Supporting our Community
We try to support our community in two ways. Firstly, we try to raise funds so that we can help other local charitable groups or individuals in need in our local area. Secondly, we volunteer our time to help at local events.Often we donate our time instead of money to help community based projects. We do all sorts, from car parking to marshalling to helping at events. Anything that benefits our local community.
We do bucket collections at Byrkley Garden Centre, Tesco supermarket & Dobbies Garden Centre and will continue to do these in the future.
We have also volunteered to collect for Marie Curie Cancer Charity at Morrison's supermarket.
- Collecting for Marie Curie
Steve Shields collecting for Marie Curie
- Lichfield 10K Fun Run 2022
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Lions helped with the marshalling of the Lichfield Fun Run
- St Giles Christmas Tree Recycling
We also help with the Christmas Recycling project run by St Giles Hospice. We join a team of volunteers picking up and shredding Christmas Trees. It's good fun, raises lots of money and recycles the trees!
- Volunteering at the G4 Lichfield concert in aid of Missing People charity
Several of our members helped at the G4 Concert recently held at Lichfield Cathedral. Our members helped as ushers for the evening together with helping to sell merchandise and programmes and took part in the can shake to raise funds for this vital charity. A great night was had by all.
- Volunteering at St Giles Hospice- Light up a Life Service
Thanks goes to all our members who volunteered at the Light up a Life service at St Giles this year. This is a service of remembrance for those who have lost someone special from their lives. A carol service and readings are followed by lights being hung on the hospice Christmas tree and provides comfort at what can be a difficult time of year.
Our support of Light up a Life makes a huge difference and enables St Giles to be able to continue to provide care and support to local people and their families, living with a potentially terminal illness
Thank You....
Well, what can I say other than a huge thank you for all your help and support at the Light up a Life service in Whittington; we honestly couldn’t have done it without you. I hope you will agree that it was a lovely service which gave everyone, ourselves included, the time and space to remember our loved ones. From where I was stood, I could see our amazing nurses watching from the windows on the In-Patient Unit with patients and their families at their sides. It was a really poignant moment for me, which I felt honoured to be a part of. The amount raised from Light up a Life 2022, has so far it has raised over £34,000, which is incredible. You are a crucial part in enabling us to raise those funds, so once again, a heartfelt thank you!
Sally Redmond
In Memory and Legacy Manager St Giles Hospice
- Lions attend Lichfield Volunteers Fair
Like most charities we are always looking for opportunities to attract new volunteer members. Members of Barton under Needwood and Lichfield Lions attended the recent local volunteers fair set in beautiful Lichfield Cathedral. It was a great opportunity for us to meet members of the public interested in volunteering and to also chat with other local charities and volunteer groups in our area to share news and views!
- Books for Schools- Lions donated Wild Tribe Heroes book
Lions Geoff & Pam Trevena present books to Whittington Primary school
Lions Geoff & Pam Trevena presenting books to Two Rivers High school- Tamworth
Barton Lions Club are joining together with Lions clubs throughout the UK to promote the Wild Tribe Heroes books, written by mother of four Ellie Jackson from Looe in Cornwall.
Ellie was inspired to write these seven beautifully illustrated books showing the effects of plastic on our oceans having watched a rescued and rehabilitated turtle being released back into the sea off the Great Barrier Reef. Each story follows the true story of a well-loved animal as they encounter ocean plastic and how with the help of people the animals are rescued, rehabilitated and released back into their ocean home.
Lions clubs are presenting local schools with a set of these books so that children can be educated on the effects of plastics on our ecosystem.
