Queen’s Rising Sons of William LOL 1845 is a limited purpose associate Lodge, with membership restricted to current and past (alumni) students of Queen’s University Belfast.

One of the Lodge’s main aims is to help fellow Brethren form friendships while at university to assist them in their time spent studying there. The Lodge also acts to help keep alive the interest of those young Brethren who may not be able to travel back home to their own private lodge meetings each month. As well as this, Queen’s Lodge also engages in a lot of fundraising work with recent projects including selling orange lily bulbs and the production of limited edition Somme 90th anniversary ties – with all the proceeds being donated to worthy causes within the Orange family e.g. Grand Lodge Archive Fund.

As the Lodge consists of members from every County in Northern Ireland, it tries to rotate its annual Ulster Day Church Service around the Counties, this year seeing the parade take place in County Fermanagh in Maguiresbridge on Sunday 27th September – with it previously being held in Counties Belfast, Down, Antrim and Armagh.

The Lodge would encourage all member who are current students to join and support the newly-formed Orange Society in all it's activities. We recognise that this is an important tool in educating the students of the University about the Orange Order and may even lead to some students joining the Institution. From a Lodge point of you it may also act as a catalyst for those members of the Institution attending the University who are not members of Queens Lodge.

It’s Our University too – WE WILL NOT BE BRUSHED ASIDE & FORGOTTEN!