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What's On

Fleet Lions' Classic Motorcycle Run and Concours RETURNS on 6 May 2024

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Fleet Lions' 37th Classic Motorcycle Run and Concours will be back again at The Key Car Park, Elvetham Heath, Fleet, GU51 1HA. We expect to have several hundred amazing bikes and they all have a fabulous ride out at 11:00am before returning for judging by 2.15pm. So bring your bike along and join them. Or just come and have a look at them. Riders arrive between 9:30am and 10:30am. Hot rolls and drinks will be available.  More details here.

Lions' Funfest - 30 June, Yateley Manor School

Funfest Poster 2024Our Funfest is a fun packed day for people with disabilities or special educational needs, their families and helpers. There is no charge to attend but those wishing to attend have to register. The emphasis is on music and fun, for people of all ages and abilities: with bouncy castles, roundabouts, steam train rides and plenty of sideshows and games. The event is run by us, Aldershot, Farnborough, Hart, Hook and Odiham, Loddon Valley and Yateley Lions. We all contribute to the cost of staging the event.

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.

Trying to stay warm by a radiator

Fuel and Utilities Project

We are trying to 'help' target where the annual Winter Fuel Allowance money can do the most good. So are your financial circumstances such that you could make a small donation or forego some or all of your annual Winter Fuel Allowance (you'll be getting £500 per household from the Government this year), knowing that by doing so you could help a local family that is suffering from fuel poverty or problems paying their water bill? Full or part Winter Fuel Allowance donations are held in a fund to pay charges for local families that are in debt to their energy suppliers or water utility. More details here.

Here's how you can donate.

Do you know of anyone struggling with Fuel or Utility Bills? Please let us know by emailing us at fuel@fleetlions.org.uk. 

Prostate Cancer Screening Session 

We held another PSA screening session on 28 October 2023 at The Key Centre. 240 men were tested. 

IF YOU COULDN'T GET A TEST THEN SEE BELOW FOR SPONSORED HOME SCREENING TESTS 

Home Prostate screening tests - find the missing men

Prostate screening

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. 

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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

teaching costa ricaFleet 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 BottleMessage in a Bottle - important medical facts to help the emergency services help you

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:

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or maybe join us for a social evening.

All the help is gratefully received - and hopefully you will enjoy the activity!

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Latest News

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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:

map 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.

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Business Meetings
8pm 2nd Wednesdays
The Grange, Woodland Rise, Church Crookham, Fleet GU52 6QR

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