Coast-to-Coast walk for charity

After months of wait and training (well a few walks around the Yorkshire Dales) Bro. Darrell Harris and W Bro. Nigel Ziff started a Coast to Coast (C2C) walk today (Monday 4th August). Starting on St.Bees beach in Cumbria and finishing on the beach at Robin Hoods Bay in North Yorkshire this will be a … Read more

Supporting Yorkshire Brain Tumour Charity

At the November meeting, (the annual inter-visit with our mother lodge, Loyalty Lodge) £372 was collected via the charity raffle. The Worshipful Master nominated Yorkshire Brain Tumour Charity as his selected charity to receive the donation. The charity is very close the the Worshipful Master’s heart after the recent sad, untimely death of a very close … Read more

Charity and Charitable Grants 

Charity and Charitable Grants  In The West Riding of Yorkshire, the Provincial Grand Master’s Fund enables local Masonic Lodges to nominate charitable organisations, or charities in the Province, to receive grants for the benefit of the wider community.  Recent beneficiaries sponsored by The Lodge of Dawn have included St Chad’s Broomfield Cricket Club in Headingley … Read more

Local community grant for MAP charity

One of the key tenets of Freemasonry is charitable giving, along with supporting the local community, and we at The Lodge of Dawn has been doing exactly that during lockdown. Alongside our regular charitable giving we have facilitated a grant to a local community support service for young people. The Lodge of Dawn made an … Read more

Charity, Twitter and Badges

Charity has always been a core principle of Freemasonry. Individual masons make contributions at local, national and international levels. Freemasonry is actually one of the largest charitable givers in the UK (we contributed almost £50m to charitable causes in 2018 alone). The causes that Freemasons contribute to a far and wide-ranging, and how they come … Read more

Daily diary for the Coast-to-coast walk

As per the post here, Bro. Darrell Harris and W Bro. Nigel Ziff are doing the Coast to Coast (C2C) walk, from St.Bees beach in Cumbria and finishing on the beach at Robin Hoods Bay in North Yorkshire for charity. This is their daily diary. It will updated every day during the 10 day walk. … Read more

Junior Masters Night 2024

On the evening of 21st May the brethren at The Lodge of Dawn hosted our 66th annual Junior Masters Night. This is an event which gives the members of our lodge who are not yet ‘on the ladder’ (i.e. not yet holding an office in regular lodge) a chance to perform a First Degree Ceremony … Read more