Freemasons, Rotary and Lions Clubs, help to marshal charity event
East Lakes Group support for Hospice at Home Moonlight Walk On Saturday 16th September 2017, Hospice at home, Carlisle and North Lakeland held a fund…
Philanthropy
Freemasons help Us in a Bus charity with £15000 donation
A group of Surrey residents who find it challenging to communicate because of their profound and multiple learning disabilities are being helped thanks to a £15,000 grant from the Masonic Charitable Foundation
Freemasons donate £60,000 to British Deaf Association to create sign-language videos
The British Deaf Association has been awarded a grant of £60,000 to help fund sign-language videos to help deaf people access vital services.
The grant will fund the production of 240 sign-language videos which aim to help deaf people access services ranging from health matters through to legal and financial advice.
Freemasons donate £60,048 to Music in Hospitals Charity
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 philanthropy and tea empire of Freemason Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton
A self-made man who brought tea to the British masses, Freemason Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton also campaigned for the sick and the poor, as Philippa Faulks discovers
Many masonic lodges around the world can boast of a famous member among their ranks, but Glasgow’s Lodge Scotia, No. 178, has one rather remarkable brother – Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton. As with many other masons quietly carrying out acts of philanthropy, Lipton remains an unsung hero.
John Bowes: Freemason, civil rights advocate and philantrhopist
Public display Civil rights advocate and art collector John Bowes seemed destined for masonic greatness. Philippa Faulks discovers the Provincial…