SKIPTON Juniors Football Club has been given £1,500 by the West Riding Masonic Charities to buy new wheeled goals. The growing club uses the wheeled goalposts for the girls’ and boys’ teams aged between under 11s to under 14s. Ian Longden, club chairman, said: “It’s fantastic for the club to receive such generous support from …
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A FOOD bank run by Skipton Baptist Church has received a generous donations of food and other items from members of the Freemasons’ Craven Lodge. The food bank supports people through a referral system with local agency partners. The food parcels are designed to last for up to a week as Craven is a rural …
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SKIPTON-based children’s charity SELFA has received a major boost from the Yorkshire, West Riding Freemasons. A grant of £3,000 through the Masonic Charitable Foundation has been made to the charity, which supports disadvantaged children with clubs, workshops and trips. The money will help to fund staff, including three full-time activity co-ordinators. SELFA chief officer Emma …
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A LETTER written more than 250 years ago in Amsterdam, congratulating the new master of a Leeds Masonic Lodge, has been discovered amongst the pages of a book in Skipton. In the two-page letter penned in 1762, Lewis Bastide, a member of Golden Lion Lodge, also speaks of his experience with foreign lodges in the …
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