Mark Funds Welsh Ambulance

The St John Cymru at Blaenau Gwent approached the Ashlar Mark Lodge for a donation to help with their appeal to purchase a new ambulance.
     Ashlar Lodge took the matter up with the Mark Province of Monmouthshire, whose Provincial Grand Master, David Ieuan James, in turn applied to the Mark Masons Benevolent Fund in London.
     As a result, £50,000 was provided to fund the entire cost of the ambulance, which is based at Tredegar.

Opening of Hereford Hospital Scanning Unit

The official opening of a new Bone Density Scanning Unit was held recently at Hereford County Hospital attended by an invited team of Mark Masons from the Province of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.
     Following an introduction by Martin Woodford, chief executive of Hereford County Hospital, John Eley, Provincial Grand Master of Mark Master Masons for Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, officially opened the unit.
     Thousands of people will benefit from the new service as patients previously had to travel to other areas for treatment.
     The Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons donated £3m to the National Osteoporosis Society to help fund a better national scanning service and buy scanners. Hospitals interested in setting up fixed scanning units were invited to submit their bids.
     At the initial instigation of Mark Mason’s Provincial Treasurer, Tony Body, Hereford Hospital NHS Trust put in an extremely comprehensive bid, laying out precisely the parameters which were required and this bid was eventually successful and they were awarded a grant of £87,860.