Lions Club of Braintree

News Articles

The Lions Club of Braintree are frequently helping local, national and international projects. This is a selection of articles about recent events.

12/03/2010 Lions have a Heart!

Braintree Lions as part of its ongoing fundraising efforts have this month donated a much needed portable heart defibrillator to Blandford Medical centre in Braintree.

When a person is in cardiac arrest, time is of the essence, minutes can be the difference between full recovery, read more »

07/02/2010 Haiti collection at Freeport- A Thank You

Braintree Lions and Freeport would like to thank everyone who donated on a very frosty Saturday to the collection for Haiti at Freeport Shopping Village.

A staggering £899.61 was raised within the 6 hours of collection.

You can donate in confidence read more »

24/01/2010 Braintree Lions Provide Relief for Haiti

The Braintree Lions Club has already pledged £250 to help support the relief efforts of Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) in response to the 7.0 earthquake that struck the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, on Tuesday, January 12.
Braintree Lions in conjunction with Freeport Shopping village will also read more »

24/12/2009 Braintree Lions 2009 Christmas Collection

The Lions Club of Braintree would like to thank the people of Braintree for their genorousity in the build-up to Christmas. Our float has put a smile on many children's faces and raised in excess of £3000 pounds.

We are sorry that it did not manage to visit the people read more »

07/12/2009 Local OAP Christmas lunch goes with a roar!!!!!

Braintree Lions on Saturday treated 19 Aged Braintree residents to a superb xmas lunch at the Bocking Village Social Club.

The guests were collected read more »

29/11/2009      Braintree Lions Santa's first engagement.

Braintree Lion’s Santa 1^st engagement of the year was to switch on the Braintree Town Christmas lights.

This year involved switching Christmas lights on for the George Shopping read more »

24/11/2009      Braintree Lions support Pudsey with £2646.44

On Friday 20th and Saturday 21st November Braintree Lions supported children in need by doing an early morning collection at Braintree Railway station and all day collections at Braintree Freeport Shopping Village.

£203.92 was raised from the very cold morning collection at Braintree Railway Station; £936.06 was raised on Friday at read more »

27/10/2009      Shop on-line and raise money for Braintree Lions

Do you shop on-line?
Would you like to raise money for Charity?

The Lions Club of Braintree has set-up an on-line shopping link. All you have to do is visit our web-shop and from there you can visit a large number of stores. These include Amazon, Marks & read more »

21/10/2009      Lost Specs Help The Needy Overseas

FIVE thousand pairs of lost spectacles will soon be helping to improve the vision of people in developing countries.

The glasses were donated to the Braintree branch of Specsavers, by Stansted Airport’s lost property department, which in turn is giving them to the Lions Club of Braintree read more »

22/08/2009      Braintree Beer Festival 2009 presents cheques to this year's causes.

On Wednesday 5th July 2009 Braintree Lions and North-West Essex CAMRA presented cheques totalling £5000 to the Alzheimer’s association and the Essex Air Ambulance at the Ambulance’s HQ in Chelmsford. The money was raised from the Braintree 5th Real Ale Festival held at the Braintree Institute in June which ran read more »