Helston & District Lions Club meets at the Miner's Restaurant, Poldark Mine on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month

New Members are Most Welcome

The DUCK RACE

20th August 2006 at the Penrose Community Area, Helston, Cornwall

The Helston Lion's premier fund raising event, Please support us in our work to improve the circumstances of those in need in our community

The International Association of Lions Clubs is today the largest service organization in the world with over 1.4 million members in more than 43,300 clubs in 714 Districts covering 182 countries and geographic areas. Lions Clubs are not social clubs, although there are social benefits to membership. Lions Club members give their time, skills and resources to raise funds for charitable giving both in their communities and internationally.

Why should I become a Lion? 

As a Lions club member, you can:

• Make a difference everyday in your community.  Whether it is providing support locally or reaching out internationally, you will have an opportunity to serve.
• Be a part of a worldwide organization carrying out community and humanitiarian projects.  Members allow Lions clubs worldwide to carry out its many community and humanitarian programs.  
• Grow personally and professionally by participating in our programs, community service projects and events.
• Gain an understanding and have an impact on local and international humanitarian issues. 
• Develop relationships with both local and international community and business leaders. 
• Have access to membership discounts and services

Contact the Club Secretary, Pamela Melville, on 01326 573 173 for more information

The International Association of Lions Clubs is the largest non-governmental organization associated with the United Nations and was called upon by the United Nations and the World Health Organization to raise funds for an international program of sight conservation. It has been estimated that 40 million cases of curable and preventable blindness exist on this planet today. Without intervention, this is projected to become 80 million by the end of the decade.

The International Association of Lions Clubs began a program of fund raising that they called "Campaign Sight First" in order to cure/prevent 40 million cases of blindness worldwide. Over $148,600,000 have been raised by Lions all over the world for this program. Eye hospitals are being built in the places that most need them. In India alone, over 300,000 cataract surgeries have been performed and that number is rapidly growing. Lions services to humanity range from purchasing eyeglass for a child who's parents can't afford them to multimillion dollar programs to cure blindness on a worldwide scale.