Promoting the Fraternity across the World
The fourth annual charity bike ride has been accomplished in fine style by members of a group of intrepid cyclists affectionately known to all in Liverpool, and beyond, as the Crafty Companions Cycling Circle.
MiH was launched in 1948 with a grant to provide live music concerts in mental and orthopaedic hospitals and in TB sanatoria. The organisation now provides live music performances across the healthcare sector for adults and children, now covering the UK and the Channel Islands.
The Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons and the Mark Benevolent Fund have supported the Order of St John and St John Ambulance for many years, the Mark Benevolent Fund has now joined in partnership with the charity and pledged £3,023,700 for a two year programme to provide up to 52 replacement state of the art ambulances and support vehicles.
Ribble Valley Talking Newspaper provide an audio version of local newspapers in the Clitheroe area, including the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. The Talking Newspaper is for blind and partially sighted local residents and it comes out as a CD every Friday.
The Leyland and District Group of Freemasons once more put on a very humbling and public show, when the Chairman of Leyland Group Chris Blackwell welcomed…
For a number of years there has been informal discussion amongst a number of Masons meeting on the Fylde Coast, lamenting the lack of a military lodge in the area and indeed the Province of West Lancashire. In the summer of 2016, Robert Wareham of Brotherhood Lodge No 3967 decided to gauge interest in forming a new lodge on the Fylde Coast.
Eric Hart was appointed and invested as the Provincial Grand Almoner at Provincial Grand Lodge. He succeeds Ernie Greenhalgh who has retired from the office in order to undertake other national responsibilities within the Masonic care system. Eric will also shortly assume the same role as PrGAlm within Provincial Grand Chapter.
Freemasons grant for Huntington’s Disease care provision
£170,000 awarded to four leading mental health charities
Marshalling Blackburn Rovers for E.Lancs Hospice