Below are some of the activities supported by the Leeds & Skyrack Lions Club to help others.
Locally and Nationally
Here is an indicative list of some of the activities and organisations we have recently supported by service or financially:
- Local Defribulator provision
- St Gemma’s and Wheatfields Hospice
- The Candlelighters Trust · practical & emotional support to children fighting cancer in Yorkshire
- Respite Support for Kids with Cancer
- Bench for Burley Park
- Collection and recycling of spectacles for distribution worldwide
- Sight Savers
- Disability Sports
- The Samaritans (Leeds)
- Local Flood Relief Emergency Funds
- Opal North Leeds
- Hawksworth Wood Community Centre
- Leeds Childrens Hospitals and Hospice
- Local Children’s Homes
- Lord Mayor’s Appeal
- Local Primary Schools
- Leeds Foodbanks
- Little Heros
- Dementia Cafe
- Marie Curie
- Panto for Looked after Children
- Blood Bikes
- St Georges Crypt Homeless Shelter
- Leeds Homestart
- Moortown Park Gala
- Emergency Assistance with Home Essentials
- Beds for Ukraine refugees in UK
We keep all donations made to specific individuals Confidential.
Worldwide
- Ukraine, support to Lions Clubs helping refugees in Poland and other countries.
- LCIF – Providing Worldwide Relief in Disaster Areas
- Sight First – helping to save people from preventable and river blindness
- Hosting of German Disadvantaged Youth visitors to Yorkshire
- Water Aid – providing clean water supplies in the Third world
Below are some of the areas in which Lions Clubs all over the UK and the world help others.
Older Persons
- Christmas Parcels
- Brass Band Concerts
- Assistance to Blind Travellers
Youth
- Support materials for schools related to the Environment and Climate Action
- Assistance to Students/Youth undertaking community service
- Youth Centres
- Youth Award (now called ‘Young Ambassadors of the 21st Century)
- Education Sponsorships
Disabled
- Disadvantaged Young Persons Programme
- Army Benevolent Fund
- Blind Veterans
- Hearing Dogs
Health Awareness
- Tacade
- Diabetes
- Sight First
- Message in a Bottle
- Physical and Learning Disabilities
- Speech and Hearing
- LIBRA Blood Research Appeal
- Medic Alert
- Prostrate Screening
