Busy week

We are in the middle of a busy week for Brighton Lions. During the last weekend we had our regular monthly book fair (Saturday) followed yesterday by the Lilac Lark, about which we hope to post more shortly. Tomorrow sees our one of our members providing transport for members of the Tuesday Club, a social club for blind and partially-sighted people. On Wednesday and Friday evenings we will be running bingo sessions at retirement homes and also on Friday we will have a team taking part in the quiz being organised by Hove Lions Club.

Lilac Lark

Yes, it's almost here. The 2011 Lilac Lark will be held in Withdean Park, London Road, Brighton tomorrow from 1.00pm till 5.00pm. We have Cuckoo's Nest Morris Dancers, Chichester College student jazz band, a dog show and loads of stalls and sideshows.

Book fair

Tomorrow is the first Saturday of the month so we will be holding our regular book fair at Lions Dene from 10.00am till 12 noon. Hundreds of books, CDs, DVDs and jigsaw puzzles at prices from 50p.

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Another twinning?

We are in discussion with the Lions Club Angers Roi René in France about the possibility of twinning with them.

Lilac Lark

Arrangements for the annual Lilac Lark are coming together now and our A-boards advertising the event will shortly be placed in the park alongside the main London Road. Here we see Bob putting the finishing touches to one of the posters...

...before standing back to check the finished work.

Speakability

Today being the third Tuesday in the month, one of our members will be providing transport for the Speakability Club. This is a service activity which our club has undertaken for many years, collecting members of Speakability from their homes, taking them to their meeting and then returning them to their homes afterwards. Speakability provides both a social activity and therapy for people who have suffered strokes and Brighton Lions have not only provided transport but also paid for posters displayed in doctors' surgeries around the town.

Help for the local community

A year ago, Brighton Lions pledged a grant of £3,000 to Downs View School, a special school for autistic children, to assist with the cost of the project they had to renovate the playground. The school is getting close to raising the money needed and, to help things along, we have increased the amount we have promised to £4,000.

We have also donated £1,000 to Dogs for the Disabled to cover the cost of looking after an assistance dog in Brighton for a year as well as paying towards the care of another disabled person's dog which is seriously ill and unable to work.