Picture shows the Lodge’s Charity Steward, WBro Tony Lewis PGStdB, PPrGSwdB, flanked by Pauline and Tricia of the hospice’s fund raising team.

During 1992, WBro Ian Maxwell PPrSGD, the then Master of the Macartney Lodge No. 3283, was the driving force behind the Lodge’s sponsorship of a room at the Lions Hospice in Gravesend. The Macartney Room (also known as the Relative’s Suite) is used to accommodate family members visiting terminally ill relatives who are expected very shortly to be at rest.

An ever increasing demand for the services of the hospice, meant that the nurses administration area was in urgent need of expansion, which required some modification to the Macartney Room.When this new requirement came to the attention of the Lodge members, they donated £1,000 towards the cost of the work, and handed over the money to the hospice in January.

WBro A Axford Almoner,
Macartney Lodge No. 3283

From Ed46, P16