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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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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.
Easter Egg "Catastrophe"! Lions Appeal for help.
Every year, as part of their fundraising efforts, Isle of Axholme Lions buy about 40 Giant Easter Eggs from a chocolatier company in Bridlington and they go into pubs as raffles around the Isle and Lions visit Holmes and Gardens Centre in Epworth for three weekends to sell raffle tickets with a winner every day.
This year is now presenting a problem as isle Lions have a large clutch of chocolate eggs with no one ready to hatch – or eat – them.
Lion Richard Baker said “We have distributed some to pubs and they may well have sold some chances to win, but now they are closed until after Easter, we don’t know what has happened.
We gave some eggs to local schools in Crowle, Epworth Haxey and Owston Ferry for a lucky pupil to enjoy and we hope they managed to organise that before the 20th when most pupils reverted to home schooling. However, we do have a number left over after some Lions and others have bought them
We hope to raise about £2,500 each year that goes to help a variety of good causes around the Isle but as it stands, we look to lose a very valuable £1,000 from our funds this year due to the current health crisis.
If any good souls in the Isle would like one of our eggs for £25 to help us limit our loss, we would be very grateful indeed.”
Lion President Glyn Snowdon said “ Every year we are out at Christmas collecting from the local residents, for which we are most grateful but at Easter it is the small businesses in the Isle that lend a hand by selling chances to win one of our Giant Eggs and we are equally grateful to every publican and business owner for that help. Most sell enough to have one winning egg but I must record our gratitude for the amazing efforts of the staff at the Red Lion Hotel in Epworth who have taken on 4 eggs for the past few years.
Our thoughts and support are with all these businesses, and their staff in particular, now that they have had to shut their doors for some time to come. We look forward to seeing them all when things improve.
Our funds will be depleted this year due to the Easter Egg problem but we are continuing to work towards our Car and Vehicle Show at Epworth Showground on September 6th, all being well.”
If you wish to support Isle of Axholme Lions by buying one of their eggs for £25 please contact alan@axholme.info, 07434 621304.
Santa transports the bride!!
Danielle Fletcher of Epworth, chose Santa's float as her very different mode of transport to her wedding at the Reindeer Inn Sandtoft,
Santa & the Lions were pleased to help make it a day not to forget. She is pictured with her Dad Nigel & the man himself.
Santa & the Lions were pleased to help make it a day not to forget. She is pictured with her Dad Nigel & the man himself.
We are pleased to be supporting the ROAR 2019 Project.
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**Congratuations, Haxey C of E school, winners of the ROAR 2019 project for the second year running!**
West Butterwick also won the award for the best model in the competition.
The winning team Tia, Lilly & Lani are presented with their winners certificates & Amazon vouchers by Isle Lions members David Hollier, John Smedley, Colin Ridley, Terry Condliff & James Mackinlay.
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We are fortunate to have several schools in our area taking part in this innovative & exciting project.Special Roadshows were held last week in all the schools, so the parents of KS2 pupils at Luddington & Garthorpe, Crowle, Belton, West Butterwick, Owston Ferry, Haxey, Westwoodside and Wroot should all be hearing about this from their children in coming weeks as they progress through the project. A YouTube video was made at Haxey School about ROAR2018 – see it here: https://youtu.be/IaPLWMU7Xo4 |
Some pics from last years Roar project.
A message from the Car Show Committee Chairman
"The Isle of Axholme Lions are delighted to announce that their recent Car Show at the Epworth Show Ground was a roaring success. It was the first time that we have held such an event and we are very pleased that we will be donating £3000 to the Air Ambulance. We have lots of positive feedback and as a result we will be doing it again next year hopefully at the same venue and a similar time. We would like to thank all those who attended,all the vehicle exhibitors the Traders and the Epworth Showground Committee for their help and advice. A big Thank you to the British Legion for proving security and to some Rotary members who helped on the day with parking. A particular big thank you must go to David Poulter ,of the Epworth Show Committee for his patience and understanding giving us advise from our initial enquiry right through to the day itself.
It is not long now before Santa on his new Lions sleigh will be visiting you all on the Isle."
Thank you for supporting the Lions in all their fundraising events.
Terry Condliff.
It is not long now before Santa on his new Lions sleigh will be visiting you all on the Isle."
Thank you for supporting the Lions in all their fundraising events.
Terry Condliff.
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Our visit to RAF Waddington, home of the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance, to present them with £3000.
Category winners from our car show, being presented by our ring commentator Alan Fritchley. A special mention to the young team from the Axholme Academy, Crowle, for their brilliant effort!
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Our top team of site managers, site co-ordintaors, site erectors & crowd control technicians, along with men with hammers & a lot of people pointing, getting the site ready for our car show, held on 1 September, which enebled us to present the Air Ambulance with £3000, thanks everyone for your support!
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The Isle of Axholme Lions have installed a Presidents board in the Red Lion, Epworth,to celebrate the long association they have with the pub, they have met there since their first meeting in 1966. The board has the names of all the Presidents since the club's formation.
Pictured are the designer & builder of the board, Colin Mathias, right, being thanked for his work by Isle Lion's secretary Colin Ridley along with member Terry Condliff.
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Pictures from our evening out with wives& partners at the wonderful Hirst Priory, Nr Crowle Gallery Here. |
President of the Isle Lions Jack Bower, right, welcomes our newest & youngest member, Jake Stockwell to our April meeting.
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Lions Zone Chair Theresa Walker, presents Isle Lions President Jack Bower, with the Lions District 105E youth Award Trophy, in recognition of the work the club has undertaken with the ROAR 2018 project.
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Excellent video explaining the ROAR Project
Of the 15 schools taking part in the District's ROAR2018 event, 3 were from the Isle, Haxey West Butterwick & Owston Ferry.
Haxey were the winners of the final held in Nottingham, they are pictured above after their final win. They will have a book published of their winning ideas, which will be available on Amazon.
We are committed to supporrting as many Isle schools as possible to take part in this years event #ROAR2019.
Haxey were the winners of the final held in Nottingham, they are pictured above after their final win. They will have a book published of their winning ideas, which will be available on Amazon.
We are committed to supporrting as many Isle schools as possible to take part in this years event #ROAR2019.
Supporting Local Schools
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Lions member John Smedley presents a cheque for £800 to Westwoodside school pupil Eve Lowe with Ryan Brocklesby, Niahm Curtis & Bear Drew, along with Sally Smith the SENCO at the school, towards the costs of their Sensory Hub.
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Chris Godley (right) of the Isle Lions with Crowle Primary Academy Head Teacher Rhonda Blakemore, pictured after the £500 towards the schools raised garden beds project.
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£650 to Haxey Pre School Playgroup
We gave the Haxey Pre School Playgroup £650 towards the resurfacing of their outdoor play area. Alison Jewison is pictured receiving the donation from Isle Lion's members
Peter Lindley & Joihn Smedley.
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Supporting local Explorer Scouts.
Isle Lion's President Jack Bower presents Isle members of the Gainsborough Explorere Scouts Harvey Firth & Ben Laverack with £200 towards their visit to the 2019 International Scouts Jamboree in West Virginia, USA. (Click on photo for larger image)
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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. 
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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. |
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
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!
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When: Third Tuesday of every month, 7:30 pm.
Where: The Red Lion, Market Place
Epworth, North Lincs
DN9 2EU
01427 872208
Where: The Red Lion, Market Place
Epworth, North Lincs
DN9 2EU
01427 872208
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