Freemasons donate £1000 to help provide Dementia-friendly toilet
The aim of D-CaFF is to provide a social outlet for people living with dementia, their carers, family, and friends. D-CaFF is a local organization based…
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Cheshire Freemasons donate £5000 to help Disabled children and young people across Cheshire East
Friends for Leisure helped by Cheshire Freemasons Disabled children and young people across Cheshire East will have a greater opportunity to make…
Middlesex Freemasons make £10,000 donation to Harrow Mencap to purchase new minibus
Kenelm Lodge No. 8225 in Middlesex has made the generous gift of £10,000 to the Harrow Mencap Centre The donation has come from the Middlesex Masonic…
William Brittain Roberts’ gravestone restored
In October 2016, Vic Charlesworth, Curator of the Warrington Masonic Museum, became aware of the existence of a Mason’s grave in the cemetery at St…
Historical Origins of the Mark Degree
The Mark is a ceremony or degree [sometimes called the ‘friendly’ degree], conferrable today only to Master Masons and forms part of a hierarchical organization. In Craft Masonry it was quite a late innovation making its appearance during the mid-1700s. However we do know that Operative Masons, without any kind of ceremony, were taking marks 150 years before the Mark came into use as part of that particular ceremony.
The Influence of Kings on Craft Freemasonry
‘From time immemorial’ we have been very fortunate in that our Craft has had the support of Royalty. Without that support I doubt that we would be in…
Alain Bernheim: My Approach to Masonic History
As a French citizen who was successively a member of the Grand Orient of France – ‘that irregular body’ –, then of the Grande Loge Nationale Française – a regular one –, then of the United Grand Lodges of Germany and, for the past ten years, of the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina, Alan presents his approach to Masonic history
How to Become a Mason
Freemasonry is founded on a commitment to support each other in friendship, fellowship and service to mankind. For thousands of years, people have found spiritual and philosophical fulfilment through freemasonry, which still operates on the same core values.
Freemasons Donate to Clitheroe Stroke Club
At a recent East Ribble District Charity Stewards meeting WBro Derek Harwood from Keep Masonic Lodge Clitheroe proposed that the charity would benefit from the Districts support.
The charity was recognised for their vital work in the community. A donation of £250 was donated to their cause.