Lincolnshire/England – Freemasons raise millions of pounds to help during the coronavirus pandemic

(by The Newsroom, Gainsborough Standard, May 19, 2020)

Online and text donations have been pouring into the Freemasons’ Covid-19 Community Fund from Freemasons nationwide.

This fundraising is in addition to the £2.5 million the Freemasons’ charity, MCF, has already allocated to fund more than 50 local projects around the country, and a major grant of £250,000 to Age UK’s coronavirus emergency appeal.

Projects that Freemasons have chosen to support include the provision of much-needed PPE, to health workers in hospitals and care homes, thousands of metres of fabric being cut and sewn into hundreds of sets of scrubs in the province and cooking meals for the …

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