Welcome to Bracknell Lions' website

If you are new to Lionism, through these pages you will be able to find out about the work of the international organisation of Lions and our Lions Club in particular. If you are a Lion, and perhaps planning to visit our area, we hope that the information on our website will encourage you to visit our club or one of our events. 

Who are we?

We're a group from the local area who have come together to help others, as part of a wider national and international organisation. We all live in or near the brilliant town of Bracknell, and our proud to be members of the local community here.

Bracknell Forest Lions is currently a very small club, and we are working hard to raise funds to help local, national and international charities and good causes. Take a look at the meet the club and message from our president links on the left to find out more about us. In 2018 we won "team of the year" in the Pride of Bracknell Awards.

If you'd like to support us....

There are a number of ways in which you can support us- by attending our events, donating money, unwanted (new unused) gifts for our raffles and tombolas, coming along to help out with activities and events or even just  spreading the word about who we are and what we do!

We are signed up to Easy Fundraising where you can support us whilst doing your online shopping without it costing you a penny! Head on over to the Bracknell Lions Easy Fundraising page today to set yourself up!

Don't forget to visit our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Bracknellforestlions/ for up to date information too.

Below is a little information about what we've been up to since we set up this website in 2011- though the club have been running for 55 years!

2024

2023

• Arranged a Christmas Party at Heathlands Intermediate Care Unit, providing food, drink, crackers, decorations and presents for all 20 residents from money raised at Tesco Christmas collection
• Supported Windsor Lions with their Santa Sleigh collection in Winkfield
• Litter picked monthly, covering Easthampstead, Harmanswater, South Hill Road, Savernake Park and Great Hollands areas, including after high winds across Easthampstead area at Christmas
• Raised £360 at Martins Heron Tesco collection 
• Helped out with the huge fundraising event that is Wokingham Lions Carnival
 
• Bought 85 chocolate advent calendars for children supported by Berkshire Women's Aid
 
• Welcomed two new members to the club!
 
• Collected over 120 items for the Bracknell Foodbank in November 2023 with Wildridings Primary School
 
• Supported Reading Lions with their annual Prostate Screening mobile clinic
 
• Helped marshall the Thames Hospice Sunflower Walk that raised over £100,000
 
• Had our public access difibrillator reinstalled in town
 
• Responded to Message In a Bottle requests from the community, charities and surgeries
 
• Collected hundreds of items for Bracknell Foodbank working in partnership with Wildridings Primary School
 
• Donated £360 to ABC to Read, a local charity who supply volunteers who support Berkshire children to learn to read
 
• Donated the cost of supporting a local Guide to go to their annual camp
 
• Received £16.15 from Easyfundraising donations
 
• Raised £160 from an easter raffle at Redwood Technologies
 
• Raised around £100 from an Easter collection at Martins Heron Tesco
 
• Donated £300 to The Autism Group Tea with TAG
 
• Responded to requests for support from Bracknell Citizens Advice 
  

2022

2021

2020

2019 

• Donated £150 to SightSavers (matched by the UK government)
 
• Distributed Message In a Bottle packs
 
• Collected over 150 items for Berkshire Womens Aid shelters
 
• Assisted a local disabled resident move furniture to make space for specialised adapted furniture
 
• Raised over £490 with a Christmas Tombola and Christmas Carol Singing
 
• Donated £200 to BADHOGS
 
• Donated £200 to Cruse Bereavement Care TVB
 
• Donated £400 to The Ark Trust Ltd for Project 73 and Festival Green Machine
 
• Donated £100 to The Red Box Project Bracknell (ahead of them receiving government funding in 2020)
 
• Raised over £5,500 at the Bracknell Show 2019
 
• Pledged to donate £1,250 to the Bracknell Defibrillator Fund
 
• Raised £126.98 by packing bags at Morrisons Bracknell
 
• Raised £300.42 at our Easter Egg Tombola at Martins Heron Tescos
 
• Raised £653.76 with 4 Easter Egg Raffles
 
• Collected and donated £600 for Marie Curie UK with the daffodil appeal
 
• Collected or bought and donated over 150 items to Pilgrim Hearts winter night shelter
 
• Responded to requests to supply Message in a Bottle packs to local surgeries
 
• Registered with Easyfundraising so you can donate FOR FREE just by shopping online

2018

• Assisted with the Me2Club Christmas party with a donation and staffing their party
 
• Raised over £370 at a Christmas Tombola at Martins Heron Tescos in December
 
• Laid a wreath at the Remembrance Sunday service.
 
• Donated £750 to South Hill Park for the Dementia-friendly film screenings
 
• Collected sleeping bags from Reading festival site to donate to  Pilgrim Hearts winter night shelter
 
• Marshalled the Lexicon Bracknell Half Marathon 2018
 
• Run the Bracknell Show- 21st July 2018 and raised over £3,000
 
• Held our Clubs 50th anniversary Charter in May
 
• Planted and maintained the Bracknell Lions Centenary flowerbed (Wildridings Playingfields)
 
• Funded a trip to Paultons Park for children with additional needs and their families
 
• Assisted at Windsor Lions Charity Horse Race
 
• Continued to raise funds for the Gambia Appeal
 
• Raised over £650 with an Easter Egg Raffle and Easter Egg Tombola
 
• Raised £600 for Marie Curie at a March collection at Bracknell Morrisons
 
• Committed to donating to DrugFam through our Easter Egg Tombola
 
• Responded to requests for Message In a Bottle including Skimped Hill Surgery and Bagshot Road Surgery

2017

• Supported a Bracknell Youthline pilot project
 
• Supported Pilgrim Hearts winter Homeless Shelter
 
• Raised over £2,600 at the Bracknell Show 2017
 
• Donated to Citizens Advice for IT training
 
• Raised over £100 with our bbq at Bracknell Homebase
 
• Raised over £6,500 for the Bracknell Lions Gambia Appeal
 
• Marshalled the  Bracknell Half Marathon
 
• Planned and planted the Bracknell Lions Centenary flowerbed
 
• Committed £100 to the District Governors Special Olympics appeal
 
• Raised £295.16 for Marie Curie daffodil appeal in March 
 
• Distributed Message In A Bottle packs across numerous surgeries, projects and to individuals
 
• Assisted a local family in need with carpeting

2016

• Selected Pilgrim Hearts to be our charity Christmas Appeal, raising £504 for them
 
• Assisted local families at Christmas with food hampers
 
• Assisted in raising almost £2,000 for the Gambia Appeal
 
• Helped out with and donated money for the Me2Club Christmas party
 
• Assisted Woodley and Earley Lions by marshalling their fireworks display
 
• Laid a wreath at the War Memorial and St Michaels Church
 
• Ran the wonderfully successful Bracknell Show for the second year running, raising over £2,800 for local causes
 
• Marshalled the Bracknell Half Marathon
 
• Donated £200 to the MD Distaster Fund
 
• Collected 200 pairs of second hand spectacles to Spec Treck
 
• Donated £96 to a local family in need
 
• Donated £400 to the Children of Syria Refugee Fund
 
• Spent a day collecting for Marie Curie Cancer Research

 2015

• Assisted Woodley & Earley Lions with their Charity Firework Extravaganza in November
 
• Donated £150 to the Serbia Appeal
 
• Presented at Bracknell Self Care Week about Message In A Bottle
 
• Donated to Bracknell College Police trainees for their mobile display vehicle
 
• Helped a local scouts group renovate their tired looking scout hut
 
• Received funds from the Waitrose Green Token Community Matters Scheme and the Bracknell Council Blue bin recycling points scheme
 
• Donated again to the Me 2 Club for their Christmas party for children with disabilities
 
• Donated £25 to Parkinsons UK and £25 to Cancer Research in memory of two member's relatives who sadly passed away recently
 
• Successfully run a wonderful community event- Bracknell Show for the first time in almost 30 years
 
• Raised over £1700 profit at the Bracknell Show
 
• Donated Over £200 to the Nepal Earthquake fund after a last-minute tin-shake in Bracknell which raised over half that money.
 
• Donated £150 to the Ebola Fund
 
• Helped out with costs and manpower for the Me 2 Club Christmas party for volunteers and children
 
• Laid a wreath at the Bracknell Remembrance Day Event
 
• Added to our growing membership with 3 new members and 2 more prospective
 
• Assisted Woodley Lions with their charity firework display
 
• Donated £200 to the Salvation Army

2014

• Assisted with the Me 2 Club Summer trip
 
• Donated £50 to a local Judo club for a trip to Japan
 
• Donated £200 to a local scouts group for desperately needed equipment
 
• Raised over £400 at the Wokingham May Fayre, and distributed it  to local causes
 
• Marshalled at the Bracknell Half Marathon for another year running
 
• Raised over £500 at two Tin shakes over the Christmas period, to be split between the Lions Syria Fund and the local Bracknell Food Bank
 
• Donated to the LCIF Measles Appeal
 
• Donated to the Lions Multiple District Flood Relief Fund
 
• Collected numerous pairs of glasses for Spektrek
 
• Helped out at the Big Dig at the Jeallots Hill Community Landshare Project  

 2013

• Raised £625 (plus!) by taking part in Maidenhead Lions Fundrun!
 
• Bought a Pulse Oximeter for a baby in Ascot
 
• Donated two Beekeeping suits to Jealotts Hill Community Garden Project
 
• More than doubled our membership after a tough recruitment drive in the Martins Heron area of Bracknell
 
• Delivered top up Message In a Bottle stock to a number of surgerys and Age Concern
 
• Received a Banner patch in recognition of our support of Lions Reading Action Programme
 
• Assisted with Burnham Lions Charity Bike Ride
 
• Helped out with the Me2Club 10th anniversary party
 
• Put Spektrek boxes in 4 locations around teh area to collected unwanted glasses to donate to those in need
 
• Raised a huge £350.70 with our Tombola at the Wokingham May Fayre 2013
 
• Donated £200 alongside RNIB to a local blind resident that needed some help with home furnishings
 
• Raised £426.92 for Marie Curie at a tin-shake at Martins Heron Tescos
 
• Donated £125 to Wateraid
 
• Created and delivered Christmas  food parcels for MS sufferers in the Bracknell area
 
• Fundraised £110 with a tin-shake outside Martins Heron Tescos, £85 of which has been donated to Bracknell Food Bank
 
• Donated £50 to the Bracknell Forest Mayors Charity, Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance.
 
• Raised £217 at Wokingham Winter Carnival which we're looking forwards to giving out to local charities in need!
 
• Donated £50 to Windsor Theatre Describers  to take children with special needs to the theatre
 
• Committed to help the Me2 Club Project in Wokingham with their Christmas party again and donated £50
 
• Ringfenced £50 for NHS Food Parcels in the local area
 
• Assisted with two local families to send their children on school trips

2012

• Helped out with Windsor Lions annual charity horse race
 
• Bought and donated £55 worth of food to the Bracknell Food Bank June
 
• Donated £100 to Amelia's Miracle to help send 3 1/2 year old Amelia to America for treatment for a brain tumor
 
• Planted trees for International President Wing-Kun Tam's One Million Trees project
 
• Helped a local family in need with a donation of furniture
 
• Raised over £450 on tombola stalls at Wokingham Winter Carnival and the Lions May Fair
 
• Marshalled Bracknell Half Marathon
 
• Restocked numerous local surgeries with Mesage In A Bottle (MIAB)
 
• Attended a fundraising event held by Reading Lions to raise money for Reading Power Chair Football League
 
• Helped Marshall Windsor Lions Charity Horse Race
 
• Attended the Golden Age Retirement fair at Ascot Race Course to give out packs of Mesage In A Bottle (MIAB)
 
• Sent donations to the Kerith Center Food Bank in Bracknell

2011

• Raised over £1000 for the Alexander Devine Trust by one club member Abseiling the Reading Blade!
 
• Paid for children with Special Educational needs to visit Beale Park and the Christmas Pantomime at South Hill Park 
 
• Raised over £700 at our second Charity Race Night September 2011, and donated £400 of that to Help for Heroes 
 
• Donated money to Frimley Hospital's Heart 2 Heart appeal  towards the building of a new "Heart Attack Center"
 
• Attended the Golden Age Retirement fair at Ascot Race Course to give out packs of Mesage In A Bottle (MIAB)
 
• Raised £700 for St Dunstan's by running a fun Race Night in February 2011
 
• Ran successful Tombola Stalls at Wokingham Christmas Carnival and Wokingham May Fayre
 
• Continued to keep local surgeries and residential homes stocked with Mesage In A Bottle (MIAB)
 
• Donated to Life organisation
 
• Marshalled at Bracknell Half Marathon and Burnham Lions Bike Ride
 
• Helped with car parking at Wokingham Guide Dogs event
 
• Donated to Windsor Theatre Describers
 
• Helped the organising committe of the Lions 105D District Convention
 
• Donated to the Pakistan Earthquake disaster appeal

Please click on the links above if you'd like to visit the websites of all the organisations we've worked with and raised money for.

 

Have you some time to spare?

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