Members of the Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge (Freemasons Victoria) are expanding their charity work and community service.

Traditionally based at Ivanhoe since 1946, the 73-year-old group is looking to expand its work throughout the Banyule, Nillumbik and Whittlesea municipalities.

Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge held its monthly meeting last Thursday (Nov. 7) at the IVALDA Masonic Centre at Darebin.

The Lodge is an off-shoot of Ivanhoe Grammar School, which has a campus at Ivanhoe, and another campus at Mernda.

The Lodge is part of Freemasons Victoria, a 300-year-old fraternity of men which has a focus on charity and community service. Freemasons are taught to practise charity, and to care, not only for their members, but for the community as a whole, through charitable giving and voluntary effort.

Freemasons show tolerance and respect for the opinions of others and behave with kindness and understanding all people.

Freemasonry strives for truth and requires high moral standards of its members.

The membership of Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge includes members from a range of career backgrounds including a motor mechanic, a railway station master, a baker, a policeman, a bricklayer, a real estate agent, a plumber, an accountant, and an engineer.

More than half of the Lodge’s members have no previous connection with the School.

Membership enquiries can be made with Ash Long, phone 0459 399 932.