Believe it or not, it’s that time of year again already! And after having to mostly hide away last year until the big night, Father Christmas is back with us to see you!
If you have a few pennies to drop in a collection bucket we’ll of course be very grateful, but what Santa really wants to see is smiling and waving, so don’t let him down!
We’ll be starting this weekend (4/5th December) at Sainsbury’s Oxney Road store, with other sightings guaranteed throughout the month – follow our Facebook page for more details!
This year the Royal British Legion marks its centenary – that’s 100 years supporting service men and women, ex-serving personnel and their families.
Pictured: Lions Shelter at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire
Today, as the 2021 Poppy Appeal launches, we are proud to announce that, as last year, we will be donating 50% of all “It’s About Time” quiz sheet sales via this website to the appeal. That’s 75p from each sheet sold between now and Sunday 14th November (Remembrance Sunday).
If you’ve not yet got around to picking up a copy of this year’s quiz, this is the perfect time to do so. (If you already have a copy, why not treat friends and family?)
We’re also extending this to sales of any past issues of our quiz sheets, so if you missed Sweet Tooth or any other sheet from the past few years now is a great time to rectify that!
You can buy copies here – £1 is charged for postage and card fees no matter how many you order (£3 for international orders).
What a long Quiz Sheet season it’s been! Launched in September as always, we extended the closing date to March to allow a longer selling window due to the pandemic, and after weeks of marking and verifying alternative answers we finally reached the point you’ve all been waiting for – and the draw for winners was carried out at last night’s business meeting.
The winners are:
First Prize (£100): P Guscott (Tiverton)
Second Prize (£75): C Pairman (Tillicoultry)
Third Prize (£50): B Stone (Crawley)
Fourth Prize (£25): K Whitehouse (Newcastle upon Tyne)
Runners up (£10 winners):
R Ainscough (Pickering, N Yorks)
A Granville (Orton Wistow)
N Houston Davies (Deeping St James)
D Prisk (Newborough)
D Hedison (Mansfield)
J Pugh (Cardiff)
Well done to all the winners, commiserations to everyone else – especially the rest of the 36 who returned 100% correct sheets!
Answer sheets are heading out to those who requested them by post, or you can download the answers below.
Once again, thank you to everyone who took part. We’ve had some lovely feedback – it seems to have been the ideal topic* to keep you busy during the Christmas lockdown away from friend and family.
We’re off to put our efforts into the 2021/22 quiz – you can pre-order a copy using the form on the answer sheet and it’ll be available for pre-order via our store shortly. In the meantime you will find lots of past copies to keep you entertained until September!
Thank you to everyone who supported our Sweet Tooth Quiz!
The closing date for entries has now passed, although we will continue selling it – and other past issues – in our store for fun and fundraising. You can also – if you’re quick – enter our Easter Egg draw!
If you still want a chance to win a cash prize, we also have a limited number of Clacton-On-Sea Lions quiz sheets available – you have a few weeks left to find the names of 100 Transport for London station names from their fun and cryptic clues!
Marking of the Sweet Tooth quiz is progressing well. The answer sheet won’t be finalised until that process completes (so we can add any alternative answers you’ve sent us that we’ve researched and deemed correct). The prize draw is planned to take place at our next club Business Meeting on 13th April, shortly after which the winners list and answers will be released and shared here and on our Facebook page.
Today, it was announced that Peterborough will be amongst many places moving into a new Tier 4 of COVID restrictions. This has forced many of us to completely change or cancel out Christmas plans, and Peterborough Lions Club are no different.
Santa joined us on a hastily arranged Zoom call this evening and here’s what he had to say:
First and foremost, Christmas is NOT cancelled. Santa knows who’s been good, he knows what you’re hoping to find in your stockings, and he is exempt from the Tier 4 restriction so will still be visiting you on Christmas Eve.
Santa wanted to say thank you to the people of Peterborough who have come to see him on tour around Orton Wistow last night, or outside Sainsbury’s today or last weekend. He loves seeing you, even with social distancing, and he, along with Peterborough Lions Club, thank you for your generous donations which will be put to good use around Peterborough next year.
But: Santa, and all of us involved with bringing him to you, have no alternative but to accept that for this year that must come to an abrupt end. This is to protect your safety and the safety of his Peterborough Lions helpers. Santa will return to his workshop to make sure that everything is ready for when he sees you in just six sleep’s time.
Santa is extremely sad that he will not now be able to tour Netherton tomorrow, nor Stanground next Wednesday. But he has assured us that this just means he’ll have to bring extra chocolates when he returns in 2021.
Peterborough Lions Club would like to add that we thank Santa for his company this year and look forward to seeing him again next year.
You can find details about the projects supported by the money raised elsewhere on this website, including:
Our community minibus, provided free of charge for use by local community groups
We hope that 2021 will allow the return of our annual Showtime, providing an entertaining free night out for hundreds of adults in care homes
Not to mention many smaller projects.
If you had planned to donate to us in person, but now cannot, you can donate via our website. You can also buy one (or several) of our quiz sheets – past and present – from our store.
Thank you Peterborough for your support. See you soon, stay safe.
As we enter the second COVID lockdown, amongst the charities hardest hit will be the Poppy Appeal which traditionally sells poppies in shops and pubs now closed.
So from the start of lockdown on 5th November, until Remembrance Day on 11th November, Peterborough Lions Club will donate 50% of all quiz sheet sales made via our website to the Royal British Legion. This includes past issues, if you’ve missed any, as well as any donations added at checkout.
Of-course the other 50% will also be put to good use supporting great causes around Peterborough, including our President’s Project for 2020-21, Peterborough Rape Crisis Care Group.
As we struggle our way through 2020, we pause to remember past struggles, lest we forget those who got us through them.
This year we bring you comforting questions to sooth away the troubles of 2020. We bring you 100 sweets, chocolates and other confectionary products and brands, some you can buy today, some long forgotten. How many do you know? How many will you be tempted to buy once the thought is put in your mind?
Test those brain cells or tease those taste buds, we’re sure you’ll enjoy this sweet puzzler. And with the fundraising restrictions imposed by 2020 this is by far our most important opportunity to raise money for important local causes that we still have in play this year, so please do support us!
Available now via our website store. Coming to retailers near you, where we can, over the coming weeks. (Please, if you’re able to help sell them, get in touch. You can also raise money for another charity on a 50:50 basis.)
June brings with it sunshine, and permission to meet in socially distanced outdoor groups of up to 6 people.
But we all know that the only true joy is to be found by checking off your answers for our free “Lights, Camera, Lockdown!” quiz now that you’ve had a month to work through the questions. So without further ado, the answer sheet is here!
Thank you to everyone who downloaded either of our free COVID quizzes (both of which are still available to download), and for those who subsequently visited our store to either buy past copies of our annual quiz or pre-order this year’s ahead of September.
We hope you enjoyed them and that you’ll be back for the main event in September. But for now, pick your favourite friends or relatives, and enjoy the sunshine!
This year our club is fifty years old, so a free 50 question quiz made sense. But 50 is only half the fun of 100, so following the success of our April “Stay Home” free quiz we’ve decided to keep your brains occupied in May as well with this second “Lights, Camera, Lockdown!” freebie.
50 movies to watch during lockdown, but first you will have to work out what they are. Then, to complete the challenge, you then have to have watched them all by the end of the month when we release the answers!
Do you think you can do that? Maybe you’ve watched most of them already?
Feel free to share with friends and family, on social media, or to print out for those without access to a computer.
More information about this and our annual fundraising quiz sheets can be found here, and if you need more questions you can buy past copies of our quiz, or pre-order this year’s, from our new store.
Today is Colonel (formerly Captain) Tom’s 100th birthday, seeing over £31m raised for the NHS through his efforts and the generosity of the British public.
COVID-19 Special
Stay Home
So how better could today be to release the answers to our 2020 “Stay Home” quiz, which was compiled to provide some entertainment for those of us staying home to protect that very same NHS and thus save lives?
If you missed the quiz itself, you can still download it and give it a go before checking the answers. But if you’ve already had a go, how did you do?
Please let us know through our Facebook Page or contact us by other means as your feedback is really helpful to us.
And if you check back here, or on our Facebook page, early next month, we might have something else to keep you busy until our 2020/21 Quiz Sheets go on sale in September!
Don’t forget that our online store remains open through this period for you to pick up any past quizzes you missed.
