Lion President Stephan Bouloux and the Exeter Lions Club have set out to raise funds this year( July2010-June 2011) for the following three main projects  

Children’s Hospice South West

Children’s Hospice South West was founded in 1991 by Eddie and Jill Farwell after they experienced for themselves the urgent need for hospice care for children in the South West. Their two eldest children, Katie and Tom, had life-limiting illnesses and they had to travel over four hours, from their home in North Devon to Helen House in Oxford, then the country’s only children’s hospice.
In 1995 Little Bridge House, the South West’s first children’s hospice opened its doors to families from across the South West. Little Bridge House very quickly became oversubscribed, which led to the opening of the charity’s second hospice Charlton Farm located just outside Bristol, in 2007.
They are now in the process of raising funds through our Precious Lives Appeal to build our third hospice, in Cornwall, it will be called Little Harbour. 

Ellen TinkhamSchool  Exeter

  The school caters for 120 children from age 3 to 19; all with severe learning difficulties and various physical disabilities. In addition there are communication problems due to the disabilities mentioned. Consequently all have individual curriculum’s which are compiled in conjunction with each family. The school covers an area of some 40 miles radius. This in itself does not help integration within local communities, so some days are allocated to local schools where a child lives well away from Exeter. Support is also given by the staff to local schools. The staff team is 100. Funding is mainly by the state with assistance as a specialist school which gains finance for every £1000 raised by the release of a further £25,000. There are always needs for small amount of funding for specific items of equipment.

St Petrock’s

An Exeter-based charity which aims to support and encourage people who are homeless, or inadequately housed, to improve their circumstances and take more control of their lives.St Petrock’s has been working with people who are homeless since 1994 and in that time we have helped over 9,000 people.  We employ 11 paid staff and have a board of 10 trustees. We also benefit enormously from the services of some 30 volunteers.In 2008/09, there were 9209 client visits to the centre.  We provided 815 key working sessions, helped 956 people into accommodation (including through our prison service) and 55 people into full-time or part-time employment, education or volunteering.

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Plus many Local Charities which are supported with donations and help. Plus International projects including Emergency Aid,Youth Activities, Eye Camps,Water Aid,Gift for Living, Unicef,JHA, Medic Alert and LIBRA