Peterborough Lions

Peterborough Lions welcomes new member

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:13:59 +0000

Peterborough Lions Club are pleased to welcome Lion Deborah to the club, under the guidance of her sponsor, Past Lion President Robert. Deborah was inducted into the club at the May business meeting.

We’re sure Deborah will be a valuable asset to the club.

New Website Launched – Lions’ Share

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:08:52 +0000

We’re proud to announce the launch of a new fund-raising website for Peterborough Lions. Called “Lions’ Share”, it simply acts a a gateway to dozens of well known websites where if you then buy something, a share of the sale comes back to Peterborough Lions to use to support our projects. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, and you don’t have to give us any personal or credit card details – you still buy from directly the shops websites as usual. In some cases you can even reserve items to collect from your nearest store, paying in store as usual, and we still get a share of the sale value!

Take a look at the Lions’ Share website at www.lions-share.org.uk for more information, or jump straight to the list of all the current suppliers you can buy from through Lions’ Share – a list that’s growing all the time!

2011/12 Quiz Leaflet Prize Winners

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:45:59 +0000

At the February Business Meeting of the Peterborough Lions Club, the following names were drawn from the 65 returned “Money Matters” quiz leaflets with all answers correct (out of a total of 1129 quizzes returned):

First Prize – P Guest; Nottingham
Second Prize – R Hall; Peterborough
Third Prize – J Holmes; Mereside, Huntingdon
Fourth Prize – S Overton; Whittlesey
Fifth Prize –
- B Lake; North Hykeham
- C Horton; Southgate, London
- S Wenlock; Peterborough
- J A North; Peterborough
- K O’Brian; Great Easton
- R Stone; Crew Green, Shrewsbury

So first prize goes outside the Peterborough area this time – better luck to the locals with this year’s quiz! If your name is above and you haven’t been contacted directly within the next few days please get in touch.

Congratulations to everyone above, and to all who bought quiz leaflets this year, whether or not you were able to complete them in full. We hope everyone enjoyed the quiz and look forward to entertaining everyone again later in 2012!

For those of us who needed a little help, the answers can be downloaded here, together with a reply coupon to use if you’d like to pre-order 2012 quiz leaflets (go on, you know you want to!)

Race Night

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:02:37 +0000

Peterborough Lions Race Night will take place on February 25th at The Power League – very much in hand thanks to Lion Stuart picking up and running with it (excuse the pun!).

For more details see the Race Night Event Page

A Christmas card from Phuket

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:53:32 +0000

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For the last five years Peterborough Lions Club has been a sponsor of children living in the Phuket Sunshine Village. The aim of the Village is to protect and assist disadvantaged children affected by the Tsunami in the four southern Thailand provinces. It provides education and give access to public health services to underprivileged children.

Our previous sponsorship helped the education of two children who attended the Village. Our current sponsorship is helping Supattra, a girl who has been orphaned and is now living full time at the Village. This has given her stability in her life and she is now making friends and getting an education.

We recently received this Christmas card from Supattra with some photographs of the village.

Happy New Year!

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:12:27 +0000

Welcome to 2012!

This year promises to be a busy one, for the club in general and for the website in particular – stay tuned!

Merry Christmas!

admin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:45:17 +0000

All the Peterborough Lions would like to thank the people of Peterborough and surrounding areas for your support over the past year, and for your donations, whether you saw us with Santa and his Carol Float in the past weeks, or bought a quiz leaflet, or any of the other ways we’ve been supported in 2011.

Rest assured all the money raised will be put to good uses (if it hasn’t already!), and be just as assured our fundraising efforts will be back in the New Year to provide resources for welfare and projects in 2012.

We hope you have a great Christmas! See you soon!

Carol float to add Dobbies to its route (weather permitting…)

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:36:35 +0000

All being well, Peterborough Lions carol float will be making an extra stop at Dobbies garden centre in Hampton, on the evening of Thursday 15th December – although the weather forecast is making it less than certain! If you can brave the weather, come and see us!

We’d like to thank Dobbies and all the other Peterborough stores who have allowed us to take up some valuable space outside their stores at this busy time of year.

Music and the Deaf’s Fun Session at Jack Hunt School, Sat 26th Nov

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:25:55 +0000

The Mayor, Councillor Paula Thacker MBE, is to visit the Music and the Deaf’s fun session at Jack Hunt School on Saturday, 26th November.

The Mayor will be seeing first hand how Deaf and Partially Deaf Young People are learning to play musical instruments. The session takes place between 10:00 and 12:00 hrs, with the Mayor attending between 10:30 and 11:30 hrs.

The Music and the Deaf, Cambridgeshire Music and Britten Sinfonia are providing instrumental fun workshops with one to one tuition. The Deaf Young People will explore a range of musical instruments including an Indian Dhol drumming workshop.

Any child with a hearing loss age 8 and over is welcomed. Complete beginners are extremely welcome to come and learn to play any instrument they wish. To book a place at the instrument sessions, or to find out more, please contact Lin Heatherington, e-mail cm@cambridgeshire.gov.uk Tel 01480 373500

It is hoped that these sessions will lead Young Deaf People to join the East of England Deaf Youth Ensemble, a new cultural project for our city.

Peterborough Lions on Facebook

admin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:22:31 +0000

We now have a Facebook page! Thank to David Bainbridge for setting this up. Take a look at http://www.facebook.com/PeterboroughLions – it’s a little sparse at the moment but stay in touch!