The Official Journal of the United Grand Lodge of England
Thursday 23 February 2012
Freemasonry Today
Subscribe to this RSS feed
The Grand Charity

The Grand Charity

The Freemasons’ Grand Charity is a grant-making charity dedicated to supporting people in need. Each year the charity provides relief grants for hundreds of Freemasons and their dependants, as well as donating millions of pounds to national charities. The Charity is continuing a commitment to charitable support that began nearly 300 years ago in the earliest days of organised Freemasonry.

The Charity also operates the Relief Chest Scheme, helping the Craft to donate to charity easily and tax-effectively.

Further information can be found at: www.grandcharity.org

The Freemasons' Grand Charity, 60 Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5AZ
T: 020 7395 9261; F: 020 7395 9295; E: info@the-grand-charity.org; W: www.grandcharity.org

Research funded by the Grand Charity could lead to potential cure for age-related deafness

Since 2006, The Freemasons' Grand Charity has funded Deafness Research UK with £180,000 to carry out research by Dr David Furness at Keele University, to look into the causes of age-related hearing loss. New of…

Community Chest

With the Relief Chest Scheme celebrating its 25th anniversary, Freemasonry Today looks at how the scheme makes giving easier for Freemasons around the UKLaunched in 1986, the Relief Chest Scheme provides administrative support for the…

charity gets a big lift

Red Balloon Learner Centre Group in Cambridge has received a major grant of £25,000 from The Freemasons’ Grand Charity to fund training for staff at its centres for severely bullied children. Rodney Wolverson, Provincial Grand…

New scouting opportunities

The Scouts can look forward to increased membership thanks to a generous donation from the Grand CharityIn 2008, the Grand Charity donated £500,000 to The Scout Association with the aim of helping to encourage more…

ESSEX SETS CHARITY RECORD

Essex Freemasons have raised £5,502,833 for The Freemasons’Grand Charity over a six-year period.The astonishing amount was unveiled at a dinner in June celebrating the culmination of the Essex Festival 2011. In the sumptuoussurroundings of London’s…

Grand Charity 'Thinks Big' for a good cause

Wartime icon Bletchley Park was the venue for the donation of £10,000 by The Freemasons’ Grand Charity to the Helena Kennedy Foundation.The cheque – part of a total donation of £36,000 over three years –…

BICENTENARY APPEAL TO FUND SURGEONS

The Royal Arch is to mark its bicentenary in 2013 with an appeal to help fund research by The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS).The scheme, which relies entirely on voluntary donations, enables surgeons…

LOCAL LOVE FOR PARKINSON'S

Parkinson’s UK has been awarded £250,000 from The Freemasons’ Grand Charity, with each of the 48 Metropolitan and Provincial Grand Lodges donating £5,000 to their local Parkinson’s UK branch.Grand Charity chief executive Laura Chapman said,…

GRAND CHARITY HELPS REGION STRICKEN BY DROUGHT

A severe drought is threatening the lives of more than 10 million people in the Horn of Africa, according to the United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA). Poor rainfall in Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Uganda,…

COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS

In recent years, Freemasonry and Parkinson's UK have built a strong relationship to help deal with this degenerative condition at both a research and community level, as Matthew Scanlan reportsMost readers will have heard of…

Continuing support for diabetes research

Earlier in 2011, it was announced that the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) had been awarded a major grant of £50,000 from The Freemasons’ Grand Charity. The money is helping to fund research to prevent…

£117,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care

The Grand Charity has continued its work in supporting people affected by cancer by donating £117,000 to Marie Curie Cancer Care, to fund two Marie Curie Nurses in Kent, payable over three years. Marie Curie…

Grand Charity Gives £30,000 For Red Cross Earthquake Appeal

In response to the severe earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, the President of the Grand Charity approved an emergency grant of £30,000 to the British Red Cross to assist with their recovery appeal Around 148…

subscribe to Freemasonry Today

:

First Name:
Last Name:

Latest Issue

winter 2011_tomb