Bridlington Lions

Bridlington Lions President John Bayne visited the St John Ambulance Cadets and Badgers on Wednesday evening at Christ Church on Quay Road.

Cadets marched in to the room and were inspected by Lion President. Sandra one of the leaders at St Johns gave a talk on what the Cadets and Beavers did and what they have done in the past year.

The President then presented the group with a new laptop projector which will allow them to learn first aid from videos made by headquarters rather than relying on books and pamphlets for instruction.

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About St John Ambulance Cadets and Badgers:

Cadet programme

Guided by youth leaders, Cadets take part in an interactive and full programme, working towards their Grand Prior Award. The programme enables young people to learn important life skills in a fun and safe environment, but with challenge and excitement appropriate to their age.

Cadets can choose from over seventy different subjects to help complete their award. These range from Fire prevention and Photography, to Sports and first aid.

Younger Cadets learn first aid skills through our training course for young people while older Cadets can undertake a community first aid or first aid at work course. Cadets can put their first aid and other communication skills into practice by providing first aid to the public at events or teaching first aid to other young people and adults.

Badgers take part in a lively programme, working towards their Super Badger Award. The programme has been developed to enable young people to learn important life skills in a fun and safe environment.

Badgers can choose from fifteen subjects to help complete their award. These range from Creative and Active, to Healthy and Caring.

Once a Badger has completed their membership paw, they move onto their bronze paw, which is awarded after completing three subjects. A further three subjects will gain the silver paw and another three for the gold paw. A Badger becomes a super Badger when they have completed twelve subjects.

Badger programme

Badgers learn important first aid skills through their Super Badger Award and various first aid courses. Badgers can get a really cool black and white uniform which they can wear in the Sett and at some public events.

Focusing Attention on Preventing Blindness and Improving Sight

Bridlington Lions took part in World Sight day at the Promenades Shopping Centre. A group of Lions members set up stall and gave out leaflets and information highlighting issues  that people can have with their eyes and in doing so helping to prevent blindness and poor vision caused by various forms of eye disease.

For more than 12 years, Lions World Sight Day, held annually in October, has focused attention on eliminating preventable blindness and improving sight. On World Sight Day, Lions clubs around the world conduct special sight-related projects including:

• Collecting eyeglasses

• Conducting vision and diabetes screenings

• Planning educational programs to inform their communities about the importance of eye health – and diseases such as diabetes that can impair sight

International World Sight Day Event

Lions Clubs International also sponsors an annual international event on World Sight Day. On October 9, 2011, Lions celebrated World Sight Day in Shenzhen, China. During this event, Lions screened and provided eyeglasses to thousands of under served people and inaugurated the Lions Low Vision Rehabilitation Clinic.

We like to get out in the community and today we visited the Co-op on Martongate Bridlington and helped packing bags. Money collected has been donated to Martongate School towards transport costs to visit a working farm.

We would like to thank the management and staff at Martongate for making us feel very welcome.

The next bag pack for the Lions at the Co-op is Saturday 26th November.

Bridlington Lions Club is supporting local schools in helping their pupils understand about loss, change and bereavement.

The club is supporting a national Life Changes project which works with schools to teach pupils about coping with death.

It is aimed at helping pupils aged 3 to 11 year of age and encourages them to express their feelings in the wake of a death in their family or community and advises teachers on ways to discuss the sensitive topic with their whole class.

Of 16 local primary schools offered the programme by the Lions club 14 have taken it up and Peter Jay of Bridlington Lions said this indicates the importance of such a service in the area.

He said “The very said and tragic recent fire resulting in the death of three young children is a prime example of the need for activity and counselling for helping young children come to terms with the loss if a friend, brother or sister or any other relative close to them.”

The Lions have been greatly assisted in the distribution of this important resource with the valued assistance of the Headteachers Forum.

This year, Bridlington Lions Club is pleased to be working with the management of The Promenades Shopping Centre to provide a Santa’s Grotto which is now in place and awaiting Santa’s arrival.

Santa will be seated on the Grotto Throne during December as follows:

Thursday 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, 23^rd – 5pm to 7pm

Friday 3^rd (Christmas Lights Switch-on) – 5pm to 7pm

Saturday 4^th, 11^th, 18^th 12noon to 4pm

Sunday 5^th, 12^th, 19^th – 12noon to 4pm

All children accompanied by an adult are welcome to come along and speak to Santa. Bridlington Lions Club would like to thank  the Promenades Management for providing this facility free of charge.

Bookshop, What Bookshop?

Lions Book Shop Location

The Lions Bookshop has been in Palace Car Park since 1992 and still many people are unaware of its existence. For visitors using Palace Car Park the book shop is one of the first shops they see in the town but for residents it is a bit off the beaten track. The map on the right should help you locate it.

This year the bookshop has opened for an extra day each week and is now open from Monday to Saturday between 10:30am and 3:30pm.

The Book Shop

The shop has had a bit of a makeover with new carpets and improved signs incorporating the Lions logo.

The bookshop provides an opportunity to re-cycle unwanted books and relies on your donations, so if you have any unwanted books or magazines please consider bringing them either directly to the bookshop or telephone 676179, 608658 or 602986 and we will arrange to collect them.

The shop provides many works of fiction arranged on shelves alphabetically by author with some shelves dedicated to crime, thriller, horror and science fiction stories, and there is a large selection of Mills and Boon romances. We also have non-fiction books arranged in sections covering cookery, gardening, travel, crafts and general subjects. Please feel free to come in and browse at your leisure. The staff are always happy to help you locate that elusive book.

Thanks go to the Lions and Friends of the Lions who man the bookshop providing their time to bring you this service. Thanks also go to those of you who have donated books and to all our customers over the past year.