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£5,473 for Marie Curie Hospice

£ 600 for Southport Offshore Rescue Trust
During the closed season W.Bro Peter Woods Master of Liverpool Dramatic Lodge No 1609.............<more>

The Rise and fall of a sponsored walk!
During the 2007 Masonic season we were asked by our Charity Steward if we would all make an individual donation to the sponsorship of the annual Woolton Group sponsored walk.........<more>

Community Fund help for Sea Cadets
Assistant Provincial Grand Master Dennis Rudd and the Chairman of the Woolton Group of Lodges, David Hawkes, attended a reception on board TS Royalist .....<more>

Lodge puts hospices in the picture
The Ancient Union and Princes Lodge No 203 in the Garston Group has given the Marie Curie Hospice in Woolton Village £2,000.............<more>

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£5,473 for Marie Curie Hospice

Assistant Provincial Grand Master Dennis Rudd is pictured presenting a cheque for £5,473 from The Grand Charity to Colette Byrne for the Marie Curie Hospice in Woolton Village. Also pictured is Woolton Group Chairman David Hawkes.

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£ 600 for Southport Offshore Rescue Trust

During the closed season W.Bro Peter Woods Master of Liverpool Dramatic Lodge No 1609, accompanied by W Bro Stan Shwenn Treasurer and acting Almoner of the Lodge presented a cheque for £600 to the Southport Offshore Rescue Trust.

The money was collected at Peter’s Ladies night in memory of W Bro Ray Unsworth, a Long time member of the Lodge who was a lifelong seafarer.

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The Rise and fall of a sponsored walk!

During the 2007 Masonic season we were asked by our Charity Steward if we would all make an individual donation to the sponsorship of the annual Woolton Group sponsored walk. We all agreed and paid our donations up front in anticipation of the walk being completed on the designated date. As you are aware for various reasons the walk was cancelled but the cash was already paid. I as worshipful Master of Woolton Lodge of Unity 1086 together with Bro. R Martin decided to do a walk of our own and ask the brethren for the money to donate to the group. This was agreed unanimously by the brethren.

We decided to walk to the top of Ben Nevis, what a good idea on my part, so I thought. We left on 31st August for Fort William ready for the climb the next day.

We set up our tent and had an early night in readiness. The next morning we rose early to find the weather not too favourable but not bad enough to call it off. After breakfast and a check of all our safety equipment (whistle, mobile phone and survival bag) found ourselves at the foot of the mountain at 09.30 and ready to ascend. We decided the ice axes and crampons could be left behind with it being August. After an hour and a half we were a quarter of the way up, I was totally exhausted and we still had over 3,000 ft to go.  So after a world of encouraging words from bob, (you look like you’re going to have a heart attack), I suddenly remembered that we had nobody looking after our base camp so I had better return. This I did with a vengeance and promptly fell asleep for 2 hours in the car.

Bob, however, kept the Woolton flag flying and persevered to the summit. He has the photographic evidence to prove it. I am still claiming it was a team effort; we did use my car and tent after all.  

On our return a cheque for £285.00 was passed to the Woolton Group and then promptly forwarded to the 2010 festival.

We have vowed to try to again next year, this time I will make it (with photographic evidence) and if anyone would like to join us you are more than welcome. Bob knows the way up and I know the way down.

Me resting before an exhausting descent - Bob at the summit of Ben Nevis

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Community Fund help for Sea Cadets

Assistant Provincial Grand Master Dennis Rudd and the Chairman of the Woolton Group of Lodges, David Hawkes, attended a reception on board TS Royalist moored in the Albert Dock at Liverpool to present a cheque for £1,225 from the Community Fund.

This amount covered the cost of sending seven cadets to sea for one week. In fact, the voyage from Whitehaven across to Northern Ireland and to Liverpool had been completed earlier that day and because of a very rough passage most of the cadets were unable to attend the reception. 

They were recovering at home from their ordeal!

Dennis Rudd said he has received a very nice letter of thanks from Mr Terry Robinson, the Chairman of the Merseyside branch of the Marine Society and Sea Cadets, and with extracts of comments made to him by the Cadets expressing how much they had enjoyed the experience of making new friends and the building of team work.

A typical comment from one Cadet..."I did things I thought I never would, for example, climb a 40 foot mast, drive TS Royalist and be really seasick"

He said this is another very worthwhile project supported by the Community Fund.

Assistant Provincial Grand Master Dennis Rudd presents the cheque to Mr Terry Robinson, Chairman of the Merseyside Branch of the Marine Society and Sea Cadets watched by Lieutenant Colonel Steve Wotherspoon (left) who is responsible for overseeing all Sea Cadet units in the area and the Chairman of the Woolton Group of Lodges, David Hawkes.

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Lodge puts hospices in the picture

The Ancient Union and Princes Lodge No 203 in the Garston Group has given the Marie Curie Hospice in Woolton Village £2,000 to supply and fit television sets. Group Chairman WBro Sydney Ford is pictured presenting the cheque to the hospice manager Ms Diane Barker. Also present were the Group Vice Chairman WBro Howard Griffith and Bro Neill Langan, Worshipful Master of the Lodge. The Lodge has also donated more than £14,800 to the NMSF 2010 festival appeal

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