Will you help us all to get lots of publicity for 105CW?...1st Fishguard CV 6th Forest of Dean CV 7th Bushby CV 10th MD105 Youth Centre, Doncaster 19th Oadby CV 22nd Leicester Host

PLEASE CIRCULATE TO ALL CLUB MEMBERS OF 105CW

Will you help us all to get lots of publicity for 105CW?

Two Simple Service Projects

Lions Message in a Bottle

Lions Spectacle Collection and Recycling

If we ALL do these simple projects and work at it (get our boxes and name into lots of outlets)

Keep up with collections and refills We will get into local newspapers Be picked up by national newspapers Have the chance to appear on TV? And finally, I ask one more thing….. Lions Clubs International Foundation It is our own charity arm. It is not just International LCIF helps Lions Clubs around the world to carry out brilliant service projects INCLUDING your own club – any club can apply for a grant. It is my charity for the year so please remember LCIF I ask every club in the district to please consider these actions.

A big warm welcome to the 16 new Lions of District 105CW who joined in July

Aldridge & District Michelle Clare

Barwell & Earl Shilton Helen Burchnall, Zena Elliot & David Elliott

Birmingham Exhibition Jacqueline Ann Treadwell

Chipping Sodbury Juliet Hills

Coventry Godiva Aman Mankoo, Nita Shah & Sarjeet Singh

Coventry Leofric Richard Yarnall

Glantawe Swansea Valley Patricia Bailey

Kenilworth Peter Martin Roddy

Kidderminster & District David Fellows

Nuneaton Sarandip Chohan

Walsall Donna Hazeldine

Worcester Alison Lane

Newsletter Editor: Lion Joy Haffner Lion Magazine Liaison: Lion Brigitte Green Email: [email protected]

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District Governor August 1st Corby & District CV 6th Sandwell CV 7th Coventry Godiva CV 8th Melton Mowbray CV 11th Bob Cooke Games (Swindon) 12th Kenilworth CV 13th Birmingham Acocks Green CV 14th Blaby & District CV TBC 15th Solihull CV 22nd Wolverhampton CV 1st VDG August 1st Fishguard CV 6th Forest of Dean CV 7th Bushby CV 10th MD105 Youth Centre, Doncaster 19th Oadby CV 22nd Leicester Host CV September 3rd Bristol Brunel CV 9th Cheltenham CV 11th Bridgend CV 12th Aberystwyth CV 17th Hereford CV 25th Marston Green CV

2nd VDG August 1st Cardiff CV 5th Tenby CV 8th Thornbury CV 13

th Cotswold Fosseway CV

15th Dursley & Dursley Lionesses CV September 3rd B’ham Handsworth CV 6th Billston & Willenhall CV TBC 9th Wellsbourne CV 10th Newport and Usk Vale Lions CV 11th Llanddridod Wells CV TBC Sunday 3rd November 2019 District Information & Forum Worcestershire Cricket Ground 14th to 16th February 2020 First 105CW convention Bank House Hotel Spa & Golf Bransford, Worcester WR6 5JD Please remember #Kindnessmatters

Ian

Ian Gott

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Membership Matters Welcome to all our new

Presidents! You are in a great

position to move your Club

forward and encourage your

Members to stay active and

involved in your Community Service Activities.

Maybe you are not a new President, perhaps you

have experience of the role and are stepping up

again to lead your Club. Well done to you too as

you take over and think about how your Club can

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Does your Club have a plan for Membership

Growth? If not, now is an ideal time to put a plan

together. A small Membership Team of 2 or 3

keen Lions can make sure that you have

someone always available to talk to interested

people during your summer activities. They can

also make sure you have information about your

Club and about Lions in general at all your events.

Now is the time to Plan and take Action to make

Membership Growth a priority in your Club.

As always, if you need any help or advice on this

or other Membership Matters, please get in touch!

Lion Sue Wilding. Membership - Recruitment and

Retention 105CW [email protected]

News from around 105CW...

Diabetes Awareness Days in Ross on Wye

Ross on Wye Lions Club held their second stall

run by Diabetes UK Hereford) promoting Diabetes

awareness in Ross Market Place. Organised by

Lion David Ravenscroft, this is a Service Project

of Ross Lions Club and part of a programme of

Diabetes

awareness

events,

the first of

which was

held in

May.

Ross on

Wye has a

Carnival

on the first

Saturday

of August.

Ross Lions always have stalls, especially free

games for children and once again a Punch and

Judy will be visiting. Alongside this fun there will

be the third Diabetes Awareness session and this

time Ross Lions will be supporting the Diabetes

volunteers to make health assessments available

free of charge.

Paediatric Cancer ABELIENE HEATHER

AQUINO from Northern Philippines. Her situation

attracted our attention and support from

Aberystwyth Lions Club, Fishguard and Goodwick

Lions Club and personal financial support from

Lion David Hurst and Lion Morena Malbog of

Gower and Llwchwr Estuary Lions Club.

Abeliene Heather Aquino is a nine years old girl

born on the 8th of May, 2010. On Valentines Day

in 2012, she was diagnosed with Lymphocytic

Leukaemia at a very tender age of One Year and

Nine months old.

When we visited her this year, she requested from

the lion members of the Laoac United Lions Club

in District 301-C, Northern Philippines, of which I

was the Charter President, a birthday cake. Due

to extreme poverty, apparently she never ever

had a birthday cake before. Lion members of the

LULC (Laoac United Lions Club) acceded to grant

her wish.

Picture shows Abeliene on her birthday with LULC President

Dra. Lina Alipio on the left. Her father on the right, other lion

members and her mother Michelle providing background.

On the 3rd of July, 2019, Abeliene while in school,

complained that everything seem dark. Her father

went to take her home, carrying her in the pro-

cess. When they informed me of her situation, I

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(Eyes, Ears, Nose & Throat) specialist. After a

thorough examination of Abeliene, the doctor

informed everyone that the nerves connected to

her right eye supplying oxygen to the retina were

severely damaged by the chemotherapy during

her treatment for cancer. The parents informed

everyone, its only on that moment that they

figured out why there’s no tears coming from her

right eye whenever she cry. The specialist doctor

also informed the group that only 20% of her left

eye is functioning.

Dr. Erwin Ulep working on Abeliene’s eyes and carrying out

needed examination.

The lions are taking Abeliene to the eye specialist

again Saturday, the 13th of July, 2019 to

ascertain whether her left eye can be saved to

provide her much needed sight. Am fully aware,

the NEED is so far away, over seven thousand

miles away. Is there any way at all by which any

lion/s or club/s provide much needed financial as-

sistance to alleviate the suffering of Abeliene and

her family despite the distance? Their ‘house’ is

just what is inside a four wall covered by a roof

which can not even protect them from the rain.

The flooring is plain dry earth. They don’t have

any furniture at all, not a single table or chair, or

bed, just nothing. Over the years, the parents

have sold whatever they have to buy Abeliene the

medicines she desperately needs. Am sorry, am

just so touched by their suffering. But should any-

one wants to contribute any amount, please let

me know. I guarantee you, every penny, if any,

will be given or used for Abeliene.

Lion Benjamin Manluctao

Donation of Reclining Chairs, Kangaroo Sling

Pouches On a recent visit to the Paediatric ward

of the Pangasinan Regional General Hospital in

the city of Dagupan, Philippines we donated

Knitted baby clothes and blankets for infant

babies. In the course of our visit, we were asked if

we could help to provide reclining chairs and

kangaroo pouches to enable parents to nurse and

feed their babies. When we went there were 138

patient children: 5 newly born, 3 in intensive care.

Lion David Hurst and Lion Morena Malbog of

Gower Llwchwr Estuary Lions Club, decided to

donate 6 reclining chairs and 4 baby kangaroo

pouches and 5 sling type baby pouches. There

are advantages of breast feeding to help the new

born babies and infant build up the immunity to

reduce the possibility in contracting measles and

dengue fever. Due to over crowding and lack of

facilities, there was no place for mothers to sit

other than the bed where the sick child was re-

ceiving the treatment. Within 15 minutes after we

donated the reclining chairs and baby carrier,

these were all being used. Lion David took the

opportunity to talk to and praise the dedicated

staff, many had done 24 hours shift in order to

care and meet the needs of the sick children.

One of the reclining chairs donated

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Balsall Common Lions welcome new President After a very successful and hectic year in office, Lion President Marie-Louise Marsden hands over to the new incoming President Lion Ross Collins. This will be Ross’s third time as Presi-dent. Ross has been in the Lions since November 1997 and many of you will know him from all our Fundraising events as he is the one who pesters you to buy tickets! You may also be aware that he a Life-long Blue Nose, a Birmingham City support-er, but we won’t go into that. We wish Lion President Ross all the best for the forthcoming year. Balsall Common Lions welcome two new members to the Club Christine Hornsby needs no introduction to everyone in the village & has been involved in Lions (through our much missed Lion Brian who passed away last year) for 43 years. She is involved with many activities locally such as St. Peter's Church Hall, Re-cycling, Marie-Curie & was very active with us at our recent successful Prostate Screening and has already attended our Business Meetings and meetings with the Service & Fellowship Committees. Just a

footnote we’ve just discovered she also makes a very good chocolate cake! In the photo with Chris-tine (L-R) is Lion Barrie Cousins (Sponsor) with President Ross.

NOTE: It was very

poignant that upon becoming a Lion, Christine used Brian's Lions pin in the Lions membership ceremony’. Nick Clarke lives in the village with his wife, and son. He also has a daughter who is a teacher. He already knows quite a few Lions and consequently knew a lot about us & what we do. He has already attended several Business Meet-ings and has been actively involved in a number

of Lions activities,

like Santa's sleigh

& Quiz Night. In

fact, Nick's family

provide the hospi-

tality stop at Dale

Meadow Close.

In the photo with Nick (L-R) is Lion Steve Meakin (Sponsor) with President Ross.

We are very pleased to welcome both to our club. Balsall Common Lions Prostate Screening event on Saturday 18th May was a great success with a record 431 men coming along for a free blood test to check their Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). The event was organised in association with Graham Fulford Charitable Trust. We must give a huge thanks to everyone who helped and supported us on the day, a fantastic response and a great effort by Balsall Common Lions Club, and the team of phlebotomists who worked tirelessly throughout the session.

The photo show Mel & Marion Davis from Prostate Cancer UK, with the Phlebotomists, & Mr David Baxter-Smith, a re-tired consultant urologist, with his wife Mrs Dorothy Baxter-Smith.

Thanks to The White Horse for free pints and to CP Barbers for their kind donation towards the event, plus everyone who helped by promoting the day. We had an early start with a radio interview with Lion Jerry @ BBC Coventry & Warwick-shire Radio and a full house - exceeding all of our expectations! A Big Thank You to Everyone who turned up on the morning & everyone who helped make it such a great success.


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A Lively night with the Brassneck Ceilidh Band Great night in St Peter's Church Hall with

the Brassneck Ceilidh Band, who are an English Country Dance band, based in the Midlands. It was certainly a

very energetic fun evening with everyone dancing. Their repertoire includes a wide range of music with many of the best known Scottish tunes, with relaxed waltzes, the OXO reel through to the livelier Strip the Willow.

Inthe picture with the band is Lion President Marie-Louise Marsden with Steve Edkins (first on the left), who as well as playing the guitar, mandola & bodhran, is their front man and fun caller with his jokes along the way. We look forward to seeing them again sometime in the future. First Aid Training @ Balsall Common Primary

School Balsall Common Lions were pleased to

help again with providing First Aid training for Bal-

sall Common Primary School. Three trainers from

Warwickshire Hearts First Aid provided the train-

ing for Year 6 pupils doing three sessions on: Inju-

ries and Bandaging, Breathing Problems

(including Allergies & Asthma Attacks) and CPR

training.

Service chairman Lion June Leitch stated we are

delighted to continue with First Aid Training to

help equip these youngsters with such important

skills. It was good to see how attentive and

enthusiastic the pupils all were & they all enoyed

the training.

The picture shows

Trainer Richard Book-

er taking the CPR ses-

sion with some of the

pupils supported by

Teacher Mrs Walk-

erdine.

Balls in the Bog Berkswell Village Fete You wouldn’t think Summer is here as Balsall Common Lions kick off the Fete/Festival season with an appearance at this years Berkswell Fete with Ball in the bog. There was a lot to see, including many stalls, a bouncy castle, dog show & competition, dance display, children’s activities, games, refreshments, an exhibition of some classic cars and a Beer & Pimm's tent. Fortunately the weather didn’t put some people off & a great many came along to join in the fun. The photo shows keen children wait-ing to get a ball in the bog! A Busy Time for Rugby Rokeby Lions Top Left – Presentation of £1000 to parents of a young lady who is suffering post-operative trauma.

Top Right – Presentation of £1250 to Macmillan nurses, the proceeds from a very successful race night.

Bottom Left – A good turnout from the club in support of the disabled games. Bottom Right – A Certificate of thanks presented to Dray-cote reservoir rangers for all their help and support for the annual Sponsored Challenge


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Lions Zone 7 in Solihull receives the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service Zone 7, comprising the 7 Lions Clubs in Solihull has been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. The 7 clubs have a total of 150 members who spend their time giving service to their local community and raising funds to support the service activities, but also to fund other projects, locally and further away. Recently the clubs donated £10, 000 to the Man shed project at the Marie Curie Hospice and only 2 weeks ago they held the Knowle and Dorridge Fun Run. During the year they organise numerous carnivals, health screenings, pensioner parties, beer festivals. Of course every child is excited to see the Lions coming around with Santa in December. Representatives from Zone 7 attended a garden party at Buckingham Palace in May, along with other recipients of this year’s Award. Zone 7 is one of 281 charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups to receive the prestigious award this year. The number of nominations and awards has increased year on year since the awards were introduced in 2002, showing that the voluntary sector is thriving and full of innovative ideas to make life better for those around them. The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service aims to recognise outstanding work by volunteer groups to benefit their local communities. It was created in 2002 to celebrate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. Winners are announced each year on 2 June – the anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation. Award winners this year are wonderfully diverse. They include volunteers helping people overcome men-tal health problems through sport, volunteers using caravans as mobile cafe/information centres in geographically remote locations and another group mentoring children who have a parent in prison. Representatives of Zone 7 will receive the award from John Crabtree, Lord Lieutenant of the West Midlands later this summer. 2nd VDG, Lion Jaap de Jonge says: “The first Lions started in Solihull 50 years ago to do their bit for the community and has grown to 7 clubs over the years, covering the whole Borough from Balsall Common to Castle Bromwich. 150

people who unselfishly spend their time and also some of their own money, in running this organi-sation for the benefit of their fellow people. They beaver away in the background, and they are now properly recognised for the hard work they do. I cannot think of a more worthy recipient of this high honour.” Notes: 1. Lord Lieutenants represent the monarch in

each of the UK’s ceremonial counties. 2. This year there were 281 winners of The

Queen’s Award Voluntary Service from across the UK. More information on the win-ners and the Award can be found at https://www.gov.uk/queens-award-for-voluntary-service

3. Any group of two or more people that has participated in voluntary work for more than three years can be nominated for the award. Full details on how to nominate are availa-ble at http://qavs.direct.gov.uk/

4. Nominations for the 2020 awards close on 13 September 2019.

For further information and glad to come to the studio for an interview. Jaap de Jonge 2nd VDG

Kingswinford & Stourbridge Lions 44th Charter

Anniversary Kingswinford & Stourbridge Lions

Club held their 44th Charter Anniversary on

Saturday 18th May at Hagley Golf and Country

Club.

Lion President Rob Owen said, “It was a fantastic

evening celebrating the service that Kingswinford

& Stourbridge Lions have provided in the local

area over many years”.

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the prevention of young suicide.

Most people do not realise that suicide is the biggest killer of young people under 35, male and female, in the UK. Every year many thousands more attempt or contemplate suicide, harm themselves or suffer alone, afraid to speak openly about how they are feeling. If our donation can help prevent one young suicide it will have been worth it. Lion President Rob Owen presents cheque on behalf of Papyrus to Kash Sherman-Kahn.

Kingswinford & Stourbridge Lions also recognised the work of three long serving Lions, Lion Mary Thompson, Lion Jane Hayward and Lion Karen Rice, with a presentation of the Melvin Jones Fellowship award. This is the highest award that can be given and recognises an individual’s con-tribution to humanity and to the legacy of our founder, Melvin Jones.

District Governor Lion Stewart Sherman-Kahn and Lion Rob Owen (President of Kingswinford & Stourbridge Lions) pre-sent Melvin Jones Fellowships to Lions Jane Hayward, Karen Rice & Mary Thompson.

Kenilworth Lions Dream Scheme Awards As part of its programme of events throughout 1969 to mark the 50year anniversary since the founding of the Club in 1969, Kenilworth Lions held a spe-cial Club meeting in June, to present Dream Scheme cash awards to twelve local groups and organisations. Guests at the meeting included Lion Fran Stary, zone105E chair 2018/19, and Lion Dave Tunney zone105E chair 2019/20. Presentation of the awards was made by Lion Gordon Henderson, president of Kenilworth Lions Club 2018/19. The Dream Scheme was launched at the begin-ning of the year. The objective of the scheme was to reach out to individuals and groups who might not have sought funding support from Lions in the past. Since the Dream Scheme was launched, twenty three awards of up to £1,000 have been made, with a total value of £18,520. The Scheme is now closed for 2019.

During the whole of 2018/19, the Club will have made total donations exceeding £50,000. The range of successful Dream Scheme bids was wide and varied, including: • Football coaching provision for girls. • Polytunnel outdoor classroom for SEND

children at local retreat. • Women's Refuge Wellbeing Fund. • Speak out workshops about child abuse at

local primary schools. • High-low soft reclining chair for local hospi-

tal ward. • Free workshops for parents to be. • Uniform for school orchestra and choir for

Austrian tour. • Road safety sessions and high viz vests for

primary school children.


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• Refurbishment of school wildlife pond and surrounds.

• New tents for Duke of Edinburgh expedi-tions.

• Trip to musical for mixed ability adults. • Trip to outdoor activity centre for local

PHAB club. Gordon Henderson said: “It was inspiring to hear about the wonderful work that all the award winners do, and to see how the money donated by Lions will be put to great use. The Club is deeply grateful to the residents of Kenilworth and beyond for their unfailing generosity in supporting our various fund-raising activities over the year, and without which none of this would be possible. Coventry Mercia Lions Annual Golf

Tournament Annually, Coventry Mercia lions club

hold golf tournament. This years tournament was

unique, youngsters took part and won trophies.

At the tournament, part of funds raised, £1001 was donated to Sikh Golf Society who are installing bore hole in a remote village in Kenya to provide fresh water to the villages nearby.

Coventry Leofric Lions Sporting Dinner

2019 After several months of planning and

organising, the 2019 Leofric Lions Sporting Dinner

was a great success with 180 guests who enjoyed

a fabulous three course meal hosted at Coventry

Rugby Football Club.

Guests took part in Heads and Tails, an extensive

raffle and an auction with some fantastic items

including a brass crafted owl.

After dinner we heard from the inspiring Gareth

Chilcott an England and British Lions Rugby Un-

ion player from the 1980's and he entertained the

audience with tales of the five nations and the

British Lions Tour of the Southern Hemisphere.

A superb evening raising funds for the MS Trust

and our own Leofric Lions Charity account - thank

you to all those who supported us and helped us

to raise over £6,000

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Members of the Club attended the annual Moto

Fest event in Coventry, over the first weekend in

June twelve members of our club spent two days

in the sunshine promoting Lionism and our club.

We used the time to promote the service activities

we carryout across the city of Coventry,

highlighted the prescription glasses collections,

message in a bottle and promoted to 2019 "Not

The Donkey Derby" and Classic Car Run that our

club in running in War Memorial Park Coventry on

the 1st of September 2019.

If Lions from across the District would like to know

more please see our club website http://

www.leofriclions.org.uk or check out our events page

on facebook.

Warwick Lions took their tombola stall and Lion mascot to the Leamington Peace Festival on 15th/16th June to help raise awareness of Lions and to publicise the work that our clubs do within our local communities. This is the second time that Warwick Lions have participated in this popular multi-cultural event is now in it’s 41st

year. Pictured are Club members and friends at the event

CARNIVAL TIME Members of the Warwick Lions Club joined in the fun at Leamington Carnival with a float in the procession and their tombola stall at the Car-nival Fair. All in all, a most successful day!

Kettering & District Lions Club have donated £375 to Highfield Barnes Youth Club to fund a recent trip to Wicksteed’s Park where the older children used the “Clip 'n Climb facility. In the Summer holidays, our donation will help pay for a visit to the Sir John Lowther County Scout Activity Centre at Glendon near Kettering. Where they can experience scouting activities such as; cooking their own food on an open fire, archery and a challenging obstacle course. Highfield Barnes Youth Club, which started 17 years ago, is run by Kelly Mercer. There are currently 28 boys and girls aged 4 to 12, who meet weekly in the community centre on the Highfields estate. The club does not receive any grants or financial help, and the modest subs they collect have to be used to pay the charge to use the centre.

Photo shows Clip N Climb facility the youth club visited

During the year, Kelly organises trips out for the children to a zoo, or the seaside, and appeals for help to pay for a coach, and the admission charges. Eggcellent amount raised from Kettering & District Lions GIANT Easter egg raffle - £3,496!! Huge thanks goes to all the 40+ venues that raffled an egg for us, and bought tickets to make it such a successful fundraiser. The money raised helps us hold our annual Com-munity Grant Scheme, where we give grants up to £500 to local charities, clubs and organisations, as well as helping other local causes.


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Kettering & District Lions enjoyed a wonderful evening at their recent changeover meal, where we welcomed our new President for the year Roy Burrows, and said our thanks to retiring President Malcolm Taylor Griffiths for his successful year.

Saturday 22nd June, at Ketter-ing FC’s foot-ball presenta-tion, Kettering & District Lions held a charity cake sale, which raised a fantastic £415!

All the money raised at the event is going towards Glideaway Guest Beds for Palliative Care at KGH. Glideaway beds are special folding guest beds that can be used on wards to allow patients’ fami-lies to stay at their side whilst they are in hospital. Kettering & District Lions hopes to purchase a number of beds for the hospital with their contin-ued fundraising efforts. Acocks Green Lions Lions supporting life skills Acocks Green lions sponsored a trip for year 7 inclusion students from Ninestiles school, to go on a

life skills trip. President Lion Sara Moseley presented a cheque to the Ninestiles school principal Alex Hughes. Lion Sara attended the trip with two other mem-bers of staff. Some of the students had never been on public transport or out for a meal before. An amazing experience for all.

Lion Sara present-ed a second cheque to Principal Alex Hughes for support of a student swimming at the Transplant games.

Another great Lions bike ride organised by Knowle and Dorridge Lions saw nearly 650 cy-clists set off from Packwood House on Sunday 14 July to wind their ways around the lanes of War-wickshire all in aid of charity. Riders had a choice of 20, 30 or 100 kms with the dry and not too hot weather encouraging many to tackle the longer routes this year.

“We were delighted to welcome so many riders again for the Heart of England Bike Ride on Sun-day 14 July”, said organiser Lion Paul Wheatley. “Many riders helped by riding in to the start at Packwood House, avoiding major parking issues. We believe we have raised close to £11,000 thanks to the generosity of cyclists and sponsors alike. As well as thanking all the riders and help-ers I now have to thank the generous sponsors who enabled the Lions to tell riders that all their entry fees will go to the charity partners – SoLO Life Opportunities, Sepsis Trust UK and locally determined causes”. If you missed out this year the Lions are already planning next July’s ride. Anyone who would like to help organise the day should contact Paul via [email protected] now Please credit Simon Bissett for the images


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News items from Glantawe Lions Glantawe

(Swansea Valley) Lions have done a number of

things in recent weeks…

We support the community garden in Clydach.

We donated £250 to enable the volunteers to

purchase equipment. We attend the garden every

Wednesday and 1st Saturday of the month. The

produce grown in the garden is given to the local

foodbanks. Our club members have found it very

rewarding to serve whilst developing friendships

within the community.

The photos show Lion Lynne weeding and Lion President

Rhian Williams digging

During our handover, we badged a new member Tricia Bailey, the attached photo shows Lion President Rhian Williams with Tricia and Membership chairperson Philip Taylor. We donated a defibrillator to Birchgrove Community Centre and held training session for the community with MyCariad. It was a well attended event and on the back of this event we have received requests to hold similar training sessions in neighbouring areas. We held a litter pick with both the Scouts and the Beavers in the Clydach area. It was a great event with both clubs thoroughly enjoying. Attached pictures are with the Beavers and Scouts.

Every 3rd Thursday of the month we hold a darts night for people with sight loss at the Travellers Well, Carmarthen Rd Swansea. It's an opportunity for people with sight loss to be included in activities. Both club members and a ttendees from RNIB really enjoy these evenings and ensure they're full of fun and laughter. We have grown a strong bond with the RNIB and the club has received vision awareness training from them. This partnership is going from strength to strength.


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Hereford’s Record Donations Hereford Lions Club completed the Lions year with a record £46,000 donated to local and international chari-ties and community projects. The city hospital – and more importantly its patients who faced long delays when old equipment kept breaking down – received £24,000: £10,000 towards a Prostate cancer sample testing machine; £9,000 to buy a new bladder scanner and £5,000 towards the cost of providing a special suite in the maternity unit for families who lose a baby at birth so they can have privacy to grieve. A new project has given grants to community groups or individuals to help tackle the growing problem of loneliness. It has been well received and several new ideas to bring the lonely into the wider community are up and running. A similar scheme to help combat Dementia is being planned. The club’s fund raising includes a weekly car boot sale and a monthly pub quiz, both well supported. Its annual charity golf competition at Hereford-shire Golf Club is on Friday August 2 and any Li-ons in our new district wanting to play can ring Lion John Oldman on 01432 760685. Lion Tony Cole, a retired accountant received both royal and international commendations marking his half century of service with the club. He received a special certificate signed by nation-al Patron, Sophie, Countess of Wessex and a per-sonal letter from international president, Gudrun Yngvadottr of Iceland.

Photo (l-r) Lions Simon Swancott, Tony Cole & Jim Hamilton

“FRIENDS” Of Black Mountains Lions Sometimes there are just not enough of our club members to help out with our activities. Some are increasingly aging, working odd hours, have problems at home etc etc. We have a core group of helpers “Friends of Black Mountains Lions”. who come along and help out when they can - These people currently have no wish to join the Lions at present for one reason or another - although we will continue to encourage them to do so – but they are invaluable at times. We not only call on them when we need help, but include them in our social activities as well. Our aim now is to enlarge the group with an aim to encourage a few to join. We will keep them up to date with club activities via a “Friends” newslet-ter, invite them to all activities – we have a cam-paign “Supporting Community Diabetes Aware-ness” running this year, which encourages various activities for different abilities. The 1st of which was a Rock and Roll evening which went really well. Some of the BML and Friends visited the Brecon Mountain Railway for a Sunday afternoon trip on the steam train (see picture), and we have a Disco and BBQ planned next. We have also contributed towards putting in spe-cial gates on a local footpath in aid of a local pro-ject “Miles without Stiles” and aim to set up a walk for all to join in: not only the public but also our Friends. Lets hope the weather holds! On Saturday 29th June 2019 we held our 51st Club Charter at The Village Hotel in Swansea. It was also one of our members, Lion David Jones, 50th year in Lions so it was a joint celebration. It was a lovely evening attended by our District Gov-ernor Lion Sally Marsh and a number of Clubs from our Zone and beyond. All who attended left in high spirits.


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District Governor Lion Sally Marsh presenting Lion David Jones with his Certificate of Appreciation for 50 years in Lions.

District Governor Lion Sally Marsh and Lion David Jones enjoying the evening.

District Governor Lion Sally Marsh, members of Swansea Lions Club and David’s wife Heulwen with their District Governor’s Certificate of Appre-ciation for the valuable service to District 105W in helping with the MD105 Convention in Swansea earlier in the year.

Oadby & Wigston Lions Club Reach, Learning Disability - supported by the Lions During the interval of our Air Ambu-lance fundraising concert. Oadby & Wigston Lions Club President Jenny fyfe pre-sented the District Governor Steve Scall with a donation to his daughters charity 'Reach Leaning Disability'.

Oadby & Wigston Lions Club Bardi/Lions Charity concert For the past 10 years Oadby & Wigston Lions club have teamed up with the Bardi Wind Orchestra to stage a charity concert at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester. This years charity

was the local Air Ambulance with more than 600 people enjoying a great afternoon of music whilst supporting a life saving service.

Picture: David Swanson from Oadby and Wigston Lions Club, Vicky Evans Fundraising Executive from the local Air Ambulance and Steve Scall the Lions District Governor shak-ing a collecting bucket.

Fellowship Award Lion John Lowe was present-ed with the 'Club Fellowship Award' by the Oadby & Wigston Lions Club President Jenny Fyfe. This was for his work supporting the Foodbank and many other club projects.


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New President for Oadby & Wigston Lions club Jenny Fyfe the retiring Club President handing over the chain of office to the in coming President Richard Darlaston.

Raising funds is great, giving it to the charities is even better At the recent 'Presentation Night' Oadby and Wigston Lions Club gave donations to local charities amounting to over £10,000.

Here are represenitives from Leicester Hospitals Kidney Care, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Gateway Club, Alzheimers Society, Vista, Rainbows, Jigsaw, Neighbourhood Hub Wigston, Leicester Hospitals Children' with the Mayor Lynda Eaton, club President Jenny Fyfe and vice President Richard Darlaston. Great work from this young lady Ruby Dixon thanking Chris Huscroft of Oadby & Wigston Lions club for their support towards her 4 week volun-teering project in Costa Rica. Ruby is a member of a small team of students from Wigston College

and has been fund raising for 2 years to pay for this trip. During the 4 weeks they will be working with a team replanting trees for the rainforest, building a community kitchen and improving sanitation for the local community.

Lions & police cadets working together to make a better community South Leicester Police Cadets came out in force to help the smooth running of 'The Big Lunch' held in Bell Street, Wigston on the 23rd. June. They came over to the Oadby & Wigston Lions Display to show off their new 'hi-vis' safety jackets supplied by the Lions Club.

The Lions look forward to the cadets helping on further projects during their training and showing how today's youth do care about their community.

Droitwich Lions were delighted to make a

contribution It was a great pleasure to visit Fort Royal School today for the official unveiling of their two new mini buses. Margaret Jones who is the fundraiser for Fort Royal has worked tirelessly to raise

the money. Fort Royal is a wonderful school as the parents of the children there will tell you. Worcester Lions and the Street Café The day had gone like clockwork. The amount of food we had bought worked out to be portion perfect, we hadn’t burnt anything and the Lion that had lent their kitchen for the day was pleased we had left it pristine. None of that had made us in the least bit nervous but the evening would be a different matter alto-gether. As we approached the city centre we saw people making their way towards where we were


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making their way towards where we were head-ing. You couldn’t mistake them as let’s be honest, who else carries their entire life belongings with them as they amble along. Some we recognised as we had seen them in shop doorways, passed them by as we had gone about our busy lives. We had offered to cook for The Worcester Street Café

and it was too late to turn back. As we pulled up we sat and waited for the Street Café van to arrive. Do we get out? There were lots of people sat in the kerb, grouped around the doorways,

milling around and some alone, quiet, keeping their heads downwards. We watched the two Lions in the car in front get out and they were instantly greeted by a group of men with smiles, handshakes and a hug. As we joined them we too were made to feel completely at ease, welcome and a realisation that we had made the right deci-sion. ‘Think of service not as a duty but as a privilege’

It was a privilege to be a tiny part of this amazing community service. 40 people fed with a hot meal and dessert, clothes and sleeping bags were dis-tributed by other volunteers, local coffee shops had sent their left overs and lunch bags for the following day were distributed. 40 people! This is just Worcester, do you have something similar near you? Don’t think it’s not for you, give it a try and make that small difference today.

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Documents

Will you help us all to get lots of publicity for 105CW?...1st Fishguard CV 6th Forest of Dean CV 7th Bushby CV 10th MD105 Youth Centre, Doncaster 19th Oadby CV 22nd Leicester Host