INDEX
Who Are We?
What do we do?
How do we raise money?
Village Fetes
Car Boot Markets
Christmas Float
Easter Egg Raffle
Social Events
Where does it go?
New Year Party
Knockout
ParaTed
MIAB
Donations to
other Charities
Who can you contact?
Let Penelope Keith tell
you who we are:
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Club members gathered at The Grange
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Who are we?
We are one of the 42,000 clubs that make up Lions Clubs International,
the largest Service Club organisation in the world, with over 1.4
million members in over 180 countries.
We are dedicated to improving the quality of life of less fortunate
people in the community by supporting local and other charities and
providing service, assistance and funds for those in need.
Our Lions Club was founded in 1973 and has been serving the local community ever since.
What do we do?
To fund our charities we raise over £10,000 annually from various
local events. For details of, and reports on, these activities and the
charities we mainly support, click the index on the left.
We give our time and assistance freely, and in return we enjoy great
friendship and social activities among ourselves and with the people we help.
What happens to the money you donate?
Some money is used to run our activities - the New Year Party, It's a Knockout,
ParaTed and Message in a Bottle. The rest is given to our selected charities and local residents in need.
EVERY SINGLE PENNY we collect from donations, or profit from our
fund-raising events goes to help others. Unlike many other charities we
use absolutely none of the money for salaries or administration.
Do we ever relax?
Of course we do! We enjoy all our activities, but sometimes we organise a social activity
just for us, with no fundraising!
| An amazing total of over £9000 was raised from our tour of the area with Santa Claus in December. Most of this has been donated to our major charity for 2011/12, Combat Stress. Our grateful thanks to all the generous people in the Leatherhead area. |
A successful big band concert by the Squadronaires organised by Ralph Ibbotson at the Dorking Halls in September made a large contribution to this donation by the local Lions Clubs:  |
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and it made the Leatherhead Advertiser. |
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| From now until Easter we shall be selling tickets to our Easter Egg Raffle mainly in aid of Surrey Air Ambulance. | ||
One of our less publicised activities, spectacle-sorting, has been published in the Leatherhead Advertiser | ||