Isle of Axholme Lions

Lions International Service since 1917

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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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!!!£10,100 !!!
We were all tired out, but that was the fantastic amount we raised with our Santa's float in December 2016. Our best year ever, massive thanks Isle of Axholme, once again your generosity exceeded our expectations!

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Our Christmas Dinner/December meeting held in the Red Lion Epworth on the 20 December.

Many thanks to Lions Chris & Albert for oraganising the superb Acoustic Night held in Haxey Memorial Hall, which raised several hundred pounds. What an absolutely talented group of amateurs we have in the area.

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Acoustic night in Haxey Memorial Hall

Isle of Axholme Lions President Ian Tonge pictured with Ms. Tilly Brock (RMN), right, from Admiral Nurses/Dementia UK, together with Leader of North Lincs Council Baroness Redfern of the Isle of Axholme, attending, to hear a presentation to the Lions meeting in September, about the nurses work in the area.

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, hosted at the Lincolnshire Golf Club 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!

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