The Province has two main charitable beneficiaries, namely the Library and Museum Appeal and Ellard Hanson Court, which provides sheltered accommodation for 17 elderly Worcestershire Freemasons and their dependants.
An update on the progress of the Library and Museum Appeal, from W Bro Colin Young, Chairman of the Library & Museum Committee:-
The Library and Museum Appeal raised nearly £200,000, a magnificent sum. This has put the Library and Museum on a firm financial basis and enabled us, as already reported, to refurbish the old Coach House at Bromsgrove as a climate controlled archive store. In addition we have completed the lease on the caretaker’s flat at Rainbow Hill and the major works in this extended and enlarged Library and Museum are nearly finished, indeed the books are already in place in the new Library.
The next stage will be to implement the scheme being developed by the Library and Museum Consultant, Chris Hudson, whose work has been made possible by a grant from MLA. This is intended to lead visitors through the museum by illustrating the story of Freemasonry in general and the Province of Worcestershire in particular, with reference to our artefacts. It also forms part of our work to gain accreditation. This, of necessity, will be expensive and will, in large part, depend upon grant aid, which may take some time. But it is important if we are to open up our Museum to more people and to provide the educational framework, which must be part of our work in the future.
None of this would have been possible but for the devoted work of the Curator, W.Bro. John Hart and his team: W.Bro. Tony King, the Deputy Curator, W.Bro John Vickers, Secretary and W.Bro. Roy Padden and the Deputy Chairman W.Bro. John Tapson.
Thanks are also due to those Library and Museum Representatives who gave so freely of their time to sit in as “doorkeepers” whilst the work was carried out; their efforts made the task of the Library and Museum team that much easier
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