The Waiuku Lions Club raises funds through projects in order to support and give service to our community. These days the bulk of our funds is raised through a variety of projects involving food and catering. Principal amongst these projects are our wonderful catering team led by Lion Ivy and our BBQ and world famous (In Waiuku) hot chip cooker.

The weeks leading up to Christmas have been a very busy time indeed for our all volunteer crews.

The Chip cooker crew has attended a total of 15 events since August , including 7 calf clubs, producing 2580 cups of chips (it might have been more if Lion Chris had not packed so many in!) weighing in at 774 kg. That is a lot of chips (and tomato sauce). The BBQ team added in 320 sausages. After expenses, funds raised totalled over $2000 and $1000 of this is being immediately donated to Waiuku Food Bank for support of those in our community in greater need over the Xmas / New Year holiday period.

Every year New Zealand Lions produce their famous recipe 1kg Christmas cakes for Clubs to sell to raise funds. Our Lion Mel led this project for our Club and through the sales of whole and hand-decorated mini cakes her team raised over $1500 and the whole of this is going straight back to the community with donations of  $500 to Mitre10 Kindness Collective Project , $500 to Waiuku Family Support ,  $250 to Ray Whites “Little Ray of Giving” and $250 to Marama Hou Ministry.

Lion Ivy and her dedicated catering team have raised almost $3000 from their extremely popular catering efforts.

The catering crew have convinced the Club to donate $1000 of this to Camp Quality for the January 2025 camp @ Wesley College for youngsters who are living with Cancer.

It's great that funds we have earned from activities in the local community are returned quickly to the local community.