EVERY Spring and Autumn Freemasons from all parts of Devon meet to give support totalling in excess of £50,000 to local charities and organisations throughout the county who are in need of assistance.

Crediton and District Playscheme, which runs a playscheme for children with special needs, was one of the groups nominated by its local lodge, The Unity Lodge No. 1332.

The money is raised by the “WAKE Fund”, a trust conceived by the Right Worshipful Brother William Alexander Kneel, the Provincial Grand Master from 1970 to 1984, the late owner of Kneels laundry and dry cleaners (now Johnsons), of Cowley Bridge Road, Exeter.