What I Wish I Learned as a New Freemason
IT'S YOUR ARENA To send a story to Arena, please email arena@metgl.com We are also looking for writers – please email the Editor at the same address if you would like to contribute. W Bro. Tony Harvey, PJGD, 2012 Prestonian Lecturer, writes… If I had known thirty-four years ago what I know now about […]
Four Square Family Pairs at May Fair
W Bro Chris Burgess writes… Since being Initiated in 1986 and during my time as a Metropolitan Grand Inspector, I have visited well over one hundred Lodges in London and the Provinces. On 24th September 2025, at Mark Masons’ Hall, whilst at my mother Lodge's Installation meeting (May Fair Lodge No 8294), I witnessed something […]
Discover – or rediscover – FMH with a guided tour
W Bro Roy Cooper writes: The United Grand Lodge of England offer tours to Masons of Great Queen Street to members only. They do this most days and need a minimum of ten Brethren to make up a suitable number to operate the tour. As the Secretary of Salvus Securus Lodge No 9113, I recently […]
Lodge of Asaph No 1319 performs in Spain
IT'S YOUR ARENA To send a story to Arena, please email arena@metgl.com We are also looking for writers – please email the Editor at the same address if you would like to contribute. W Bro Steve Braden writes: The Lodge of Asaph No 1319 is a specialist Thespian Lodge. For some time now, the […]
London Rifle Brigade Lodge pays tribute in France and Belgium
Evan Warner aged 34, a Serjeant, lost his life in December 1914 following one of the opening engagements of the Great War at Plogsteert Wood. Cyril Monson, aged 28, was a Second Lieutenant who lost his life in May 1915 in the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Aubers Ridge. His body was never identified […]
West Ealing Lodge Leads the Way at Welcome Project Meeting
IT'S YOUR ARENA To send a story to Arena, please email arena@metgl.com We are also looking for writers – please email the Editor at the same address if you would like to contribute. West Ealing Lodge No 6274 set a high bar at its Welcome Project meeting on Monday, 10th November 2025. Nearly sixty […]
Dads in the Green Room
Graham AC Cottington SLGR, PPJGD (East Kent), PZ writes: On Friday 21st November, the Green Room Lodge No 2957 carried out the most spectacular meeting in its known history thus far. WM W Bro Max Mayhew, assisted by his Brother, Joseph Mayhew as JD, initiated Mr Trevor Mayhew, their Father, in a fantastic ceremony at […]
Saude For the first time ever: a ceremony in Portuguese
IT'S YOUR ARENA To send a story to Arena, please email arena@metgl.com We are also looking for writers – please email the Editor at the same address if you would like to contribute. History was made on Saturday 6th September 2025: for the first time in over a century, a ceremony was delivered in […]
London Visiting Team Partners with Crisp Ritualists Benefactum
Saturday 14th June 2025 marked a historic milestone for the future of Benefactum Lodge No 5231 and the London Visiting Team, securing the Lodge’s future and enhancing the already powerful and innovative London Visiting Group. Consecrated in 1931, Benefactum Lodge was the brainchild of W Bro Reginald Cawdron PGStB. Founded on five basic principles, the […]
Mandate Lodge Supports Homeless Relief with Donation
IT'S YOUR ARENA To send a story to Arena, please email arena@metgl.com We are also looking for writers – please email the Editor at the same address if you would like to contribute. Brethren of Mandate Lodge No. 4258 demonstrated the true spirit of Masonic charity on Thursday, 13th November 2025, when Immediate Past […]
Wantage Chapter
Wantage Chapter No 3178 met at Mark Masons’ Hall on 16th September 2025 for the Exaltation of Bro Lee Porter. The Chapter received a visit from Metropolitan Grand Inspector, E Comp Tony Shepherd, escorted by E Comp David Coleman, Metropolitan Grand Steward. This article is part of Arena Magazine Issue 59 – Christmas 2025. Arena […]
Utilitas Chapter
IT'S YOUR ARENA To send a story to Arena, please email arena@metgl.com We are also looking for writers – please email the Editor at the same address if you would like to contribute. Utilitas Chapter No 5693 met on 17th September at 10 Duke St, St James, for its Installation meeting; dining well thereafter […]