Gloucestershire and Herefordshire Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons

Mark Masonry and Charitable Giving Every newly-admitted Freemason is immediately told that he is expected to exercise Charity, not just to his brethren but to anyone in need of comfort and support.  Freemasonry is a major charitable donor;  in the United Kingdom its Grand Charity is second only to the National Lottery in its donations to Charities at home and abroad. Mark Masons' charity is exercised through a national Mark Fund of Benevolence, by a Benevolent Fund for the Province and by individual Mark Lodges. No funds are generated from the general public - all come from member's own resources and through private fund-raising efforts; Details of recent donations to local recipients are set out below. Severn Area Rescue Association Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Hereford Scanner Osteoporosis Donations To Hospitals St. Johns Ambulances At the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons, three million pounds were donated to the National Osteoporis Society in the presence of their Patron, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.  The award was made possible by donations from individual Mark Master Masons to the Mark Benevolent Fund. Thousand of people in and around Hereford will now benefit from the national award.  The Hereford County Hospital has been awarded £87,860 by the National Osteoporosis Society to help buy a scanner which will be central to a new osteoporosis diagnostic service at the Hospital. Before the new service, patients from Herefordshire and Powys, many of them women, were required to travel to Abergavenny or Worcester for a scan. Mark Deputy Provincial Grand Master David Joyce is pictured (left) with Dr. Vicky Alner (Consultant in Geriatric Medicine) and Dr. Peter Wilson (Consultant Radiologist)