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Howth Sutton Lions Club

44 years serving the community

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 News Extra  for fiscal year 2012/13

 

October: Haute Cuisine:
Once called the Oyster Night, in recent years rebranded as the Taste of Howth but this year introduced under the new format entitled Haute Cuisine. Instead of the multiplicity of Howth restaurants taking part, this year there master chefs demonstrated to the guests their preparations of each of the courses.  A full house attended and despite much reduced corporate sponsorship
10,250 was raised for charity.


November: T
able Quiz:
The Table Quiz night still attracts a number of devotees, and is well run (ensuring no iPod/mobile phone use) by an experienced Quiz Master. Competition was keen
3500 was raised - a good return but yet some EU500 less than last year.

December and March: Food Appeal:

This years food appeal went very successfully this year.  Food and €5,150 donations were generously donated by shoppers in Superquinn, Sutton; Nolans, Clontarf, and Supervalu, Killester.  This allowed the Club distribute some 200 hampers leading up to Christmas. European Intervention butter, cheese and rice  of high quality was included in the hampers, donated by the Government.

 

April: Charity Concert for Suicide Awareness:

Together with the newly formed Clontarf and Districts Lions Club  Lions Charity Concert, Howth Sutton Lions held a concert in Clontarf Castle mainly in aid of Pieta House and Headstrong, organisations that provide support services in the prevention of suicide and self-harm in adults and young people in Ireland. The Garda Band and Dublin Gospel Choir were the performers. The concert attracted considerable sponsorship and a a packed house attendance at Clontarf Castle of almost 450 patrons. AS a result 10,000 was donated to these organisations as well as some 4,000 to other Lions charities.

 

May: Bric-a-Brac Stall:

In recent years Howth has become a popular place attracting large numbers of day trippers at week-ends via DART, bus and car. Setting up a Bric-a-Brac stall on one Sunday was a novel fundraiser project for Howth Sutton Lions Club. While business was never brisk, yet some 1,020 was raised.

 

2012-13 Income:- €29,720

Total Donated:- €25,400

Net Assets at year end (June 2013): €7,786

 

Typical donations ranged from €250 to €1,000

 

Principal Donations :

New Life Centre, Darndale (after school learning/assistance environment provided ):- €4,000

Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI):- €2,500

Pieta House:- €5,000

Headstrong:-  €5,000

Senior Citizens Holiday Week: €2,700


 

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
--Francois Muriac