By Jed Lanyon
The Lions Club of Healesville hosted their annual community distribution night on Wednesday 31 July to celebrate a year of community involvement of the club and to announce the distribution of funds raised by the club and its volunteers.
Many representatives from the community organisations that benefit from the Lions Club’s distributions were in attendance for the night at Healesville RSL.
Coordinator of the Healesville Lion’s Den op shop Elaine Dossor said the night was a huge success with students from local schools sharing what they intended to do with the funds.
“The Lions Club has been doing this for over 20 odd years and one of the recipients made mention that nearly two million dollars has been given back to all community groups.
“The op shop is a two way support to all the schools, kinders, fire brigades, Men’s Sheds.
“They donate goods and we sell and return funds to the organisations.
“The Healesville Lions Club has been serving the community since 1961 and with the help of some other wonderful volunteers in the shop we continue to serve.”
Ms Dossor said that the sum distributed exceeded $50,000 and will go to local and national disaster relief, community organisations and other foundations.
The distributions will go to schools in Healesville, Yarra Glen, Woori Yallock, Yering, and Chum Creek.
As well as fire brigades in the district, pre-schools, Healesville Inter-church Community Care Inc, local scouts, guides, Men’s Sheds and other organisations
“The Lion’s Den has been operating for 28 years and the volunteers have great pride and donate their time willingly,” Ms Dossor said.
