Sabrina Centenary Givings reach £10,000

Sabrina Lodge’s COVID-affected Centenary in November was well reported in these pages: please visit our archive to catch up if necessary.

The plan had been to make eleven donations (including one of £4158 and ten of £415.80) to various local charities, which was accordingly done (amounting to £8,316), and our first update showed a video of two of those charities receiving their grants in the Worshipful Master’s back garden.

We can now bring the welcome news that the Shropshire Masonic Charitable Association has added further amounts of £250 each to five of the charities - those which it hadn’t previously supported this year - which brought the grand total up to £9,556.

An anonymous donation of £444 by a Brother who is a member of Sabrina 4158 as well as Shropshire Mark 444 neatly brought the overall giving to charity in celebration of Sabrina’s Centenary to £10,000.

All figures carefully checked by a distinguished former partner of Whittingham Riddell…

Floreat Sabrina!!

Sabrina is the Latin name for Hafren, the nymph of the River Severn, whose statue (below) is a focal point in the Dingle gardens in Shrewsbury’s Quarry Park. The Lodge was consecrated in November 1920.