Charitable Work
The order has two trust funds which are registered charities. Click here to see the list of national and local charities which received donations during the year ending 30th June 2025.
Members raise large amounts of money for charity by holding social events, and these also give members the opportunity to get to know each other on an informal basis. Each Worshipful Master selects, during her year of office, a charity particularly dear to her and often local to her lodge. The money raised during her year is shared equally between the charity and the Order’s Charitable Grand Trust at Grand Lodge.
In March 2026 The Order of Women Freemasons Grand Charitable Trust donated £24,000 between the following to local charities:
Oesphageal & Gastic Cancer £5,000
Child Autism UK £5,000
Dream Holidays £5,000
Exeter Commuity Transport Association £5,000
Kids Cancer Charity £2,000
Clowns in the Sky £2,000
In March 2025 The Order of Women Freemasons Grand Charitable Trust donated £25,000 to the Royal British Legion and £25,000 to the Salvation Army Foodbanks.
In 2024 members of the Order of Women Freemasons in the Lincolnshire & South Yorkshire Area supported the ‘Love Grace Handbag Appeal’ by donating over 100 handbags filled with useful items to local women’s refuges in the South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire counties.
In February 2023 the Order of Women Freemasons Grand Charitable Trust donated £50,000 to the DEC Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal.
In 2022, during The Queen’s 75th Platinum Jubilee year, Lodges raised £25,000 for the Stroke Association, a charity of which Queen Elizabeth was Patron.
In 2021 the OWF participated in the NHS Social Care and Frontline Workers’ Day on 5th July. Lodges throughout the country held garden parties at 1pm on the day and £15,000 was raised for the NHS Charities.
During 2020 the Trustees of the Order of Women Freemasons’ Grand Charitable Trust donated £300,000 to help those in distress during these difficult times. The money was divided between the following charities:
BBC Children in Need
St John Ambulance
Salvation Army food banks
Women’s Aid to help fund the assistance given to those experiencing domestic violence.
At our Centenary celebrations in 2008, half a million pounds was presented to two cancer charities and in 2017 £100,000 was presented to Cancer Research after almost every lodge held events and took part in a local Race for Life
