WEST LONDON MASONIC CENTRE DELIVER ELEVEN THOUSAND MEALS AND STILL COUNTING
After producing over 10,000 meals during the first Lockdown, the West London Masonic Centre team sprang back into action when the second Lockdown began in November. They continued to produce hundreds of meals daily to support vulnerable and disadvantaged families in West London – again funded by grants from the Metropolitan Grand Lodge and the […]
LOGGIA ITALIA SPONSORS INNOVATIVE MASAI FARM PROJECT IN TANZANIA
W Bro Robert Mayo reports Bro Luca Lobina, a Master Mason of Loggia Italia No 2687, first visited Tanzania in 2011 to meet a thirty-year old Masai man he was personally sponsoring, named Rafiki Marko Saleyo. Rafiki lives as part of a small Masai community in the village of Kwekinkwembwe in the Mkindi area of […]
VERITAS A primus jewel comes home
W Bro Scott Moffat LGR describes this wonderful journey I bring you a tale of history, discovery, hope, hopelessness and drama. It all starts with a gentleman and Brother named Richard Joseph Sadleir, born in London, March 1863. His Masonic career began when has was Initiated in to Playgoers Lodge No 2705 in March 1899. […]
THE MEN AT THE TOP W BRO RUSSELL SOLLOF
W Bro David Pugsley SLGR interviews W Bro Russell Sollof PAGDC PAGSoj Metropolitan Grand Inspector (RA) MASONIC CV Craft 1986 – Initiated into Rising Star Lodge No 6153 1994 – Installed as WM of Rising Star Lodge No 6153 2016 – Installed as WM of Rising Star Lodge No 6153 Royal Arch 1997 – Exalted […]
Free Exchange Marylebone Project
Page given free of charge during the pandemi. The Marylebone Project – the largest women-only homeless centre, with a mission to empower women to end their homelessness and live their lives to the full.
Only a Pavement Away charity launches new initiative in response to homelessness on London streets
Only a Pavement Away charity launches new initiative in response to homelessness on London streets. London Homeless charity Only a Pavement Away, has been awarded a grant of £50,000 from London Freemasons in support of their new initiative to provide essential life skills to people facing or experiencing homelessness in London. The Only A Pavement Away Life skills hub […]
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OPEN AGE CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF CHAMPIONING AN ACTIVE LIFE FOR OLDER PEOPLE
Open Age was established in 1993 and is now celebrating over 25 years of championing an active life for older people. They work across Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham with members aged from 50 to 104, helping sustain their physical and mental fitness, maintain an active lifestyle and develop new and stimulating interests. […]
FREE EXCHANGE – ONLY A PAVEMENT AWAY
AN EPIC DELIVERY – LONDON MASONS DELIVER 37 600 FACE VISORS
W Bro Tony Shepherd SLGR MetDepGDC describes this epic delivery. Back in the middle of April 2020, barely a month into the Masonic Suspension and the nationwide social Lockdown, a time when the Thursday Evening 8pm Clap for NHS Workers was the highlight of our collective week, Phase One of the joint UGLE / MCF […]
FUNNY WHAT PARKS OUT FRONT!
Pictured is one of the London Fire Brigade response vehicles donated by Metropolitan Grand Lodge. When a London Fire Brigade Divisional Officer recently asked permission to stable his response vehicle in the car park at his local North Acton parish church, he knew he was speaking to the Vicar, but was unaware that he was […]
THE MEN AT THE TOP – WBro J R SOPER – PSGD Metropolitan Grand Inspector
W Bro David Pugsley SLGR interviews “Oui” is French for “yes”, as readers will know. For our Metropolitan Grand Inspector, W Bro Julian Soper PSGD this, he tells me, was about the limit of his French when his boss asked him whether he spoke the language. Fortunately, he is a fast learner as the response […]