About Lions Club London Kingsbury
The Lions Club London Kingsbury was chartered in August 1989 and is over 30 years old. At this onset, on its charter, the Club had 64 members. It transpired that many joined the Club without be vary of what was required of them and within a short period of time, the membership dropped to a steady 25 to 30 members. Notwithstanding the reduced membership, considerable achievement of the Lions Club London Kingsbury has been exemplary and recognised both locally, nationally and internationally. This reflected the number of awards the Club has.
The club members endeavoured to give their time and effort in trying to assist those less fortunate then themselves.
Some of the activities we have managed to date are:-
- Raised over $12,000.00 for campaign Sight First 1.
- We were the Pioneers in District 105a to carry out Diabetic screenings and received an award from Lions International.
- Raised substantial sums of money for Royal Free Hospital, Central Middlesex Hospital, Northwick Park Hospital, St Lukes Hospice and Old Peoples Day Centre in Kingsbury.
- Provide gifts to a Less abled school in Kingsbury as well as providing learning monitors.
- Provided funds for the creation and rebuilding of classrooms as well as equipment to many Schools.
- Over the past 10 years Our club has managed to raise £50,000.00p plus annually for various causes that have helped others improve their lives.
- Donated Equipment to Hospitals and provided at least 10 Ambulances to Missions and hospitals to assist the less fortunate.
- In the recent years, we carried out joint functions with various Clubs in the Zone to show fun and fellowship.
- We have also with financial support from Asian Foundation purchased buses for schools to bring children from Villages.
- We organised Eye camps, for the benefit of those visually impaired in Africa and Asia and provided assistance for the needy, including street children, hospices, orphanages and many such organisations.
ABOUT LIONISION
Lions Clubs are an international network of men and women who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities across the world. We cover all costs from our own dues, ensuring that all donated funds go to the causes. Transparency and accountability operate at every level;
The Financial Times has ranked Lions Clubs International Foundation the “best among non-government organisations worldwide with which to work”. We are proud that our organization is close to a century old, and that it has a distinguished history of doing good works for the world. Local communities respect and trust their clubs, both because those clubs are made up of neighbours and friends who have a long record of support, and because of the Lions Clubs International name and legacy. We have fun in our clubs. And when we meet fellow Lions for the first time, we treat them like old friends. When you join Lions, you join a global service network. So at the same time you’re helping your own community locally, you can also contribute to Lions community efforts in other countries. There are 1.4 Million Lions member in the World. With every project completed and each person served, we make history. We’ve been around for over 100 years, yet our story is still in the making. And we wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s being written by helping hands, by shovels hitting the dirt, and by lives and communities being improved in over 200 countries and geographic areas around the world.
OUR VISION & MISSION
Our vision is “To be the global leader in community and humanitarian service”.
Our mission is “To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote understanding through Lions Clubs”.
WHAT WE DO
Known for working to end preventable blindness, Lions Clubs participate in a diverse variety of projects within their local communities and internationally Since Helen Keller in 1925 challenged the Lions to be “knights of the blind in this crusade against darkness”, Lions clubs around the world have fulfilled the mission of addressing health and promoting research for solutions to disease. Today, Lions clubs work on global initiatives for youth, health, disaster relief and others that affect local communities everywhere. Lions Clubs International is the largest voluntary organisation in the world, with 1.3 million members in 202 countries. There are around 18,000 members in the British isles and Ireland in over 900 Clubs, whose primary purpose is to Serve those in need.
OUR ORIGINS
Lions Clubs began in 1917 as the dream of a Chicago businessman who believed that local business clubs should expand their horizons from purely professional concerns to the betterment of their communities and the world at large. The association of Lions clubs has provided millions of people with the opportunity to give something back to their communities. Lions continue to make a difference everyday and everywhere.
HELEN KELLER (Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA, in 1880, Helen Keller developed a fever at 18 months of age that left her blind and deaf. With the help of an exceptional teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan of the Perkins School for the Blind, Helen Keller learned sign language and braille. A few years later, she learned to speak. As an adult she became a tireless advocate for people with disabilities. And in 1925, she attended the Lions Clubs International Convention and challenged Lions to become “knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness.” The Lions accepted her challenge and our work ever since has included sight programs aimed at preventable blindness.)
ORGANISATION & STRUCTURE
Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest community service organisation with clubs around the world.
LIONS CODE OF ETHICS
- TO SHOW my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
- TO SEEK success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
- TO REMEMBER that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another’s; to be loyal to my clients and customers and true to myself.
- WHENEVER a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
- TO HOLD friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists, not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given. ALWAYS bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state and my community, and to give my unswerving loyalty in word, act and deed. To give them freely of my time, labour, and means.
- TO AID others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
- TO BE CAREFUL with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.
- TO CREATE and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
- TO PROMOTE the principles of good government and good citizenship.
- TO TAKE an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
- TO UNITE the clubs in bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
- TO PROVIDE a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest, provided, however that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
- TO ENCOURAGE service minded people to serve their community without financial reward and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavours.