Become a Lion
Looking For New Experiences?
Are you interested in helping others? Meeting new people? As a Lion, you will use your time and talents to make an impact locally and around the world. Through experiences as a Lion, you will acquire new skills, meet challenges head-on, cultivate lasting friendships and discover more about yourself.
Looking For Volunteer Opportunities that Fit your Lifestyle?
Do you want to pursue a leadership role? Would you rather just lend a helping hand when needed? Lions membership offers extensive opportunities for the kind of volunteer experience you desire.
What makes a Lion?
A Lion is any person, male or female, over the age of majority who is dedicated to improve the quality of life in communities locally and worldwide while achieving a positive feeling and a sense of accomplishment.
What can you do as a Lion?
Lions Clubs International has what you are looking for – an opportunity to help people, broaden your horizons and fulfil your goals. Lions membership offers you an amazing spectrum of possibilities. Projects can vary from cleaning up your neighbourhood park to helping end river blindness in Africa. Lions clubs provide extensive opportunities for men and women to learn and grow while serving locally and internationally. Lions continue to:
- address needs that are often unmet in their communities, such as teaching life skills to school children, building playgrounds and homes and supporting the elderly
- assist the blind and visually impaired by providing preventive screenings, offering resources and equipment
- reach out to youth through mentoring and educational programmes
- raise awareness of health care issues, such as diabetes, hearing loss and vision impairment
- provide disaster relief, including food, supplies and healthcare screenings
- work collectively and individually to build stronger communities
As a Lion, you will make life better for others while enriching your own life in the process. As a Lion, you can make a difference.
How Else Do Lions Make a Difference?
Lions support the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF), whose chief mission is to allocate funds and resources to solve major humanitarian challenges worldwide. Together, Lions and LCIF actively work to conquer blindness, provide youth with opportunities, respond to disasters and so much more.
How Often Do Lions Meet?
The Lions Club of Cockermouth members meet once a month to plan projects and conduct club business, the time commitment depends mainly on the activities we undertake. Being a Lion is a great opportunity to get to know and develop personal and professional relationships with people in your community. For more information on when and where we meet see the Meetings Page.
Interested in Lions Membership?
If you are interested we will ask you to come along to one or two of our meetings as a guest, this will allow you to get to know us and what we do without any pressure or obligations. Once you have had all your questions answered and you think that you would like to become a member let us know. You will then be invited to join Lions Clubs International, and become a member of The Lions Club of Cockermouth.
If you are Interested in becoming a Lion or would like to know more information please contact us in the usual way.
