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What's On
uk holidays 
Lions District 105SC October |
2024 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Wed 16th |
FLOGS Meeting |
12:30 - 14.30 |
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Fri 18th |
Hart Youth Awards (Fleet Lions major sponsor) |
Hart District Counicil offices |
7pm |
Fri 25th |
Drink and Chat |
7:00PM |
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Tue 29th |
Community services Meeting |
TBC |
8pm |
Thu 31st |
Halloween |
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November |
2024 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Sat 2nd |
Gates open 5pm |
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Wed 6th |
Trustees Meeting |
7:30pm |
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Sun 10th |
Remembrance Sunday |
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Wed 13th |
Club Meeting |
8:00pm |
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Wed 20th |
FLOGS Meeting |
12:30 - 14.30 |
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Wed 20th |
Community services Meeting |
TBC |
8pm |
Wed 27th |
Christmas Festival |
Fleet High Street |
PM |
Sat 30th |
St Andrew's Day |
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December |
2024 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Wed 4th |
Trustees Meeting |
7:30pm |
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Tue 10th |
Fleet Lions Carol Concert |
Church on the Heath |
7~9pm |
Wed 11th |
Club Meeting |
8:00pm |
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Wed 18th |
FLOGS Meeting |
12:30 - 14.30 |
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Wed 25th |
Christmas Day |
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Thu 26th |
Boxing Day |
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January |
2025 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Wed 1st |
New Year's Day |
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Tue 7th |
Community services Meeting |
TBC |
8pm |
February |
2025 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Wed 26th |
Community services Meeting |
TBC |
8pm |
March |
2025 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Sat 1st |
St David's Day |
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Mon 17th |
St Patrick's Day |
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Wed 26th |
Community services Meeting |
TBC |
8pm |
Sun 30th |
Mothering Sunday |
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April |
2025 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Fri 18th |
Good Friday |
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Mon 21st |
Easter Monday |
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Wed 23rd |
St George's Day |
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Wed 23rd |
Community services Meeting |
TBC |
8pm |
May |
2025 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Mon 5th |
Early May bank holiday |
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Mon 5th |
9:30am |
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Wed 21st |
Community services Meeting |
TBC |
8pm |
Mon 26th |
Spring bank holiday |
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June |
2025 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Sun 15th |
Father's Day |
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Wed 18th |
Community services Meeting |
TBC |
8pm |
July |
2025 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Sat 5th |
Fleet Carnival 2025 |
High street and Calthorpe Park |
10 to 9pm |
August |
2025 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Sat 2nd |
Fleet Beerfest |
The Harlington |
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Mon 25th |
Summer bank holiday |
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GET YOUR TICKETS NOW:
Fireworks Fiesta 2024 - 2 November
TICKETS ON SALE FROM 23 SEPTEMBER
Please GET YOUR TICKETS NOW or add this date to your diary. We're looking forward to putting on a great show and celebrating another year of serving Fleet. It'll be even better than last year's with £5500's of amazing fireworks + a few more tickets. Lots of good food and drinks and trinkets for the youngsters so you can enjoy your fireworks party with us. More details HERE.
It'll be advance ticket sales only and we've made some more available for this year. But we sold out before the event last year so please don't come along if you don't have tickets as there will be no sales on the gate.
Help us run Fleet's main fireworks event. Can you spare a few hours on 2 November? Please drop Lion Arie an email: arie.vannieuwenhuijzen@fleetlions.org.uk. Help make this great event happen.
Advent Calendar - it's back!
We and Hart Lions start sales start sales of our advent calendar on 5 Oct in the Hart Shopping Centre. And we'll be there and outside Morrisons and Sainsburys during October and November. You can see when here. Over 70 prizes have generously been donated with a value of more than £4000. They include a wide variety of experiences, goods and discounts including vouchers for meals, fitness, gifts, clothing vouchers, afternoon tea and much much more, and on the final day the top prize is £100 IN CASH.
Prostate Cancer Screening
We are pleased to announce that the Prostate Cancer screening held on Saturday 31st August 2024 at the Key Centre, Elvetham Heath was fully subscribed. Everyone tested have now received their results.
YOU CAN ALSO GET A SPONSORED HOME SCREENING TEST, SEE BELOW.
Lions Beerfest 3 August - what a day!
Nearly 800 of you came to the Fleet Lions Beerfest at the Harlington in Fleet on 3 August. We had over 40 Real ales and Ciders and they drank us dry of that and the four craft ales! Gin bar by Fleet Ginfest was great as were burgers & hog roast & fresh pizzas from Arborfield Hogroast. The Farriers went down a storm at lunchtime as did Kindred Spirit in the evening. So we raised a pile of money for our prostate screening programme and other worthwhile local causes. Hampshire Search and Rescue helped out and we sent them home with a cheque for £500. More details of the event here.
So look forward to our next one on 2 August 2025
Urgent Appeal for laptops
Donations of working IT equipment are the foundation of our work. We've supplied over 2500 to schoolchildren and Ukrainian families. We are in urgent need of donations of working laptops currently fitted with Windows 7 / 8 / 10 or 11, plus PCs and monitors for us to fulfil current demand. Could your School or Business support us? Devices are wiped with professional software and reloaded with a fresh Microsoft Windows 10/11. Please contact us at it@fleetlions.org.uk.
Here's A GREAT CLIP that describes our project.
Fuel and Utilities Project
We are trying to 'help' target where the annual Winter Fuel Allowance money can do the most good. Do you know of anyone struggling with Fuel or Utility Bills? Please let us know by emailing us at fuel@fleetlions.org.uk.
Home Prostate screening tests - find the missing men
We are sponsoring home testing kits for prostate cancer. Fleet Lions, working with the Graham Fulford Trust are offering Fleet men aged 40 to 70 a simple finger prick test that can be done at home. It'll take 5 mins to follow the simple instructions. Said Lion Brian Proctor, "with one man dying every hour from prostate cancer and 40,000 new cases every year, a home testing kit could be the best gift for life ever. Early detection and treatment may vastly increase chances of survival." To register for a test and Find out more...
Our Bees - we have our own pollinators!
We have now sponsored a honeybee colony. This is just one of our projects to meet the Lions Clubs International environmental objectives.
In the first video we transferred the colony into its permanent home but we found that the queen was missing. If we didn't get a queen in there the colony was doomed. What happened next? Watch and see here.
Fleet Lions - fancy joining in?
We're always up to something so those could be new opportunities for you. Perhaps you'd like to join us in helping to serve the local community? Let us know if you're interested by using our contact us facility.
We do lots of things around here, you can see them on our website. Maybe you'd like to try them out and see if you'd like to become a member of Fleet Lions, the largest community service group in Fleet. You'd be most welcome.
We also need people to help us run some of the biggest events for the people of Fleet and neighbouring towns to enjoy. e.g. it takes 120 people to put on the fireworks event. Fleet Lions Volunteer Team are a group of people we can call upon to help us - and join in the fun too. And we give people any training that they need.
Fleet Lions Volunteer Team
We organise some of the biggest events for the people of Fleet and neighbouring towns to enjoy. And quite a few of them need numbers on the day beyond the members of our Club e.g. it takes 120 people to put on the fireworks event. We have a group of people we can call upon to help us - and join in the fun too. So we call them the Fleet Lions Volunteer Team and we'll give people any training that they need. We'd also like to make sure everyone also has a bit of play - not just work. So let us know if you're interested by using our contact us facility. Our Branch Club in Aldershot are also keen to find people who'd like to help them at their events. So please contact them too if you'd like to do that: Aldershot Lions' website.
Young People's Bursaries
Fleet Lions have bursaries to help young people fund their trips abroad to help the less fortunate. Apply to bursaries@fleetlions.org.uk
Message in a Bottle
The Lions Message In a Bottle scheme is a simple idea designed to encourage people to keep their personal and medical details on a standard form and in a common location - the Fridge. See a good descriptive video here. Whilst it is focused on the more vulnerable people in our community, anyone can have an accident at home, so this scheme can benefit anyone, including you. More details here. Contact miab@fleetlions.org.uk if you need one/some.
Who are the Lions?
Lions are the largest community service organisation in the world. We raised over $21 million to help protect tens of millions of children in the world's poorest countries from measles. The men and women of Fleet Lions help local people and organisations where there is need. We organise some of the biggest events in the town to keep you entertained - and we have fun doing so!
Do you have some time to spare?
Please join Fleet Lions Volunteer Team and help us with some of our other projects:
Community Service
Fundraising
or maybe join us for a social evening.
All the help is gratefully received - and hopefully you will enjoy the activity!
Latest News
Read all the latest news about Fleet Lions...
A year in the life of Fleet Lions Club
Our thanks to John Sutton of Clearwater Photography who followed us around for a whole year and then turned what he saw into this fantastic film. Ordinary people doing amazing things!
Meetings
The club normally meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 8:00pm at:
The Grange, Coxheath Road, Fleet GU52 6QR
Why not visit Hart Lions, our sister club in fleet?
If you live in Aldershot, see Aldershot Lions' website.
Our thanks to our main website sponsors:
HART SHOPPING CENTRE Fleet's premier shopping centre www.hartshopping.co.uk
