26th January 2025

Dear Worshipful Master Ariel and Brethren of Deva Lodge,

On behalf of the staff, students, and everyone involved in the Abbey Gate College Charity Ball, I would like to express our sincere gratitude for your generous £50 donation to our prize draw.
With the donation, we bought a voucher for the Architect Restaurant in Chester.
The success of our Charity Ball relies heavily on the kindness and support of organisations like yours, and we are truly grateful for your donation.
The funds raised through this event will be used to support the three house charities, namely Stick ‘n’ Step, North Clwyd Animal Rescue and Seashells Trust.
Once again, thank you for your generous support and for being a part of our Charity Ball.

For more information about Abbey Gate College, please click here

Friday 21st March 2025 – Cheshire View, Christleton. 

**This event is open to Freemasons and their families**

You may have heard and seen Philip in Chester when he was playing his violin. 

He is a very accomplished violinist and has held a number of concerts at The Town Hall Chester. His ambition is to form an orchestra in the North West, and he is well on the way to achieving his goal. 

He has agreed to give a performance and I hope we will have an interested audience. 

Monies Raised for the Cheshire Masons Tercentenary

Arrival:- 6pm to pre-order drinks 

6.30 seated. 7pm performance. 

8pm buffet. 9 pm second half. 

£25 per person (UNDER 15’s £15) 

Payment by BACS to Deva Lodge

HSBC Account No70292435 

Sort Code 40.17.14 

Details to Charles McIlwrick 

07960 450161 Closing date 7th March 2025 

Times have certainly changed. Whilst new membership of Deva Lodge shows encouraging growth, the trade or profession of our membership has changed substantially over the 115 years that our lodge has been operating. Tripe Dresser is just one of the many interesting professions from which our members have been drawn over the years. Those amongst us who can still remember the joys of tripe probably will not mourn the decline in this particular delicacy! Nevertheless, as older trades have declined, Freemasonry is seeing a strong growth in membership from those in 21st-century technologies such as engineering, IT technologies and the internet. Freemasonry has not been slow in adopting these technologies, with a whole host of informational and learning resources hosted on the website of the United Grand Lodge of England, which can be accessed here.

Deva Lodge recently donated £176.82 to Share, an organisation supporting families in crisis and people who are homeless in North Wales and Cheshire.

Commenting on the donation, Adam Dandy, Chairman of SHARE said:

“We wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone at The Deva Lodge in Chester for their most recent donation of £176.82 to help us establish our new ShareSHAC (Share Homeless Action Centre) on Frodsham St, to support people sleeping rough in the City of Chester.

“The continued support we have received from The Deva Masonic Lodge in Christleton, Chester, has allowed us to support a large number of people who are homeless or being resettled over the years, and this latest donation to help us get our new Homeless Action Centre established, will go a long way to helping many more people in the future, for which we sincerely thank everyone at Deva Lodge for your continued support, it means a lot to us all and those we help.” 

Further details about SHARE can be found here

Excerpt from the Standard Newspaper 25th July 2024

Children Today Charitable Trust has been given a £625 donation from Deva Masonic Lodge No 3447.

The children’s disability charity, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, was delighted to be chosen by Deva Masonic Lodge, which is based in Christleton, to receive the award.

In addition, the Deva Masonic Lodge has previously given the charity an extra boost with the presentation of a £100 gift voucher for Clarks shoe retailer to be used as a raffle prize, to help raise more funds.

Emma Prescott, charity director at Children Today, said: “We’re extremely grateful for the support from the Deva Masonic Lodge. It’s becoming increasingly challenging to raise sufficient funds while more and more families who need our support, so donations like these go a long way to helping children and families who so desperately need our help.”

The Chester-based charity will use the funds to continue supporting disabled children and their families with life-changing adapted equipment – including but not limited to adapted trikes, adapted buggies and sensory equipment – and support services.

Emma added: “The additional cost associated with raising a child with a disability combined with a cost-of-living crisis means that so often families are unable to afford vital equipment that can be transformational for a disabled child, and often the wider family too.

More information can be found on The Standards website here

Back in July (2024), Alan Johnson and Martin Owen from Deva Lodge visited the Countess of Chester Hospital and presented them with a cheque on behalf of the Lodge.

Deva’s donation went toward the hospital’s Blue Skies Balcony appeal, which aims to build a garden balcony on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) so that poorly patients can benefit from the outdoors in a safe and infection-controlled environment

Angela Lopez, Interim Fundraising Manager at the Countess Of Chester Hospital said , “It has been my absolute pleasure to work with Deva Lodge over the years and their consistent support of the Countess Charity to help provide additional items for the benefit of our patients is always most appreciated”

Find out more about the Blue Skies Balcony Appeal here

http://coch.nhs.uk/…/the-blue-skies-balcony-appeal.aspx

Deva Lodge was delighted to donate a £100 Clarkes shoes voucher to Save the Family Speaking on behalf of the charity Beth Morgan stated “Many thanks for the kind donation of a £100 Clarkes gift voucher. It was very. Kind of you all and it will make a big difference to our families. It will be a huge help for buying children’s shoes in September for going back to school.”