Community Care
- 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 and so on.
- Mnay of our support donations are private and cannot be detailed on these pages, but a few contributions have been made to deserving causes that are not sensitive and a few recent examples are listed on the separate Local Support page.
- Nationally, we support Lions initiatives such as the Special Olympics and the Lions International Blood Research Association (LIBRA) laboratories at King's College Hospital in London (see separate page).
- Internationally, help is given through the Lions Club's International Fund (LCIF) 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.
PRIDE IN THE COMMUNITY
