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General Interest

Woodham Walter Community
Defibrillator

The Brethren of Beeleigh Abbey Lodge 7017
take the values of Freemasonry very seriously.
Integrity, kindness, honesty, fairness and charity
are an integral part of Masonic life but charity
extends beyond being inward looking and moves
into the community as a whole.
The residents of the village of Woodham Walter have
every reason to be thankful for this ethos. Set the
task to raise funds for a Parish Council but Church led
community defibrillator, the Churchwarden, W.Bro. Paul
Clark PPGSwdB, himself a member of Beeleigh Abbey
Lodge, raised the matter at a Lodge meeting and the
Brethren rallied by making a significant contribution (L-R) W.Bro. John Tompkins PAGSuptWks, (Chairman of the Parish Council),
towards the acquisition, not just by making a financial W.Bro. Barrie Harding PPGSwdB (Treasurer of the Parochial Church Council), and
grant but also by voluntarily giving up their time and from Beeleigh Abbey Lodge W.Bro. Martin Harvey PPAGReg (Charity Steward),
expertise to ensure the project was a enabled and based W.Bro. Paul Clark PPGSwdB (Churchwarden), Bro. Peter Stilts and Bro. Peter
Richardson PPGPurs (Lodge Secretary). Bro. Stephen Nunn was on holiday at the
in the redundant village telephone kiosk purchased by time of the photo shoot.
the Parish Council.
Bro. Stephen Nunn, a local Maldon historian of repute, launched the project with a fund raising talk on St Roger of Beeleigh, which
raised a significant sum; W.Bro. Martin Cook PPJGW helped raise money by playing the organ at fund raising events; Charity Steward
W.Bro. Martin Harvey PPAGReg obtained approval for a charitable grant that, when added to other funds raised by Bro. Nunn and the
Village, allowed the defibrillator to be purchased. A defibrillator is best used, but not exclusively, by trained operators and Bro. Peter
Stilts, a specialist trainer in such first aid matters, voluntarily assisted by training some twenty-three operators so there is a spread of
personnel across the Village.
The Parish Council Chairman John Tompkins, together with a number of village volunteers refurbished the iconic K6 telephone box
that is now fully commissioned as a community defibrillator access point and managed by a community group.

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