A Younger Mason Speaks
By W Bro Télémaque Argyriou “Freemasonry had always been part of my family with my father and grandfather being Masons. Although they never pushed me into joining, I always felt I wanted one day to know more about Freemasonry, and learn what it was all about. However, I had put my focus on my career, […]
REMEMBRANCE DAY 2020
FREEMASONS’ HALL LIT UP FOR REMEMBRANCE DAY 2020 IN HONOUR OF THE MEMBERS WHO’VE SERVED BOTH PAST & PRESENT. With everything that happened in 2020, it would be all too easy to just focus on the complex challenges we are currently facing. Our plans for the year have all been shattered. We haven t met […]
SENIOR APPOINTMENT CHANGES 2021
SENIOR APPOINTMENT CHANGES – 2021 I am pleased to announce the following changes in the appointments of London Rulers taking effect from the next annual meeting of Metropolitan Grand Lodge and Metropolitan Grand Chapter on 3rd March and 14th April 2021 respectively: To be Deputy Metropolitan Grand Master Warren Brian Duke (replacing Simon Duckworth) Christopher […]
THE LIONS BARBER COLLECTIVE
THE LIONS BARBER COLLECTIVE By W Bro Gur Samuel LGR When the Covid-19 pandemic prevented the Metropolitan Grand Stewards’ Lodge No 9812 from holding their regular December meeting in person, they instead invited the intended speaker – Tom Chapman of the charity the Lions Barber Collective – to address the members of the Lodge over […]
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST PRINCIPALS CHAPTERS
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST PRINCIPALS’ CHAPTERS E Comp David Pugsley LGCR and E Comp Rod Glyn-Thomas review these important Chapters. Are you an installed First Principal? If you are, do you know about the five First Principals’ Chapters in London? or Are you still finding your feet in the Royal Arch and the broader […]
THE KENT CLUB UPDATE
An update from the Chairman, W Bro Dudley Price PAGDC How life varies! My last update, written in August, celebrated the end of the lockdown and mentioned how we had been able to get out to Kent for a day – socially distanced of course – in the sun free at last from 4 walls. […]
VITAL SUPPORT DURING COVID-19 FOR LIFELITES
Last year s Christmas appeal from the music star and London Freemason Rick Wakeman on behalf of the small charity Lifelites has raised over £42,000 to support the life-limited and disabled children using hospice services with life-changing technologies. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we can all better understand how being isolated and disconnected […]
THREE THOUSAND POUND DONATION TO SUDBURY NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE
W Bro Mark Russel SLGR reports The Sudbury Neighbourhood Centre is a registered charity founded in 1979 with the aim of providing day-care for vulnerable, elderly people in the London Borough of Brent. They currently support over two hundred people each year, providing stimulating daily activities, assisted transport and nutritious meals. Their service users have […]
STRENGTH AND LEARNING THROUGH HORSES
W Bro Adrian Fox reports on a grant made by the London Freemasons Charity for vulnerable people. Strength and Learning Through Horses is a specialist centre in North London that uses horses in both the education and therapy of vulnerable young people. We work with children and adults with complex mental health and or learning disabilities, […]
OPEN AGE RECEIVES A THREE THOUSAND POUND GRANT
W Bro Alain Gherson SLGR reports Open Age was established in 1993 and is now celebrating over 25 years of championing an active life for older people. They work across Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham with members aged from 50 to 104, helping sustain their physical and mental fitness, maintain an active lifestyle […]
MCF SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THE MARIE CURIE HAMPSTEAD HOSPICE
W Bro John Little SLGR finds out more. A grant in excess of £2,000 from the Masonic Charitable Foundation, the principal masonic charity and one of the largest grant making charities in the UK, is being used by the Marie Curie Hampstead Hospice to support the provision of care in its 26 bed unit for […]
CALLING ALL CRICKET LOVERS
Earlier this year a group of Cricket enthusiasts decided to band together to generate interest in refreshing an ailing Lodge to create London’s first Cricket Lodge. Although the Covid-19 pandemic has slowed things down, perhaps now is an ideal time to prepare the ground for our batsman, bowlers and spectators to step up to the […]