It was very nice to read the congratulations of Simon Green (Letters, May 1) for supporting Shopmobility.

The £2,500 Sussex Freemasons were pleased to donate to Shopmobility was one of a number of donations made in the past 18 months to Sussex charities and which will exceed £500,000 by the middle of June.

However, Mr Green still shares with a lot of people the mistaken perception that we are a secret society. We are not. The Argus even sent a photographer to our annual meeting last year, when I made a presentation to the Brighton Eye Hospital.

If Mr Green would like to see inside our centre he should get in touch. Our telephone number is in the book and names and meeting places are available on our website.

-Ian H Lay, provincial grand master Sussex Masonic Centre, Brighton