October 2016:
As part of a Lions zone project, Lions clubs in our zone (area) including Skegness, Boston, Woodhall Spa, Horncastle and other clubs, raised money independently and collectively to support the charity Hope for Tomorrow. Their aim is to provide mobile chemotherapy units to save people, needing treatment, in rural areas from having to travel miles to a major hospital. The chemotherapy unit in Lincolnshire visits Lincoln hospital, Boston hospital, Grantham, Sleaford and Skegne...ss hospital. This means anyone from Skegness who needs treatment doesn't have to make a 90 mile round trip to Lincoln hospital, which helps them enormously.
The Hope for Tomorrow chemotherapy unit, which is staffed by trained hospital nurses, was on display outside Hildreds Centre, for local people to come inside and see for themselves and ask questions. I know my own family has been touched by cancer and I know most of you reading this will probably have someone in your near or distant family or know of friends who have suffered from this dreadful disease.
Skegness Lions, Rotary Club and other charitable organisations have worked hard on fund raising events and would like to thank everyone who kindly donated for this and other worthy charities. Thank you all.
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September 2016:
September Lion President Mike Hardy and John Kirk, Social Services Convenor of Skegness Round Table, visited Mark Perry and his family to present them with a cheque!
Mark suffers from Duchennes Muscular Distrophy, which means he is confined to a wheelchair and needs help to do almost everything.Duchennes is a progressive illness but Mark is determined to do as much as he can for his future, attending Boston College at the present time.
He needs a number of items of equipment to make him more independent and to lead a more normal life, but his family were unable to secure all of the necessary funding and were £1100 short.
An appeal to Round Table resulted in the club getting together with Skegness Lions Club and between them the two Clubs made good the shortfall by each contributing equal amounts.
A wonderful example of "match-funding" locally.
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We, along with many other Lions Clubs, have undertaken to support a charity "Hope for Tomorrow" which is dedicated to the provision of mobile chemotherapy units throughout the country. The most recent one of these was launched in Lincolnshire and will save many cancer sufferers the strain of long car journeys to and from their treatments.www.hopefortomorrow.org.uk will give you all the information.
For a number of years now,Skegness Lions and especially their ladies, have supported the fundraising efforts of the Butterfly Hospice Trust. These efforts have been rewarded and the hospice is now in existence at Boston. It is now open to patients, but we shall continue to support the hospice in any way we can.
A more recent commitment by Skegness Lions Club is a long-term one. That is to support the local branch of "The Young Carers Association"
This is a group dedicated to helping young carers. By definition these young people are between the ages of 5 and 18 and are either the primary or secondary carer for a member of their family. We,as a club were astounded to hear just how many of these young people there are and who treat their carer's responsibility as a matter of course, fitting it in between school and other commitments, without expecting any recognition for their efforts.
We believe that they do deserve some reward and have agreed to support them in any way we can - financially or in any other way.
These projects we are supporting on a long term basis but they in no way interfere in our efforts to help others generally, whether it be locally or internationally.
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