Yes it’s December, and ready or not Christmas will soon be upon us!
As always, Santa will be playing his not-insignificant role in proceedings, and amongst his very many duties – while he’s delegated the toy making and present wrapping to his elves – he’ll be making a few trips to Peterborough to say hello.
Peterborough Lions Club will be helping Santa to get out and meet people – he’ll be travelling on our new float, to the following locations:
Peterborough Museum (Sat 3rd Dec)
East of England Showground – Inflatable 5k obstacle fun run (Sat 10th Dec)
Morrisons (Cardea, Stanground) (Sun 10th Dec)
Morrisons (Lincoln Road) (Sat/Sun 17th/18th Dec)
Sainsbury’s (Bretton) (Sat 24th Dec – Christmas Eve, so a big night for Santa!)
In addition to the above Santa will be touring the following areas of Peterborough
Netherton (Fri 16th Dec)
Orton Wistow (Mon 19th Dec)
Stanground (Wed 21st Dec)
Orton Waterville (Fri 23rd Dec)
We – and in particular Santa – look forward to seeing you soon!
Full details of routes and additional information can be found on Santa’s own page
Our friends and fellow Lions in nearby Stamford & District Lions Club are supporting a “Living with Diabetes” event on Monday 14th November (1:30pm-4:30pm). This is a completely free event (no booking needed), with refreshments provided. Its purpose is to provide up-to-date information for people with diabetes, including current research and advice on managing the disease.
For more information see the attached flyer, which includes an event programme and contact details.
It’s been 9 months in the making but our latest quiz sheet has landed!
Something a little bit different this year: “Altered Images” gives you 100 cropped images, can you tell us who, what or where they are? There should be something for everyone, but can you get every one? We look forward to seeing your answers as they come in between now and January when the quiz closes.
You can buy them straight away in our online store, and they’ll be finding their way to our local stockists over the coming days – we’ll share our stockists map in due course.
… and our instantly recognisable giant Easter Eggs are present in pubs across Peterborough – if you hunt one down you stand the chance of winning it in its raffle!
But if you’re not local to Peterborough, what to do? Carrying on from our enforced move online last year when the pubs were shut, we also now have a separate online raffle. The giant chocolatey prizes are delivered directly by Thorntons so you don’t need to come to Peterborough to buy a ticket or to collect your prize. And each completed raffle raises over £50 for good causes!
Buy your ticket in our store, or find out more information here.
Are you fed up with “It’s About Time” being shoehorned into everything we post yet? Well, it’s coming to an end now, so you can surely indulge us one more time.
Now that the quizzes are marked and prizes awarded, the final answer sheet, including any alternates we accepted from your returned entries, has been released.
You can find the answers to this, and previous quizzes, on our Past Quizzes page. And now that “It’s About Time” has been relegated to “Past Issue” status, we’re working hard on the next quiz for release in September. Don’t want to miss it? You can pre-order now from our store, where you can also pick up any past issues you may have missed.
Thank you so much for your support in raising over £4,000 for great causes!
It’s good to get back to some semblance of normality after 2020! Our “It’s About Time” quiz sales are heading back in the right direction – raising over £4000 so far – and we had over 500 returned to us for marking of which 60 were 100% correct. We managed to avoid any errata – so not quite back to normal there – and have now completed marking and can share both the answers and the list of winners.
First things first, then: the prize draw took place at the Club’s February business meeting (Tuesday 8th), and the winners are:
First Prize (£100): S Hicks (Gunthorpe, Peterborough)
Second Prize (£75): R Martin (Orton Wistow, Peterborough)
Third Prize (£50): J Smith (Hoddesdon, Herts)
Fourth Prize (£25): C Roper (Alnwick, Northumberland)
Runners up (£10 winners):
C Twydell (Ashford, Kent)
C Harrop (Oundle)
A Wade (Folkestone, Kent)
N Griffiths (Grantham, Lincs)
C Chinnery (Peterborough)
S Blenkhorn (Hanslope, Bucks)
Well done to all the winners, commiserations to everyone else – especially the other 50 who returned 100% correct sheets! Prizes are on their way to you – check your email (if you gave us an address) for more info.
Answer sheets are heading out to those who requested them by post, or you can download the answers below.
Once again, thank you to everyone who took part, for the feedback we received, and for the advance orders for the 2022/23 quiz (to be released in September).
We’re already busy working on the new quiz, and if you haven’t already you can pre-order a copy using the form on the answer sheet, or save money by pre-ordering via our store. In the meantime you will find lots of past copies to keep you entertained until September!
We received over 500 competition entries so now the task of marking them begins so that the prize draw can take place. Then we can share the final set of answers (adjusted to include any extra answers we find amongst yours that we deem to be valid alternatives), which usually takes around a month from the closing date.
We cannot overstate how grateful we are to everyone who took part, this is a major source of fundraising for the club. And thank you for the wonderful comments we got along the way!
Time for a breather? Not a chance – work is already underway for the 2022 quiz to be released in September!
Believe it or not, it’s that time of year again already! And after having to mostly hide away last year until the big night, Father Christmas is back with us to see you!
If you have a few pennies to drop in a collection bucket we’ll of course be very grateful, but what Santa really wants to see is smiling and waving, so don’t let him down!
We’ll be starting this weekend (4/5th December) at Sainsbury’s Oxney Road store, with other sightings guaranteed throughout the month – follow our Facebook page for more details!
Peterborough Lions Club, and our community minibus Elsa, are proud to be supporting Peterborough Reads with their Elves on the Bus around the Ortons this coming Monday, 22nd November!
This year the Royal British Legion marks its centenary – that’s 100 years supporting service men and women, ex-serving personnel and their families.
Pictured: Lions Shelter at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire
Today, as the 2021 Poppy Appeal launches, we are proud to announce that, as last year, we will be donating 50% of all “It’s About Time” quiz sheet sales via this website to the appeal. That’s 75p from each sheet sold between now and Sunday 14th November (Remembrance Sunday).
If you’ve not yet got around to picking up a copy of this year’s quiz, this is the perfect time to do so. (If you already have a copy, why not treat friends and family?)
We’re also extending this to sales of any past issues of our quiz sheets, so if you missed Sweet Tooth or any other sheet from the past few years now is a great time to rectify that!
You can buy copies here – £1 is charged for postage and card fees no matter how many you order (£3 for international orders).
