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Welcome To The Derbyshire Festival 2014 Home Page |
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Planning of events
While we are delighted to publicise
events that help raise funds for the 2014 Festival, the Festival Executive would
like to encourage organisers to coordinate their events with the Projects
Director.
If you experience any
difficulties using this website, please tell us about it by emailing the
Communications Director:
communications@DerbyshireFestival.org.uk
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The Festival Blog
We now have a new Blog! Here you will find all sorts of
information and comments from around the Province
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Donations to the Festival
S everal Lodges are planning to make significant
donations to the Derbyshire Festival 2014.
 A
Provincial chain bearer will be in attendance to receive the donation. (Click
the Provincial logo for more information). |
Provincial
Grand Master’s speech
Annual
Meeting 2012
To read the PGM's speech for this
Annual Meeting, please click the Provincial logo here
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Derbyshire Masons Charity Crown Green Bowls Competition
“Hartington Bowl Trophy”
There
will be a crown green bowls competition for Derbyshire masons on Friday the
6th July 2012. It will be held at the Lafarge Bowling club, Lafarge
works near Hope. Hope is in the Hope Valley situated in the picturesque Peak
District National Park.
Please click on
the image to the right for full details |
Party in the Park
 The
Bakewell Showground is being revisited for another wonderful party event! (13/7/12) |
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 Malcom's
contribution!
My
MSF money box soon filled up so I decided a larger container was required so I
used a 'Roses Sweet Jar'. Today as both containers were overflowing I counted
the contents which consisted mainly of coins from 20p to 1p. I was astounded to
find a total of £110.20. I will in the next few days forward a cheque for this
amount to which may be added 'Gift Aid'. The donation should be credited to the Cestrefeld Lodge №
3889.
Malcolm
Mason PPGSuptWks
Cestrefeld Lodge |
The Festival
'Fone' Fund
 Bro
Matt Hewitson of Lutudarum Lodge has come up with a great scheme for
raising money for Derbyshire Festival 2014. The Festival ‘Fone’ Fund won’t cost
you a penny! Instead of digging deep in your pockets for change he is asking you
to dig deep in the back of your drawers to find that old Mobile Phone that has
been languishing there for the past few years.
Just click on the Festival Logo for more
info!
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The Dore Ladies' Luncheon
The PGM hosts a luncheon for the Dore Ladies, where Mr Richard Douglas of the
MSF furnished a very informative talk about the MSF's excellent work (13/5/12) |
Vulcan deliver another payload
on target
T he
Ninetieth Anniversary Meeting of the Lodge
the WM arose and presented to WBro Copestake, a cheque to the value of £2,500,
towards The Derbyshire Festival (27/4/12) |
 Ataraxia
is Mooted!
Friday
20th April 2012 saw the meeting of Derwent Lodge at Moot Hall, Wirksworth,
when clearly an atmosphere of ‘high celebrations’ were well in evidence (20/4/12) |
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The C2C with added oestrogen!
As
we know several brethren in Derbyshire
 are
tackling the coast to coast cycle ride,
but rumour has it that a few wives are also taking the challenge
equally seriously. Please click the ladies for further info
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Mentor lead by example
Mentor
Lodge made a
further contribution of £1,750 towards their 2014 Derbyshire Festival total at
the Installation Meeting
(5/4/12) |
Tutbury acquire a different
Maul!
 Brother
Peter Hallam arose and presented to the Tutbury Castle Lodge with an inscribed
‘Past Masters Block & Gavel’. As a legacy towards ‘the memory’, of his late
father-in-law (28/3/12) |
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Festival golf day 2012
 Once
again the Festival golf challenge is fast approaching (31/5/12)
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Padley
take on a building project
The
building of King Solomon's Temple (24/4/12) |
Bretby deliver the goods!
 The
WM presented the DPGM a cheque to the value of £2,014 towards the Derbyshire
Festival 2014. The DPGM anounced that Bretby Lodge had gone a little way above
its £25,300 threshold limit, towards the Derbyshire Festival 2014 (23/3/12)
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Hardwick's presentation
Hardwick
Lodge's newly installed master, WBro Robert Morton presented two cheques, at his
installation meeting on Wednesday, to WBro Brian Evangelista, PSGD, Assistant
Provincial Grand Master (13/3/12) |
Another Royal Success !
Royal
Sussex's WM delivered a cheque to the value of £2.000 into the hands of
the DPGM towards The Derbyshire Festival (20/2/12) |
Cantelupe
get the key to the
door!
 The
Provincial Grand Master, RW Bro Graham Rudd was delighted to declare that Cantelupe
was the 21st
Lodge in the Province to be presented with the Festival
commemorative maul and block (17/2/12) |
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The
Peak of Fund Raising
 The
Provincial Grand Master accepted a cheque for £12,295.29 from WBro Neil Ruddiman,
the Worship Master of Mundy Grove, on behalf of the Three Peaks team,
representing the largest amount raised in one single event by Derbyshire Masons
(13/12/11) |
506 hit £15,400
 The
WM furnished the PGM, with a cheque for the sum of £1,600.00. and in Response,
the PGM furnished the WM with an inscribed ‘festival maul and block’ in
recognition of achieving their target (14/2/12) |
Lutudarum become alchemists!
 At
only its 106th regular meeting, the Provincial Grand Master, Right
WBro Graham Rudd presented Lutudarum Lodge with the 17th Derbyshire 2014
Festival commemorative maul and block for achieving its target (16/11/11) |
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Pipes & Drams
 On
Saturday the 28th of January 2012, family and friends joined the members of Sure
and Stedfast Lodge to celebrate what proved to be yet another magnificent and
memorable Burn’s night (28/1/12)
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Tris do it again!
 Lodge
labours then saw the WM deliver into the hands of the APGM a cheque to the value
of £5,265 towards the Derbyshire Festival 2014. WBro Evangelista detailed, the
donation was a most wonderful gesture and would be most ‘gratefully received and
faithfully applied’ (18/1/12) |
Tutbury's Triumph!
 At
Tutbury Priory's Christmas meeting the WM presened the PGM a cheque to the value
of £3,500 towards The Derbyshire Festival 2014. The PGM responded by furnishing
the WM with an inscribed ‘Festival Maul and Block’ in respect of this great
achievement (14/12/11) |
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Rose Croix at Alfreton get it together!
A
recent amalgamation of Alfretons prompted a proposal, which resulted in a
donation of £ 750 to be to the 2014 Derbyshire Festival (19/10/11) |
Well it was never going to be
boring!!
It
has to be a special occasion to bring together the Provincial Grand Master, his
Deputy and two Assistants, the Provincial Grand Superintendant and the
Provincial Grand Master of the Mark degree and his Deputy.
Discover
what happened here
(6/12/11) |
A success in Buxton
The
Buxton Installation in October saw the presentation of a cheque for £1000 to the
PGM and a maul in return (24/10/11) |
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Kinder Scout -
a big mountain, but a Lodge with huge hearts
 Kinder
Scout
Lodge
has already exceeding its target of £14850 by over £200 through its remarkable
commitment to the covenant scheme and enthusiastic charitable fund raising. So,
the PGM's Maul was most certainly in order! (19/10/11) |
The PGM's Festival
dinner is a great success
 On
a gloomy November evening prior to bonfire night, the PGM RWBro Graham Rudd
DL
welcomed Mr Richard Douglas, the CEO of the Masonic Samaritan Fund along with a
hundred or so brethren and their partners to his annual Festival Dinner at Cleve
Lodge, Long Eaton. (4/11/11) |
Werberga works its
magic!
WM
Peter Fetherby presents a cheque for £6000 to APGM Peter Hodcroft and the WBro
Tony Harvey explains how all lodges should mentor our 'newer, brethren (30/10/11) |
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Mentor leads
by example
A
further contribution of £1,250 was made by Mentor Lodge towards their 2014
Derbyshire Festival total at their recent Meeting (6/10/11) |
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£ for a lb?
Fairfield
Lodge lose several pounds but gain a few more!!
(5/10/11) |
Erewash Lodge's
Charity Timetable
Erewash
Lodge № 9376 have developed a fundraising calendar - packed with events, for a
sneak preview click their banner. |
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A singing Lewis?
An
Initiate and a Maul presentation? What a start to a masonic career! It all
happened at Dore (2/7/11) |
Derbyshire Masons hit the heights
On Friday 3rd June, after
considerable organising and limited training in the Peak District, two
mini-buses filled with 18 Derbyshire Masons and their equipment headed 400 miles
North to Fort William in Scotland in preparation for the Derbyshire version of
the Three Peaks Challenge.
The
following morning at 4.30 the Challenge began at the foot of Ben Nevis and
although fitness and age soon determined an individual’s speed, we all made it
back down by mid-morning to a welcome ‘boil in the bag’ meal and then straight
into the mini-buses and heading to the Lake District.
Arriving at
Wasdale in the ‘back of beyond’ in the late afternoon we immediately started our
ascent up Scafell Pike, with the last of us returning to the bottom in darkness
– its small, but a brute!! No one remembers falling asleep that night at the
hostel, it just happened.
Another
early start on Sunday and the end was in sight, after all Mount Snowden in Wales
was the easiest, so we had been told! The determination of all the walkers was
100% and unbroken, we made it to the summit in bright sunshine and then
descended at speed into Llanberis to a strategically placed ale house at the end
of the mountain track for a celebratory drink.
The weekend
was a tremendous success as the experience and camaraderie for all those that
took part was incredible, it raised awareness of Freemasonary in Derbyshire and
has also proved to be the most successful fund raising event in the Province’s
history.
We can now
all look forward to next year’s ‘Coast to Coast’ bike ride.
WBro Neil
Ruddiman
Mundy Grove (506) |
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 Receiving a £6k cheque
and presenting
the
13th Maul so far since the Festival was
launched, the
PGM advised the assembled Brethren of Spencer Lodge
that the Festival had realised two thirds of its target
(23/6/11) |
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WBro
JR Collison received from the Littleover Lodge's
WM, WBro Mike Cullen
a cheque to the value of £6,300.00
towards The Derbyshire Festival 2014 (7/7/11) |
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 Now,
Here's A Question....
Fancy organising a
QUIZ NIGHT to raise a few £s ?
Short of Questions ?
Would you like a few Masonic Questions - up to
180! (Oh yes, and Answers)?
If so, It will cost you a donation !
For full details, send an email stating your
interest, by clicking on this link
The
question master (WBro Brian Lawrence) |
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How is the MSF supporting Freemasons and their
dependants in Derbyshire?
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