1977-2024 Celebrating 46yrs of service to our community
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For membership information
Call (519) 787-0560
info@belwoodlions.org
Always looking for members who want to be of service to their community. !
Always looking for community volunteers to help with our events
Please check back often to see new changes and additions
WHO ARE WE....
Belwood & District Lions are a group of local members of the community who are passionate about doing activities for the overall benefit of the community. We meet regularly and have community activities and fundraisers and do projects in and around the community. Our fundraisers help local folks, we support national and international charities and International relief efforts worldwide. We are part of Lions International Foundation operating around the world to improve the world we all live in. See our Club Projects link on the left for more details about our club activities and refer to the links on the right for Lions International activities.
We are always looking for volunteers to help in our events, bring new ideas forward and to join our group. See the contact details above to get more information and to reach out to us.
UPCOMING EVENTS....
Bottle Drive !
Belwood Lions can and bottle drive.
Drop of your cans and bottles at Belwood park pavillion.
Operating once a month on the second Saturday between 10am-12pm.
Please also look out for notification on Belwood Lions noticeboard on Hwy #26
Next Bottle & Can Drive: Saturday October 12th 10am-12pm at Belwood Hall
Go on....have a good clearout
Bring out your beer bottles and cans, wine and liquor bottles.
We will return them and put the funds to community betterment.
Belwood Lions Anual Craft Sale and Bazaar - Saturday Oct 19th 9am-2pm at Belwood Hall.
Free admission, penny table. Lots of local artisans selling their 'one-of kind' crafts and items that make great gifts for you or your family and friends, just in time for Christmas !
Note,all tables are sold out now!
RECENT BELWOOD LIONS EVENTS
Belwood Lions Toll Bridge, supporting Diabetes Canada - September 22 between 9-3pm on Country Rd #26.
Our annual fundraiser voluntary 'toll bridge' . Another great year of our community supporting this worthwhile cause. Thanks to all those drivers that donated, and also to those who didnt donate but were so patient with any delays.
Many drivers took advantage of our 'tap' donations available as we appreciate many people dont carry cash, but still want to support us.
Last year we donated over $3300 to Diabetes Canada from our toll bridge.
Belwood Lions 42nd Annual PIKE & WALLEYE DERBY is over. Thanks to the anglers, sponsors and our volunteers we once again donated $10,000 to Groves Hospital foundation for a 10mm telescope for surgery.
Tuesday 6th February 2024
A really great evening at Belwood Lions meeting yesterday. A casual pizza meal where new member Lion Jashan was introduced to the club. Followed after our regular meeting by presentations of Melvyn Jones Fellowships to several longstanding and valued Belwood Lions. Current MJF Lions Gord and Julian presented MJF Awards to Lion Chief Aaron, Lion Ron, Lion Graham, Lion Sam and Lion Terry. Extremely well deserved awards. Missing from the group club photo are Lions Shon, Kevin, Karen, Dawn, Parry & Zak. Pictured in the MJF group photo L-R are Lions Aaron, Sam, Gord, Terry, Julian, Graham, Ron. Photo credits to Lion George
SATURDAY DECEMBER 9th 8am-11am
Belwood Lions Breakfast with Santa.
Breakfast with pancakes, eggs, sausages, fruit, juice, tea & coffee.
SATURDAY OCT 14th 9am-4pm
Annual Christmas Craft Sale & Bazaar.
Saturday September 16th,2023
Saturday June 24th 2023
MAY 27/28 2023
Belwood Lions Pike & Walleye Derby on beautiful Belwood Lake.
MAY 11th 2023 6-8pm
Center Wellington Township hosted a community meeting at Belwood Hall to:
- provide information on future plans for updates to Belwood village
- to gather community feedback and engagement.
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MAY 6th 8.30am-12pm
Belwood Lions Roadside Cleanup - we spent the morning picking up the garbage along County Road 19 between E/W Gary T/L and 6th Line, and County Road #26 from County Road 19 down to County Road 18.
Effective Public Speaking Competition.
On the evening of March 25, 2023 the Lions Club of Belwood and District held an Effective Public Speaking competition for local and surrounding schools. We had a great turnout. Participants came from five local schools - 
The 1st. and 2nd. place Impromtu Awards were handed out by Mrs. Ev Robson. She presented the awards in honour of her late husband, Wayne Robson. Wayne was a devoted member of the Lions Club, and was instrumental in introducing anf promoting the Impromptu Competition of today. The following photos are the group folders for each category.
Many thanks go out to all the Competitors, parents, teachers, supporters and Lions Club volunteers. A special thank goes out to the organizers: Lion Ellie and Lion Nancy.
Belwood Lions Family Fun Day BBQ
Saturday 18th February 11am-2pm.
A great turnout from the community for burgers & drinks. Our community got to meet their neighbours and councillors for some camaraderie and to share ideas for the betterment of Belwood.
December 19th 2022 - Belwood Lions was pleased to present a cheque donation to The Groves Hub, supporting youth mental health and wellness. Pictured presenting and accepting the cheque are Lions Karen & Kevin, with Groves Hub representatives Jeff Hoffman and Don Vallery. Photo credit to Lion George.
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Belwood Lions held their Xmas Raffle ticket draw on Saturday 17th Dec 2022 at Belwood Hall during the community craft sale. Tickets were drawn by craft sale organizer Lisa Nesbitt, officiated by Lion Sam (pictured below, photo credit Lion George). Also present were Lions George & John.
Winners are as listed below:
$50.00 tickets (4 Winners):
#339 Wendy Channing
#128 Roshane Brown
#324 Kathleen Downer
#402 L.Adams
$100.00 Winner
#180 Theresa Baritz
$300.00 Winner
#295 Amie Droit
Congratulations to the winners. Thank you to the community for your support. Look out for our next community raffle draw during our 41st Pike Derby on 27/28 May
Saturday Dec 11th 2022, members of Belwood Lions, Lions George, Nancy, Sam & Ron helped out at the food drive, and then presented a cheque to the Centre Wellington Food Bank. The donation is partly from the proceeds of Belwood Lions Breakfast with Santa, topped up from other Belwood Lions fundraisers. Photo credits to Lions Sam & George.
Saturday Dec 10 2022, Belwood Lions hosted their annual Breakfast With Santa. We had elves, snowman, and balloons, pancakes, eggs, sausages, fruit, drinks, and of course Santa. Great to see all the community joining together to celebrate this joyous time of year. All proceeds, money and food contributions were donated to Wellington Food Bank. First pictures courtesy of Wellington Advertiser
SATURDAY 26th NOVEMBER 2022 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Belwood Lions sponsored a PUBLIC FREE SKATE
at FERGUS SPORTPLEX
Belwood Lions was pleased to sponsor today's free skate at Fergus Sportplex. We also had a table display to promote our club and the Lions organization as well as sold our Christmas Raffle tickets. It was great to see all the public, young and older, having lots of fun.Thanks to Lions Terry, George, Sam & Julian for supporting the event.
A big 'Thank you" and Well done to Lions Sam, George and Nancy for all their support in volunteering to help Centre Wellington Food Bank drive for the “Back to School Food Drive” at FreshCo on Saturday, August 27th.
Belwood Lions complete their pledge to Groves Hospital One Year Ahead of Plan
Belwood Lions are very pleased to advise that due to the success of this years Pike Derby; the tremendous support from our sponsors and anglers, and other Belwood Lions fundraisers, that we were able to complete our 2 year pledge to Groves Hospital of $10,000 for a vital signs monitor for the endoscopy department. Belwood Lions had pledged $10,000 over two years, but today donated the second $5000 (the initial $5000 donation made during our Pike Derby award ceremony) to Groves Hospital Foundation representative Lori Arsenault. This fulfills our pledge 1 year ahead of plan. Presenting the cheque for Belwood Lions is Sam Stewart and Ron Prior. Belwood Lions will continue to work with Groves to select future areas for supporting the great work Groves does to benefit our entire community. We look forward to future support from anglers, sponsors and the community the next Pike Derby May 27 & 27 2023
Belwood Lions Annual Pike & Walleye Derby
May 28/29 2022...
Our 40th annual derby! with two great tournaments in one,
a Pike Derby with Grand Prize $2000 & a Walleye Derby with Grand Prize $1000.
Anglers...wow...just like that..it is over!
We had a great time, we hope you did also.
Weather was mixed, started overcast and turned out a real beauti.
The fish on the other hand started off with a flurry and tailed off abruptly. Basically leaving everyone on Sunday either sporting a suntan or nursing sunburn
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As always, we had a lot of laughs and some great outdoor time together. Thanks to all the generous sponsors, to the amazing Belwood Lions team that work so hard to pull this together and of course to you the anglers that so generously support the entire event and freely contribute to all the creative ways we find to help you generate contributions to such great causes. As announced, we continue our ongoing donation of $5000 annually to Groves Hospital, this time pledging $10,000 over two years for a Vital Signs Monitor for the Endoscopy dept. In total, we had slightly over 600 registrants and 47 fish on the board. See the official results attached. Thank you and see you in May 2023
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