As a much-loved charity The Yorkshire Air Ambulance celebrates its 20th anniversary next month, long-time supporters Wetherby Lions will be helping it to fly high. A sponsored balloon race will feature as part of the festivities. And, with the Lions-backed Wetherby Beer Festival unable to go ahead this year because of the pandemic, its usual sponsors are being encouraged to turn their attentions to helping the YAA event. The YAA Virtual Balloon Race will run throughout its birthday week starting at 12 pm on Monday 19th October and finishing at 12 pm on Sunday 25th October on its 20th Birthday. Balloons cost £3 each to buy and can be purchased through the online shophttps://www.yorkshireairambulance.org.uk/product/yaa-20th-anniversary-virtual-balloon-race-balloon/...

 (Photo left to right - 1st Vice-President Nigel Ware, Lion President Tim Ritson)

Wetherby Lions were privileged to play host at their latest meeting to Nigel Ware, 1st Vice District Governor.  This was a significant visit as it coincided with the Lions’ AGM and their first 'face to face' meeting for six months.  

The meeting venue was COVID-19 secure as Lion members had been asked to maintain social distancing and use sanitising products as required.  'Zoom' facilities were provided for Lion members preferring to remain at home.

Lion Nigel was welcomed by Wetherby Lion President Tim Ritson.

Our visitor showed great enthusiasm for proposals to continue this year with Santa’s Sleigh despite the uncertainties ahead. The need to constantly review all...

 (Photo left to right - Wetherby Town Mayor, Neil O’Byrne, Connal Kelly and Leah Robinson (Boots representative), and Morrison’s Store Manager, Paul Saville)

Chemist staff win Yorkshire Day hamper  -  hampers stuffed full of Yorkshire goodies were the prizes in ‘The Great Yorkshire Quiz’ organised by Morrison’s Community Champion and Wetherby District Lions Club (CIO) to celebrate ‘Yorkshire Day’.

Mark Hopkins, Morrison’s Community Champion, said “Over 200 entries were distributed in the store and around the town.  Thanks to the support of Wetherby Lion members, the quiz was a ‘roaring’ success!”

The two lucky winners – Connal Kelly and Leah Robinson (Boots representative) are shown in the photo with the hampers presented by Wetherby Town Mayor, Neil...

(Photo left to right - Lion President Tim and Mark Hopkins, Morrisons' Community Champion)

Wetherby Lions joined forces with supermarket giant Morrison’s to celebrate Yorkshire Day in the form of a 10-question quiz for shoppers at the town-centre store.  And with a giant hamper up for grabs as first prize there was no shortage of aisle-browsers coming up with the answers to the Yorkshire-themed posers.

Fronted by Lion President Tim Ritson and Morrisons' Community Champion Mark Hopkins, see photo, the quiz certainly brought a fun element in these troubled times.  Said Tim: “Mark and I wore the traditional Yorkshire flat cap, though we thought it best to leave our whippets back home.  We dropped our masks for the photos, with some wags commenting that we looked bette...

   (Photo - Morrisons Community Board)

Wetherby District Lions and Morrison’s are working together for the benefit of our local community and have a very close working relationship with Morrison’s Community Champion.  Lion members are able to replenish funds through in-store ‘bag packs’ and to contribute to Morrison’s efforts to support the most vulnerable in the community.  We also support each other’s events – advertising and selling tickets for Lion’s promotions such as the Great Yorkshire Bike Ride, Wetherby Duck Race; Wetherby Beer Festival; the very popular Santa’s Sleigh; raising funds for CLIC Sargent; Morrison’s community quiz and regular ‘one day’ events such as ‘Yorkshire Day’.

This excellent partnership, with generous support from local printe...

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Wetherby District Lions Club members are really pleased to be able to offer some financial support to this fantastic programme of dance for young people!

Under the auspices of Wetherby Arts Festival, dance professional Katy Hewison, based in Wetherby, assisted by three other dance artists, will lead 'Improplay', a project which brings together young children, educators and dance artists into creative reflective spaces, exploring dance improvisation and its effects on learning, engagement and energy awareness. 

Lion members hope that the values of 'Inspire, Experience and Share' will shine through, that in this new era of community living, families, children and people in Wetherby will be touched, supported and encouraged by this inspirational endeavour.

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   (Photo left to right - Lion President Tim Ritson & Morrisons Wetherby Store Manager, Paul Saville)

Wetherby District Lions Club members have developed an extremely close and mutually beneficial partnership with Wetherby Morrison's to support the local community.  Morrison's Community Champion, Mark Hopkins, has played an integral part in supporting various Lions events and many of our local charities have benefited from Lions 'bag packs' at the store.

Lions President, Tim Ritson, was delighted to present a 'Certificate of Appreciation' to Wetherby Store Manager, Paul Saville in recognition of the support from the company.

If you would like to help your community we would love to hear from you so please contact us by telephoning 0345 833 9529, by c...

   (Photo right to left - Steve Bonner and his mum Christine in the wheelchair)

Wetherby District Lions had surplus wheelchairs available from their short term community loan scheme.  They were advertised on their social media platforms and it was seen by Steve.  He commented, "I got in touch with Wetherby Lions about taking one, by the next day me and my mother had tested one of the large wheeled chairs and decided to take it.  For me it was an absolute bargain as it was free of charge, however I gave a donation to them towards their annual servicing costs. The new wheelchair has made it 10 times easier already for my mother to get around and it will benefit towards her getting out more often.  We can't thank the Wetherby Lions enough for the services t...

  (Photo left to right - Lion Ken Campbell and Samantha Jefferson, Head of the School)

Wetherby District Lions, with the assistance of the Lions Club Foundation of the British Isles, have been able to provide funding for laptops for students who are being educated at home during the COVID-19 crisis.

Lion President Tim Ritson said: “This is a significant sum of money that we are putting to good use straightaway. This Coronavirus pandemic is hurting lots of local people in many different ways - just because we are all social distancing doesn’t stop us from caring - we are doing what we can and this cash injection will help us do more.”

Wetherby District Lions Club (CIO) will utilise the grant of £1,000.00 to support the funding of six laptops supervised by staff at o...