Hyndburn Helpers Food Hub
We have been supporting Hyndburn Helpers Food Hub since February 2024 on a one year term, supplying them with much needed canned vegetables, canned meat products, milk, tea, coffee and sugar, plus biscuits, canned fruit and custard.
At our recent Charter Anniersary Lunch in mid February 2025 it was announced by our President Lion Joan Clarkson that the club had decided to continue supporting the Hyndburn Helpers Food Hub for a further term of tweleve months
Lion President Joan Clarkson with a recent boot full of goods for the food hub
Lion President Joan Clarkson is handing the goods over to a Hyndburn Helpers volunteer
Joanne Hothersall
LIONS RECYCLE FOR SIGHT
Lions Recycling for Sight and Hearing - Lions International
Another ongoing project is the 'Lions Recycle For Sight'. This is where we collect used glasses which people have donated to us by putting them in collection bins we have in around 14 different collection points. We then sort and count them and if usable pack them into boxes. These are then transported to our headquarters in Birmingham who sort them and then send them directly to know contacts undertaking eye clinics in Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria, and Nepal. They also send them accross to Lions Medico France who grade them and send to outher eye clinics around the world.
Hyndburn Centennial Lions Club does get donated glasses cases which if you check out our fundraising page will explain more about what happens to some of them and how it helps the project listed below.
Lions Message In a Bottle
Find out more about this project that provides a simple but effective way for people to keep their basic personal and medical details where they can be found in an emergency. Simple complete the form that comes inside the bottle, place it back in the bottle and put it in the fridge. Use one of the two stickers that were in the bottle to put on the outside of the fridge. Place the second sticker on the back of the entry door to the house.
If a person is found unconsious the emergency services can quickly go to the fridge and find out what medication they are on plus have the contact details for their relatives or the GP Surgery. Simple.
