Presidents Blog January 2026
Hello I’m Julie and I'm currently half way through my year as president of Filey Lions.
Since the start of my year I have witnessed amazing generosity and support from our local community in many ways.
We have received continued support through sponsorship from local businesses and seen many of our community, volunteering their time to help out with some of our key events.
In just the last few months we have been part of the TESCO Stronger Starts voucher scheme and had great sponsorship from Overtons Butches for our sleigh runs. As a result we covered all the running costs and still raised raised over £6.500 in our collecting buckets! Thank you.
The over 85’s Christmas Lunch was a great success and special thanks need to go Parkdean Resorts, Cayton Bay and their staff, for helping us to make it such a great day.
This year we are once again offering Community Grants of up to £500 for local groups and events.
The first half of my year has truly been a humbling, yet amazing, time and has certainly highlighted what a brilliant community we are part of.
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Community Grants
Filey Lions donates nearly £8000 to 25 different local organisations in our Community Grants program.
Over 85's Christmas Lunch
Our annual over 85's Christmas Lunch was again a great success, thanks to Filey School for their continued support with this fantastic event
Junior School
Filey Junior school feature in the final of Lions Intl "8 Billion Ideas" ROAR final with their idea for rubbish cleaning and sorting
Elsie is 104
Filey Lions presented Elsie Baker with flowers on her amazing 104th birthday.
Brid carol concert
Filey Lions take a coach load of locals to the annual Bridlington Lions Carol Concert at Bridlington Spa
Holloween Competition
Filey Lions had some amazing entries to our Pumpkin Lantern competition, where we awarded 6 voucher prizes to the best entries.