Did you know…

Sir Tony Robinson, actor and historian, has quite a good 3 minute clip about Freemasonry.

Street League has been awarded by the Grand Charity £25,000 to deliver three football and employability programmes over the course of one year in Middlesbrough. They help young unemployed people aged 16-25 gain skills, confidence, work experience and qualifications

The Cystic Fibrosis Trust has been awarded £250,000 by our Grand Charity to develop a new model of healthcare, Smartcare CF, which will use the latest technology to allow patients to monitor their conditions from home.

“Different Strokes” has been awarded £3,500 by Grand Charity to support younger stroke survivors.

Did you know our Province received £1 million in charitable aid in 2014. That equates to £175 per subscribing member. Each of us should aim to give £3.50 a week or £14.50 a month to the 2021 Festival just to ‘keep up’.

Support the 2021 fesitval by dialing 70500 and text RMBI2021. That will donate £5 instantly. The whole fiver gets to the 2021 festival and the only extra cost is your normal text charge.

The Freemasons’ Grand Charity is funded by Freemasons and their families and is continuing a commitment to charitable support that began nearly 300 years ago in the earliest days of organised Freemasonry. – See more at: http://www.grandcharity.org   On 15th May 2015 they are coming to Llanelli for their next meeting.

Did you know the wearing white gloves goes back to 1599 when this requirement appeared in the records of Kilwinning Lodge in Scotland. We wear them now as a symbol of purity.

Treat Trust Wales is aiming to provide a state of the art rehabilitation centre, to be built on land next to Morriston Hospital in Swansea. In July 2014 the PGM made a presentation of £2,500 on behalf of local Freemasons.