Charities

I have taken the last 5 years of charity donations by an average of 32 lodge brethren, plus of course alms box donations by visitors during the period, up to 28/02/2009 to produce the following facts from our three charity accounts audited records:

Masonic Charities
Grand Charity	£ 2,215
Covenants	£ 1,000
Appeal 2011	£ 12,000
OH Lodge Almoners Fund	£ 1,260
NSF, Library/museum MTGB combined to PGL	£ 1,000
Total	£ 17,475
Local Charitable Donations
Leukaemia Unit Russells Hall, MacMillan Nurse, Marie Curie, Acorns Hospice, Cancer Connect Dudley	£ 1,225
Meadows School Oldbury	£ 500
Alzheimer’s Society Dudley	£ 340
Edwards Trust Harborne	£ 800
Worcester Cathedral	£ 120
When you wish upon a star	£ 405
Mary Stevens Hospice Stourbridge	£ 1,803
Motor Neurone Disease Association	£ 748
Dudley Hope	£ 550
RNLI	£ 100
Sunfield Children’s Home Clent	£ 450
Royal British Legion Halesowen	£ 100
Learning for Life Halesowen	£ 100
County Air Ambulance	£ 1,100
Dudley Olympics	£ 200
Lighthouse Mayor Charity Appeal	£ 300
Dudley Mayor Charity Appeal	£ 100
Friends of Stourbridge SEC	£ 300
Total	£ 9,241

A grand total of £ 26,716, or an average of £ 5,343.20 a year, or an average of £ 166.98 a year per capita for each lodge brother. These are quite startling figures when they are all added up, and as Lodge Charity Steward I am very proud of our brethrens attitude to all charity Alms and Appeals.

Yours sincerely and fraternally,

Wor. Bro. D W Nock PPG
Reg. Charity Steward
Old Halesonian Lodge No 7104 

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