Society

An Oddfellows Educational Award has helped fund an invaluable trip to South America for a final year student doctor from Burton upon Trent. She got in touch to share her incredible experience and give thanks to the Oddfellows for their financial support.

Erewash Valley Oddfellows have set a shining example of how we are ‘making friends and helping people’ by working together to raise £2,585 for a charity supporting individuals and families living with spinal and cognitive conditions.

The Oddfellows’ Educational Award has provided invaluable support for two high-flying graduates and siblings from Deeside. They got in touch to say thank you for the difference it has made.

A charity brass band concert is being held at the Parish Church of St. Hilda, Abbess of Hartlepool on Saturday 13 October to raise money for an initiative that helps people who are struggling to make ends meet in East Durham.

Representatives from national friendly society, the Oddfellows, visited Bradford’s Plastic Surgery and Burns Research Unit (PSBRU) at the University of Bradford on Monday 17 Sept for a lab tour and to present a cheque for £29,000.

Last year’s £2,000 donation was the figure to beat. And we did just that, thanks to the 34 Oddfellows Branches who stepped up to host no less than 50 pulse-raising awareness and fundraising events in aid of the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

When Warrington and Halton Hospitals Charity (WHH) sent out a plea to knitters, eager ‘Crafternooners’ from local friendship group the Oddfellows swung into action and casted on to create 80 glove puppets, known as ‘Hals’, for poorly children.

If you’re on the lookout for a new social group, then the Oddfellows is the Society to be with this September, as it invites the nation to join with its members and celebrate the Great Big Friendship Month.