2014
16th December 2014
Hello! A slightly early happy Christmas to you all!
We fell like all our Christmases have come already this year, with lots of new members, some wonderful events and exciting things to look forwards to.
This month we have two Christmas collections around the local area. Last weekend we were at Tescos at Martins Heron with a tombola and tin shake to raise money for The Ebola Fund, to whom we have already donated £150. The club raised £372.56 during the day so a huge thank you to Tescos and to everyone who donated.
Our next collection will be at The Point Tescos this coming Sunday, the 21st December, and we look forwards to seeing you there!
Our club have also helped out at the Me 2 Club Christmas Party for a 3rd year running, assisting with the costs and by helping out on the day. It's always a great event for both the children and their volunteers, so thanks for letting us be a part of it!
We are also looking for potential stallholders for our Bracknell Show 2015, so please get in touch if you'd like to hold a stall there!
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18th November 2014
In other news, Club Member Homer is running 3 marathons in 3 months to raise money for the club, and in turn for local causes! If you'd like to support his amazing effort, please visit his BT My Donate Page:
https://mydonate.bt.com/events/bracknelllions/190190
Thank you and well done Homer! (More info to follow as he battles his way through the mud and up hills to his goal!)
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11th November 2014
On Sunday club members laid a memorial wreath alongside other service organisations and charities at the War Memorial outside St Josephs Church in Bracknell Town Centre. We were honoured to be asked to lay a wreath and look forwards to a continued partnership with the Royal British Legion.
We also are very excited to announce that we will be running The Bracknell Show in June 2015 on the Wildridings Playing Fields. This used to be a popular event in Bracknell but sadly hasn't been run in many years as there has been no-one willing to take on the task. Our club, with renewed energy and many more members has decided this is a task we can handle and are looking forwards to getting stuck into planning.
***** If you are a stall holder, charity or if you can offer a service or activity and would like to support this event , where all profits will go directly to local charities, then please get in touch.*****
In other exciting news, we had some awards given out to members at the last two meetings. Both Helen and Mike were awarded the "District Key" for helping open doors and sponsoring three new members each.
Mike receives his Key
On top of this Clare received her 15 year membership pin and new member John who has transferred from another club, has just been awarded his 30 year membership pin! Congratulations to all!
John receiving his membership chevrons
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23rd June 2014
At the weekend we held a lovely Handover BBQ. The Lionistic Year runs from June to June so we had a social event to celebrate the handover to our NEW PRESIDENT PAUL. Congratulations Paul. I will continue to be webmaster for the upcoming year, but will bully Paul into writing some blog posts too!
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18th June 2014
Yet another apology for a long gap since I last updated. The club are doing brilliantly with lots of new members, and new opportunities that come along with it. Some of our members recently enjoyed a training day to give them a better idea of what the officer roles involve and there are lots of fundraising, service and social dates going into the calendar.
I negated to mention in my excitement at winning the Website award for the District, that our club also won two further awards at the Convention.
Congratulations to us all for the hard work towards increasing our membership and thanks to all our new brilliant and enthusiastic club members- we were proud recipients of the District Membership cup. And a heartfelt congratulations to Lion Steve Pope who was awarded a Personal Banner from Lion Phil Robinson in recognition of his work within the club. Steve is of the original founding members of the club and is still working hard today!
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7th April 2014
Another big gap since the last update!
This is an update filled with GOOD NEWS- after all the efforts of the last three years, this website has won the Lions District 105D Website Award for PR!
It's taken a lot of hard work to get the website up to standard over the past three years, and thanks to the club for continuing to send information over. More information available on the District Website.
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11th February 2014
Apologies it's been a while since the last post!
It's been rather wet in our part of the world, luckily Bracknell tends to fare well but many of our neighbouring towns and regions are affected badly by the flooding so we are thinking of you all.
I forgot to upload the pictures from our 45th charter anniversary party in November, so here they are!
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1st January 2014
Happy New Year to all!
We have come such a long way in the last year- with our club almost unrecognisable from where we were 12 months ago.
December has been busy- we helped with the Me2 Club Christmas Party at Woodley contributing £100 towards the food and supplying the Father Christmas and official photographer for the 100 or so youngsters with special needs who attended the party.
We also ran two tin shakes outside Martins Heron Tescos and Tescos at The Point for the Lions Multi District Children of Syria Appeal and the Bracknell Foodbank. On the first day we raised £225 for UNICEF in Syriah which was matched by the British Government to total £450. On the second event,, we raised a total of £250 for immediate use in the Bracknell Foodbank over the busy Christmas period.
To see what other clubs in the district have been up to over December, please take a look at the District page here: http://lions105d.org.uk/news.html
