We are very proud to belong to Lions International, the largest Service Organisation in the World.
To find out more go to our What's a Lion? page.
We hope that through the events we organise and the money we raise for local charities and good causes, we can help to make Tavistock the special place it is!
Tony Welsh President 2019-20
Next Event Carnival Theme 2020: “Pioneers and Adventurers” Next year, as I am sure you know, is Mayflower 400 in Plymouth. To tie in with that - if anyone fancies being a Pilgrim Father! - the Club has chosen “Pioneers and Adventurers” as the theme for 2020. We hope this gives a really wide range of people and subjects from which to choose: - maybe the astronauts who explored space and landed on the moon - more modern day explorers such as Bear Grylls and Sir Ranulph Fiennes - pioneers in our social history, the suffragettes for example or pioneers in medicine - adventurers from fiction like Indiana Jones And so on! But it is all your ideas and fantastic entries that we are really looking forward to seeing at the Parade on July 18th 2020 BBQ Our next BBQ will be for the Tavi Specials on Sunday March 8th! At a recent Club meeting, Tony Welsh the
President of Tavistock Lions Club, was delighted to present four cheques to
local charities totally £10,000, £9,000 of which came from sponsorship of the
Trees of Light and £1,000 from the Christmas bucket collections at Tesco,
Morrisons and the Town Square. The cheques for £3,000 each went to the Primrose Foundation, the Chestnut Appeal and Derriford Children's Cancer Service and the
cheque for £1,000 to Children's Hospice South West. Tony thanked everybody who
had contributed to this wonderful total and also the directors of Morris Bros.
(Tavistock) Ltd. who had covered all of the administration costs for the Trees
of Light thus ensuring that all of the sponsorship money went to the three
charities. Tony went on to say that the success of the Trees would not have
been possible without the support of South West Lakes Trust which had supplied
the three wonderful trees, the works staff of Tavistock Town Council who erected and decorated the trees and the Tavistock Times Gazette which published
the sponsorship form and the list of sponsors Christmas 2019 Last year,
Tavistock Lions distributed presents to local schools with Father Christmas
assisted by his trusty elves. His transport was a wonderful sleigh that Lion
Richard Marlow, with support from Tavistock Rotary, had designed and
constructed as a carriage for last year's Carnival princess and
attendants and which during the autumn he had cleverly converted into transport
more suited for our winter visitors! So just before the schools broke up for
this year's Christmas holidays, the sleigh set off once again on its journey
around the Tavistock area, as well as Whitchurch, Horrabridge, Gulworthy and
Lamerton visiting 7 local infant and junior schools distributing around 300
presents, one to each of the 43 classes. Father Christmas and his elves said
that they were delighted with the reception that they had received at all the schools
and how grateful all of the children had been with their gifts. Father Christmas was also very busy with members of Tavistock Rotary as he helped them with their bucket collections around the streets of Tavistock and again with the Lions for their collections in Bedford Square, with some of the proceeds of the Lion's collection going to Children's Hospice South West. Carnival 2019 For all the results of the Carnival go to our Carnival Week page! Here are pictures from the wonderful Carnival Procession of 2019! Peace Poster 2019 Posters from this year's competition can now be found on the Peace Poster page. | 
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