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What's On

October

2024

Venue 

Time/Details 

Sun 13th

Cabinet Meeting

The Stones High Post Salisbury SP4 6AT

10:30 - 12:30

Wed 16th

FLOGS Meeting

Wyvern Pub GU52 8JY

12:30 - 14.30

Fri 18th

Hart Youth Awards (Fleet Lions major sponsor)

Hart District Counicil offices

7pm

Thu 24th

Europa Forum 2024

Bordeaux, France

Thu; Fri; Sat

Fri 25th

Drink and Chat

De Haviland Arms GU51 1HA

7:00PM

Tue 29th

Devizes Lions Bingo Night

Devizes Conservative Club, Long St, Devizes SN10 1NW

 

Tue 29th

Community services Meeting

TBC

8pm

Thu 31st

Halloween

 

 

November

2024

Venue 

Time/Details 

Sat 2nd

Devizes Lions Arts Coaching Day

St James Centre Scout Hut

Tickets Via Ticketsource at https://shorturl.at/zF0dz

Sat 2nd

Firework Fiesta

Calthorpe Park, Reading Road North, Fleet GU51 4AD

Gates open 5pm

Wed 6th

Trustees Meeting

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

7:30pm

Sat 9th

Second Saturday Swap

Zoom

9:30 to 10:15am

Sun 10th

Remembrance Sunday

 

 

Wed 13th

Club Meeting

The Grange, Coxheath Road, Church Crookham GU52 6QR

8:00pm

Wed 20th

FLOGS Meeting

Wyvern Pub GU52 8JY

12:30 - 14.30

Wed 20th

Community services Meeting

TBC

8pm

Tue 26th

Devizes Lions Bingo Night

Devizes Conservative Club, Long St, Devizes SN10 1NW

 

Wed 27th

Christmas Festival

Fleet High Street

PM

Sat 30th

St Andrew's Day

 

 

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

Wed 11th

Club Meeting

The Grange, Coxheath Road, Church Crookham GU52 6QR

8:00pm

Sat 14th

Second Saturday Swap

Zoom

9:30 to 10:15am

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

 

 

Tue 7th

Community services Meeting

TBC

8pm

Sun 19th

Cabinet Meeting

Zoom

10:30 - 12:30

February

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

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

 

 

Mon 17th

St Patrick's Day

 

 

Wed 26th

Community services Meeting

TBC

8pm

Sun 30th

Mothering Sunday

 

 

April

2025

Venue 

Time/Details 

Fri 4th

Cabinet Meeting at Convention

TBA

15:30 - 16:30

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

Sat 10th

MD 105 British Isles 73rd Annual Convention

Llandudno

Weekend

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

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

 

 

The above dates may change without warning

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW: 

Fireworks Fiesta 2024 - 2 November

TICKETS ON SALE FROM 23 SEPTEMBER

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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.

Ticket sales 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!

Calendar front cover 2024We 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! 

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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.

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. 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

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:

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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