Our Club Fundraising and Donations 2022 - 2023
One thing that is so unique, to Lions clubs, is that 100% of all monies raised goes to charitable causes; membership fees cover the day to day running of the club and global associates.
We run stalls at fetes, fairs and fun days with a teddy and game tombola, as well as selling 2nd hand books, gift baskets and knitted/crocheted items.
We also support other Lions clubs at their events, marshalling etc, as well as Witham & Maldon SWANS and Saffron Waldon Crocus Sapphires at their fundraising events.
6th June 2023 Toy Sale
Sandie, Tony and Louisa held a Toy Sale outside their house in Maldon and reaised £20 - Well done all!
Big Breakfast held on 28th May 2023 at Sandie & Tonys house, Maldon
Today Sandie, Tony and Louisa opened up their home for a big breakfast.
The morning started with cereal, fruit and cold meats.
This was followed by a lovely cooked breakfast, beautifully cooked by Sandie and her team.
Next, if you had any space left, American pancakes!
As it was such a beautiful day many retired to enjoy the beautiful weather in the garden.
After a short wile cake appeared.....not 1 flavour.....but 5!
The club would like to thank everyone for their support in raising £360 for Lions Brain Tumoir Research
It was well supported by Lions from the District and we also held a raffle
12th May 2023 Community Day
Mark and Moira held a Community Day doing knitting at their church and raised £64 - Well done Mark and Moira!
Lions MD105 Virtual Coronation Balloon Race May 2023
The club sponsored a virtual balloon for each member in the Coronation virtual balloon in the race, donating £50 to Lions Brain Tumour Research
The virtual balloons were launched at the end of MD Convention, and they raced for a week from Lands End to John o' Groats.
10h May 2023 Donated £200 to Sebastian for World Scout Jamboree in South Korea
In May 2023 we donated £200 to go towards funding Sebastian, a Scout from Southend, to attend the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea during August 2023.
We held a big breakfast at Sandie and Tony's to raise the money.
Afterwards, Sebastian will be attending one of our meetings on Zoom, to tell us all about it.
30th April 2023 Chelmsford Park & Ride Boot Fair
Sandie, Moira and Tony have been out doing the first boot sale of the season.
This is a new venue for us, as sadly the lazy bones bootale is no longer running. It was a successful day so we will certainly be returning!
We were selling jigsaws, toys, baby items, household items and clothes.
We raised £140 - Well done all
20th April 2023 Trugs Pesented to Chattern Free School
Two Trugs were Pesented to Chattern Free School by Sandie and Tony.
Tony has made these himself - Good Job Tony, well done!
7th February 2023 A Ball for all
Phil Nathan Spoke about A Ball for all and gave a donation of over Orbit readers, white canes, Braille paper and balls to Thika School for the visually impaired.
Thika Joytown School for the Physically Challenged: vision screening, diabetes information and donation of wheelchairs.
A project that we have donated to recently
December 2022 sale of Christmas wrapping paper
Tesco Southend had donated their unsold Christmas wrapping paper to us from last year, and Louisa sold it from the stables where she works and reaised £20 - Well done Louisa
19th December 2022 President Robyn presenting a cheque to Mark from the Parsons Barn
Here is our President Robyn, presenting a cheque for £75 to Mark from the Parsons Barn pub in Shoeburyness, towards their Young Lives Vs Cancer charity on 19th December 2022.
We raised the money at a stall we held at their Christmas Fair on 7th & 9th December 2022.
7th & 9th December 2022 Parsons Barn pub Christmas Fair in Shoeburyness
Wednesday 7th and Friday9th December, Sandie, Tony, Mark and Moira went to the Parsons Barn Pub in Shoeburyness and had a stall consisting of a tombola, baskets and craft items for sale. The event is run to raise money for Young Lives Vs Cancer. It's an event we enjoyed doing last year so we were pleased to be invited back again!
We raised £160 and we donated £75 to the Parsons Barn charity Young Lives vs Cancer.
Robyn and Rick decorated their house for Christmas
December 2022 to January 2023
We had a donations box outside, and raised £20
28th November 2022 St Peter's Hospital Reindeer Drive
Ran by Mark and Moira, attended by Sandie, Tony, Louisa, Angela and Robyn.
28 people attended, and lots of fun, laughter and singing went on!
We also held a raffle, with prizes donated by shops in the town, and auctioned a signed copy of Jacqueline Wilson book.
We raised £500 wjich we donated to Julie Taylor at St Peter's Hospital to buy Christmas gifts for 50 local children.
Robyn won the Reindeer Drive, her prize was a cuddly Reindeer and chocolate.
We also handed over 10 knitted hats, 3 pairs of mittens, 1 snood and 1 hat/fingerless glove set.
19th November 2022 Parent Teachers Association Christmas Fair at Heybridge Primary School
Our president Robyn, Sandie, Tony and our newest member Richard (1st Lions event) attended a PTA event at the Plantation Hall in Heybridge (near Maldon). It was a new event for us to attended but turned out to be a real success and we plan to attend more events here in the future!
We ran a soft toy tombola, as well as selling second hand books and gift baskets.
We raised £116 - Well done all!
10th November 2022 Basket making for sale at the stalls
A busy day of basket making for Moira, Sandie and Louisa, ready for upcoming events in the next few weeks!
A Ball For All 2nd November 2022
PID Phil Nathan at Thika School for the visually impaired in Kenya A Ball For All
Blind children can’t see a ball, but they can hear it! We designed a special ball that jingles so that all children can play with it.
A project that we have donated £110 towards
Parsons Barn Bleed Control Kit Presentation 31st October 2022
Sandie, Mark, Moria, Robyn and Rick, accompanied by Julie Taylor from The Liam Taylor Legacy - RIP Fish
We handed over our 1st Bleed Control Kit to Mark, Shift Manager at The Parsons Barn pub, Shoeburyness.
Donation to DG Wife Appeal October 2022
President Robyn, Secretary Angela and Club Director Sandie presented DG Wife Sue a cheque towards her 'Magic Breakfast' appeal at District CE Lion share at Peterborough.
Magic Breakfast provide breakfasts for children at school who otherwise may not have breakfast before school.
20th August 2022 Mersea Family Festival
We had a stall with Soft Toy Tombola, Second Hand Books and Gift Baskets.
Helping were Sandie, Tony, Mark, Moria, Angela, Robyn.
We raised £152 - Well done all!
15th August 2022 Sale of Clothes to neighbours
Robyn sold some childrens clothes that had been donated to us and raised £25
15th August 2022 Preparation for Fundraising
Angela, Robyn, Moira, Louisa, Sandie and Tony preparing for a soft toy tombola the following week at Mersea Family Festival.
3rd July 2022 Big Breakfast at Sandie and Tony's
Today we held our big breakfast to raise money for a local Scout to attend the World Scout Jamboree that he had been nominated to attend.
It's been a long 3 year wait but 'Sandies kitchen' was finally reopened! There were sausages, bacon, eggs, beans, tomatoes and pancakes and copias amounts of tea of course!
We had several local clubs attend as well as the Witham Town Mayor Councillor Jack Bayford.
We raised an amazing total of £350!