District 105-W

Abertillery & Blaenau Gwent Valleys
Lions Club
est 1976

  

 Abertillery Lions Club 

We are pleased to report that the new officers have accepted the positions for 2009/10. Outgoing President (Cherrie Withers) presented A wide screen TV and games console for her chosen charity. Cherrie wishes to thank all her Fellow Lions, the staff, and Patrons of the Corner Club, who made this donation possible

     

This Years President

Doreen Woods has continued the Mental Health theme as the Clubs charity for the coming year. The club believes this to be worthy cause and we will give Doreen full support in rising donations.

 

Club News

 Web developments (Mail):- We have further developed this site to include a photo album via the link http://myalbum.lionwap.org/abertillery

 

Santa's Sledge:- This event is growing in success each year the final amount raised will be advised after the first meeting in Janauary.

 

 Zone News

 We are proud to announce that our current Treasure (Mike Withers) has accepted the position of Zone Chairman.

 

Abertillery hosted the zone meeting in September minutes below:-

 

Zone Meeting Held at Abertillery on Tuesday the 22nd of September 2009

 

 

Zone chairman welcomed fellow lions to the meeting and introduced the gust speakers.

 

Apologies – received from Cardiff lions club

 

Address by VDG Lion Colin Duncan (Chair MERL team)

 

Lion Colin gave a brief history of his lionistic life starting in 1978.

He then went on to discuss his role a chair of the MERL team.

District has been losing members for the last three year, has have other organisations.

Our aim is to serve our community and not just a fundraising organisation.

MERl stands for membership, extension, membership and leadership.

48% of new members leave in the first three year, stating that they were board and not being included. Lions now have a global leadership team. If every club introduces two new members and the district formed one new club we would be healthily out of transition. Current membership 1080.

VDG is setting up a learning collage for the training of district officers. VGD thanked ZC mike for inviting him along to the zone meeting and passed on receiving questions until the end of the meeting.

 

Talk by Lion Peter Dando (district H&S officer)

 

What is risk assessment?  The potential of a hazard occurring.

 

We risk assess every day, making mental risk assessments on all of the activities we carryout, we need to get into the mind frame of writing down risk assessments for all lionistic activities. A good way of writing a risk assessment is to use a risk matrix and a method statement.

If looking on the district website then be sure to use the 2006 H&S policy, this contains more information and clearer information. IN a recent district H&S questionnaire only 50% of our zone replied.

 

Presentation by Caerphilly Lions Club

 

Lion Dennis demonstrated the unique flashing lions badge and gave a brief description on how it came about. The badge has been officially endorsed by MD and international.

Orders have already been placed and the word is spreading. For every one sold Caerphilly lions club will receive a donation.

Fellow lions were invited to purchase a badge at a reduced price.

 

Lion Darren from Abertillery lions club presented a resolution to zone for support to send to convention.

‘We resolve that any club or individual can opt out of the current District electronic only form of communication and receive a paper copy’

The explanation is that the club feels that it is not being serviced by the district, and the cost of communication is being pushed back to individual lions. As a lion with no officer responsibilities what dose to district do for me?

A discussion followed will all taking part, with various point of view ranging from, what is the problem to agreement in principal with the resolution.

To expedite the discussion ZC asked if all clubs would take the resolution back to their clubs for discussion.

 

Caerphilly graciously agreed to host the next zone meeting at a date to be arranged.

 

ZC thanked all lions for their attendance and invited all present to some refreshments kindly laid on by Abertillery lions club.

 

Meeting closed at 9.40pm.

 

 

New Club Ventures

 

(Aberfest)  this year we are planning a new venture in the form of a beer festival

 

Abertillery Lions Club 1st Beer Festival

 

For a 1^st attempt this event was a moderate success

we will learn from this year, when considering future events

 

 (Winter feast) this year we are planning a new venture in the form of a Christmas Cheese Wine ale & Spirit Evening

 

Abertillery Lions 1st Christmas Cheese Wine ale & Spirit Evening

 

This event was a continuation of our already popular “wine and cheese evening” with the addition of spirits. This was a highly successfully evening with regular supports present.  With more support we could role this out to a Quarterly event. Please contcact out web master with your feedback.

 

 More events to be advised shortly

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