2019 Festival Results

Suffolk’s Previous Festival Results

It’s crucial to understand the impact of our donations and how they are used to improve people’s lives. Our last festival appeal raised over 1.5 million, and we received over 2 million, with an additional 14 million allocated to Suffolk’s new RMBI home which is for masons and families as well as non-masons. This demonstrates that our contributions do not just disappear to unknown charities; they are used to create tangible results locally. Therefore, our festival’s message is “Give a little, gain a lot,” which is precisely what we aim to achieve.

We distribute funds through various channels, including grants and donations to local charitable organisations.

Number of Grants awarded since our last festival : 581 Total Grant Amount: £1,620,697, made up of: 

  • Children, young people and education: 163 grants totaling £535,403
  • Daily living costs: 298 grants totaling £764,423
  • Health, care and well-being: 120 grants totaling £320,871

To provide a sense of the magnitude of other projects supported by the Freemasons throughout the province, here are some of the charitable organisations we have contributed to since our last festival.

  • Lowestoft & District Deaf Society
  • SERV SC (Service by Emergency Response Volunteers Suffolk and Cambridgeshire)
  • Ipswich Community Playbus
  • Chaps – Mens Health Charity
  • Eye Opportunity Group
  • MACS
  • Brave Futures
  • Halesworth Volunteer Centre
  • The Tom Bowdidge Youth Cancer Foundation
  • Ipswich Opportunity Group
  • Suffolk Mind (Multiple Awards)
  • Shelley Centre for Therapeutic Riding
  • The Bumblebee Children’s Charity
  • Gatehouse Charity
  • Ipswich 17 Good Neighbour Scheme
  • Stowmarket Foodbank (New Life Church Suffolk)
  • The Basic Life Charity
  • FIND Families In Need
  • Waveney Foodbank East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices – The Nook Hospice
  • East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices – Ipswich Hospice (Multiple Awards)
  • St Elizabeth Hospice Hospice (Multiple Awards)
  • St Nicholas Hospice Care Hospice
  • K1 Britannia Foundation Trust
  • Medical Detection Dogs
  • Emmaus Suffolk (Multiple Awards)
  • Freemasons COVID-19 Community Fund
  • St Nicholas Hospice Care Hospice
  • Aspect Living Foundation
  • University of East Anglia Suffolk
  • Provincial Grand Charity
  • RCG COVID-19 National Initiative
  • University of East Anglia
  • MCF Covid-19 Fund
  • East of England Ambulance Service NHS Charitable Funds
  • Lord Kitchener’s Memorial Holiday Centre
  • The Porch Project
  • St Nicholas Hospice Care Hospice (Multiple Awards)
  • Hospice Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals Charity
  • ActivLives
  • Our Special Friends (OSF)
  • Hospice UK Partnership
  • East Anglian Air Ambulance
  • Medical Detection Dogs

If you seek further information on how the Freemasons can aid your organisation, we encourage you to contact our charity steward via email at chstwd@suffolkfreemason.org.uk