Members' Pathway Charter Lodge Scheme
Introduction
The Members’ Pathway aims to ‘help ensure our meetings are enjoyed by all, losses are stemmed, and our membership grows’. The Members’ Pathway will achieve this by encouraging and supporting Lodges to integrate four elements of activity into their practices: Plan, Attract, Engage and Retrieve.
The Members’ Pathway Charter Lodge Scheme is a process we have developed to support Lodges who want to work proactively to plan for their long-term future. The scheme invites Lodges to work through three areas 1) Identifying Examples of Good Practice; 2) Lodge Officer Succession Planning; and 3) Development of a Lodge Profile.
The scheme recognises Lodges meeting the aims of the Members’ Pathway and provides a support framework for Lodges not fully meeting the aims but working towards doing so. Lodges who successfully work through the scheme application process will be awarded a Members’ Pathway Charter Mark which can be displayed on Lodge Summons and other correspondence.
All Lodges are encouraged to work through the Members’ Pathway Charter Lodge Scheme application. Lodges who are not meeting all of the scheme requirements but work through the application process, will be supported to attain the Members’ Pathway Lodge Charter Mark and the process itself is also a useful development tool that enables Lodges to attract new members and engage existing members.
Lodges are free to choose whether they wish to pursue a Members’ Pathway Charter Mark or not. Being a Members’ Pathway Charter Lodge does not confer benefits or preferential treatment beyond assisting the Provincial Members’ Pathway Team to place unsupported candidates in Lodges best suited to their needs.
Lodges will be assisted to work through the scheme by their Lodge Mentor and Lodge Membership Officer who will be trained through the Lodge Members’ Pathway Officer Workshop to support their Lodge through the process. The Provincial Grand Membership Officer and Provincial Grand Mentor are also available to support Lodges if required and requested.
Please first read the Guidance for Lodges document, which explains the application process in detail. If you need any help with the process, please reach out to the Provincial Members’ Pathway Team by email at: pathway@pgln.org.uk
Guidance for Lodges
Before working through the Members’ Pathway Charter Lodge process, please first read the Guidance for Lodges document linked below, which explains the application process in detail.
Members' Pathway Resources
United Grand Lodge of England has produced a library of resources to support Lodges with the Members’ Pathway. Lodges are encouraged to use the resources available to them to support their own efforts to attract new members and to engage our existing members. Please click the link below to browse the bUGLE resource library.
Submit your Application
Once your Lodge has worked through each of the elements of the Members’ Pathway Charter Lodge application, please send all three completed sections by email to the Provincial Members’ Pathway Team, using the button below.