{"id":15347,"date":"2022-10-08T15:03:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/?page_id=15347"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:34:10","slug":"2027-mark-festival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/2027-mark-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Warwickshire 2027 Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Warwickshire 2027 Festival<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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W.Bro. Ian Belsham, Assistant Provincial Grand Master & Festival Director<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The honour and pleasure of hosting an MBF Festival only comes round once in a generation and our generation of Warwickshire Mark Master Masons will have that great privilege in 2027.<\/p>

The Mark Benevolent Fund was established in 1868 and not long after, in August 1869, its first festival was held at the Mitre Hotel, Hampton Court.\u00a0 It was attended by 53 members and their ladies and raised \u00a379: in today\u2019s terms something in excess of \u00a350,000.\u00a0 From 1879 festivals have been allocated to individual provinces and after several years of fundraising culminate in a weekend of celebration including a dinner at which the results of all those efforts are announced.<\/p>

Warwickshire last hosted a festival in 1982, \u00a3162,000 being raised.\u00a0 Last year the 151st<\/sup>\u00a0Festival was held in Sussex and raised \u00a31,351,349, an absolutely fantastic sum helping the Mark Benevolent Fund to continue its work in supporting others.\u00a0 You can read more on the history and work of the MBF Click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>

Our Provincial Grand Master,\u00a0W.Bro. Andrew Armbrister\u00a0is very clear that targets for fundraising at individual, Lodge or Provincial levels will\u00a0not<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0be set.\u00a0 He is conscious that we are currently in Festival within Warwickshire Craft, there are many calls on our charitable giving and that charity is an entirely private matter.\u00a0 That said it does not diminish our desire for a very successful festival, both financially and socially.\u00a0<\/p>

Though we have a strong tradition of raising money through events the income of the MBF is principally from individual and Lodge contributions.\u00a0 It is therefore hoped that Lodges and Brethren continue to give generously and where possible establish a regular donation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Here\u2019s to a wonderful 2027 MBF Festival creating lifelong memories and a sense of pride to be a Warwickshire Mark Master Mason.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Warwickshire 2027 Festival W.Bro. Ian Belsham, Assistant Provincial Grand Master & Festival Director The honour and pleasure of hosting an MBF Festival only comes round once in a generation and our generation of Warwickshire Mark Master Masons will have that great privilege in 2027. The Mark Benevolent Fund was established in 1868 and not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry","owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","owp-btn-normal","owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","has-no-thumbnails","has-product-nav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15347"}],"version-history":[{"count":139,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37795,"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15347\/revisions\/37795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warksmarkpgl.co.uk\/mark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}