Orange Order Invitation Day - Grand Lodge of Ireland chief executive Iain Carlisle explains why the organisation wants to break down misconceptions that it's a closed-door club, and emphasise the social and community aspects of joining. Filmed April 18, 2025, at the Museum of Orange Heritage, Belfast, by Iain Gray.
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00:00So this is Ian Carlisle from the Orange Order. Ian you were saying that the Orange
00:07Invitation Day is very much about reinforcing the order's place in the
00:11community? Yeah, our Invitation Day is Saturday the 19th of April and it's about
00:15reinforcing the fact that as a membership organisation we are actively
00:20seeking new members and it's a call to our members to ask people to join, it's a
00:24call to the general public to find out more about the institution and there's
00:28been a huge amount of work in recent years by trying to re-establish the
00:31institution's place as an integral part of local communities and that works on
00:35going and we want to build on the positive and good news growth stories that we have
00:39in lots of parts of the country especially within the junior movement for example
00:43and tomorrow's a real opportunity to focus people's minds on thinking about new
00:48members of the institution and to help grow our community right across the province.