On Monday 22nd July 2019, Roger Smith came and gave an interesting talk about The Air War over Essex 1915-1918. He explained that Air War associated with the 1914-18 conflict was essentially the first Battle of Britain with very basic flying machines developed only 10 years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight. Essex was the…
On 10th and 11th July 2019, Lions attended the Mayflower School annual prize award ceremony. This is an annual event with Billericay Lions sponsoring prizes for design and technology for Years 7, 8, 9 & 10 and food preparation and nutrition for year 10. The prize giving celebrates student’s outstanding achievement and dedication across a…
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A regular annual event, Billericay Lions organise a day out at Adventure Island Southend for a party of 12 children (and helpers) part of a four week visit hosted by the local Chernobyl Childrens Lifeline group. The children seemed to delight in the most scary rides and were even joined by our braver members. Burgers,…
Our 9th Billericay Beer Festival took place over the weekend of 28 – 30 June.
Lion President Mike Conway presented a life saving defibrillator to Sarah Warner, Assistant Centre Manager at Hanningfield. One of our Lion members, Ian Armstrong pictured left, also volunteers at Essex Wildlife Trust. Ian brought the request for a defibrillator to our community service committee who were delighted to recommend our club sponsor the purchase. Due…
Six Billericay Lions, twelve swimmers with learning and physical disabilities and six coaches / helpers travelled from Runnymede Swimming Club, Benfleet to Germany to take part in our international disability swimming gala. The event took place on Saturday 6th October 2018 at Voreifel, near Cologne against teams from Belgium and Germany. The Belgian team had won the gala…
Billericay Lions receiving their share of the Co-op community fund. The Funds will help pay for the New improved Sleigh soon to tour the streets of Billericay with Santa and his Elves. Photo shows Co-op manager Paul presenting the cheque to Lion members Darren Farr, Peter Claughton, Trevor Hull and Ian Armstrong.
Santa needed a new sleigh to enable him to be able to continue with his collections. Thanks to grants received from Billericay Town Council and Basildon Borough Council plus a generous donation from the Co-op Community Fund we have been able to build a brand new sleigh fit for the 21st Century. But of course…
Lions and Leos are bringing service into the 21st century with a new Global Service Framework. With expanded service opportunities designed to meet emerging humanitarian needs, the service framework will help achieve our Lions Clubs International forward goal of serving 200 million people per year by 2021!
