A CHARITY that helps the homeless and a brass band have received a cash boost from the Freemasons.
Centrepoint, which provides education and training for young and homeless people in Barnsley, has been awarded £2,100 for the provision of gym and sports equipment, specifically to buy a running machine.
Thurlstone Brass Band also benefited with £360 to provide band members with team shirts.
The money has come from the Province of Yorkshire West Riding which encompasses the geographical areas of South and West Yorkshire, and parts of North and East Yorkshire and has given grants out totalling £35,630 to 24 societies, charities, organisations and clubs.
The grants have been awarded from the Provincial Grand Master’s Fund, which are presented on a quarterly basis, with each recipient being nominated by individual Masonic Lodges across the region.
David Pratt, the Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Yorkshire West Riding, said: “As always, the money has been raised by lodge members, and once again their generosity is helping a huge number of community-based organisations.
“Charity is one of the three great principles that our order is founded on, and it is very much at the heart of what we do here, within our own province.”
