Society

We visited the Lupus Trust research team, based at London’s Guy’s Hospital on Monday 28 Oct to present our first donation of £28,000.

This September, our UK Branches hosted over 150 special events, sharing our own special brand of friendship.

Our Branches across the UK are hosting a series of special get-togethers throughout September to encourage people to make new friends, after our research revealed that almost half of adults with significant friends (48%) only get together with them less than once a month.

The Oddfellows’ Trafalgar Branch made a special visit to RNLI Happisburgh’s Lifeboat Day event on 4 August to present the life-saving coastal charity with a £500 fundraising boost.

On Thursday 1 August 2019, we unveiled a new memorial at the National Arboretum, Staffordshire, to honour the tens of thousands of Society members who have fought and lost their lives in combat.

A group of Oddfellows members from Norfolk have found friendship and support in a sisterhood after losing their husbands.

To celebrate our wonderful members and their contributions to the Society as a whole, we launched the first official Making a Difference Awards late last year, and after careful consideration from the judges, we’re ready to reveal the winners!

After representing Team GB at the 1960s Rome Olympics, Dorothy Shirley-Emerson travelled the world and enjoyed a long and happy marriage with her soulmate. But for stoic Dorothy – who dedicated much of her life to athletics after winning silver for the high jump – nothing could prepare her for the loneliness that came with going home to an empty house after her husband Jack died.