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.”

Austerity is nothing new, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Lodge minutes record a leak…. Seemingly, not all of the beverages for the Festive Board could be accounted for!

Deva Lodge was proud to donate a cheque for £500 to Woof Hall Animal Sanctuary.

This is a short post to test the site; normally we would post information about recent events and donations to charity, ensuring Deva Lodge is transparent and accountable internally and externally