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2024

March 2024

We started the year with litter picking- both throughout the Christmas period and a sunny afternoon at Westmoorland Park in January. We're also currently applying for new bank accounts as sadly our current ones charge us fees for our accounts and fees on all our transactions which as a small charity is causing us problems. 


Our big success of the month has been our Marie Curie collection at Bracknell Morrisons for £528.98. This pays for around 23 hours of vital nursing care for someone with a terminal illness, and it was great to be out and about chatting to the lovely people of Bracknell. 


We're hoping to get another collection going for Easter at Martins Heron Tesco and possible an Easter raffle at Redwood Technologies!


Marie curie

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January 2024

2023 ended with a bang- we did some great fundraising and amazing community service events. In December we raised £360 with a collection at Martins Heron Tesco which we mostly used to arrange a wonderful Christmas party for the residents at Heathlands- which is an intermediate care centre in Bracknell. Patients in this unit have been discharged from hospital but don't yet have a care package in place for going home, and so our Christmas party was a really welcome distraction. We bought presents for all 20 residents, and supplied food, drink, crackers and table decorations and we even had Santa come along to dish out the gifts. 


Sitting together wrapping these presents as a task together with fellow Lions was a real moment of appreciating who we are as Lions and what we do. It was so heartwarming, to have Lions old and new working together during the festive period to serve the community. Thanks to everyone who donated, all our volunteers who stood out in the cold collecting and to the staff at Heathlands for letting us host their party.

The final thing we managed to do was to buy chocolate advent calendars for the 70 or so children supported by Berkshire Womens Aid in the area. For children living under the threat of domestic violence this was a small thing we could do to bring some joy during the festive period. 


Other events and acitvities


  • We also joined Wokingham Lions on a series of shifts to support their Wokingham Winter Carnival at the end of November
  • One member supported Windsor Lions with their Christmas Sleigh in the Winkfield area on 21st December

Both clubs kindly made a donation to our admin fund on the back of the above. 


The club held a small social after our meeting in December- we don't often get time to relax together so we made the most of it with mince pies! Our immediate past president Scott also brought along the original charter document for the club and we also presented Club Member Steve with a small token of our appreciation as he's been involved in Lions for fifty years! Thank you for all your years of service Steve!

litter pickSanta in Winkfieldshopping for presents for HeathlandsSantas Elves at Heathlands

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