Tring Lions Club

Serving the Community

Welcome to Tring Lions Club

Membership

The Club welcomes new members who would like to be involved in a variety of fund raising projects and community service

, at the same time enjoying being part of an active social Club.  Anyone interested can find out more by clicking on 'Contact Us' and we will be in touch

Meetings

Our Business  Meetings are held every first Tuesday of the month at the Pendley Manor Hotel. Monthly informal social gatherings are held at local hostelries.

Useful Links

To find out more about Lions in our District visit http://www.lions105a.org or in GB http://www.lionsmd105.org

We recently made a presentation of £750 to Tring School to support their World Challenge projects in Sri Lanka and Belize

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A busy day at Aldbury Fayre on Bank Holiday Monday..............

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.........but we still had time to relax

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The Lions had a busy day on Saturday with a stall in Church Square at the launch of the Tring Spring Fair and then hosting around

90 of Tring's Senior Citizens at the annual Entertainments Evening.  This year the event was held at Tring School and we were entertained by the excellent BURP ukelele band from Berkhamsted. For more pictures please click on entertainments evening

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...............................Tring Spring Fair .........................................................................  Entertainments Evening

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This Easter we raffled nine Easter Bunnies at various establishments around Tring and raised over £500 to support local good causes, our thanks to all the organisations who supported us. To look at a few more photographs click here Easter Bunnies

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In conjunction with Tring ATC the Lions held their annual quiz evening at the Nora Grace Hall on Friday 19th March. It most enjoyable evening and at the end the Lions made a presentation of a cheque for £300 to the ATC

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Tring Lions were collecting outside Tescos on Friday 16th Feb in aid of Scannappeal who are raising money to buy specialist equipment to help and restore vision for local people. 

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Thanks to Tesco's and their customers we collected £392 which the Club will make up to £500.

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On Christmas Eve around 1000 people gathered in the Forge Car Park for the Lions annual Carol Concert, thanks to their generosity over £1500 was raised to support local good causes.

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The Lions enjoying an excellent Christmas Dinner at the Greyhound Wigginton

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Representatives from Tring School recently attended one of our meetings and made a presentation on their World Challenge expedition to Belize in 2017 and their plans for Sri Lanka in 2018. In Belize the pupils helped build a shelter adjacent to a small community clinic, they will be involved in a similar project during their Sri Lanka expedition.

The Lions have offered their support for  both projects. .

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The Tring Lions enjoyed a successful night at the Tring Festival and raised around £225 with their 'roll-a-raffle'. The money will go towards supporting local good causes.

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Thanks to our sponsors for donating prizes: Tescos, Marks and Spencers, G Grace & Son, Meads Farm Shop, Metcalfes and Fancy That.

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Tring Lions recently helped the Wendover Arm Trust purchase a new brushcutter. Apart from their restoration activities, the Trust also organise a ‘Tidi Friday’ working party once a month to help keep the canal and its surroundings looking neat and tidy

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.  To celebrate the Millennium, Tring Town Council created the 'Millenium Woodland' close to the Allotments in Duckmore Lane and Tring Lions sponsored the installation of a seat so that walkers could enjoy the view.

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Thanks to the dedication of Lion Derek the seat has recently been restored to its former glory.

 

We had a very successful Car Boot Sale on 10th September

in the Market Square with 22 stalls.

Altogether we raised around £300  

The Tring Lions were at Berkhamsted Fete on August Bank Holiday......

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With nearly 1,500,000 members in over 200 countries Lions International are currently celebrating their 100th anniversary, to mark the occasion Tring Lions updated the wording on the Community Action Dacorum bus that they sponsor. 

The Lions at the Tring Carnival on Saturday 24th June............

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The Lions were out in force at this year's Aldbury May Fair and raised over £400. For more pictures click on Aldbury May Fair

Tring Lions have recently sponsored some new signage along the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal. The branch of the canal runs from Bulborne near Tring to Wendover and is currently being restored by the Wendover Arm Trust. The signage will guide walkers around a section of the canal at Little Tring where the towpath is inaccessible

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Tring Lions recently made a donation of £2500 to Age UK Dacorum

towards setting up a new COGS club at Pond Close

Last year Tring celebrated the 700th anniversary of the granting of Town Charter status by King Edward II. To commemorate the occasion the Lions sponsored a book containing photos of all the events that marked the occasion. The book was compiled by Tring Together and copies of the book have been presented to Tring Town Council, the Library, Tring Together and last year’s Town Mayor, Stephen Hearn.
All the local schools took an active part in the celebrations and yesterday copies of the book were also presented to them.

An emergency phone has now been installed alongside the defibrillator outside the High Street Baptist Church. The installation of the defibrillator was sponsored by Tring Lions in memory of Lion Ken Brennan

 

   

The Lions Book Shop in The Marlowes Hemel Hempstead........ Tring Lions run a mini bus service to Berkhamsted 

............operated by Tring Lions every Wednesday ..................... for the 1066 Club for t he blind and partially sighted 

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Providing transport to the Friendship Teas at Emma Rothschild Court

Tring Lions Club was established in 1973.  Part of Lions Club International, a voluntary organisation of over 40000 Lions Clubs in over 200 countries.  Total membership is over 1.4 million members including over 18,000 in the UK. Tring Lions Club has 16 members. 

• We are a non-profit making organisation. Members pay an annual subscription which pays for the running of the Club
• ALL public donations and funds raised are passed straight on to good causes
• Open to all sections of the community, to all faiths and religions
• Just a club for people who want to give their free time and to help their community

Meetings

Our Business  Meetings are held every first Tuesday of the month at the Pendley Manor Hotel. Monthly informal social gatherings are held at local hostelries. 

 

Membership

The Club welcomes new members who would like to be involved in a variety of fund raising projects and community service, at the same time enjoying being part of an active social Club.  Anyone interested can find out more by clicking on 'Contact Us' and we will be in touch

 Click here to see good causes that Tring Lions have supported: good causes 

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