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The Lodge - No.5595

    • Consecrated:
      2nd March, 1936
    • Incorporating Members of Alhambra Lodge No.6527
    • Metropolitan Grand Master's Diamond Award RMBI.
    • Patron of The Masonic Trust For Girls and Boys
    • Patron of The New Masonic Samaritan Fund
    • Founder Members of the Grand Metropolitan Lodge
    • Senior Visiting Officer:
      W.Bro John Griffin
    • Visiting Officer:
      W. Bro. Andrew D.A. Manasseh, GStB

Recent News

    • The next LOI is on the Tuesday 6th of September 2011 at 7.45 pm.
    • The next GP meeting will be on Tuesday 13th September 2011 at 7.45.
    • Officers for the year 2011-2012 were installed on 11th May 2011
    • Goliath Lodge celebrates its 300th meeting and 75th year

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Three Principles Go back to the top

The three principles upon which Freemasonry is founded are Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth. Masons worldwide are known for their charitable donations and links to hospitals, schools, and nursing homes. What is less well known is the private charity offered to poor and distressed Freemasons and their families, widows, and children. This type of charity is not trumpeted abroad, but undertaken quietly by each Lodge when needed, by the Almoner.

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Masons worldwide are known for their charitable donations and links to hospitals, schools, and nursing homes. What is less well known is the private charity offered to poor and distressed Freemasons and their families, widows, and children. This type of charity is not trumpeted abroad, but undertaken quietly by each Lodge when needed, by the Almoner.
Hospice

Charities that benefit from Masonic donations are not limited to those that accept Freemasons as clients or disburse donations to Freemasons. Hospitals, nursing homes, and schools are among the recipients of our charity, as we are urged not to limit our charity to our Brethren and their dependents, but spread it to all who are in need.

Grand Charity

The main coordinator and repository of charity money from UGLE Freemasons is the Freemasons' Grand Charity. There are further pages at that link geared to informing visitors of the scale of Masonic charities in England and Wales. For Brothers, there is a page devoted to explaining the Relief Chest scheme, along with a printable Gift Aid form.


Charity Events Go back to the top

The CyberKnife treats cancer without surgery but with the use of radio waves. All sorts of Cancers which cannot now be treated can now be attacked. It can speed up the treatment of cancers such as prostate cancer; all without invasive surgery and in some cases with one or two short treatments complete the treatment.

Barts and the London hospital have recognised the immense commitment Metropolitan Masonic Charity and the Metropolitan Grand Lodge and Chapter has made of the behalf of London Freemasons and recognition of this will be on a permanent plaque in the CyberKnife suite.

CYBER KNIFE- LATEST NEWS
£500,000 has been paid to date to Barts Hospital for the purchase of the CyberKnife. It is being delivered next month and Barts say it should be installed, the staff trained and operational in the newly built hospital by June 2011. That leaves a balance of £2,500,000 left to pay for the CyberKnife.

A total of £6000 was raised for the Harefield Hospital Scanner appeal.
Goliath Lodge receives the Metropolitan Grand Master's Diamond Award for supporting the London Appeal for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
Congratulations to Alex Broadbent on running the Marthon. £100 sponsorship was raised for his chosen charity - Cancer Research.

Masonic Charities Go back to the top

Freemasons' Grand Charity

Freemasons' Grand Charity
The Freemasons' Grand Charity is a grant-making charity, which is funded by Freemasons and their families. Last year it gave grants totalling nearly £7 million to support people in need and fund the work of charities helping the wider community.
Non-Masonic Grants
The Freemasons' Grand Charity regularly supports national charities that are not connected with Freemasonry.
In total, over £30 million has been donated to non-Masonic charities of all sizes. This includes over £8 million for hospice services as part of a special programme of support that began in 1984, nearly £400,000 for air ambulances and over £1.8 million for emergency relief work worldwide.

Masonic Samaritan Fund

Masonic Samaritan Fund
A grant making charity that supports Freemasons and their dependants who have an identified medical need and, faced with a long wait for treatment, are unable to afford their own private care.

Royal Masonic Benevolent Fund

Royal Masonic Benevolent Fund
The RMBI has been caring for older Freemasons and their dependants for over 160 years. They operate 17 residential care homes across England and Wales offering high quality care. Many of their Homes are registered for both residential and nursing care and a number offer specialist dementia care.

Royal Masonic Trust for Boys and Girls

Royal Masonic Trust for Boys and Girls
To Relieve poverty and advance the education of children of a Masonic family and, when funds permit, support other children in need.
Since the late 18th Century, the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls and the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys have helped relieve poverty and advance the education of the children of deceased and distressed Freemasons. This function and other wider terms of reference, were taken up by the Trust when in 1986, it took over the running of the former charities.

Enquiries Go back to the top

Each Lodge of the United Grand Lodge of England has an officer called the Charity Steward. His responsibility is to collect alms from the Brethren assembled in Lodge and at the Festive Board, accounting for them, and making periodic remittances to charity in the name of the Lodge and the Craft, as well as making reports to Grand Lodge and to Goliath Lodge.

Our Charity Steward can be contacted at .

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