Freemasons donate over £15,000 to local good causes
GENEROUS freemasons from lodges across Inverclyde have donated more than £15,000 to local good causes since coronavirus lockdown began.
Province
Support Dogs given vital funding from Sheffield Freemasons
Ivanhoe Lodge, which meets at Tapton Hall in Crosspool, has given £20,000 to Support Dogs, which will pay for the two-year specialised training of the dog – appropriately named Ivanhoe.
Freemasons donate £5,000 to Harrogate Scrubbers to help keep hospital staff safe
Over the last two months the Harrogate Scrubbers – an army of volunteers led by teacher Fran Taylor – has been busy making scrubs, laundry bags, scrub caps and waterproof gowns, to help ensure the medics are protected when treating Coronavirus patients.
Harrogate Hospital Radio gets £1k broadcasting boost from town’s Freemasons
The money has come courtesy of the Freemasons Province of Yorkshire West Riding’s Provincial Grand Master’s Fund, after being put forward for a grant by the members of Harlow Lodge, which meets at Harrogate Masonic Hall.
Masonic lodges’ big boost for East Lothian Foodbank
Individual lodge members from throughout the Province of East Lothian, which encompasses St John Kilwinning No 57, Haddington; The Lodge of Dunbar Castle No 75, Dunbar; St Baldred, No 313, North Berwick; Nisbet No 1112 and Kajaki No 1848, both of Tranent, collected £400.
West Lothian Foodbank receive kind donation from Freemasons
Jim Ellis, provincial grand master, explained: “It is most heartening and encouraging to read about the wonderful support which is being given by Freemasons and lodges within this province, and, indeed other provinces, during this difficult period of national crisis.
Freemasons donates £2,000 Artizan International
Members of Harlow Lodge, which meets at Harrogate’s Masonic Hall, successfully applied to the Province of Yorkshire West Riding’s Provincial Grand Master’s Fund for a grant for Bilton-based Artizan International, formerly known as Craft Aid International.
West Wales Freemasons deliver £10,000 worth of goods to Hywel Dda Health Charities
The items were donated as a response to the Amazon patient wish list set up by Hywel Dda University Health Board’s official charity.
The Freemasons’ purchases of much-needed pyjamas, loungewear, dressing gowns and underwear – nearly 1,000 items in total – will be used to help patients at hospitals throughout the Hywel Dda health board area.
Freemasons working with the Salvation Army in Harlesden, Harrow and Hayes
The Middlesex Covid Relief Appeal is certainly making inroads within the community and the free dinners provided by the Province are helping low-income residents locally and also the homeless.
Freemasons donate essential PPE to frontline Care Workers
Donations from Lodge Members to the initiative, which was led by Bro Chris Fraser, totalled £1500 and one of Oriental Lodge’s younger members, Bro William Cheung, drove down to the Midlands to collect essential N95 masks. Lodge Secretary, WBro Kam Wah Mak, volunteered to distribute the masks to six Care Homes over the weekend, which were proposed by the Lodge members involved in the initiative..