The MCF support Changing Faces charity
By W Bro Mark Russell SLGR The Masonic Charity Foundation has recently contributed a grant of £56,981 to the charity Changing Faces to assist their work. Mark Russell contacted Catherine Deacon, the Charity’s Director of Fundraising and Communications and Deputy CEO, to find out more about the charity and how their efforts assist the […]
Marie Curie Hampstead Hospice and the MCF
Arena reports The Masonic Charitable Foundation’s Core Hospice programme offers small unrestricted grants to hospices in England and Wales that receive less than 60% of their funding from the NHS or statutory sources. To date, the MCF has awarded over £15m to hospices through its dedicated hospice funding. A recent beneficiary of the scheme is […]
The Kent Club Update
By Bro Dave Cole, Club Communications Officer Here at The Kent Club for London Freemasons, we like to give the best experiences to our growing membership, currently standing at a healthy 394. This quarter we have had the pleasure of doing this again. Following from the well-earned Christmas and New Year break, we […]
Eurydice Lodge No 1920 Marks Family Centenary
W Bro Paul Huggins reports. In November 2021, there was a special meeting of Eurydice Lodge No 1920, as it marked 100 years of the same family’s membership of the Lodge. Jesse Huggins was Initiated into the Lodge in 1921. One hundred years later, two of his sons, Paul and Simon Huggins, are […]
FOREWORD VW Bro Matthew Hampson, PJGW Deputy Metropolitan Grand Master
It is just a few days since the Metropolitan Grand Lodge Investiture where I had the honour and privilege of being installed as one of the three Deputy Metropolitan Grand Masters. I am the seventh brother who has held that office since the Metropolitan Grand Lodge was formed in 2003. The previous six being […]
My Life in Prisons
W Bro Harry Benham, PGStB talks to Arena on volunteering as Chairman of the Employment Advisory Board for HMP Warren Hill. It is a fact that prisoners who carry out work whilst in prison, and develop transferrable skills through training, are far more likely to obtain a useful job on their release, and are […]
Witness a Gavel Raid at Old Wilsonians Lodge No 6602
W Bro Gregory Kirby LGR, Secretary of Old Wilsonians Lodge No 6602, reports On Saturday 5th February 2022, at 11 am, nine members of the Old Wilsonians Lodge 6602, led by their Worshipful Master W Bro Richard Thorne, gathered at Mark Masons’ Hall to join the Old Kimboltonians Lodge 7204 for their regular meeting by […]
The latest from the Connaught Club
The Chairman of the Connaught Club gives an update on what’s going on with the young masons in London in 2022. We have been very fortunate to have in-person drinks since the summer – it has been great to see so many new and returning faces at our regular monthly event. A great deal has […]
London Craft Digest – Winter 2022
Here are just a few of the London Lodges that have met over the Winter months, not just throughout central London – but within dedicated Masonic Halls in and around the Capital. Do you wish to see your Lodge in the next Craft Digest? It is very easy: send a couple of lines and […]
Responding to the Humanitarian Crisis – News from Polytechnic Lodge No 2847
W Bro Ronald A. Wainer SLGR talks to Arena Without going into the details, we are all aware that, at the time of writing this article, a humanitarian crisis is taking place in Europe. Many brethren will have responded in whichever way they can. Today, we hear from the secretary of The Polytechnic Lodge […]
A new home for Brazilian Freemasons (and rulers!)
Bro Albert B Rother, Master Mason reports It was in November 2019 when a group of Brazilian Freemasons turned an ambitious project into a reality. The United Arts Rifles Lodge No 3817, which was about to hand its warrant in, was rescued and taken over by 19 brethren from Brazil, some of whom had been […]
The Red Socks Lodge
W Bro Brian Francois PAGDC reports The Lodge of Remembrance No 4895 is regarded as modern and progressive despite having in the past been very traditional. The change has come about by successfully adopting the recommendations set out in initiatives such as Project Streamline and Members Pathway. Encouragement of good fellowship, mutual respect […]