Shropshire’s Freemasons donate £44,000 to food banks
Shropshire’s Freemasons have donated more than £44,000 to help local food banks and have created and distributed more than 1,700 visors to care homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Essex Freemasons help fund research for coronavirus antibody project
The money will be used to purchase a new advanced testing machine from America, which will accept blood samples from NHS hospitals to verify whether people have already had the virus.
The machine, a ‘Dynex high volume pipette diluter’, will boost testing from 600 to over 2,000 a day and will help the community once it has checked NHS and care workers.
Freemasons want to be known for hand wash, not handshakes
Covid-19 gives Mr Felgate and his fellow masons the chance to step into the limelight, and demonstrate another side to their institution. He has transformed his gin distillery into a factory pumping out hand sanitiser. Masons in Scunthorpe have made more than 1,000 facemasks for carers
Boost for Hospiscare in Honiton thanks to Freemasons donation
This year as part of their annual support of hospices throughout the country the Assistant Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire W. Bro. Craig Cox presented a certificate denoting the £1000 given on behalf of the Freemasons of Devonshire and the Masonic Charitable Foundation to Carey MacKenzie and Rachel Willmott at Hospiscare’s Kings House Day Hospice in Honiton.
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Boost for Devon’s hospice charities thanks to Freemasons’ donation
Boost for Devon’s hospice charities thanks to Freemasons’ donation
Freemasons Near-£30,000 grant to help tackle loneliness
Brendoncare’s head of clubs, Sam Agnew, said: “We are very grateful to the Hampshire and IOW Freemasons for this very generous grant and, through our dedicated volunteer training programmes and volunteer forums, are already beginning to see the impact this contribution is having on our volunteering teams across the county.”
Freemasons’ cash will support Dorothy House Hospice end-of-life care services
A further £450,000 will be provided to individual hospices across England and Wales via Hospice UK, the national charity for hospice care.
Freemasons £2,000 donation to help young care leavers
The Nene Valley Care Trust (NVCT) – which helps young people leaving care in Peterborough and the Nene Valley towards education, training, accommodation and jobs – has received a cheque for £2,000 from David Burton, on behalf of Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire Freemasons
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