Swimarathon Cheque Presentation

17 January 2012

 Members of the club gathered together with sponsors and recipients of money at the Poet Laureate in Poundbury.  The main beneficiary of the funds raised was Boost, The Digital Mammography Appeal for Dorset County Hospital (DCH). We were pleased to hand over a cheque for £2,796 to Jean O'Callaghan, Chief Executive of DCH. Also attending was the Mayor of Dorchester, Councillor Tess James, whose own swimming team, Mayor's Maids raised money for Boost. Three teams who returned their sponsorship money prior to the deadline were entered into a draw to receive a bonus. The winners were the YMCA team and a cheque was presented to Kate Watt and Collette Allcroft. Runners up were TFS. The third team were Haycorns Nursery and the cheque was collected by Helen Peach. A special certificate was awarded to Ray Wilson, of Dorset Advocacy, who raised the most money by an individual swimmer and also a certificate went to Helen Kennett, MD of Henry Ling Ltd, in respect of continued support of Lions Charities.

29th Annual Swimarathon

16 October 2011

The Lions with the Mayoress of Dorchester

Twenty eight teams took part in the annual Swimarathon at the Thomas Hardy Leisure Centre held on the weekend 15^thand16^th October 2011.

The total amount pledged by all teams taking part was £5280. Half this amount will go to each teams chosen charity and the other half to the Lions Club with the bulk of this going to the Dorchester hospital mammography appeal fund.

In all, the teams swam a total of 2803 lengths of the pool. The most lengths swum by a team was Warriors 2 , who completed 188 lengths of the pool in the allotted 55 minutes. The team pledging the highest amount of £577 was the Rusty Swimmers

'Mike Lillington Award'

19 September 2011

Lion, Tony Hammond presents Mathew Davies of Crossways with a cheque for £50.00 for being awarded the ‘Mike Lillington Award’. Mathew received the award whilst a student at The Thomas Hardye School for excelling in practical subjects. Mathew will shortly be attending Plymouth University where he is to study ‘Construction Management and Environment’.

This award is provided annually by the Club in consultation with staff at The Thomas Hardye School.  The award is in memory of local builder Mike Lillington who passed away suddenly whilst he was the Club's President.  Mike's wife Nesta donated the proceeds of donations in Mike's memory to the Club to be used to help practical students further their career.  

Antelope Walk Traders Put Fun Into Fundraising

20 August 2011

The retailers in Antelope Walk came up with a host of ideas to entice more shoppers to their businesses and part with £1,390.79 for Dorset County Hospital's digital mammography appeal.  Dorchester and District Lions were on hand to publicise their Swimarathon in October.  One of the main recipients of funds raised by the Swimarathon will be BOOST 2011 Digital Mammogram Appeal.

ANNUAL FUN RUN

02 May 2011

The Annual Fun Run that took place on the Sunday the 1st May 2011 starting at the Thomas Hardye Leisure Centre was another success.  This was due to the number of runners taking part and their enthusiasm in helping raising funds for their nominated charity and the Lions community charities.

On the day a grand total of £6300 was pledged.

Many thanks to all who took part, the sponsors and helpers. To view pictures from the event please click here

Eye glasses recycling

27 April 2011

At the year ending April 2011 at total of 2600 glasses were collected from the supporting opticians of Dorchester.  Whilst this total was slightly down on last year, 2800, it was a great effort.

The toal for the District was 119085, and they will be passed to the Lions calibration centre in France after which they will be sent to those counteries that need glasses for sight correction.

The running total for the District is 2 323 000.

The recyling programme is part of the Lions International committment on Eye Health Care.

FRIEND'S OF THE LIONS CLUB

04 December 2009

Over the years the Lions Club has organised many fund-raising events and we recognise that without the support and help of so many non-members and friends, we would not have have been able to have the funds to provide assistance and support to the community.

In order to maintain personal contact with community minded and caring helpers the Lions Club is now forming a group called 'The Friends of The Lions Club of Dorchester and District'.

It is by this arrangement we will able to maintain the contact and inprove communication with our 'friends'.