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Hunstanton Lions To Celebrate 30th Charter Anniversary

To be held at Titchwell Manor on Friday 3rd December, 7.00pm for 7.30pm and tickets £25 per head. Black Tie is optional but, (and of particular relevance to non Lions guests), formalities and speeches will not dominate the evening!

If you would like to support Hunstanton Lions and enjoy an evening acknowledging their 30 years commitment to the community, please contact either Lion President Gerry Desroches on 07836 750296 or Lion Chris Rossiter on 07767 431133.

Lions Club Update

The new decade has now set in and Hunstanton Lions Club is looking forward to another ten years of activity. Starting in April our ‘Car Boot Sales’ will be held on Sunday mornings at Glebe House School. They start at 8.00am and are very popular, so come early to grab some of those bargains. The dates set for these are April 11, 25, May 2, 9, June 6, 20, July 18, August 15, September 5, 19, October 3, 17 and 31st. We are also holding some Car Boot Sales in Snettisham this year and we will let you know the dates soon. Future plans for summer events are being formulated. Our ‘Open Bowls Championship’ will again be held at Old Hunstanton Social Club probably in August, and we will be at the ‘Hunstanton Carnival’.  We are holding a talk in Hunstanton Town Hall to coincide with the anniversary of “D Day” on June 4th. Starting at 7.30pm the talk is in aid of the “Gurkha Welfare Trust” and be given by Lt Col (Retd) Chris Taylor. The cost is £5.00 per head and a bar and refreshments will be available. It promises to be an enlightening and entertaining evening with an interesting insight into the Gurkha Regiments and how they came to be so much part of the British Army. Details are available from here or Ian on 01485 533108 (Daytime).

The Lions motto is “We Serve” so if you know of anyone or organisation who may need our help to let us know. Recently we laid out a back garden with two raised beds, pathways and a paved area for swings in a local hostel. For this we are very grateful to Messes Ridgeons of Snettisham who arranged at no cost to us for the supply of nearly all the materials. Without this great help this project would have been far more costly. We are in the process of supplying a new kitchen for a Scout Group and in February we helped move the Dersingham Day Centre for the elderly into new premises.

Hunstanton Lions sponsor a young child in Zimbawbe, Shepherd Tenser, for his education, and we are active in helping build a school in Nepal. One of our members is in Nepal at the moment. He took with him as many books and educational toys as he was allowed, and could possibly carry. These included a supply of inflatable ‘globes’, sets of ‘Dominoes’, and footballs. During 2010 we hope to give you more information on all the work Hunstanton Lions do, we think you’ll be surprised.

“200 Club”. Our 200 Club is run by ‘Friends of Hunstanton Lions’ This is extremely important to us to enable us to keep going and continue to raise those important funds for all the people and organisations we help. The “200 Club” year has now come to an end, but will start again in May. The monthly cash prizes are £100.00, £50.00, and two at £25.00, so well worth winning. Draws are held every month from May to February. The cost of a number is only £15.00, and entries are available from Peter Sutton at Suttons Estate Agency, 29 High Street, Heacham, or any member of Hunstanton Lions. Now’s the time to get your tickets as it’s always oversubscribed. The lucky winners in January were Paul Beale, Jean Anger, Keith Dennis and Val Rybak, and in February Paul Jones, Robbie Bloy, Mrs. R. Nobes and Richard Bird.

We are an active club and always willing to provide help or financial assistance. Our area covers from Brancaster, through Docking, to Dersingham and all the villages encompassed within, but unless we are told of people and organisations who need help, we can’t help.