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About a decade ago I was privilegedto visit the home in Calcutta, India,where Mother Teresa once cared forthe desperately poor. Her love forothers had a tremendous impact –not only on those she helped butalso in inspiring others to follow herexample. Mother Teresa was notrich or powerful. She did not holdoffice. She wielded no army. Sheowned next to nothing. Yet shechanged the world. What adifference one person on a missioncan make!

Her life actually is ironic – andinstructive – for Lions. We Lions arenot lone wolves. We serve together.We join a club because we realisewe can accomplish so much moreby working together. We realize weare not Mother Teresa. That’s OK.We do what we can with our owntalents. Our limitations actually canwork to our advantage because injoining with other Lions we canaccomplish so much more than wecan do on our own.

So, Lions, be involved with yourclub as much as you can. Take partin the initiatives of Lions ClubsInternational as well. Help fulfill thecentennial goals related to hunger,youth, sight and the environment.Support LCIF. Recruit a newmember. Join us in beautifulFukuoka, Japan, next year for the99th International Convention.There is much more than strengthin numbers: there is the opportunityto rebuild society. It’s great you area Lion. Thank you for your serviceand dedication. But always strive tobe part of the worldwide Lionscommunity and fully support ourmany remarkable initiatives.

It’s easy to sit back and do theusual. But now is the time to be a

Lion who goes outside his or hercomfort zone and makes servicemore a part of his or her life. I’veheard it said: “Life is either a daringadventure or nothing at all.” So beadventurous and daring. Be a Lion.

Dr. Jitsuhiro YamadaLions Clubs InternationalPresident

Embrace the Spirit of Daring

PICTURED: Exemplifying daring andteamwork, Richard Plante, a zonechairperson and past president of theLa Sarre Lions Club in Quebec,Canada, led an expedition thatreached the summit of 19,341-footMount Kiliminjaro in Tanzania. Theproject raised $50,000 to benefit ahospital.

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How time flies when you’re having fun!It feels like it was only yesterday that Iwas writing my first editorial for theLION Magazine.

So much has happened since then: I am now officially amember of LCI, having been inducted into PeterboroughLions Club by my sponsor Gaby Sharman. I can now wearmy pin with pride! This month (October 2015), I alsoattended the editorial conference and Europa Forum inAugsburg, Germany. It was a fantastic experience and I metsome lovely people, including International PresidentYamada. I look forward to publishing my article on it in theDecember/January edition.

With regards to Message in a Wallet; it has been put forwardto Council for a decision to be made. I must remind clubsthat as it is not an official Lions project, there is an issue ofinsurance and liabilities when using the Lions logo.

In the next few years, there will be a lot of changehappening within our MD. Therefore, I encourage as manyLions as possible to have a say in the future of ourorganisation. There are many way in which you can do this,but the best way would be to talk to your District Governors.You can find their contact details on pages 44-45. They,alongside the Long Range Planning Committee, can thenstrategically plan ahead with your best interests in mind. Ialso highly recommend that members register to attend theMD Convention next year in Eastbourne (See page 40).

I wish you all good health and look forward to theupcoming months.

Clowance (Clo) LawtonLIon Magazine editor

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In Japan, our society owes a lot tobushido, the code of conduct of thesamurai. Samurai have positive andnegative sides, but samurai upholdstability and ensure peace. Otherpositive traditional values of thebushido are respecting one’s elders,protecting the weak and valuingfairness and honour.

Every culture has its own wonderfulvirtues, and each of the 210nations and geographic areas thatare part of Lions Clubs Internationalcontributes to the strength andvitality of the association. Themulti-colored fabric of Lions owesits durability and flexibility to itsdisparate individual strands.

In other words, our diversity is ourstrength. We are not a cookie-cutter association. One size doesnot fit all. Clubs are free to choosetheir own projects and recruit their

own members. The more we valuediversity and model that in ourclubs the more we will prosper.

So this year I urge clubs tocontinue to reach out to women,younger people and middle-agedpeople to diversify our ranks. Aclub gains new perspectives andrenewed energy with adiverse membership.

By the same token, don’t hesitateto try new projects. We can’t growstale. We don't eat stale bread orrice and we don’t want a stale club.We must have the courage to turnour clubs into fresh, young andvibrant ones.

We also must work together. Anancient story illustrates the powerof teamwork. A powerful samurailord, Mori Motonari, took aside histhree sons and easily snapped asingle arrow. But when he held

three arrows together the well-muscled man could not break thebunch. The moral is clear.Americans even have their ownsaying for it: united we stand,divided we fall. When the 1.4million Lions family is united, wecan deliver the light of servicethroughout the world.

So this year let’s embody thesamurai spirit. Lions, be samurai.But when you go on your serviceactivities, please keep your sharpswords at home and carry with youonly the samurai spirit!

Dr. Jitsuhiro YamadaLions Clubs InternationalPresident

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This prestigious award, officiallyannounced on 2nd June 2015,specifically recognises the impactthe Tetbury Advertiser produced bythe Tetbury Lions has on thecommunity. This monthly publicationgives a voice to all groups,encourages local business to remainviable and helps improve localfacilities and services.

The Tetbury Advertiser is both aproduct and a service that is uniqueamongst Lions clubs in the district.Each month it is delivered free byClub members to households in the

town and its surrounding villages,which ensures that it is available tothe entire local population. Thismagazine is a primary source ofincome that has allowed the clubto distribute in excess of £60,000over the last four years, into boththe local community andinternational projects.

Tetbury Mayor, Sandra Ball andLions District Governor KeithWilding, joined Tetbury Lions for agrand reception. The LordLieutenant of Gloucestershire, DameJanet Trotter, presented the Club

with its Queen’s Award for VoluntaryService. In making thepresentation she commented on thestrength of the application and howapparent it was that the Club wasdedicated to improving the qualityof life for those less fortunate inour community.

The highlight of the reception wasthe presentation of a scroll that hadbeen signed by the Queen and anengraved commemorative crystal.They will both be on display in acabinet in The Close Hotel, wherethe Tetbury Lions meet each month.

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Tetbury Lions receive the Queen’sAward for Voluntary Service

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Tetbury Lions is one of 187charities, social enterprises andvoluntary groups to receive theaward in 2015, but is one of onlythree groups in the whole ofGloucestershire to be successful.The number of awards handed outto groups have increased by over60% since 2014, due to an increasein high quality applications, showingthat the voluntary sector is thrivingand full of innovative ideas to tacklecommunity challenges.

Tetbury Lions would like to thankeveryone in the town and itssurrounding parishes who hold theTetbury Advertiser in such highesteem and for their continuingsupport for our various projects.Without this support this awardwould not have been possible.

PICTURED: Tetbury Lions President RichardSmith, Lord Lieutenant of GloucestershireDame Janet Trotter, current Mayor ofTetbury Sandra Ball and Councillor StephenHirst who nominated the Tetbury Lions

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PICTURED: Tetbury LionsPresident Richard Smithcelebrating

PICTURED: (L to R) Terri Whiteand Liz Philby

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AUDIT1. Reviewed the audit planning details for the

June 30, 2015, financial statement audit forLCI and LCIF presented by representativesfrom Crowe Horwath, LLP.

2. Reviewed the memorandum covering areview of the Service Organization Reportfor Paylocity, the Donor Services Audit anda memorandum covering new proceduresfor the termination of temporaryemployees.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS COMMITTEE1. Denied second vice district governor

election complaints filed in District 108-LA(Italy), District 308-A1 (Singapore) andDistrict 322-E (India) and declared thefollowing as second vice district governorsin their respective districts for the 2015-2016 fiscal year:a. Lion Fabrizio Ungaretti—District 108-LA

(Italy)b. Lion Jerrick Tay—District 308-A1

(Singapore)c. Lion Veena Gupta—District 322-E

(India)2. Upheld one second vice district governor

election complaint filed in District 324-A8(India), declared the second vice districtgovernor election in District 324-A8 for the2015-2016 fiscal year null and void and ofno force and effect, declared a vacancy inthe office of second vice district governorfor the 2015-2016 fiscal year and that thesecond vice district governor vacancy shallbe filled in accordance with theInternational and District Constitutions andBy-Laws, and declared that the filing feeless US$350 shall be refunded to each ofthe Complainants.

3. Censured District Governor V.S.B Sunderfor his unlionistic behavior and made himineligible for a District Governor TeamExcellence Award. Rejected the disputefiled in District 324-A1 (India) under theConstitutional Complaints procedure relatedto the 2015-2016 fiscal year districtelections as improper.

4. Removed District Governor S. Arumugamfrom the office of district governor inDistrict 324-B4 (India) for failure to complywith the International Constitution and By-Laws and policies of the International Boardof Directors. Declared that S. Arumugamshall not be recognized in the future as apast district governor by Lions ClubsInternational or any club or district, andthat he shall not be entitled to anyprivileges of such title.

5. Declared the conciliator’s report filed inDistrict 324-B4 (India) as inconsistent withthe International and District 324-B4Constitutions and By-Laws and thereforeinvalid. Affirmed the elections of the districtgovernor, first vice district governor andsecond vice district governor held on April26, 2015 for the 2015-2016 fiscal year.

6. Declared the decision of the conciliators todeclare the second vice district election inDistrict 301-D2 (Philippines) null and voidinconsistent with the InternationalConstitution and By-Laws and Board Policyand therefore invalid. Recommended thatthe yes/no ballot contained in the StandardForm District Constitution be utilized byDistrict 301-D2 in the 2015-2016 yearelections. Declared the conciliators decisionrelated to the removal of the Respondentinconsistent with the internationalconstitution and by-laws and board policyand therefore invalid. Upheld the decisionof the conciliators that the Respondent

violated the Multiple District Constitutionand By-Laws.

7. Revised the definition of Good MoralCharacter in Chapter XV of Board PolicyManual to prohibit membership toindividuals who have been convicted of acrime of moral turpitude.

8. Revised the secret ballot process in ChapterIII of Board Policy Manual to allow theprocess to be initiated by the presidingofficer.

9. Revised the District Governor SuspensionPolicy in Chapter XV of the Board PolicyManual to remove a redundancy in thepolicy and to amend the number of clubsrequired to request a review under thispolicy.

10. Revised the Standard Form DistrictConstitution in Chapter VII of the BoardPolicy Manual to correct a typographicalerror and update internal references.

11. Established a new Neutral Observer Policy,effective July 1, 2016, in Chapter XV of theBoard Policy Manual.

DISTRICT AND CLUB SERVICE COMMITTEE1. Appointed Past District Governor Michael

Bierwagen to serve as Coordinating Lion forDistrict 123 (Russian Federation) for the2015-2016 fiscal year, Past DistrictGovernor Mirela Grigorovici to serve as theCoordinating Lion for the Republic of Serbiaon October 11, 2015, for the remainingmonths of the fiscal year and PastInternational Director Kalle Elster to serveas Co-Coordinating Lion for the Republic ofLatvia and assist Past District GovernorFabian Ruesch during the 2015-2016 fiscalyear.

2. Amended the DG Team Excellence Awardapplication to require that districts alsoadhere to the association’s constitution andby-laws and policies in addition to meetingthe requirements of the award.

3. Revised Chapter V of the Board PolicyManual to place less emphasis on strict clubmeeting attendance and more emphasis onmeaningful involvement in club activities.

4. Revised Chapter VII, Exhibit B. of theBoard Policy Manual to also place lessemphasis on strict club meeting attendanceand more emphasis on meaningfulinvolvement in club activities.

5. Amended Chapter IX of the Board PolicyManual to allow a Coordinating Lion to beappointed when a potential new Lionscountry is identified instead of waiting fortwo clubs to be chartered.

6. Made a housekeeping revision to correct areference error in Chapter IX, ParagraphO.2.d. so the correct paragraphs werereferenced.

FINANCE AND HEADQUARTERS OPERATIONCOMMITTEE1. Approved the FY 2015 4th Quarter

Forecast, reflecting a deficit.2. Approved the final budget for FY 2016 with

a deficit of US$2,842,672.3. Approved amending The Retirement

Income Plan for Employees of theInternational Association of Lions Clubs(Plan) to offer terminated employeeshaving vested benefits under the Plan theopportunity to withdraw their full Planbenefits in a lump sum in calendar year2015.

4. Approved a change in board policy effectiveJuly 1, 2015, which requires districtgovernors obtain approval from the TravelDepartment prior to ticketing any fare in

excess of US$1,000. Airfare less thanUS$1,000 should be booked at the lowestlogical standard or discounted fare by themost direct route for the authorized classof service and period of travel.

5. Approved a change in board policy effectiveJuly 1, 2015, to provide eligible pastinternational directors a minimum budgetof US$1,200 annually.

LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE1. Approved policy empowering the

International President to fill GMT and GLTCoordinator vacancies at the multipledistrict, single district and sub-districtlevels, when said vacancies are the resultof the appointment body’s inability to cometo consensus on a suitable appointment.

2. Approved policy prohibiting endorsed andcertified candidates for international officefrom serving as GMT InternationalCoordinator, GLT International Coordinator,Family and Women InternationalCoordinator, GMT or GLT ConstitutionalArea Leader, GMT or GLT Area Leader andGMT or GLT Special Area Advisor.

LCIF1. Approved the report of the LCIF Finance

Committee.2. Amended the articles of Articles of

Incorporation and the By-Laws of LionsClubs International Foundation, to reflectthe revised LCIF Board of Trusteesstructure.

3. Deleted Chapter XVI of the Board PolicyManual, due to its redundancy to the LCIFOperations and Policy Manual.

4. Amended the Operations and Policy Manualof Lions Clubs International Foundation toreflect the revised LCIF Board of Trusteesstructure and other necessaryhousekeeping changes.

5. Approved the 2015-2016 voting membersof the Board of Trustees of Lions ClubsInternational Foundation.

6. Increased the humanitarian grants budgetfor the current fiscal year by an additionalUS$3.5 million.

7. Approved 54 Standard, InternationalAssistance and Core 4 grants totalingUS$3,071,671.

8. Tabled one grant.9. Extended the Core 4 funding priority status

of Lions Quest until June 30, 2018, andCore 4 funding priority funding status ofLCIF’s diabetes prevention and controlprogram until June 30, 2017.

10. Approved a Core 4 disability grant in theamount of US$750,000, representing aportion of funding for the Lions-SpecialOlympics Mission Inclusion program inBrazil.

11. Approved the renewal of the Lions Questcommunity partnership grants program inthe amount of US$200,000.

12. Approved US$125,000 in funding for anevaluation of Lions Quest in Finland.

13. Approved a grant in the amount ofUS$5,000 for a joint LCIF/MD 111 lowvision project in Cuba.

LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE1. Approved the formation of a 2015-2016

Family and Women Action Committee, of upto 10 members, as appointed by Vice

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On the 13th May 2015, Keith began hischallenge of walking 1,132 miles to raise fundsfor Lions Clubs International charities andCransley Hospice in Kettering which had caredfor his late wife, Joan. With the help of a smallteam from Kettering Lions, detailed routeswere planned, overnight accommodationsorted, sponsorship gained and the necessaryrisk assessments completed.

It was clear that help would be needed fromother sources and this was provided at variousstages by Lions clubs, friends and family.Seven Lions District Governors with clubs nearto Keith’s route were contacted and asked ifthey could provide support with transport andaccommodation, where necessary. In trueLions fashion, all responded positively! Someeven invited Keith to club meetings, madedonations to his appeal and provided him witha good meal, hot bath or a bed! Morpeth andTeesdale Lions Clubs even ensured he couldcelebrate his birthday with them!

Where the route did not go near enough to aLions club, members of Keith’s own family andfriends stepped in to provide support andarranged an emotional surprise welcome atJohn O’Groats.

Kettering and District Lions Club send theirmost sincere and grateful thanks to all Lionsclubs and members for their efforts in supportof the ‘End to End’ Charity Walk. Without theirhelp and encouragement Lion Keith’s challengewould not have been completed and onschedule, 3rd August 2015!

To date over £10,000 has beenraised and you can still donate at:www.JustGiving.com/keith-ogley1

Keith Ogley, from Kettering &District Lions Club, celebratedhis 72nd birthday with asponsored walk from Land’s Endto John O’ Groats

End to EndFundraising

PICTURED: At the startwith 105SW DG LesleyClarke and Lions Chris andGraham from Uckfield Lions

PICTURED: Battlingthe elements inUpper Teesdale

PICTURED: Keith’saccommodation fortwo nights at Glencoe

PICTURED: Keith at the finish with his two daughters

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Art Themen Jazz Concert

On Saturday, 20th June 2015 one ofBritain’s top jazz musicians, ArtThemen, performed to a sold-outaudience at the Wokingham Theatreto raise money for Combat Stress.

Known for his originality and smoothstyle, Art Themen is a British jazzsaxophonist and former orthopedicsurgeon. At the concert, he wasjoined by three other jazz musicians:Ron Hetherington on drums, AndyCrowdy on bass, and John Critchisonon keyboard. For more than 40years, Themen has toured aroundthe world, and played with US andBritish luminaries, includingMick Jagger, Chuck Berry andGeorgie Fame.

“It was a fabulous night of jazz, say’sSue Jackson, Fundraising Chairman,Wokingham Lions Club. “ There wasa variety of music including songsfrom Cole Porter, Duke Ellington,West End & Broadway hits, as wellas the blues, a tango and ballads.The evening was a great success,with fabulous music andentertainment, and above all, awonderful audience helping us toraise funds for a worthy cause.”

The evening was sponsored byProspect Estate Agents. Director

Mark Towell said, “It is a pleasure forProspect to be a part of theWokingham Lions’ fund raisingcampaigns. I was very lucky toattend the evening; Art and friendsdelivered a superb show, keepingthe audience engaged everyminute. I have even used some oftheir jokes since!”

On 7th August 2015 outside theWokingham Theatre, Sue Jacksonpresented the cheque to TomWilman, Senior Volunteer &Community Fundraising Officer atCombat Stress. Other Lions presentwere President Alan Rouse, VicePresident Bob Westerman, TreasurerCandy Kirkland and PRO ClaireMangers-Page. Also present were ArtThemen, Mark Towell and SarahCorradine from Prospect EstateAgents and Tony Thompson andNigel Lawson Dick from WokinghamTheatre. Tom Wilman said, “Onbehalf of the veterans and staff atCombat Stress I would like to offermy many thanks to the Wokingham

Lions Club for this most generousdonation, raised through theirwonderful ‘Art Themen & friends’concert in June.

Combat Stress is the UK's leadingmental health charity that helps ex-Service men and women from allages who are suffering. CombatStress is currently deliveringspecialist clinical treatment andwelfare support to more than 5,900Veterans across the UK aged 19 to97, including 38 Veterans inBerkshire. The charity provides avital lifeline for these men andwomen, and their families.Treatment and support services arealways free of charge, and areproven to work.

The money raised by the WokinghamLions Club will ensure Combat Stresscan continue providing specialisttreatment to help ex-Service menand women rebuild their livessuffered from Post Traumatic StressDisorder, depression and anxiety.

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Wokingham Lions Clubpresents Combat Stress witha cheque for £2,000 raised attheir Art Themen Jazz Concert


Fundraising

Blind Veterans UK, Llandudno

The party of seventeen were greetedat the Centre by Victoria Beech, theRegional Fundraiser, and volunteersTom and Barbara Middleton. Victoriagave a very informative talk aboutthe facilities they provide. Afterwhich, they were then given acomprehensive guided tour of thefacilities, including IT rooms,art/craft rooms and the type ofaccommodation that the veteransstay in whilst going through theirrehabilitation and training. The groupwas then taken outside to see theconstruction work already takingplace for the £1.65 millionaccommodation, rehabilitation andtraining facility.

Lion President PDG Tom Tyson said,“You can see that the Llandudnocentre provides wonderful facilitiesfor training and rehabilitation in abeautiful setting. When you hear thestories of young soldiers whoenlisted at 18 and were blinded by20, you can understand how they

may possibly feel that their life isover. The people here do aphenomenal job of giving them theskills and confidence to moveforward with their lives. This newfacility will add an extra dimension towhat they are able to offer.”

The construction work is well underway for the new facility, but themoney from the Lions of MD105 isvery much needed to ensurecompletion of the project. CrosbyLions have been supporting BlindVeterans UK in a variety of ways formany years. Lion Peter Albert haspersonally raised over £14,000through collections, canoeing the

Thames and completing the milelong zip wire at Penryhn Quarry,Bethesda. Recently, along with theother clubs in Zone G (BN), it wasalso decided that each club donate abench for the gardens in Llandudno.

The weekend was topped off by asocial visit to the Llandudno Lionswith a warm welcome from PresidentGordon Woodyatt, Club Membersand partners.

Donations should be sent toyour District Treasurerendorsed 'MD 105 SpecialAppeal - BVUK & BLESMA'.

In the last issue of LionMagazine we featured theMD Special Appeal forBlind Veterans UK andBlesma. Crosby & DistrictLions visited theirrehabilitation centre to seehow their donations havebeen used...

PICTURED TOP: President Tom Tysonwith Victoria Beech

PICTURED ABOVE: President Tom Tysonexchanging pennant with Llandudno LionsPresident Gordon Woodyatt

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On the day of the tournament, Garycarded 5 birdies and 2 eagles whilstshooting 61, to help his team into 3rdplace. Gary was joined by fellowprofessionals Andrew Pickering and ChrisCoates from Carus Green Golf Club,Kendal, and Secretary MargaretBebington to complete the quartet.

Gary Wolstenholme at Grange Fell GolfClub first learned to swing a golf club asa young boy, under the tutorship of theresident professional at the time,Fred Robinson.

The charity golf day, organised byGrange & District Lions Club, raised over£1,200 for St Mary's Hospice, Ulverston.

Grange Lions ClubCharity Open

Fundraising

Professional golfer, Gary Wolstenholme joins GrangeLions Club for their charity golf tournament

Gary Wolstenholme

GaryWolstenholme isnot your averagegolfer. He turnedprofessional atthe age of 47 andwon the EuroProTour event at 49,shooting a roundof 63. At, 50 hefinished third in his first outing onthe European Senior Tour, the TravisPerkins Masters at Woburn and wonit on his second outing at the CasaSerena Open.

Gary has been playing golf for over30 years and is firmlyestablished himself as one ofthe leading amateur golfers inthe world. Throughout hisillustrious career Gary has wonmany tournaments, accoladesand received various prestigioushonours. Oh… and he beat TigerWoods as an amateur!

Whitstable & Herne Bay Lions Club, the Police Force andDeal Inner Wheel contributed to training andequipment, provided by Abigail’s Footsteps for thematernity unit in Margate, Kent.

Abigail’s Footsteps was launched in 2010 by Jo and

David Ward following the death of their daughterAbigail, who was stillborn. The charity aims to providesupport for families and healthcare professionalsdealing with bereavement through the death of a babybefore or at birth.

The charity provided two cold cribs, which would allowthe babies to stay near their mothers and a camera tocapture special moments and contribute to memoriesfor the families. £2,000 would be used for training inbereavement counselling for members of staff. LadyAstor, Patron of Abigail’s Footsteps attended with VicePresident Cheryl Baker, former member of Bucks Fizz,to make the presentations on behalf of the charity.Helen Bland, Acting Head of Midwifery at QEQM, thankthe Club for their donation.

The maternity unit also hope to raise £70,000 for a newbereavement suite of rooms where families could stayaway from other mothers and their newborn babies.They have raised £10,000 so far and would be gratefulfor any other contributions.*

To find out more about Abigail’s Footsteps visitwww.abigailsfootsteps.co.uk

*This is not a LCIfunded project.

Abigail’sFootstepsWhistable & Herne Bay Lions Club helpprovide bereavement training and equipmentfor the maternity unit of the QEQM


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Doctors at King’s College Hospital inLondon recently called on the LionsInternational Blood Research Appeal(LIBRA) for some urgent funding tocover the cost of research equipmentthat will benefit patients with sicklecell disease. Expert researcher, DrStephan Menzel approached LIBRAafter the Haematology Teamidentified a need for a PCR Machine.

Dr Menzel recently discussed thebenefits of this machine with LIBRAand here he explains how it willhelp to power the hospital’s researchinto sickle cell disease for manyyears to come.

What is sickle cellanaemia?

Sickle cell anaemia is a seriousinherited blood disorder wherethe red blood cells, which carryoxygen around the body,develop abnormally. Normalred blood cells are flexibleand disc-shaped, but in sicklecell anaemia they canbecome rigid and shapedlike a crescent (or sickle).

The sickle-shaped cells containdefective haemoglobin, the iron-rich protein that enables red bloodcells to carry oxygen from yourlungs to the rest of the body. Thusthese cells are unable to carry asmuch oxygen. The abnormal cellsare also unable to move around aseasily as normal shaped cells andcan block blood vessels, resulting intissue and organ damage and

episodes of severe pain. Theabnormal blood cells also have ashorter lifespan and aren't replacedas quickly as normal blood cells.This leads to a shortage of redblood cells, known as anaemia.

Why do you require thePcr machine?

The focus of our research is on thegenetics of sickle cell disease, aninherited anaemia. The only cure isa bone marrow transplantation,which is currently possible in a verysmall minority of patients only,because it is so toxic. The cause forsickle cell disease is a mutation inthe haemoglobin molecule (theoxygen carrier in our blood stream).However, the condition can besevere or mild. The severity islargely determined by additionalgenetic factors, which we are tryingto identify. The ultimate goal is tofind better treatment for patientswith sickle cell disease. If we findthe genetic cause(s) for the moresevere disease form, we couldtarget this with specific treatment,

so that the clinical appearance ismild even in these patients.


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What does PCR stand foR?

PCR stands for ‘Polymerase ChainReaction’. This method (named inanalogy to the nuclear chainreaction) was invented in the 1980sand has since become the‘workhorse’ for most geneticresearch. Since roughly thebeginning of this century, medicalresearch finds itself in the ‘post-genome’ era. That means, we knowa lot about the human genome, thegenetic blueprint for the humanbody. With this knowledge, PCR hasbecome incredibly powerful.

hoW benefiCial Will thisequiPment be to thehaematology dePaRtment?

Our research, conducted largely withthe help of PCR, is leading in the areaof sickle cell disease genetics. Thus,here at King’s, we strive to maintainan environment that combines highlytrained and experienced clinicalspecialists with cutting-edgeresearch. Such an environmentbenefits our own patients directly,but we also hope that it will advancegeneral knowledge of the disease,leading to new therapeutic anddiagnostic approaches.

What is the PCR used foR?

Some patients can re-activate aform of haemoglobin that theyused as babies when still in themother’s womb - fetalhaemoglobin. This is not affectedby the sickle mutation so weare studying the genes thatpromote this re-activation andthus make the disease milder inthese patients.

hoW has libRa’s suPPoRtmade a diffeRenCe to youand youR team?

Funding for sickle cell diseaseresearch is very difficult to obtain,there is no significant dedicatedcharity or government fundingavailable. LIBRA support has beenincredibly helpful to us to keep ourresearch going at a time whenfunding conditions are tough. Weare extremely grateful for all thesupport and money that LIBRA hasgiven us over the years. Theselfless work of LIBRA members isinspiring to us and we feelencouraged by the fact that theydeem our work importantenough to receive some of theprecious funds.

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To find out more about LIBRAand how you can providesupport, please visitwww.libralionscharity.orgor call 01428 656283.

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Each issue this section willfocus on a Club, their historyand what they’ve been up torecently. To appear on thispage, please encourage yourPresident or Press andPR Officer to [email protected] information andphotographs (in a highresolution JPEG format).

Kilkenny lions Club

ClUB HisToRyThe Club was chartered in 1967. AThurles business man, Jack Dwanintroduced Lionism to Kilkenny.The Club was sponsored by ThurlesLions Club. Vivian Good waselected as First President with JackDwan as Secretary and JosephLambe as Treasurer.


Kilkenny Lions are very proud of their city which is rich in medieval heritage,arts and culture and recognised by many as the Creative Heart of Ireland. It isalso one the biggest tourist destinations in Ireland.

Serving our Community

In Ireland, Kilkenny has been at theforefront in developing Social Servicessince the 1960’s.

Kilkenny Lions are committed toserving our communities: over thepast 10 years, they have donated€500,000 to over 80 localvoluntary organisations.

the committee have also beenactively involved in youthprojects including...

• Tackling Cyber Bullying: This wasdirected at the parents of primaryand post primary school students inthe area. This took the form of an

easy to read leaflet outliningpreventative and guidancemeasures on bullying, in particularcyber bullying. Over 4,000 leafletshave been distributed this year tothe schools and Kilkenny Lionshave been delighted with thepositive feedback received to date.

• Suicide Awareness – promotingpositive mental health: KilkennyLions have each year for the past 3years sponsored an initiative inconjunction with the CountyKilkenny Suicide PreventionStrategy as adopted by the HealthService Executive. This year, Lionsis one of a number of sponsors ofthe Rhymerag.net project run bythe County Kilkenny Arts officewhich promotes positive mentalhealth among young people. Theproject is coordinated through theschools and is an online poetryjournal for young people in the agegroup 12-21.

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President: Maeve O’Flynn

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the Committee is also involved inprojects assisting the communitysuch as...

• Litter Pick-Ups: The Committeeassist the Keep Kilkenny BeautifulCommittee in a number of litterpick-ups throughout the summereach year. Kilkenny City won theNational Tidy Towns in 2014 for the2nd time, making them the onlylarge urban centre ever to do so.This success contributes to thecity’s very vibrant tourism industry.

• Message in a Bottle: To date over2,500 bottles have been

distributed throughout KilkennyCity and County.

• Sight Serve: Lions collected thisyear in excess of 2,000 spectaclesfor the Sight Serve project.

• Holiday for the Elderly: Lionsorganised summer holiday for anumber of our elderly citizens inthe self-contained holiday resort ofTrabolgan in County Cork.

• Cancer Research fund raising:Lions raised €1,200 to supportthe Cancer Research project Relayfor Life.

Upcoming eventslions spirit of Christmas appeal:This auction of locally sponsoredgoods through the Local Radio KCLR96FM and the local paper, theKilkenny People, is the biggest fundraising event of the year for theKilkenny Lions. Held over 3 days inmid-December, the auction consistsof a general auction of over 100items and a separate agriculturalauction of over 50 farm items.

The auctions are broadcast live overKCLR Local Radio and raises over€25,000.

Pop up shop: The shop sells itemsdonated and sponsored to the publicduring the peak Xmas period and ismanned by Lions members.

schools Concerts: This is organisedevery year by Lions with over 8schools participating before a packedaudience of over 500 people in thehistoric 13th Century St. CanicesCathedral. This year it will be held onthe 9th /10th December 2015.

wine fair: This well supported fundraising event will be held on the 27thNovember in the Newpark Hotel. TheFair is sponsored by local a winerywhich allows all proceeds to go tolocal charities.

Golf Classic: Kilkenny Lions will runa Golf Classic in Kilkenny Golf Clubon the 16th April 2016.

Carol singing: A Christmas CarolSinging fund raising event will beheld at a local hotel this Christmas.

kilkeNNy baChelorette ofthe year, JuNe 2015

The Bachelorette of the Year charityevent has been organised byKilkenny Lions for the past 8 years.This year €4,000 was raised andthe beneficiaries were the KilkennyAlzheimer’s Association, Parkinson’sAssociation and the Kilkenny SubAqua Club.

Seven bachelorettes wereencouraged to enter with thesupport of their local club ororganisation for example, GAA orrugby clubs. They, in turn, canvasstheir supporters to attend theselection night (admission €10) atLangton’s Hotel, Kilkenny. LocalLions MC, George Candler,comperes the event and interviewsthe bachelorettes in a fun, relaxedatmosphere. The bachelorette whohas the most supporters at theevent is selected Bachelorette ofthe Year. This year’s winner isMiriam Walsh from Tullaroan,County Kilkenny and she had thesupport of her local camogie club.

PICTURED: Lions memberswith President Maeve O’Flynn

PICTURED: Litter pick-up thissummer by Lions and ‘KeepKilkenny Beautiful’ members

PICTURED: Winner of KilkennyBachelorette 2015, MiriamWalsh (3rd from left)

PICTURED: Lions memberGeorge Candler comperes final

SS SS SS Next issue we look at a Club from DistriCt 105-m SS SS SS


The object this Competition is to encourage visiting among LionMembers and Clubs world-wide between the 1st March and the last dayof February the following year. The trophy is won by the Club withinMD105 who scores the greatest number of points.

Points were awarded to the Club for each Lion visiting:-

a) within the Multiple District 1 point

b) outside MD105 points 5 points

Points were awarded to the Club for each Lion visiting:-

• Regular Business Meeting

• Social Event

• Fund Raising Event

• Club Service Event

• Formation Meeting

• Charter Presentation or Anniversary Dinner

• Official Region/Zone Meeting

• Region/Zone Social Event

• Region/Zone Fund Raising Event

• Region/Zone Forum or Seminar

• Region/Zone Service Event

Excluded are serving DGs, VDGs, MD/District Officers and any other Lions attendingin an official capacity.

EXECUTIVESUMMARYHonolulu • Hawaii • USA • June 21-25, 2015

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MD105 VISITINGLIONCOMPETITION

September 2015

President Dr. Jitsuhiro Yamada and recordedwith the LCI Executive Committee at theirAugust 2015 meeting.

MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE1. Approved the formation of Branch Lions

Clubs in Cuba and Myanmar, contingent uponreceiving approval from appropriateauthorities in each country.

2. Approved a working group of Lions and/orLeos to work with the MembershipDevelopment Committee and staff to exploreconcepts and strategies to involve “episodicvolunteerism” in Lionism.

3. Approved adding recent policy changes topolicy manual, including the processing fee ofUS$100 assessed to club charter applicationsnot approved by LCI, and requiring advancepayment of US$30 for adding any additionalcharter members.

4. Approved policy where any district LionsClubs International has identified with a priormisapplication of the student membershipprogram, and has more than 5 percent oftotal membership comprised of studentmembership, will have all campus clubs inthat district, and all traditional clubs in thatdistrict with 25 percent or more studentmembers will be placed in status quo,immediately after 45 days of the date ofcommunication informing them of thisreview.

5. Approved the designation of MD60 underConstitutional Area I, effective July 1, 2015.

6. Approved board policy changes that placeless emphasis on strict meeting attendancerequirements, allowing for more flexibleparticipation in club activities.

PuBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE1. Reduced the number of print editions to four

per year for all official editions of LIONMagazine beginning January 2018.

2. Eliminated the Order of the Lion medal.3. Replaced the current awards section of

Chapter XX of the Board Policy Manual withExhibit A to the public relations report.

SERVICE ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE1. Selected the 2014-2015 Leos of the Year.2. Approved a revision to the Board Policy

Manual transferring youth programs that arenon-Leo related from Chapter XXIII toChapter I.

3. Approved a revision to the Board PolicyManual Chapter XXIII deleting outdatedinformation on the purposes of the YouthPrograms Department.

4. Approved a revision to the Board PolicyManual Chapter XXIII renaming the chaptertitle from “Youth Programs” to “Leo ClubProgram” to reflect the current structure.

5. Approved a revision to the Board PolicyManual Chapter I changing all variations of“Youth Programs Department” with “ServiceActivities Division” to reflect currentstructure.

6. Approved a revision to the Board PolicyManual Chapter XXIII changing all variationsof “Youth Programs Department” with “LeoClub Program Department” to reflect currentstructure.

For more information on any of the aboveresolutions, please refer to the LCI websiteat lionsclubs.org or contact theInternational Office at 630-571-5466.

POSITON CLuB NAME DISTRICT POINTS

1 Stoke on Trent BS 48.5

2 Whitstable & Herne Bay SE 36.1

3 Tamworth BS 27.4

4 Normanton C 25.1

5 Lewes SE 23.1

6 Launceston SW 20.3

7 Kirkham & Fylde Rural BN 19.9

8 Rochdale BN 17

9 Stone BS 15.9

10 Birchwood BN 15.6

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In September 2014, as a newly inductedPresident of the Grimsby CleethorpesLions I attended my first Zone Meeting. Itwas at this meeting I first heard of theMonte Carlo Banger Challenge which oneof the other clubs had undertaken.

Eager to find out more, I discovered thatthe event was an annually organisedadventure where teams of up to four,entered and were required to purchase acar, a 'banger', for £300 or less and driveit to Monte Carlo. The more I found outabout the event the more I becameintrigued. I was relieved to find that itwas not actually a race, but more like aglorified treasure hunt travelling throughFrance, Switzerland and Italy beforefinishing at Monte Carlo. The wholeadventure would take place overseveral days.

I floated the idea to the Club expressingan opinion that it would be a fun thing todo and could be an opportunity for fundraising through sponsorship. Moreover, itwould be a great opportunity to raise theprofile of our Club in the local community.

Monte Carlo or BustRally Banger ChallengePresident Frederick Smiles of Grimsby Cleethorpes Lions tells us more abouthis Club’s adventure…

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The idea was discussed and it wasagreed by the Club that we wouldgive it a go and that all the moneyraised would go to the Lincolnshire &Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance.

Having made the decision, the Lionshad within a week sourced a car, aRenault Scenic four-wheel drive,which was just as well with anupcoming trip through the Alps! Ourfirst sponsor offered to purchase thecar for us and we were well on ourway.

In preparation, local businesses werecontacted and the response was verypositive. For £100, each companylogos were printed out and stuck onthe car. We ended up with 29stickers, including local garages whohad serviced the car for us and givenus tyres and parts free of charge.Likewise, the stickers were printedout on appropriate material as part ofa community project. It is worthsaying that at the end there wasn’tany room for any more stickers.

Before the trip we visited the AirAmbulance near Lincoln and weresurprised and delighted when thehelicopter landed close to us. We

chatted to the crew and only thenyou really do realise what anamazing job they do.

The local support was fantastic.Sponsors were invited to a photoshoot and the MP for Cleethorpes,Martin Vickers attended to offer hissupport as well as District GovernorPaul Stafford and his wife. Onesponsor, the owner of a café evenprovided a band over the weekend tobring in the crowds as we collectedon the Cleethorpes sea front. We alsohad a spot on the local radio stationas well as extensive coverage in localpapers.

The JourneyDay 1: Grimsby to St Quentin

(northern France)

It was very rewarding to see so manyLions, Lion's ladies, sponsors, TV andthe press in attendance for the startof our adventure. Duly packed andready, Mark, Colin, Terry & Geoff andI sallied forth into the unknown, 1200miles to go in a £300 banger. I wasreassured when one of our crew saidthey could fix anything with rubberbands!!

The journey was long but the carbehaved and was returning around40 miles to the gallon. Having madethe ferry and reached St Quentinafter a two-hour drive once inFrance, we settled into our hotelbefore exploring. The meet-up pointwas a pub on the square. Like manyFrench towns, St Quentin is centredround a square with bars and shops.What is unusual is that much of thesquare is taken up by a man-madebeach, with hundreds of tonnes offine silver sand deposited there eachsummer.

We checked in: the bar was heavingwith fellow Monte Carlo teams, manyof which were in fancy dress. Theodd beverage and food was the orderof the evening.

Day 2: St Quentin to Dijon

At the morning meet-up we had achance to view other bangers. Whatan array! Hour upon hour of efforthad been spent on many of the cars.My favourite being the 'Furarri' aHyundai completely covered in ...fur.It brought a lump to my throat to seejust how many of the almost one

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PICTURED BELOW: MP Martin Vickersand District Governor Paul Staffordwishing us well

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hundred teams were collecting for acharity. With so much good will andpositivity, it made me proud that wewere a part of it all, doing our bit.

Dijon was hot, over 40˚C and after asix-hour drive the car was surprisinglystill running beautifully, apart frombeing very sluggish in the accelerationdepartment. I am sure it had nothingto do with the weight the poor thingwas carrying, or one of our numberbringing a holdall the size of Peru!

Day 3: Dijon to Turin

A warning light came on a fewminutes into our six hour drive, itindicated an electrical fault and as thedrive took in a trip round LakeGeneva in Switzerland, the St.Bernard Pass and a substantialportion of the Alps, it was worrying.

The problem was solved by one of theteam, who was technically giftedenough to lift the car bonnet and slamit down thus causing one connectionor another to be secured. The lightwent out each time we put on theheadlights. The scenery was fantastic,but our car was much happier goingdown the Alps than up.

Having checked in, a look at our JustGiving page showed our donationshad gone up to £430. This was, ofcourse, a cause for celebration, so wehad a beer. The Alps had proved areal test for the car and we metseveral teams and their cars that hadbeen less fortunate than ourselves.However the one thing that shonethrough was the camaraderie andfriendliness of all who we met.

Day 4: Turin to Monte Carlo

The meet-up on Sunday was at theNational Motor Museum and we weregiven a ticket to look round.

Having spent a pleasant hour therewe continued to the coast which wefollowed to Monte Carlo. The viewfrom the road high above wasamazing. It was a total contrast thehairpin bends down in to theMonte Carlo.

We drove through Casino Squarelittered with Daimlers, Rolls Royces,Lamborghinis and Ferraris. I waspleased to see people taking picturesof us as well as the more glamorouscars, and enquiring about the Rally.

Day 5: Monte Carlo toAix-en-Provence

Filled with a great sense of pride andelated to have completed thechallenge, we set off along the coastto Nice and then some two hoursdown the road to Aix-en-Provence. Iwould like to say the rest of thejourney home was without event.Unfortunately I can't. Unexpectedly,just north of Dijon, the car engineblew and was scrapped, but that isanother story.

All in all, we achieved what we setout to and I am filled with such asense of accomplishment and manymemories which will live with all theLions who took part. I would like tothank all our sponsors for thesupport they have given to the eventand all Lions ventures, without themwe would not be able to do the workwe do.

We arrived back in Cleethorpes lateTuesday night after our 2,300 milejourney, tired but with a sense ofachievement, perhaps even thinkingof next year.

The total raised for the Lincolnshire &Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance isongoing but we have currently raisedaround £3000.

If your club is interested indoing the ‘Monte Carlo orBust Rally Banger Challenge’,or you simply want to findout more visit:www.montecarloorbustrally.com

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PDG Lion Laurence Pearce from Porthcawl Lions Club visits district 301-C Philippines

PICTURED: Planting 30trees on a hot morning,2nd July 2015

On his way back from theInternational Convention in Honolulu,PDG Laurence, acting President ofClub Port Talbot, paused his travels tovisit the Lions of District 301-CPhilippines. Some of the work theywere doing in collaboration withAberyswyth Lions Clubs in Wales.Laurence and his wife were met atManila airport by their hosts fromLaoac United Lions Club and had anintense two days visiting projectssuch as water pumps, readingaction, hungry, youth involvementand environmental.

Laurence says, “From planting treeson a hot July morning to giving gifts ofreading and writing materials tochildren, to seeing water pumps inaction in remote villages was trulyinspiring and will stay with me for therest of my life. I would like to expressmy deepest thanks to the Lions ofLaoac United and district 301-C fortheir hospitality and friendship whichI am hoping a close relationship willdevelop between our districts. Alreadywe have shared the vision bysupplying spectacles via our twindistrict 103-NE France and we hopeto improve our links over the nextfew years.”

PICTURED: A pump wellat a Barangay village thatprovides not just drinkingwater but a lot of theneeds of the village

PICTURED: The distribution ofspectacles supplied by District105W. 140 pairs of glasses weregiven out that morning

PICTURED: Laurence at a schoolwhere he helped to give out 40packs of reading and writingmaterials and a free mealcourtesy of the local Lions Clubs

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Since the beginning of this project,this is the fifth water well Mineheadand District Lions Club has fundedand the 50th organised by Lion BillTrevett MJF. Bill started the waterwell tradition at his previous club,Amersham and Chesham Lions Club,who have carried on this worthwhileventure in his absence.

When Bill moved to Watchet,Somerset, he transferred toMinehead and District Cluband members unanimouslyagreed to take up thisworthy cause. With eachwell built, clean water isprovided for an entirevillage of up to 60 people. Theupkeep of the well is minimal,requiring only a rope and bucket.

Each well costs around £500. It is aworthy cause that contributestowards the Lions Club International

Centennial Service Challenge,‘Relieving the Hunger’ project. WaterIt is a not only slakes thirst, it is vitalfor successful husbandry andirrigation for agricultural crop growth.

If any club would likeinformation regardingproviding water for a wholevillage please contactSecretary Lion Veronica Whittleon 01643 707277 [email protected]


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As published in the last issue of Lion Magazine, vastareas of Belarus and the northern Ukraine becameheavily contaminated with radioactivity after theChernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. Lions, for a numberof years, have sought to provide respite by regularlyhosting a group of youngsters from the area in England,so as to provide them with fresh area anduncontaminated food to improve their immune systemsthat will have been affected by the nuclear-fall out.

On Wednesday 22nd July 2015, the Chernobyl Children’s

Life Line and the Lions Club of Felixstowe organised avisit to Felixstowe for 19 Chernobyl children with theirinterpreters and adult helpers. The children started witha visit to Kirton Light Railway on the miniature train.They were then treated to the local cuisine of fish andchips at The Hut on the seafront, which was kindlydonated by The Bounty Fish and Chip Shop, Walton.Whilst at The Hut the children were visited by the Mayor,Councillor Doreen Savage and Felixstowe Lions ClubPresident John Gooch.

Chernobyl Children

Provide Water For An Entire VillageMinehead and District Lions Club provides a new water well for Aworinde Village in Nigeria

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One morning, as administratorStella Agbogun made her rounds inthe Radiotherapy Department atLagos University Teaching Hospital(LUTH) in Nigeria, she happenedupon a young man comforting hisweeping mother in the hallway.

They had traveled to Lagos fromCross River, a Nigerian state morethan 400 miles away, so the womancould receive cancer treatment atLUTH. But without any money orrelatives in Lagos, the pair hadnowhere to stay. They weredesperate and completely alone.

Agbogun, a Lion, knew somethinghad to be done to help the familyand those like them—who travelfrom far and wide for access toLUTH’s Radiotherapy Departmentbut lack the resources to securehousing for themselves duringtreatment. “They had nowhere to

sleep,” says Agbogun. “They had norelations in Lagos, and they did nothave enough money for theiraccommodation. I was moved bypity. After that incident, I made thedecision to be a positive change, tocreate a better living environmentfor cancer patients.”

Agbogun, District 404 B governorthen, saw an opportunity to serveher community and improve thelives of vulnerable individuals. Shecollaborated with LUTH and LionsClubs International Foundation(LCIF) to develop plans for MercyHome, a housing facility for cancerpatients at the hospital.

Agbogun worked both with theLUTH management team to finalisedetails and secure the space forMercy Home and with Lion leadersto complete the project. With plansfor 20 beds, Mercy Home would

offer temporary accommodation forradiotherapy patients and theirrelatives who cannot affordaccommodation in Lagos.

With the help of a US$75,000Standard grant from LCIF,arrangements for the construction ofMercy Home were put in place. On arainy day in July, behind theRadiotherapy Department at LUTH,Lions and local dignitaries gatheredto break ground on the specialfacility that was years in the making.

At the groundbreaking ceremony,Professor Akin Osibogun, the chiefmedical Director of LUTH, elatedlydescribed how honored the hospitalwas to commission Mercy Home.The facility was a dream realised.

“LUTH’s management team sealedthe entire deal by giving us thisspace, where Mercy Home stands,”

Agbogun said at the ceremony.“They gave us easy access tothe institution and were readyto render assistance andencouragement.”

Mercy Home now stands as asymbol of hope to people insome of the darkest times oftheir lives, as well as areminder that wherever aneed arises in the community,Lions will find a way to meetthe challenge.

For information onStandard grants and howyour Lions club can apply,visit lcif.org.

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What are you going to be when yougrow up? It’s a familiar question formany children. When I was young itwas always the railways.

I’m blessed. Not just to have had acareer I’ve enjoyed; I, like manyreading this, am lucky because fortoo many children across the worldtoday, thoughts of the future evoketerror rather than excitement. Fortoo many children, the question ofgrowing up begins not with a “when”but with an “if”.

In East Africa, thousands of childrenrun to the streets, escaping poverty,violence, and neglect at home. Thelife they find on the streets is oftenfar more dangerous than the onethey left behind. Street childrenare abused, trafficked andprostituted. They face violence,disease, and even death.

These streets had becomehome to eleven-year-oldElnest. His father dead and hismother in hospital, he hadnowhere to go. He enduredthings no child shouldexperience. Abused, beaten,and at terrible risk – untilJoram, a Railway Childrenrescue worker, found him. Atfirst, Elnest pretended he wasfine. Street children learnquickly how to look fearless.But soon his story cametumbling out. He was hurt,alone, and desperate to go home.

Railway Children traced Elnest’smum, Elizabeth and gave her agrant to set up a business, helpingher to give Elnest the care he needs.We also helped Elnest go back toschool, which led to anapprenticeship fixing cars and abrighter future.

But there are only so many childrensomeone like Joram can reach.Which is why Railway Children islaunching the If I Grow Up campaign- backed by LION Magazine and thesupport of Lion groups. It hopes toraise £300,000. And every poundraised before January 22nd2016 will be doubled by the UKgovernment.

• £16 – doubled to £32 – paysfor a rescue worker to search thestreets for two days looking forchildren at risk

• £24 – doubled to £48 – feeds achild in a Kenyan shelter threemeals a day, for twelve weeks

• £58 – doubled to £116 – helpsus safely return a child home andpays for a follow-up visit to workthrough the family’s issues

With your support, we can reachmore children like Elnest and givethem the chance of a better future.

Find out more and downloadfundraising materials atwww.ifigrowup.org.uk.

Hope for the StreetChildren of East AfricaBy David Maidment, founder of the charity Railway Children


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For 12 years, Lions clubs fromEssex, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk andSuffolk have partaken in the EastAnglian Lions 105EA Annual FunDay as organised by PDG Lion DavidWoodruff. This year, on SundaySeptember 6th 2015, over 450children and young adults, manywith medical conditions, and theircarers were taken the GreatYarmouth Race Course and thenonto the Hippodrome Circus.

At the Great Yarmouth Race Course,the youngsters and there carersreceived a packed lunch and wereentertained by professional couple,Uncle Razz and Auntie Pearl. Theyhad everyone dancing, singing,playing daft games as well asballoon sculpting. After this, thegroup travelled onto Hippodrome

Circus where they enjoyed a varietyof acts and clowning around.

This year Swaffham Lions Club tookover forty children and parents fromSwaffham and the surroundingvillages. It was a fantastic day out

for the children who loved the circusantics, their balloon animals and notforgetting the ice cream at halftime! Many of the young peoplehave never been to a circus beforeand it gave the Lions great joy tosee and hear the laughter.

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Over two days, the Forum in Barrow,saw seven dance troupes battle itout to claim titles such as the bestoverall dance group and the bestdressed at the Furness DancingCompetition. This year, the themesincluded ‘Get Funky’, ‘A Bit of aTwist’, ‘Breaking Bad’ and‘Memphis Classics’.

The ages of the participants rangedfrom toddlers, just at the walkingstage, up to, and including, adultsand mothers. The colourful costumesand dance routines of each troupewere a testament to the hardwork and commitment of alltheir members.

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Lions introduced the event, therewas a long tradition in Barrow of tapdancing schools competing againsteach other. Furness Lions'competition is the first event of thesummer, in early June. Every yearthere is friendly rivalry andfantastic colourful costumes.Throughout the summer there aremore dance competitions at variouslocal carnivals.”

This year District Governor MikeBagnall attended the competition. He

and his wife Dorothy thoroughlyenjoyed the event and wouldconsider hiring one or two of theschools to put on a display duringthe MD convention.

To thank the local dancing schoolteachers for over 30 years ofsupporting and taking part in theClub’s annual dancing competition,they were presented with certificatesof appreciation by Furness LionsClub’s President, Lion Ted Rockleyand Lion Doug Jefferson.

Dance teacher (Imperial School ofDance), Joanne Wallace, said, “Theday is always well organised by theLions. They always make a specialeffort. We enter every year withall the other dance groups and Ihave been involved with it from thevery beginning.”

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The Carrigaline and DistrictLions Club have a distinguishedtrack record in large capitalprojects. In the last twenty yearsthe Club has built sixteen housesfor the elderly in the community.In 2010 it was deemed the nextstep to focus on the needs of thecommunity at the other end of thepopulation demographic, the youthof Carrigaline.

The committee met with severallocal voluntary groups and spokewith fellow Lion Eoin O’Neill inWaterford, about what was neededand what projects worked. Thecommittee presented the findingsat a regular Carrigaline and DistrictLions Club meeting and thereaction was emotive and strong.The committee proposed that a6,000 square foot building be built

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for the exclusive use and servicesof young people. The buildingwould cost between three quartersto a million euros and that it shouldbe build by the club with no helpfrom other local groups. All ofthis was to be done in the worstglobal recession in almost onehundred years.

The objections were many andstrong, with valid concerns that itwould be impossible to secure thefunding, impossible to find asuitable site, impossible to make it

self-financing and impossible torun. Despite the objections theClub President at the time, SeanDuggan raised a hand to themembers and said, “Nothing isimpossible – this Youth Centre willbe built!”. President Sean Duggantook the helm of the Youth CentreDevelopment Committee andcarried the project through stormsof doubt and difficulty with thesupport of the committee. Fiveyears later, on the 18th September2015, the completed Youth Centrewas pronounced officially open by

the Minister for Agriculture, Marine& Defence, Simon Coveney. TheYouth Centre in Cork will benefitfuture generations of young peoplein the community.

The opening of this ‘impossible’ onemillion euro Youth Centre istestimony to all. We should not beafraid to think big. We must guardagainst falling into the old habit ofsaying ‘no’ to anything new orambitious because if you havestrong leadership, Lions can doamazing things.


Wisbech Lions Club’s annual Fenland Conker ChampionshipsBonkers for ConkersThere are only a few uses for theseeds of the horse chestnut treebeyond playing conkers. During theSecond World War people wereencouraged to collect them becausethe skins contain traces of acompound used in the manufactureof high explosives. This was mostprobably propaganda as conkershave never been known to self-detonate. A fresh conker in thecorner of a room was also thought todeter spiders - a dried up wrinkledconker is put to better use bythrowing it at the offending spider. Itwas also thought that conkers couldprevent rheumatism and cure piles,although the method foradministering them for the latter isnot recorded.

By far the best use is in playingconkers. Wisbech Lions Club plantheir operations in late September.By early October all local horsechestnut trees are mapped out andguards are put in place. Teams of theLions collect several hundred of theseeds, grade them and reject anysmall or irregular shaped conkers.This has the effect of stopping cattle,horses and the locals from eatingthem. The green spiky outer casingof the fruit is toxic and narcotic. Theconkers themselves are rich in starchand saponins, which are soap-likechemicals making them unsuitablefor human and most mammals’consumption, with the exception ofdeer. The Lions’ efforts also preventsseeds from germinating saving afortune in ground clearance, andlawn protection.

Friday 9th October 2015 saw over 90people compete to smash eachother's conkers in the fifteenth yearof the event. Traditionally, it is anaggressive game played by twopeople. Whoever wins the toss of thecoin decides who takes first strike.Each competitor alternates takingthree swipes at their opponent's

conker with their own. There is nodefense: when swung at, the onlything one can do is look away, flinchand think of England. The game endsuntil one of the conkers breaks andfalls off the string. Only one personcan be crowned winner. This year'schampions were Isobel Pope,daughter of District Secretary DavidPope from Peterborough and ChrisHolt from Hunstanton. The proceedsof the evening were then presentedto ABC Pre-school of Tydd St Gilesfor new play and safety equipment.

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PICTURED: Wisbech LionsClub member, Kevin Rodgers

A History of Conkers

Conkers are the seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculushippocastanum). The Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) was firstintroduced to Britain from the Balkans in the late 16th century. Its nameoriginates from the resemblance of its fruits appearance to those of the(Sweet) Chestnut tree. It is thought that the prefix ‘horse’ comes fromthe horse-shaped (including the nail holes) leaf-scars on the twigs.

It was not until about 200 years later that the fruits of the horse chestnuttrees were used to play "conkers". Before that, conkers or ‘conquerors’was played with hazelnuts, cobnuts or snail shells.


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Camborne Redruth & DistrictLions Club 37th Tide Race

For the sixth consecutive year, members of GnosallLions, over the course of 2 days, aided theclean-up following the VFest that took place in WestonPark in Staffordshire over 17th – 18th August 2015.

The local Rotary Club invited Lions Clubs, Soroptomists,Freemasons and many more to help them in recyclingvarious items left behind by festival goers. On the firstday, they were looking for items that could be used byemergency agencies and Christian organisations in theevent of disaster and catastrophe throughout the worldsuch as tents, bedding, chairs, and airbeds. These wereall collected up by the various volunteers on site, loadedon a large lorry and sent to a charity cleaning anddistribution centre. Many of the items collected last yearwent to Nepal to aid in the disaster and one shouldimagine that many items this year are destined forareas around Syria.

The following morning, clubs and organisations had theopportunity to collect for their own good causes and usefor distribution within their own localities. On the daythe Club collected tents, chairs, trolleys, buckets,

sleeping bags and helped the Stafford House of Breadwhich assists the local homeless.

Gnosall Lions can fully recommend the initiative andwould love to see other Lions clubs apart fromthemselves and Ironbridge & Severn Gorge Lionsassisting. Over 50% of the site was not cleared due totime and once the site closed on the Tuesday everythingwas bulldozed and sent to landfill. Undoubtedly, thesame must happen after the Chelmsford VFest and theReading Festival and they will be in need of local Lionsclubs to involve themselves in the clean-up.

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On the 31sth August 2015, despitethe damp weather, the CamborneRedruth & District Lions held their37th Tide Race on Portreath Beach.There was a £25 prize and shield onoffer for each of the winning teams intheir category.

In spite of the rain the popularity ofthe Tide Race filled the Portreath carpark with supporters to watch 30teams, of 246 people, build sandcastles to beat the tide. Diggingbegan at 2.30PM and by 3.00PM thespring tide, aided by a stiff onshorewind had claimed the last castle.

Winners of the children’s event werethe ‘Three Musketeers’ fromPortreath. The teenage winners werethe ‘Pencoys Peeps’ from Fourlanes.The adult winners were yet again

‘Team Jeffery’ from Portreath. Aspecial mention for the local ladiesteam ‘Beach Babes’ for donating their£25 prize money to the Lion’s charitywho by winning their categorydeprived team ‘Havak’ from winningthe Ladies Trophy for the 4thsuccessive year.

Lion President Derek Canhampresented the trophies andcheques to the winningteams and thanked all theteams for participating in theevent as well as the crowedfor turning up to watch theevent. Lion President Derekwent on to thank the TideRace sponsors who wereCamborne Wetherspoons,Watson Marlow (fromFalmouth), Merlin Cinemas,

The Bridge Inn, The Bassett Arms,The Portreath Arms Hotel, TheAtlantic Cafe, The Waterfront inn, theHQ Surf Shop and the Beach Café.Without them the annual Tide Racecould not happen.

PICTURED: Team Jefferies with LionPresident Derek Canham

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Promote your club with the new online PR & marketing toolkitFirst of all, thank you to all the wonderfulvolunteers from our Multiple District whorecently represented Public Relations,Webmasters and Newsletter Editorswho shared their ideas and thoughtswith us at the Lions Headquartersin Birmingham.

The Public Relations Team took everyonethrough the online toolkit which willcontinue to be developed over thecoming months. The online toolkit willprovide information and simple tutorialson how to use social media, producemedia relations materials such asenewsletters and press releases aswell as promotional materials suchas leaflets, template postersand presentations.

To find your online toolkit visitwww.lionsclubs.co/MembersNews/pr-and-marketing

MDHQ also requires further input fromDistrict Officers to assist with placinglocal Lions clubs’ public events andactivities to enable them to be sharedwith the wider community.

Plus, look out for the launch of anonline forum for Lions wheremembers can share their greatideas with other Lions clubs.

A full update will be provided in thenext edition of the Lions Magazine.

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I am facing the coming year with asense of pride and excitement but alsosome trepidation.

I am proud that this year’s DistrictGovernors have chosen to put theirfaith in me to lead them and the wholeof the Multiple District. I am excitedthat they see my role as being muchmore public facing and I will spend thewhole year telling anyone who willlisten about the fantastic organisationLions Clubs International is.

The trepidation comes from the crisisfacing this Multiple District. We arelosing over 500 members per yearacross the British Isles and Ireland.Every 500 members we lose add£1 to your dues. What is moreworrying is that, assuming each ofthose members only performed 1 hourof service a month, every 500members we lose is a loss of atleast 6,000 hours of service.

Let those figures sink in while I set outwhat I believe we can all do about it.

We have a lot of tools to help usrecruit new members, the New ClubDevelopment Programme, JoinTogether, Just Ask, Ask #1 and more.Our best tool though is visible,relevant service. Recruitingmembers is a selling activity and tosell Lions we have to have a productworth selling that is clearly visible toour target audience.

Look at your club. Are you seen byothers as an important part of yourcommunity and the first place to gowhen there is a need? Or is the publicperception: “Oh the Lions. Yes they’rethat nice group of elderly people whobring Santa around at Christmas andraise money for good causes”?

If we are going to meet the LionsClubs International vision of being“The global leader in community andhumanitarian service” then we have tobe the local leaders in communityand humanitarian service. If we areproud of the fact that we are part ofan organisation of 1.4 million

members in 46,000 clubs in 210countries then we have to be seen asa major international organisation andnot little local service clubs.

At the MD Convention in Birminghamin May the PR and Marketing Teamlaunched their PR Toolkit. This containseverything from pro-forma pressreleases to how-to guides on socialmedia and radio interviews. In facteverything that a club needs to ensurethat the service they perform gets thebest exposure.

At that same convention was thelaunch of what is, in my opinion, ourlast best hope to reverse the decline inmembership and turn Lions back intothe go to service organisation acrossour Multiple District. I am talkingabout the Centennial ServiceChallenge. This provides an extensivelist of relevant service activities withtargets that will make the public sit upand take notice. They seem quitedaunting but if you break them downthey are really easy to achieve and aremostly activities we are already doing.

For example...

• If every member takes 65 AAbatteries to their local supermarketand placed them in the recyclingbin over the next two years we willreach our target of recycling 1million batteries.

• If every club cleared 220 yards(200 metres) of pathway in theircommunity over the next twoyears we would easily clear our100 mile target

• If every zone organised twoprostate screenings per year andonly attracted 200 men we wouldeasily screen 100,000.

• If we can find a way to screen thesame men for diabetes at thesame event we could also hit our100,000 diabetes screening target

Each of the Centennial Targets can bebroken down in this way and I cancertainly tell you that my Club will be

contributing its part to all of them, andprobably more than its part to some.

“We’re too old for some of theseactivities,” I hear a lot of you say. Wellthere’s an answer to that too.Organise an event and seek volunteersto help you out via the press andsocial media. You will find that thereare lots of people in your communitywho are willing to help out with oneoff events. Put a Lions tabard on themwhile they’re helping and suddenlyyou’ve got an active, younger LionsClub as far as the general public isconcerned.

Go to your local secondary school oracademy. Ask to speak to the head ofPersonal, Social and Health Educationtell them about Young Leaders inService. Community Service is a partof the National Curriculum. If everyClub finds one gold and one silveraward winner during the next twoyears we will hit our target of 100,000hours of service by young people.

What is more, how many yards of pathcan a Young Leader clear in 100 hoursor how many elderly people could aYoung Leader contact in that time?The service given by our YoungLeaders is service that has beendelivered by your Lions Club.

Please go out and use the PR Toolkitand the Centennial Service Challengeto provide visible, relevant servicein your community and people will beasking to join us.

Lion Simon MossChairman of Council 2015-16

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As Chairman of Council I look forward towelcoming you to the Multiple DistrictConvention in Eastbourne in May.

If the grapevine is working as efficientlyas usual, you are probably alreadyaware that there will be some importantdecisions to be made by your delegatesat convention. Your Council of Governorswill be presenting resolutions that willpropose changes to the geographicalorganisation of the Multiple District andto the management and governancestructure that will make our MD fit forthe 21st Century and beyond. These areimportant proposals that will not only

improve the efficiency of the MD andreduce the cost to members, but willresult in strong districts that are able totackle our membership crisis andreverse the downward trend. I wouldurge you to study the resolutionscarefully when they come out, to seekclarification from your DG team ifrequired and to make sure that yourclub is represented at convention so thatyour voice can be heard.

I am also trying to make the businesssessions less “sit and listen” and moreinteractive and hope to turn a large partof the Saturday morning over to smaller

workshops andseminars as well asproviding an openforum during Sunday’ssession. I hope to beable to release moredetails very soon.

This promises to be one of the mostinteresting conventions for some time,so make sure you are there to take part.

Simon MossCouncil Chairman 2015-16

There will be plenty to see and do at sunnyEastbourne on the Sussex Coast. MD ConventionsOfficer, PDG Lion Paul Withers tells us more…The Friday Host Night will besomething a bit different. Thetheme, “London through the ages”,will be led by a true cockney,Gordon Bennett (that’s his name,not just the expression). There willbe other entertainment, singing anddancing, all with a London theme.We do encourage you to dress up forthe theme, but don’t feel obliged todo so. A buffet will be available withsomething for all tastes.

On Saturday night, the Banquet &Ball will be fairly traditional withmusic for dancing provided by oneof the South’s premier Abba tributebands, “Abalicious”. You will beable to choose your food inadvance. Both social evenings willboth be held in the Floral Hall.

The Convention business sessionswill be held in the adjoiningCongress Theatre with exhibitions,workshops and plenty of room tosit in comfort. Lion John Cattawayand his host committee recentlyorganised the SE Convention at thesame venue and they promise youwill enjoy this weekend.

Join us and support our CouncilChairman, District Governors andwelcome the next Council. Moreimportantly, join us and have fun!

Book your hotel early as weshall be of offering our non-Lionpartners a very interesting tour ofnearby historical Hastings detailswill be in the next newsletter.

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Lions Clubs International FoundationChair, Lions Joe and Joni Prestonreceived a warm reception in Irelandwhere they were able to talk withmany Lions members on the work ofthe foundation and see forthemselves the work of Irish Lions.

As part of their visit they were ableto join in with thousands of othervisitors who were freely screened fordiabetes at Europe’s largest outdoorExhibition and Agricultural TradeShow, the National PloughingChampionships, with over 281,000people attending.

A team of 120 Lions members fromthe Clubs of Abbeyleix, Baltinglass,Carlow, Edenderry, Kilcullen, Kildare,Monasterevin, Naas, Newbridge,Portlaoise, and Tullamore were ledby Portarlington Lions Club and ateam of qualified nurses at the LionsMarquee. Over the three day event7,912 visitors were screened whichis an increase of 10% on last year.From those tested, 693 peoplewere referred to their GP forfurther examination.

Diabetes is accelerating in ruralIreland due to diet and lifestylechanges. Traditionally, farming wasone of the most active occupations.However, according to the NationalCentre for Men’s Health at theInstitute of Technology, Carlow, theevolution of tractors, combineharvesters, milking machines, all-terrain vehicles and jeeps has

replaced a great deal of thelabouring and physical aspects offarming. As a result, while farmersare still busy, they are not asphysically active as they used to be.

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Following on from the visit toIreland, Lions Joe and Joni Prestonflew into Birmingham and visited arange of practical hands-on Lionsprojects. This took in an informativetour of Birmingham Children’sHospital where the current DistrictGovernor, Heather Jeavon’s Partner’sAppeal is to raise funds to equip theRadiology Department’s CT(computerised tomography) room.

At the moment, the room where theCT Scanner lives is really dull andthe Scanner itself is a huge machinewhich can seem scary to very youngchildren who often need to besedated in order to help them liestill. As the scanner is used to keeptrack of their progress, it means thatmany patients have to use it a lot –which, unsurprisingly, can makethem very nervous and agitated.

The plan is to transform the roominto a bright, fun and interactivespace by installing a multi-sensoryIT programme. Patients will be givenan iPad and will be able to choosefrom options to personalise the roomincluding the colour scheme,hologram of a favourite character,music or TV programme to play. Allof this will be available at the touch

of a button and will give children asense of control in a setting that iscurrently stark and uncomfortable.

Lions Joe and Joni Preston then wentonto visit a homeless project with adifference, SIFA Fireside in Digbeth.Each day, the charity works with themost vulnerable adults in oursociety: those experiencinghomelessness or who arevulnerably-housed. SIFA Firesideruns a daily drop-in centre andprovides on average 1031breakfasts, 2009 lunches and 429showers each month for clients. Thecharity not only provides food, but aplace of shelter, clothing, sleepingbags and a place to shower. Thereare also drop-in sessions providedby health partners to access clinicsfor health screenings and treatment,a mental health surgery, vision care,dental services and a podiatrist. Atthe time of the visit our internationalguests were able to see the localBalsall Common Lions Clubserving lunch.

In the evening Lions members wereable to meet with our internationalguests and given an opportunity toask questions about Lions ClubsInternational and the Foundationthat individual Lions Clubs support.

On the final day of visiting ourshores, they were taken to see thework of our partners Marie Curie intheir West Midlands Hospice. LionsJoe and Joni Preston were taken ona tour of the ‘state of the art’

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Our Vision…Since our foundation almost onehundred years ago it’s been acornerstone service objective ofour organization, with countlessprojects, to help those withsight problems in many parts ofthe world.

However, it is the other meaning ofvision, in the business sense, thatwe need to consider. We need toenvisage future market trends andplan accordingly. of course, Lions isnoT a business, but we do need tolook forward into the future. Lions’organization needs to have a“vision” to know what we might looklike in years to come and what weneed to do is make sure that theend results turn out in the way weexpect or want.

With this in mind, the Council ofGovernors (CoG) has been workingwith the Long range PlanningCommittee (LrPC) to develop anidea of what Lions in Md105 will orshould look like in five years’ time.They have also been trying toanalyse how social, cultural andtechnological changes will impactwhat we will be doing in the comingyears.

on behalf of all members, the CoGand LrPC are developing a FiveYear Vision which will enable us todrive Lions forward and ensure thatit is a strong, healthy organizationin the future.

However, we need your help toensure we are on the right path.

Therefore, we will be asking everyclub throughout the organization tohave a say in what our “vision”should be. during the coming weekswe will communicate with everyclub, seeking input. The results willbe reviewed by the Council ofGovernors and included within apresentation to be given at the2016 Md Convention in eastbourne.

remember, the organizationbelongs to all of us. everyone isentitled to have a say in our future!

Have your say, contact yourdistrict governors! See pages44-45 for their contact details.

hospice and the facilities it has tooffer. Lions’ members across theBritish Isles and Ireland have raisedover £500,000 in 3 years to enablean additional 25,000 hours ofnursing care to be given freely tothose with a life limiting illness,either in their own home or in aMarie Curie hospice.

The Hospice staff spoke to Lions Joeand Joni Preston on thedevelopment of a new initiative of aMen’s Shed Group. This is to reachout and support the local men whoare main carers, or who haverecently lost a spouse or partner toa terminal illness. The Men’s Shedwill provide a safe environmentwhere men can meet, socialise,

learn new skills and take part inpurposeful activities with other men(both individually andcollaboratively). This will help todevelop relationships which mencan build, in a way that is naturalfor them and can have huge healthbenefits and meet the unansweredneeds which bereavement brings.Marie Curie West Midlands hospicecan play a key role in supportingthese men through the difficulttimes and will be reducing the riskof social isolation and loneliness.

Lions Joe and Joni thank all for theirhospitality on this interesting andinformative visit.

THank you To LIonS PaT MCCooLe and GeoffLeeder for THe PHoToGraPHS

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District 105-ALion DG Meena Gupta PMJF joinedLions in 2003 and has been amember of Lions Club of Osterleysince 2005. She has held severalClub posts including President,Secretary, Treasurer, Fund RaisingChair and Director as well as ZoneChairman for two years and asForward Planning Chairman for twoyears. The Club has honoured herwith 2nd Progressive Melvyn Jones.Outside of LCI, she has run her ownOffice Supplies Company for the last30 years. She is a post-graduate inClinical Psychology and has playedhockey at International level. She ismarried to her husband of 32 years,Lion Naresh and they have twochildren. [email protected]

District 105-BNLion Mike Bagnall MJF has been aLion for 23 years, firstly in Kendal andlatterly in Blackburn serving in manyroles over the year. He was trained asa nurse and then moved onto socialwork, finally running his own twoprivate care homes. Lion Mike ismarried to Lion Dorothy and have 3boys and 4 [email protected]

District 105-BsDG chris Aked joined the BridgnorthClub (Shropshire) in 1987 before leavingLions three years later to work abroadfor a multinational company for morethan 20 years. He returned to Bridgnorthin 2009 and has subsequently chairedvarious committees, as a Club Presidentand Zone Chairman. He and his wifeGillie have two [email protected]

District 105-cLion DG Nigel Ware joined Garforth &District Lions Club in 1986. He is acomputer engineer by trade. His maininterests within Lions, aremembership and communicationmatters, but he can also be found atevents having fun. He is married toElizabeth and they have two [email protected]

District 105-DLion DG Alan chapman joined theWarminster Club in 1995 and becamePresident in 1999-2000. Since then hehas been a District officer including YouthChairman, Life Skills and Multiple DistrictLife Skills Officer. Alan is from anengineering background and has nowretired from working in Health & Safety.

Married to Anne since 1970. Outside ofLions, Alan enjoys sea fishing when timeallows. [email protected]

District 105-ELion DG Paul stafford joined theLincoln Lions in 2007. Outside of Lions,Paul runs HMRC’s International TaxLeadership Programme where has heldthe titles of Junior Chamber NationalPresident and International VicePresident. A keen cyclist, Paul has cycledfrom Land’s End to John O'Groats and upMt Ventoux. He also supports SheffieldWednesday. Paul is married to his wife,Ann for 37 years; they one son andthree [email protected]

District 105-EALion Chris Crick was born inEastbourne in 1956, and now lives inBeccles Suffolk with his wife Lion Evelyn.A Lion for 13 years, Chris is an activemember of the Beccles Lions Clubhaving served as their Club President for3 terms, followed by 2 terms as ZoneChairman for 6a and then 6 terms asRegion Chairman. This coming year willbe about working as a team tostrengthen existing [email protected]


GOVERNORS2015 - 2016

DiStriCt 105-iLion DG Marion Conneely ofSwords & District Lions Club has beena Lion since 2000. She served as ClubPresident 2003-2004, Club Secretary,Zone Chair, Region Chair & DistrictSecretary from 2011-2014. She hasalso served as District YouthExchange Inwards Officer since 2005and continues in this role. Outside ofLions, Marion is an investigator withCustoms & Excise. Marion would likeclubs to increase membership tomake a difference in their [email protected]

DiStriCt 105-MLion DG Heather Jeavons ofMalvern Hills Lions Club has been aLion since 2007. She has been ClubPresident twice and Zone Chairman.She has also held district roles formembership and leadership and hasbeen Zone Chairman. Heather ismarried to Lion Dave and they havetwo sons and four grandchildren.Heather is an accountant byprofession, and has chosen the theme“reach out to serve” for this year toreflect her commitment to activecommunity [email protected]

DiStriCt 105-NELion DG David Wells of Thirsk andNorthallerton Lions Club has been amember since 1993 and served in allofficer positions, as well as Region andZone Chairman and Multiple DistrictVulnerable Persons Officer for 3 years.He retired from the Police in 2004 after30 years of service and is now anInternal Auditor in the Public Sector. Heis married to Margaret and they havetwo children and four [email protected]

DiStriCt 105-SEA Lion since 1975 with Thanet LionsClub, Lion DG Bob Prebble MJF hasserved as Club President three times,Fund Raising Chairman, Club Treasurer,Public Relations and Website, LeoLiaison Officer, Zone Chairman,Assistant District Secretary, DiabetesOfficer and Convention Chairman. Hehas also served on the team for MDYouth Camp as organizer and facilitatoras well as facilitator for District zonechairman training. He has receivedcommendations from InternationalPresidents in 2008/2009 and2010/2011 and the DistrictGovernors [email protected]

DiStriCt 105-SWLion DG Lesley Clarke has been aLion since 2008 as a Charter memberof Newquay Towan Blystra Lions Club.She has held the posts of Treasurer,Secretary, President and CharityTrustee at club level, as well asDistrict Secretary for four years andZone Chairman. She has supportedLions since 1988 through her latehusband PDG Ken Clarke MBE and hastwo sons, two daughters and tengrandchildren. She is on the Board ofRegistered Social Landlords and is anInfant School Governor. Her themefor the year will be “Together WeAchieve”. [email protected]

DiStriCt 105-WLion DG Keith Wilding is from Rosson Wye. His career background is inengineering and programmemanagement. Keith is the Chair ofTrustees for a Youth Work Charity andin Lions he is known as a keenpromoter of the value of Leo Clubsand spectacle recycling. Keith ismarried to Lion [email protected]

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Lions Golf World TourFollowing the success of the Lions Golf European Championship2014 and World Championship 2015 the Lions Golf World Tour hasbeen set up on behalf of the Lions Clubs International Foundation

PICTURED: LGWCparticipants

This World Tour will take you tounique golf courses, resorts, hotelsand cities across Europe, Asia andUSA. The tour is constantly beingexpanded; so far there are 16 greatgolf destinations. The first majorevent of Lions World Golf Tour is theLions Golf European Championship2015 from November 30th toDecember 7th 2015, at the five-starPrecise Resort El Rompido in Spain.

The latest venue to be confirmed isFoxhills in Surrey, England. Abeautiful 400 acre estate just 20minutes from Heathrow, Foxhillsoffers three courses, with a

combination of parkland andheathland play that is typical of thebest layouts in this part of the world.

The goals of The lions golfWorld Tour:MeeT lions - Play golf -exPerience culTure

Events range from 3 days combinedgolf and city visits or 4 days playinggolf with more holiday character allthe way up to the continent andworld championships. For mostvenues book now as accommodationis limited. Please click onwww.lionsgolf.info - make your

choice (left column), so that we canwelcome you at these great eventsvery soon.

If your Lions club is alreadyorganizing a golf tournament, we canput your event onwww.lionsgolf.info so that all Lionsgolfers will know about it and canparticipate.

WorldWide MarkeTingoPPorTuniTy (sPonsorshiP)The Lions Golf World Tour will beadvertised worldwide. This is aunique opportunity for businesspeople. At the same time you canhelp those in need. Your advertisingbanner will be displayed onwww.lionsgolf.info with a link toyour company website.

We can only accommodate up to 100players and therefore ask you toregister as soon as possible atwww.lionsgolf.info

If you have any questions,please contact Dr. VolkerBernhardt, Phone:(0034) 630 794 369 or bye-mail: [email protected].

PICTURED: TheManor House atFoxhills

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B.I.& I.T.P.C - 2016 AnnIversAry PInThis theme has been in existence for many years and has recognised ‘LordNelson’, ’VE Day’, ‘VC Medal’, ‘Scouting’, ‘Model T Ford Car’, ‘Bleriot CrossChannel Flight’, ‘Francis Chichester’s Atlantic Crossing’, ‘Pioneers in Space’,‘Titanic’, Everest, World War 1. This year the design is Winnie the Pooh.

B.I.& I.T.P.C - 2016 AnnuAl PInThis pin is the first in the series of “SteamLocomotives” and as you can see this featuresthe ‘Mallard’. The series will continue with threefurther locomotives.

MD105 - 2016 - FukuokAThe pin is the official pin for Fukuoka and is amust for those attending the forthcomingInternational Convention and also any collector.

All orders can be placed with the Club Secretary,see details below.

lIons‘ ChArITIesThe Pin Club is still committed to its fundraisingwhereby all unwanted pins which have been donatedare sold. This year all monies raised are in support of awater programme that is to be confirmed.

The Club Secretary would welcome any unwanted pins,and delivery can be discussed and arranged,reimbursement of costs incurred can be covered.

All enquiries to Club Secretary:PDG John Jones, 18 Sywell Close,Old Catton, Norwich, NR6 7EWTel: 01603 416800Email: [email protected]

www.lionspinclub.org.uk

All these pins are now available• £1.50 MD105 2016 pin• £2.00 Annual Trading Club pin• £2.00 Anniversary pin

The British Isles & IrelandTrading Pin ClubPins for 2016


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At the time of writing the blog for this edition it’s only 14 weeks untilChristmas. Perhaps best we don’t dwell on that one.

I’d like to introduce you to our newest employee StephanieSmith. We are delighted that Stephanie has joined theMDHQ team as a part-time office administrator. Stephaniehas now been with us for almost a month and works 20hours a week. Stephanie has already made a hugedifference to our small team at MDHQ, she has previouslyworked in a sales and admin role within the public sector.She has already criticised my unorganised desk and putsome order into my chaos! For those energetic membersamongst you Stephanie is a keen runner and is alsolearning Spanish in her spare time. Stephanie will be part

of the MDHQ team attending MD Convention at Eastbourne so it will be superfor her to meet as many of you as possible.

The electronic directory is still available should any of you wish to receive acopy. We will be updating the electronic version in January to try to keepmember details as up to date as possible. We do have a small number of hardcopy directories if any clubs require them. Please contact MDHQ. The hardcopy directory is free of charge however, there is a charge for postage.

As you will read in this edition of the magazine we are ready to start takingbookings for the 2016 MD Convention in Eastbourne. Bookings can be madeonline via the online supplies store or by completing the booking form andsending it in with payment to MDHQ. Eastbourne Convention pins are alreadyavailable from MDHQ priced £3.

You will be pleased to note that on the MD105 website on the online shopthere is now a section for centennial products and you can order items that wecarry at MDHQ on this site. Again, as always, any special orders can be madeby email or by phone and we will order items from our international office if wedo not stock them normally. We know from your feedback that we have savedmembers a lot of money by offering to order in items of stock in this way.

At the time of writing this blog we arelooking forward to a visit fromImmediate Past International President,Joe Preston and his wife Joni.

On a personal note, many thanks for allof the encouragement with my weightloss programme. Yes, now 3 stone and3 pounds lighter and on course for mygoal of 4 stone lost by the time we getto Eastbourne. To any of you thinkingabout shedding a few pounds I saydon’t delay, do it now. I’m ratherembarrassed by the photo below but itshows what you can do when you putyour mind to it.

Regards to you all from theteam at MDHQ

LIONBRITISH & IRISH EDITION

Official publication of Lions ClubsInternational. Published byauthority of the Board of

Directors in 20 languages –English, Spanish, Japanese,French, Swedish, Italian,German, Finnish, Flemish-French, Korean, Portuguese,Dutch, Danish, Chinese,

norwegian, Icelandic, Turkish,Greek, Hindi and Thai.

EXECUTIVE OFFICERSPresident Dr. Jitsuhiro Yamada,Minokamo-shi, Gifu-ken, Japan;Immediate Past President JosephPreston, Dewey, Arizona, United States;First Vice President Robert E. Corlew,Milton, Tennessee, United States;Second Vice President NareshAggarwal, Delhi, India. Contact theofficers at Lions Clubs International,300 W 22nd St., Oak Brook, Illinois,60523-8842, USA.

DIRECTORSSecond year directorsSvein Ǿystein Berntsen, Hetlevik,Norway; Jorge Andrés Bortolozzi,Coronda, Argentina; Eric R.Carter, Aukland, New Zealand; CharlieChan, Singapore, Singapore; JackEpperson, Nevada,United States; Edward Farrington, NewHampshire, United States; Karla N.Harris, Wisconsin,United States; Robert S. Littlefield,Minnesota, United States; RatnaswamyMurugan, Kerala,India; Yoshinori Nishikawa, Himeji,Hyogo, Japan; George Th. Papas,Limassol, Cyprus; JoukoRuissalo, Helsinki, Finland; N. S.Sankar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; A.D. Don Shove,Washington, United States; Kembra L.Smith, Georgia, United States; Dr.Joong-Ho Son, Daejoon,Republic of Korea; Linda L. Tincher,Indiana, United States.

FIRST YEAR DIRECTORSMelvin K. Bray, New Jersey, UnitedStates; Pierre H. Chatel, Montpellier,France; Eun-Seouk Chung, Gyeonggi-do, Korea; Gurcharan Singh Hora,Siliguri, India; Howard Hudson,California, United States; SanjayKhetan, Birganj, Nepal; Robert M. Libin,New York, United States; RichardLiebno, Maryland, United States;Helmut Marhauer, Hildesheim,Germany; Bill Phillipi, Kansas, UnitedStates; Lewis Quinn, Alaska, UnitedStates; Yoshiyuki Sato, Oita, Japan;Gabriele Sabatosanti Scarpelli,Genova, Italy; Jerome Thompson,Alabama, United States; Ramiro VelaVillarreal, Nuevo León, Mexico;Roderick “Rod” Wright, New Brunswick,Canada; Katsuyuki Yasui, Hokkaido,Japan.

MDHQBLOGOctober/November 2015

From the 4th- 14th August 2015, 40 internationalstudents from visited the UK and were hosted by Lionsfamilies around the country before meeting atDoncaster Deaf Trust for the 10 day camp.

With the help of Lions clubs within the District, the hostcommittee put together a programme of activitieswhich included sightseeing trips to York, Hull,Bridlington, Whitby and Haworth (home of the Brontëfamily), as well as the Yorkshire Mining Museum andSculpture Park, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery and

a trip on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Other activities included team building and problemsolving at Hatfield Marina where the students enjoyedactivities such as climbing and canoeing. They alsohelped out at the Lions Fun and Sports Day for theDisabled, where approximately 200 children and adultswith disabilities took part in over 30 games includingKurling, football, welly throwing and skittles.

Evening entertainment included discussions and debateabout ‘Leadership and Responsibilities’ and ‘The Role of ››

One of the ways we promote friendship and harmonyamong the peoples of the world is by running our YouthExchange and Youth Camp programme, bringing youngpeople together here in the British Isles and Ireland.

Hosting is such a fantastic experience. The young peoplewho stay with us are treated as part of the family andshown our way of life, culture and heritage and we whohost are rewarded by their respect and friendship, as wellas learning about their home lives. Plus, if the dates areright, they provide invaluable help at Club events.

If you are thinking of becoming a host next year but youare worried about the costs involved remember that thisis a genuine Lions Clubs International Charitable YouthProject. Your club is entitled to help with costs from theCharity account. Travel expenses for fetching your visitors

from the airport and taking them to the Camp are paid forby MD. You will find that our visitors come from a mixtureof families. Some are wealthy, some are not. Some will beable to pay for their own admissions to variousattractions, some will not. In any event individual LionHosts should not dig in to your own pockets – ask yourClub for help.

This year the Youth Centre, or Youth Camp was hosted byDistrict C in Doncaster under the guidance of CampDirector Chris Whitely and his team from the ThorneRural Lions Club. There, 34 international youngsters whohad been hosted were joined by another 4 internationalvisitors and District C’s own Young Ambassador!

pDG paul WithersMD Youth Exchange Officer

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Women in Society’, plus an opportunity forthe students to each give a shortpresentation on their own country. OnWednesday 12th August 2015,approximately 100 Lions joined thestudents for the host night whereentertainment was provided by SamWright, Cracker and DJ Legs & DJ Chris.

The 2016 Multiple District 105 LionsYouth Camp will be held in Scotlandand is being hosted by Dumfries Lions.

Leeds and Leeds skycrack Lions cLub

The Leeds Lions Club in conjunction with itsdaughter club, Bad Sooden-Allendorf Lions Club inGermany, started the exchange 45 years ago.Over the years, several other Lions clubs in WestYorkshire have been involved. The participatingLions Clubs in Germany this year were Hann.Münden, Melsungen, and Eschwege led by BadSooden- Allendorf Lions Club. Leeds and LeedsSkyrack Lions Clubs organised and provided themain funding, with the help of other local Lionsclubs, for nine young adults to visit Germany.

The group travelled by train from Leeds Station toManchester Airport and then flew onto Hannoverwhere members from Bad Sooden-Allendorf LionsClub met them.

During the course of their stay, the group visitedfive of the towns in the area and was even greetedby four mayors. During their stay, theyexperienced a very wide range of activitiesincluding bowling, a bird of prey demonstration,barefoot path walking, and horse riding. They alsovisited the Wildlife Park Erdesee, Border Museum,Thermal Baths, German Institute of Tropical andSubtropical Agriculture, the Tollen House (upsidedown house) in Affoldern, and Hannover Zoo.

In the summer of 2016, the Bad Sooden-AllendorfLions Club will bring a group of young adultsto Leeds.

PICTURED: Hawouth

PICTURED: Hatfield Marina PICTURED: Whitby

PICTURED: Some of thegroup contemplating theTollen House. They wentinside and declared it, 'evenmore weird inside than out'.

PICTURED: Grenzmuseumat Bad Sooden-Allendorf.


On 2nd July 2015, Portslade Aldridge CommunityAcademy (PACA) held their charter night and are nowthe latest Leo club to open in 105SE District. Twelvemonths ago the Academy was approached for helpwith a Fun Day that Hove Lions were thinking aboutholding. In discussions with the 6th form teacher itappeared that their 6th form Social Action group wasalready doing great work in the community. Ninemonths later, after a lot of work and dedication fromthe teachers, especially Dean Flynn, Head of Englishand the Social Action Group, they were ready tocommit to becoming a Leo Club. Uckfield Lions Clubsponsored the group and have been extremely helpfulwith their input and advice. Ciara Gleeson, age 17,has been elected President and says she is lookingforward to continuing the charitable work already

undertaken and leading the club with futurefundraising events. PACA is in one of the poorerareas of Sussex and has in the past been seen as aproblem school. However, since becoming anAcademy and setting up the Leo Club the school hasachieved the Evening Argus Charity Achievement ofthe Year, Youth in Action Award. A remarkableachievement.

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'Welcome to sunny Cornwall' I shouted at the top of myvoice, battling the wind and the rain at the top of theCheesewring on Bodmin Moor. Not the most auspiciousstart to our Youth Exchange experience but both ourstudents laughed! Rasmus from Denmark and Winstonfrom Canada were great company and willing to tryanything. It was Winston's first time ever in the oceanso we took him to Newquay to learn to surf! It was alsoRasmus' first experience of theatre (outside of school)and he found himself laughing out loud in theaudience at Sterts.

Callington Lions Club pulled together to provide a variedprogramme of events. Thanks to the willinginvolvement of Saltash Lions members, a day in Londonwas arranged and although fitting 5 young adults,including one who was 6ft 9inches, into a Ford Focuswas a bit of a squeeze, it was voted as the mostmemorable day of all. Ten days passed very quickly andas we approached the last day I asked Rasmus whatwould be his student choice for the last day... “Sleep”he replied. “OK” I acknowledged, “But we will see youall at the end of the day at the Cheesewring to swapbanners.” “NO!” he retorted, shaking his head

emphatically, “Not the Cheesewring!” “It's alright,” Ianswered laughing, “I mean the pub, not the hillside.”Both students sighed with relief. Thanks to Rodney andVanessa Hudson for hosting our two young men and tothe Lions of Callington, Launceston and Saltash whomade time to create so many positive memories.

President Karen toft

New PACA Leos

Dear Marwan, Fayrouz, Paul and Dorit...(Lions members),

I warmly thank you for giving me the opportunity to participate in

the Youth Exchange programme of Lions Club International in the

UK from July - August 2015.

I enjoyed staying with the host families (Sylvia & Keith Cook,

Judith & Keith Johnson), they were generous, kind and fun. They

made me feel at home. The schedule they prepared for us was

interesting, exciting and entertaining.

Our stay at the Doncaster School for the Deaf was one of a kind.

Fellows from over 25 countries enriched our stay, the leaders

were supporting and gave us any help needed, the school was a

good choice to stay, and everything was tremendous and

awesome. Most of the attractions were amazing.

Hopefully I will get another chance to participate in this

experience once more.

Special regards to all the people that fulfilled this experience

to me.

Wishing you all the best.

Marianne Bsharat and the family

Youth

Every child in every Head Startprogramme in Kentucky—that’s thenew target population for theKidSight programme in Kentucky.

Children in Head Start often do nothave access to eye health resources.Yet Head Start requires that everychild receive a vision screeningwithin 45 days of enrolling in theprogramme. The Lions of Kentuckyhope the expansion will fulfill thisrequirement for 20,000 children.Lions will screen children living inKentucky’s coal mining communities,from migrant farmworker familiesand those in impoverished innercity areas.

Lions of Kentucky are being assistedby an LCIF Standard grant for

$92,312. The screenings will bedone in partnership with theKentucky Lions Eye Foundation, theLouisville Downtown Lions Club andthe Kentucky Head Start Association.

The Kentucky Lions Eye Foundationinitiated its KidSight programmein 2003. Since then, theprogramme has screened the visionof more than 80,000 childrenthroughout Kentucky.

Head Start is a federal programmethat promotes the school readinessof children under the age of five byenhancing their social, emotional andcognitive development. Childrenenrolled in Head Start programmesreside in low-income households; toqualify for Head Start, a family of

four’s annual income may notexceed $23,850.

Typically, vision screenings for HeadStart children in Kentucky areperformed by local healthdepartments with vision charts.While these charts may be adequatefor older children without languageor medical barriers, local Lions areconcerned about their accuracy inscreening infants and children withdevelopmental delays. According toprogramme data, 12 percent ofHead Start children have disabilitiesthat impede traditional visionscreenings and up to 32 percenthave language barriers.

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PICTURED: Lions clubsacross the country, likethis one in District 14 T inPennsylvania, host visionscreenings for children


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Rosie Sheaf, a dental nurse from England, travelled tosmall villages in Zimbabwe on a medical mission.Many people had never had dental care. “Every daywithout fail we saw children and adults whose teethare literally rotting,” she says.

Sheaf and the other dentalprofessionals fixed dentalproblems, passed outtoothbrushes and explained thefundamentals of oral health. “Itwas so rewarding to see the reliefof our basic pain-relieving dentaltreatments,” she says.

Dentaid, based in Salisbury,sponsored that mission and manyothers. Lions clubs throughoutthe United Kingdom havesupported Dentaid since 2001.Lions collect and reconditiondental equipment and pay fortravel costs. Dentaid is active in11 nations including Cambodia,Colombia, India, Nepal andRomania.

Sheaf spoke to the Gillingham,Mere & Shaftesbury Lions Clubupon her return to thank

members for their support. Her trip was “humblingbut hugely inspiring. Human beings can experienceso much hardship but at the same time be sostoic and happy.”

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photoscreening devices. Many Lionsclubs use these cameras to conducttheir screening outreach activities.The cameras boast a 95 percentaccuracy rate and provideimmediate results. These devicesare useful in detectingnearsightedness, farsightedness,astigmatism, lazy eye and otherconditions that can be easilycorrected if detected early.

Local Lions are visiting Head Startcentres throughout Kentucky toconduct screenings for children whomight otherwise not be able toobtain them. All children whosescreenings indicate the need forfollow-up care are referred to eyehealth professionals. Head Startstaff work to find, secure and

coordinate the follow-up care,ensuring that assistance does notend with a vision screening.

During a pilot programme inwestern Kentucky in 2011, 618Head Start preschool childrenreceived vision screenings. Fifteenpercent were found to needprescriptive eyeglasses and5 percent were found to have aserious eye disease.

Felicia Elliot, a nurse and a formerHead Start program specialist, says,“This pilot proved to be of greatvalue. I, along with the parents ofall 618 of those screened childrenwhose vision was saved areextremely grateful to theKentucky Lions Eye Foundation,

the KidSight programme and all itswonderful volunteers.”

The Lions of Kentucky expect toscreen all Head Start children in thestate by the end of 2015, afterwhich local clubs will use thecameras for community-widescreenings at churches, health fairsand day care centres.

Information on how Clubs canapply for an LCIF Standard grantis at lcif.org. U.S. Clubs andDistricts can visitKidSightUSA.com to getinvolved in screening children.

PICTURED: RosieSheaf poses withchildren in Zimbabweshe helped

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On Thursday 6th August 2015, LionsDave Williams and David Willoughbyof Gower & Llwchwr Estuary LionsClub, set off with a challenge to visitall 20 Premier League football clubsin aid of the Hands for Alan Appeal.The trip was sponsored by localbusinesses with every penny goingtowards the appeal.

Alan is a nine-year-old boy fromLoughor, Swansea who needs twoprosthetic hands. He was born with aheart defect; he had open heartsurgery which unfortunately resultedin him catching a deadly infectionwhilst in hospital. Alan survived,however, the circulation to his handshad been restricted as his heartfailed to pump the blood effectively,as a result they had to beamputated.

Dave and David began their journeywith a send-off from local radiostation Swansea Sound and its sisterstation, The Wave, as well as Alanand mum Hannah who saw them offon their adventure.

On their travels they were met by:IPDG Carole Godden; Stoke on TrentLions; Paul Whiteworth from SleafordLions; Fairlop Lions; Fairlop Leos;Wanstead & Woodford Lions; PDGAndrew Allen of Stoney StratfordLions; City of Liverpool Lions; theRight Worshipful Mayor ofSouthampton; Councillor Linda

Norris; Harrow & PinnerLions Club; PresidentJohn from City of NorwichLions; Bournemouth Lionsand Southbourne &Boscombe Lions.

Past President Dave Williamssaid “We are very grateful tothe clubs, both football andLions for the warm welcome andtheir generosity.” They were givenmany donations, items includingsigned balls and shirts to auction forthe appeal.

Whilst they were away, Alan was atthe clinic in Edinburgh to test aprototype limb. He managed itbeyond the expectations of thetechnical staff, which has meant thatthe first stage target was within£3,000. At his 10th birthday party heopened an envelope which told himhe has an appointment at the clinicto have his prosthetic hand fitted inthe last week of October. This was anamazing achievement as this appealwas only launched at Easter.

In two years’ time, Alan will havegrown enough to have his secondand more technical hand fitted,which gives Dave and David enoughtime to catch their breath beforelaunching into the second phase forthe remaining £30,000 plus.

Alan thanks all the Lions and Leo’sfor their generosity.


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• A photo opportunity withJan Mølby, ex-footballerfor Liverpool and player-managerat Swansea City.

• Fairlop Leos who had organised alitter pick to raise money for Alan.

• A 5ft bear from the Sleaford Lionsto give to Alan.

Hands for Alan

• West Bromwich Albion

• Aston Villa

• Stoke City

• Liverpool

• Everton

• Manchester City

• Manchester United

• Newcastle United

• Sunderland

• Leicester City

• Norwich City

• West Ham United

• Arsenal (Unable to see due to traffic

congestion)

• Tottenham Hotspur

• Watford

• Crystal Palace

• Chelsea

• Southampton

• Bournemouth

• Swansea City

Premier League FootbaLLCLubs 2015/2016in order oF Visit…

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Held 12th-13th September 2015,The Windsor Great Park CrossCountry Horse Ride was once againa huge success raising over £20,000for Windsor Lions charities and othergood causes.

Hundreds of riders had travelledfrom all over Southern England andeven West Wales to take part. Theyrode through the glorioussurroundings of Windsor Great Parkwith its variety of sandy tracks,woodland and open parkland, pastWindsor Castle and the famous

Copper Horse. The weather wasideal, the ground perfect and theriders and horses were dressed intheir finery.

The nine-mile course through theparkland consisted of three courses;running side by side, advanced,novice and non-jumping. It is not arace so riders can take as much timeas they like. The all-important fundsare raised through entry fees andsponsorship which is not obligatorybut highly encouraged with varioustrophies presented after the event.

The Windsor Great Park CrossCountry Horse Ride was firstconceived by Lion PeterVaughan over 40 years agoas an annual charity event.Even the most optimistic ofWindsor Lions Club memberscould not have foreseen thestupendous success the eventwas to be. Over the decades,the Horse Ride has raisedover £2m for charity andentertained tens of thousandsof horses and their riders.The event then, as it does

now, takes a huge amount of effortto stage, involving all members ofWindsor Lions and colleagues fromneighbouring Lions Clubs as well asfriends and families. The planning,marketing and rider entrymanagement start months earlierwhich means the Horse Ride isalmost a year-long exercise forWindsor Lions.

The Windsor Great Park CrossCountry Horse Ride is recognised asone of the best organised events ofits kind in the country and this yearwas certainly no exception. Thefeedback from the riders has beenfantastic. Lion Mark Fraser who nowmanages the event for WindsorLions concludes, “It is such apleasure and such great fun to beinvolved with this unique eventwhich generates so much moneyand gives so much pleasure to somany people. I do want to thank theauthorities who so generously allowus to use Windsor Great Park andour sponsors, the ShanlyFoundation, for their magnificentsupport. They enable us to do somuch good for so many needypeople and organisations.”

The 2015 WindsorGreat Park CrossCountry Horse Ride


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PICTURED BELOW: The founder ofthe Horse Ride, Peter Vaughan andhis wife Audrey

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From 6th-16th August 2015, CerebralPalsy Sport, England and Waleshosted the CPRISRA (Cerebral PalsyInternational Sports & RecreationAssociation) World Games at theHarvey Hadden Sports Complex.

Cerebral Palsy Sport, or CP Sport, is afounder member of the BritishParalympic Association. They are thecountry’s leading national sportdisability organisation, supportingthose with cerebral palsy to lead anactive life through playing sport andphysical recreation. Many of theorganisation’s athletes form thebackbone of the paralympic squads.

This year the Games received entriesfrom 17 countries from across theworld, who competed in a range ofsports. These sports included 7-a-sidefootball, bowls, para-taekwondo,athletics, table cricket and swimming.

During the event the teams fromEngland, Scotland and Ireland didextremely well breaking worldrecords, despite the pouring rain!Muninder Hayer of England, in theseated club throw F31 class, threw12.18m and Gavin Drysdale ofScotland set a new record in the

200m RR3 with a time of 38.15seconds. The seated shot eventswere also dominated by the homecountries with competitors fromEngland, Ireland and Scotlandtaking gold. England’s AmyWearing set the bar high, taking agold medal in the Game’s newestevent, the penthalon. Scotland’sNathan Blackie took a staggering 3gold medals on the track, attaininghis final medal in the 200m T34 classwith a time of 64.30 second.

Lion John Kyte andLioness Pam Kyte rePortthe event…

After two years of planning, theCPISRA World Games was finallyunderway on 8th August 2015 atNottingham with a spectacularopening ceremony and parade ofathletes. Our Chairman of Council,Lion Simon Moss and wife LionChristine, together with District

Governor Lion Paul Stafford and LionAnne Stafford represented the Lionsof MD105, who were partners with CPSport in providing volunteers or“Games Makers”.

The Games Makers tasks ranged fromannouncing, managing the dailyprogramme for volunteers, helping inthe media centre, being on theinformation desk, assisting theofficials in each sport, to manningdoors and showing spectators to theirseats. They looked resplendent intheir lime green t-shirts and hoodies– they certainly could not be missed!

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This was the first event to be held inthis magnificently refurbished arenaand the athletes from seventeencountries revelled in the world classfacilities.

The Games was characterised bythe fun and friendship had by allathletes, volunteers and officials.People cheered all the athletesirrespective of which countrythey represented or where theyfinished in their event, helpingeach other whenever the needarose. The camaraderie in theGames Village and the smilingfaces of the volunteers who werealways there to lend a handwithout being asked.

A sincere thank you to all theLions from the several districtswho volunteered. Everyone hada great time, especially Peter

Green of Coningsby & TattershallLions who had the pleasure of beingmade the team host of the Swedishteam – a smile never left his face!

It was tiring but a real privilege to bepart of this truly amazing event. Itwas a wonderful experience never tobe forgotten.

World’s Largest Mascot RaceGuinness World Records have nowconfirmed that the 2015 sponsoredMascot Gold Cup held on Sunday26th April 2015 at Wetherby RaceCourse is officially the world's largestever mascot race.

Nine Wetherby Mascot Lions took partin this obstacle race and competedwith a total of 137 Mascots from awide range of charities and sponsors.Whilst they didn’t win, one of theirmascots took a credible 10th position.The main beneficiary was the SueRyder Charity who specialise inHospice and Neurological Care. Goodluck to Wetherby Lions Club whohope to compete again next year!

Wetherby Lions help break a Guinness world record

Gold silver bronze

england 85 52 19

Scotland 29 13 11

Australia 22 7 3

Ireland 18 3 4

Austria 11 17 6

Denmark 10 2 0

Sweden 6 7 4

Portugal 3 6 3

Hungary 3 1 0

Russia 1 0 0

Brazil 0 2 1

Japan 0 0 0

Netherlands 0 0 0

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AHDAN: Lion Santokh (82)Southall Lions Club are sad to report thedeath of Life Member, Lion Santokh.Santokh originally became a Lion in Kenyain 1967. He joined Southall Club in 1971 asa Charter Member and served the Clubadmirably in various capacities. He helpedto form Ealing Lions Club, later returningto Southall. His company will begreatly missed.

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ATTEWELL: Lion Rod (69)Witney Lions Club is saddened to report thedeath of Immediate Past President Rod. LionRod’s enthusiasm and commitment hasbeen an example to us all. During his twosuccessive years as President, he alsoretained his position as Recruitment andPublicity Officer, running the Club’s websitethat he had also set up.

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BALLARD Lion David (84)Watford Lions Club is very sad to announcethe passing away of Lion David. Hisdedication and devotion to the Lionsactivities, especially with our Lions BookShop, had been a constant inspiration to usall. We would like to offer our heartycondolences to members of his family.

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BOLLAND: Lion Roy (78)Thorne Rural Lions Club is sad to report thedeath of Lion Roy after 28 years of service.He served in various positions in the Clubincluding President. Lion Roy and his latewife Veronica were known throughoutdistrict and beyond as they loved visitingClubs around the British Isles. He will besadly missed.

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BOLTON: John R, (72)West Cumberland Lions Club. Members aredeeply shocked at the sudden death of LionJohn. Lion John a past President (3), gave37 ½ years of service to Lions. During hisyears of service he held various postsincluding Treasurer and Lion Tamer. He willbe sadly missed.

BRISTOW: Lion Jason (MJF)Brighton Lions are sad to report the deathof Lion Jason. Joining the Club in 1964,Jason supported all the Club’s fund-raisingactivities: he sold vast amounts of hishome-grown produce on behalf of theClub, transported stroke patients totherapy and led the Club’s regularbingo sessions for retired residentsfrom 2000-2012.

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BYRNE: PDG Lion TommyIt is with great sadness Navan Lions Clubreport the passing of Past DistrictGovernor Tommy Byrne. Lion Tommyserved as DG in 1970/71 and was adevoted Lion. He was a very popularmember and was well-known throughoutthe District. We extend our deepestsympathy to his family.

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DAVISON: Lion John Charles (62)Castleford and Pontefract District LionsClub. A Lion for over thirty years, LionJohn was the Charter President ofCastleford Leo Club in 1977-78 and ClubPresident 1993-94 and 1997-98. His drycomments and ready wit will be sadlymissed at Club meetings. A confirmedbachelor, our sympathy is extended to hissister and her family.

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DUFFY: Lion BrianClonmel Lions Club regret to announce thepassing of Lion Brian Duffy, Past Presidentof Clonmel Lions Club and father of PastPresident Jonathan. Our sinceresympathy goes to his family at thisvery sad time.

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EDWARDS: Lion Keith (94)Worthing Lions are very sad to announcethe death of Lion Keith. A member ofWorthing Lions since 1996, he was ourSocial Secretary for many years. Havingfought alongside the Ghurkha Regimentduring WW2, at Keith’s request, the Clubpays the pensions for two retired Ghurkhasoldiers in Nepal.

FORSHAW: LION DORRINE (MJF)Stockport Lions Club are saddened to reportthe death of Past President Dorrine. Atireless and enthusiastic member, Dorri hadrecently been granted the Melvin JonesFellowship for the tremendous amount ofwork she did, sadly she died before itreached England. Arrangements will bemade to present this award to her family.

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GRIFFIN: Lion Howard (67)Caernarfon Lions Club members are sad toreport the sudden death of Past PresidentLion Howard. A Lion for nearly 20 years,Lion Howard’s forte was as Chairman of theSocial Service Committee – a post that heheld for many years. He was also well-known for undertaking personal fundraisingactivities for other organisations.

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HAWORTH: Lion Dennis (85)Blackburn Lions Club is sad to report thepassing of Lion Dennis who had justcompleted 50 years of service. A pastPresident and Treasurer Lion Dennis wasinvolved with the setting up and running ofthe local "Talking Newspaper” service for thevisually impaired. Dennis is sadly missed.

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LAKE: Lion David (75)Eastbourne Lions Club members aresaddened to report the passing of LionDavid. David was Club President in 1994 and2000 before becoming Zone and RegionChairman. His attention to detail,understanding and kindness helped to makemany of the Lions events a resoundingsuccess and the Club as strong as it is today.

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These Lions of our Multiple District have recently left us. We honour their memory andthe contribution they made in their Lionistic service for the good of others.

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MACKNESS: Lion Edward (Ted)It is with much sadness that Swale Lions Clubreports the death of former Lion TedMackness. He was always a willing helper andavid fundraiser who would help anyone whohad a problem. During his year as ClubPresident in 1988 the Club was twinned withJean Bart Lions Club in Dunkirk.

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MANooChEr: Lion Amiri (64)Easingwold District Lions Club are greatlysaddened to report the passing of LionManoochehr. Manoochehr was a well-respectedand well-liked member. He spent most of hislife helping others, volunteering for the UnitedNations and the International Red Cross inIndia, the Leonard Cheshire home at Alne Halland the Spurriergate Centre in York.

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orD: Lion Jack (71)Members of York Lions are sad to report thepassing of valued member Lion Jack. Duringhis eight years as a Lion, Jack had beenPresident and Secretary. He was a loyal anddedicated member who will be greatly missed.He is remembered for saying,'keep smiling'.

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rANDALL: Lion Bert (91)

Lions Club of Bletchley. PCC Bert Randalljoined LCI in 1967. He was the instigator ofthe first female Lions to join his then Club,Redbridge and a founding member of theirTalking Newspaper. Bert had held mostpositions in his Lionistic career includingCouncil Chairman in 89/90. He was a mentorto many.

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rIChArDSoN: Lion Tony (83)Arundel, Barnham & District LionsClub members are saddened toreport the passing of Lion Tony. Amember for twenty years and Tony servedin many offices including Zone Chairman andthree times President of the Club. Tony’s fortewas welfare; for many years he organised anddelivered the Christmas hampers for theelderly of Arundel.

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SALMoN: Lion Derek (83)With sadness, Berkhhamsted Lions Clubreports the death of Lion Derek. Derek was anextremely active Lion for almost 22 years; hewas very much involved in all the Club’sactivities, especially the Lions August BankHoliday Fete. Derek was President in 1999 and2004, Zone Chairman in 2001/2 and District105A PRO 2002-2004.

SEFToN: Lion rodgerThe Lions Club of Truro. Members are sadto report the passing of Lion Rodger, aPresident in 2001/02, having previouslybeen a member of Farningham Lions Club.A dedicated Lion who was always pleased tobe part of the Club’s Annual Crystal GolfDay acting as Official Scorer until his healthcurtailed his attendance.

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SMITh: Lion Mike (68)With sadness, Birmingham Acocks GreenClub reports the death of Lion Mike Smith.Mike joined the Lions in 1980 and heldmany posts in the Club. Mike took greatpride in the organisation of events that weran such as the senior citizens trips,Christmas meals, afternoon teas, carnivalsand the rambles run.

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STrASSMAN: Lion Ernst (MJF)Havant Lions Club announce with greatsadness the passing of Lion Ernst whoserved with distinction for 45 years asPresident in 1983/4. Ernst was particularlyactive with spec trek for many years, andfamous for his wonderful Lardy Cakes hemade for town shows. Our thoughts arewith his family.

TAYLor: Lion Geoff (86) (MJF)It is with great regret that Worthing Lionsannounce the death of one of their mostlong-standing members. Lion Geoff Taylorjoined Chichester Lions in 1967 andtransferred to Worthing in the early 1970s.President between1988-89 and Treasurerfor some time, he was a man of greatintegrity whose wise counsel waswell-respected.

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WALKEr: Lion Tim (aged 65)Biggleswade Sandy Lions Club membersare sad to report the passing of theirnewest member Lion Tim Walker. Evenbefore he joined the Club, he supportedour events and would always do what hecould for those who needed help andsupport. Warm hearted with a kind andgenerous nature, he will be missed.

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WhITE: Lion BillIt is with great sadness Halesworth LionsClub reports the passing of Lion Bill Whiteon Saturday 5th September. A member ofthe Club for almost 34 years he will begreatly missed, if there was something thatneeded doing Lion Bill was always there.

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WooD: Lion George MJF (94)Brighton Lions Club has lost aninstitution. Lion George died justthree weeks short of completingsixty years of membership.George was well known tomany Lions in other clubs andenjoyed making interclubvisits. He was Club President

1989/90 and 1993-1994, andChairman of the Housing Society for

many years.

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DEWES: Lion David (MJF)Tamworth Lions Club. Lion David was thelongest serving member of Tamworth LionsClub, and whilst hampered with an illnesscontracted in his younger years, Lion Davidgave much support to the Club and itsmembers. David will be sadly missed by usall, and his widow, Marion, their childrenand grandchildren.

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GArDNEr: Lion PDG Lion GeorgeClacton on Sea Lions Club. He was a Lionthat always greeted you with warmth andfriendship. He was District Governor of EA1990 -1991. Those that knew him werericher for it and all will doubtless miss him.

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