Uxbridge & District Lions Club
Ontario Canada
Thinking about Joining our Uxbridge Lions Club?
You've come to the right place!
Join our Club! Be a Member!
Get involved and make a difference in your community.
Membership is open to men and women who are at least 18 years old
and have a good reputation in the community.
Need to work community service hours? Volunteers are welcome.
When you join Uxbridge & District Lions Club, you are part of the largest world-wide volunteer organization. Being a Lions Club Member as an active volunteer in our community, you are a member of a respected international organization, a leader in the community and a friend to people in need.
When you are a member of our club, you have the opportunity to make a difference in the community and internationally. Join us in focusing on service work in the following local concerns and Lions Clubs International global causes, including hunger, vision, environment, childhood cancer, and diabetes.
The focus of our projects is to serve all age groups. For example, the new Universal Accessible Playground opened in July 2023. Funds raised from our events go back into the community by donating funds to various community organizations in the Uxbridge community.
As a member of the Uxbridge & District Lions Club, you will have the opportunity to help others, meet new people, and use your talents to make an impact in our community. You will also be able to acquire new skills, contribute your talents on projects that are valuable to the community, grow personally, develop new friendships and have fun at the same time.
Being a Lion makes you feel appreciated and needed. Being a Lion gives you the opportunity to give back what has been given to you.
We are also a strong advocate club of the Lions Foundation of Dog Guides Canada where dogs are trained to assist people with disabilities such as vision, hearing, seizure response, service assisting people with a physical or medical disability, autism assistance, diabetes alert, and facility support dogs for agencies that assist individuals in traumatic situations.
When you join our club, you are a member of the
largest volunteer organization in the world.
Uxbridge Lions is looking for Volunteers!
We welcome volunteers from our community and Lions Club members to come and work with us during our fundraising events, especially to help us in the Food Booth and during the Art in the Park event.
Do you need to accumulate community services hours?
We would welcome you to work with us.
Are you a Lions Club member in another club who can "donate" some time to work with us.
We will share some of the profits with your club from our fundraising events.
What We Do in the Community
In Uxbridge, we serve and have served in the following ways:
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Sponsor student achievement awards in secondary school
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Sponsor dog guides have been provided at no cost to recipient families
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Funded much needed medical equipment at the Uxbridge Cottage Hospital
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Adopt-a-Road program to clean up the boulevard along Toronto Street from Concession 6 to Cemetary Road in Uxbridge
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Host Art in the Park on the third weekend every August in which the silent auction raises funds for such projects as the Dog Guides Program and the Universal Accessible Playground which opened in July 2023.
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Donate funds to various community groups and charities Click here
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Host fundraising events such as PetValu Walk for Dog Guides and Art in the Park
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Vision and hearing screening for senior kindergarten children in local schools
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Collect eye glasses and hearing aids to recycle to third world countries
How Can You Help
Uxbridge & District Lions Club members take great pride in our community and in our service to its people. We invite you to learn more about how you can make a difference by:
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Join an information meeting about the Lions Club
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Attending fundraising events or help out any way you can.
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Donate any time you can for different functions: i.e. come up to Camp Kirk in the spring to help ready the camp for the kids
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Bring your ideas for the Community to a meeting. We’re always looking for new ideas.
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When you join the Lions Club, we will put your ideas, special skills and contacts to use for the benefit of the community and you can be part of the changes
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You spend as much or as little time as you feel comfortable helping out with the different activities
Together we serve.
Lions help where they are needed - in our own communities and around the world.