Our Lions Club is proud of its service to the community in Farnham and the surrounding area. All of the money raised from the public is spent on charitable ventures; none disappears into "administration". About 85 % is used for local needs and the other 15% for well focused National and International causes. Wherever the money is spent, we like the results of our donations to be tangible; we avoid "black holes".
Apart from our regular support to organisations such as The Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, Bells Piece Cheshire Home, CHASE, Disability Challengers and Woodlarks, help also goes directly to individuals and families in the area. covering needs which cannot be met from "official" sources, e.g, specialised wheelchairs, or moving expenses for needy families being re-housed.
Each year the Club provides a very popular party for about 120 elderly local people. Last year's party was held on 1st April at Farnham Memorial Hall and was proclaimed, by guests, organisers and helpers, to be the best for many years.
In early December last year we supplied over 190 grocery parcels to local families in need, made up from donations of food by people living in the Upper Way, Weydon Hill Road, Green Lane, Broomleaf Road and Folly Hill areas of Farnham.
We are very interested in helping young people to develop their potential and will provide practical or financial help especially if, in keeping with our motto, their ventures involve an element of service to others.
Nationally, we support Lions initiatives such as the Special Olympics and the Lions International Blood Research Association laboratories at King’s Collage Hospital in London.
Internationally, help is given through the Lions Club’s International Fund for disaster relief and the Lions Eye Health Programme for eye camps in the Third World. As an example of "focus", we have helped a village school in Sri Lanka recover from the ravages of the tsunami, via the good offices of a Farnham lady who has taken a personal interest in the school.