Our Club Supporting Other Clubs, Districts and MD 2024 - 2025
When any of our club members are Supporting Other Clubs 2024 - 2025 or visiting;
- Another lions club charter, or meeting
- A District or MD Convention
- A European Forum like Europa
- Lion share
- Supporting another club or charity, like the SWANS or Crocus Sapphires
Article On Lions Portal Access November 2024
Lions have been questioning security and who has access to individual Lions personal data, ie, name, address, phone number or email address and date of birth.
Robyn was asked to write an article on Lions Portal Access, which has been sent out via the DG's.
22nd November 2024 Eastwood Lions Quiz
We sent a team along to support Eastwood Lions at their Quiz night at the Eastwood Community Centre, also Robyn invited a team from Tesco where she used to work.
Our president Sandie, Tony, Moira, Richard and Robyn attended Eastwood Lions quiz night on the 22nd November, they came 8th (there were more than 8 teams!) but the Tesco team finished 2nd!
18th November 2024 SWANS quiz night
Our team at the Witham and Maldon SWANS quiz night at the RAFA club, Witham and came a very respectable 5th! And yes there were more than 5 teams entered!
We had a lovely sausage and chip supper whilst we attempted the interval round.
Welll done to the SWANS for raising a great amount for Children In Need!
17th November 2024 CW Autumn Forum
Lions Richard and Robyn attended 105 CW Autumn Forum at The Parkway Hotel & Spa, Cwmbran, Newport. They attended seminars in Risk assessment and DBS advice, Speed Learning, AI for Lions, Dream it do it, Having fun whilst tail twisting and Marketing ourselves and learning from failure.
The guest speaker was Rachel Crofts, a former reporter and newspaper editor. She spoke about different types of press releases and the best ways to capture the publics attention.
Richard also judged Lion Jan Watsons baking competition alongside the hotel's chef. It was the first ever CW Bake Off competition. Mark Whitfield from Balfall Common was the winner with a Coffee and Walnut cake, and £105 was raised for Lions Clubs Foundation.
Robyn also attended Cabinet.
Robyn and Rick also took some time out to visit Cardiff Castle and Christmas Market.
8th November 2024 manning a Poppy stall at Hadleigh Morrisons
Lions Richard and Robyn helped out by manning the morning session for the Royal British Leigion Poppy stall at Hadleigh Morrisons.
Later in the afternoon and evening Lions Sandie and Tony helped out by manning the stall.
Our final sessions this year.
In just over 2 weeks at Hadleigh Morrisons, Castle Point Lions, The Lions Club of East Anglia Lioness and Rotary, and any other helpers, raised £16,353.79 for The Royal British Leigion!
2nd November 2024 Helen Keller and Centennial 100 Charter
Robyn and Rick visited Helen Keller and Centennial 100 Champions joint Charter at the Masonic Hall, Peterborough.
District Cabinet was the following day at Holiday Inn, Peterborough West.
31st October 2024 manning a Poppy stall at Hadleigh Morrisons
On Halloween Lions Richard and Robyn helped out by manning the morning session for the Royal British Leigion Poppy stall at Hadleigh Morrisons.
In the afternoon Lions Sandie and Tony took over.
Lions Sandie and Tony also manned the stall on 29th and 30th October.
29th October 2024 Floods In Spain
In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away almost everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses. Many died and thousands of livelihoods were shattered.
There was at least 231 deaths in the Valencia region, including a British couple have been found dead in their car.
It was Europe's deadliest floods since 2021, and could be Spain's worst ever as over a year's worth of rain fell.
On 5th November we donated £50 to LCIF for flooding disaster relief.
27th October 2024 manning a Poppy stall at Hadleigh Morrisons
Lions Richard and Robyn have been helping out by manning a Poppy stall at Hadleigh Morrisons doing the morning session.
Lion Robyn took 21 knitted poppies that she had made, these were sold out by the end of their session!
24th - 26th October 2024 Europa Forum, Bordeaux
Rick and Robyn attended Lions Europa Forum, Bordeaux, France from Thursday 24th October to Sunday 26th.
Robyn attended a Data Protection / GDPR pre meeting with her European counterparts on Zoom the week before, and the full meeting in Bordeaux.
Robyn has been working on an International Data Sharing agreement for some time now and has drafted a version that was submitted to the LCI legal team in Oak Brook.
A couple of questions were raised and Robyn was able to address these with Sue Ben, head of IT whilst at Europa Forum. A final version has now been submitted to LCI legal team.
Robyn continues to be part of the EU Privacy Protection Group, and they have asked her to help them draft new agreements for their own countries.
Robyn also helped out at a presentation on Coaching leadership by Ralph Watson from District CW.
Rick and Robyn attended an AI seminar by Daniel Marney Elkins where Rick learned how to generate a facebook post from Robyns Portal entries. The demonstration to the audience used our club as an example!
Daniel has trained an AI application to be GDPR complient and to create social media posts, press releases and articles, amongst many other things that target Lions, or potentioal Lions.
lionsvirtual.org is the place to go to get started.
LionsMarket2Grow creates press releases, marketing plans and social media content
LionsMap2Grow Guides Lions in growing clubs by providing asset mapping, outreach, marketing, and other tools for club growth.
The songs/music were created with suno.com
Robyn and Rick also had a chance to meet up with Lions friends and to explore Bordeaux before heading home.
15th September 2024 Rugby Heritage Lions Club is officially chartered as part of District 105CW
Robyn and Rick attended The Rugby Heritage Charter at The Railway Club in Rugby and were asked to make a cake with the new club logo on top!
DG Stu Young and The Mayor of Rugby Simon Ward. were guests, and we were privilidged to hear from the Ukrainian Choir - such beautiful voices.
President Ralph and Jan, Ian and his wife and PCC Richard and Jackie made us very welcome. The new club has Forty members and is growing.
Membership Matters
Monthly Zoom meetings to share ideas and offer support
There are presentations followed by discussions in breakout rooms
Robyn attended on Wednesday 7th August 2024 (discussing what topics to cover)
Tony attended on Wednesday 4th September 2024 (website)
Robyn and Rick attended on Wednesday 2nd October2024 (portal)
23rd August 2024 Fete at Knightswood Day Care Centre
Our President Sandie, Tony and Moira were invited to the fete at Knightwood Day Care Centre.
Sandie and Moira of course baked some cakes to take along with a couple of our new retro games.
Sandie and Moira served tea and cakes, whilst Tony manned the games. Fortunately the weather brightened up and a great day was had by all.
Knightswood Day Care Centre is a safe haven for people who need some respite, care and friendship in their lives. It is based within the Dengie Hundred area.
12th August 2024 Zone Presentation on GDPR
Zone Chairman Brian Stanbridge asked Robyn to do a GDPR presentation at his Zone meeting.
Robyn went along for the whole meeting, and also answered questions.
Disabled Sports Day July 20th 2024
The Lions Club of East Anglia Lioness are happy to support this great annual Lions event - The Lions Disabled Sports Day in Thundersley Essex. It's a collaboration of clubs organising it but so many more from our District support on the day, with local Rotary getting involved too. Lions provide everything: venue, sports equipment, medals and even a packed lunch! It is a wonderful experience for everyone involved.
Robyn, Rick, Sandie and Tony helped out.
CW DG handover 7th July 2024
Robyn and Rick went to Symonds Yat to attend CW DG handover with the new DG of Stu Young