Billingshurst Lions Club: Help for schools

Help for Local Schools 2022

At the beginning of each calendar year, Billingshurst & District Lions Club discuss how they can best provide financial and practical help to ten Primary Schools in the local area, namely Barns Green, Billingshurst, Loxwood, Plaistow & Kirdford, Rudgwick, Shipley CoE, Slinfold CoE, St. Mary’s (aided) CoE in Pulborough, William Penn in Coolham and Wisborough Green. Liaison Lions maintain contact with each school as the year progresses. Plans for 2022 include: • Poster for Peace – a Lions

Regional art competition with

Peace Now as this year’s theme. • Funding to purchase items in support of Science Week, Music,

Books and Outdoor Learning. • Support for environmental work, with Wild Tribe Hero books, providing seeds and planting a wild flower garden, trees or a hedge with the Woodland Trust offering free trees to schools in November 2022. • Lions spending a half day working on an outdoor project, working with parents wherever possible, that will benefit the children, their learning, and the school. • Book giveaways whereby each child in every school can select a free book of their choice. • Lions Life Skill packages available free of charge to

teachers in all schools providing lesson plans in supporting personal, social, health and citizen education. • ROAR 2022 – an annual educational programme in conjunction with 8billionideas, sponsored by Lions, for • schools to participate during the autumn term. In ROAR 2021, congratulations to Wisborough Green Primary School, one of three finalists, being close contestants to the eventual winners, with their idea of a POSBOT Robot, designed to bring much needed joy and happiness during difficult times. Viv Diggens, Co-ordinator of the Lions schools programme says, “We always look forward to helping school children in as many varied ways as possible and bring variety into their world of learning”

Follow Billingshurst Lions on Facebook and on their website www.billingshurstlions.org. Harvey Holmes – Press Officer, Billingshurst & District Lions Club

Photo: The Wisborough Green Primary School finalists with their successful entry in ROAR 2021 with a POSBOT Robot, designed to help change the world for the better by bringing joy and happiness at this present time

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