Community Care

Our Lions Club is proud of its service to the community in Farnham and the surrounding area.
In 2021/2022 Farnham Lions has supported a theatre group for children with special needs, a Major buggy for a child with special needs, flooring for a disabled man, carpeting for a large family with six children, a cooker for a young mum recently rehoused, a fridge for a large family, a bench for a village gardening club, supermarket gift cards at Christmas time, sponsorship of a sports kit, a trip to Hungary with aid for Ukrainian refugees, a donation to Farnham Heath End School for Well Being Ambassador packs (with Lions sponsorship) a donation to Bourne Guides for new camping equipment, a special trip for vulnerable sailors at Sailability, funding for a young man to attend a work placement, and sponsorship of Farnham�s Got Talent at Weydon School.
Larger donations in 2021/2022 have included requests as detailed below:

St Paul�s Tongham for new books for a reading scheme (£1000);

Atomic Boxing to enable children, young people and adults from the refuge to attend regular sessions (£1000);

Funding to enable children from low income families to attend a school residential trip (£975)

A contribution to the purchase of a new electric van for the Lions Community Store (£2000); A donation to Space2Grow to run both a gardening club and a parenting course, (£1950)

A donation to Hale Academy to enable purchase of an interactive whiteboard (£1000)

Step by Step � supporting young homeless people (£3000)

A donation towards new fencing at Brambleton Hall (£1500)

Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance Service (£4000)
All of the money raised from the public is spent on charitable ventures; not one penny disappears into "administration". In terms of where it is spent around 85 % in any year is used for local needs either in Farnham or in projects and organisations helping Farnham residents. The remaining 15% is spent on well focused National or International causes.

Wherever the money is spent, we like the results to be tangible; we go to considerable lengths to avoid "black holes".
Apart from our regular support to local organisations such as The Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, Bells Piece Cheshire Home, Sailability, 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 many many other such items. In addition projects such as the Tilford play scheme are regular beneficiaries of donations from Lions.
Many 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.
Locally we support the fantastic work of The Lions Community Store based in Fleet who collect and reuse countless thousands of items of furniture, utensils, bedding and clothes every year to those in real need in the community.
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.