervises all of Freemasonry; each Grand Lodge is independent, and they do not necessarily recognise each other as being legitimate.
The Young People’s Committee of the East Lancashire Masonic Charity (ELMC) have raised over £8,500 for a number of children’s charities through a…
Reaching speeds of over 100mph during the 1,555 metre descent over Penrhyn Quarry in North Wales, this was to be a white-knuckle experience like no other. Jumps, as they’re called, were in groups of four, with the first group led by Surrey’s Provincial Grand Master Ian Chandler.
The “Discover Freemasonry” Seminar is being launched at the Twickenham Masonic Centre on Wednesday 19 September, registration at 19.00 with the presentations starting at 19.30
The theft of charity cash from behind the bar of a Sandbach pub prompted a rescue donation by local Freemasons. More than £300 in coins which filled a large glass jar at the Military Arms pub on Sandbach Common was stolen one evening when the bar was briefly unattended. The cash had been raised by regulars in aid of the Sunny Days Children’s Fund to buy holidays and treats for needy children with life-altering illness.
East Kent Freemason Warren Hyder, a Past Master of Wakefield of Hythe Lodge No. 6059, has taken on the Jurassic Coast Challenge to raise over £18,000 for…
The photograph shows Stuart Tennant, Ashton & Mossley District Charity Steward, presenting an ELMC Grant of £500 to Mrs Joyce Howarth, the Chair of…
There is no worldwide governing body for the fraternity, and UGLE is just one of the hundreds of jurisdictions that exist in the world, therefore the new policy is only applicable to the lodges they have chartered. The policy is not a Global one and it remains to see if any other Grand lodges will follow suit.
SAS Veterans visit the Colonel Sir David Stirling OBE, DSO Memorial on the Hill of Row looking towards the Perthshire mountains in Scotland (Col. Sir…
Meadow Well Connected has been awarded a grant of £5,000 to help people from Riverside & Chirton gain vital digital and employability skills….
People facing homelessness in the Western Bay area will have greater support fighting through legal and administrative bureaucracy, thanks to a grant from…