The 2025 Mark Annual Provincial Meeting will be held on Saturday 27th September 2025 at Tynedale Farmer Function Suite, Hexham Mart, Tyne Green, Hexham NE46 3SG. Meeting details and dining application forms have been circulated. Please submit dining applications to the Deputy Provincial Grand Secretary by 29th August 2025.
Provincial Visit to Newgate Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 1141 on Monday 6th October 2025 led by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master to celebrate the Lodge’s 75th Anniversary
2031 Festival 50/50 Dinner Dance on Saturday 8th November 2025 at the Holiday Inn, Seaton Burn. Further details and application forms will be circulated. to all members.
Provincial Visit to Northumberland and Berwick upon Tweed Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners Time Immemorial on Wednesday 19th November 2025 led by the Assistant Provincial Grand Master.
Provincial Visit to Backworth Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners No 1189 on Tuesday 9th December 2025 led by the Provincial Grand Master to celebrate the Lodge’s 50th Anniversary.
Provincial Visit to Hartford Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 546 on Tuesday 13th January 2026 led by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master to celebrate the Lodge’s 125th Anniversary.
Provincial Visit to Blagdon Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 547 on Wednesday 4th February 2026 led by the Assistant Provincial Grand Master to celebrate the Lodge’s 125th Anniversary.
Provincial Visit to Grainger Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 1147 on Friday 27th February 2026 led by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master to celebrate the Lodge’s 75th Anniversary.
Provincial Visit to The George Stephenson Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 1527 on Thursday 5th March 2026 led by the Provincial Grand Master.
Provincial Full Team Visit to St Cuthbert’s Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 192 on Wednesday 18th March 2026 led by the Provincial Grand Master to celebrate the Lodge’s 150th Anniversary.
Provincial Visit to Tristram Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners No 346 on Tuesday 14th April 2026 led by the Assistant
Provincial Grand Master.
Provincial Visit to Nepos Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 1155 on Tuesday 19th May 2026 led by the Assistant Provincial Grand Master to celebrate the Lodge’s 75th Anniversary.
Provincial Visit to Ashington Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 890 on Tuesday 4th June 2026 led by the Provincial Grand Master.
Provincial Visit to Northumberland and Berwick upon Tweed Lodge of Mark Masters Time Immemorial – date in June to be advised – led by the Provincial Grand Master.
Note that letters of welcome and lodge summons for Provincial Visits will be circulated by email 14 days before the meetings.
BREAKING NEWS
NMBF Summer BBQ 2025
Saturday 26th July at Shiremoor Masonic Hall
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The Great North Air Ambulance receives Grant from MBF
The Travelling Sceptre has found its way to the very far north of the Province to Berwick-upon-Tweed and now resides in the care of St Cuthbert’s Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners No 192. It’s there to be won, but the Lodge only meets twice a year on the 1st Wednesday in May and October, and that’s the challenge.
The Travelling Gavel has left Whitley Bay and moved from the furthest east of the Province to the furthest west and is now in the possession of Hexham Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 1141. Perhaps it can now make its way to the far north to compete the Northumberland triangle.
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