The Club
From LionsClubBlackwood
The Blackwood Lions Club was chartered 51 years ago in August 1965. The people who started the Club did so because they wanted to help those in need and to be part of the spirit of the Lions motto. "We Serve" - the definition and the purpose of Lions Clubs. A great responsibility as a member, then, is to keep faith with the spirit, the accomplishments and the leadership of those who founded and those who built the club over those 50 years.
Each Lions Club, as an individual unit, pursues its own active programme of activities aimed at giving service in many ways to the people of its local community.
Some of the projects undertaken by the Lions Club of Blackwood include: - Help for "The Riding For Disabled" in Blackwood - the children with disabilities learn to relate and ride horses.
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 Lions constructing an enclosure at the farm. |
Other projects include:
- Minton Farm, a sanctuary for injured native birds and other animals.
- Assistance with the Lions Hearing Dogs training centre at Hahndorf and sponsoring of hearing dogs .
- Wittunga Music Nights.
- Camp Quality party (kids with cancer).
- Sale of Lions Christmas cakes and Lions Mints.
- Sponsorship of youths to camps and overseas exchange.
- Save Sight and Lions Sight First.
- Christmas hampers to the needy in our area.
- Drug awareness training seminars for teachers.
- Help to earthquake victims in Haiti and Chile.
- Health projects.
- Annual Blackwood Christmas Pageant (1.12.2017)
- Lions Park.
- Apex Park shelter with BBQ at the Hawthorndene Oval
- Management and Maintenance of the Memorial Hall Blackwood
- Major Supporter of the Lions Skin Cancer Screening Bus
A full list of last year's donations reaching $82,600 is displayed under Activities.
After the East Timor crisis, a mission clinic in the mountains was in desperate need of water in storage form, the Blackwood Lions arranged for three water tanks to be manufactured in Darwin and transported to East Timor and installed at the clinic thus providing work for the local population and clean water for the clinic.
