Grand Charity - Freemasonry Matters

Freemasons receive Community Partner Award from Midlands Air Ambulance

31st July 201613th July 2016

500 supporters of the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity dined and partied the night away at Edgbaston on Friday 8th July to celebrate 25 years of Helimed service to the counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire. The AIR25 Ball and Awards Ceremony celebrated the special achievements of individuals and organisations who had made continuous and significant contributions to the Charity over the quarter century of its existence.

Engineers Lodge 9493 donate £250.00 to Stepping Stones Day Care Centre

12th July 2016

Engineers Lodge 9493 responded to an appeal by the day centre following a flood to assist them with the replacement of damaged furnishings and fittings….

Freemasons Donate £10,000 to Midlands Air Ambulance

31st July 20169th July 2016

£10,000 for Midlands Air AmbulanceThe Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is dear to the hearts of many Freemasons in the Province, providing a service which is especially important in a thinly populated rural area such as ours. The PGM, RW Bro Rev’d David Bowen, and his Deputy, VW Bro Michael Roff, presented a further £10,000 to the MAAC at Strensham Airbase on 30 April 2016. £6,000 of this was raised by Herefordshire Freemasons and provided through the Herefordshire Masonic Charity Association. The other £4,000 came from the Grand Charity as part of its programme of support for local causes throughout England and Wales, and which is distributed through the Provinces.

Derbyshire Freemasons Help Long Eaton and District Friendly Invalid Club visit the Seaside

9th July 2016

After receiving a written application last November from club Secretary Mrs Marion Drage, inquiring if any financial support towards the cost of the hire of two coaches to transport their members on their annual outing was at all possible, the Derbyshire Freemasons decided to go one better.

Derbyshire Freemasons Raise £4585 in Cycle Fest

6th July 2016

Saturday 18th June turned out to be a great day for the Masonic charity cycle challenge. Fourteen brethren representing a variety of Lodges from around the Province cycled 100 miles from Long Eaton Masonic Hall to the seaside town of Skegness.

37 charities receive grants totalling more than £25,000 from Shropshire’s Freemasons

4th July 2016

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.

Shropshire Freemason Clive Jones walks 11 miles for charity

1st July 2016

The Provincial Perambulator Clive Jones, a Past Master from Shropshire, has walked 11 miles in aid of a masonic charity. The former Welsh Guardsman…

Double 50th at Oak Lodge No. 190

30th June 2016

At a meeting of Oak Lodge No. 190 on Wednesday 17th February 2016 at Freemasons’ Hall, W Bro Nigel Penn, PGSD, MetGInsp, presented not one, but two…

A Grand wedding for Andy and Maria Gough

29th June 2016

We all know that white weddings can be eye-wateringly expensive and the real cost may turn out to be double the first number you might think of! When Bro…

£1,000 presented to RNLI in Poole by Lt Cdr James King

20th August 201728th June 2016

A cheque for £1,000 has been presented to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in Poole from the Grand Charity Relief Chest of Public Schools Installed Masters’ Lodge, No. 9077. This donation was part of the Master’s List raised by the lodge during Lt Cdr James King’s year as lodge Master and was received by Will Collins, an RNLI employee and volunteer member of the Poole lifeboat.