Masons partner with Bowel and Cancer Research to create five-year research programme
Bowel & Cancer Research has entered into a partnership with the Masonic Charitable Foundation to secure an investment of £225,000 to fund a specialist PhD studentship programme over the next five years. The grant will fund three PhD students, one starting every year between 2018 and 2022. Chief Executive of Bowel & Cancer Research Deborah […]
Victoria Rifles Armistice Centenary Meeting
The Victoria Rifles Lodge No.822 is one of the 37 Circuit Of Service Lodges which exist to promote comradeship and fraternal contact between military masons. Given the sacrifice of so many of our Brethren in the First World War it is but fitting that such a Lodge should have hosted an Armistice Centenary Meeting. The […]
LONDON FIRE BRIGADE APPEAL REACHES MILESTONE
Launched by Sir Michael Snyder, head of London Freemasons, in November 2017, the appeal aims to raise £2,500,000 to purchase two super high-rise rescue aerial platforms for London’s Fire Brigade. Sir Michael is delighted to report that the appeal has in just 12 months already reached the half-way mark and handed over a cheque for […]
Four Brethren – Three Lodges – Five Peaks
Earlier this September W Bro. Stuart Lutes, Charity Steward of London Lodge La Belle Sauvage No.3095, together with three fellow masons, took on the ‘Five Peaks Challenge’ to raise money for the charity Dogs For Good. The challenge entailed climbing and descending the highest peaks of the home nations of England (Scafell Pike), Wales (Snowdon), […]
Rabbi Schulman – Standing up to and defeating challenges to be installed as Master of his Lodge
Despite adversity of a progressive Multiple Sclerosis, Rabbi Gideon Schulman achieved the magnificent personal challenge of being installed as the Worshipful Master of London’s Lodge of Attainment. Freemasons’ from across London including many senior brethren came together to honour and support Rabbi Gideon in his moment of personal achievement and triumph at the installation ceremony […]
Freemasons grant for gardening therapy projects helps disadvantaged Londoners grow into jobs
Londoners living with physical and mental ill health are to benefit from projects aimed at improving their job prospects, thanks to a major grant from London Freemasons to gardening therapy charity Thrive. The £45,000 grant will fund initiatives based in Battersea Park which will provide severely disadvantaged people with skills and qualifications that will help […]
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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 a little over 12 months. 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 […]
London Masons Repeat Fight Against Childrens Tooth Decay
Following the success of their previous campaign to help fight dental decay amongst the capital’s children, The Metropolitan Grand Master, RW Bro. Sir Michael Snyder, has announced that London Masons will repeat this success by supporting the launch of the Dental Health “Smile” campaign, a campaign designed to educate children in maintaining dental care, by […]
The Kent Club for London Freemasons Annual Running Event 2018
Once more the Kent Club for London Freemasons’ running team is coming together to raise funds to help London Freemasons to make our city a better and safer place to live by donating £2.5 million to the London Fire Brigade to purchase two custom fire appliances with high aerial ladders, which are capable of reaching […]
Kent Club Social Evening in Penge
On the evening of 13th September The Kent Club for London Freemasons, represented by our Chairman W Bro Dudley Price PAGDC, took to the road for the first time to the newly redecorated South East London Masonic Centre in Penge to host an informal evening of drinks and a presentation from W Bro Peter Cartwright […]
Shoreditch College Lodge No 6766 Family Fun Day
A report by W Bro Joseph Le Roi-Smith LGR It was a beautiful, warm, sunny Saturday in June. The All England Club had yet to open its doors for the 2018 Wimbledon championships. The Silverstone F1 Grand Prix at and the start of the World Cup finals were eagerly awaited but not yet begun. What […]