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What has the DG been up to recently? DG Dave has started keeping a log of club visits etc. Take a look

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Message from DG Dave Ebsworth

Good morning Fellow Lions & family

Today we start a new Lion’s year, and I hope you will join me in thanking Immediate Past District Governor Brian and Lion Lesley for all they did for the District and hope they enjoyed their year. I know that Covid unfortunately is still with us and hopefully it will start to disappear even more as this year goes on. Our new International President Lion Brian Sheehan and his lovely wife Lion Lori are full of energy and his strap line is "Together we can" and I am sure that the lions of our District 105sc will give it 100% this year. Along the way we must have lots of fun and enjoy the road ahead. Annie and I have attended the classroom lessons and the plenary sessions and there were so many good idea’s shared. I am pleased to announce that Campaign 100 reached £270m ($324m), which was another success and the most that Lions have raised so far in a single campaign.

What I would like to see this year is clubs starting to visit one another, not just within their own Zone but cross over into other Zones and work together in partnership so that we can achieve the goals we set for the individual projects. Therefore you need to record these visits because at Convention 2023 there will be a trophy awarded for the club with the most visits. We are reviewing all of the competitions and hopefully by the end of July they will be listed on the website. I can tell you now that the District team is there to support you, attend and help with events, be it a membership drive, duck racing or any event, but please make early contact so it can be put in the diary.

Young Ambassador, in my eyes is an important competition and I have told Jersey they will have some young Lions to stand against their candidate this year so please lets get out there and find these young people, let’s make this year’s competition one to remember, let's give Yorkie a headache with the numbers of candidates.

Please let's get all of our Club and District events into the diary so this will help members when they are planning events and Charters so they don’t clash.

My strap line for this year is "Service with Enthusiasm and Pride", so let’s make 2022-2023 a year to remember for the right reasons, let's get out there and serve our communities, let's make service count, and let us put Lions on the map.

Thank you for your support

Dave & Annie

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Partner's project 2022-23

Annie Ebsworth is supporting: My Cancer My Choices - see more details...

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Handover Lunch 2022

Sunday 10th July 2022

Hilton Garden Inn, Abingdon

District Handover this year was attended by 50 members and partners. The hotel looked after us well and DG Dave presented District Officers with his pin badge together with name badges for the forthcoming year. More...

Special Handover edition of the 105SC Sentinel

News22-05-special.pdf

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District Convention 2022

Our first face-to-face District Convention for 2 years was a great success.

See Richard Keeley's Convention Report and the report in the Sentinel

Minutes are now available

See other photos from the weekend on our Gallery page. Use the drop-down control (top right) to see Host and Banquet photos. More...

Full details are on the dedicated 2022 Convention website.

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Lions District 105SC DG Team 2022-23

This year's DG Team are DG Dave Ebsworth (Reading Lions Club), 1stVDG David Taylor (Gillingham, Mere and Shaftesbury), 2ndVDG Sandra Manktelow (Petersfield) and IPDG Brian Donovan (Abingdon Lions Club).

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Becoming a Lion

An Introduction to what it means to be a Lion by Peter Tabb - download the PDF booklet