Uckfield & District Lions Club
Serving the community since 1969
Rasing Money for good causes
CIO Registered Charity number 1181177
Uckfield Lions Big Fun Day & Car Boot on Sunday 7th June
Uckfield Lions raised even more money for good causes at their Fun Day. The weather was chilly but dry.
DONATIONS PRESS RELEASE
The purpose of our fundraising events and our second-hand bookshop is to enable us to give money to local good causes. The following gives a flavour of our recent donations.
£700 has been pledged to help local scout groups and additional money given to help improve Bushy Wood scout camp.£250 has been given to aid the Newtown Action group to replace a bench in Selby Meadow community garden, which has been damaged by vandals.A donation has been given to Crowborough ‘Mens’ Shed’.Lion president Graham Baldwin presented a cheque for £2,000 to the Bevern Trust, based at BarcombeIn addition, Uckfield & District Lions recently organised a grand Easter Egg raffle to raise funds for the trust. Club president Graham Baldwin said: ‘the public have once again been very generous & 19 people have been very pleased to win a large chocolate egg. Despite the increase in chocolate prices, we still managed to raise £1,512.42 for the Bevern trust. We would like to thank all the participants, especially the clubs & pubs who ran the competition.
We hope these 2 donations will help the trust in their vital work of providing a home for disabled adults in our community.’
On the week-end of 25th – 26th. April the Uckfield & District lions, with the other Lions clubs of 105SE district, organised the blue-bell visits at Bates farm, Arlington. On a beautiful sunny week-end 2,300 people passed through the gates, & we were able to donate c.£8,300 profits from the café, to KSS Air Ambulance
