Lions thrilled with success of fund raising efforts for N.I. Hospice

Newcastle  Lions  President  Beth Cairnduff was pleased  to confirm that a cheque for £2,000.00 had  been forwarded to the  Northern  Ireland  Children's  and  adults Hospice. This was as a result of the  sale of art in Newcastle Library, ,donations received and a street collection. The  fund  raising  kicked off, on the 12th. of May, on a Tuesday evening in Newcastle Library, when Newcastle Lions  launched  their sale of art in aid of the N.I. Hospice. Helping to promote the launch was NIH volunteer, Sandra  Hollingsworth who spoke about the work of the Hospice. She said the work of the  Hospice was not just  medical but  provided  short breaks and respite, so families can rest. Parents describe  the Hospice as  a safe place, somewhere their children are treated as kids not patients. The  Northern Ireland Children's and Adult Hospice needs £20 million each year to run and  one  bed costs  £600,000 per year. Sandra's talk  was very personal and emotional  as  she spoke about her young daughter Molly who was supported by the Hospice before she sadly died.

President Beth also wished to thank Gregory  Holmes of Pound World, for  donating  helium to all the Hospice balloons, which  helped  make  the  street collection a  great  success. In  July  the  club hope  to sell the  remaining  art, with a  second  donation  to be  made to  the  Hospice  as  result  of  this  sale.

Newcastle  Lions Club members Graham Dickson, Alison Whittall, John McDonagh, Dan O'Reilly and  Lions Club  President  Beth  Cairnduff with  N.I. Hospice volunteer  Sandra Hollingsworth, presenting  a cheque  to  the  Hospice  for  £2,000.00.

Newcastle Lions help promote spectacle recycling at Collins Aerospace Kilkeel

Friday  5th of  June was World Environment Day. Having just finished an Environment Information afternoon at Newcastle Community Cinema, Lion President  Beth Cairnduff accompanied by  Lion Dan O'Reilly accepted an invite to Collins Aerospace to promote  spectacle  recycling. Recycling of glasses was only one  small part of the promotion by Collins for WED. Other events the  staff  were encourages to participate in were, volunteering to clean beaches, promoting the environment message through  taking  part in  a quiz and  donating unwanted  uniforms. Lion Beth was able to tell interested  staff, that  as  well as  donating  spectacles in  their  factory,  the  Lions had  collection  bins in  Newcastle library, the  GPs in Castlewellan and Newcastle,  as well as  bins in  McGloin's and  Specsexpress opticians.

From  talking to the staff, the Lions took home the core  message of Collins which was, Collins Aerospace specializes in advanced structures, avionics, interiors, mission systems and power and control systems that serve customers across the commercial, regional, business aviation and military sectors. Our Environment, Health & Safety policy establishes core tenets to help conserve natural resources across our business. Lion President Beth thanked the Environment staff for the great work they were doing to promote Environmental awareness and Recyling.

Newcastle  Lions Club  President Beth Cairnduff with James Cousins, Logistics Business Unit Manager and  Environment Health & safety  officer,  Joy  Cousins.

Newcastle Lions pleased with success of Environment information afternoon.

Newcastle Lions Club were pleased to have hosted a  fun Environment information afternoon at the Newcastle Centre on Wednesday. The goal of  the  afternoon  was to make the  audience aware of how in a small way we can help our environment by reducing carbon emissions . This is made possible by reducing  the amount of rubbish we dump and instead  recycle, reuse and restoring some of the 80% of peatlands in Ireland that are in a degraded state and  are  a source of  carbon emissions. The afternoon was made successful through the great help of Cinema manger Giles Conlon, with his  technical help of putting short films on the big screen and help with microphones. Thank  you also  for  the light  refreshments.

Presentations were make by Newcastle Lions on recycling  spectacles and showing a short  film on the work of Tullamore Lions Club, who restored part of Clonbeale More Bog. In helping to promote the story of  Tullamore  Lions, the audience  were invited to purchase a children's book, The  Lions, The  Bees and  The  Bogs. Declan Walsh then spoke  about the work of the Repair Cafe. The  next presentation was by Stephen  Woods of Tools For Solidarity, who had been  assisted in setting up his display stands by French Volunteer with TFS, Laure Dolisi. In trying to introduce humour  to the event, the spectacle talk was interrupted by a Panda who needed glasses, while  the  TFS presentation on providing restored tools and sewing machines to Tanzania and Malawi had to deal with a hungry Lion, who  wanted to learn how to use a sewing machine. This  was  enjoyed by the audience who also saw the importance of the message of all the groups .Following a short film about how Newcastle Lions recycle, and information about Ireland's Discovery  centre, the audience took part in a quiz. Prizes  were  awarded and  tea was then served. Lion President Beth Cairnduff, ended  the  afternoon by thanking our sponsors for the afternoon, the Northern Ireland Resource Network and the Lion team for their  help.

Participants  and audience  promote  Lion  Publication  at  Environment Information  Day ( in  photo Lion  President Beth Cairnduff, TFS staff, Laure  Dolisi and  Stephen  Woods Elizabeth McCann, Dan  O'Reilly, Edwina Parmar, Bill Patterson, Martha Murray & Angela Murray.