Westbury Lions are part of the worldwide “Lions Clubs International”, and as part of that organisation, we focus directly and indirectly on 8 Global causes in our service. These are: Childhood Cancer, Diabetes, Disaster Relief, Environment, Humanitarian Efforts, Hunger, Vision and Youth.
Childhood Cancer: Julia’s House is a key local hospice for children with terminal cancer who give end of life care as well as supporting the siblings and families of the patients. We have raised funds directly for this work and continue to support Julias House through district-wide fundraising projects.
Diabetes: We donate monthly to support our local food bank which provides fresh food/vegetables to families in need. Key to this is the view that in providing healthy meals will in turn will help prevent many illnesses including diabetes.
Disaster relief: We have conducted several direct collections for worldwide disaster relief, including supporting Ukrainian refugees and collecting for flood relief projects being conducted by Lions clubs overseas. We have also donated towards the “mobile midwife packs” that are being used in war zones.
Environment: Our club has provided “Wild Tribe Heroes” books to local schools to help children learn about the challenges of environmental issues. We have planted over 800 trees along the Bratton Road are of the town. We have donated funds for the floods in Jersey as we did a few years ago for flood victims in Carlisle.
Humanitarian efforts: we regularly donate to our Lions Club International Foundation (LCIF) which supports global causes. Humanitarian | Lions Clubs International
Hunger: As well as donating to the LCIF and the local food bank, we donate to local residents via our Welfare process. Support/Welfare : Westbury Lions Club
Vision: Westbury Lions collect unwanted spectacles with support from Haines and Smith in Westbury, and our local doctors surgery, which are then refurbished/recycled and sent to other countries in need.
Youth: We support our local schools with many projects and provide funding for educational materials and tools that help the learning process. We have also set up a Leos club for 8 – 30 years olds in the local community Westbury Leos Club : Westbury Lions Club
Community: We run the senior citizens party which is a community project as is the children’s Easter egg hunt. Many of our events have a community service nature about them, seeking to ensure our fellow citizens see Lions out and about and offering to help where we can.
We also donate to other charities whether it is monetary or just a simple admission ticket to one of our events.
