(by editorial board, Coast News Community, January 25, 2026)
Bunnings West Gosford contacted the Freemason’s Central Coast Lodge at short notice recently to ask if they could fill in for a last-minute barbecue cancellation.
Despite little notice, volunteers swung into action and managed to raise $3,000 on the day for the Business with a Heart charity program.
Added to ongoing fundraising efforts by the Lodge, the help of Freemasons on the Central Coast who paid for the supplies, and including Masonicare’s (the Grand Lodge Charity) fund matching, this delivered $10,000 to bring a little joy to sick kids in local hospitals.
Business with a Heart was created by Tania Mastroianni, who was given a less than 2% chance of survival at birth.
Within her first six months of life, she had three heart surgeries, suffered a stroke and spent her first Christmas in hospital after having suffered a …
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Added to ongoing fundraising efforts by the Lodge, the help of Freemasons on the Central Coast who paid for the supplies, and including Masonicare’s (the Grand Lodge Charity) fund matching, this delivered $10,000 to bring a little joy to sick kids in local hospitals.
Business with a Heart was created by Tania Mastroianni, who was given a less than 2% chance of survival at birth.
Within her first six months of life, she had three heart surgeries, suffered a stroke and spent her first Christmas in hospital after having suffered a …
read more:
Within her first six months of life, she had three heart surgeries, suffered a stroke and spent her first Christmas in hospital after having suffered a …
read more:
