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The Freemasons’ Grand Charity Supports University of East Anglia’s research with prostate cancer patients
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Grand Charity donates £75,000 to flood relief in Lancashire and Yorkshire
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Ladies' Festival Weekend 2016
Dunston Hall Hotel, Norwich Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th July 2016 Golf Course – Driving Range – Putting Green – Spa – Indoor Pool – Walks Historic Norwich and Norfolk Broads nearby
Places are limited – a small deposit will secure your place Fortitude Lodge No. 6503 and Radius Lodge No. 5474 warmly invite you to their joint Ladies’ Festival weekend. Co-Presidents W.Bro. Michael Davey and W.Bro. Sam Noone and their Ladies have joined forces to plan a spectacular weekend and the four-star Dunston Hall Hotel, Norwich, just a couple of hours from the M25. Arrive any time on Friday 22nd July to make use of the wide range of hotel facilities. Dinner may be taken at any time convenient to you in the Brasserie and we will hold an after-dinner charity quiz. After a leisurely full English breakfast on Saturday morning the day is free to enjoy the hotel facilities, explore historic Norwich or to see the beautiful Norfolk Broads National Park, all within a stone’s throw of the hotel. You can pre-book a tee time if you wish to play golf and bookings can be made for spa treatments. Guests will receive full details of all the local area has to offer. The Festival Banquet will be on Saturday evening, with the theme of a Masquerade Ball. Gentlemen should wear back tie, and ladies formal attire with a masquerade mask for all. Your co-Presidents and their Ladies will welcome you at a cocktail reception, followed by a sumptuous dinner. Dancing to a disco will follow and there will be a grand charity raffle. The weekend will conclude with breakfast on Sunday morning,. Guests are welcome to book for Sunday lunch if they wish to extend their stay. Dunston Hall Hotel has undergone a £500,000 refurbishment and the facilities are excellent. Set in 150 acres of parkland, the hotel has its own par 71 18-hole golf course, driving range and putting green. There is a magnificent indoor pool, sauna, steam room and two-floor gymnasium. The spa complex offers lavish massage and beauty treatments. The hotel has 150 comfortable en suite bedrooms all with flat-screen Sky TV, tea and coffee tray, iron and ironing board, hairdryer and free WiFi. The weekend is available at the great value early booking price of £179 per person including two nights dinner, bed and breakfast. A non-refundable deposit of £15 per person by 29th February 2016 will secure your place at this price, with the balance due by 31st May. If space remains available bookings will be accepted after 29th February at the price of £185 per head. A limited number of single rooms are available at the same price. Additional single rooms will incur a supplement. A price for a shorter or longer stay, or for the Festival banquet only, can be provided on request.
For full details or make a booking please contact the Festival Secretary W.Bro. Alan Russell on 07850 223219 or email him via the contact us form. Deposit cheques should be made payable to Fortitude Social Club. Credit card confirmation your hotel room booking will be required.. |
Fortitude Lodge donates £2700 to charities
Fortitude Lodge has donated £2700 to worthwhile charities. Fortitude Lodge has donated £1500 to Haven Breast Cancer, a national charity providing personalised care and support to help people through the experience of having breast cancer. We have also donated £1000 to the Middlesex 2020 festival, supporting The Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys, a charity funded by Freemasons which aims to relieve poverty and advance education for children and young people. We have also donated £200 to Teddies for Loving Care, a charity funded by Freemasons which provides cuddly toys to A&E units for children in severe distress. |
Fortitude Lodge donates £1,000 to Bury Lake Young Mariners
Fortitude Lodge has made a donation of £1,000 to Bury Lake Young Mariners (BLYM), a voluntary youth sailing charity that takes more than 7,500 young people onto the water each year. The aim of the charity is to promote the development of young people through the medium of sailing. Those benefiting regularly from BLYM’s facilities include more than 300 profoundly disabled sailors, making this one of the UK’s largest disabled sailing venues. BLYM operates from Rickmansworth Aquadrome and is being considered as the base for a new sailing section of the Middlesex Masonic Sports Association. The £1,000 donation from Fortitude Lodge will go towards a £2.8m redevelopment of BLYM’s sailing centre, providing enlarged facilities to extend activities to all sections of the community. |
The Freemasons’ Grand Charity Minor Grants Programme
The second installment of grants during 2012 totals £20,000. Grants range from £1,500 to £5,000 and are given in the areas of medical research, support for vulnerable people and youth opportunities. Eight charities have received funding - click here to view all the grants |
Over £1 million for Rescue Services
23 April 2012 Helping to save livesAir Ambulances save the lives of thousands of people every year by getting doctors and paramedics to patients in emergency situations, as quickly as possible - operating almost entirely from donations. In April 2012, The Freemasons' Grand Charity announced over £1 million has been donated to these rescue services since 2007. Every Air Ambulance charity in England and Wales has received funding. The
following video presentation has been created to celebrate over £1
million in donations for these vital services. In 2012, Provincial and Metropolitan Grand Lodges across England and Wales are being invited to present a share of £192,000 to their regional rescue service. Full list of Air Ambulance Grants 2012 |
England Rugby Squad Sign Up For Fortitude Lodge
A chance meeting in a bar in Geneva’s old town could prove very successful for the good of Middlesex and Hertfordshire Freemasonry in general and the Fortitude Lodge in particular! After meeting the partner of a member of the England Rugby Squad, Fortitude Lodge Charity Steward, W.B. Goldthorpe, managed to obtain 3 tour shirts signed by the current Squad. One of the shirts, which are highly sought after by rugby clubs and fans alike, will be a star lot in an auction to be held at the Fortitude Lodge Ladies Weekend. The second will be passed to Goff’s Oak Lodge (Hertfordshire) whose Ladies Weekend coincides with Fortitude Lodge while the third will donated to the Middlesex Family Fete Committee to raise funds at this year’s fete. |
Fortitude Christmas Social
Friends of Fortitude Lodge are cordially invited to the Fortitude Christmas
Social on Saturday 7th January from 6:00pm (6.30pm sit down) at Moor Mill, Radlett. The cost is £20 per person (cheques payable to Fortitude Festival Account). Friends and family, please contact a member of Fortitude Lodge for more details. Further details available from Bro. Michael Davey. |