Hayling Island Lions

Things We Do At Hayling Lions

Our Amazing Charity Shop

Our shop on Elm Grove is our hub in the community. It is staffed by our amazing volunteers who run the shop.

The opening times are

Tuesday 10 to 4
Thursday 10 to 4
Friday 10 to 4
Saturday 10 to 1

If you have spectacles you no longer need

Please bring them to the shop on Elm Grove.
We will take them to our partners who will clean your glasses and grade them so that they can be shared with needy people in the developing parts of the world, so that your eyeglasses can continue to provide benefit to others.

Prostate Cancer Screening

Many of you will know that we used to hold screening days at the community centre to help many men on the Island have a simple blood test to see if they were at risk from prostate cancer, which develops silently but can will develop in 1 in 8 men.

You can now get a PSA test from your GP if you are over 50 and ask for a test and just ask for the test.

We are not planning to run those sessions again.

Message in a bottle

The Lions fund these bottles in which you can place important medical information and your current prescription list, so that if an ambulance calls to help you in an emergency, they know to look in your fridge for this bottle, which can help them and the hospital doctors look after you more appropriately.

You can pick them up from our shop on Elm Grove, at the GPs and at the pharmacies.

Bowls Club Gives Early Christmas Presents

Hayling Island Bowls Club members gathered on a damp October Saturday morning

2023 Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Marvellous things to eat and wonderful games to play........... and so there

Lakeside Social Event

The Hayling Lions is run by volunteers who pay for all of

We Serve

We are the largest service based organisation in the world with with over 1 million members in almost 50,000 clubs worldwide and a history over 100 years.

On Hayling Island, we raise funds to help people on the island who need us.

Where there's a need - there's a Lion and we have Lions on Hayling Island.

What We Do

We're behind the various annual events on the island, such as:

The Santa Sleigh at Christmas
Mengham Christmas Evening
Donkey Derby
Teddy Bears Picnic

We also help individuals in need on the Island, such as:

We paid for lunches to be delivered to children on the island whose parents struggle to provide them with lunch on the holidays
We bought a washing machine for an elderly lady who had to wash her clothes in the bath tub
We bought a budgie for a lonely lady on the island who just wanted some company

How You Can Help

We always need help and there's lots that you can do to help us help those on the Hayling Island live life a little more easily - for instance you could

Spread the word about us on social media or just by telling people about us
You could support our shop - either by helping out, or donating items for sale or popping in to buy something from us. Every penny raised from the shop helps people in need on Hayling Island.
You could become a silent member - all of our donations go straight to the needy. Our administrative costs are all paid by membership fees - so just paying £10/month to be a member helps us do our work
You could be an active member - we meet every 2nd Thursday at the British Legion and you are more than welcome. We always need people at events and with fundraising and helping us to help worthy causes on the Island - so please consider joining us.