Meetings
Members

Join us by contacting Belfast Lions Club President MICHAEL FISHER

e: mjfisher1@btinternet.com or telephone (028) 9066 2945

We meet at the Wellington Park Hotel, Malone Road, BELFAST.

For directions see MAP:  /www.wellingtonparkhotel.com/location.php

OUR HISTORY

The International Association of Lions Clubs began as the dream of Chicago businessman Melvin Jones. He believed that local business clubs should expand their horizons from purely professional concerns to the betterment of their communities and the world at large.

Jones' group, the Business Circle of Chicago, agreed. After contacting similar groups around the United States, an organizational meeting was held on June 7, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The new group took the name of one of the invited groups, the "Association of Lions Clubs," and a national convention was held in Dallas, Texas, USA in October of that year. A constitution, by-laws, objects and code of ethics were approved.

Among the objects adopted in those early years was one that read, "No club shall hold out the financial betterment of its members as its object." This call for unselfish service to others remains one of the association's main tenets. Just three years after its formation, the association became international when the first club in Canada was established in 1920. Major international expansion continued as clubs were established, particularly throughout Europe, Asia and Africa during the 1950s and '60s.

In 1925, Helen Keller addressed the Lions international convention in Cedar Point, Ohio, USA. She challenged Lions to become "knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness." From this time, Lions clubs have been actively involved in service to the blind and visually impaired. Broadening its international role, Lions Clubs International helped the United Nations form the Non-Governmental Organizations sections in 1945 and continues to hold consultative status with the U.N.

In 1990, Lions launched its most aggressive sight preservation effort, SightFirst. The US$143.5 million program strives to rid the world of preventable and reversible blindness by supporting desperately needed health care services. In addition to sight programs, Lions Clubs International is committed to providing services for youth.

Lions clubs also work to improve the environment, build homes for the disabled, support diabetes education, conduct hearing programs and, through their foundation, provide disaster relief around the world. Lions Clubs International has grown to include 1.35 million men and women in 46,000 clubs located in over 200 countries and geographic areas.

PRIVACY POLICY:

This website operated by Belfast Lions Club (Antrim Branch Club) is not used to gather personal data. But for the benefit of users, a copy of the Lions Clubs (MD105) privacy policy is hereby attached.

Lions Clubs International in the British Isles & Ireland (B&I Lions) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. It provides this Privacy Policy to inform you of its Privacy Policy and practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected online and how that information is used.

This policy explains:

Sites covered by this privacy policy

Childrens' Privacy

Cookies

Changes to this Policy

Contacting us

What information we collect from you

There are two types of information we collect: information that allows us to identify specific individuals and information of a more generalized nature.

Personal information

Whenever we ask for information that enables us to identify you it will be clear that we are doing so and in every case you will have a choice of how we use the information that is asked for. Information of this type will only be asked for on those parts of our web site that allows transactions to be performed, in contrast to those parts of our web site that are merely informational in their function.

Information of this type will also be collected when you contact us directly by email for any reason or if you specifically request that we send you information.

Anonymised information

This website uses cookies to help you in your interactions with the site. No personally identifiable data is collected. This type of information helps us to enhance the web site and improve its navigability. It also helps us to improve the quality of the online services and information you can access. In order to facilitate this, we use cookies to identify specific information about your visits to the site.

This site uses Google Analytics www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics) to allow us to track how popular our site is and to record visitor trends over time. Google Analytics uses a cookie to help track which pages are accessed. The cookie contains no personally-identifiable information, but it does use your computer’s IP address to determine where in the world you are accessing the site from, and to track your page visits within the site.

From time to time, we may embed external content from third-party websites (e.g. Facebook, YouTube) within our web site. These websites may utilise cookies and the Privacy Policy that will apply to such third-party content will be that published on the website of that third-party content provider.

Sites covered by this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all B&I Lions owned websites (www.lionsmd105.org and www.lions.org.uk).

Links to non B&I Lions websites

The B&I Lions website may provide links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. If you access those links, you will leave the B&I Lions website. B&I Lions do not control those sites or their privacy practices, which may differ from the B&I Lions’ website. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites. The personal data you choose to give to unrelated third parties is not covered by the B&I Lions Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any organisation before submitting your personal information.

Childrens' Privacy

B&I Lions are committed to protecting the privacy needs of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small data file transferred by a website to your computer hard drive. Accepting the session cookie used on our site does not give us access to your personal information. Cookies are typically classified as either "session" cookies or "permanent" cookies.

"Session" cookies do not stay on your computer after you leave our website or close your browser. The aggregate information collected permits us to analyse traffic patterns on our site. This can enable us over time to provide a better experience on our site by improving content or personalization and making our site easier to use.

"Permanent" cookies are those that remain on your computer. B&I Lions do not utilise permanent cookies on this web site.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but you can usually refuse cookies or selectively accept certain cookies by adjusting the preferences in your browser. If you turn off cookies, there may be some features of our site that will not be available to you and some web pages may not display properly. You can find information on popular browsers and how to adjust your cookie preferences at the following website www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm.

Changes to this Policy

If there are updates to the terms of B&I Lions Online Privacy Policy, we will post those changes and update the revision date in this document, so you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it, and what choices you have.

Contacting us:

We value your opinions. If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please email them to mjfisher1@btinternet.com (webmaster).

 

 

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