Welfare
Burgess Hill District Lions Club is well known locally for the Welfare causes which we help - this is the reason that Lions Clubs exist. Some examples can be seen in the sub-menus on the left. The picture above is of a presentation to Help for Heroes of a cheque for £5,000.
All requests for support follow a set process as we are an approved Charity. We have a Welfare Committee to which all requests are submitted.
This Committee will investigate where required and make recommendations to the Club's Board and to the next Business Meeting.
Club Members will then vote to accept or reject the Committee's recommendations.
We cover a wide variety of welfare areas: the young, the elderly, the sick, education and general health matters in the local area as well as supporting International projects.
As an example, we support the Burgess Hill Marching Youth and Age Concern in both Burgess Hill and Hassocks as well as helping the Hassocks Guides and 5th Burgess Hill Scouts.
We started the Burgess Hill Boys Club and are supporting the Respect Youth Club.
We run the Burgess Hill Bike Ride every year in conjunction with the Round Table and this year the money will go to the St Peter and St James Hospice.
A local event we support is the "It's a Knockout" event run at Crawley in June for the mentally and physically handicapped. This is thoroughly enjoyed by both those who take part in it and those who organise it!
Three times a year we run our SCOAP concerts for the elderly and this is welcomed and looked forward to by all who come. We organise lifts for those unable to get there by themselves.
Every Christmas we hold a Food Appeal for disadvantaged senior citizens and families on limited incomes in conjunction with the local radio station Bright 106.4 and the Mid Sussex Times. We pack and distribute over 100 Christmas hampers to these local people.
LIBRA is the "Lions International Blood Research Appeal". It was founded in 1978 as a Charitable Trust on behalf of Lions Clubs in the SE of England. Its aim is to provide laboratory space and equipment at King's College Hospital in London, for research into, diagnosis and treatment of Haemophilia, Leukaemia, Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell Disease.
Here are some of our recent community projects:-
2010
- 80 Pantomime tickets ordered
- Christmas Food Appeal commences 12th November 2010
- Continue funding for Medic Alert Bracelets
- Finches Garden Project
- Help for Heroes
- St Peters & St James
- Burgess Hill Marching Youth
- 1st Hurstpierpoint & 2nd Burgess Hill Girls Brigade
- Gatwick Flyers (2008) Trampoline Club
- Burgess Hill Pupil Referral Unit
- Windmills Opportunity Playgroup
- NSPCC
- Scouts to attend World Jamboree/Moots
- Dame Vera Lynn Trust & the Sydney - Mae Fund
- Burgess Hill Community Centre
- Sheltered Housing at Hassocks
- Requests from Sussex Oakleaf
- Trauma Teddies provided to Burgess Hill Ambulance
- Sussex Air Ambulance
- Medic Alert Bracelets
2009
- Christmas Food Parcels 110+ food parcels delivered
- 75 Pantomime tickets purchased from Burgess Hill Theatre Club and distributed
- Medic Alert Bracelets
- Defibrillators for Hustpierpoint and Hassocks. Community Responders attended 380 callouts including 9 Cardiac Arrests during 2008.
For Welfare Issues, email the Welfare Chairman.
