South West UK Lions Club
A 'virtual' branch of Radstock & Midsomer Norton Lions Club (C.I.O.) registered in England & Wales: Charity No. 1187472
Serving our communities across the whole of the South West
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We recently hosted 4 youths from other countries as part of the Lions Youth Camps and Exchange Program
Projects we are currently involved with
Projects we are currently involved with
Lions have been collecting and sorting used spectacles for almost 35 years. Collecting spectacles for recycling was started as a club activity and Chichester Lions have a fantastic legacy in this project. A club activity as far back as 1967, it became a major project for the club in 1980 with a delivery of 700 sorted specs to the Missionary Optical Society in Devon for use in their clinics in Kenya and India.
To respond to the increased demand of people wanting to recycle spectacles we opened a second recycling centre at Lions National Headquarters in Birmingham in October 2022. Today they receive used spectacles from not just Lions clubs but members of the public as well.
Lions Clubs Message in a Bottle is a simple but effective way for people to keep their basic personal and medical details where they can be found in an emergency on a standard form and in a common location – the fridge. Message in a Bottle (known within Lions as MIAB) helps emergency services personnel to save valuable time in identifying an individual very quickly and knowing if they have any allergies or take special medication. Paramedics, police, fire-fighters and social services support this Lions life-saving initiative and know to look in the fridge when they see the Message in a Bottle stickers, supplied. The initiative provides peace of mind that prompt and appropriate medical assistance can be provided, and next of kin/emergency contacts can be notified.
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