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WEST KENT NEWS | ISSUE NO.11 WINTER 2023
I want to ensure that we meet the
membership objectives laid down in
UGLE’s strategic roadmap for the future,
and in order to do so, we must focus ever
more closely on decreasing the number of
resignations we are seeing year-on-year,
which is one of my key priorities for the
rest of my term of office, and I am very
confident that we will see a return to
positive membership growth for our
Province in the immediate future.
The Executive teams have worked
tirelessly on the list of members who are
being individually reviewed for Provincial
Honours in June 2024 and who will be
receiving letters of appointment in
December. I wanted to take this
opportunity to remind you of my recent
letter
to
all
members
and
my
announcements
at
our
Investiture
ceremony that as these are Provincial
Honours, we will be taking particular
attention to those who have
supported our Provincial objectives
before they are bestowed – namely,
ensuring membership attraction and
retention, membership of the Royal
Arch and support for the 2026
Festival.
There has never been a better time
to do so and our recently announced
Royal Arch incentive scheme has
seen a marked increase in the
number of Exaltees for the rest of the
year and a healthy pipeline for 2024.
I am very much looking forward to
hosting an Award ceremony in due
course, to present the Grand
Superintendent Awards for those
who have proposed members who
will have joined or been exalted in
2023, and those of Bronze, Silver
and Gold
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Awards next year to those Chapters
who have achieved the required
number of new members.
In closing, I would like to appeal to
those members whose approach to
Freemasonry is one which is based
on memories of the past and how
things were done back then, rather
than to