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What's On
uk holidays 
Lions District 105SC January |
2022 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Sat 29th |
Fleet Lions Charter Anniversary |
7:30 for 8:00pm |
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February |
2022 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Wed 2nd |
Trustees Meeting |
8:00pm |
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Wed 9th |
Business Meeting |
8:00pm |
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Mon 14th |
Valentine's Day |
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March |
2022 |
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Tue 1st |
St David's Day |
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Wed 2nd |
Trustees Meeting |
8:00pm |
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Wed 9th |
Business Meeting |
8:00pm |
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Sat 12th |
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Swindon, Lydiard Fields, Great Western Way, Swindon SN5 8UZ |
Weekend |
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Thu 17th |
St Patrick's Day |
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Sun 27th |
Mothering Sunday |
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April |
2022 |
Venue |
Time/Details |
Wed 6th |
Trustees Meeting |
8:00pm |
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Wed 13th |
Business Meeting |
8:00pm |
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Fri 15th |
Good Friday |
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Mon 18th |
Easter Monday |
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Sat 23rd |
St George's Day |
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Sat 30th |
Holiday Inn Convention Centre, Birmingham |
Weekend |
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May |
2022 |
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Mon 2nd |
Early May bank holiday |
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June |
2022 |
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Thu 2nd |
Spring bank holiday |
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Fri 3rd |
Queen's Platinum Jubilee |
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Sun 19th |
Father's Day |
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July |
2022 |
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August |
2022 |
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Mon 29th |
Summer bank holiday |
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October |
2022 |
Venue |
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Mon 31st |
Halloween |
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November |
2022 |
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Sun 13th |
Remembrance Sunday |
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Wed 30th |
St Andrew's Day |
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December |
2022 |
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Sun 25th |
Christmas Day |
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Mon 26th |
Boxing Day |
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Tue 27th |
Bank holiday in lieu of Christmas Day |
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January |
2023 |
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Time/Details |
Sun 1st |
New Year's Day |
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Mon 2nd |
New Year's Day Observed |
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Fleet Lions - fancy joining in?
It's a New Year. New opportunities! 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.
Santa came to town!
Many thanks for your friendly welcomes & the smiling faces of all your lovely children. Santa had a great time and is looking forward to seeing you all again next year. We've already put your donations to good use and distributed Christmas food parcels to those who need them. So you've made their Christmas a bit more special. And a very big thank you to Carol at Johnsons Cleaners in Fleet for cleaning our Fleet Lions Club's Santa outfits, all ready now for next year's tour of the town on our Christmas Float.
Fuel and Utilities Project
Do you know of anyone struggling with Fuel or Utility Bills? Please let us know by emailing us at fuel@fleetlions.org.uk.
Are your financial circumstances such that you could forego your annual Winter Fuel Allowance, 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.
Covid-19 support: helping Hart residents
The Coronavirus Hampshire Helpline is 0333 370 4000
A helpline is now available to provide information and advice, as well as practical support, to frail or vulnerable. All calls to this local call rate number will be handled by staff in the Hart District.
Home Prostate screening tests - find the missing men
There has been a massive fall in the number of men being referred by GPs for diagnostic tests during the pandemic. So 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...
Appeal for laptops
or for monetary donations towards hardware then please click here
Your local Lions clubs have now provided 1800 laptops/desktops to enable students to continue their education since start of lockdowns. But we are still in urgent need of equipment! We are running out of stock so do you have a spare laptop running Windows 7 or above that we could have to refurbish? We also need to buy quite a bit of hardware to make sure the machines are a good standard. Here's A GREAT CLIP that describes our project. Please contact it@fleetlions.org.uk where we can have a chat.
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.
Help us boost our fundraising
You may feel you'd like to continue supporting us in the work we do and make a donation. You can do so by using JustGiving which may allow us to claim Gift Aid.
Due to the rules/concerns over Covid-19 all our major fundraising events for 2020 and up to Autumn 2021 had to be cancelled. The Fireworks Fiesta was our first major fundraiser for 18 months. Our reserves have allowed us to continue helping our local community especially where Covid has increased their needs. We've been particularly careful to make sure the funds we've spent have given really good benefits to local people and organisations. We have continued this with our Christmas food parcels but the existing funds won't last for ever.
Wearing a face mask making your ears sore?
Are you a carer, healthcare provider or essential business? Do you know someone who is? We have been busy making face-mask ear reliever straps. Let us know if you need some. Email info@fleetlions.org.uk.
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...
Equipment hire
We hire out equipment for use at fetes etc.
More information...
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. You the public voted us into THE SHORTLIST of the documentary section the Charity Film Awards. Many thanks to those of you who voted for us. Did the judges put us into the finals? Sadly they didn't but here's a comment from them: "The video told clearly the surprising different work done by Lions and the charities which benefited not just financially but in practical ways". It was an honour to take part along with many other incredible organisations who serve their community too. 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:
SERENDIPITY Antiques & Gifts with Tearoom www.serendipityonline.co.uk
HART SHOPPING CENTRE Fleet's premier shopping centre www.hartshopping.co.uk
