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freemason wrote:When I joined FM I was surprised by the average age in my lodge. That's not a problem for me. I always enjoyed the company of people older than myself.
But when I took a friend to an open day in the Temple, his first comment was: people are really old in this organisation.
We need to find a way to attract younger people. Maybe by creating student lodges or some schemes to attract more people in their twenties / thirties. Would they be mature enough? Often this is the issue.
Trouillogan wrote:I keep banging on that Freemasonry is not a numbers game and never has been.
Trouillogan wrote:It is selective and rightly so. If a man is to improve himself, he needs to be among those with like aims and to mix with those whom he sees as his betters, in order to emulate their characteristics. He then stands a better chance of becoming one of those whom others may wish to emulate in turn. Others, like me, are irredeemable and consequently bury our heads in research.
Peter Taylor wrote:Trouillogan wrote:I keep banging on that Freemasonry is not a numbers game and never has been.
Agreed! If someone could tell me what the optimum number of Lodges is or the appropriate number of Brethren in a Lodge then I'd be grateful! It has never ever been about numbers, except when the intake was hugely increased after both wars, as it boosted the coffers of GLs and Lodges!
Trouillogan wrote:There seems to be a possible link, though I've not researched this aspect, between the need for higher numbers and the gradual introduction of dedicated premises and hall complexes. The need nowadays to rent out our legacy halls for other purposes could be a confirmation of this. One hall with which I am familiar and for which I have concrete figures, was purchased in 1970 for a Masonic craft 'population' of 420 (in six Lodges). The current craft 'population' is now 160 and the building is, of course, unsustainable.
David H wrote:As a retired Chartered Surveyor who specialised in commercial property management it pains me to say that I am aware of far too many instances of poor management of property resources which had they been dealt with more effectively would not be causing many of the current problems.
NewFreemason wrote:My two-pence worth. - I might be showing my naïveté here but surely age is less important than attracting the right type of people?
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