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Pinner Lodge No. 3300
Nottinghamshire
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Freemasons' Grand Charity to give £2 million to national charities
National charities, across England and Wales, will benefit from generous grants totalling nearly £2 million approved at the Annual General Meeting of The Freemasons’ Grand Charity. The grants have been awarded to worthwhile causes in the areas of medical research, youth opportunities and vulnerable people. The sum includes £500,000 for adult and children’s hospice services and £192,000 for air ambulance charities which will be distributed during the current year.
For further details including a full list of the charities which will receive grants visit http://www.grandcharity.org/news.php?id=33
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£5,000 emergency aid for flood stricken Namibia
The President of the Grand Charity has approved an emergency grant of £5,000 to the Red Cross to help victims of the severe flooding that has affected large areas of Namibia.
For full details visit http://www.grandcharity.org/pages/namibia_floods.html
The Freemasons' Grand Charity, 60 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5AZ
The Freemasons' Grand Charity is the working name of The Grand Charity, Registered Charity No. 281942
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Ten charities share £550,000 of grants
HRH The Duke of Kent, KG, has attended a special event to present ten charities with grants from The Freemasons' Grand Charity totalling £550,000.
The grants were awarded in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of The Duke's installation as Grand Master of United Grand Lodge of England.
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For full details visit
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The Freemasons' Grand Charity, 60 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5AZ
The Freemasons' Grand Charity is the working name of The Grand Charity, Registered Charity No. 281942
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The President of the Grand Charity has approved an emergency grant of £5,000 to help victims of flooding that has affected large areas of Fiji.
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For full details visit
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THE FREEMASONS’ GRAND CHARITY GIVES SPECIAL SUPPORT TO CHILDREN’S HOSPICES
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For 23 years, The Freemasons’ Grand Charity has operated its popular Hospice Grants Scheme annually, supporting over 200 services across England and Wales with donations towards their operating costs. Although adults and children’s services have always been helped through the scheme, for the first time in 2007, a sum of money was specifically allocated to support children’s hospices.
In England, adult charitable hospices currently receive an average of only 34% of their funding from the government and children’s hospices receive an average of just 5%, so they must raise millions of additional pounds every year to ensure they can
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continue to provide important care and support to people in need.
The grants from the Grand Charity are available to any operating hospice that receives 60% or less of its funding from the NHS, and together with generous support from local and Provincial lodges, they make a valuable contribution towards this annual target. With a low level of funding from government, children’s hospices face particular difficulties, and in recognition of this the Grand Charity now considers their applications separately
A sum of £100,000 was set aside to help the 31 services working with children and young people, which received support in 2007 and the majority benefited a grant of over £3,000. Combined with grants ranging from £500 to over £8,000 to 189 adult services, nearly £600,000 was given during the year, taking the sum given since 1984 to more than £7 million. All hospices supported in 2007 will automatically receive an application for further support in 2008. To learn more about the Hospice Grant Scheme and to view a full list of the grants given in 2007, click on the link Hospice Grant Scheme.
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