Charities Supported and Monies Raised

Individual Lodge Charities

Each individual Lodge decides on the local charities which they want to help in addition to their support for the Masonic charities.

Provincial Grand Lodge of Suffolk Charities

Suffolk Freemasons continue to support the Teddies for Loving Care initiative. We supply Teddies to the local Hospitals for distribution to child patients who are extremely vulnerable when undergoing nursing care. This is funded by donations from individual Lodges.

Central Masonic Charities

The Grand Charity

This is the major route by which Freemasonry gives to National and International non-Masonic causes. It also makes grants to needy Freemasons and / or the needy dependents of Freemasons.

Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys

Seeks to "relieve poverty and provide an education and preparation for life for the children of the family of a Freemason and, where funds permit, for any children, as their fathers would have done had they been able to do so".

Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution

Seeks to help and care for older Freemasons and their Families mainly in their network of Residential homes all of which have nursing care. Some are also able to deal with special needs such as Alzheimer' disease.

Masonic Samaritan Fund

Seeks to relieve distress for Freemasons, their wives, widows and dependents who have identified medical needs, which are not readily available from the NHS, and who cannot afford to fund private medical treatment.