Join THE 250 CLUB

The Lions Brain Tumour & Paediatric Cancer Appeal is desperately trying to play catch-up after the fallow years of Covid, and so has launched

THE 250 CLUB LOTTERY

It costs £2.50 per ticket per month, with prizes of:

£125; £75 & £50 per month, plus an annual bonus prize of £250

Forms to join in can be obtained from:

PDG Lion Fred Broom on 01460 72305 or lionfarmerfred@gmail.com

Int. Pres Brian Sheehan’s motto is: Togetherwecan

By joining the 250 Club

Togetherwecanfind a cure

Annual Half Marathon a Great Success

Our Annual Half Marathon was run on Sunday 5 2023 at Bishop member Lion Tim Otter, said, It blew the Christmas cobwebs away! It was a glorious day. In all, a highly successful event which will enable our club to help those in need. On behalf of the club, I would like to say thank you to the runners, supporters, helpers, and our sponsors for their support.”

The winners were: Male winner Michael Sandiford of Fordy Runs Running Club in a time of one hour 13 minutes 19 secs; male runner-up Chris Wood of Twemlow Track Club; ladies winner Gill Pearson, Running for Time Club in a time of one-hour 23minutes 59 seconds; and ladies runner -up Victoria Walls, an individual runner.

The various photos show DG Lesley and President Peter presenting prizes.

The prizes were donated by Victoria O’Brien Cakes, and very yummy they were.

None of this could have been done without a massive team effort from the club members and helpers.

We now have some 23 Giant Easter Eggs on display at local venues in the Blackmore Vale, with tickets at £1 each and the draws taking place at Easter.

We still have a great deal of fun and laughter at our social occasions and our next one will be lunch. As always, we continue to help those in need, especially locally.

£1,000 donation towards the cost of a specially adapted Beach Wheelchair

Weymouth & Portland Lions Club approved a £1,000 donation to Weymouth Town Council recently to go towards the purchase of another beach wheelchair. These special adapted wheelchairs enable disabled adults and children full access to the beach and to the sea. They are free to use and are stored at the beach office.

Torpoint & Rame Peninsula Lions Club Activities

In the New Year of 2023, we learnt that our President Lion Clive O’ Shaughnessy was very ill; he subsequently passed over the chain of office to our First Vice President Annette Evans at our 2023 Charter Lunch at Cawsand Bay. His illness has made it very difficult to fulfil his duties as he would like, and we in our club respect that decision and all he has done for our club and wish him well.

Local charity CHAT (Community Health Around Torpoint) made an appeal for assistance with food boxes for needy families in our area, and we were able to donate £1,000 to assist their efforts on behalf of the Lions club.

The local sailing club in Torpoint is one of the more deserving causes in our area, as it continues to provide high-quality training and support to the youth of Torpoint. It has identified that its safety boat needs replacement or repair, and the cost of repair is quite substantial. Torpoint Lions Club decided to make a £500 donation to the appeal to have the necessary repairs carried out, and we continue to help with bingo evenings at its club venue to raise more funds to aid its efforts.

Torpoint Lions were asked to help Liskeard Food Bank and we were able to donate £300 to purchase a freezer for it, with a further £350 to purchase a fridge-freezer for the new food bank, which is to be opened soon. These appliances are important to its operation, and we were happy to be of assistance.

Our club is aware that young people are our future and we do as much in our community as we can for them. Recently we were asked to aid the cost of sending up to 12 youngsters on a one-day seamanship course on the coastal barge Lyhner. This is to help give them experience and a first-hand appreciation of working at sea. The price for the day was high, but we made a donation of £300, which offset the overall cost. I hope they will come back to our club and give us a presentation of their day. (Photos to follow)

We are very lucky to live in a part of Cornwall that is quite beautiful, and as part of our commitment to the area we are active in projects involving the environment, and our Club Officer Lion Marianne Wooton keeps us on track with what is happening. To that end, we have made the commitment to plant six fruit trees in conjunction with the Friends of Thanckes Park in Torpoint, and we took part in another litter-pick as part of their initiative to keep our area looking good. Everything has a price and you’ve got to put in the work to get the benefits.

We were selling daffodils on two weekends (11th and 12th March and 18th and 19th March to help raise money for our charity pot.

We run a very successful wheelchair loan scheme, and since the New Year many chairs have gone out, and donations have been very generous in return.

As you can tell, we are very busy as a club, but as with most clubs we are short of new members so we are currently running a recruitment campaign, which has just been rolled out and will cascade through the villages on the peninsula.

New members

Three new members are being shown around our holiday home on Golden Coast Holiday Park Woolacombe. Available to rent to families with disabilities; Prices and availability by searching Ilfracombe Lions Website at Website: http:www.ilfracombeanddistrictlionsclub.com or by calling Lion Matt Smith on 07889929874. Facebook: Ilfracombe and District Lions Club Twitter: @ilfracombelions