Charitable Work.
The order has two trust funds which are registered charities.
Click here to see the list of local charities which received donations during the year ending 30th June 2024.
We raise large amounts of money for charity by holding social events, and these also give members the opportunity to get to know each other on an informal basis. Each Worshipful Master selects, during her year of office, a charity particularly dear to her and often local to her lodge. The money raised during her year is shared equally between the charity and the Order's Charitable Grand Trust at Grand Lodge.
In March 2025 The Order of Women Freemasons Grand Charitable Trust donated £25,000 to the Royal British Legion and £25,000 to the Salvation Army Foodbanks.
In 2024 members of the Order of Women Freemasons in the Lincolnshire & South Yorkshire Area supported the 'Love Grace Handbag Appeal' by donating over 100 handbags filled with useful items to local women's refuges in the South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire counties.
In February 2023 the Order of Women Freemasons Grand Charitable Trust donated £50,000 to the DEC Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal.
In 2022, during The Queen's 75th Platinum Jubilee year, Lodges raised £25,000 for the Stroke Association, a charity of which Queen Elizabeth was Patron.
In 2021 the OWF participated in the NHS Social Care and Frontline Workers' Day on 5th July. Lodges throughout the country held garden parties at 1pm on the day and £15,000 was raised for the NHS Charities.
During 2020 the Trustees of the Order of Women Freemasons' Grand Charitable Trust donated £300,000 to help those in distress during these difficult times. The money was divided between the following charities:
BBC Children in Need
St John Ambulance
Salvation Army food banks
Women’s Aid to help fund the assistance given to those experiencing domestic violence.
At our Centenary celebrations in 2008, half a million pounds was presented to two cancer charities and in 2017 £100,000 was presented to Cancer Research after almost every lodge held events and took part in a local Race for Life run
For the year ending 30th June 2024 the Grand Charitable Trust made donations totalling £52,079 to 81 local and national charities nominated by indiviual OWF Lodges:
15th St Pancras Scouts
Adelaide Litten Charitable Trust
Alzheimer's Society
Barnardo's
Birmingham Children's Hospital
Blue Skies Hospitals Funds
British Heart Foundation
Cambridge Acorn Project
Cancer Research UK
Cann Bridge School Fund
Cavendish Cancer Care
Celia Hammond Animal Trust
Centrepoint
Children's Hospice South West
Christie Charity
Countess Mounbatten Hospice
DEBRA
Demelza SE Hospice
Dementia UK
Devon Freewheelers
Dingley's Promise
Dudley NHS Charity
Earthworks St Albans
East Anglian Air Ambulanve
East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme
East Shropshire Talking Newspaper
Falcon Support Services
Gingerbread Centre
Guide Dogs for the Blind
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
Hope for Tomorrow
Hope Restored
Hypo Hounds
Kidney Care UK
Kyra's Women's Project
Lindsey Hospice
Liverpool Women's Hospital
Livewell Foundation
Macmillan Cancer
Mary How Trust
Medical Detection Dogs
Merseyside & Cheshire Blood Bikes
MIND
Motor Neurone Disease Assoc
Muscular Dystrophy UK
Myeloma UK
National Assocation Premenstrual Syndromes
Nottingham Hsopital Charity
PCC of St Chad's
RAF Benevolent Fund
RNLI
Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital
Service Dogs
South East Cancer Help Centre
South Lincs Blind Society
Southmead's Hospital Charity
SSAFA
St Aidan's Church
St Catherine's Hopsice
St Christopher's Hospice
St Martin's Housing
St Wilfrid's Centre
Stroke Association
Support Dogs UK
The Beaumont Centre
The Homeless Period
The Myton Hospices
The Next Chapter
The Prince's Trust
The Trussell Trust
Three Wishes
Touretts Action
UK Sepsis Trust
Veterans Hob (IOW)
Wildfowl & Westlands Trust
Wolverhampton Coronary Support
Yorkshire Air Ambulance
Yorkshire Swan & Wildlife Rescue
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Zoe's Place Baby Hospice
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