Our Club Socials whether its face to face or on Zoom

We try to have a fun event, or social every month. In our club, these are mostly on Zoom (the only option during Covid lockdowns) - this in mainly due to the physical distances between us all. Occasionally we manage a face to face outing where we meet up somewhere interesting to have some fun……

16th April 2024 Social meeting with a talk by District CE officer for Lions Brain Tumour Research Lynne Roberts 

District CE officer for Lions Brain Tumour Research Lynne Roberts gave us a very imformative talk and explained how Lions are raising money to help with this very worthwhile cause.

We told her we had already purchased a balloon for each member in the MD105 Virtual Balloon race starting during MD Convention at Western-Super-Mare on 5th May

Robyn and Rick attended from Arras, France

also attending as a guest was Brian Stanbridge from Eastwood Lions

20th December 2023 Margaret's 80th Birthday

We had a Zoom social to wish Margaret a happy birthday the night before on the 19th, and raised a glass to her

We sent a Birthday card in the post, and had some flowers delivered on the day

9th December 2023 Christmas Meal

Tonight we had our Christmas meal, Sandie provided us with a fish platter to start, roast turkey and a selection of desserts.

Thank you Sandie for providing a wonderful meal.

After dinner we opened our secret santa gifts and cards.

21st November 2023 Sprouty Bingo

As a club spread over quite a distance, all of our meetings and most of our socials are on Zoom. This months social was sprouty bingo!

The prize for those lucky winners was a Crochet Brussel Sprout with a chocolate in the centre fantastically made by Moira

August 2023 Beetle Drive

Our most recent social in August 2023 was a Beetle Drive on Zoom. Each player had a dice and each number is allocated to a body part. Once a beetle is complete that round is finished and players add up their total. After 12 rounds our winner was decided. Well done to Tony, pictured here with his prize made by our president Moira, we think it's fabulous!

18th April 2023 Zoom Bingo

This month's social 18th April 2023.....Zoom Bingo! We continue to have a social a month and we decided to re visit Bingo this time as we haven't played for a while. Even though we may not be able to all meet face to face, It certainly doesn't stop us!

Christmas meal 17th December 2022

A fun Christmas meal cooked by Sandie, complete with pass the parcel, singing and Secret Santa!

In attendance was Sandie, Tony, Louisa, Mark, Moria, Angela, Alan, Robyn and Rick

Hyde Hall 29th November 2022

This evening we went to RHS Hyde Hall for their light trail. Thankfully although a little crisp, we had dry weather to enjoy walking round the beautiful gardens

Audley End House, Saffron Waldon  24th July 2022

July's social was a trip to Audley End House, it was a victorian themed weekend. We went and viewed the house, stable block and watched the fire eating display. It was a thoroughly enjoyable day out!

Making and parading our Lanterns 11th December 2021

Our lanterns that we started at our Zoom social December 2021, all complete and a mini parade in the house (too wet in the garden tonight!) What an amazing display well done everyone!

Christmas meal 11th December 2021

A fun Christmas meal cooked by Sandie, complete with pass the parcel, singing and Secret Santa! on 11th December 2021

December 2021 Reindeer Drive

Our December social was organised by Mark. We got together on zoom and played a reindeer drive  (festive version of a beetle drive) it was another fun night and great to get together before Christmas, well done to those in Christmas jumpers and hats!

October 2021 Zoom Pig Race!

In October 2021 we held our very own zoom pig race! Superbly organised by Angela, we choose our pig from the start list, some may have been better behaved than others, not all raced in the right direction and many gave up before the finish line! But what a fun night, full of laughter we had!

sues september 2019 newsletter says Mersea Island Lions Beech hut booked for summer 2020 - cancelled due to covid - is this a swans event now?

Jam factory and garden centre

Wilkin & Son Tiptree Jam Factory and Perrywoods garden centre Wednesday 6th November 2019

Several members live in the vicinity of the great Wilkins Jam factory – which also has a lovely tea room and museum.  We decided to have a club social meeting there and exploring the interesting museum on site… then we headed to Perrywoods Garden Centre just down the road for a magnificent lunch.  We were there when the Christmas displays were up as well – so it got quite expensive for some of us!

Ickworth House 17th April 2019

Our 1st group social meeting

Club members met for a social outing at Ickworth House in Suffolk.  A great time was had by all exploring the great house and grounds with extensive gardens and woodland trails of this National Trust property.