Holmfirth & Meltham Lions Club

Welcome to the Holmfirth and Meltham Lions clubs website. On this page you can learn about the club, read our news and learn about our fundraising events, welfare projects, social events and how to become a Lion. Full details of all these, and more, are available by clicking on the various links to the right. Please browse our site which we regularly update with news and events.

We have included our events calendar where we post all of our upcoming activities in an easy to view format.

Please visit our Information Page for more details about the club, where and when we meet and information about The Lions International oganisation

The page you are on is our Post Page which briefly lists the variety of news stories and Welfare Projects that we are planning.

Follow the links to go to the Welfare Project page for more information on each project.

The club has a Blog which can be reached through the Blogroll link on the right. You can also search for Welfare Projects by Category through the drop down menu to the right of this page. Please visit to keep up to date and post any comments or questions you may have.

Sunday May 13th 12.00 midday – 15.00

Meltham Church Hall

The club is running the Buffet Luncheon again this year on Sunday 13th May 2012. This is a popular annual event held in Meltham Church Hall at 12 midday until 2 O’clock.

Click here to go to the Fundraising Page for more information on how to purchase tickets for this fun event.

Our Club Secretary, Malcolm Howlett, who is also the current Zone Chairman, recently visited Todmorden Lions at their latest Business Meeting as part of his Zone duties. Here he is being greeted by a smiling Michael Clarkson, Todmorden President.

As part of the “Lions in The Community Project”, the Lions in the Kirklees and Calderdale Zone, including Holmfirth and Meltham Lions, Colne Valley Lions and Huddersfield Lions, recently donated funding to pay for a quantity of hospital packs for both Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Calderdale Hospital. The hospital packs are held in each hospital and issued to emergency patients and admissions who need to unexpectedly stay in hospital, and include face washing materials, tooth cleaning and shaving equipment. All designed to hopefully make the patient as comfortable as possible in what are often difficult circumstances.
Zone Chairman, Malcolm Howlett (secretary of Holmfirth and Meltahm Lions), together with Lions from Holmfirth and Meltham, Colne Valley and Huddersfield, was invited by Carol Cooke from the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust to a presentation to mark the thanks from the Trust
The picture shows Malcolm, Carol with one of her colleagues together with the assembled Lions with the packs.
This is another demonstration of combined Lions clubs making a difference in the local community.

The Lions ran the successful Easter Egg Raffle again this year in aid of Kirkwood Hospice.

We distributed 30 high quality chocolate Easter eggs in pubs and clubs along the Holme Valley and in Meltham. Each egg was decorated with the name of the pub where they are being sold and they came complete with a delightful selection of chocolates

The raffle is based on the National Lottery where customers buy one of the numbers between 1 and 49 for £1, the eventual winner being the customer who has purchased the number which coincides with the Lottery Bonus Ball on Easter Saturday.The landlords of each pub kindly agreed to assist in the selling of the tickets in their establishments and our hopes that all of the numbers get sold for each egg were pretty much met.

We were hoping that if we were successful then we could raise in the region of £900, all of which would be donated to Kirkwood Hospice.

Click here to see the full list of the pubs and clubs which supported us and the final total which we will be donating to the Hospice.

The Holmfirth and Meltham Lions club are again helping out at the 2012 Huddersfield Examiner Charity Challenge. As in previous years the club will organise and run the toddlers and disabled section of the event in Beaumomt Park, Huddersfield.

Full details of this fun event and how to enter are explained on our Fundraising Page

The Holmfirth & Meltham Lions are donating £300 to Cafe 100 in Holmfirth.

Follow this link for more information

Welfare Projects page

We recently staged a joint event between The Lions, The Guide Dogs for The Blind Association and 5 local schools. The Lions made a presentation of £800 to the Guide Dog Association whilst the schoolchildren met some Guide Dogs and handlers and took part in a number of activities which demonstrated some of the day to day difficulties faced by blind and partially sighted people.

Please click here Guide Dogs to go to the Welfare page for more pictures and details.

Tree Planting at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Stirley Farm Community project on Saturday 3rd March 2012, 10.00am until 12.00 mid day.

Follow this link for more information

Tree Planting Welfare page

The Lions made a presentation to the Demand organisation of Brockholes. Demand is a charity specialising in adapting and modifying equipment for use by people with a disability. For more details about Demand please click on the link below.

Demand Organisation

For more details of the event and to see photographs, please follow the link to our Welfare Projects page below

Welfare Projects