Our Club Fundraising and Donations - The Lions Club Of East Anglia Lioness

Fundraising and Donations

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.

29th September 2024 Lunch in aid of Macmillan

On the last Sunday of September we had 27 people join us for lunch in aid of Macmillan.

As usual the food was superb and plentiful. The main course choices were cottage pie, chicken casserole, sausages and mash and chicken pot pie.

For dessert there was 2 different trifles, rhubarb and pear crumble, apple pie and cherry cheesecake.

Our lunch was attended by our new zone chairman, Lion Susie Morris who was completing her official visit to us and seeing what our club does.

We also had PDG Lion Matt Jones with us as he is currently staying with the Briaults. It was wonderful to see him catching up with friends.

We also held a raffel and managed to donate £350 to Macmillan.

We would like to thank all who attended and to everyone who has helped us throughout the day. We really appreciated all the help.

17th August 2024 Mersea Island Family Festival

We had a great day at the Mersea Island Lions Fun Day. We took a toy tombola, our 'retro' games, new treasure Island tombola, and 2nd hand book sales. The superb weather brought plenty of people to the event and our games were a hit. It was lovely to see other clubs there, our neighbours were the lovely Cherry and Susie from the New Century and Hellen Keller Lions clubs, we also enjoyed meeting the Mersea Island Rotary Club. Our thanks to Mersea Island Lions Club for giving us the opportunity to come and fundraise at this event.

We raised an amazing £268 - well done all!

13th August 2024 Donation of toiletries and blankets to HARP

We saw recently that HARP (the charity we donate the blankets to) were really short of toiletries. During the day, until 4pm it's open for the showers to be used and clothes to be cleaned. After then it becomes a night shelter. So we decided to donate £50 worth of toiletries and dropped them in along with 9 blankets!

The toiletries included deodorant, toothbrushes and toothpaste, shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, hair brushes and combs.

Evertthing was very much appreciated by the staff.

7th August 2024 Vision Screening Cameras

On 11th June 2024 Mark & Moira attended vision screening in schools training at Bulphan

From DG Colins Newsletter 1st September 2024

‘ChildSight UK’

Congratulations to all who are supporting this life-changing project and those who are still working endlessly to encourage greater funding. We have passed the five cameras and on the way to our sixth, this is fabulous as this will, subject to match funding equate to two per region within the district. The Plusoptix Vision Camera is the chosen one for us.

See plusoptix.com for more details.

There are two, both of which must meet the approval of LCI, the cost being just under £5,500 each. Negotiated into this price is a free carrying case, wrist strap and an additional 1-year guarantee. So, what’s next? I’m currently preparing a bid for match funding. The deadline is 1st October 2024 for a decision by the Lions Clubs International trustees, for approval on January 25, and if granted they should be paid shortly after that. Both Lynne and I are on a short break but still finding the time to acknowledge all your efforts by raising a glass and toasting your success. The HCRG Care Group are currently drawing up a schedule of school visits within the Essex area. Once completed, they will be liaising with the clubs to join them to complete the vision screening. These visits will be from October 2024 onwards and clubs will be notified well in advance of these visits. Currently the multi-District only has two Vision Cameras on loan. To enable this program to commence, East Anglia Centennial 100 Champions will purchase three cameras, these will be removed from our total, however, financially they were never included within our total. Not rolling out in your area? January 25 isn’t that far away. Now is the time to start liaising with the junior schools, mention the project. As HCRG does not cover all the district enquire which health group provides this service and please let me know. The health care providers do know of the program as do some schools. We are almost there but keep your donations coming in. This will not be a project forgotten once completed but will continue year on year with each new pupil intake.

We contributed £200 towards this project in August 2024

14th July 2024 Heybridge Parish Council Fete

Wow what a day we had! We attended the Heybridge Parish Council fete, we made the most of the lovely field and took a toy tombola, bottle tombola, baskets, message in a bottle and 3 of Lion Richards new games. With the weather being very pleasant it was well supported and there was a great amount of people enjoying the event for the whole day.

We were made to feel so welcome and thoroughly enjoyed our day. We look forward to their next event and will certainly be back.

We raised a massive £460 - well done to Sandie, Moira, Mark, Robyn, Rick and Louisa

9th June 2024 Big Breakfast

Our first BIG BREAKFAST of the year was on Sunday June 9th at 11am. The usual cooked and continental fayre was on offer and Tea & Cake in the afternoon and of course there was a raffle.

We start off with fruit juice, cereal, fruit and a meat/cheese platter.

After a short break our guests are invited to get their cooked breakfasts and will have tea and coffee.

After another short break we then serve pancakes with maple syrup and of course more tea!

By now we are in to the mid afternoon, so what happens then......cake of course!

Whilst between courses, our new games for our stalls were put up in the garden for people to try out and provide us with feedback on them. We are excited to start taking these out to events soon.

Well done to all involved on a very successful day raising money for Knightswood Day Centre, who provide day care for people with a variety of conditions. We aim to buy them a record player and some records.

The weather was good this was an ideal oppertunity for Rick to try out the new fundrasing games…which were enjoyed by all those who had a go!

We also had a guess how many sweets in the jar.

We had 28 guests from Eastwood Lions, Saffron Walden, Crocus Sapphires, SWANS, Mersea Lions, Chelmsford Lions and the Chelmer Ladies.

We made a total of £337 on the day

Lunch at Sandie and Tony's at Maldon on 18th September 2023

We held a 2 course lunch and invited the Witham and Maldon SWANS to help raise some funds towards a much needed gazebo and tables for the club for when we run fundraising stalls.

It was a fantastic spread so well done to all those involved in the cooking and copias amounts of washing up! It was also lovely for everyone to be able to see PCC Lion Matt Jones from South Carolina, who is staying at the Briault household during his visit back to the UK from America.

The SWANS also donated the takings from a boot fair with Sandie the previous day.

We raised £250

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

St Peter's Hospital Reindeer Drive 28th November 2022

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

We received a letter of thanks from Hope for Grace charity that we helped recently. February 2020

'Good afternoon to our wonderful Lion Pride

We received this cheque today from the fabulous Robyn on behalf of the wonderful Lioness/Lions Club of East Anglia. It seems so fitting and we feel so grateful that their Lion Pride wanted to do something for our Lioness Grace.

We can’t thank them enough for raising this amount which we will put towards Grace’s continuous therapies or any equipment that she may need.

There are not enough thanks that we can give you and we are so incredibly grateful for your donation.

Much Love to you all, from our Pride to yours.

Team Grace'

Karen prenented a £100 cheque to Fresh Start - New Beginnings November 2019

In September 2019 we had discussed and agreed at the last quarterly meeting to using some of the money in our Charity account.
It was agreed, that we use £100 in each of the counties that we have members in, Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk.

Fresh Start - New Beginnings is an East Anglian charity which provides therapeutic support to children aged up to 21 years who have experienced sexual abuse. Alarmingly, the charity has had a 168% increase in the number of children referred to them over the last 2 years.

Karen prenented the cheque at their office in Norwich in November 2019.
Sue has also been invited to visit their head office in Ipswich to meet their director of fundraising on 11th December 2019.

10th October 2019 President Sue presents a cheque for £100 to Felixstowe Academy

Sue decided that the money for Suffolk is to be used for a Teenage Mental Health Day which which will be held at Felixstowe Academy in late September 2019. Sue corresponded with the School Chaplin, who is organising the event, and he has assured her that the money will be spent wisely on literature and packs for the day.

Felixstowe Academy had a very successful Teenage Mental Health Awareness day back in October. Sue had a lovely letter back from the school chaplain telling her that it had been well attended by the students and what a great success it had been.

16th December 2018 St Peter's Hospital Cafe Quiz

At St Peter's Hospital in Maldon there is a CAFE that is run by Julie Taylor. She helps provide food for about 15 local families who desperately need help. Yes local supermarkets provide a small quantity of food that is going out of date but she needs other items as 'just a little bit extra'. She also helps senior single people to have a good solid meal at least once a day. for this she charges them a minimum fee but is pleased that at least they have someone to talk to and a warm meal inside them.

Our Club although well spread over EA and abroad held a quiz and raised £83-00 and with Lioness Lion Robyn Banks help (she works at Tesco's) managed to purchase all those extra little item in the picture.

18th June 2018 Mark presenting a satellite image to the school we help in Africa

Moira had coffee with Chris Brewster last Thursday, the lady who founded the school in memory of Ray, her husband (Lioness Lion Rosie's son) and another friend who died of Cancer some years ago. She showed me many more photos of her trip including some of the crops and gardens they are planting, using the tools we gave them. Mark arranged for a satellite image to be found of the area around the school we helped in Africa by the European Space Agency. It was then printed up in Maldon and presented to Chris Brewster and was then presented to the Village. Chris said that she couldn't get over to the village Chief, or to the interpreter, that she hadn't arranged for them to stop the satellite to actually take the picture for her. The Chief took the picture away immediately and said it was so precious that no one else could touch it until it was safely framed behind glass. He was sure that not even the President of The Ivory Coast owned such a wonderful map!

18th April 2018 Food donated to The Oaks Children's Centre in Felixstowe

Sue & Janice have purchased food which has been donated to The Oaks Children's Centre in Felixstowe for their emergency food bank. President Sue has also been knitting 'boobies' for the midwives at the Centre. These will be used to demonstrate breast feeding to new Mum's. Toiletries and clothing have also been donated. This is a new project for the Lioness Lions, and will be ongoing.

The Centre were thrilled with the donation, the picture is of President Sue presenting Becky, the Centre Manager with the remainder of the £50 for their amenity fund.

24th September 2017 Lunch at Sandie and Tony's, at Maldon

A very big thank you to Sandie and Tony for hosting today's Charity Fund Raising Lunch. We invaded and took over the house and garden without a word of concern from them. We were treated to a selection of great food ranging from, Chilli, Cottage Pie, Lasagne, Chicken Pie, Roasted Vegetables, Macaroni, Rice, Balti and numerous salads. Followed by, a choice of Apple Pie, Trifle, Bannoffi Pie, Apple Crumble, Fruit Salad all with cream or custard or both, and of course tea or coffee. Great Afternoon was had by all.

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Fundraising and Donations