Geoffrey Dearing

Freemasons donate £123,175 to Twenty Three Local Charities in Kent

The Recipients Group Photo

Charities today provide amazing opportunities to so many people for a vast amount of different reasons. These opportunities are often life-changing.

During the event, representatives of the charities were invited to tell their stories. This provided a truly unique and moving insight into the services that they provide. It was a humbling and uplifting occasion which also provided an opportunity for the charities to network over lunch.

East Kent Branch of the Masonic Fishing Charity aims to provide a countryside fishing experience for people with “Special Needs”

East Kent Branch of the Masonic Fishing Charity aims to provide a countryside fishing experience for people with “Special Needs”

Many of us grew up in the 1960s and 70s where, for some, it was a time of making out a living repairing cars, exterminating pests or hop picking. Boys were taught to fish by their fathers during the weekends, cast after cast plopping into willow-shaded water, while weekdays were spent at the secondary school where, for some, gardening and metalwork were still being taught. Fishing is an unsentimental memoir of that time and nothing has changed for those boys today. As adults they continue to carry out the traditions of fishing as taught by their fathers and pass this knowledge on to the children who have a love for the sport.

Geoffrey Gordon Dearing Bowl

Geoffrey Gordon Dearing Bowl

On 23rd June, a day of very unsettled weather, on a wet but otherwise immaculately presented Tenterden Golf Course, Peter Shardlow regained the title he last won in 2013 of East Kent Provincial golfing champion winning the Geoffrey Gordon Dearing Bowl. Peter was the only competitor on the day to better the course par, with Daren Horne finishing runner-up.


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