Weymouth & Portland Lions Club Vice President, Lion Kevin Brookes awarded a Lions Certificate of Appreciation and also made a £200 Lions Club donation to LCAG. (Littlemoor Community Action Group). A local support group who operate from the Littlemoor Community Centre and who set up a food bank and distribution service at the start of the Coronavirus Pandemic back in March 2020. They have served approx 500 food parcels to date to residents who are self isolating and shielding in the local community. The group have regular donation from Morrisons supermarket weekly and also receive donat...

Weymouth & Portland Lions Club are on the look-out for lock-down heroes, knights in shining armour and local volunteers who, when most of the population were told to stay at home, stay safe and protect our NHS, decided that they wanted to do something more for the benefit others. Stories started to emerge locally of people who with little or no previous volunteering experience, decided that they wanted to help the most vulnerable in our society. Food banks in Littlemoor and Lanehouse sprang up using donated food from individuals and contributions from the major supermarkets to help the ...

Our March dinner meeting saw Weymouth and Portland Lions welcome two new members to the club.  Hilary Maxwell was introduced to the club by Lion Kevin Brookes and Dave Taylor was introduced by Lion Trevor Stratton. Hilary, a gynae-oncology clinical nurse specialist at Dorset County Hospital NHS Trust, and Dave, a local guest house owner, were both welcomed into the club by President Ryan Hope who conducted the official formalities for the evening and said he was “delighted that Hilary and Dave have joined our Lions Club and they will no doubt make a great contribution with their wealth and bre...

With help from the Weymouth and Portland Lions Club, the Osprey Leisure Centre on Portland has now been able to replace the swimming pool hoist.  The hoist allows the disabled swimmers to access the pool safely .  In the picture Lions Dave Woolford and Trevor Stratton are seen presenting a cheque for £1000 to John Jennison a member of the Leisure centre staff.

  This evening saw Weymouth and Portland Lions Club welcome it’s third female member.  Barbara Mitchell was introduced to the club by its first female  member Julie Storey who joined just last year and she, along with fellow Lions, was delighted to welcome Barbara who is a busy member of the community with her voluntary work for both the Citizens Advice Bureau and Weymouth Pavilion. Club President Ryan Hope conducted the formalities and said “it is great that Barbara has joined our Lions Club and she will no doubt make a great contribution with her wealth of experience” Barbara...

Prostate Cancer kills over 11, 500 men per year. However, if identified early survival rates can be much improved. The New-Man Group in Partnership with PCaSO ( Prostate Cancer Support Organisation) and the Lions Club carried out over 200 free PSA blood tests on local men at The Pavilion in the Ocean room. (The New-Man Group is named in honour of their founder, Barry Newman, who was the driving force in setting the group up though terminally ill with the disease). L-R: Jenny Haines, Lion Bob Underwood (in Lion suit), Derek Pilling, Lions John Davies and Trevor Stratton. The PSA blood tes...