Foreward – E Comp Christopher Clark PGSN Deputy Metropolitan Grand Superintendent
These are unprecedented times. As I write this, we have just started easing the lockdown caused by the Covid-19 emergency and fear that we might be triggering another spike in the pandemic. The parallels for me are when I was growing up in the 1940s under the watchful eyes of my parents. Then we feared the […]
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TEDDY BEARS MAKE HOSPITAL VISITS MORE BEARABLE FOR CHILDREN
Teddies for Loving Care, also known as the TLC appeal, has now been running in the London Metropolitan area for over a year. The objective of the scheme is to provide teddy bears to Accident and Emergency units for medical staff to distribute, at their discretion, to children who are admitted with severe distress, and […]
300 000 MEALS AND 38 TONNESOF FOOD IN COVID RESPONSE
• More than 120,000 people have been helped by Freemasons with a variety of food donation initiatives across England and Wales; • Homeless people, women’s refuges and vulnerable people have been provided with 300,000 meals and 38 tonnes of food donated by Freemasons; • More than £560k […]
PLAN INTERNATIONAL RECEIVE GRANT FOR INDIA AND BANGLADESH CYCLONE VICTIMS
Some of the thousands of people whose lives were devastated when Super Cyclone Amphan hit Bangladesh and India on 20th May will be given urgently-needed humanitarian assistance thanks to a grant of £15,000 supported by London Masons. Despite a mass evacuation in advance, more than 100 people have died, tens of thousands of homes have […]
MP RUPA HUQ BACKS LONDON MASONS MEALS FOR VULNERABLE PEOPLE
London Masons are providing 800 free hot meals a week and have now extended the funding for the next three months. The meals are provided for those residents in need in Ealing and Acton identified by the Council, local youth centre, women’s refuge and the Ealing Mutual Aid Group. The London Freemasons Charity and Masonic […]
LONDON MASONS ENTER THE RING WITH BOXING FUTURES CHARITY
London Masons through the Masonic Charitable Foundation have helped fund the core work of Boxing Futures a national charity providing services from Bromley to Newham, Walthamstow to Camden and across the wider London area. Boxing Futures was founded in 2015, with the goal of providing an alternative outlet to young people at risk of […]
SNARESBROOK LODGE No 4010 CELEBRATES ITS CENTENARY MEETING
W Bro Andy Hardie SLGR and W Bro John Gray LGR describe this celebration Snaresbrook Lodge No 4010 celebrated its Centenary at a meeting held at its regular meeting place of Freemasons’ Hall, on Thursday 27th February 2020. The Lodge’ s Centenary W orshipful Master W Bro Alan Cooper SLGR welcomed the Metropolitan Grand Lodge […]
THE MEN AT THE TOP – E Comp John Burnapp METROPOLITAN GRAND INSPECTOR PAGSoj
Interviewed by E Comp Gur Samuel In our initiation ceremonies, we ask our candidates if they are prompted to join by a “favourable opinion preconceived of the institution”. For E Comp John Burnapp, Past Assistant Grand Sojourner, his path to Metropolitan Grand Inspector began with holding that favourable opinion of our institution long before he […]
THE METROPOLITAN GRAND STEWARDS DEMONSTRATION TEAM
When the Metropolitan Grand Stewards’ Lodge No 9812 was formed in 2005, the Lodge’s by-laws enshrined an objective to, “Assist and support the work of the Metropolitan Grand Master and the Metropolitan Grand Lodge of London, and to increase the Masonic education and broaden the Masonic experience of its members and of the Craft in […]
TALKING HEADS PRESENTATION RICHARD EVE LODGE No 2772
E Comp Gary Jeffries LGCR describes this informative event. W Bros Wayne Hirst PGStB, Derek Muston SLGR and Kevin Saunders LGR, supported by W Bro John Peters PJGD Metropolitan Grand Inspector, attended Richard Eve Lodge on 6th March 2020 to present the Playlet “Talking Heads – the Next Step into the Royal Arch”. Bro John […]
LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE CHAPTER No 1962 CELEBRATE THEIR CENTENARY
E Comp Peter Hern LGCR Scribe E reports. London Rifle Brigade was a volunteer unit of the British army formed in 1859. They enjoyed each other’s company, as twenty-three years later, on 11 May 1882, London Rifle Brigade Lodge was consecrated. Then in 1908 an attempt was made to found a Royal Arch Chapter but […]