Since 1981, over £33 million has been donated to non-Masonic charities of all sizes.  This includes over £7.5 million as part of a nationwide project for hospice services, nearly £400,000 for air ambulances and over £1.8 million for emergency relief work worldwide.

During 2008, The Freemasons' Grand Charity supported national non-Masonic charities with grants totalling around £3.2 million, funding a wide range of activities including research into the treatment of male cancers, concerts for elderly people in care, and help for young people struggling with their education. Assistance was was not confined to large well-known organisations but included many smaller charities whose annual income did not exceed £1 million.

Hospices
Since 1984, The Freemasons' Grand Charity has donated over £7.5 million towards the operating costs of hospice services across England and Wales.  In 2008, grants totalled more than £0.5 million, with individual grants ranging from £500 to over £8,000, which included an allocation of £100,000 for Children's Hospices.

Air Ambulances
Air ambulances in England and Wales fly around 17,500 missions each year at a cost of about £0.5 million per week, met almost entirely by charitable donations from the public.  In a new initiative, air ambulance charities receive support in the delivery of their potentially life-saving services from the Freemasons' Grand Charity, and to date nearly £400,000 has been donated to what is considered the busiest voluntary emergency service in the country.  During 2008, Provincial Grand Lodges were invited to nominate air ambulance charities to receive a share of a grant of £180,000; as a result, the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance received £8,000.

Emergency Relief
Whenever the need arises, the Freemasons' Grand Charity will authorise an Emergency Grant to help fund disaster relief efforts, and since 1981 over £1.5 million has been given to help the victims of floods, earthquakes, famines, terrorist attacks and other terrible events worldwide.  Recent emergency grants have included £5,000 in March 2009 to help victims of severe flooding in Fiji, and in the previous month an emergency grant of £15,000 was sent to victims of the bushfires that tore through the state of Victoria, Australia.  During the autumn/winter of 2008, emergency grants were made to families who had seen their homes and belongings destroyed by flooding in Morpeth, Northumberland, to hurricane victims in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and to the Save the Children's disaster relief work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Freemasons donated nearly £1 million to assist survivors of the December 2004 tsunami that devastated twelve countries in Asia and Africa killing more than 250,000 people and leaving millions more homeless or displaced.

And more….
Many other grants, too numerous to list here, are made each year to non-masonic charities.  These include annual grants for medical research and to religious buildings of national importance.  Further information can be obtaining from the Grand Charity website.