Santa parks sleigh in carpark at Asda, Carcroft

Doncaster Went Valley Lions Club would like to thank all the people who have helped us to make our collection for our Christmas Fund Raising. Thanks to your generous donations this year we will be able to help those people in need who live in your local area.

Santa parks sleigh at Asda, Carcroft

At this time of year we need to spare a thought for all of those who are on their own or don’t have the things we take for granted. If you have elderly or vulnerable neighbours who have no one to share this Christmas with then why not extend a helping hand and keep a check on them especially if the weather gets worse. Why not invite them in for a drink and a chat or just make sure you wish them a happy Christmas to show that they are in your thoughts this Christmas.

Time permitting we will attempt to cover some of the areas have been missed this year before Santa has to get ready for Christmas Eve.

Keep checking with the website and we will try to keep it up to date with Santas schedule.

If there is time in his busy schedule between now and Christmas he will try and get round some of the areas that have been missed this year.

Weather permitting Santa will be back out in Cusworth tomorrow night, keep listening out for him as he would love for you to come out to see us.

Due to Santa’s delay we have had to cancel the visit to Woodlands tonight. We are truly sorry that we have not been able to come and see you, we will try and sort out another day for us to come and see you. Santa has said that he should be free tomorrow, so we hope that things will be back to normal from tomorrow.

Keep checking our Christmas Fund Raising page for more details, we will update it as soon as we know Santa has arrived.

To help Santa the Doncaster Went Valley Lions have been working hard to ensure his sleigh is ready for his arrival. We welcome your donations to allow us to provide help to those less fortunate members of our local communities over the coming year, so please dig deep and give generously.

Doncaster Went Valley Lions Club prepare for Santas arrival

For more information and the schedule of his locations then check out our Christmas Fund Raising page. The schedule is liable to change depending on the weather so keep checking the page up to date details.

Club President with guests of the Club

The evening was started with Grace being said by one of our newer members Lion Darryl Waller with the event was directed by Lion Terry Taylor acting as the Toast Master. The toast to Her Majesty the Queen was provided by Lion Robert Sliwinski and Vice President Lion Barry Roughley toasted the assembled ladies and gentlemen. President Lion Jim Kirwan toasted Lions International and was responded to by Vice District Governor Lion Ian Thornhill with an enjoyable speech full of laughter and joy.

The evening’s fund raising started with a raffle in aid of Bluebell Wood Childrens Hospice. As is the Clubs policy where they will match the money raised by the raffle the total presented to Danny Phelan for the Bluebell Wood Childrens Hospice was £576. During the evening a fundraising card was passed around the guests, the prizes this year being a bottle of House of Commons Whisky personally donated and signed by the Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, and prizes of two car valets kindly provided by Ringways Kia curtesy of Lion Rob.

There were a number of presentations made during the evening. Thanks were given to Mr & Mrs Moorhouse from Wifreda Beehive and Kevin Howard from Ringways Kia for their help during the Christmas sleigh fund raising last December, and for their continued support of club activites. Floral bouquets where presented to the wives of the honoured guests at the evening. President Lion Jim broke with tradition this year with bouquets and thanks being given to the wives of Lion members for all the hard work that they have put in both during the recent Christmas fund raising as well as the work they carried out throughout the year and in making the evening a great success.