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Billingshurst & District Lions Club (March 2025)

Lions School Programme For 2025

Billingshurst & District Lions Club offer 10 Primary Schools
throughout the District a range of support,
financial and practical, throughout the calendar year.
Primary schools include, Billingshsurst, Barns Green,
William Penn at Coolham, Loxwood, Plaistow & Kirdford,
St. Mary’s (C of E) at Pulborough, Shipley, Slinfold, Rudgwick,
Wisborough Green, as well as Ingfield Manor in Five Oaks.

 Proposed Projects for 2025 include:-

  1. Lions Book Give-aways for 5 schools (others - in alternate years) - whereby every child has the opportunity to select a free book of their choice to take home.
  2. “What Farms Do For Us” - Art Competition - A new innovation for the Spring Term. A Lions Bookshop Voucher will be awarded to the winner from each class.
  3. Lions Outdoor Workday 2025 - A team of Lions offer a half day, often with parents, that will benefit the children, their learning and the school.
  4. Funded In-School Workshop - Repeating previous funding for something specific, chosen by the school, during 2025.
  5. Butterfly Garden Project - For Key Stage 1 children during the Summer Term, involving children creating a small garden around the study of the lifecycle of the butterfly.
  6. The ROAR 2025 Competition - Lions fund each school’s entry into ROAR 2025, which runs from March through to December, encouraging ideas to change the world.
  7. Link up with Billingshurst & District Lions Partners such as:
    Little Lifesavers:
    teaching years 5 and 6 year CPR Skills to save lives.
    Wild Tribe Hero Environmental Books
    Safety in the Sea - new for 2025

Return of Car Boot Sales for 2025
Billinghurst & District Lions Club now have dates for the ever popular
Car Boot Sales:-

Easter Monday               21st April - 9am – 12 noon
Bank Holiday Monday          26th May - 9am – 12noon
Bank Holiday Monday       25th August – 9am – 12 noon
Location - Six Bells Car Park (off the Library Carpark) 

Please contact Sandy Duck to book a space:-
Tel: 01403 786 146 - Mobile: 07717 822 804 -
E-mail -
sandyduck@btinternet.com

The Lions Bookshop in Jengers Mead is now open for Books, Jigsaws,
Gift Vouchers and free bookmarks,
on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
from 9.30am until 4.00pm each day,
where a warm welcome will await you.

 Harvey Holmes, Press Officer, harveyholmes596@btinternet.com.   

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and Website billingshurstlions.org.uk