Southport - the Classic Resort on England's North West Coast

2009

District

105BN

IT Award

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Our Works
 

As many of our donations and grants are of relatively small amounts to and from individuals and groups, we would like to thank everyone, collectively, who has contributed in any way to our fundraising events. Without your support we could not do what we do, but please, be assured, that every penny we raise for welfare and charity purposes goes solely to those purposes.

Welfare Works - Local & Individual
 

We try to allocate 50% of funds raised to local Good Causes. As a prominent part of the local voluntary sector, special needs and requirements are referred to Southport Lions by a number of public and private organisations. We can often provide top-up funding where other sources have dried up, or perhaps where other sources cannot provide at all. In recent years we have provided an electric scooter to a local man, computer equipment to a craft centre for the learning-disabled, toys to a crèche catering for the children of working and disadvantaged mothers, an inflatable bed to a multiply disabled girl, travel expenses for a local girl who needs to travel a considerable distance for specialist remedial treatment, start-up funding for a disability self-help group, and much more. Inevitably, much of what we do must remain private to protect the individuals concerned. We hope that you will understand why we can't give precise details!

Welfare Works - Major Projects
 

And we try to allocate 40% of funds raised to a local Major Project. In February 2004 we launched Chemocare, our biggest and most ambitious Club Project to date. Our aim was to raise £30,000 to assist in equipping and refurbishing the Medical and Oncology Day Unit at the Southport & Formby District General Hospital. We more than achieved our target, and the full story of what we did, and a little of how we did it, can be seen on our CHEMOCARE page. More recently, we have bought eight new syringe drivers, at a cost of more than £5,000 for the Southport & Formby District General Hospital, as part of a programme to standardise on one particular type of equipment throughout the region. And we will shortly be announcing the start of a new Major Project which will have a positive impact on the lives of many people.

Welfare Works - International
 

Southport Lions is a fundraising organisation, but we do not raise funds without specific purposes in mind, neither do we raise funds on behalf of other charities. Some while ago, the Club members made a decision that we would try to allocate funds to three different categories of need.

 

We try to allocate 10% of funds raised to International Projects. As a Club, we do not ourselves try to run any projects overseas, but provide funding for projects run by Lions' organisations in areas of specific need. As part of this commitment, we have supported eye camps in India, the development of water resources in rural Africa, and the international student exchange programmes run by Lions International.

 

Ever since the days of Helen Keller, Lions have been associated with the fight to eradicate preventable blindness, and Campaign Sight First, and Campaign Sight First II have raised hundreds of millions of pounds around the world to combat this scourge.

 

● In 2005 our Club undertook an extended sponsorship of Katie Drury, an ex-student from KGV College, who decided that she absolutely had to help the victims of the Asian Tsunami. This is such an example of ‘can do, will do’ humanity that, even though other events have come and gone since, we encourage you to read her Tsunami REPORT, and be impressed.

Lion Jimmy Carter...

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