Who we are
Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.4 million members in approximately 46,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world.
Palmerston North Middle Districts Lions Club (chartered in 1968) has been proudly serving the community needs in Manawatu for over 50 years.
We Serve
Lions are ordinary people from all walks of life who enjoy getting together and doing good things. We are kind and generous people who want to help. That’s why we work on projects to improve our communities and protect the environment. We get enormous satisfaction from the knowledge that what we do DOES make a difference. And we enjoy friendship and fun while doing so.
Whenever Lions club members get together, problems get smaller. And communities get better. Because we help where help is needed – in our own communities and around the world – with unmatched integrity and energy. Lions Clubs New Zealand is part of a global organisation with 1.4 million members in 208 countries and geographic regions. With this much manpower, it’s no wonder that Lions Club members can achieve extraordinary things, every day.
What we do
As a club we are proud of the many and varied projects that we have undertaken to support and strengthen the Manawatu Region.
Some of the projects undertaken in recent years include:
Fundraising Project’s
- Pivotal Foundation Partner with Manawatu Cancer Society in delivering Relay for Life (from inception and since)
- Principal Lions coordination, planning, and delivery role for Annual Foodbank Appeal
- In conjunction with Rotary Clubs spearheading Lions fundraising nationally for Wildbase Recovery
- In conjunction with Child Cancer Foundation deliver the bi-annual Big Rig Day
- Operate the Annual Lions Market Day in the Square, proving many local charities the opportunity to boost their coffers
Examples of funding support provided in addition to the above causes - we have funded directly
- $10,000 towards a Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy operation in the USA for a local resident.
- Purchase of a mobility van for a local family with children with disabilities.
- Funding of an eye operation for a local resident who would otherwise have become blind and for which no central government support was possible.
- Funding a vest for a local child with respiratory issues.
- Disaster Relief donations for New Zealand and around the world.
- Annual support of Camp Qualtiy.
