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On Sunday 13th May the refurbished and extended Museum and Library was officially opened by Henry Sandon. The Provincial Grand Master and Mrs Goddard together rvith the Past Provincial Grand Master and Mrs cooper and members of the
Executive Committee and the Appeals Committee applauded as Mr Sandon cut the red ribbon across the doorway of
A group of wives, daughters and friends of Worcestershire Masons, organrzed by
Helena Goddard, the
in the Worcestershire Cathedral Flower
In deciaring the Museum open, Mr Sandon spoke about his many visits to the museum, the
labours rest".
treasures
it
contains, especially
the por celain, on which, of course. he is a u,orld-renowned expefi. and liis pleasure that r,r-ith the exteasicn anC refurbishment rt ri ilL nou' be abre ',o oiier more to its visitors. \1r Sandon was presented rvith
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ol potr as a thank 1'ou lor so _generously attending to mark the occasion. The Museum and Librarf is open every Tuesday and Thursday for \.inta-se bottle
visitors and Lodges and brethren who wish to arrange group visits can contact the museum by calling 01905 2497 1.
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W. Bro Ian Fothergill, of White Ensign Lodge No: 9169 believes that Charity Stewards will achieve success for the
appeal, whilst continuing support for non-Masonic charities, by careful planning. His own method involves
of Elgar Lodge No 9254 also believes in "getting the basics right". His recipe for
is quite simple. " Firstly, start all delays mean more effort needed later. Secondly, explain the cause to the Brethren, and how it success
early, as
reaches into the Lodge.
careful research, building his own belief
and then promoting the Appeal in a simple form. He wrote to all Lodge members asking them "to donate the price of one Daily Paper per week", but
also
proj
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contributing larger sums
For the 201 1 Festival I am lucky to have a brother in the Lodge who had received tremendous support from the Trust during his upbringing, which made the Festival personal for the Lodge. Thirdly,
explain how little a Charity Steward
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He also uses the Gift Aid scheme successfully - ensuring that at every meeting an envelope is placed for every
diner. He also ensures that full information is given during the Charity Steward's Appeal - the pu{pose, the achievement to date and asking for the usual generous support.
needs from each Brother on a regular basis to raise a significant amount over the period of a Festival. The equivalent of about half a pint of beer per week would amount to around f325 by 2011. Fourthly, I believe the Charity Steward
needs
to
understand
Gift Aid
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explain it to the brethren as it is much simpler and more flexible than the old covenant system."
The success of Bro Ian's careful
and
methodical work is apparent. At this stage, and still with 3+ years to go, 50oA of White Ensign Lodge Members are donating to the Steward's scheme, with 25 of them wearing a Steward's Jewel,
Bro David also adds that it is important
that Brethren do not feel constantly harassed by the Chanty Steward or they
become less generous. Wise words certainly!
Forthcoming 2011 Appeal Events Get away to Normandy - An excellent way to support the Appeal
This holiday has now been re-scheduled for the Late Spring Bank Holiday Week next year, leaving Worcester on Sunday 25 May 2008 and returning on Friday 30 May 2008. The itinerary includes key sites on all of the five D-Day landing beaches, including Falaise, the famous Pegasus Bridge, and the battle site of Omaha beach in the American sector which inspired Steven Spielberg in his film "Saving Private Ryan". This is intended to be a family trip. and for the ladies there will be the opportunity to shop in the regional Capital, Caet, a visit to the Bayeux Tapestry and the beautiful Bayeux cathedral, plus other non battlefield visits. The holiday will be an ideal chance to help children (or grandchildren) to understand the importance of what took place over sixty years ago. The holiday costs f,375 per head for five nights, to include breakfast, (and evening meal on day of arrival) staying at the Hotel Ibis, Caen. Travel will be by a fourty-two seat executive coach and all profits from the holiday will be donated to Appeal 2011.
If anyone has a relative who
is buried in a military cemetery in the area, or there is a
monument or site that has a special meaning to you, the organiser will make every endeavour to include it in the itinerary. For further details contact Kenneth Wright on 013 84 37 1 100 (daytime) or 01562 823362 (evenings and weekends) or by e-mail at kwright@wrightforbusiness.co.uk
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Three Rulers of the Province, their wives and twenty other brethren and their partners managed to walk to the top of the Malvern Hills in June raising the magnificent sum of f2668 plus gift aid. The winner of the bottle of whisky for the walker with the most sponsorship was W Bro Trevor Barnes who raised f323 in sponsorship. The afternoon was topped of with a rendezvous at the Masonic Hall at Malvern for a well earned Strawberry and Cream tea with home made cakes.
Ladies' Festival Valentine Weekend Group 5 Worcestershire Association of Masonic Lodges is planning a Ladies'
In May
2007,
W Bro. Derek Owen,
PProvGStwd, of the Lodge of Futurity No.6455 completed the arduous, twenty five mile, high altitude, Inca Trail trek, ending at the ancient Inca caprtal city of Machu Pichu.
W Bro. Derek has so far raised f550 by his efforts on a trtp of a lifetime, and he hopes that this can be increased by further donations.
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Weekend 15-17 February 2008, held in Torquay at the Toorak Hotel. Proceeds from the raffle will go to the Appeal 201 I . Contact Malcolm Hill 01 902 894925 or e-mail m.hi1l@tallcialk. net for more detail s.
MTmbtHe SkEtt$m AB$my Victory Lodge No. 8506 is offlering a mobile skittle alley for hire for Lodge social events or private functions. With no set hire fee, just a donation to the Victory Lodge Charity Steward where where all proceeds will go toward supporting the 20ll
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12 noon on Tuesday 26 June, exactly 150 years after the first investiture of the Victoria Cross by Her Majesty Queen
Victoria, over one hundred people gathered at St Mary's Parish Church, Kempsey,
to witness the unveiling and dedication of the restored tomb of the only Victoria Cross recipient to buried in be Worcestershire.
Major-Gen
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William Derrington Bell
received his Victoria Cross for outstanding bravery in the Battle of Alma on Septemb er 20th 1854 when he seized a Russian gun and took command of his regiment after all the senior officers had been killed or wounded. He is one of over one hundred freemasons who are recipients of the VC.
The funding of the restoration of his grave, which had sadly fallen into disrepair over the years, was provided by Granville Angell, who has delivered his Prestonian Lecture on Masonic Victoria Cross recipients all over the world.
In attendance were the Lord Mayor of Worcester, the Deputy Lieutenant, Councillors, and members of the Welsh regiment guarded the Victoria Cross itself, which was carried by Major General Bell's great, great, great grand-daughter, Lucy, one of many proud members of his family there to honour him. The service was conducted by John Guise, Provincial Chaplain, the citation was read by Granville Angell, and the address
given by the Provincial Grand Master, Richard Goddard. Major-General Bell was a Freemason, initiated at Montreal, Canada, on 12December 1848 in St Paul's Lodge No. 374, a lodge founded in l7l0 and which still exists. It is a curious
fact that whereas Freemasons have always accounted for considerably less than one percent of the adult male population, over ten percent of holders of the Victoria Cross are known to have been Freemasons, currently 143 out of 1,356 recipients.
The Provincial Grand Master, Richard Goddard, thanked Granville Angell for his vision and his commitment and another Bro Andrew Devereux who, apart from being a speculative Worcestershire Freemason, is by trade aL operative stonemason and had been responsible for the work associated with this fine restoration.
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At the Regular meeting of Federation
Lodge
No.4807 (Warks) on 3rd November last, some 100
Brethren, includirrg senior rulers and members of all the Masonic Orders with
which Dr. White
is
associated gathered to mark the occasion of his fifty years service to the Craft". In
presenting
his
Certifi cate
of
Service
the PGM of
Warwickshire, R.W.Bro. Michael Price, made reference to his continued long standing support of Federation Lodge and the Province. The PGM of Worcestershire, R.W.Bro. Richard
to the contribution to the life of the Worcestershire which had been the main sphere of Dr. White's activities and to the High Offices that he had held in Worcestershire. The Grand Superintendent of Royal Arch Masons in and over Worcestershire, E.Comp. Richard Goddard, referred
Province
of
Price, also paid tribute
to his work for the Royal
Arch
Province of Worcestershire. The members of Federation Lodge presented Dr. White with an engraved decanter to mark the occasion and his son, W.Bro
Nicholas White, PPAGDC (Devon) who travelled from Plymouth for the meeting, presented him with an engraved Firing Glass.
father was MO at Norton Barracks.
The elder Goddard died in l94B but the PGM's mother Mildred is still alive at the remarkable age of 102. The PGM's grandfather and father were prominent Masons and he followed in their footsteps when he joined Fort Royal Lodge at Worcester in 1911 and became Master in 1978. From then on he rose rapidly through Provincial Grand Lodge and accepted the supreme honour in 2004. His Masonic duties naturally make huge demands on his time but he shoulders the burden with unstinting enthusiasm and cheerfulness. "Mind you," he said, "I was out for twelve evenings in thirteen days recently and I don't much eare for a run like that."
Ask him about hobbies and he says Freemasonry is the major one. Then there's the garden, of course , and he likes watching cricket. He is a life member of Worcestershire CC and, on a sunny summer afternoon, he may be found "chilling out" at the lovely county ground beside the Severn. A love of history has led him to seek his family tree and he has traced the Goddard line back to the l4th century.
Nobody works harder
in the service of
Freemasonry
1n
Worcestershire than the Provincial Grand Master, R W Bro R G H Goddard, but what sort of man is he away from the high office to which he devotes so much of his life?
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It is clear that here is a man free from all pretentiousness. He wears his reg aha with a quiet dignity and modest awareness of the high office he holds. But a sense of fun is never far away
and one of his beliefs is that Freemasonry should be an enjoyable and uplifting experience. At his home in Leigh Sinton, just outside Malvern, he is more likely to be found in old trousers and a well-worn pullover cutting the hedges or
It is clear thatbehind the pomp and ceremony Mr Goddard is a modest man with a lively interest in life and a mission to bring a new transparency to Freemasonry and, above all, to maintain the customs and tenets of the Craft while emphasising the joy of it all. Here is a man well aware of one of the major planks of Freemasonry - "to be happy ourselves and communicate happiness to others." Peter Ricketts is a PPrGSuptWs and a men'tber of the Lodge
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mowing his huge lawn. The garden measures one and a half acres and takes a lot of looking after. While the lawn covers most of it, there is plenty of room for exotic shrubs, a vegetable patch and a greenhouse.
"My wife Helena does all the expert stuff," says R W Bro Goddard. "I'm just the lab'ourer. But it's good exercise and I like to be out in the fresh
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is a man of
letters.
After studying at
Charterhouse School and Oxford University he taught history and politics at Malvern College. The job was supposed to last for three years, but after teaching there for 28 years he moved
into administration at the College and eventually retired in
March 2006 after 4l
years' service
there.
His father Gerald was a doctor and followed an army career, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was gassed during the First World War and among other decorations was awarded the DSO. Richard was born in Worcester when his
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members
of the Provincial Executive
and Almoners and
Charity Stewards from over sixty Lodges.
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Brethren will be concerned to hear that the Masonic rooms at Tenbury sufiered flooding during the recent bad u,eather. At the same time, some Members of several Evesham Lodges
also suffered flooding in their homes. Nationally, the President of the Grand Charity has responded to The British Red Cross UK Floods Appeal with an emergency grant of f"65,000. A sum of f35,000 has akeady been made avarlable to
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Supported by a large team of local Freemasons, the doors of Malvern's Masonic Hall were thrown open to the public in August to allow members of the public to gain an insight into Freemasonry and learn about its long history in Malvern. It also provided a rare opportunity for visitors to enter the
Masonic rooms, which were once part of Malvern's Belle Vue Hotel.
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To mark the opening of the new Household Cavalry Museum on Horse Guards Parade, a vast pageant took place on Jun e l2th pafi of which was a drive past of
examples
of milttary vehicles used by The Life Guards and The Blues
and
Royals from their First World War bicycles and lorries
through to modern CVRTs. One of the vehicles required
was afi Alvis
Saracen
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4 Kids day in Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham at the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. Thanks to the generosity of Robert Wilkinson who allows the use of his funfair for free, the organisers are able to invite around five hundred children who attend a range of organised their annual Fun
special schools in the Province.
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Griffiths, and as part of a little convoy of two Foxes, a Ferret and another Saracen, drove to Wellington Barracks at what
the Lord Mayor of of the Province, including RW Bro Richard
like breakneck speed. W Bro Mike Kipping now joined the crew.By this time the drive-past vehicle count had risen to 57,wrth quite rare vehicles like Daimler Dingos, and very rare ones like Humber
wife Helena. The event attracted a good deal of media coverage including a fifteen
seemed
Armoured Cars and Staghounds. With Mike as Vehicle Commander and John as driver, the parade made its way to Birdcage Walk, through Horse Guards and back up the The Mal1 to Wellington Barracks. As Fort Royal was constituted as -fitting a Milit ary Lodg., it seems particularly that its present Master and DC, both of whom have served in the TerritonalArmy, were able to take part in this unique event.
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The M.Ill.Grand Sovereign Cdr. Ronald A. Champion has been pleased to appoint I11.Kt. Colin V. Young, P.G.Pref, Divisional Viceroy, as the R.Ill.Intendant-General for the West Midlands Division. There are two very active Conclaves in Worcestershire, St.Oswald Conclave meeting at Worcester and Morning Star Conclave which meets at Kings Heath.
attendance, was
Birmingham as well as the rulers
Goddard, Provincial Grand Master and his
minute outside broadcast by Prof. Carl Chin which was streamed live to the Ed Doolan studio of BBC Radio WM.