This year's Annual Meeting of our Province will take place at the Chippenham Masonic Hall, unfortunately with reduced capacity, because we are unable to use Melksham Assembly Rooms due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

At our Annual Meetings it is our usual practice to appeal to the charity of every Brother present and ask them to donate through Gift Aid Envelopes, which have become such a recognisable aspect of so many of our masonic meetings, so that we may reclaim tax from HMRC.

As not everyone can be invited to attend this year, I am encouraging everyone unable to be at our Provincial Meeting in Chippenham to go online and use this Just Giving page to make their donation. Please add Gift Aid if you can.

The Wiltshire Provincial Grand Mark Lodge Charity Trust exists to help Wiltshire Mark brethren in distress and to support Wiltshire Charities. In the current Covid-19 situation that assistance has never been more important. I therefore make this most earnest appeal to you all. Please be as generous as possible, always remembering that for those who are tax payers, your donation will be augmented by a further contribution made by the Government.