Dementia Friendly Parishes around the Yealm started their groundbreaking community project in 2012, initially for two years. At that time they were concerned that there were no community services or support for local people living with dementia, their families or carers in the area.
Together with the five parish councils of Wembury, Brixton, Yealmpton, Newton & Noss and Holbeton...
Devon’s Freemasons and the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF) are very pleased to award Bideford based ‘Families in Grief’ (FiG) a grant of £15,000, this is split over three years to provide a guaranteed income in support of the work they do.
They are a childhood bereavement charity helping families to rebuild their lives after the death of someone close to them. They believe that...
I n the usual way amongst Freemasons Louis Marchesi Masonic Lodge which meets at Uffculme in Devon set to planning how they could help the refugees fleeing to Poland to escape the invading Russian forces.
Within ten days they had turned a plan into a reality. Although this started off as a Louis Marchesi lodge enterprise, it has now been infiltrated by Round Table and Lady Kingsman...
On a recent visit to the old Crown Hotel Building in Stonehouse Plymouth, which now houses the “Oasis Project” Foodbank run by the Trussell Trust, Nick Ball Deputy Head of the Devonshire Freemasons accompanied by his wife and Bob Syme together with his wife met Maria Mills who has been Foodbank Manager there since 2007, to present her with a certificate denoting the £4000 grant made to them...
Local people living in food poverty will continue to receive fresh food from the Ivybridge Foodbank, thanks to a grant of £2,000 from Devonshire Freemasons.
Demand at the Foodbank has grown by more than 200 per cent during the coronavirus crisis, with the service at Ivybridge Methodist Church having fed nearly six hundred people since the lockdown began, half of them children....
This year as part of their annual support of Hospices throughout the country the Assistant Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire W. Bro. Peter Keaty can be seen presenting a certificate denoting the £500 grant given on behalf of the Freemasons of Devonshire and the Masonic Charitable Foundation to Debbi Shotton Community Fundraising Officer for Rowcroft Hospice.
