NEWS
We meet in Burrendale Hotel and SPA every second Tuesday of each month at 7.30 pm. Coffee Morning every last Thursday of the month at 11am in different venues agreed at the regular monthly meeting.
Newcastle LIons club collected and boxed 1400 pairs of spectacles this past week.
We transport these gently used spectacles to Le Havre, France where volunteers carefully check each lens for its prescription strength and match the glasses to people in developing countries who cannot afford eyeglasses.
Thanks once again to all organisations and community members who regularly support this on going project.
Newcastle Lions would like to thank those who generously donated items to their Annual collection on Saturday 10th May 2025. In total they received 10 sewing machines, 21 bicycles, about 60 spectacles and lots of tools. They would also like to thank Newcastle Community Cinema for the use of their forecourt for the collection, Kieran Walsh of Seamus Walsh and Son Building Contractors Dundrum for transporting the bicycles to Cycle Recycle Newry where they will be refurbished and Tools for Solidarity who refurbish the tools and sewing machines before sending them off to support artisans in Africa. The spectacles will be added to the normal collections sent of every three months to Lions Medico France where they are refurbished and graded before being dispatched to Africa, Asia and South America through the network of Lions Clubs.
Photos Marion McGreevy Vice District Governor and Kieran Walsh delivering the bicycles, Newcastle Lions with some of the bicycles collected, the Tools for Solidarity van picking up the tools collected
