The Lodge of Dawn 6511

16/06/2026

Four years in the making but well worth the wait.

With West Riding Masonic Charities Ltd contributing £20,000 via a Major Grant, St Chad's Broomfield Cricket Club has a new pavilion.

Four years, but it’s finally here, and a few of us went to the opening On Sunday June 14th June 2026, St Chad’s Broomfield CC cricket pavilion officially opened its doors. With one hundred and fifty guests from the local community were present to celebrate the opening of this beautiful, purpose ...

25/05/2026

On Tuesday 19th May, The Lodge of Dawn 6511 held their annual Junior Master’s Night at Castle Grove Masonic Hall. As one of the highlights in our Masonic Year, this year’s ceremony was performed superbly.

On Tuesday 19th May, The Lodge of Dawn 6511 held their annual Junior Master’s Night at Castle Grove Masonic Hall. As one of the highlights in our Masonic Year, this year’s ceremony was performed superbly. Junior Master’s Night enables our more ‘junior brethren’ to become more actively invo...

12/05/2026

The Lodge of Dawn is very sad to hear of the passing of Jean Hersh, wife of Holocaust survivor Arek Hersh MBE.
Some years ago Jean and Arek accompanied us on a Lodge visit to the National Holocaust Museum where they gave us a presentation on the horrors of antisemitism in World War 2.
May her memory be a blessing.

04/05/2026

This week we had a surprise visitor to The Lodge of Dawn 6511. Assistant Provincial Grand Master, Worshipful Brother Malcolm Whiteley, having demanded admission and accepting the gavel from Worshipful Master Dave Jackson, requested that Worshipful Brother Simon Fellerman, be brought to him.

Following a resume of Worshipful Brother Simon's Masonic career he promoted him, on behalf of the Provincial Grand Master, to Past Provincial Senior Grand Warden. A tremendous and well deserved honour.

Everybody here at the Lodge of Dawn 6511 congratulate W Bro Fellerman on his promotion.

A Third Degree, Two Certificates and One Promotion Father & Son Raising On Tuesday 28th April at The Lodge of Dawn 6511, Worshipful Master Dave Jackson conducted his first Third Degree ceremony of the Masonic year 2025/26. Bro. Nick Jackson was dutifully raised to the sublime degree of a Master Maso...

09/04/2026

'Meet a few of our Members' is a new page on our Lodge of Dawn 6511 website. We invite you to read a brief interview with individual members, why they have joined and what they are getting from their Masonic journey.

The idea is principally to encourage new candidates to apply, particularly when they see what great people we have amongst us. We also see it as a way of introducing ourselves to guests and visitors before arrival.

A big thank you to Eóin, Mark and Martin who have all taken part in this first page. The plan is for more to follow over the coming months.

We thought it would be useful to introduce you to a few of our younger members of the Lodge of Dawn. It will provide you with a little personal insight into who joins, why they join and what they get from being part of our Lodge of Dawn. We have three members for you to ... Read more

05/04/2026

On Tuesday March 24th The Lodge of Dawn's annual Ladies Night saw brethren and partners enjoy great food, wine, music and some great company. With seventy or so in attendance it was a wonderful opportunity for many to share some Masonic fun time.

Oh What a Night On Tuesday March 24th The Lodge of Dawn lead by WM Dave Jackson met for the third Second Degree ceremony of the year. Bro Chris Weightman was passed. One particular highlight of proceedings was W Bro Howard Bott’s fascinating delivery of the Second Degree Tracing Board which duly c...

01/04/2026

Opening in Headingley today; our latest membership initiative.
Pop in for a coffee if you’re passing.

17/03/2026

Our Annual 'excursion' this year was to Bristol. It took place over 2 days last week and involved a visit to The Jerusalem Lodge 686, at Freemasons’ Hall, Bristol.

The Lodge of Dawn 6511 would like to thank W Bro. Allan Badman and VW Bro. Tim Brunton PGSwdB, Deputy Provincial Grand Master, for such a warm welcome and insightful tour. All seventeen of us found it educational and enlightening. The Festive Board was great too and hope that our numbers added to the evenings celebrations.

As part of the two days we also visited Clifton Suspension Bridge and SS Great Britain - two fine examples of British engineering. Their creator, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a Freemason himself, is in many ways the epitome of Freemasonry - science, belief and purpose.

Please read the article on our website for more details of the trip.

A Perfect Combination Of World Class Engineering, Freemasonry and Fraternity

01/03/2026

The Lodge of Dawn’s Masters' Night for 2026 took place on February 26th.

The nine visiting Masters from the Leeds Masters Circle are pictured below, along with our current Worshipful Master, WBro. Dave Jackson.

A highlight of the evening saw WBro. Simon Fellerman PJGD present WBro. Jeffrey Hillman PAGDC with a certificate marking 50 unbroken years in Freemasonry. (pictured)

For the full details: https://www.thelodgeofdawn.co.uk/masters-night-plus-a-jubilee/

07/02/2026

Here at the Lodge of Dawn 6511 we love to celebrate all things Freemasonry.

We particularly pride ourselves on being a very welcoming and friendly Lodge and do have regular visitors from around our region. At our recent New & Young Masons Night we received 26 visitors from 15 Lodges. It was quite an event!

If you would like to come and visit us, feel free to contact our Lodge Secretary any time. As our little poster says we meet 4th Tuesday of the month.

Read more here...

https://www.thelodgeofdawn.co.uk/new-and-young-masons-night-2026/

Look forward to seeing you soon perhaps.