With the aim of introducing some light hearted family fun and interest, every Worcestershire Lodge will be presented with a LITTLE TED. 

It is hoped that the WM will look after him and encourage his lodge members, their friends, families, children and grandchildren to take him away with them travelling. 

Note: As a chaperone for Little Ted you do not have to raise sponsorship to take him away.

How does FESTIVAL TED MASON collect his little teddies?

By a single circumnavigation of the globe on a pre determined route to collect them wherever they may be. The 25,000 mile trip is financed by £5 sponsorship for every mile travelled. For each 185 miles of this trip one of the little teddies is recovered.

If we can raise £125,000 through sponsorship in the next 5 years all the little teddies will be with Festival Ted Mason at PGL in June 2022.  Please help him.

This is the fun bit! - LITTLE TEDDIES can be photographed wherever they go in perhaps a humorous, exotic, precarious, unusual or scary location.  Email your photo with caption if you wish (humorous or otherwise) to ted@festival2022.org.uk, or post them on Facebook or Twitter or other social media ensuring to add some info about which teddie and where you are (which you can repeat on each passport that the teddies will have with them), and don't forget to  add the hashtag #festivalted and your Lodge Number!

 TED MASON will place these sightings in an album and mark on his world map. (below)

You can view the gallery of photos and click on the map to see the pictures and who submitted them. LITTLE TEDS could be spotted on Sydney Harbour Bridge, sailing in the Caribbean, on a camel in the Sahara, in London, Butlins, Disneyland with Mickey or even a little worse for wear partying on Bondi Beach.  Best pictures will of course go in a gallery.

Note: As a chaperone for Little Ted you do not have to raise sponsorship to take him away.

don't forget to  add the hashtag #festivalted and your Lodge Number!

Some examples may help...

Example 1 – Lodge sponsored event - One Sunday morning, your Lodge has 5 freemasons who undertake a sponsored walk on the Malvern Hills ending at a pub for lunch. Some friends and family join in and this swells the numbers to 10. If each raised sponsorship of £150 then the £1,500 raised would take Ted 300 miles at £5 per mile. He would travel two thirds of the way from Bromsgrove to Paris.

Example 2 – Provincial sponsored event – 24 members of the Province join the Provincial Grand Master on a sponsored walk or cycle between Masonic Halls. If each person has an average of one other friend or family member taking part (total of 50), and each could raise £100, then the £5,000 raised will transport Big Ted a further 1,000 miles from Paris to the Romanian border.

Example 3 – Individual sponsored event – A sporty Mason decides to cycle from London to Paris and manages to raise £3,000. This will transport Ted a further 600 miles from the Romanian border to Istanbul and beyond.