SERVICE PROJECTS
St Albans & District foodbank
Mark Pontin (Chair) from St Albans & District Foodbank attended a Lions meeting, Mark gave a presentation to the meeting stating:
The Charity has its own Board and is an Independent Charity which is supported by the Trussell Trust whose model they broadly followThe Charity has c. 130 volunteers, 6 trustees & 3 part-time employees.
They have a van, their new warehouse is in Redbourn with 7 distribution centres across St Albans and Harpenden. They provide mainly ambient food and fresh fruit and veg.
They use a voucher system and clients are referred from a variety of sources including schools, social services, churches etc.
They obtain donations from retailers, churches and some street collections.
They obtain support from some donors including A Plan, Bounce (St Stephens Church), Schools, and Arsenal Football Club.
They buy some of the food to fill the gaps on the donations from wholesalers like Bestway and Booker Foods.They have an objective to provide more than just food and have some advisers supporting clients including Citizens’ Advice and Mind.
With the current cost of living and energy cost crisis they are seeing the needs of clients rise substantially Lion President Willie congratulated Mark and his team on the work they do.
He presented a cheque for £1000 for November 22 and confirmed that St Albans Lions would commit £1k/month for the next year to the foodbank.
RECYCLE MEDICINE PACKETS
The Lions Book Shop in Hemel Hempstead in conjunction with Superdrug are now collecting your empty medicine blister packets.
In order to accept them you need to make sure when you drop them off they are empty and we will deliver them to Superdrug.
These will then be recycled and any money will go directly to charity.
Thank You in advance of any drop off!
Help the Ukraine
We the St Albans Lions Club was collecting for the Ukraine Refugee Humanitarian Appeal at St Albans Train Station on Monday & Tuesday (28th & 29th March 2022).
Thanks lions for collecting and people for donations.
You can still make donations!
We provide services to the local community
CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION 2023
CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION 2023
CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION 2023
We help the Annual Christmas tree collection supported by St Albans businesses and community groups which see trees recycled into compost.
The St Albans Lions helped collect around 320 Christmas Trees in St Albans to help raise money for The Hospice of st francis.
This initiative helps residents in St Albans to retain their title of bei
We help the Annual Christmas tree collection supported by St Albans businesses and community groups which see trees recycled into compost.
The St Albans Lions helped collect around 320 Christmas Trees in St Albans to help raise money for The Hospice of st francis.
This initiative helps residents in St Albans to retain their title of being the best recyclers in England for recycling over 64 per cent of household waste across the district.
Christmas Collections 2022
CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION 2023
CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION 2023
We each year do Christmas Collections at the following locations:
Budgens, The Quadrant - twice
Then Santa will be joining us touring with the santa sleigh at following locations:
Park Street
Bricket Wood
Jersey Farm
To find out more, visit our facebook page
CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION 2022
CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION 2023
CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION 2022
We help the Annual Christmas tree collection supported by St Albans businesses and community groups which saw more than 2,000 trees recycled into compost.
The total donations raised was £28,000 in 2022 for the Hospice of St Francis, which specialises in providing care for patients suffering from cancer, heart disease and a wide range of ne
We help the Annual Christmas tree collection supported by St Albans businesses and community groups which saw more than 2,000 trees recycled into compost.
The total donations raised was £28,000 in 2022 for the Hospice of St Francis, which specialises in providing care for patients suffering from cancer, heart disease and a wide range of neurological illnesses.
This initiative helps residents in St Albans to retain their title of being the best recyclers in England for recycling over 64 per cent of household waste across the district.
Santa's Sleigh 2021
Verulamium Junior Parkrun
CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION 2022
We each year have a tradition in St Albans, we get Santa's Sleigh to come round to many areas of St Albans before Christmas.
Many say it is a great tradition. If you are looking for when we are going to be coming in your street follow us on Facebook.
Santa will be touring with his sleigh.
Message in a Bottle
Verulamium Junior Parkrun
Verulamium Junior Parkrun
(Free of Charge)
‘Message in the Bottle’ to Gary Oliver, Estates Manager for Maryland Place the new retirement flats in St Albans.
‘Message in the Bottle’ alerts the emergency services to a resident’s medical background and doctor’s details. This is also available in a wallet or purse form.
For more details on how to receive ‘Message i
(Free of Charge)
‘Message in the Bottle’ to Gary Oliver, Estates Manager for Maryland Place the new retirement flats in St Albans.
‘Message in the Bottle’ alerts the emergency services to a resident’s medical background and doctor’s details. This is also available in a wallet or purse form.
For more details on how to receive ‘Message in the Bottle’ for yourself or for others please contact us on:
Verulamium Junior Parkrun
Verulamium Junior Parkrun
Verulamium Junior Parkrun
(Free Medal)
To support the Verulamium junior parkrun we donated a free medals to all the participants and marshals who took place on 21st November 2021.
This was the same day as the runner hit 10 ne PB's (Personal Best).
Litter Picking (St Albans)
Sponsorship of local individuals
Litter Picking (St Albans)
The St Albans Lions & friends spent 2hrs litter picking.
We started at The Range then moved to pass Mc Donald's up Wiltshire Avenue and then across the field to Marlborough Secondary School.
Senior Citizens' Dinners
Sponsorship of local individuals
Litter Picking (St Albans)
We run a bi-annual Senior Citizens' Dinner which provided much needed company for our seniors - usually with entertainment or a quiz
Sponsorship of local individuals
Sponsorship of local individuals
Sponsorship of local individuals
We support local people who need help - this can vary from funding coaching for children, providing furniture and transport and sponsoring local people who are doing amazing fundraising events
St Albans Firework Display 2021
St Albans Firework Display 2021
Sponsorship of local individuals
St Albans Lions were happy to help at the St Albans annual Firework Display on Saturday 6th November 2021.
We marshalled at the Fighting Cocks entrance.
We would like to congratulate the organisers on another great display.
Helping abroad
Recycling Reading Glasses & Hearing Aids
Recycling Reading Glasses & Hearing Aids
Recycling Reading Glasses & Hearing Aids
We collect old reading glasses and hearing aids which are recycled and distributed via eye and ear clinics in Africa
Joining together across the world
Recycling Reading Glasses & Hearing Aids
Recycling Reading Glasses & Hearing Aids
We support some projects which are International Projects via the Lions International Network. This includes supporting disasters e.g hurricanes, fires, other disasters
Helping in Zimbabwe
Recycling Reading Glasses & Hearing Aids
Helping in Zimbabwe
We have supported a community in Zimbabwe with setting up a small chicken farm. This is used to provide income and food to a Children's Orphan HIV Group