We were pleased to meet Peterborough’s Mayor and honorary Peterborough Lions Club member Councillor George Simons at Morrisons on Lincoln Road on Friday 5th October. Special thanks go to Andy Haigh, the store manager, who was on hand to swap answers with the Mayor and Mayoress and the Lions who were present.
Quiz leaflet sales continue at Morrisons in Stanground on the weekend of 20th/21st October. If you’ve missed the quiz so far, please contact us and we’ll be pleased to find a way to relieve you of your £1.50 for great local causes (and you’ll get several hours of brain stimulation into the bargain!) This year’s major project is the East Anglia Deaf Youth Orchestra with Music And The Deaf.
It was nice to see Lions 105EA District Governor travelling all the way from Wymondham Lions Club to attend our September Lions Club business meeting.
Lion Jim Cawte and wife Jennifer were present for a demonstration by Lion Mark Rogers of our sister website,
Lions’ Share, followed by a question and answer session about how it works and how well it is doing. We look forward to seeing it promoted across the district in coming months.
Peterborough Lions Club President Bill Peacock presented the DG with our club banner and received one of Lion Jim’s personal banners in return.
We were also given a short introduction to the DG Lady’s 2012 Appeal by Jennifer, which this year is raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. For those of us young enough to remember being a teenager, it’s a difficult enough time of life as it is without also having to face the enormous challenge of fighting a disease like cancer, but sadly the plight of teenagers with cancer is often overlooked. For that reason (despite it being direct competition to our own
quiz leaflet!) many club members were more than willing to buy the DG Lady’s own quiz leaflets, and the club was also proud to present a donation to the appeal to our visitors.
For more information on the DG Lady’s appeal, see the 105 EA website and the Teenage Cancer Trust website.
Peterborough Lions are proud to be one of the 3 Charities chosen by Waitrose to receive their support during the month of August.
When customers shop, they are given a green token to be placed into a collection box which is used to determine how Waitrose distribute their charitable donations for the month. So please make sure you pick the right slot – which is the right-most slot!
Thank you to Waitrose for their support.
Thanks to everyone who came to see us at the Eye Summer Fete yesterday. Lion Mark had the ingenious idea of bringing some umbrellas to sell when the inevitable rain came, thereby ensuring that we had sunshine for the whole day – something of a first for this summer!
With a focus on entertainment, we had the Lions Cage and Feed the Lions, as well as basketball and giant balloons – if none of this makes any sense to you then you obviously weren’t there and will have to try harder next time!
Fingers crossed the Sunday weather wasn’t an exception and summer has finally arrived (the grey sky outside suggests otherwise).
The Peterborough Telegraph has a good write-up of the event on their website.
We’re proud to announce the launch of a new fund-raising website for Peterborough Lions. Called “Lions’ Share”, it simply acts a a gateway to dozens of well known websites where if you then buy something, a share of the sale comes back to Peterborough Lions to use to support our projects. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, and you don’t have to give us any personal or credit card details – you still buy from directly the shops websites as usual. In some cases you can even reserve items to collect from your nearest store, paying in store as usual, and we still get a share of the sale value!
Take a look at the Lions’ Share website at www.lions-share.org.uk for more information, or jump straight to the list of all the current suppliers you can buy from through Lions’ Share – a list that’s growing all the time!
Peterborough Lions Race Night will take place on February 25th at The Power League – very much in hand thanks to Lion Stuart picking up and running with it (excuse the pun!).
For more details see the Race Night Event Page
All the Peterborough Lions would like to thank the people of Peterborough and surrounding areas for your support over the past year, and for your donations, whether you saw us with Santa and his Carol Float in the past weeks, or bought a quiz leaflet, or any of the other ways we’ve been supported in 2011.
Rest assured all the money raised will be put to good uses (if it hasn’t already!), and be just as assured our fundraising efforts will be back in the New Year to provide resources for welfare and projects in 2012.
We hope you have a great Christmas! See you soon!
An article on the upcoming Halloween themed abseil on 30th October has been featured in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph; for more information see their website.
No sooner had the first batch of 2011 quiz leaflets gone out, we discovered an error!
Question 20 should indicate that the number of letters in the answer are 5,7, not 4,7 as printed.
If you received one of the first sheets sent out before the error was noticed and corrected, please accept our apologies for this error. We do everything we can to prevent errors from occurring, and we hope that your enjoyment of this years quiz isn’t affected as a result of the mistake.
Thank you to everyone who pointed this error out to us, and to everyone who has already purchased a copy of the 2011 Peterborough Lion’s Quiz. To anyone who hasn’t yet obtained one, what are you waiting for? There’s still plenty of time to get a quiz leaflet by post, or in person, and they make ideal stocking fillers!
Calling the brave!
On Sunday 30th October we invite you, in partnership with the Stroke Association, to abseil down Hereward House in Peterborough, approx 90ft. As if that wasn’t enough, the bravest amongst you can wait until dark to do it….
For more information view the Escape from Hereward House of Horrors Abseil event page.
