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Seeking-Light wrote:The question you pose is a Biggy
A focus on Recruitment is perhaps the wrong way forward ,too many aspirants of a quality which our forebears would not have accepted is perhaps in itself a cause of the retention issue.
Do we really need a huge volume of lodges in an area .
Do we really need to work degree after degree
Are we leaving sufficient time between grades .should the two weeks be more like two months or even years
seeking light
True Brother. I agree. However I hail from a jurisdiction where we are apprehensive of being overrun by the brethren of another Grand Lodge by their sheer numbers. In such light we must recruit to build up our numbers.
Do explain further .
which Grand lodges are involved
whats the ratio of lodges /membership etc etc
Are the other orders involved ?
CoventrySquared wrote:What's everyone's thoughts on holding open nights...
Open the hall, and the various lodges all invite guests and local press. Put on a short playlet and offer some hospitality. Have different regalia on display and just have a low key social.
CoventrySquared wrote:What's everyone's thoughts on holding open nights...
Open the hall, and the various lodges all invite guests and local press. Put on a short playlet and offer some hospitality. Have different regalia on display and just have a low key social.
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Ninth Arch wrote:One big deterrent to people joining, or remaining members, is the attitude of employers, who denigrate Masonry and make it very hard for those they find out are freemasons. The Armed Services is one, the police another. I well remember the witch hunts of the eighties and early nineties when letting anybody know that you were in the Craft was a career destroyer. I remember the kangaroo court of the Home Affairs Select Committee grilling, threatening and pillaring the Grand Secretary of UGLE and making insinuations against any Freemasons that they were unworthy of Public Office. As a consequence I used to get notes from the Department of really Stupid Ideas, sorry Professional Standards, demanding to know whether I was a member of any clandestine orders which included the Masons. Fortunately I was senior enough in service and bolshy enough to ignore them and put them in the bin. I did have one spotty faced YTS ring me up one day demanding to know why I had not replied to his enquiries. I told him that I had put them in the bin along with all the other politically correct junkmail and would do the same with any more rubbish he cared to send me. I then told him very succinctly to **&"$ off and get a proper job. I never heard anything further. The European Court of Human Rights issued a decision that to discriminate against anyone because of their membership of a legal organisation was unlawful (probably the only intelligent decision they ever came to) and officially put a stop to the witch hunts. But I know that it still goes on behind the scenes and it is still career suicide to be too open about your membership. Another reason I am against 'more openness'.
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