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Mark Benevolent Fund<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Fund has disbursed many millions to individual petitioners and an even greater sum in grants to charities within the wider community. A major grant of \u00a31.6m has been made to the RNLI help fund a new lifeboat, Addenbrooke\u2019s Hospital Trust received over \u00a32m for machines to help in the diagnosis of prostate cancer and a pledge of \u00a32.6 million has been made to Hope for Tomorrow Cancer Charity for the purchase of mobile chemotherapy units throughout the UK. These projects can only be funded with your help and dedication to the fund.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Mark Benevolent Fund<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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The Mark Benevolent Fund is a registered charity (no. 207610) came into existence in 1868 on the suggestion of the Reverend George Raymond Portal, Grand Master of the Mark. His views on charity were far more radical and progressive than the general thinking of the time. He felt that for charity to be effective it had to be disbursed swiftly and without the bureaucratic formalities of other Masonic charities. To him it was wrong for there to be any delay in providing assistance to those in need and his own Latin tag \u201cBis dat qui cito dat\u201d \u2013 he gives twice who gives promptly \u2013 became, and still is, the principal guideline of the M.B.F.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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