Mark Master Masons of Kent News

Emmaus Dover Benefit From £1,000 KMBF Grant

Emmaus (pronounced em-MAY-us) is a homelessness charity with a difference, they don €™t just give people a bed for the night; they offer a home, meaningful work and a sense of belonging. Late  last year the Trustees of our Provincial charity, the KMBF, approved a...

Holmesdale Lodge of Mark Master Masons Sesquicentenary

The Sesquicentenary meeting of Ramsgate's Holmesdale Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 129 was held in the town's Masonic Temple in St Luke's Avenue on Wednesday 20th October 2021. A party of eight active Provincial officers led by both Assistant Provincial Grand...

More than £60,000 donated to our local Hospices

A total of £60,300 has been donated to Hospices in the Province following nominations from local Mark Lodges. The donations were part of the Major Capital Grant of £1.3m to over 250 hospices from the Mark Benevolent Fund to recognise the contribution made by HRH The...

Congratulations to Brian Ward and Derek Wilkins

We are delighted to report the news that two well known members of our Province are to be appointed to key roles within the Executive of  the Allied Masonic Degrees in Kent. Administered from Mark Masons' Hall, the Allied Masonic Degrees, or AMD, is one of the...

£6,000 Donated to the Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice

Staff and volunteers at the Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice are celebrating receipt of a grant from the Mark Master Masons of Kent on behalf of the Mark Benevolent Fund. The donation, which is part of a Major Capital Grant of £1.3m to over 250 hospices in...

£7,000 donation to St. Christopher Hospice

On Tuesday 19th October the staff at Orpington's St Christopher's Hospice, whose goal is "to promote and provide skilled and compassionate palliative care of the highest quality", welcomed Assistant Provincial Grand Master W. Bro. David Stiff, accompanied by a party...

Covid-19 Memorial Service held at the Cathedral of the Marsh

From an original idea by Willie Leitch of Crane Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners, the various Masonic units meeting at the Dymchurch Masonic Centre held a Memorial Service to remember those Freemasons, their partners and Lodge Widows who passed away during the Coronavirus...

The Last of the First Paramedics

South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb), which covers a geographical area of 3,600 square miles across the south-east including Kent, is celebrating 50 years since the birth of the UK paramedic profession. It was March 1971 when the first ‘ambulance men’, who...

£16,000 donation to Pilgrims Hospice

Tuesday 21st September saw   Martyn Summers A.P.G.M.  accompanied by Brian Ward Provincial Grand Charity Steward were warmly welcomed  by Sue Sharp, Isabel Smith and Kate Duddell when they visited the three Pilgrims hospices in  Kent to make a presentation of £16,000...

Mark Master Masons donate £10,000 to the Demelza Hospice

Staff and volunteers at the Demelza Hospice are celebrating receipt of a grant from the Mark Master Masons of Kent wholly funded by its charity, the Mark Benevolent Fund. The donation, which is part of a Major Capital Grant of £1.3m to over 250 hospices in England,...

Six Key Reasons why you should become a Mark Master Mason

To discover the link between the 2nd & 3rd Degrees in Craft Freemasonry

To find out why it's called the friendly degree

It's a bridge to other progressive orders

To better understand the Royal Arch

To join in our social activities

Charity – He gives twice who gives promptly