WHITE ROSE 43 - Masonic Province of Yorkshire, West Riding

NEWS OF THE 2017RMBI FESTIVAL . . .THE R W Provincial Grand Master, John KClayton, has announced that Province willhost a Festival for the Royal MasonicBenevolent Institution and this will belaunched at the annual meeting ofProvincial Grand Lodge in May 2012.The Festival will culminate in 2017 andR W Bro Clayton says that a FestivalAppeal Committee will be formed whichwill take responsibility for all aspects of therunning of the Festival, from start to finish.This will be under the chairmanship ofW Bro John Boyington CBE, PPSGD, aPast Master of St Philip’s Lodge No 7116and the Lodge of South Yorkshire No9633.“I will not be setting targets, but I dohope that Brethren and Companions willcontinue giving at present levels, inaddition to specific fund raising activitieswithin each Area. I will be appointingFestival Managers for each Area of theProvince and they will be responsible totheir APGM and manage all aspects of the2017 Festival Appeal in that Area. Theywill also be members of the FestivalAppeal Committee,” said the PGM.“Festivals are an important part ofMasonic life and I hope and trust thateveryone will give their full support.”W Bro Boyington said:“It is a great honour to be asked to takethis role forward for the next six years andI am grateful for the confidence placed inme. The RMBI needs our support,especially during the challenging timesahead and I am sure the Masons ofYorkshire, West Riding will rise to thechallenge in their usual way.”He explains that work has alreadybegun to set up the structures and meansof supporting our fund raising over the fiveyears of the Festival.“ I know Brethren across the Provincewill be keen to get involved but I wouldask them to be patient whilst we sortthrough all the details. We will be usingevery means available to let membersknow how they can help once the detailsare worked through.”• W Bro Boyington is in his 40th year inhealth services. Working for many yearsin his hometown of Sheffield, he foundhimself first in Leicester, then London andnow Manchester.Having reached the position of DeputyChief Executive of Sheffield HealthAuthority, John moved to Leicester in1997 to be Chief Executive of what wasW Bro John Boyingtonthen the UK’s largest Community andMental Health services NHS Trust.After three years in this role he wasrecruited to design and deliver a nationalprogramme of reforms to England’sprisoner health service working jointly tothe Department of Health and the HomeOffice and latterly Ministry of Justice.These reforms culminated in the transferof responsibility for these services to theNHS.During his time in London John wasalso Director of the World HealthOrganisation’s European collaboratingcentre for the Health in Prisons workingacross 36 countries visiting, lecturing andconsulting widely across Europe and theUSA.John was presented with an award forOutstanding Achievement by the WHO in2005 and in 2007 was made a CBE forservices to health. He now works as ChiefExecutive of the NHS in Bury, GreaterManchester but continues his involvementin the prisoner health area as a consultantto the International Committee of the RedCross in Geneva and also to theGovernment of Georgia.W Bro Boyington’s Masonic careerstarted in 1994 when he was introducedto the Craft by a work colleague andInitiated at Tapton Hall into St Philip’sLodge No 7116.A BRIEF LOOK AT WHAT’S INSIDE . . .Britannia’s 250-year Rule Pages 6 & 7APGM’s Food for Thought Page 9Talented young musician Page 10Royal Arch celebrations Pages 12-14PGM’s plea to Lodges Centre pagesSupport for local groups Pages 26-34Communications chief speaks Page 38Yorkshire, W R Masonic Activities LtdThe White Rose teamPresidentJohn K ClaytonProvincial Grand MasterVice presidentsStewart G CarleyBrian HolmesChairmanColin DentAssistant PGMEditorJohn B Gledhill2 Sandmoor DriveLindleyHuddersfieldHD3 3WFTel: 01484 644408Email: jb.gledhill@btinternet.com(for all editorial correspondence)Editorial AssistantT Malcolm CruiseMarketing and Advertising chairmanStuart CadmanTel: 01274 873426Email: stuart@jsc-consultants.co.ukProduced, printed and distributed byStuart Cummins, Ernest Cummins Ltd385 Canal Road, Bradford BD2 1AWTel: 01274 582555www.wrprovince.co.ukReg No 4634747He was the first joining member of theLodge of South Yorkshire No 9633 in 1997and went through the Chair of bothLodges in 2002 and 2004 respectively.He was Acting Grand Standard Bearerwithin Provincial Grand Lodge in 2009 andhas been through the Chairs of his RoyalArch Chapter and two Rose CroixChapters. John is a keen member ofRoyal and Select Masters and for the pastfive years has been a director of SheffieldMasonic Hall Co Ltd.For the past four years he has sharedmentor co-ordinator duties for the 26Lodges at Tapton Hall with W Bro RoyYates.In whatever spare time John can carveout he has a season ticket at SheffieldUnited, Chairs the Board of a Croft HouseCommunity Centre in Sheffield and anational youth music charity. He ismarried to Jill, a keen lady Freemasonand has a step-daughter, daughter andgrandson• W Bro James H Newman, SGD, ofHadassah Lodge No 4871 is chairman oftrustees of RMBI and a Grand Patron.AMPHIBIOUS CHAPTER No. 258 Meeting on the 4th Tuesday in Oct, Nov, Jan, Feb (Installation) and March.Market Street, Heckmondwike WF16 0JU PROUD SUPPORTERS OF THIS PAGE OF THE WHITE ROSE MASONIC NEWS.3