Another £7,000 has been given by Freemasons to Lincolnshire’s St Barnabas Hospice, supporting its £12-a-minute running costs which mean it has to raise £6.3m every year to keep providing its services.
The money has come from Freemasons’ Lodges in Lincoln, Grantham, and Skegness, and has been topped up with matched funding from the Freemasons’s national charity the MCF.
Lodges involved the latest donation, all of whom gave £500, were Witham in Lincoln, St Clement in Skegness, and all five Grantham Lodges – Doric, Granta, William Peters, Sir Isaac Newton, and Meridian Daylight.
Lincolnshire Freemasons’ Communications Officer Stuart Pearcey said: “Although £7,000 might seem like a lot of money, it covers less than 10 hours of the Hospice running costs, and illustrates the fundraising mountain the organisation has to climb to to keep being there for the 12,000 people it cares for every year.”
