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2022

This year’s Jumble Sale - Supporting Ukraine

LCIF - Is the official charitable organization of Lions Clubs International, a leading humanitarian organization. Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) supports Lions’ compassionate works by providing grant funding for their local and global humanitarian efforts.

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This year’s Jumble Sale was planned well in advance, at a time when we weren’t even aware of the Russians gathering on the border of Ukraine.  We had hoped that it would perhaps mark the end of the Covid-19 restrictions and help us rebuild the funds that we use for supporting our local community.

At our Club meeting on 2nd March the members unanimously agreed that we should donate the proceeds of this year’s Jumble Sale to the Lions Clubs International Foundations (LCIF) Special Fund for Refugees and Displaced Persons from Ukraine and in anticipation of the support we would receive from the local community, immediately sent a cheque for £500

Then the real work began, collecting and sorting all the donated jumble and laying it all out in time for the doors opening at 1:30 PM on the Saturday afternoon.  We were not disappointed  when the doors opened and our customers poured in to briskly sort through what was on offer and leave with their selected spoils, after which we cleared up in the hall. We then counted the takings and were really pleased with the amount.

In total we raised £688.50 and we can now send a further cheque for £200 to the LCIF Special Fund for Refugees and Displaced Persons from Ukraine.

We would like to thank everyone who supported us by donating items, helping sort through them, helping on the day and turned up on the day to buy the displayed goods.  Without you the world would be a poorer place; thank you once again.

UPDATE: 4/4/22 A kind gentleman from Shefford has matched our initial donation of £500 to the LCIF Special Fund for Refugees and Displaced Persons from Ukraine and because we are now a CIO Registered Charity, we are also able to claim Gift Aid, thereby increasing the value of this to £625 making our current total donated to date to £1,325