Charitable Work.
The order has two trust funds, which are registered charities, and we have a home in Lytham St Annes for holidays or short breaks.
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 Charities at Grand Lodge.
At our Centenary celebrations in 2008, half a million pounds was presented to two cancer charities.
Race for Life – Cancer Research
In 2016-2017 the Order supported Cancer Research’s Race for Life with almost every lodge holding events and taking part in local Race for Life runs. As a result, the sum of £100,000 was presented to Cancer Research in June 2017
During 2017-18 the Grand Charitable Trust made donations totalling £102,487.04 to the following charities on behalf of the lodges:
Adelaide Litten Charitable Trust
Age UK
Ali's Dream
Alzheimer's Society
Alzheimer's Research UK
Amy's House
Animals in Distress
Arthritis Care
BASIC
Basingstoke Rape Crisis
Beechwood
Bloodwise
Blue Skies Hospital Fund
Bournemouth Hospital Charity
Brain Tumour Charity
Brain Tumour Research
Breast Cancer Care
British Heart Foundation
British Kidney Patient Association
British Lung Foundation
British Polio Fellowship
Bury Society for the Blind
Cancer Campaign (Suffolk)
Cancer Care
Cancer Research UK
Canine Partners
Celia Hammond Animal Trust
Chai Cancer Care
Charnwood Nursery
Charnwood Trust
Chernobyl Children
Children with Cancer
Children's Hospice South West
Children's Society
CMFT (Sickle Cell)Adelaide Litten Charitable Trust
Coeliac UK
Combat Stress
Deriam House
Devon Freewheelers
Diabetes UK
Donkey Sanctuary
Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance
Dorset Hospital Charity
East Anglian Sailing Trust
Ehlers-Danlos Support
Flat Friends
Four Paws Animal Rescue
Gemma's Ray of Hope
Gt Ormond St Hospital
Guide Dogs for the Blind
HALO
Halton Haven Hospice
Hearing Dogs of the Deaf
Help for Heroes
Honeypot Children's Charity
Hospice at Home Aberystwyth
Hull & East Riding NHS Charity
Isle of Wight NHS Trust
James Cook High Dependency Unit
Jon Egging Trust
Keech Hospice
Kent Autistic Trust
Lewy Body Society
Lifelites
Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance
London Air Ambulance
Loubob's Legacy
Lupus UK
Lymphoedema Support
Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Nurses
Macular SocietyFriends St Richards Hospital
Frimley Health Charity
Gemma's Ray of Hope
Holidays
Nancy Oldfield Trust
Marie Curie
Medical Detection Dogs
Multiple Sclerosis Research
Muscular Dystrophy UK
National Autistic Society
Neuroblastoma UK
Newbury & District Cancer Care
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice
NSPCC
North West Air Ambulance
Pancreatic Cancer Action
Papworth Hospital
Pets as Therapy
Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice
Priory View Riding for the Disabled
Queen Victoria Hospital
Relay for Life CRUK
RNLI
Scarborough Sea Cadets
Shropshire & Staffordshire Blood Bikes
Sight Airedale
SSAFA
St Martins Housing
St Richards Hospital
Stroke Association
Stroke Charitable Funds
Swansea Support Group
Teenage Cancer
The Christie Society
The Elizabeth Foundation
The Horder Centre
The Mase Group
The Society of St James
VICTA
When You Wish Upon A Star
Wirral Holistic Care Services
Wisdom Hospice
Woodfield School
York Against Cancer
Yorkshire Air Ambulance
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