In response to a suggestion made at the District AGM in October 2015, the Most Wise Sovereign and Officers of Mark Wilkinson Chapter at Darwen kindly volunteered to host an inaugural District Family Lunch at their meeting on Saturday 8th April 2017.

By happy coincidence, the Chapter’s business meeting is held on the Saturday before Good Friday, so is perfectly timed to celebrate the events of Easter. In recent years it has also been the practice to invite a local Minister to deliver an Easter message at the festive board following the Chapter meeting and it was felt that this format would ideally suit a social event with ladies and gentlemen visitors present.

While the Chapter members and visiting Princes carried out the Chapter business upstairs, the ladies and a couple of gentlemen guests received a tongue-in-cheek slide presentation from the Inspector General followed by a Q&A session on Freemasonry.