A DONATION of more than £1,000 was presented to Prospect Hospice last week.

Prospect chief executive Angela Jordan accepted the cheque for £1,100 from members of the Royal Sussex Lodge of Emulation 355 at the Masonic Centre, in Old Town.

The cheque, raised on the recent evening of the master’s installation, was presented by Peter Winton, the deputy provincial grand master, and had been allocated to Prospect Hospice at the suggestion of Ron Fairhurst, the Lodge’s Almoner, who is also a volunteer day hospice patient driver.

He said: “All the money masons give to charities is raised among masons and, when I was asked to select a charity towards which the money that had been raised that evening – which stood at £350 – could be put towards, and my natural instinct was to support the charity I’m most involved in, Prospect Hospice.

“As the evening went on, the money rose firstly to £400, and then £550. The provincial grand master had agreed to match-fund all that we had raised, so in total we were able to make a gift to Prospect Hospice of £1,100.”