Freemasons donate £5,000 to Darlington and Stockton hospices
Freemasons donate £5,000 to Darlington and Stockton hospices in memory of former member
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Freemasons donate £5,000 to Darlington and Stockton hospices in memory of former member
Residents at a Scarborough care group can stay in touch with their loved ones during the coronavirus crisis thanks to generous local Freemasons.
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.
The premises in Priory Place is now set to install a lift over the next couple of weeks, making the building accessible to all, following a £2,500 donation from the Magdalen Chapter of the Doncaster Freemasons
Grove Road Community Primary School – which has limited outdoor space and no field or garden – has been awarded £3,000 to buy outdoor playground with furniture, walled mounted games and an outdoor table tennis table.
The school has been awarded £1,000 to buy new sports kits, which will be used for PE and extra-curricular team activities.
One of those to benefit from the charity’s services is Ivanhoe Lodge member John Bulliman, whose life was saved three years ago by the delivery of an emergency unit of blood from his original bone marrow donor in the Midlands, to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, where he was being treated for leukaemia and sepsis.
The grant comes through the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF) and will be used for running costs to help the hospice continue its care. This is just one of 237 grants to hospices around the country from Freemasons. In total £600,000 will be donated to hospices all over England and Wales this year
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