Dumfries Lions Club, is a an organisation of volunteers and our main aim is to help less fortunate people. Locally the Club has provided help for youth, pensioners, the sick, the blind, the disabled and many more. The club has 34 members and we meet once a month at the Station Hotel on the second Moday at 7.30PM.

To raise money to finance our welfare work we run FUNdraising events each year and they include a Curling Weekend, a Raft Race, a Duck Race, Car Boot Sales, Craft Fairs, Raffles, a Ceilidh and many, many more. Besides these events, we also have social occasions to promote fun and fellowship among the members and we also have social contact with other Lions Clubs.

We are part of Lions Clubs International and, since we were formed 30 years ago, we have participated in many Lions welfare projects including International eye camps, Water wells, Young Ambassador, Youth Football, and Youth Exchange with international youth visitors. We organised the District 105NE Convention here in Dumfries in 2006 and in 1998, we arranged the International Youth Camp with 46 visitors staying with us in the town for 10 days.

Lions are an international network of 1.3 million men and women in 205 countries and geographic areas who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities around the world.