Charitable Work
The order has two trust funds which are registered charities.
Click here to see the list of national and local charities which received donations during the year ending 30th June 2025.
Members 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 2025 the Order of Women Freemasons Grand Charitable Trust made donations totalling £100,655 to 86 local and national charities listed below through fundraising members of the Order:
Acradysostosis Support & Research
Action for Children
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis
Adelaide Litten Charitable Trust
Alzheimer's Society
Anthony Nolan
Beaulieu Respite
Brain Tumour Research
British Heart Foundation
Cambridge Acorn Project
Cancer Research UK
Cerdd Wrecsam
Children's Heart Surgery Fund
Chit Chat 4 U All
County Dhurhm & Darlington Foundation Trust
Combat Stress
Chrohn's & Colitis UK
Derian House Children's Hospice
Devon Air Ambuland
Earthworks
East Anglian Air Ambulance
East Midlands Immediate Care
First Days Children's Charity
Forget Me Not Chorus
Gatehouse
Give a Duck Foundation
Greater Manchester Blood Bikes
Greenwich & Bexley Comm Hospice
Guide Dogs for the Blind
Halesworth Dementia Carers Fund
Homestart Kemow
Julia's House
Kings College Hospital Charity
Leeds Hospital Rob Burrow Centre
leighton Linside Helpers
Leukaemia Care
Little Princes Trust
London Air Ambulance
Louie's Heping Hands
Macmillan Cancer Support
Maninplace
Marie Curie
McCarthy Dixon Foundation
Middleton Park Equestrian Centre
MND Assocation
Muscular Dystrophy UK
My Name's Doddie
My Sister's House
Myeloma UK
National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
National Autistic Society
Norfolk Reading Society
North Wet Air Ambulance
Nottingham Central Women's Aid
Parkinsons UK
Pathways of Chesterfield
Portsmouth Cats
Premature Baby Unit New Cross Hospital
Primrose Foundation
Prince of Wales Hospice
Rob Burrow Centre for MND
Rosemere Cancer Foundation
Rosie's Rainbow Pantry
Royal British Legion
Royal Brompton Hospital
Salvation Army
Service Emergency Rider Volunteers
Solace Women's Aid
South Wales MND
SSAFA
St Barnabas Hospice
St Francis Hospice
St Michael's Hospice
St Peter's Hospice
Sunflowers
The Big Tiny Steps Appeal
The Haven Wolverhampton
The Homeless Period Wolverhampton
the Myton Hospices
The Next Chapter
The Sewing Table
Tom Harrison House
UK Sepsis
Welsh Women's Aid
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Wolverhampton NHS Charity