Charitable Work.
The order has two trust funds which are registered charities.
For the year ending 30th June 2023 the Grand Charitable Trust made donations totalling £195,834 to charities on behalf of The Order of Women Freemasons' Lodges including donations to the DEC Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal and the Stroke Association to mark the Queen Elizabeth's 75th Platinum Jubilee.
Click here to see the list of local charities which received donations.
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 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 2023 the Grand Charitable Trust made donations totalling £120,834 to 82 local and national charities nominated by indiviual OWF Lodges:
15th St Pancras Scouts
Acorn Farm
Adelaide Litten Charitable Trust
Alzheimer's Society
Barnardo's
Ben Kinsella Trust
Birmingham Children's Hospital
Bosom Family Support
British Heart Foundation
British Lung Foundation
Bury Society for Blind & Partially Sighted
Bushey & Watford Rehab Club
Cancer Campaign in Suffolk
Cavendish Cancer Care
Children Heard & Seen
Children's Hospice SW
Cornwall Air Ambulance
DEC Turkey-Syria Earthquake
DEC Ukraine
Devon Air Ambulance
Devon Freewheelers
Dogs Trust
Dove House Hospice
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance
Friends of Witham St John CIC
Gingerbread Centre
Guide Dogs
Hants & IOW Air Ambulance
Home Start Blackpool
Hope for Justice
Hope for Tomorrow
Horse Ranger Association
In Charley's Memory
Inland Waterways Assoc
Leics & Rutland Special Olympics
London Air Ambulance
Lupus UK
Macular Society
Maggies House
Mayfield Nurseries
Medway Asthma Self Help
MIND
Motor Neurone Disease Assoc
MS Society
Myeloma UK
Newport League of Friends
North Clwyd Animal Rescue
North West Air Ambulance
Nottingham Hospitals Charity
NSPCC
Parent House
Parkinson's UK
PCC of St Chads
Primrose Foundation
Rennie Grove Hospice Care
RNLI
Roberts Centre
Roy Castle Lung Foundation
Ruddi's Retreat
Safe Lives
SCOPE
Shrops, Staffs, Cheshire Blood Bikes
South East Cancer Help Centre
South Mead Hospital Charity
St Catherine's Hospice
St Leonards Hospice
Stroke Association
Stroke Association South West
Sunflowers Children's Action Group
Support Dogs UK
Survivors of Bereavement
The Harris Club for the Disabled
Tom Harrison House
Turning Tides Homelessness
Ty Olwen Hospice
UNSEEN
Versus Arthritis
Warwickshire Search & Rescue
Willen Hospice
Wirral Hospice St John's
Yorkshire Air Ambulance
For more information please feel free to contact us at enquiries@owf.org.uk, or fill out the form on our contact page