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Latest Charity NewsMBF Festival 2011 Bedfordshire Mark Masons sent a donation of £2523 to the Province of North Wales who were holding this year’s Mark Benevolent Fund Festival.
Donation to St John’s Home Mogerhanger The collections from the last two Provincial Grand Lodge meetings, totalling over £1,200, were donated to the Sue Ryder Home at Mogerhanger to help them in their valuable work.
Mark Makes Further Donation to Northants & Hunts 2010 Festival On 20 June 2009, at Provincial Grand Lodge a cheque for £2,000 was presented to the PGM of Northamptonshire & Huntingdonshire, R. W. Bro. George Bonham. This donation was given to help them meet their target of £200,000 in favour of their 2010 Festival for the Mark Benevolent Fund.
Lodges Donate £9,000 to Charities During 2009, each of the 9 Mark Lodges in Bedfordshire donated £1,000 to charities of their choice varying from Hospices to Motor Neurone Disease.
Mark Donates to Northants & Hunts 2010 Festival On 20 September 2008, at Provincial Grand Lodge a cheque for £1,000 was presented to the PGM of Northamptonshire & Huntingdonshire, R. W. Bro. George Bonham. This donation was given to help them meet their target of £200,000 in favour of their 2010 Festival for the Mark Benevolent Fund.
2008 Mark Benevolent Fund Festival On Saturday 5 July 2008, the PGM for the Mark Province of Leicestershire hosted the Mark Benevolent Fund Festival for 2008 at the Walker Stadium in Leicester. This Festival was attended by some 920 guests and the incredible total reached was £627,115. Within that total, the Mark Province of Bedfordshire donated £7,042 from our 9 Lodges representing some £782 per Lodge. Apart from the host Province, this was the highest donation per Lodge of any Province, the second highest being Netherlands with £522 per Lodge.
£1,000 Donation to Bedford & Luton Women's Refuge The Mark province of Bedfordshire has recently agreed to give a donation of £1,000 to the Bedford and Luton Women's Refuge run by the charity Christian Family Care. The Refuge cares for women and their children who have been subjected to domestic abuse and need temporary accommodation. The donation will go towards the provision of new refrigerators and reception materials to help clients settle in.
New Cancer Scanner for Luton - At the meeting of Mark Grand Lodge on 13 March 2007, approval was given for a donation
of £57,500 to the Luton-
Before he retired as Provincial Grand Master, R.W. Bro. Harry Arnold received a letter from Mr. Michael Pittam at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital to ask if we could make a donation towards funding a new Xray camera for use in the diagnosis of cancer. He passed on this request to Mark Grand Lodge Fund of Benevolence. They have decided to donate the full cost of £57,500 which will provide all that the Hospital had asked for. The new camera was presented to the Hospital by both Present and Past Provincial Grand Masters and was warmly welcomed by the hospital staff.
£1,000 Donation to St. John's Hospice In a recent edition of a local newspaper, it was reported that St. John’s Hospice at Moggerhanger had suffered considerable damage in the recent storms and that their limited finances made it difficult to find the money for the necessary repairs. The Provincial Grand Master, R.W. Bro. Christopher Smith contacted the Hospice and pledged a gift of £1,000 to enable them to put the work in hand. The funds were subsequently raised in the collection at the recent Installation and topped up with funds already donated to the Mark Benevolent Fund.
Paula Priestley, the Area Fund Raising Manager at the Hospice said, “we are delighted to hear that Mark Masons in the Province are so generous – this donation will help us repa [Home] |