Freemasons donate iPads for lonely hospital patients
Lodges in the Renfrewshire West province teamed up to purchase eight Android tablets and 14 iPads for people who are unable to receive visits from friends and family.
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$700,000 emergency support and community grants announced in the wake of COVID-19
A record number of charities will receive a hand up to continue their important work in the community, as Hand Heart Pocket the Charity of Freemasons Queensland provides close to $700,000 in emergency support and Community Grants in the wake of COVID-19.
Shropshire’s Freemasons donate £44,000 to food banks
Shropshire’s Freemasons have donated more than £44,000 to help local food banks and have created and distributed more than 1,700 visors to care homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
Freemasons donate Rescue Boat
In late 2019, Terrigal Surf Life Saving Club approached Freemasons again, requesting assistance in purchasing another IRB, as their current IRB, the ‘Freemason I’, was now five years old and a new IRB design had been proven to be more appropriate to surf conditions in their area.
Freemasons Assist NHS & Care Homes with PPE Equipment
Nearly 5,000 visors have already been produced with help from the Freemasons, who have adapted their business production lines to meet demand.
Freemasons donate blankets to help vulnerable people
he Sturt-Buninyong lodge of Freemasons Victoria donated 90 woolen blankets, valued at more than $4400, to Uniting Ballarat on Friday.
Lodge secretary Ron Fleming said the donation, which resulted from funds raised through the lodge’s annual fruit sale, came at a critical time.
Freemasons help hospital
FREEMASONS who raided their own supplies of special projector film to help make much needed visors for hospital staff are appealing for donations to make more.
The medical staff at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough were using up their supply of see-through face visors quicker than they could get further replacements.
£15,000 Freemasons’ grant will buy home visits for disabled children in Wiltshire
The money will go to charity Wiltshire Portage to fund regular home visits for four extra families each week as part of the organisation’s Waiting List Programme.
Essex Freemasons help fund research for coronavirus antibody project
The money will be used to purchase a new advanced testing machine from America, which will accept blood samples from NHS hospitals to verify whether people have already had the virus.
The machine, a ‘Dynex high volume pipette diluter’, will boost testing from 600 to over 2,000 a day and will help the community once it has checked NHS and care workers.
Freemasons donate to Rochdale foodbank
After an initiative introduced last year by district charity steward John Taylor, members were encouraged to donate either food or financial support for the local foodbank: each item was measured with an overall target of reaching one mile – Miles More Food from The Freemasons.