What We Do...
Recent (including ongoing) Service activities of Lions Club of Cessnock
* Adopt-A-Road Cleanup
* Recycle Used Spectacles
* Community BBQs for Seniors Week, preschool, other charities
* BBQ catering for firefighters - several bushfire events
* Conduct Youth of the Year contest,
* Sponsor Leo Club at High School
* Assist at International Youth Camp
* Sponsor future leaders
* Awareness projects:- Diabetes, Sight & Eye Health, Emergency Medical Information Booklets, Beyond Blue
* Arrange wheelchair ramp & children’s mobility walkers
* Provide additional new park bench seating for local parks.
* Forum for guest speakers from various “causes”
Plus donations…Donations from fundraising to support -
* Local high school prizegiving; one-off special projects for various primary schools;
* Local Scouts & Guides, Hunter Life Education
* Vision-impaired youth camp, Deaf kids camp, Diabetes kids camp, Juvenile Diabetes walk
* Hunter Hands of Hope (meals for homeless – Cessnock)
* Local community radio station, Seniors Week activities, Cessnock Prostate Cancer group, Coalfields Heritage group, Strive for Autism
* Hunter Melanoma, Newcastle branch Alzheimers, John Hunter Childrens Hospital (through Leos), Lions For Kids In Need (family support)
* Lions Clubs Foundations:- Australian & International Lions disaster funds; Lions Childhood Cancer Research; Childrens Mobility ; EyeHealth Project; NSW Nurses Scholarship; Hearing Dogs; NSW/ACT SaveSight& PublicHealthcare; Lions Diabetes Research; Prostate Cancer Treatment&Research.
and...Fundraising to support the projects & donations...
Fundraiser BBQs, Bunnings, PostieBikeGP
Sale of ChristmasCakes & LionMints; Raffles
Event marshalling/manpower – Winery running festival, various HV Gardens events (Christmas Lights, Snowtime parking)
