Lions Club Singapore Clarke Quay

ABOUT US 关于我们

Lions Club of Singapore Clarke Quay is registered with Lions Clubs International (LCI Charter Number: 56621) and Registry of Societies (ROS UEN: S95SS0095D). The Club has been active in many service projects, locally as well as overseas, throughout the years. We have proudly served the Singapore community for more than 25 years!

Today, one of the signature club projects includes a joint project with other Lions Clubs, the Vegetable Charity Drive Project, where club members collect vegetables from the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Market on Saturday mornings and distribute them to the 2 Lions Homes for the Elders in Bishan and Bedok and to 5 other nursing homes around Singapore (a total of more than 2160 elderly).

At the same time, the collection is also distributed to secondary beneficiaries made up of underprivileged families (inclusive of the intellectually disabled and ex-leprosy victims). We also partner with our club volunteers in supporting the needy elderly in the Clementi and Mei Ling neighbourhoods where the Club helped raises funds, spend meaningful time during festive celebrations, and provides hair and nail cutting services once every fortnight.

Other notable activities that the Club are active in include volunteering in the District Projects, such as World Diabetes Day, World Sight Day, Lions Befrienders' and Lions Home's Flag Day and multiple overseas activities, such as visiting the orphanages jointly with our overseas Twin Clubs. The Club has been growing strong ever since with members who are passionate to serve the community and believe in giving back to society, that is because of "Where There's A Need There's A Lion". In short, WE SERVE!

Club History

Lions Club of Singapore Clarke Quay was inaugurated on 7 March 1995 with 23 members led by Charter President John Tan; Charter Night was held on 15 April 1995. It was then the 48th Lions Club in Singapore. Lions Club of Singapore Raffles City was the Sponsor Club; Past District Governor Philip Chua and Lion Simon Lim were the Guiding Lions.

18 of the Charter Members were from the Lions Club of Singapore West and 6 of them are still active today. They are Charter President John Tan, Past District Governor William Kwok, Past President Patrick Phan, Past President Thomas Lim, Past President Kwong King Seng, and Lion Ong Hong Him.

In 1999, member Lion William Kwok achieved great honour for our Club when he was elected District Governor of District 308-A1. It was unfortunate that 4 of our Past Presidents have passed away. They are Lion Ricky Hah (1999-2000), Lion Jeffrey Chan (2000-2001) Lion Alan Tan (2002-2003), and Lion Steven Goh (2003-2004).

Our Club believed in Extension and we have successfully twinned with 8 other overseas Lions Clubs from 6 Asian countries (Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Taiwan). We were ambitious then and officially twinned with 4 Clubs within our first two years. Annual visits to these Twin Clubs were organized and we participated and supported in their service and community projects.

Clarke Quay has been an all-male Lions Club until April 2012 when we started to recruit and induct lady members. Today, we have female Lions that constitute close to 40% of our membership. This will likely be increased further in the future.

Our membership hovers around the mid-20s until April 2012 when Charter President John Tan introduced a dynamic and energetic Lion, Ho Sum Kwong (SK Ho). He brought in many new Lions and lead by example for them to enjoy and be committed to Lionism. To date, Lion SK Ho has embarked on an honourable journey toward his district governorship in the next few years.

Over the years, Clarke Quay was rejuvenated and many members are active and supportive of the Club's fundraising projects to serve the community, locally and overseas with our Twin Clubs. Besides membership growth, we also focused on retention and leadership succession to ensure smooth continuity and progress as we grow further and beyond.

Club Emblem

THE STEERING WHEEL
A symbol of our determination to achieve our goals and objectives to serve the community. 

THE FLOAT
A symbol of livesaving for us to reach out to help the less fortunate and the destitute.

THE WARMTH OF YELLOW
A symbol of our feeling in embracing happiness, friendliness and relaxation, 
along with a youthful energy within us – the Club and our members.

 THE DIAMONDS
A symbol of our valuable attributes relevance to living a meaningful life, 
through integrity and perfection, of invincible love, commitment, faithfulness, and wisdom.

DID YOU KNOW?

In 2021, we’re launching a new emblem (succeeding the two versions of the official emblem in 1995 and 2014 respectively), as we start to refresh our look in general. We loved our old emblem, and look, and know many felt the same. And yet, here we are to explain why we decided to evolve it.

Firstly, it’s not changed for the sake of change. That said, change is inevitable, and something to be embraced, etc. etc., but that’s not a good enough reason to change an emblem. A good reason to change an emblem is that it’s not doing the job you want it to do—and because a simpler, more distinctive evolution of it could do that job better.

Our first emblem was created before the club was founded. It was distinctive and the octagon (or ship wheel, or helm, or whatever name by which you know it) resembled the same character that you see in our club's social media and materials. It was also extremely easy to get wrong. It was 5 different colours—and if placed on any colour other than white, or with the colours tweaked wrong, it looked terrible.

We developed different versions of the emblem to compensate. It uses a simpler colour palette and, we believe, is more refined, but still contains the spirit of the original. It’s an evolution and one that can scale easily, and work better, in many more places.

We’ll not bore you with the design thinking and the meaning of the new emblem. It’s still us. We’re still Clarke Quay. But more consistent and, we hope, more instantly recognizable.

TL;DR: We changed the emblem.

Club News, Updates and Highlights

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