Freemasonry Cares
Freemasonry cares for individuals and charities through a wide range of help and support given by Masonic Charities
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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 –…
Good friends and neighbours The Friends of the RMBI charity ball raised £35,000 for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution's The Good Neighbour FundWith the ball held in June at the Grange Hotel in London, a…
Berkshire Freemasons have broken a new record, raising £2,276,000 over a five-year period – the highest amount per member ever recorded for aN RMBI festival. The grand total - vastly exceeding the initial £1.5 million…
Falling for fishing, hook, line and sinker: youngsters got a fantastic introduction to the delights of fishing at a private event organised by the Masonic Trout and Salmon Fishing Club (MTSFC), in the magnificent setting…
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…
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,…
Les Hutchinson, chief executive of the Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys (RMTGB), has been invested as president of the Old Masonians Association (OMA)The OMA, which currently has about 1,000 members, keeps alive the…
The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution (RMBI) has offered a message of solidarity to residents of its care homes.News of the financial collapse of care-home provider Southern Cross, and of abuse at Winterbourne View, has shocked…
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,…
An innovative strategy is helping to improve quality of life for dementia sufferers by focusing on individual needs and sharing experiences Dementia is one of the most challenging issues society faces: in the UK, there…
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A struggling brother receives help in his time of needIf you have ever thought about getting help from the Masonic Samaritan Fund, John Collins can throw some light on how simple the process is. In…
The Masonic Samaritan Fund provides much-needed support for unpaid carersIn 2001, the Census included, for the first time, a question on the provision of unpaid care. It revealed that 11 percent of the UK’s population…
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…
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…
