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What's On

December

2024

Venue 

Time/Details 

Wed 4th

Trustees Meeting

Community Room, Morrisons, Elvetham Heath, Fleet GU51 1GY

7:30pm

Tue 10th

Fleet Lions Carol Concert

Church on the Heath

7~9pm

Tue 17th

Devizes Lions Bingo Night

Devizes Conservative Club, Long St, Devizes SN10 1NW

 

Wed 18th

FLOGS Meeting

Wyvern Pub GU52 8JY

12:30 - 14.30

Wed 25th

Christmas Day

 

 

Thu 26th

Boxing Day

 

 

Tue 31st

Closing Date for receipt of Nominations and Resolutions for debate at the 2025 District Convention

 

 

January

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

Wed 1st

New Year's Day

 

 

Thu 2nd

Trustees Meeting

Community Room, Morrisons, Elvetham Heath, Fleet GU51 1GY

7:30pm

Tue 7th

Community services Meeting

TBC

8pm

Wed 8th

Club Meeting

The Grange, Coxheath Road, Church Crookham GU52 6QR

8:00pm

Sun 19th

Cabinet Meeting

Zoom

10:30 - 12:30

February

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

Wed 5th

Trustees Meeting

Community Room, Morrisons, Elvetham Heath, Fleet GU51 1GY

7:30pm

Wed 12th

Club Meeting

The Grange, Coxheath Road, Church Crookham GU52 6QR

8:00pm

Fri 21st

Young Ambassadors Multiple District Finals

 

Weekend

Wed 26th

Community services Meeting

TBC

8pm

March

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

Sat 1st

St David's Day

 

 

Wed 5th

Trustees Meeting

Community Room, Morrisons, Elvetham Heath, Fleet GU51 1GY

7:30pm

Wed 12th

Club Meeting

The Grange, Coxheath Road, Church Crookham GU52 6QR

8:00pm

Mon 17th

St Patrick's Day

 

 

Wed 26th

Community services Meeting

TBC

8pm

Sat 29th

Volunteer Fayre with HVA

Hart shopping centre

10am to 3pm

Sun 30th

Mothering Sunday

 

 

April

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

Wed 2nd

Trustees Meeting

Community Room, Morrisons, Elvetham Heath, Fleet GU51 1GY

7:30pm

Fri 4th

Cabinet Meeting at Convention

TBA

15:30 - 16:30

Wed 9th

Club Meeting

The Grange, Coxheath Road, Church Crookham GU52 6QR

8:00pm

Fri 18th

Good Friday

 

 

Mon 21st

Easter Monday

 

 

Wed 23rd

St George's Day

 

 

Wed 23rd

Community services Meeting

TBC

8pm

May

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

Mon 5th

Early May bank holiday

 

 

Mon 5th

Motorcycle Run and Concours

Key Car Park, Elvetham Heath, Fleet, Hampshire GU51 1HA

9:30am

Wed 7th

Trustees Meeting

Community Room, Morrisons, Elvetham Heath, Fleet GU51 1GY

7:30pm

Sat 10th

MD 105 British Isles 73rd Annual Convention

Llandudno

Weekend

Wed 14th

Club Meeting

The Grange, Coxheath Road, Church Crookham GU52 6QR

8:00pm

Sun 18th

Cabinet Meeting

TBA

10:30 - 12:30

Wed 21st

Community services Meeting

TBC

8pm

Mon 26th

Spring bank holiday

 

 

June

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

Sun 1st

Loddon Valley Lions Tadley Treacle Fair

Saunders Fields Tadley RG26 4FF

11:00am - 4:00pm

Wed 4th

Trustees Meeting

Community Room, Morrisons, Elvetham Heath, Fleet GU51 1GY

7:30pm

Wed 11th

Club Meeting

The Grange, Coxheath Road, Church Crookham GU52 6QR

8:00pm

Sun 15th

Father's Day

 

 

Wed 18th

Community services Meeting

TBC

8pm

July

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

T.B.C.

Handover Lunch

TBA

12:30pm

Sat 5th

Fleet Carnival 2025

High street and Calthorpe Park

10 to 9pm

Sun 13th

International Convention - Venue & dates changed!

Orlando, Florida

13th to 17th (dates changed from 4th)

August

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

Sat 2nd

Fleet Beerfest

The Harlington

 

Mon 25th

Summer bank holiday

 

 

October

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

Fri 31st

Halloween

 

 

November

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

Sun 9th

Remembrance Sunday

 

 

Sun 30th

St Andrew's Day

 

 

The above dates may change without warning

Christmas Carol Concert - Tuesday 10 Dec 2024

Would you or someone you know like to come along to Fleet Lions' 2024 Christmas Carol Concert? Fleet Lions are inviting older and more vulnerable people from the Fleet & Church Crookham area to their event at the Church on the Heath, Elvetham Heath on 10 December. This Christmas Carol Concert is for the lonely, Alzheimer sufferers and those that rarely get out. Entry will be free but by invitation. Further details click here.

Santa comes to town from 2 December 2024!

Lions Christmas Logo

We're planning to do our Santa runs and statics this year - so you may get a knock on your door when we come down your street! AND YOU CAN DONATE HERE. We'll also be outside the Hart Shopping Centre in daylight. The money raised will go towards the massive number of Christmas food parcels we are providing for the needy. When and where of float routes and a live tracker can be found by clicking here. 

The members of Fleet and Hart Lions would like to wish you all 
a very happy Christmas.


Advent Calendar - check the winning numbers from 1 December

Calendar front cover 2024We and Hart Lions have now sold out. So many thanks to those of you who've bought one (or two or three!). There are 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. Check here daily to see if you've won.

Trying to stay warm by a radiator

Fuel and Utilities Project

We are trying to 'help' target where public donations can do the most good to help people struggling with Fuel or Utility Bills. In the past people who got the annual Winter Fuel Allowance and didn't need it often donated it to us. Often people just made a donation to this cause anyway. We are still accepting donations to this worthy cause through Donate now PLEASE CLICK HERE.

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

Urgent Appeal for laptops

Will you have an unwanted laptop after Christmas (or even before!)?

Remember that if you are lucky enough to get a new laptop this Christmas, then think in turn of donating your old laptop to the Lions. We are in urgent need of donations of working laptops currently fitted with Windows 7 / 8 / 10 or 11. All history is professionally cleansed prior to it being reprogramed for release to families in need. Contact: it@fleetlions.org.uk

Many thanks and Merry Christmas from Lion Santa and his helpers at the Lions IT Refurbishment Team.

Here's A GREAT CLIP that describes our project.

Fireworks Fiesta 2024 - 2 November

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And what a great show that was to celebrate another year of us serving Fleet. 6000 of you came along and enjoyed £5500's of amazing fireworks. Many thanks for your support - we'll do great things with the money we raised. We hope you tucked in to our burgers, 'dogs' and mulled wine. As well as all the other food and drink outlets. And your youngsters enjoyed our trinkets. 

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.

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. 

bees

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:

Community Service

Fundraising

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.

Our thanks to our main website sponsors:

hart shopping_logo HART SHOPPING CENTRE Fleet's premier shopping centre www.hartshopping.co.uk


 


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

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