Freemasons Support 19 Yorkshire Organisations To Tune Of £33k

​​Youth groups, a charity broadcaster and a Sikh society are amongst 19 Yorkshire organisations to receive a share of £33,000 - courtesy of the Freemasons.

The donations, ranging from £500 to £3,000, come from the Province of Yorkshire West Riding’s Provincial Grand Master’s Fund, which each year gives grants to good causes in West, South, East and North Yorkshire, totalling some £200,000.

Harrogate Hospital Radio chairman,
​Mark Oldfield

The Sikh Soldier Organisation celebrating the role the turbaned soldier

In addition to “minor” grants – which range between £500 and £5,000 and are given on a quarterly basis  - “major” grants, which can be in excess of £30,000, are awarded once a year and presented at the fraternity’s annual May meeting at Harrogate’s Royal Hall.

Those to benefit from the latest round of grant giving include:

• Harrogate Hospital Radio - £3,000 to continue providing service they need by install Wi-Fi radios to each hospital bed

 

• Crowlees CE Junior & Infants School, Mirfield - £2,925 to purchase a high-quality marquee to be used as an outdoor classroom

 

• Headway Rotherham (a brain injury support group and a registered charity) - £2,000 to replace their obsolete photocopier essential for providing information to their clients

 

• Leeds Regional Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis & Respiratory Centre - £2,250 to buy TV/DVD, Xbox and iPads for children in isolation during their treatment. These items will ease their anxiety and stress

 

• Sikh Soldier Organisation, Huddersfield - £1,000 to provide a bronze statue as a memorial to the Sikh soldiers who died in both World Wars

 

David S Pratt, The Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Yorkshire West Riding, said: “Once again, I’m delighted that our society has been able to benefit no fewer than 19 different organisations across Yorkshire.

“These donations are only possible thanks to the continued generosity of our members, and to them I’m eternally grateful. Charity is one of Freemasonry’s three great pillars, and it’s wonderful that we can help so many different community groups in their own fund-raising activities.”

The Province of Yorkshire West Riding is based on the old West Riding, geographically ranging from Sheffield in the South to Ripon in the North and Goole in the East to Waddington in the West.

Additional information regarding the Freemasons Province of Yorkshire West Riding is available from its website https://www.wrprovince.org.uk/


For Further Information, please contact:

David Simister, Different PR, on 08453 892 626
 

Minor Grants Recipients
Total awarded: £33,535