Congratulations go to Matt Bramston, for  2nd place in the Lions Peace Poster competition 2010.

 

To see other results, please click here, note this is a PDF.

 

THANK YOU

I want to thank all those who contributed their expertise and their time over the Fireworks weekend at the Leighton Buzzard Lions Club Firework Spectacular.

It is difficult to know where to begin, but here goes! The lovely Gill who is Site Manager at Brooklands School who performed above and beyond everything we expected. Vernon’s Van Hire who provided a Luton van with a tail lift free of charge. Redland Tiles and the wonderful Dave Tucker who delivered the pallets for the bonfire, almost single handedly built the bonfire with the fork lift truck and also lent us the huge trailer which became the stage for The Leighton Musical Theatre Company who performed My Fair Lady. Special thanks go to Simon Howes of The Cottisloe School in Wing who set up the lighting and audio for the stage.

For the first time we had the assistance of The Army Cadets under Detachment Commander Richard Forsythe, who were awesome! The heavy work just melted away! In the evening the ATC were on site to Marshall the Car Parking and patrol the safety fence, but they also came back on Sunday morning to help with the clearing up – magic!

Thanks also to The Friday Club, they describe themselves as a Youth Club for OAP’s their work was invaluable. We must thank St John who attended and once again were not called upon to patch up anyone! The Police were in attendance with 6 officers, very smart they were too. We had great help from ex-Lions Rob Venn and Alan Garner and also from many Lions from Milton Keynes and Bletchley Clubs. Our own band of Friends of Lions were in attendance manning the pay gates and making tea and coffee.

More special thanks goes to Watsons Lettings and also to The LBO for selling tickets before the event, we had a record year perhaps largely due to the tremendous help of Peter Hailes our Town Crier who worked all day Saturday directing folk to the sales offices and then was on site in the evening to add to the spectacle. Thanks to Cllr David Bowater our Deputy Mayor who lit the bonfire

Food was supplied by The Frying Dutchman, Dinky Donuts and Café 4 U and we thank them for their donations to our funds.

The sale of ‘lightsticks’ and various glowing headgear was undertaken by Val Poole and her friends again this year.

Thanks to Jewsons for the help with hiring equipment and of course to all the Leighton Buzzard Lions and their long suffering families and friends for helping make last Saturday so magical. By the way the £6500 we made  will be instrumental in helping many of those who are less fortunate than ourselves.  

Lion Julian Swaby

 
The 30th June 2010 saw the introduction of our new President, Lion John Gout. Whilst it is a new Lionistic year John has been President many times before, since he was the Charter president 40 years ago.

The Official Handover ceremony was held on June 23rd at the Leighton Buzzard Golf Club when John was handed the chain of office by Lion Les Westley.

During the past year the club has distributed over £9000 to worthy causes.

 

 

DECEMBER 2009

PEACE POSTER COMPETITION RESULTS

UPDATE

LB Lions has entered this competition for at least the last five years. Jayden Newman, Linslade Middle School, has been our winner for the last 2 years- this year he was 3rd in our District  We had 14 entries.

 Theme- The Power of Peace. Theme is always related to some aspect of Peace but the wording changes annually. It is an International Competition, for children aged 11-13. Any entrants receive free entry into our Firework Display. We will be entering it again next year- information out in March- and any pictures welcome.

Jayden was 3rd in the District competition, and our congratulations go to him for his poster.

  

 

A thank you to the schools and especially to all the children who entered.


 

PICTURES TAKEN AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE CERTIFICATE

 

NOVEMBER 2009

We would like to thank all the helpers and the public who attended the Lions Club Fireworks Spectacular at Brooklands School on Saturday 7th November.

 Luckily we were blessed by fantastic weather which helped us record an attendance figure approaching 6000. We haven't finished all the counting yet, but are confident of achieving a profit of around £7000 for our charitable account.

The event was started many years ago to provide an alternative to the practice of letting off fireworks in back gardens, hopefully reducing injury caused by the practice.

The event has become ever more popular, now allowing us to earn charitable funds for distribution by the club. A great big thank you to Leighton Buzzard and 'See you next year!'
 

Pictures courtesy of our sponsor Geoff Bickers Photography 

OCTOBER 2009

PEACE POSTER COMPETITION FINALISTS

Every year International Lions Club run the Peace Poster Campaign.

In our area we asked local schools to participate and the 5 pictures are the result.

Every entry child gets free fireworks tickets. We judged the entries on Wednesday 28th October, and have sent the winner on to the National Competition.

 And the winner is :-

 

The winner of the worldwide competition wins $2500 and each of 23 runners up win $500.

A thank you to the schools and especially to all the children who entered.


 

Runner ups (in no order of preference)

 

SEPTEMBER 2009

These are photos of Lion President Les with Audrey Gurney handing over a cheque for £1000 to the Leonard Cheshire Homes.

The money came from donations in memory of Lion Stan Gurney, who passed away earlier this year, and  was for many years closely associated with the charity.
 

 

 

JUNE 2009

On Wednesday June 24th 2009, Leighton Buzzard Lions Club welcomed in their new President Les Westley (right), who took over from outgoing president Peter Richardson.

This is the third time that Les has accepted the Presidential honour and said that he was happy to take over guidance of the club again, especially as it is in such great shape.

Handing over the Presidential Chain of Office, Peter related that during his year at the helm more that £5000 had been spent on various charitable causes, money coming from the Fireworks Spectacular, held each November at Brooklands School and from fares taken on Lionel the land train, which appears at many local fetes and carnivals.

Peter went on to thank all the Friends of Leighton Buzzard Lions Club who help at our events, together with many local firms who sponsor and support the club throughout the year.