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.
Announcement - November 2020:
The Most Worshipful The Grand Master has announced that the Trustees of the Order of Women Freemasons' Grand Charitable Trust have decided to donate a further £200,000 to help those in distress during these difficult times. The Trustees have agreed that the money will be 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
A total of £300,000 has been donated to help those in need since April 2020
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.
Click on the logos below to find out about just some of the charities which have benefited from major donations made by The Order of Women Freemasons.
For the year ending 30th June 2020 the Grand Charitable Trust made donations totalling £168,559.38 to charities on behalf of the lodges:
Ability Dogs 4 Young People
Adelaide Litten Charitable Trust
Ahoy Centre
Alzheimer's Society
Anthony Seddon Fund
Arrow Park Hospital Heart Care
Birmingham Children's Hospital
Blood Bikes
British Epilepsy Association
British Heart Foundation
British Hedgehog Preservation Society
Cancer Research UK
Chaplaincy Team Beachy Head
CHICS
Children with Cancer UK
Compton Care
Cornwall Air Ambulance
Dementia UK
Derby, Leics & Rutland Air Ambulance
Derian House Children's Hospice
Devon Freewheelers
Diabetes UK
Don't MS with Us
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance
East Anglia Air Ambulance
Ehlers Danlos Support UK
Evelina Children's Heart Organisation
Friends of Cann School
Friends of Florence Nightingale House
Frimley Park Breast Cancer
Greenwich & Bexley Com Hospice
Guide Dogs for the Blind
Halton Haven Hospice
Hope against Cancer
Imago
IRIS Vision Cheshire
King Fisher Medway Trust
London Ari Ambulance
Love Your Hospital
Lullaby Trust
Lupus UK
Macmillan Cancer Support
Macular Disease Society
Marie Curie
Merseyside & Cheshire Blood Bikes
MIND
Motor Neuron Disease Association
Multiple Sclerosis
No Limits
North West Air Ambulance
P C Nicola Hughes Memorial Fund
Pets as Therapy
RAF Benevolent Fund
Relay for Life
Reverse Rett
Riding for the Disabled
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Fund
Royal Berks Hospital Renal Unit
Royal Devon & Exeter Charity
Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
RSPCA
Safeline
Saint Catherine's Hospice
Salvation Army Food Banks
Sepsis UK
Severn Hospice
Shelter
Southmead Hospital Charity
St John Ambulance
St John's Hospice
Star Throwers
Stick'n'Step
Strongbones
Support Dogs
Suzy Lamplugh Trust
Tommy's
UCLH Charities Fund
Vascular Charity
When you wish upon a star
Wirral Hospice St Johns
Womens Aid
Yorkshire Cat Rescue
Young Persons Advisory Services
For more information please feel free to contact us at enquiries@owf.org.uk, or fill out the form on our contact page