Easingwold and District Lions Club - “ WE SERVE “
A recent history of the club encompasses the many and varied charitable support activities carried out by its membership past and present in Easingwold and surrounding villages.
Our work for the local community includes:
- Funding a Diabetes public testing team to visit Easingwold
- Donation to Easingwold Friends of Cancer Research UK
- Emergency fund to help with purchasing salt for laying on black ice affected pavements if necessary
- Gardening items & tools as well as a poly tunnel to help with a brownies & guides allotment project
- Donation to local Marie Curie Cancer support
- Purchase of items to help the elderly access books etc to Easingwold Library
- Donation towards the repair of a fence for Haxby Robinson Bowling Club
- Furniture for the Dawnay Scout Hut for Easingwold Scouts
- Donation to COZIE to help with running costs
- Sponsorship of match ball for Alne Cricket Club
- Donation towards cost of a caravan holiday for a local family
- Donation to Easingwold Youth Council
- Donation to help with cost to take part in Expedition Raleigh for a local student
- Purchase of medical related equipment to help a local family
- Purchase of computer equipment to support a disabled student
- Donation of hampers to EDCCA Food Bank for distribution to local households needing support.
- Supporting and organising the Carols in the Marketplace Christmas Carol Concert.
As you can doubtless see, even in difficult years, Easingwold Lions get heavily involved in supporting our local community and we intend to keep doing so well into the future. Indeed expect to see more of us in 2024! Hence our motto – WE SERVE!
If you or your organisation would like to apply for help from your local Lions Club, please consider contacting us. If you would like to join us in the work we are doing for Easingwold & Villages please let us know. info@easingwold-lions.org
Recycling Glasses & Hearing aids
We have been collected glasses which are sorted and sent overseas to help those with sight problems have free access to spectacles so they can see clearly again. So far we have collected over 1000 pairs.
Find our donation bins in the Easingwold Library and Long St Coop store
We can also recycle hearing aids for use abroad where those who are deaf but have no access them.
Easingwold District Lions and Easingwold District Community Care Association (EDCCA) working together
We are supporting local people with medical issues with much needed equipment to make their lives better. Please contact us to see if we can help you.
Recent examples of our work in our Local Community
We offer Community small Grants up to £500 for local Community projects, including support for local schools & pre-school nurseries, allotments, theatre groups, youth groups, brownies & scouts - and many others!
Primary School/ Junior School High Visibility Vests.
We regularly supply High Visibility Safety Vests for our local Primary Schools. Just the thing to keep them safe on the darker mornings!
Town and Village Heart Defibrillator Matching Funding
Easingwold Lions have always supported the installation of defibrillators in our local community. The can be and indeed are being used by the Community to save lives!
We have been matchfunding the cost of defibrillators in many of our local villages since 2014 and recently were patners match funding four such devices in Easingwold together with the Town Council and our local Freinds of St Monicas Hospital.
In addition under the direction of Lion John Sutherland we provide a free training package to all interested communities who have a defibrillator Installation or other groups and organisations who would like the training.
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Christmas Activities
“ Santa’s Sleigh“ Our very own Santas Sleigh hits the road during December and now takes the sleigh around Easingwold and up to twenty other villages in our area over a period of twenty days or so and as well as being a "must see" for many excited local children, it is also a major source of our income via donations as we bring Santa to our local residents.
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Our annual Carols in the Market Place with the added provision of hot food and drinks is our way of thanking the whole community for its support throughout the year. We have been running this event for over 40 years now!
Riding for the Disabled BBQ
We provide support and our barbecue at The Riding for Disabled Annual Gymkhana and also to elderly residents and their families at Springhill Court.
In addition to funding these annual projects and events we of course provide funding on individual application ‘one off‘ basis to individuals, families, and community projects. We aim to use all the money raised in the community to be put back into the same local community.
100th Birthdays
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It is customary for Lions to present a bouquet to any residents who reach 100 years of age. Lion Peter Coomer had the pleasure to do just that recently to Lesley Wagstaff. She has had an illustrious career and was the first ever officer in the RAF. She is still active today and enjoys doing crosswords. The photo shows Lesley receiving her bouquet from Peter.
Diabetes Testing and World in Sight Day
We worked with SilverstarUK to bring free diabetes testing to Easingwold. We also hosted York MySight and K Mayln opticians to promote good eye health for World Sight Day. Over 50 people were tested for diabetes and it was so popular we are going to run the event again now the pandemic has receded.
Protate PSA screening for men
We set up a screening event for 100 local gentlemen over 50 to check their PSA level to see if it exhibited high levels - which would indicate further medical investigation
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Working together to give service
We worked with Easingwold District Community Care Association and our Local Community Pioneer at Easingwold Co-op to host a BBC Radio York cake and a cuppa event on Yorkshire Day.
The event was a great success. Numerous delicious cakes were donated, over a hundred cups of teas served and new friendships were forged. We hope to do it all again next year.
