Cash boost for Midlands Air Ambulance from Worcestershire Freemasons
Cash boost for Midlands Air Ambulance from Worcestershire Freemasons
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Cash boost for Midlands Air Ambulance from Worcestershire Freemasons
The Craft Provinces of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire with the Mark Province of Staffordshire and Shropshire have, over that period, between them donated £1.1 million. This includes donations from individual Lodges, Provinces, other orders in the counties and from the Masonic Charitable Foundation (formerly the Freemasons Grand Charity).
The long-established partnership between Freemasonry and the Midlands Air Ambulance movement has been recognised and marked by a Community Partners…
The annual golf day of St Martins Lodge, Birmingham was held at Shirley Golf Club. 20 members of the lodge played on the day and the Lodge Trophy was won by the current Master of the Lodge, Malcolm Francis. The competition for the Lodge Trophy has been played every year since 1948. W Bro Michael Gregory, the Lodge Treasurer won the Chapter Trophy.
The Grand Charity has awarded a £100,000 grant to the Cancer Genetics team at the University of East Anglia to help fund research that will focus on distinguishing between aggressive and non-aggressive forms of the disease. Lead researcher Professor Colin Cooper explained that a critical problem in clinical management is an inability to distinguish this at the time of diagnosis.
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.
£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.
Herefordshire Freemasons’ support for the Air Ambulance From left: Michael Roff, Deputy Provincial Grand Master for Herefordshire; Rev David Bowen,…
PrGM Peter Taylor was among those who recently presented the MAA Charity – based at RAF Cosford – with £5,000 from the Grand Charity. A reporter from the…
A donation of £4,000 by the Freemasons Grand Charity has been delivered to the Air Crew at Baginton Airfield, the air base for Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. This donation is on top of the £5,000 allocated in the annual distribution of funds from the Warwickshire Masonic Charitable Association earlier this year, and a further £5,000 as a result of the accumulated funds from the Provincial Grand Master’s Famous Five in September last year