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

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

Chapel Allerton Playground opens

Sunday 22nd October, saw the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Al Garthwaite officially open a new playground at Chapel Allerton Park; one that was part-funded by The Lodge of Dawn via a grant from the West Riding Masonic Charity Community Fund, as reported on here back in June. The ‘ChapelAPlay’ project began when a group … Read more

Chapel Allerton playground gets a grant

ChapelAPlay are Laura B, Beth and Laura R, a group of local mums who regularly use Chapel Allerton park. However, the current playground is completely dilapidated. The surfacing is hazardous and the equipment dated, unappealing, tired and unsafe in areas. There is nothing stimulating or attractive about it and, as a result, a huge opportunity … Read more

£2000 grant for Let’s Eat Foodbank

Back in May 2021 the Lodge of Dawn secured a grant of almost £25,000 from West Riding Masonic Charities Ltd for the building of a 4G AstroTurf MUGA (multi-use games area), for the Chapeltown Youth Development Centre (CFYDC) on Scott Hall Road in Leeds. This was completed later in the year. Since then the lodge … Read more

Past Masters and a new Master Mason

April’s ceremony was the Lodge of Dawn’s annual ‘Past Masters Night’, when previous masters of the lodge (known as ‘Past Masters’) take all of the ceremonial offices and deliver all of the ritual. In total 11 Past Masters of, and in, the lodge took part. See below. The ceremony was a Third Degree ceremony when … Read more

£30,000 grant for Meanwood Park Playground

Back in February 2020 one of the members of the Lodge of Dawn saw a news story in the Yorkshire Evening Post about a group of fed-up parents who had just launch an appeal to improve children’s playground. Under half a mile from our home at Castle Grove, Meanwood Park playground’s appeal sounded like the … Read more

The Lodge backs Craic Packs

The Lodge of Dawn sponsored a grant of £5000 from the Masonic Province of Yorkshire West Riding via its Provincial Grand Master’s Fund, on behalf of Leeds Irish Health & Homes. The £5,000, delivered by Charity Steward W Bro. Michael Rose and Preceptor W Bro. Raymond Diamond (pictured above), has been used to fund food … Read more

Supporting Chapeltown’s Let’s Eat foodbank

Looking around right now there is no shortage of groups who need a helping hand and we know that hundreds, maybe thousands, of families in Leeds are struggling. One of The Lodge of Dawn’s newest brethren, Bro Eóin Byrne, saw this situation and wanted to use the power of Freemasonry to make a difference. He … Read more