Isle of Axholme Lions

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Celebrating 100 years of service. Click the logo for more information

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The Isle of Axholme Lions. A charitable organisation serving the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire UK, since 1966.
(Part of Lions Clubs International)
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The World's Largest Service Club Organization
Lions Clubs International, a service membership organization of over 1.4 million members worldwide founded in 1917 in the USA.
Our 46,000 clubs and 1.4+ million members make it the world's largest service club organization and also one of the most effective. Their members do whatever is needed to help within their local communities. The Lions motto is "We Serve." Local Lions Club programs include sight conservation, hearing and speech conservation, diabetes awareness, youth outreach, international relations, environmental issues.

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The Isle Lions celebrated 50 years of service the the Isle of Axholme last year, to celebrate the International organisations 100th anniversary this year, we are undertaking individual and varied projects with all the schools in the Isle of Axholme. More details will appear later, when the complete project itinerary with the schools has been completed.

Can you sponsor our Annual Charity Golf Day, or maybe you would rather play, or both!

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Another Fantastic Acoustic Evening performed by local musician's, 21 April Haxey Memorial Hall.

Some pics from our Acoustic Evening, thanks to everyone who attended & especially to all the performers, so much talent around the area! We raised over £700, special mention to Lions Chris & Albert for arranging the event and also performing.

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Trauma Lions presented to Scunthorpe hospital in joint club effort.

Isle Lions President Richard Baker, presenting two Easter Eggs to Disney Ward Deputy Manager Vicki McAlpine., the eggs were donated to the hospital, by the some of the winners in the Lions Easter Egg raffle

Ten years ago local Lions Club members came up with the idea to give cuddly soft toy lions to the Scunthorpe Hospital Disney Ward and A&E. They were seen as ‘bravery lions’ given to children to provide a distraction during a traumatic time.
They proved to be very successful and we are pleased to have been able to continue giving ‘bravery lions’ every year since.
This year Barton, Brigg, Glanford & Lindsey, Isle of Axholme, Scunthorpe and Winterton Lions Clubs will deliver another 600 toy lions throughout the year, all made possible by the kind donations given to the local Lions Clubs from the public and businesses of North Lincolnshire.

Hayley Thompson, Health Tree Foundation, Nurse Elizabeth Vaughan, Nurse Lindsay Roberts, Glanford and Lindsey Lion Denis Cator, Disney Ward Deputy Manager Vicki McAlpine, Scunthorpe Lion Vice President Roy Mee, Brigg Lion President Brian Marshall, Winterton Lion President Pauline Hollingworth, Isle of Axholme Lion President Richard Baker, Barton Lion President Keith Gatland and Nurse Sian Arnott

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Mowbray's of Haxey, is the latest business in the Isle to become a distribution point for our Message in a Bottle scheme. The popular cafe in Haxey
have already given away their fisrt batch of bottles and have taken delivery of more of the potentialy life saving containers. Ben & Lisa Hepworth (pictured left) of Mowbray's, say they are are delighted to help the Lions with this worthwhile scheme.

The bottle is kept in the fridge, where the emergency services will be able to find it in the event of being called to your home. We will know you have a bottle by the two labels displayed on the inside of the front door or on the main entrance to your home and the other is for the door of your fridge.
This scheme is free to the user. Whilst it is focused on the more vulnerable people in our community, anyone can fall downstairs, so this scheme can benefit anyone, including you.

20 Years of Twinning

We had a fantastic weekend (20 -23 Ocober) in Lille, to celebrate twenty years of twinning with the Lions Club of De Bernisse in Holland.
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We are joint Quiz Champions of two Zones

These are the super intelligent members of our quiz team that travelled to Brigg, took on twenty teams from two Zones to become joint champions with Grimsby! Well done team Axholme!

Welcome to Lions Roy!

Isle Lions President Richard (left), welcomes our newest member Roy Scarrot from Crowle, after his induction at our October meeting.

First presentation to schools for our Lions Centennial project

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Isle Lions President Richard Baker presents a plaque to Westwoodside C of E primary Academy headteacher June Richardson at a school assembly, while children from the school show of some of their photographic equipment presented to them by the Lions. To celebrate the Centenary of Lions International, the Isle Lions are sponsoring all the schools in the Isle of Axholme, with a project of their choice to the value of £500.

Mrs Richardson said "Westwoodside Church of England Primary Academy was delighted to be presented with new digital photography equipment to support the children's learning and to provide a record of events in school. Digital photography allows the children to record learning, use images and video in their work as well as providing a record of their school experiences to share with others and keep for the future. The children were very pleased to receive the cameras and said, The cameras will be really helpful so we can capture more special moments!"

Promoting the Message in a Bottle scheme.

Isle Lions President Richard, right with Lion James, pictured at a recent Crowle Market.

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Lions Unite to help Local Blind Charity

Seven Lions Clubs in Northern Lincolnshire responded to a request by Lincoln and Lindsey Blind Society to provide assistance in providing their Sight Impairment Officers with Magnification Kits to allow them to visit those in need of visual aids to try them in their own home and decide with specialist assistance which aid suits them best.
Together, Brigg and District, Winterton and District, Scunthorpe, Caistor and District, Barton, Grimsby and Isle of Axholme Lions Clubs amassed £3,700 to provide all three Officers in Northern Lincolnshire with a kit at the cost of £1,165 each.
The picture shows Elena Fraser-Green together with members from Caistor, Brigg, Winterton and Isle of Axholme Lions Clubs who met to see just how useful the kits would be in bringing the service into people’s homes, rather than travel some distance with failing sight.
Elena Fraser-Green said “We are delighted that the Lions Clubs are supporting sight impaired people in North Lincolnshire. For elderly people struggling with sight loss, a visit at home from one of our expert Sight Impairment Officers who can arrange the right magnifiers will make life a lot easier. On behalf of all of them, a big thank you!”
Anyone in the area wishing assistance or support with sight problems can contact Lincoln and Lindsey Blind Society on 01507 605604 or see their website at www.llbs.co.uk

Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization. We have 1.35 million members in more than 45,000 clubs in over 206 countries and geographic areas. Founded in 1917, we are best known for fighting blindness, but we also volunteer for many different kinds of community projects, including caring for the environment, feeding the hungry and aiding seniors and the disabled

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The Isle of Axholme Lions Club was formed in 1966 to raise funds for a variety of projects important to local communities and to support Lions' national and international charitable causes. Situated in the Westernmost part of North Lincs, separated from the rest by the River Trent with Doncaster to the West and Scunthorpe to the East, the two main towns are Crowle and Epworth, there are 12 parishes containing 21 settlements, in an area of approx 52,000 acres and a population around 19,000. We are part of Lions Clubs International, British Isles & Ireland, in District 105E covering Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland.

We are twinned with the De Bernisse Lions Club in the Netherlands, it is located to the South of Rotterdam, we have a very close relationship with the club, both socially and fund raising, having experienced several exchanges and jointly funded projects together

Our main fund raising is during December (1st - 24th) when we travel all over the Isle of Axholme with Santa's float, this has raised many thousands of pounds a year, over several years.

We also hold a giant Easter egg raffle over the three weeks up to Good Friday. Locating about 35 eggs at various pubs, shops, schools and other premises throughout the Isle.

Our annual golf tournament in June, now in its 22nd year, hosted at the Lincolnshire Golf Club, Hirst Priory, between Belton and Crowle, is another regular fund raiser which has also raised thousands of pounds over the years.

Other fund raising events, past and present, have included numerous quizzes, Burns suppers, sportsman's dinners & entertainment evenings, barbecues, bonfire nights, auctions, carol singing, hog roasts, even clay pigeon shoots and splat the rat!

**Latest Isle Lions support /donations**

£200 Eastlound Lights Committee
£500 Water Aid
£500 Lions fight against eradicating measles.
£650 Haxey preschool Playgroup, play area repairs, (dependant on them raising the balance)
£400 Changing Lives for vulnerable people, computer equipment.
£300 Friends of the Islanders, visit to a pantomime.
£1000 LCIF Hurrcane Relief