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Lion John Vaughan from Telford is in serious training for a mammoth trek this autumn. He will be flying to Kathmandu and then walking for over three weeks.

It all started in September 2012, while vis-iting his son in the Lake District; they first talked over the idea of walking to Everest Base Camp. To get close to the mountain will be a dream come true. After mulling it over and checking with his doctor- he is 69 and diabetic- the decision was made and prepa-rations began. There were two key things he needed to do –get the right equipment and

improve his fitness.

They will be walking for 25 days staying in small guesthouses. Accommodation will be fairly basic with limited facilities - and they expect to eat a lot of lentils!

As well as seeing magnificent scenery they will visit monas-teries etc. en route –one has a yeti scalp on display (looks rather like a bad toupee apparently!)

For John this will be the trip of a lifetime and he also wants to raise funds for a good cause. His wife has a hearing impairment and through her work for the local deaf and hard of hearing forum he met hearing dog Nevis. He heard about the importance of the dogs to their keepers –this inspired him to choose Hearing Dogs for Deaf People as his charity. In true Lions style he is paying all costs himself so every penny in sponsorship will go the Hearing Dogs.

If anyone wants to support John and the Hearing Dogs you

can get a sponsor form from him [email protected], 01952587617 or donate online at

ttps://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/toeverestwithjv

Where’s The Doctor?

The Alsager Lion (It's our new Lion President, really)

and Cyborg Sam, Alsager Lions’ very own Dalek

(Yes it's a real Dalek—ask Dr Who) working hard

together to raise money for Good Causes at the

recent Alsager Carnival.

Inside this issue:

Johns Climb 1

Dr Who? 1

DG Team Travels 2

Alsager Handover 3

Follow Your Dream 3

PR Corner 4

Travelling Lions 4

New members 4

Football awards 5

Special Award 5

Future Event 5

VOL Handover 6

Lions escape the Law 6

DG’s Bit 7

Ode to a Secretary 7

Macc Street Fair 8

Next issue deadline 8

Lion John to Everest for Hearing Dogs

LIONS INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 105BS Volume 30 Issue 1 July 2013

DISTRICT 105BS NEWSLETTER

District Governor 2013-2014

Lion Dave Handley

mailto:[email protected]

https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/toeverestwithjv

Contacts

DG Lion Dave Handley:- [email protected]

1st VDG Lion Carole Godden :- [email protected]

2nd VDG Lion Chris Aked:- [email protected]


News from District

District Governor Travels August & September 2013

Important Note to Clubs regarding DGT Visits

If any of these dates are not suitable then please contact the Officer due to visit your club as soon as

possible.

The list opposite was prepared at the beginning of June 2013 and some clubs may have changed their

dates since the initial list was prepared .

A copy of the Agenda, copies of the minutes of the 2 previous meeting and details of any special event due

to take place during the visit should be sent to the visiting member of the DGT before the visit.

A full list of proposed visits is included in this months District Mail

VISIT CLUB VISITED BY

6 August Vale Royal 1VDG Carole Godden

7 August Cannock DG Dave Handley

12 August Lichfield 2VDG Chris Aked

13 August Beaumaris Menai-Aethwy DG Dave Handley

14 August Market Drayton DG Dave Handley

14 August Urmston 2VDG Chris Aked

19 August Tamworth 2VDG Chris Aked

26 August Buckley and Mold DG Dave Handley

28 August Wrexham Maelor 2VDG Chris Aked

2 September Llanwrst DG Dave Handley

2 September Ellesmere Port 2VDG Chris Aked

2 September Conwy Estuary DG Dave Handley

3 September Burton on Trent 1VDG Carole Godden

3 September Newport DG Dave Handley

4 September Flint and District 2VDG Chris Aked

4 September Helsby and Frodsham Branch 1 VDG Carole Godden

5 September Holyhead 1VDG Carole Godden

9 September BIrkenhead 1VDG Carole Godden

10 September Bridgnorth DG Dave Handley

11 September Stone 2VDG Chris Aked

11 September Lymm and District DG Dave Handley

12 September Uttoxeter 1VDG Carole Godden

18 September Leek 1VDG Carole Godden

19 September Alsager 1VDG Carole Godden

25 September Knutsford 1VDG Carole Godden



News from Clubs & District

Alsager Lions Handover Dinner

Photos taken during the recent Hand Over Dinner at the Bulls Head, Smallwood with a big thank you to Ian,

Sharron and staff for a great evening.

Phil Westhead the ex-President with new President Ella Gruse after receiving

Alsager Lions chain of office. Ella is Alsager Lions 27th President and its' first

lady President. Ella has been with the club for a year and was previously with

the Crewe and Nantwich Lions Club and in her last year there, was also

President of that club.

Ella has not only taken on being President of the Alsager Club but for the

second year running is Zone Chair for six Lions Clubs in the Cheshire/

Shropshire area.

Photo shows Alsager Lions’ senior (In age) member, Lion Anton Selvadurai, giving Ella a bit of advice of how

to cope with the additional work.

The International President’s Theme

Lion Barry Palmer, an Australian, has announced that his theme for the year that he is the International

President is

‘Follow Your Dream’.

He has challenged his ‘Dream Team’, of which I am part, to have a dream to follow. Now when I was at

school my reports would often say ‘he could do so much better if only he wasn’t such a dreamer’. So it

would appear that I am eminently qualified. But, I am no longer the dreamer in the sense that Mr Daniels,

my old headmaster, meant. I have tried to explain my ‘dream’ in my personal friendship banner. Its strap

line is ‘Building For The Future’, and that is my dream for this forthcoming Lionistic year. I want us, as a

Team, to look to what we can do to ensure we have strong foundations, check what condition we are in and

what we can do to strengthen and to build for our Lions future. We must leave BS in a better position to live

long and fruitful than it is in today. I have also had a non-personal pin designed

and this has, I hope, taken the strap line of the banner beyond just this Lionistic

year for which I have the privilege of being your Chief Executive.

Officially our work this Lionistic year starts on 1 July, but in truth our work

started in 1983 when BS was formed and it is the same work for which we take

responsibility together as Lions wherever you are within our District.

YIL DG Dave

LIONS OF

DISTRICT 105BS

BUILDING FOR

OUR

FUTURE

New members in June (up to 20th)

CREWE & NANTWICH

Jason Griffiths

CONWY ESTUARY David Roberts

David Elliot



Happy New Year!

The start of yet another Lionistic year when all is quiet on the Western Front but I know you will be roaring

soon! If you wish to send articles to The Lion Mag could you please send them to me. I can then confirm that

the editor has received them. It was mentioned that when articles are sent that no confirmation is sent. They

have so many emails that it is difficult to reply to them all, also there is the dreaded junk box that they can end

up in. Although there is no guarantee they will appear we have done very well in the past and we still want to

have at least one article from our district per edition.

Did you see the ' Tonight' programme on ITV last month featuring Lion Lifeskills? I know it was disappointing

about our coverage after all the fanfare when the only mention of us was in the credits, but you can still

mention that the scheme was shown in use in a classroom on the programme. Perhaps it is worth mentioning

if we contact schools now. The programme is still available on ITV Player.

Can I say thanks to John Jones for being the editor of the NL for the past 12 months and Good Luck to John

Whitehouse our new editor.

Bev Stanyer, District PR Officer

Travelling Lion Points as at 21st June 2013

Travelling Lion 2013/14

Club Points

Stoke on Trent 129

Stone 60

Tamworth 59

Llandudno 51

Telford 45

Cannock 44

Beaumaris 33

Flint 32

Newcastle under Lyme 29

Leek 27

Come on you Lions. Don’t let Stoke romp home!!!

International Award for our District PR Officer

Bev Stanyer has been honoured with a most prestigious International Presi-dent’s Award for Outstanding Service to Lions Clubs International. The award from IP Wayne A. Madden was received in January, but it seems that she has been keeping this a secret...until now! Picture courtesy of Lion Geoff Trevena, Tamworth Lions.


Pupils from Southall School with some of the footballs


Ironbridge & Severn Gorge Lions help schools to net a football.

Children at two Telford schools had smiles on their faces this week when they received a visit from a local

Lions club whose members came bearing gifts.

In its latest ‘giveaway’ event, Ironbridge and Severn Gorge Lions distributed leather footballs to pupils at

Southall School and St George’s School. Earlier they had given away footballs at the annual sports day of

Club 2000, a sport and leisure club for people with disabilities. The football gifts were made possible by the

Lions’ continued association with “In Kind Direct”, an

organisation that redistributes surplus goods from

manufacturers and retailers to UK charities working at home

and abroad.

Ironbridge and Severn Gorge Lions President, John Toll, said: “We are delighted that the recipients of our latest giveaways are children. To see the smiles on their faces when they received the footballs is something that will stay with us for a long time. Projects like this are so worthwhile and they cer-tain “In Kind” mission statement of ‘matching surplus with need’. Elaine Bradburn

Come and Join Shirl the Girl

A date for the diary! There will be a district forum on 20th October, 10.00 to 3.30 at the Mercure Chester. Nine different workshops will be running covering a wide range of content. Look out for details and the booking form in the next mailing.

A Lion almost escapes the long arm of the Law

Little Orme Lions assisted by other Lion group members fund raising on Llandudno

Prom Sunday 26th May 2013 on behalf of Alzheimer’s in Wales (Local Branch).

Thanks you to Steve,Francis, Sandy,Tony,Tudor, Janet,Diane, Bisher, Christine

(mascot), Lee (police) and a special thanks to Ian Turner a significant amount of

money was raised from a very generous public show of support to such a worthy

cause.



President’s handover.

The Club recently held its annual President’s handover of office and it was “Murder”

Our President Elect Ian and his wife Liz arranged a Members’ and Friends’ Dinner and a “Murder” evening

due to start by 6.45pm which ended the next day (12.10am).

Our retiring President Carol (Countess Bogov) eventually passed the

office ribbon to Lion Ian (Huges Le’Grandbutte).

The other murder suspects included Edith le Grandbutte, Nicole Le

Grandbutte, Otto von Pinkelwurst, Kirk Ramson 111, Monsieur Oily-Carte,

Pierre Paysanski, Cherrie Boot, Ingrid Pith, Seamus O’Hack, & Pia Fedora.

Eventually Oily-Carte was discovered to have “done the deed”. A good

time was had by all!

Countess Bogov--Huges Le-Grandbutte

LET THE TRAIN TAKE THE STRAIN!

Zone 8 entertained Special Needs families at their Foxfield Railway Fun Day. Over

536 people travelled on 4 trains, with the following comment amongst those

received from the families:-

“Please could you pass on our thanks for a lovely day! We really enjoyed it and

Polly loved the train ride. You all work tirelessly to raise money and please let the

members of all the Lions know it is greatly appreciated!”

As we enter our 30th year as a District, I would like to say thank you to you all for

entrusting me with both our past and our future. What I hope we will achieve this

year is to get to know one another better. Get to know each other better within our

Clubs, Zones and the District as a whole – so that we can all work well together to-

wards the same goals. And what are those goals? Well, put in simple terms - after

all I am a simple bloke at heart – I would like them to be:

To try to reverse the drop in numbers in our District. Not to meet some imposed target of 1,250 or for the sake of chasing numbers. We need people to join us in our work to be sure we have enough Lions with enough energy to build on the legacy that our senior in service Lions have entrusted to us when they invited us to join their clubs and to join with them in their service. Clubs that are now ‘Our Clubs’ and service that is now ‘Our Commitment’. To promote the name of Lions in our communities by meaningful service through understanding the local

needs of our communities by taking a fresh look at them. Programmes and projects started in the past may

very well remain relevant, but communities are live things and they grow and develop, change and evolve, and

their needs change. So we must be ready to meet those changed needs. Societies change, their attitudes

change and we have to find ways to reconcile those changes with our desire to serve them; we have to find

ways to engage with today’s members of society at all levels.

At the same time, I would want our forthcoming year to be one of review – for us to look at how we work in our Clubs, how we work together in our Zones and your District Governor Team - the District Officers can help you achieve your goals in your service. Over the past few years the District Governor Team has worked hard at spreading the message that Cabinet

exists to manage the outside pressures of being part of an international organisation and at the same time

serving every lion in every club in every zone. In short I want us to create the environment in which Lions can

do what they joined Lions to do and what they do best – Serve Their Community.

YIL DG Dave


A tribute to all outgoing secretaries and advice to all incoming secretaries

Secretarial Woes If the secretary sends a letter .....it's too long

If he sends a postcard.......it's too short

If the attendance is poor..... he should call the members up

If he calls them up..... he's a pest

If he offers a suggestion...... he's a know all

If he doesn't...... he's useless

If he asks for advice....... He's incompetent

If he doesn't...... he's swollen headed

Ashes to Ashes........ Dust to Dust

If nobody else will do it the secretary must

From Peter I Kent


The DG’s Bit

A note from the editor.

This Newsletter is for all Clubs to pass on interesting events and new ideas to all members in BS. Please help me to make this letter interesting - lots of pictures please with explanations and anecdotes. I don’t guarantee to publish everything, but if you want your Club’s efforts to be recognised throughout the District send by email to [email protected] by 20th of the month latest. John Whitehouse



KNUTSFORD LIONS STREET FAIR Crowds flocked to the Knutsford Lions annual Street Fair on Bank Holiday Monday 27th May. The centre section of King Street was closed to traffic and the Lions arranged for gazebos to be erected for a variety of charity and trade. Lions have been organising this event for over 20 years and there are many local charities and community organisations that treat it as one of their regular fund-raising events. Last year the Town Council adopted it as part of the Jubilee Celebrations and the red/white/blue theme proved very successful - this year the same theme was used to celebrate 60 years since the Coronation, which allowed the jubilee hats and bowties to be worn again!

The Club arranges a variety of entertainment along the street - this year balloon modelling and interactive magic for youngsters, a duet to serenade the drinkers/stallholders and a flautist. The Loose Change Buskers also performed and did a collection in aid of Cancer Research.

Knutsford Lions produce a Street Fair programme which includes information about the work of the Club and is a great PR aid. Programmes are marketed around Knutsford during the 2 weeks before the event and on the day, in exchange for donations - we have found this to give a better response than if there was a fixed charge.

This year we raised around £2,500 from the event - most-ly from the programmes - but in addition a number of local charities have also raised in the region of a further £5,000. Wilmslow Lions and Urmston Lions each took a stall again this year - so it was hard for anyone to get down the street without being accosted by a Lion (politely of course!).

Knutsford Lions recently started up a Facebook page which contains many pictures of the event and can be accessed by anyone via a link on the website www.knutsfordlions.org.uk (or Lions e-clubhouse).


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