Club News

We were fortunate to enjoy the best of weather conditions for our 2025 Fireworks Festival.  8,500 visitors enjoyed the spectacle and the live music of The Hired Guns, a super group of session musicians who have supported top class artist all around the world.  We also...

Lion President Geoff Sheldon and Lion Bob Hackman presented a cheque for £2,142 at West Surrey Golf Club to Guildford Shakespeare Company in support of their Put Up Your Swords knife crime awareness campaign.  We were also pleased to present a similar cheque to Martin...

The Club’s second High Street Classic Car Display in April was a great success with a variety of splendid classic cars parked up. These ranged from a beautiful 1927 Rolls Royce, a rare Cluley 10/20 from the same era, as well as a 1923 French Delage, to more ‘modern’...

Geoff Sheldon attended the Raft Race on 5 July as our new President for 2025 and just 6 days later presented the prizes at the Lions Charity Golf Day in support of Sight for Surrey.   Seen here with Guildford  Mayor Howard Smith awarding the trophies at the Raft Race....

A great evening put on by Guildford Lions at Hatchlands Park.  This year the event was to help the Guildford Shakespeare Company and the Charlie's Promise charity which campaigns against knife crime in schools.  Entertainment was provided by Andy Hart and his singers...

Our Christmas collections this year consisted of Santa's tours of the streets in his sleigh, and collections at Waitrose, Sainsbury's and Tesco supermarkets.  Santa had to cancel one outing because of bad weather so Bellfields lost out.  We must try and make it up to...

On Friday 13 December we enjoyed our annual Christmas dinner.  It took place at the Daisy Chain restaurant in the Wey Valley Indoor Bowls Club, a favourite of the Ljons club members.  With our partners and guests we numbered over 40 and a good time was had by all.  We...

We are delighted to confirm that this year's event raised £30,000 for our Welfare Fund. An immediate donation of £7,500 has been made to the Oakleaf Enterprise charity to help them continue their fantastic support for local people with mental health issues.   All of...