Easingwold District Lions Club
who are we?
Easingwold District Lions have been at the heart of Easingwold and Villages community since 1978 and we have been serving our area ever since.
We are all proud to be part of the largest volunteering organisation in the world – Lions International. With 46,000 clubs and 1.35 million members, we can truly be called a global network of people with similar ideas to our own.
We are also proud to get involved in many initiatives to help our local community, including supporting local groups such as Easingwold Football Club juniors, much needed furniture for local Schools & community halls, supporting local families with disabled children etc. We also arrange local health screening initiatives such as for diabeties & Prostate Cancer.
To support those further afield, we have placed spectacle recycling boxes in our library, Boots & the Coop supermarket so that they can be reused by people in the third world.
We are internationally one of the most effective voluntary organisations with member clubs in every area affected by disaster or requiring need. That way clubs can tell us exactly what is needed before the large aid agencies have acted. Our members do whatever is needed to help their local communities. You could get involved too if you would like to join us!
Why are we called Lions?
Our name was not selected at random, neither was it a coined name. From time immemorial, the lion has been the symbol of all that was good, and because of the symbolism that name was chosen. Four outstanding qualities – Courage, Strength, Activity and Fidelity – had largely to do with the adoption of the name. The last mentioned of these qualities, Fidelity, has a deep and peculiar significance for all Lions. The lion symbol has been a symbol of Fidelity through the ages and among all nations, ancient and modern. It stands for loyalty to a friend, loyalty to a principle, loyalty to a duty, loyalty to a trust.
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Ordinary people doing amazing things
Helping many local charities and people
Could you join us as a member of Easingwold Lions?
The club currently has around 20 members from all walks of life and backgrounds and with different individual skills. But we are united in a common aim - to help those in our local community and who are less fortunate than themselves!
Our motto is "We serve", and our Easingwold Club is just one small but important part of the largest voluntary service organisation in the world!
We meet once a month to meet up and agree fund raising activities and review charitable requests. We help local organisations through "hands-on" assistance, purchase of equipment, cash grants for specific projects and in many other ways.
We have fun at our social events and support each other. We hold various activities, both social and special events in our local community - and of course we take Santa and his Sleigh around Easingwold and surrounding Villages every December as well as organising our now traditional Christmas Carols in the Marketplace!
Convinced yet? Just have a word with any of our members and they will help you decide!
For more information about either of the above, please send us an email on
We look forward to meeting you soon!
If you would like to support us but don't have the time to spare, please consider giving us a donation. You can do this in a number of different ways, some with no additional cost to yourself! See the Contact Page to get in touch
SEE OUR PLANS FOR 2024!
For 2024 we have plans underway for a number of very exciting projects! Just watch this space for more details!
► We are repeating the highly successul grants program once again during 2024!
► We are holding a number of visits to Easingwold Friday Market with a stall - our first date was Friday March 15. We will be collecting your used specs & hearing aids, and selling our preloved books and other items. Why not call in on us and see what we do!
►We organised a Lions Sumer event on Sunday June 2nd in Easingwold Market Squuare for our local community. Our Town Band played and there was a Hog Roast, Face Painting and games for kids as well as refreshments and more activities for everyone!
►Many more projects are in the pipeline and will be posted on here as well as our own Facebook Page very soon!
EASINGWOLD LIONS SUCCESS WITH NEW
GRANTS PROGRAMME
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Easingwold & District Lions are pleased to announce that we have made available a number of grants of up to £500 to chosen local causes in 2023 and due to its success, we are repeating the offer for 2024! Closing date for applications in July 31 - see our Grants page for further details....
These included volunteer groups and individuals, child services, schools and many more. The purpose of the grants were to assist in the provision of community services, purchase or replace much needed equipment, sports kits, special needs groups, community based projects, child nurseries etc etc.
In fact we considered a wide range of applications that needed a funding injection of up to £500!
We are proud to be able to offer this programme into our communities as a way of saying thank you to all who supported our Santa Sleigh and other fund raising events with your generous donations.
Our area covers : Aldwark, Alne, Brafferton, Brandsby, Crayke, Coxwold, Easingwold, Flawith, Helperby, Huby, Husthwaite, Linton on Ouse, Myton, Newton on Ouse, Raskelf, Shipton by Benningborough, Skelton, Stllington, Sutton on the Forest, Tholthorpe and Tollerton.
You can apply for for help from the Lions at any time of year by contacting us via our email adress and giving a description of what you want to achieve: info@easingwold-lions.org
Lions work hard throughout the year to provide as much aid and service to our local communities as we can and give help to disaster relief world wide. We are extremely proud of the fulfilling work that we do and we would warmly welcome more people to join our Club.
Interested ? Then please contact us by email at info@easingwold-lions.org
‘Together we Can and Together we Do’
Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.4 million members in approximately 46,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world.
