2024 is only a few weeks old but already I have some great news that will interest you. Please click on the links to see the items you wish to read.
- Chair of Trustees at Lifelites
- Follow-ups to The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Lodges
- Is yours a Highly Successful Lodge?
- More bookings for talks in 2024
As always, thank you for your support.
Chair of Trustees at Lifelites
Back in August I shared with you my appointment as the Interim Chair of Lifelites, a charity which brings joy to children and young people with life limiting conditions. I am now delighted to tell you that, after an open and thorough recruitment process and a rigorous interview, the trustees have appointed me the Chair of Trustees – no longer interim.
Lifelites has a special link with Freemasonry. It started as the millennium project of the Royal Masonic Trust for Girls & Boys (RMTGB) and later became a charity in its own right.
Lifelites enables children and young people with life-limiting conditions to communicate with their families and experience unforgettable moments of connection and joy. We do this by providing assistive technology and training to every children’s hospice in the British Isles. This technology allows around 10,000 children every year, and many more members of their families, to experience unforgettable moments of connection and joy.
During my time with the charity we have developed a new strategy, aimed at expanding our services to reach the other 90,000 or so children and young people who have the same life-limiting conditions but who are not in hospices.
No other charity does what Lifelites does, and we Freemasons should be very proud of our connection.
As Chair of Lifelites, I shall be working with the board and our staff to deliver our strategy and continue to strengthen our governance. As you might expect of me, I shall also be offering talks about Lifelites and fundraising for the charity. Indeed, Lifelites is now one of the charities I support through my books and talks.
Freemasonry is the largest single donor to Lifelites. Over the years many Lodges and Provinces have become Lifelites Partners, to support installations of new equipment in hospices local to them. Individuals too have been very generous.
In 2023 we launched a new donor recognition scheme, Lifelites Heroes. This works in a similar manner to the honorific schemes run by Masonic charities for many years. It recognises accumulated donations over a lifetime. Lifelites is contacting those who have made donations since 2014 to let them know their current Hero level and provide them with the appropriate recognition.
Please use the links above to find out more about Lifelites, or invite me along to give a talk to your Lodge.
If you wish to donate to Lifelites please use our GiveTap page for personal donations, or make a Relief Chest transfer to “Lifelites” using the MCF e-voucher service. You can also make a donation via my own charity fund.
To those who have given to Lifelites, on behalf of the trustees and staff, I thank you.
Follow-ups to The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Lodges
My book, “The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Lodges”, has proved to be very successful itself. In fact, it is Lewis Masonic’s fastest selling new release.
So successful has the book been that I have already written a follow-up book and responded to requests for an audiobook version.
The audiobook was recorded by me, with the foreword kindly recorded by the Deputy Grand Master, RW Bro. Sir David Wootton.
The follow-up book is a health check that Lodges can use to see how they measure up to the Lodge management practices advocated in Seven Habits and develop an action plan for their continued improvement.
Both will be published by Lewis Masonic.
You can buy a signed copy of “The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Lodges” direct from my website.
Is yours a Highly Successful Lodge?
My book, “The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Lodges”, has been out for over a year and I have heard from many brethren how they are using it to improve the management of their Lodge.
So, I am now seeking one or more Lodges which have implemented the Seven Habits so that I can visit them, find out about their journey and share with others their story of success.
If your Lodge would like to be involved, please email me with brief details. I will then get in touch to discuss the next steps.
More bookings for talks in 2024
It seems that almost every week I am asked if I can come to a Lodge or Chapter to deliver one of my talks. My answer is I would love to.
In fact, I welcome invitations to deliver talks, whether face-to-face or online, to Lodges, Chapters and other Masonic groups in any jurisdiction recognised by UGLE, plus the two Orders of Women Freemasonry, in any location or time zone. I do ask that my travel expenses be met and that a donation be made to my charity fund.
Sometimes I am asked to deliver a talk or visit a Lodge at very short notice. Often, I have to decline as my diary tends to be booked around six to eight weeks ahead. So, by all means invite me but if you can give me plenty of notice it increases the chance that I will be available.
My current list of talks can be found on my website and you can read what others have said about them here.
You can find my current schedule for talks I am giving on my website.
Thank you!
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