RAOB GLE

At the Grand Lodge meeting in December 2007 you installed me as your Grand Primo for 2008; I sincerely thank you for showing faith in me. I now place my faith in you, the membership, to continue that support for my appeal 'The Journal Children’s Gift Fund' or ‘’OURS’’ as it's known.

I know there are many outside charitable organisations supported from within GLE - and there have been some very successful appeals by our Grand Primo’s in recent years.

But we seem to have lost our way in some respects. In our early days our benevolence was to help our members and their families when they were out of work or suffering some form of hardship.

We now have the situation where some members are reluctant to contribute to Grand Lodge Benevolence, but if you ask them to donate to an outside charity, they appear to do so without hesitation.

I ask you to consider this thought brethren - we are more likely to initiate new members from recipients of this fund and their family connections, than from outside charities.

I look forward to serving you in the year ahead and to meeting as many of you as possible on my travels across the country - but I ask you all, to support "OURS" wherever you can.

Best wishes

Bro J J Wilson ROH Grand Primo