2011
16th December 2011
After a great christmas social (with mulled wine, chilli and many desserts!) on Sat 10th, some of us headed off on the 11th December to the Me 2 Club Christmas Party in Woodley. Earlier in the year we agreed to donate some money to this great charity, and it was decided that the funds would go towards the Christmas Party.
(From their website):
The Me2 Club helps children and young people aged 5 to 19 years old with additional needs to participate in mainstream activities playing and socialising alongside other children. This is made possible by providing a trained volunteer to offer one to one support.
The Me2 Club offers support at organised out of school activities such as uniformed groups, youth clubs, sports, arts and social activities.
The party was a superb bash, starting with colouring and drawing, then a visit to see Santa (with pressies for everyone!), a superb clown, and then a party lunch with crackers and party hats! We thoroughly enjoyed helping out not only with the donation of money but by assisting in the kitchen and taking photographs at the event. I think everyone had fun... what do you think?
1st December 2011
Wokingham Winter Carnival 2011 was another success this year. Thanks to everyone who donated prizes, and all who visited our stall and gave generously. We made a profit of £285 which will will be donatig to local causes.
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14th November 2011
Had another productive meeting this evening, and now really looking forwards to Wokingham Winter Carnival 2011 in a couple of weeks where we will have our Tombola stall. Hope to see you there!
Thanks to everyone who has sent requests to us on our "contact" page over the last few months, it's great to see that the page is active and that we can assist people in the local area!
25th October 2011
Just been working on updating this website to get it ready for the District 105D website competition. Looks like there's some stiff competition, but it's a great opportunity to improve this site; making it more user friendly for those in the local area who need our help and for anyone looking to join a Lions Club!
We're currently looking forwards to the Wokingham Winter Carnival 2011 which will be on Sunday 27th November in Wokingham Town Centre. Lots of Lions Clubs and other organisations will be out in force running fun stalls and selling warming food and drink before the fantastic procession which kicks off at Shute end at 4pm. It's a great day out so if you're local please pop down to say hello! We'll be running a great Tombola stall in the market place will brilliant prizes to be won, and all profits going to local charities.
Last week we also had some great press coverage from Brigid and Leslie's abseil (see the press page) and I was delighted to find out that Brigid raised over £1,000 for the Trust. Brilliant work, and a very worthy cause.
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2nd October 2011
Brigid from Bracknell Lions (along with fellow Lion Leslie) proved their committment to good causes this morning by joining a number of local people in abseiling down the Blade in Reading to raise funds of the Alexander Devine Trust. At 9am this morning they gamely abseiled 128 meters (14 storeys)- the equivalent of 32 double decker busses!
Here's a few snaps I took of the brave ladies....
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29th September 2011
Brave Brigid (one of our members) will be abseiling down the Blade in Reading this Sunday (2nd October) to raise money for he Alexander Devine Trust!
Brigid says:
"I am challenging myself to do this Abseil the Blade - this is something that I have never done before and so it is literally for me a leap into the unknown but I passionately believe the cause is worth it."
Her Just Giving site can be found here: http://www.justgiving.com/brigid-hendy and more information about the excellent cause can be found here: http://www.alexanderdevine.org/. Please give generously! Good Luck Brigid!
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25th September 2011
I was really pleased to see in the Bracknell Standard this week a feature on the Race Night we held on Friday 16th September in Bullbrook. Thanks to the Standard for getting the details correct and coming to cover the event (there is a scan of the article over on our press page!). We were chuffed with the money we raised for charity- half will be going to Help for Heroes in memory of Iris Gough, a dedicated Lion who sadly died earlier this year. The club are currently deciding where the rest of the profit will be going- watch this space!
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