Provincial Grand Lodge of Essex
Eight hospices across the county have been chosen to receive grants totaling nearly £14,000 from Essex Freemasons. The grants donated via the Freemasons own charity, the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF), are urgently needed to help make up shortfalls in funding caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The hospices are:
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Fair Havens Hospice
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£1,880
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Farleigh Hospice
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£1,550
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Haven House Children's Hospice
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£1,545
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Little Havens Children's Hospice
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£1,820
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Saint Francis Hospice
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£1,990
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St Clare West Essex Hospice Care Trust
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£1,440
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St Helena Hospice
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£1,880
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St Luke's Hospice (Basildon & District)
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£1,440
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These are just eight of 203 grants to hospices around the country from Freemasons. In total £750,000 will be donated to hospices all over England and Wales this year.
This includes £300,000 which will be distributed to each hospice that receives less than 60 per cent funding from the NHS and a further £450,000 which will be provided to individual hospices across England and Wales via Hospice UK, the national charity for hospice care.
Contributions from Freemasons to hospices have exceeded £14 million in England and Wales since 1984.
Paul Palmer
Group Communications Officer
Provincial Grand Lodge of Essex