Every year at Harrow Masonic Centre, Citadel Lodge, No. 1897 holds a Christmas Party for 40 elderly people who live around the Harrow area.

They are given a sherry on arrival, shown around the Centre and then have a three course lunch with wine and coffee.

Then a number of the Members of Citadel entertain their guests with singing and joke telling and afterwards they all go away with a Christmas present.

Many of them have come back every year for the 10 years it has been organised.

It is a great day which they very much appreciate because in the winter some of them will not even get out of bed due to the cold.

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