Male undergraduates who may have had an adequate amount of the "lager attitude" of college existence are now being urged to participate the Freemasons.
The British masonic lodge is searching to improve its amounts by positively prospecting students and staff from the 3 United kingdom colleges.
The organisation's second-in-command, assistant grand master David Williamson, began the recruitment plan to produce wider possibilities for undergraduates along with other college people to savor freemasonry.
He wishes to replicate the prosperity of the established Oxford and Cambridge college lodges across the nation.
At the moment you will find nine lodges in college metropolitan areas taking part within the plan: Bath, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Exeter, Manchester, Oxford and Sheffield, however the goal would be to progressively expand it beyond these colleges.
Mr Williamson stated: "This can be a challenge for that lodges which have selected to sign up. Youthful masons under 25 constitute no more than one fourth of just onePercent from the membership from the craft within this country, so you want to result in the craft readily available to teenagers."
The masons aspire to encourage new people by shedding the joining age from 21 to 18 and halving the costs for less than 25s. Lodges at Oxford and Cambridge can already admit people at 18 in their discretion.
The group's chairman, Oliver Lodge, stated: "Oxford and Cambridge have demonstrated precisely how popular freemasonry could be at colleges. I really hope we will help make individuals same wonderful encounters open to more prospective masons."
The group's media manager, Chris Connop, stated: "We have essentially never been a prospecting organisation. But we should be attempting to attract youthful people in addition to old. It had been always easy to join at 18 at Oxford and Cambridge, however in this era that's a little of the nonsense."
Mr Connop, who had been headteacher of the comprehensive school for nine years, interviews potential people and attempts to gauge whether or not they are appropriate or otherwise before presenting these to lodgers.
"I am the very first obstacle. They need to write instructions of introduction first, saying the way the masons found their attention and why they would like to join. I mind off individuals who think they'll have an advantage from this because that's area of the mythology concerning the Freemasons. It's from the rules. You do not just enter the Freemasons, we would like people from the right calibre with the proper values from whatever degree of society."
The organisation does lots of charitable work and Mr Connop states this describes many of the interest. "We all do a massive amount for charitable organisation which really attracts students."
What also attracts new people, nearly all whom are aged between 18 and 35, is connection with older decades.
"After I speak with these youngsters they appreciate ending up in grown ups with increased experience. Most have finished visiting the pub as well as the lager consuming attitude. They're traditionalists too. We uphold traditions plus they like this aspect, " Mr Connop added.