Billingshurst & District Lions Club (November 2024)
Lions Continuing Help For Local Communities
Thanks to all your generosity through frequenting
the Lions Charity Bookshop in Jengers Mead and other events,
Billingshurst & District Lions Club has been able to provide financial help
and support for many people and organisations
in and around Billingshurst during its Golden Jubilee Year.
In addition to supporting 10 Primary Schools,
Billingshurst Lions now support the Weald School and local Pre- Schools.
At the Weald, Lions donated funds for their “Classrooms for Kenya” project,
whilst contributing towards the personal fundraising of 6 pupils,
4 from the Weald, 1 from Shipley and a scout leader,
attending a Scout Jamboree in South Korea,
providing life enhancing experiences.
In August a Quiz Night raised money for
Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Research,
with further donations to Billingshurst Emergency Assistance Team (BEAT),
for Defibrillators, Lions Club UK Brain Tumour Research Foundation
and Prostate Cancer Support Organisation (PCaSO),
for whom the Club hosted a successful testing event in the village.
Other donations included:-
- Billingshurst Women’s Hall - upgrading windows as part of their centennial refurbishment.
- Friends of Station Road Gardens - in support of volunteers tidying up.
- Billingshurst Sports and Recreation Association - Bonfire Night Fireworks.
- St Mary’s Community Room - towards a new boiler installation.
- Billingshurst Dementia Cafe - cost of transport for outings.
- Billingshurst Bowls Club - towards new access gates.
- Barns Green Pathway Project - contribution from local Christmas carol collection.
- Rudgwick Youth Centre - towards a new multi-games area and equipment.
- South Downs Riding for the Disabled Association - New Riding Helmets
- Little LifeSavers - teaching free Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) techniques in schools.
Community Service Convener,
Joan Bobker added “We were delighted to support the Wardens,
Julie and Barry, with the new Billingshurst Fun Day,
Loxwood Friendship Club and Wisborough Green Lunch Club and,
in December, provide an unprecedented 94 Christmas Hampers.
Also, the Club funded the cost of 10 stoves with the approach of winter
for households in Ukraine, as part of a Lions District initiative.
Without your support, none of this would be possible - Thank you”.
Harvey Holmes, Press Officer, harveyholmes596@btinternet.com.
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