What we do - Dun Laoghaire Lions Club

Dun Laoghaire Lions Club
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What we do

Dun Laoghaire Lions Club is actively involved in supporting many worthwhile activities, locally, nationally and internationally.
Fundraising activities, which the Club is involved in include the following.

• Annual door-to-door collection
• Christmas food appeal
• Tranquillity garden at National Rehabilitation Hospital
Irish Cancer Society fund raiasing :Marathon in a Month

Important services to the local community include:
• Provision of 500  plus food hampers to needy families at Christmas
• Provision of 200 toy hampers to needy families at Christmas
• Diabetic Awareness information days and individual supports for type 2 diabetes.
Peace Poster Competition for National Schools
• Senior citizens party
• Senior citizens holiday
Supporting local soccer club in National Competion
• Message in a Bottle, life saving medical information access containers for the home.
Christmas Collection: envelope collection by postal, s/o, credit card & Paypal
Annual door-to-door collections in the Dun Laoghaire area have raised an estimated €360,000 in the past 24 years.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, our collection moved to postal return and supporters setting up standing orders, credit card payments and payements througjh Paypal
The generous support of citizens makes it possible for the Dun Laoghaire Lions Club to provide more than 500 food hampers and 200 toy hampers to needy families and eldery at Christmas time.


Christmas Food & Toy Appeal

Dun Laoghaire Lions Club holds an annual Christmas Food Appeal at Bloomfields Shopping Centre and we man the coolection points for 4 weeks prior to Christmas.

All the food donated and purchased is distributed to needy families in the area. it is a much needed service that helps families have a proper christmas who otherwise would not.

The Club is grateful to Emma Olson, manager of Bloomfields, for permission to locate the appeal at the shopping centre.

Senior Citizens Holiday

In June 2019 Dun Laoghaire Lions Club part-funded a holiday for 16 senior citizens at the Lions clubs annual holiday project in Trabolgan Holiday Village.

The Gleneagle Hotel Killarney was the accommodation base for the Senior Citizens Holiday Break 2018. The annual five-day holiday break is held in the spring and this year 16 senior citizens enjoyed a visit to Killarney which included a jaunting car tour to the famous lakes, a coach tour of the Ring of Kerry and evening entertainment.

This event is backup and we will be looking for names to go for in 2023.
Joe’s Party

Dun Laoghaire Lions Club has been hosting an annual senior citizens party for 16 years. It was first held in Smyths Pub, moved to The Motor Yacht Club, and now is hosted in The Graduate.

It was called the Senior Citizens Party but in 2013, following the untimely death of Lion Joe Pankhurst, it was named Joe’s Party in honour of his huge input to  the event.

Joe’s Party is not exclusively restricted to senior citizens. People living in isolation with little social contact and those with mental or physical challenges are also invited.

Joes party is to be held in February 2023, if you have an interest in going, or know someone that could attend please contact us.
Message in a Bottle
Message in a Bottle is a service to provide citizens with a simple means to store their medical information in an easily identifiable location in their homes. In the event of a medical incident requiring the attendance of emergency services, all relevant medical and other details are immediately available.

Dun Laoghaire Lions Club brought Message in a Bottle to Ireland in 2009 and championed by LionDan Hurst(RIP). Subsequently, the service became available from Lions Clubs throughout Ireland.

In the Dun Laoghaire area, Message in a Bottle packs are available from the Lions Club and Community Gardai based in local Garda stations along with Johnstown Parish  Office.

How does the scheme work?

The pack consists of a highly identifiable plastic container, a personal information form and three self adhesive green crosses.
• Complete the form and place it in the container
• Place the container on the shelf inside the fridge
• Apply one green cross onto the inside of the front door, and easily visable
• Apply one green cross onto the inside of your back door, and easily visable
• Apply the third green cross onto the outside of the fridge door.
Supporting St Joseph's AFC Sallynoggin in National Soccer competition

The Lions Clubs of Ireland organise an annual All-Ireland underage soccer competition. The Dun Laoghaire Lions Club have sponsored St Joseph's FC Sallynoggin under 13's boys team who have won the competition 7 times and have appeared in the final in the 13 times.

c/o 21 Watson Avenue, Killiney Co. Dublin
Landline: 01-2848340   Mobile: 086-2126303
Charity number CHY 15707
Dun Laoghaire Lions Club
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