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Mark Benevolent Fund Festival 2028

The

Somerset Hosts M.B.F. Festival in 2028.

Provincial Diary
2019-2020
It’s time to make our plans.
LODGE NUMBER DATE 2018 REASON
Mark Benevolent Fund Honorifics.
ROYAL ARK MARINERS ASSEMBLY Sep-07 ASSEMBLY
Every year a different Province hosts the M.B.F. Festival. A Province will organise its own
1656 Sep-12
PORTCULLIS that it sets and each year there will be a Festival dinner where the
TEAM VISIT
fundraising towards a target
QUONTOCK 749 Oct-24 TEAM VISIT
results of the fundraising are announced.
ROYAL CUMBERLAND TI Nov-13 TEAM VISIT
Festival Stewardships are obtained by a Brother paying a fee to the Steward’s Fund, which is
THACKERAY RAM 781 Dec-02 TEAM VISIT
entirely separate from the Mark Benevolent Fund.
NAILSEA RAM 1548 Jan-08 TEAM VISIT
When the proceeds of each Festival are sent to the Mark Benevolent Fund, the individual
GORGE NORMAN 967 Jan-27 TEAM VISIT
donations are set out on a list and those sums are credited towards honorifics in the fund.
SOMERSET COMMANDERS 1652 Mar-03 TEAM VISIT
Qualifications cannot be achieved or acknowledged until your funds have been transferred to
SCIENCE 128 Apr-10 TEAM VISIT
the Mark Benevolent Fund.
PROV GRAND LODGE May-04 TEAM

What honorifics can your donations achieve?

Life Governor Vice-Patron Patron
£100 £250 Award £500

Grand Patron Grand Patron Grand Patron Diamond
£1,000 Gold ££2,500 £5,000

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