Manchester Mason’s Broken Column Dinner 2018
Monday 3 September 2018 saw Manchester District’s Annual Broken Column Dinner held again at Manchester Hall and an opportunity for Manchester’s Lodges & Chapters to host their Masonic Widows at a gala dinner. The evening began with a drinks reception in the...
The lodge of Harmony No.298 a 50th Personal Birthday Celebration on Tuesday 5th September for:-
WBro Dr Michael Geoffrey Boden PJGD After the opening of the lodge the RW Prov Grand Master of East Lancashire, Sir David Trippier RN, JP, DL, accompanied by a Provincial and District Deputation was received. Upon taking the gavel Sir David introduced members of the...
Bolton & Manchester Masons donate £1000 to Homeless Aid UK
Over the summer break, on August 11th Bolton & Manchester Freemasons got together in Manchester city centre to raise money for Homeless Aid UK, a local group assisting the homeless in Bolton & Manchester. The idea of a pub crawl, with fines, to extract the...
Teddies for Loving Care (TLC)
East Ribble District recently restocked Royal Blackburn Hospital's Accident and Emergency Department with Teddies for Loving Care, or TLC. Well over a million teddies have now been provided by many Masonic provinces to A & E departments across the country since...
Tameside Young Carers receive a £500 Grant from the ELMC
The photograph shows Stuart Tennant, Ashton & Mossley District Charity Steward, presenting an ELMC Grant of £500 to Mrs Joyce Howarth, the Chair of the Friends of Tameside Young Carers. Joyce, together with Mike Hurst, a Trustee of the Friends, and a member of...
Southern Area at the Hewlett Court Open Day
A number of members of Southern Area Lodges and Chapters took part in the Open Day at Hewlett Court in July. In the main we manned a very popular Home Made Cake Stall and a small, but beautifully presented Armchair of large TLC Teddy Bears. Our APGM, John Pearson was,...
'Pushing Boundaries' with the Provincial Trailer
Always looking for new ways to get our message out there, the Provincial Trailer was out near Long on (or third man depending on the bowling end!) on Friday the 3rd of August at Enfield Cricket Club in Accrington. This was for the Sri Lankan XI V an Enfield...
WBro Steve Jansen completes the Burnley 10k run in support of local Charity
On Sunday 15th July 2018, WBro Steve Jansen, the Burnley and Pendle District Mentor, a member of Pendle Lodge 4703, completed the Burnley 10k run. Before the 10k Steve said: I had run the Manchester 10k three times previously but the last time was 8 years ago. To keep...
Peel Tower Abseil and Open Day, 7th July 2018 raises over £8,500 for charity.
The Peel Tower Abseil and Open Day was a great success. The number of participants and the amount of monies raised through sponsorship greatly exceeded our expectations. To date we have raised in excess of £8500. With the outstanding sponsorship monies and Gift Aid...
Burnley and Pendle District Freemasons: Working with the Community:
Burnley and Pendle District Officers and several Brethren from the Hall put on a small, but eye-catching display of Masonic Regalia at the Pendle Forest Model Railway Society’s exhibition, held at Burnley Masonic Hall on the Saturday 7thand Sunday 8thJuly. The well...
Padiham on Parade!
The Provincial Trailer returned, for the second consecutive year to “Padiham on Parade”where the people of Padiham put on an extravaganza depicting the life and times, and not forgetting the people, of this small town during the war years. Set up in a prime location...
Marshalling the East Lancs Hospice Memories Walk
On Saturday evening 8th July over 30 Brethren gathered at the Reena Indian restaurant for the traditional Pre-Hospice marshalling meal, before meeting at the Hospice itself to register themselves and receive their marshalling post and high vis jackets. The numbers...