Heywood Lions looking for new members

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The Heywood Lions Club is on the hunt for new members to allow it to continue serving the local community.

For nearly 50 years, Heywood Lions Club has been supporting deserving causes in the local community, nationally and internationally.  

Lions Clubs are groups of volunteers which join together give their valuable time and effort to improving their communities, and the world.

Having begun in 1917, there are 48,000 Lions Clubs worldwide across more than 200 countries. There are three in the borough: Heywood, Littleborough and Rochdale.

Lion Steve Brown said: “The club currently only has six members and to enable us to continue and/or increase our support for many good causes, we are looking for new members with new ideas.”

As with most service organisations Heywood Lions was unable to fundraise in 2020 but, thanks to the community’s generosity in previous years, it has been able to support a number of local causes over the last year, including: 

• Springhill Hospice for the purchase of general equipment. 
• Mayor’s Charity Appeal 
• Friends of Hopwood Park to assist them with providing meals to those vulnerable and shielding during the first lockdown 
• Scrubs Hub to help with the production of PPE equipment for the NHS 
• Helped Crimble Croft Community Centre with purchase of Christmas hampers for the luncheon club members and children’s books for the pre-school Christmas event 
• Donated toys and funds to Heywood Toy Appeal 
• Helped 3rd/4th Ravenscroft Scout group with funds to provide badges for cubs 
• Supplied a local primary school with 4 laptops to assist students home-schooling 
• Continued to distribute our Message in a Bottle, a simple idea designed to encourage people to keep their basic personal and medical details on a standard form and in a common location – the fridge! It saves the Emergency Services valuable time if they need to enter a property in an emergency situation.  
• Collect used spectacles from local opticians 

In the same year, Heywood Lions organised a ‘much-subdued’ local poppy appeal, supported a multiple-district eye camera project and made donations to the Lions Clubs International Foundation to assist with funds in support of disasters throughout the world.   

Steve added: “Once again, we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed to our fundraising efforts in previous years – without your support we would have been unable to support so many worthy causes.”

If you would like to get in touch for more information, please email heywoodlionsclub@outlook.com or telephone 0345 833 5763.