The Provincial Charity Committee met in April and agreed grants of £3,000 each to the following charities:
The Parasol Project – https://www.parasolproject.org/
The Porch Day Centre – https://theporch.org.uk/
Oxfordshire Community Foundation – https://oxfordshire.org/
Helen & Douglas House Children’s Hospice – https://www.helenanddouglas.org.uk/
Sobell House Hospice – https://sobellhouse.org/
Oxfordshire Youth – https://oxfordshireyouth.org/
In addition £1,500 was paid to the daughter of one of our members to allow her to continue her university studies.
The final grant was £10,000 to support the renovation and refurbishment works at Witney Masonic Centre. As ever, if you wish to nominate a charity or charitable cause please contact W Bro Andrew Keech charity@oxfordshirefreemasons.org
We like to celebrate and embrace the fantastic work our lodges do with local charities, a key highlight each year being our charity presentation evening. All being well this will recommence on Tuesday 2nd November 2021 at Cardinal House. Whilst I am not taking bookings as yet, any Lodge that wishes to attend should pencil the date in NOW and advise one or possibly two charities. Further details will be sent out once we have certainty over national lockdown conditions.
The winners of the text draw held over the five informal meetings in April are:
1st Martin Kirk
2nd Ron Barnett
3rd Garry Heath
Thank you to all who supported this fun way of raising vital funds for our 2022 Festival appeal.
W. Bro. Andrew Keech
Provincial Grand Charity Steward
(charity@oxfordshirefreemasons.org)