Harpenden Lions - Helping the Local Community

Harpenden Lions Club is a service organisation providing practical help and assistance to those in Harpenden, Wheathampstead and Redbourn. The Club also raises money for local, national and international charities.

The main annual event is the Harpenden Highland Gathering. The 2010 Gathering raised approximately £20,000, which was donated to major charities as well as to small local groups - many of whom had actively helped in running the event. The 2011 Highland Gathering was held on Sunday July 10.

Other fund raisers include an annual charity concert, Easter egg raffle, charity bookshops, tin shakes, concerts and dances, etc.

Harpenden Lions Club is a part of Lions Clubs International, the world's largest service organisation which was formed in 1917 in the USA. Growth has been significant and there are now 1.4 million Lions members in 193 countries with more than 46,000 clubs. For further information also visit the British Isles and Ireland site (Multiple District 105) and the local South East of England site known as District 105A.

Harpenden Club, formed in 1980, currently has 30 members drawn from Harpenden, Redbourn and Wheathampstead.  Local clubs are also based in Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Luton, Watford, Berkhamsted, Tring, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage.

As well as local service activities and local charitable giving the club also gets involved with international projects such as mobile eye hospitals, funding water wells, education assistance in Africa and India, funding cattle for the needy in Africa and many other worthwhile causes.

The Club meets twice a month for business and at many other times for social events, often with members' wives included.

Like minded people are encouraged to attend meetings to see whether they would like to join in this Club, which currently has over 30 members.

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