{"id":2509,"date":"2024-07-24T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alliedmasons.org.uk\/?page_id=2509"},"modified":"2025-01-21T08:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T08:05:02","slug":"dgps-communiques-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alliedmasons.org.uk\/?page_id=2509","title":{"rendered":"DGP’s Communique’s 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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R.W.Bro. Peter Talbot\u2019s Address at Cheshire and North Wales AGM\n\nMarch 2024<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Brethren, welcome to you all to this our Annual Meeting, held again this\nyear at Maesgwyn Hall in Wrexham. It is wonderful to see you all and to\nthank you for your support today, as previously stated we have no clash\nwith the Provincial Grand Chapter of Cheshire this year and I must thank\nthe members of the Provincial Grand Stewards Mark Lodge of North\nWales for changing the date of their meeting so that we will no longer\nclash with them, nice to work together.\n\n

I have welcomed our guests and I now thank them for the warmth of the\nwelcome that I and the Representatives of Cheshire and North Wales\nreceive when we visit their Districts. I am grateful to all of the brethren\nwho accompany me to these meetings, at the District of East Lancashire\nwe had 12 members of Cheshire and North Wales attend with me, a\nmagnificent effort.\n

We again visited Grand Council last October and four of our members\nreceived first appointments or promotions, W. Bro. John Aslatt was\npromoted to PGJD, as a first Appointment, W. Bro. Graham Kirby was\nappointed to the Active Rank of Grand Standard Bearer, a great honour\nfor him personally and for the District in general. Also given first\nappointments to the Rank of Past Grand Standard Bearer were W. Bro.\nAllan E Powell and our District Chaplain, W. Bro. Steven Tilston,\ncongratulations to you all and it is lovely to see that you have been able to\nbe with us today. \n

We had 14 members dining at the Connaght Rooms,\nthe support is increasing year on year and I thank those who attend to\nsupport the recipients.\n

Within the District our District Team made three Official visits, to Hugh\nLupus, Great Orme and Deiniol, all well supported and I am certain that\nthe Councils welcomed the extra numbers that Team visits generate. We\nhad our annual Team Dinner at Rowton Hall in Chester on 16 th February\nwith 14 members attending and this year we also had the company of 8\nwives, our own wives brethren no one else\u2019s, very enjoyable and\norganised by our Senior Warden of the year W. Bro. Peter Wilson.\n \n

Whilst mentioning District Officers I am pleased to say how delighted I\nam with the work of our new Deputy DGP and our new District Secretary\nboth of whom have settled in well to their new roles.\n

Our Finances remain in good hands, W. Bro. John Aslatt does a\ntremendous amount of work in keeping a check on our income and\nexpenditure, I am most grateful to him.\nWe have Admitted a number of new members and our member numbers\nare steady but we are suffering some significant losses, I mention in\nparticular my great friends, Thomas Gareth Williams, PGJD and Michael\nPugh, PGJD and W. Bro. Geoff Roberts, PGJD who are among seven\nmembers of this District who have passed to higher service this past\ntwelve months.\n

On the plus side we had new members at the following Councils during\nthe year, Great Orme, Deiniol, Stayley, Wirral Emeritus and Condate.\nHowever 4 of our Councils had no Candidates this year, are we really\nsaying that there are no members of the Mark and Chapter in these\nareas that would like to join us, or are we just not asking them. I was at\nan Advancement Ceremony in the Mark just a short while ago and I\nasked the Advancee why he had not joined earlier, he said he had never\nbeen asked \u2013 a killer isn\u2019t it.\n

I would like all of you, every member of the District, to go back to your\nCouncils and look critically as to where you are, especially if you are not\ngetting candidates, are you meeting in the right place and at the right\ntime of day, do you have a strong base of Mark Lodges and Chapters\nmeeting in your locality. I know that I am preaching to the converted, you\nare here today so you are giving your support to the Order but, just think\nabout your own Councils, times are changing and we need to change\nwith them.

I will continue to visit your Councils as and when I can and I\nhave agreed three Team visits this coming year, we shall visit Salem on\n11 th May, John Wellings on 13 th June and Commemoration on 16 th\nSeptember, these three meetings are Installation Meetings and therefore\nthere will be work to be done, please however note that if you do not\nhave a Ceremony at a particular meeting then look to get a Talk or\nLecture, it really is not acceptable just to open and close the Lodge. \n

I am\nalways ready to help, as is my Deputy and the District Secretary but we\nmust have input from you, let us know what you want and we will try our\nbest to come up with some help.\nLast year I asked you to seek out new members, I repeat that request\nagain this year, we have had a great year in most of our Councils but\nsome need to ask the question of prospective candidates.\n

So brethren, let\u2019s look forward to another year in this wonderful Order of\nours, keep working hard, keep the Ritual of the highest standard, plan\nahead, get your Admin right and we can all enjoy our Allied Masonry.

We\nneed brethren to want to come to our meetings and we can only do that\nby making the meetings interesting, with top class Ritual and perfect\nAdmin.

There is a new initiative to help you with respect to your\nCeremonies, we have or maybe I should say we are, preparing a\ndatabase of brethren who are able to assist at short notice if you need\nhelp with Ritual, W. Bro. Peter Steele is your contact.\n

I thank my District Secretary and my District DC and their teams for all of\ntheir hard work, not only in preparing for this meeting but also for the\nwork they do throughout the year.\nA new initiative from our Deputy DGP: he has prepared a District\nDirectory which is in booklet form, he has printed out a few hard copies\nfor the Council Secretaries, I also get one, and he is sending out a PDF\ncopy to your Council Secretaries which, they should send out to their\nmembers, lots of information in about the Councils in the District.\n

This year we have the greatest number of attenders at our District AGM,\nfantastic support, I don\u2019t know about you but I could do with a drink !!! I\nhope Colin Sansom is at the door !!!\nI look forward to your company at our Festive Board, enjoy the rest of\nthe day and may the Great Disposer of all have you in his safe keeping,\nalways.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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DGP’s Communique’s 2024 R.W.Bro. Peter Talbot\u2019s Address at Cheshire and North Wales AGM March 2024 Brethren, welcome to you all to this our Annual Meeting, held again this year at Maesgwyn Hall in Wrexham. It is wonderful to see you all and to thank you for your support today, as previously stated we have no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliedmasons.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliedmasons.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliedmasons.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliedmasons.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliedmasons.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/alliedmasons.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/alliedmasons.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2509\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliedmasons.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}